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the husbandmen of this progress to sow its seeds in soi) unti] now untilled. ‘The fallacy lies in the belief that this necessary generosity suffices to prevent the spread of Communist infestation, especially in the short period within which this infection threatens to overwhelm the “third world.” ; Remember, this disease has also attacked economically developed countries, such as Czechoslovakia, France, and Cuba, for the reason that it is grounded on myths and passions, more than on needs. In the underdeveloped countries, even more than in the West, the Communist leaders are usually the wealthy intellectuals, while the masses are more driven by messianic visions than by materialistic influences. The revolts in Hungary and Tibet damaged the Com- munist position in India considerably more than did 10 years of American assistance, : Tronically America, which professes humanism and spirituality, utilizes materialistic methods while the Communist world, professing to believe in “Marxist materialism” resorts to idealism in its proselyt- ing. The term “‘idealism’ is here used, not in ite usual sense of “generous impulses,” but in its philosophical roeaning as “placing the 0 Lit | | | principal emphasis on ideas,” as oppased to sophical mate- Yialism.” The United States think they have only to build schools, hospitals, and railways in underdeveloped countries, and hand out Spam end fruit juice, for the peoples to be automatically cured of mmunist leanings. Meanwhile the U.S.S.R. works primarily on minds, preaching the doctrine that an increased standard of living wi result—much, much later—from the people's faith in communism and hatred of the West, propagating this idea by an inexhaustible stream of books, pamphlets, and leaflets, written. in every language and adapted to every level of intelligence. us has been established a division of labor between the U.S.S.R. and the United States which will rapidly bring about the former’s destruction of the latter. The United States provides food; the Soviets propaganda. The United States builds schools to teach the aleLabaé tn. aedacnlined mannln- thao TT O meanits ame marian alpnaoet 1 UNGtTaevEcped people, Wié U.G.5.00. prints anti-American newspapers for these people to read with their new skill. The United States builds libraries; Soviet auxiliaries fill them with Leninist literature. The United States builds hospitals; the Soviets staff them with Communist nurses to indoctrinate the patients. ‘This is not interpreted to mean that economic aid programs should be discontinued. Aid can have excellent consequences, but only if supplemented by programs of political education. Dellars without indigenous political specialists, alert to the Communist peril, invariably wind up in the pockets of Soviet auxiliaries. The truth is that in order to resist Soviet propaganda the most urgent necessity is aid, not to the underdeveloped couniries of the =~ “third world,” but to the underdeveloped minds of the West. Such aid is the purpose of the constructive measures to be subsequently proposed. | | | FALLACY NO. & LET Us ARREST THE ATHIFE WITH THE COMMUNIST GIANTS BY COEXISTENCE The recently signed Moscow Treaty, prohibiting nuclear tests, evoked paeans of joy. Yet 3 years before Moscow hadim plicitly | | | . — _ 42 THE TECHNIQUES OF SOVIET PROPAGANDA | |