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America's ambivalent attitude toward peace in the world today •V* w n k kiv I ATTITUDE TOWARD PEACE if By HUGH B. HESTER, Brin. Gen., U. S. Army, Retired (General Hester retired in 1951 after 34 years active military service, including assign ments as director of the German Pood Pro 8r«m from 1945 to 1947, military attache to Australia, 1947-48, and commanding general of the Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot, 1948-51. Since'retirement, he has done grad uate study in international relations at the University of Pennsylvania and has written numerous articles for the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Saturday Review, an i other leading magaiines and newspapers. General Hester plan, to live in Chapel Hill after February, 1960.) Certainly the American people want peace. No one can really doubt this who knows them. But they also want jobs in order to feed, clothe house, educate and provide for the general wel fare of their children and themselves. This is equally true of other people, especially of the Chinese and Soviet people. The American government also wants peace but the government is not certain that the peo ple will accept the tax burdens necessary for full employment unless they are frightened by some external “enemy.” Unfortunately, the in ternal enemies: Poverty; ignorance; bigotry, are adequate to the purpose. Th«« constitute the familiar faces, and many seemingly intelligent people still insist that no one worthy of bis hire need be with out adequate food, shelter, clothing, education •nd medical care in prosperous America. In the opinion of many, this is the dilemma “*LemP,0\Tm ‘hr0Ugh fear 0{ the classical enemy at the gates,” or unemployment with peace under the Naawme* concept. The fact that full employment is clearly obtainable with proper plaining, under conditions of real peace, does not alter the fact that this is mare difficult to achieve, especially emotionally. For there will be no bands playing, no flags ; avu.g, no enemy to hate, in an economy build homes. schools, hospitals, playgrounds, parks cul down SET WhUe 31 the Same Ume tearin* It is this dilemma, many competent students think, which is responsible for our Govern menu's* ambivalent attitude towards peace. While we do not dare make peace, wo, also, dare not fight a thermo-nuclear war; therefore, the Cold War must go on. We must hate the enemy, but we der* not destroy him lest we, in turn else, be destroyed. It is only in this context that our conduct of foreign policies in postwar years can be under stood. How'else explain the issuance of the Presi dential proclamation of a “National Slave Week” of prayer for the Soviet people and “satellites” to coincide with Vice President Nixon’s trip to the Soviet Union, summer of 1959, and the Exe cutive agreements to furnish thermo-nuclear in formation and weapons to eight NATO countries, including West Germany, just as the Foreign Ministers were meeting to consider the Berlin crises? How else can we explain the AEC% disclosure in January of this year (1959) of “unforseen dif ficulties” in detecting underground and high above-ground nuclear explosions after the scien tists had agreed they were detectable, and just as the Geneva conference for the cessation of bomb testing was assembling; or the insistence: of the late Secretary of State, Mr. Dulles at Lon- ‘ don (August 1957) that the cessation of bomb production be “packaged” with testing, just as! Mr. Stassen was nearing agreement on ending the tests? . 6 How also explain former Secretary of State Jame* F. Byrnes's sabotage of the Potsdam Agreement Augst 26, 1946, in a speech before a German audience, by demanding unification of Germany on U. S. terms while the foreign ministers were still in session in Paris? Or Mr. Truman’s Communist-containment policy announcement just as the late General Marshall, then Secretary of Sf-tc, v.t.i meeting with other foreign ministers in Moscow, 1947 ostensibly for the purpose of reducing tensions? How explain another distinguished American’s speech, former President Herbert Clark Hoover again before a’ select German audience, January 1947. urging them to join the United States in the corning war against the “atheistic barbarians of the East?” How explain former Assistant Sec rttary of State M alter S. Robertson’s polemic against Red China, or Secretary Herters state ment that the Soviet Union must be held respon sible for Red China’s conduct? 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