Calling All Georgians

"The ultimate goal of the American people and their Government is a peaceful world in which there is no strong and no weak, no masters and no slaves, but where all men can live and work freely and happily without want or fear and with the right to worship God in their own way. This is our vision of the future; we invite you to share it."

The words were the words of Secretary of State Dean Acheson, and the invitation they contained was beamed last week by the Voice of America directly to the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia, the homeland of Joseph Stalin.

Acheson added a few kind words for the Georgians: "You have been able, through the ages, to preserve your national personality, and you have never lost the will to stand up for human rights. We Americans admire you for this enduring spirit." A battery of five Georgians employed by the Voice translated the speech into their native tongue, and it was broadcast twice in one day.

The State Department and the Voice were quick to state that the speech was not a call for a Georgian uprising against the U.S.S.R., just a little psychological combat. Modest beginning though it was, the broadcast showed that the State Department was moving further & further from its old shibboleths of "containment" of world Communism and peaceful "coexistence with the Soviet System."

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