The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 23 September 1964 — Page 7

THE DAILY BANNER

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 1964 Page 7

Comment from the Capital —

EAGLE OR OSTRICH?, by Vant Neff

Maybe the time has come to retire the eagle as our national emblem and replace it with an ostrich. After all, isn’t it the ostrich that hides its head in the sand when it’s faced with a frightening situation? And isn’t tbs* the way more and more Americans (including top government officials) are reacting to the very real threats that confront our nation — by ignoring the facts and hoping it’s all just a bad dream that will go away if they pretend it isn't there? Take, for example, the way some people seem to feel about Nikita Khrushchev. It’s become fashionable to thin^ of him as a shrewd but amiable clown with a secret affection for America and Americans. The raw, naked truth, of course, is something quite different. Those who know state flatly that Khrushchev is a ruthless and incredibly powerful Communist dictator dedicated to the total destruction of our nation and its traditional way of life by any and all possible means. Not a very pretty picture, is it? And so there are those who prefer the ‘•likeable old rascal” version. And what about this business of communists infiltrating our schools, our unions and government and so on? Nothing to it, say our friends with the rosecolored glasses. Just sensationseeking witch hunts. i But I wonder how they’re going to explain away the recent exposure of Mobilization for Youth — a governmentfinanced “social-service organization to help underprivileged youth.” After the organization’s director had repeatedly pooh-poohed charges that Reds ‘were using it to incite racial Violence, school boycotts and rent strikes and dismissed the charges as ‘•irresponsible” and “shadowy,” the FBI decided to find out for themselves. They discovered that nearly 10 per-

cent of the names on the MFY payroll belonged to an ungodly assortment of hard-core left wingers, active communist party members. Chinese Red sympathizers, Castroites and even a Trotsky revolutionary. They discovered, too, that MFY printing facilities were used to turn out inflammatory literature that figured in the bloody Negro riots.

Since Mobilization for Youth has been described as a local prototype of the Administration’s new anti-poverty program, a number of Congressmen have expressed alarm at what might happen in that project. And it might well be that their alarm is justified. It’s no great secret that high-ranking Washington officials, despite exposures, still continue to tolerate Red sympathizers in government jobs — even in sensitive State Department posts. Still another horrible example of the head-in-the-sand approach is the endless whitewashing of Castro — a stubborn refusal by those who ought to know better to recognize the obvious fact that Cuba is a .communist stronghold established to spread terror, anti-U.S. propaganda and revolution throughout the entire Western Hemisphere. The New York Times has likened Castro to Abraham Lincoln. Senator Fulbright, in the understatement of the year,

refers to him as a mere "nuisance.” And the State Department welcomed the bearded , j Red to our country as a “dis- j tinguished leader.” As a matter of fact, without, j the continued help and encouragement of our State Department, it’s highly doubtful that Castro could have established his communist satellite in Cuba. Who says so? The Senate Inter- [ nal Security Subcommittee i does — in a 12-volume report, j Commu)tist Threat to the UJS.' Through the Caribbean. Softpedaling the facts and making reassuring myths out of ugly realities is the major interest of our foreign affair experts these days. For example, we’re told that a moderate and conciliatory, U.S. policy toward Russia will, j in turn, lead to a moderate and conciliatory Russian policy, toward us. " We’re told that the doctrine of peaceful coexistence is the only way to avoid an all-out nuclear war. We’re told that the Russian communist empire is falling apart and all we have to do ia sit back and wait for its inevitable collapse. We’re told a lot of hogwash. The real truth is that our newstyle “appeasement” policy plays right into the hands of the Communists and, as a result, we’re taking a bad shellacking in the cold war and the hot wars in Viet Nam and the Congo as in Korea and Cuba. We are supposed to fight only with bows and arrows if those are the only weapons our enemies possess. By acting, timid and backing down when the going gets rough, we only invite further aggression and eventually the enslavement of all nations in the free world. When will we learn that we can’t compromise with the Reds? The only language they respect is the language of military and moral power and the determination to use such power, if necessary, to protect our vital interests, y' -

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