Play Communists At Their Own Game

Chronicle (Levin), 8 May 1948, Page 5

Play Communists At Their Own Game

- Eeeeived Friclay, 6.40 p.m. NE.W YORK, May 6. Mr. John Foster Dulles, Eepublican Party foreign policy adviser, today ealled for a new departipent in the Government to fight Communist propaganda at home and ahroad. Mr. Dulies urged the United States. to estahlish a departinent of non-miiitary deience whose main task would he. to expose Communist activities thrdughout the world. ' ' We need an organisation. to contest with the Communist Party at the ievel where that party xs working. It is not necessary to hium up the world with an atomic war. It is not necessary to keep p'ouring out hillions to repair damage or sabotage. it. isnecessary to catch by exposure th.ose who are gnawing away th.e foun,dations of our free societies. Once> we demonstrated our capacity to wga, the kind of warfare the Communist Party is waging, then conditions. will he ripe for peace." Mr. Dulles added that the proposed department should among other things protect the free press by assuripg it of enough newsprint. A House sub-committee in its report on the relationship of petroleum to national deferice today warned "with deep conviction and ccncern" that the United States doesn't have enough oil to fight another war. The report said: "If another war comes we will he short ahout 3,000,000 barrels a dayA' The report recommended President Truman irnmediately ta appoint a special commission to solve the critical situation, and said the commission should give consideration to the allocation of steel to industry, the rationing of oil, the stockpiling oi petroleum for the armed forces, and the exploration of new potential oil lands.