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age, ofreconciling order, security, the need for participation,with the
requirements of freedom. We would face the fact that in a shrinking
world the absence of order among nations is becoming less and less
tolerable. The Kremlin design seeks to impose order among nations
by means which would destroy our free and democratic system. The
Kremlin's possession6of atomic weapons puts new power behind its
design, and increases the jeopardy to our system. It adds-new strains
to the uneasy equilibrium-without-order'which eXists in th"eworld and
raises new doubts in men's minds whether the world will long tolerate
this tension without moving toward some kind of order, on somebody's
terms.
  The risks we face are of a new Order of magnitude, commensurate
with the total struggle in which we are engaged. For a free society
there is never total victory, since freedom and democracy are never
wholly attained, are always in the process of being attained. But
defeat at the hands of the totalitarian is total defeat. These risks crowd
in onus, in a shrinking world of polarized power, so as to give us no
choice, ultimately, between meeting them effectively or being overcome
by them.
B. Speciflc
  It is quite clear from Soviet theory and practice that the Kremlin
seeks to bring the free world under its dominion by the methods
of the cold war. The preferred technique is to subvert by infiltra-
tion and intimidation. Every institution of our society is an instru-
ment which it is sought to stultify and turn against our purposes.
Those that touch most closely our material and moral strength are
obviously the prime targets, labor unions, civic enterprises, schools,
churches, and all media for influencing opinion. The effort is not so
much to make them serve obvious Soviet ends as to prevent them from
serving our ends, and thus to make them sources of confusion in our
economy, our culture and our body politic. The doubts and diversities
that in terms of our values are part of the merit of a free system, the
weaknesses and the problems that are peculiar to it, the rights and
privileges that free men enjoy, and the disorganization and destruction
left in the wake of the last attack on our freedoms, all are but oppor-
tunities for the Kremlin to do its evil work. Every advantage is taken
of the fact that our means of prevention and retaliation are limited
by those principles and scruples which are precisely the ones that
give our freedom and democracy its.meaning for us. None of our
scruples deter those whose only code is, "morality is that which serves
the revolution".
   Since everything that gives us or others respect for our institutions
is a suitable object for attack, it also fits the Kremlin's design that


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