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Boston _ -) . ) -4- | oy The "red scare" is ulways introduced by men who want to stifle reason or divert attention from real end pressing problems. | This pact week our Secretary of State journeyed to Bogota, Colombia to participate in the Inter-American Conference. On his last trip to Latin America, with the President and Senator Vandenberg, General warshall pushed “through: @ plan for unified ariaments and discussions of fundamental social end economic problems were postponed until the American nations could get together in bogota this spring. . The first day of the meeting in Bogota, Secretary warshall raised the question of a "red menace" and, I quote from an INS dispatch, the effects of this move: z : 4 ‘ he E a R i ic c "A show of hands overwhelmingly agreed the item is considered to be on the agenda, The action was the most important yet taken and assures that the present meeting wiil be enlivened by debate on this subject" --- and . ; here is the heart of it "relegating eco: onic mattcrs to a lesser role," E The heart of snerican foreign policy today is the raising of | "a red menace" in ;reference to. tackling tic fundamental problems of peoples everywhere - problems wnich must be wet, if we are really interested in stopping the spread of communisn. You can't fight communism with guns and fear and win. Our present administration, firuly in the grip of huge monopoly interests, financiers, and cencrals, is more interested in protecting private interests. abroad than in serving the interests of the general welfare, either at ho-e.ar abroad. | The problems of the peoples of Italy, Greece, China, and Latin America must te met heed on, if we are to compete with communism. lhieeting these problems will require strict control of international monopolies ~ control of cartels. ‘The power of the United States government, our public traasury, and the bodies. of our young men must not be used to support international big business. (more).