"THUS FAR AND NO FARTHER"

Chronicle (Levin), 11 June 1948, Page 5

"THUS FAR AND NO FARTHER"

Russia's Advance Must Be Stopped Reeeived Thursday, 11.50 p.m. LONDON, Jiuie 10. A warning that Soviet Communism intoxicated with success was direeting a sustained, ruthless and aggressive advance againsffc an exhausted, war-weary and disappointed West was given today by Field-llarshal tinmts at Ihe cereniony in which he was installed as Chancellor of Cambridge Univei'sity. "The hour has struck to call a bait to this fifth column and to say to the great Power behind it : ' Thns far and no i'arther.' Tlie new technique oi" conquest without war has proved.so suecessl'ul that it has all but proved a substitute for war itself." Field-llarshal Smuts said Russia was exploiting Western Europe's fears ol? war and would continue* as long as she thouglrt siie could play the game without the risk of a real war. And the results might be as devastating to human •freedoin as war itself. "Paeifisin. disarniament and unpreparedness act as direct incentives to this form of aggression. They alford a great teniptation to the would-be aggressor. However we view it, we liv.e in a dangerous e])och and we must live dangerously. "As aetual war is ]>ut into cold storage the pacific conquest comes more and more into action. If war is evil its ideological substitute is no less evil and must be resolutely faced if mankind is to be saved from an enslavement of spirit even worse tlian the old physieal sl avery of the past." Field-llarshal Smuts added that the new technique was dangerous beeause of the politieal disguise under which it advanced. War was an open affair easily reeognised as a horrid thing, but its new substitute was insidious and seeret. working under eover and camoufhage. "It is the negation of all we fought for in the war with Boviot Russia substituted for Nazi (lermany. The future of Europe is at stake. Things may happen which neither blood nor tears could wash away thereafter. The salvaging of Europe and its physieal and spiritual values is our first priority. It is a problem of poare, not of war. That is the issue before the world, and on i1s outcome all the rest depends. "