CHASE AFTER COMMUNISTS NOT 'PHANTOM' TALK AFTER ALL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200080030-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2014
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: October 27, 1952
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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20 Years
, But the Republicans have not been in p wer
:. for 20 years, and the responsihility?for all the
? errors. with which we are nOw plagued' falls-
squarely on the shoulders of Mr. Triuriaik's
' DemoCrats and can not be Placed elsewhere.
. The, Republicans did not 'Make the . Yalta
"deal" th'IlTfurned PoMnd and eastern Europe
over to the Russian reds and Opened the Alpr
for them in China. The' Mmblicans did nCit
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confirm that deal we .Po.tidarn.,--Mr. Truman
? did. The Republicans did not cut off aid to
Chiang, Kai. Shek in China and thus deliver
that country into the haiM of the corthnu-
nists. Mr: Truman and hieadvisers did that.
' The :Republicans' did not .v.ilhdraw our occu-
pation troops from Sbath4Korea, leaving the ,
gate wide open for the red itivasion. from North
. Korea. Mr. Truman and his Democratic fol- '
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loWers did that. .
The Republicans did notiplant an Alger Hiss,;
in. the' state department or admit communists .
? to other high offices in government. The,
' Democratic leadership did . that.%
No Republican president ever recognized the !
commUnist rule in Moscow. .Mr. Roosevelt
did that, and in so doing opene6. wide our
gates to communist spies 'and sabcitette?r,
When 'Mr. iloover, the last Republica'nresi- !
dent left- office, 20 years' ago, thereWn 't a
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communist in, 'the goverriment, T r are'
now, as. General :Bedell Smith,.heado -Mt-
; tral Intelligence Age ' ,ctit:,:toii" 'secutitrilf- 1
iz, , es 1 fed. - There have'beeri
i ? theie. past ' f20 years.'.: BIA?:stiltlY1r...7trurrian i
! could- calltie e-,.Charges against His a "red
herring."-
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':.Chase 'After 'Cl.c--).-mitignists
.,'Not. 'Phantom' Talk.',Aft6r A114
, The comment recently of. Gen. WaltdAedell Smith, -head
1 of the Central ,Intelligence Agency, that it was almost im-;
possiblirtYrIgrtn been. 'run out of goVern.:1,
inent, prompted ?v. AdlAi StevensonFto.remark that. that
showed the,difficultiek With which atr .administration has
to coirtend., ?He ,argued, ".tkerefore,' that a Change' of party
in 'the administration could.not guarantee' a?4uick ancl easy
routing of the Communists from the capital. ". ? .?
Gov. Stevenson then .does admit there..iS.'.a: Communists.
problem in Washington. Only a short time ago, he* had said
that the- drive against Reds in government was a chase .after
"phantoms." There were very few of them there,,, he said,.,
and declared the FBI could be depended on to take tare ofl
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So They Say
We natio!nalized the oil Indus
' to be independent and we
not accept any foreign interfer-
ence. We want to exploit and ex-
port the oil ourselves.
?Hussein' Makki, head of Iran's
nationalizefi oil industry.
The most important question in
the Middle East is the Angl o-
tranian quarrel over the Abadan
oil fields and the peace and pros-
perity of the Middle East is de-
pendent On the equitable solution
of this 'natter.
?Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, former
financial adviser to Adolf Hitler.
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They (Communists) are so good
that you've got to act on the
-assumption that you've got a few
of them.
?Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, di-
rector of the CIA.
11 Salesmanship can- peddle a bar
of sawdust soap once, but ric
amount of salesmanship will sell
it a second timeto the same cus?
tomer.
?Leland I. Dow, president of the
Dow Chemical Co.
It follows that the inevitability
of wari among capitalist countries
remains true. In order to elimi-
nate the inevitability of wars, it is
tecessary to destroy imperialism.
?Premier joSef Stalin.
The struggle in Britain is no
longer 'a conflict between the con-
servatives and labor because the'
Tories no longer-have anything to
say.
_BritishAeft - w,iig Labor Party
leader! Aneurin 43eyan.
He (Eisenhower) is a Wit i n
the hands of Bob Taft.
--Pretdent -Harry:S TrunrilV
Eventually, o r 4111e' - maiority,.
'military training should precede
college train*.
?Draft ? director Lewis B. Her-
shey. ?
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