Invitation to Division

Looking at the Kremlin's "extraordinary demonstration of despotic disarray" last week. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles observed: "It may well be that the last act of this drama has not yet been played." Dulles had some suggestions that might hasten the final curtain.

World revolution is Communism's ultimate objective, but it can always be postponed in the interests of the Russian state. It was postponed by Stalin when he defeated the imperialist Trotsky, and again, when the Russian people were rallied against the Nazi invasion, to defend not the revolution but Mother Russia.

In last week's speech to the Foreign Policy Association at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Secretary Dulles in effect asked where Mother Russia figures in the announced policies of Party Leader Nikita Khrushchev. "What we see," he said, "is in part an elemental, personal struggle for power. But also one can perceive the outlines of a basic policy difference. There must in Russia be those who are primarily concerned with the welfare, the security and the greatness of the Soviet Union and its people.

"But there are others who would have the Soviet Union and its power serve primarily as a tool of international Communism and as a means for achieving its worldwide ambitions. These two ends, one symbolized by the state and the other by the party, do not always coincide . . .

Lenin and Stalin constantly emphasized the distinction between the two. 'The party,' said Stalin, 'is not and cannot be identified with state power' . . .

"The time may come--and I believe that it will come--when Russians of stature will put first their national security and the welfare of their own people . . . [If they] should prevail, then indeed there could be a basis for worthwhile negotiations and practical agreements between the U.S. and the new Russia." Meanwhile, international Communism's aggressive designs must be thwarted. The Secretary of State explained why, to do so in the Formosa Strait, the U.S. was required to advance its defensive perimeter toward the China mainland. "The U.S. has no commitment and no purpose to defend the coastal islands as such. I repeat, as such.

"The basic purpose is to assure that Formosa and the Pescadores will not be forcibly taken over by the Chinese Communists. However, Foreign Minister Chou, of the Communists, said that they will use all their forces to take Formosa, and they treat the coastal islands as means to that end.

"When the Nationalists voluntarily evacuated the Tachen Islands, the comment of the Chinese Communists was, and I quote from their radio: 'The liberation of these islands has created favorable conditions--not for peace--favorable conditions for our People's Liberation Army in the liberation of Formosa.' "Thus, the Chinese Communists have linked the coastal positions to the defense of Formosa. That is a fact which, as President Eisenhower said in his message to Congress about Formosa, 'compels us to take into account closely related localities.' Accordingly, we shall be alert to subsequent Chinese Communist actions." By not actually naming the key islands of Quemoy and Matsu, Secretary Dulles avoided leaving others unguarded, while retaining freedom of action in responding to Communist probes. Said he: "What the despots will discover from their probing ought, I think, to restrain them."

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