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soe ne nie atime are 40 THE TECHNIQUES OF SOVIET PROPAGANDA communism in Asia is not the hunger of the people, but the ambition of the intellectuals. To alleviate human misery by raising the standard of living of the Masses is undoubtedly a most sacred duty, but it would be pure illusion to think this is enough to ward off the peril of Communism. No amount of reforin can silence Communist demagogy, which knows no limit in aggrandizement and treachery. It is clearly inconceivable that all social injustice can be eliminated within this century, regardless of the effort devoted to the task. Yet the Communist threat is already harassing our flank. The proposed parry is completely out of phase, in both space and time, with the thrust. The struggle against social injustice must certainly be pursued unfalteringly, but to regard it as the principal weapon against com- munism; to concentrate on aid to substandard housing while ignoring the infiltration of government, is evasion masked in nobility, and substantially assists the Communist assault. FALLACY NO. 7: AID TO UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTRIES COUNTERS THE SOVIET THREAT Capitalizing on the resentment accumulated among the under- developed nations against the West, on whom they so long depended, the Soviet apparatus of intoxication and mass conditioning moves into these countries with an insolently abundant supply of resources. The West, overwhelmed by its guilt complex as a former colonialist, feels it necessary to affect respect for the slogans with which the Kremlin's agents flood the “uncommitted” nations—the “third world. Communist political warfare has achieved considerable success by worrying Western consciences with impostures of the following dimensions: To pretend that the Communist system provides bread, although it does not grant liberty. while the greatest famine in history stalks in China, and the U.S.S.R. must buy wheat, milk, and meat from the cepitalist world. o credit the myth that communism can rapidly industralize underdeveloped countries, when non-Communist Japan, Venezuela, Brazil, and Senegal achieved industrialization better, faster, and at less cost in human misery than did Communist China. To have seriously accepted the claim that communism aids national emancipation with no one recognizing that “aid” as the oldest trick, of erying ‘‘thief” to divert attention from the veritable robber. By concentrating the attention and anger of the people in the newly independent countries of the “third world” against withering Western colonielism, communism prevents them from recognizing and resisting its own growing colonialism. To these three principal fabrications, Communist propaganda in the underdeveloped countries adds a wide vaniety of opportunistic local slogans. These “internationalists” widen the rifts between nationalist factions in Singapore, sharpen language conflicts in Ceylon and India, inflate tribal rivalries in the Congo, exasperate traditional peculiarities in Assam, provoke religious conflicts in Burma, attack Brahma among Moslems and Mohammed among Hindus.