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We want the Japanese to limit their trade with Communist China for strategic reasons. But to compensate for its former large trade with mainland China, Japan must find greater outlets in the free world. We must open our markets to Japan or risk the greatest industrial nation in Asia slipping into the Communist orbit—either by the sheer necessity of trading with the Chinese Communists, or by growing economic distress leading to internal Communist subversion.
We have come to the crossroads—we must make a choice now whether we will lead the free world forward to widening markets and expanding production, or permit it to lapse into intensified economic nationalism and political division.
REDS WANT TO DRIVE U.S. FROM EURASIA
The London ECONOMIST:
ONE of the characteristics of the new [Russian] regime is the jettisoning of the suave manner of the Malenkov period. Now the Russians are back at the familiar task of making simple propaganda for simple minds out of the whole disarmament question. It should now be clear for all to see that in Soviet eyes questions such as West German rearmament are secondary to the central aim of driving the Americans out of the whole Eurasian continent.
And when one comes down to this bedrock, it may be expected that the West will show a heartening degree of unity; few, even among the Bevanites, the German Social-Democrats and the French neutralists, really want to see the Americans retire to Kansas while the Russians retain their grip on Eastern Europe. Western leadership, then, faces a dual task. The point has to be patiently and consistently put across to the Russians that NATO and all other arrangements under which American forces provide a shield for smaller countries are vital to western defense (and to defense only). Meanwhile the western people themselves have to be reminded that the Communist objective is, and was throughout the Malenkov era, nothing less than domination of a Eurasia uncluttered by American presence or American power.
NEEDED: GREATER ACCESS TO ATOMIC INFORMATION
FRANCIS K. McCUNE, head of General Electric Co.'s Atomic Products Division, testifying before the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy:
IF industry is expected to plan its own future course in atomic work, it clearly requires broader access to information. Without adequate information industry cannot be expected to show real initiative. This is a point of the most crucial importance to the success of the atomic program.
The more widely atomic information is distributed the greater the risk will be that some information will get into unfriendly hands. The justification for accepting such risks lies in confidence in the potentialities of American industry. It rests on the belief that the information which must be declassified will produce greater advances by American industry than the increased "leakage" of information will produce behind the Iron Curtain. I submit that this belief is justified by the past performance of American industry.
ATOMIC WEAPONS LESSEN WAR RISK
Columnist DAVID LAWRENCE
SOMETHING of tremendous significance has emerged lately which can best be described as a confidence that World War III is not imminent nor likely to occur in the next few years.