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52 _ THE TECHNIQUES OF SOVIET PROPAGANDA Reunification of Germany by free, supervised elections and destruction of the “wall of shame.” : Advance acceptance of a foolproof system of control for any prospective disarmament agreement. Discontinuance of jamming our radio Pre ams, and unlimited access of free world literature to the U.5.S.K. . 2. Until these conditions are fulfilled, confront communism quietly, but sternly with adequate armament, both military and political. Notify the Kremlin unequivocally that it will not be permitted to ad- vance one step further, by subversive means or otherwise. Declare irreconcilable hostility to its despotism, helping those who resist it and building against it a sacred union of alt free men in the world, transcending national and partisan affinities. 3. Let the Kremlin’s leaders know that any desired agreement will be possible when, but only when, they have unequivocally and demonstrably accepted and implemented the basic conditions. Should they do so, then hurrah for peaceful coexistence! Because it would then be truly peaceful! But if they refuse, there will be no point in negotiating coexistence, since it be nothing but « lie. Anti-Communists are often reproached as hardening themselves in their hatred. To the contrary, they aspire only to a true peaceful coexistence, as defined above, the more enthusiastically since, if this state of affairs should materialize, communism would fundamentally— _ . and actually—have ceased to exist. It may be objected that the type of international action proposed is unprecedented. No doubt it is, but can we prepare to wage a new war with obsolete stockpiles? Intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads are also unprecedented. When an enemy assails us with unprecedented propaganda weapons, must we abandon our defense because it would involve resort to unprecedented methods? Truly, we must react forthrightly, determined to proceed undeterred by any kind of formalism. We must react rapidly and vigorously, utilizing the highest moral standards, the most effective political ski and the maximum material resources. It is H-bour minus 5 on the battlefield in the war of minds. ConcLusion “When weapons balance, stratagems must prevail.” This aphorism of Sun Tsu, a military theoretician who wrote in the fifth cent before Christ, contains the essence of Communist tactics. Faced wit & balance in nuclear armament, the Soviet threat moves to the conspiratorial level, and the decisive front then becomes that of subversive warfare. If we are not to witness the death of Western civilization, we must disengage, as quickly as possible, from the situation in which the West concentrates solely on the war of missiles, ignoring that already raging war which will decide the outcome: the political war. The principal strategy employed by the Kremlin to conquer the world is simple: agitate aboveground with weapons, and make its major advances underground with politics. In the foreground of the international arena, communism thunders with nuclear megatons while its shock troops in the U.N. pound with shoes on the tables.