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Keeling, Ralph Franklin, 1901- / Gruesome harvest
(1947)
Chapter X: Facts we must face, pp. 111-135 ff.
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CHAPTER X FACTS WE MUST FACE How We Have Played into Russia's Hands General Eisenhower told a press conference in London that the Russians "like to laugh." Well they might, in view of the way we have played into their hands and fallen for their subterfuges. Things have come to such a pass that we have seriously been told we must not criticize the Russians or their government; yet those who said so have felt perfectly free to criticize every- thing American and have made no corresponding effort to stop Soviet blasts at us. In March, 1945, GI's in Germany were actually placed un- der official orders not to make unflattering remarks about the Reds. 1 Typical of our un-American efforts to throttle critics was AMG censorship in April, 1946, of a letter by a Catholic Bishop calling attention to Russian abuses of Germans through forced labor and expulsions. We prohibited the reading of the letter in churches, because it might offend Russia. Social Democrats and other German political parties have not been allowed to criticize the Communist party, lest Russia take offense. We must realize that there is something seriously wrong with nations, as with people, who cannot stand criticism, who try to place themselves beyond reproach, and that something is equally wrong with people who truckle to them. Russia deserves not only criticism but condemnation. Stalin in 1939 told the Communist Party of Russia it must beware of us, for we would send our "spies, murderers, and wreckers" into the Soviet Union. The facts are that the Soviet Union has sent its spies, murderers, and wreckers into this country, as in all others, where they have infiltrated into our govern- ment, occupying hundreds of key positions, sitting in our inner councils, and even helping mold our foreign policy. 111
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