LETTER TO ALLEN W. DULLES FROM THOMAS W. BRADEN

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
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• Publication Date: April 26, 1956
• Content Type: LETTER

DAILY BLADE-TRIBUN
OCEANSIDE, CALIFORNIA
Anril 26, 1956
Thomas W. Braden, Publisher
Dear Allen:
Thanks for sending me your speech.
You will see by enclosure number one that
it was reviewed in thn editorial columns
of this newspaper.
I am also sending Vou an editorial
on the same subject that appeared in the
Blade-Tribune three or four weeks ago in
w?rhic'h you might be interested.
Regards to Clover.
Sincerely,
Enclosures
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The CIA Looks At Russia
The highest authority in the United States
Government on the subject of Soviet conduct
and intentions had something to say a few
days ago about the purge of Stalin now tak-
ing place in Russia. The authority is Allen
W. Dulles, the Director of Central Intelli-
gence. As chief of the United States secret
services, Mr. Dulles has the responsibility
of providing the government with informa-
tion on Soviet conduct and of offering his
educated guesses on Soviet intentions. Al-
most every newspaper in the United States,
including this one, has had its say on the
recent events in Russia but Mr. Dulles. who
was not the first commentator to speak, may
be the commentator most worth listening to.
"To find the real reason for the de-Stalini-
zation campaign we must, I believe." Dulles
said, "look to the ... recent past, particularly
to the hard autocratic period during the last
six or seven years of Stalin's life." .. .
Both internationally and domestically, Dul-
les said, these last few years had been a fail-
ure for the Soviet.
In the international field, Dulles points out
that beginning about 1.947 in Europe, and
somewhat later in Asia, the free world at
last began to realize the implications of the
forward drive of international communism
and started to take counter measures. First
came the Marshall Plan which Stalin and
Molotov rejbcted and opposed. Next in
Greece, the Soviet effort to take over wag
thwarted. Later in Berlin, the blockade was
frustrated by the air lift. With the help of
western countries, Tito survived his ejection
from Stalin's favor. Later the North Atlantic
Alliance was organized despite Soviet threats
and the way was opened for German rearm-
ament in union with the W'r'est. Finally, when
he turned to the Far East, Stalin was thwart-
ed in his attempt to grab Korea.
Wed., April 25, 1956
.cession of serious defeats in foreign affairs.
But he does not explain the campaign
>against Stalin in terms of these foreign de-
feats alone. He apparently believes that the
domestic reasons for the upheaval give cause
for a mild and extremely cautious expression
.of hope.
Mr. Dulles thinks that the Soviet leaders
discovered that in order to compete with the
West in the scientific and technical field
necessary to their armament program, they
had to accept a certain measure of the spirit
of individual inquiry and of free education
developing the critical faculties of human be-
ings - two of the very foundations of West-
ern democracy. And in order to convince the
Soviet people that their government was
done with arbitrary policy-making, secret
trials and prison camps for those who ven-
tured to show the most elementary spirit of
inquiry, they had to make a scapegoat out of
Stalin.
Obviously the degredation of Stalin is in-
sincere. The same men who served him faith-
fully are trying to discredit him and at the
same time to uphold the Communist Party
and the basis of the dictatorship which he
led for so long. But Dulles asks an interest-
ing question: "Is it not possible that the So-
viet people with the leaven of education they
are now receiving will demand some deci-
sive share in the selection of their own lead-
ership and some checks and balances against
the danger of tyrannical dictatorship and the
cult of personality?"
If Mr. Dulles is right in his analysis of the
internal dilemma of the Soviet leaders, it
may be that during the next few years the-
Soviet dictatorship will have to go even
farther in the direction of the right of free
speech, free worship and protection of the
Mr. Dulles thinks therefore that to some individual from arbitrar ower.
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Thursday, March 29, 1956
How Many Hoops In A Lifetime?
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of the church for which Lenin had laid the It wi1 akei some time Daily Worker wrong.
faith. He had built the church, and the strife It will take time, too, for the rest of us to
and effort with which he built it were part react, those of us who are lucky enough to
of the Soviet. religion. He and' his predecessor live in a part of the world dedicated to fact,
Lenin were religion. - and to
Now, suddenly, and in the year 1956, this based upon fact.l The tendenc and ra ilihings y in son of the church is, assailed. The faithful ton is to let this latest Soviet upheaval run
are told that they have been rnielo,a +1' _
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understood in any less harsh analo
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s o the Soviet writing to complain and to wonder out loud,
Union are coping with today It cann
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come false is what citize
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with .so easily live with a lie.
another shock, and the shock,, the sense of What about the Communist Party in the
disbelief, the sense of a world t
could, through the years since Stalin's death,
What, can be compared is one -11, k
nothing in common is ave wonder about a government of Russia that
w-en the Cath people in Russia, admitting their errors, have
olic Church and the Soviet Union. You can- at last found democracy, and a. tendency to
not compare two institutions 117h; h h
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any sense of comparison bet can in accept the new doctrine as evidence that the
s !s not meant . They will be pressed between a tendency to
in any sacrilegious sense It is not m
We hasten to say that thi men will be recalculating their doubts.
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church altogether. C71 lnd of newspapers or learning from Western spokes-
had intended to found some er it with what they were reading in Western
th k
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that in fact, he had positive proof that T3-+
p e grave of China, the educated who learned about the
Peter, that many of the relics
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bols of his religion were a mockery, that the In India, and Indonesia, in Pakistan and
cathedral was not founded u on th
ME: s of stretch out a hand of friendship and to say;
Christianity, he had discovered that the
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gust, that while he believed in the t t
car mats and been saying, that all was right except for
informed them that he was resi
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ws- slavla there must be great rejoicing in high
paper has just informed you that Pope Pius government circles. This is what Tito has
has gathered a conclave of d
themselves be interesting to watch. In Yugo-
Imagine fora moment that
our
a mom- see whether they can absorb the blow.
ent that there has been an enormous upheav- The reactions of these other men will
al in the Catholic Church
g ci izen of the the world, other men will be watching to
Soviet Union today is to pretend for
One means of imagining what is going on the minds of Soviet citizens today. Around
In the mind of the averse 't'
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n o t1Ie people moval of the god-Stalin from the tomb where
which false history had made him, was com- he lies alongside the father, Lenin.
parable to a cruel and profligate Nero. It will. take time to see whether the Soviet
Moreover they are told so, not by rumor or people can react. Thus far in the past they
whispering, but straight from the pulpit, have done so. They welcomed and then hated
from Stalin's chosen successors, from the Hitler, revered and then despised Beria, and
platform of the All-Soviet Congress. In whatever the?rulers told them to think, they
other words, they are suddenly given this have," as, far as the rest of the world can
new and shattering doctrine and told to be- determine, hastened to
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This i a measure of what is going on in they jump through?
and that in addition he was, a cruel, intemp- intended for foreig iio uops comply a brief whether tion or erate, childish, ignorant, petulant, and ruth- it will strike so deep as to about l "a
less old man, a dissipated dictator who far spontaneous people's demand" for the re-
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