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MET EH ag pry Pec ee Tt TAP ETEE ft Tid alld al Blok, t a THE TECHNIQUES OF BOVIET PROPAGANDA 63 And while the world is engrossed in this uprosr, one country after snother silently falls into the Communist maw in the “0 They fall from methods less conspicuous, and far less expensive than missiles: the committee, the tract, the meeting the covert accomplices, the radio program, the infiltrated press, the subverted universities, the popular front, the professional revolutionary, and when conventent, the dagger and plastic bomb of guerrilla warfare. . The Eremlin ’s procedure is basically only a variant of the classic military tactic which seeks to deceive the defender in such a way that he concentrates all his strength on the approaches the assailant will not use, leaving undefended the actual attack route. We have heavily defended the military and economic approaches, leaving the paths of conspiracy and subversion wide open to enemy attack. The Soviets would have us believe that conflict between East and " West will be resolved by superbombs and we rush to beggar ourselves building more and more superbombs. Communism would have us believe our destiny depends on a choice between Nasser and Sukarno, and we hasten to run errands for Nasser and Sukarno. Communism would have us believe that it does not meddle in the internal affairs of “neutralist” countries, and we hurry to convert our anti-Communist ally Laos into a “neutralist.”” Communism would have us believe that its aggressive designs stop at the threshold of the United Nations, and we quickly shape our foreign policies to the framework of the U.N. We are induced to concentrate our efforts only on: Indiscriminate aid to underdeveloped countries, whether or not Communist. “Neutralism.” The United Nations. Nuclear overarmament. These are the four principal traps set for us by the Kremlin. All these false localizations of the dangers have as a goal the concealment of the veritable weapon and the veritable battlefield, political warfare, with its formidable network of subversion and deceit. . Yes, the military sector of our world is on the alert, while its political sector slumbers. Our missiles roar and soar while our minds sleep, and even embrace the enemy’s lies. We have armed Berlin with atomic artillery which sits idle, yet not even one pound of plastic bombs has been found to blast, in one night. the wall of shame. And we withhold the supply of plastic because o failure to understand the truth that cries out from each stone of the wall; the truth that Berlin is a psychological symbol for the Soviets, and not a territorial or military goal. Billions of dollars are furnished to strengthen the Japanese economy and its naval establishment, but not a finger is lifted to discourage the many Japanese teachers who are openly instructing school children that their first fatherland is the Soviet Union or Red China. We spend a million dollars for each horsepower of a Saturn missile, $200 million each, but we have not a cent for the courageous and hard- pressed anti-Communists of Indonesia, Panama, Madagascar, India, snd Brazil, with which they could at least establish publications in opposition to the flood of Communist literature which is submerging their countries.