Mr.Stalin's Plan Is Going Well!

THE Red Muscovite conspiracy against Western civilisation is going very well—for the Muscovite. From our view point, the situation has deteriorated markedly—and still is deteriorating.

Russia’s plan is that the Western nations shall become deeply embroiled with the satellite Communist countries, with which she has surrounded herself.

Our strength is to be dissipated, with demoralising “loss of face,” while Russia’s military power and prestige remain un touched.

Accordingly, we are at war with China, and in full retreat before countless hordes of fanatical Chinese Reds. As a spectacle for the delectation of a thousand million Asiatics, our United Nations set-up has been made to look completely ridiculous.

All around the fringe of the USSR, satellite Red countries are either attack ing us, or getting ready to attack—in Indo-China, Tibet, Persia and the Balkans (a thrust, it seems, is to be directed against Yugoslavia); while in Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany millions of men are armed and ready. Behind this screen is the military power of Russia.

Competent observers, during at least the past year, have seen and described the international plan by which Russia hopes to impose Communism upon the world; but the frantic little men of the threatened democracies have done little except babble, and hold confer ences, and exhort each other to stand fiirm. Their performance, when China ripped aside the curtain at the end of

November, and sprang on to the Korean stage, was quite in character.

Little Mr. Attlee went yelling across the Atlantic to consult with little Mr.

Tlruiman, while the French i Parliament milled around and debated another vote of confidence in its Government. The United Nations drafted a stern resolution ordering China out of Korea. And Little Audrey Stalin, in the Kremlin, laughed and laughed and laughed when he heard that little Franco was demanding of Britain the return of Gibraltar to Spain, and that a yapping Moslem mob in Singa pore was defying and spitting upon the British police.

IIIHAT a spectacle! Is it possible that fr only five years ago the United States and the British Empire, victorious and supreme in every field of war, were in complete control of the world; and that the world then accepted their prestige, and awaited their leadership and direc tion.

We have been reduced to this by the political ineptitude of the United States, and the criminal weakness and buffoonery of the British Socialists. The British morale has been reduced beyond measure, and the British Empire weakened almost beyond recovery.

The danger with which we are faced calls for the inspiration of a great leader, for almost fanatical resolution through out the English-speaking world in de fending ourselves and our hard-won free doms, and for dictatorial ruthlessness in lining us all up for the struggle. Instead

of that, we have the trans-Atlantic scutt iin«s ° f Mr “f-s? is a J b °" t as spiring as a dead rabbit—and the goat like trumpetings of the United Nations.

Tl je spectacle of a half-dozen multi coloured brigades fighting beside the American divisions in Korea is sympto matic of what we can expect from the United Nations in this supreme crisis of human history.

Now, momentarily sheltered by the adtom bomb, we have a short breathing space. But have we time in which to build up our civil as well as our military defences, before we have to meet the Kremlin’s equivalent of “Der Tag”? Only the events of the next few months will supply an answer, we can sure: T^e future the free world depends upon what is done immediately by the Ehglish-speaking countries. The United Nations is a pitiful and expensive farce. Unless there is a y ast change in the spirit and outlook of Pf°Pj e of he United States and the British Empire—especially the latter we ™ 1 £~ 6 hnm and conception of the human relationship and new standards of life.