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=27- utonce, apparently to drown out further comment. ./hen quict was restored, the Russian Communists stated that they were not in Spain and knew noth about that situation, “The Editor then referred to other flagrant interventions in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and elsewhere but the pro-Russian Americans made so much noise that the Soviet Communists had no Gpportunity to comment even though they had wished to do so. This appeared to be a part of the plan to relieve them from the embarrassment of facing the facts. ‘ Then order was restored, the anti-Communist student asked, '\Yhat about Hungary’?! One of the Russian Communists said, 'That again]! and furth discussion was drowned out by the claque. ‘Later the Editor secured permission of the Chairman to make a short statement, the essence of which was as follows: ‘The heart of the matter is lack of confidence. Soviet literature is shot through with statements by your leaders, boasting that you use false promises, misrepresentation and deceit as instrumenis of policy to deceive your opponents and gain your ends. These have never been repudiated. After the Second \Yorld ‘ar, the United States called its armies home and cumped its munitions into the sea. We trusted you. “Ye disarmed but you continued your aggression by taking over country after country. Finally, in fear of your continued aggression, my country felt forced to re-arm and to establish bases in an cffort to protect itself and other free countries. You Communists call for disarmarnent; we tried it and you took advantage of us by the subjugation cf one country after another.' 'At this point, the claque opened all the steps and produced such contusion that thy Soviet Communists were able to avoid comment.” A conferee who acemed cager to defend the Soviet government stated that she did not believe