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LOOKING AHEAD
By Dr. George S. Benson
Director, National Education
Program It “Coexistence” Possiblef
The Congressional Committee on Communist Aggression, composed of five Republicans and four Democrats, returned recently from Europe where a series of hearings in London, Munich and Berlin led to the labeling of Communism for. what it is. Among the 112 witnesses heard were exiled King Michael of Rumania, Col. Grigori Stephanovic Burlitski, former - top official in the Russian MVD, high ranking former officials of the governments of Estonia^ Czechoslovakia, Ukrania, Poland and scores of citizen leaders who had lived under Communism in a half dozen Iron Curtain countries, before escaping to the West.
On the basis of the testimony given, together with its previous investigations over a considerable period the Congressional Committee has just published a series of clear-headed conclusions and has addressed an urgent recommendation to President Eisenhower (House Report No. 2650). Highlights of the findings are:
1. “Life under communism is one of ruthless and absolute tyranny. The State is good. The dignity and inherent rights of man have no place under communism.,,
2. “Communism is a conspiracy which utilizes * an extensive and complex international criminal mechanism. It seeks to destroy all free nations and to replace them with a system of Red colonialism.”
3. “The leaders of the inter~ national Communist . conspiracy regard the United States as the main roadblock to their plan for world conquest.”
4. “Communism is able to maintain control over the people it enslaves only by the exercise of the most brutal and inhuman methods known to mankind, such as wholeI
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