Baltimore-i Értesítő, 1977 (13. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1977-11-01 / 11. szám
The Peaceniks Are Back Well, important elements of the so- called "Peace Movement” have now come out of the closet, and the moral stench is so strong you need a gas mask. At the Beacon Theater in Manhattan, some two thousand cheering people welcomed the new communist Vietnamese UN delegation. Prominent at this obscene bash were Cora Weiss, who organized it, former Attorney GeneraI Ramsey “Hanoi” Clark, Sam Brown (a Carter appointee as head of ACTION, a Peace Corps affiliate), Pete Seeger, the old leftist folk-singer, and David Dellinger. All of these people were active a few years back in the cause of '‘peace.” “The mood was joyful but not markedly forgiving,” observed the Washington Post. “There was warm applause for Ho Chi Minh, but only scattered handclaps when Weiss said the United States is a great nation.” There was thunderous applause when Cora Weiss welcomed the emissaries of communist tyranny, shouting "Welcome, welcome, in the name of the American people.” As the crowd rose to its feet cheering, the four Vietnamese Communists mounted the platform-with their hands raised in victory gestures. A prepared speech was delivered by Ngo Dien, Hanoi’s deputy foreign minister for press aixHnformation. It consisted of an all-out attack upon the United States as a bloody, colonialist and imperialist nation The Communist demanded that the U.S. pay reparations to Hanoi. Once again the crowd rose to its feet cheering. Pete Seeger did his bit to celebrate totalitarian conquest by singing leftist folk songs. Dave Dellinger advocated that the United States give up Puerto Rico. Carter’s new boy, Sam Brown, professed himself “deeply moved.” He went mi: “What can you say when the kinds of things that 15 years of your life were wrapped up in are suddenly before you ” In this nigntmaion scene, wnat was suddenly there before him were the living embodiments of totalitarian conquest of millions of people. Here was evidence, in case further evidence is needed, that these members of the Peace Movement were not interested in peace at all but in a Hanoi triumph. The ideals of freedom and human dignity obviously mean nothing to them; the traditions of civilization mean nothing. It does not matter to them that at no time was there any evidence that a majority in South Vietnam desired to be totalitar- ianized. All the evidence, indeed, suggests just the opposite. It does not matter to them that Sou in Vietnam has been turned into a large concentration camp, from which a pitiful trickle of “boat people” risk their lives to attempt to flee. 8 It is impossible to believe that these Americans who turned out to celebrate Vietnamese tyranny actually believe that the government in Hanoi is a good one. I suggest that their motives in most cases are sheer hatred of the United States. For some reason their animus against the United States is so great that they are willing to celebrate a foreign tyranny. To adapt a verse by Shelley: “I met death upon the way. It had a face like Ramsey Gark.” ******************** Tito Grows More Uneasy President Tito’s background in Spain’s 1336 ghastly civil war is the real key to his rape of Yugoslavia. His real name is, of course, Josip Broz, and in all Europe no man’s hands are bloodier. “Tito” is an underground alias given him by the Communists during the civil war and he has used it ever since. In fact, Tito has stated: “Yugoslavia was bom in Spain.” A full 28 of today's former “generals” and 10 of Tito’s ambassadors fought in Red-controlled International Brigade in Spain. I was reporting for American newspapers during the civil war. The Soviet commissar in Spain was Konev, known there as Pauhto. The Comintern instructor jn terrorism was called Medina. The horrible blood purges were the “Yezhovshina,” named for Yezhov, then the head of the Soviet NKVD. the Red secret police. It is a hardly known fact that man>- Russian volunteers served in Spain during the civil war. Nearly all were shot on returning to Russia. This began in 1937. More than 1.5 million Spaniards died in the horrible civil war and two million more were wounded. Today it is impossible to go anywhere in, Spain without encountering somebody whose father, mother, sister or brother was wounded or. killed, in that conflict. In Yugoslavia Tito has followed the pattem he learned in Spain. His USDA secret police are everywhere, turning op like submerged hulks lunging mysteriously to the surface when you least expect them. They are directly under Tito’s command.’ He hibernates on Vanga: with his wife Javanka. ‘Javanka’~is also an alias, given her by the Reds during her wartime career as a tough, disciplined Communist guerrilla fighter. Like deceased Red China tyrant Mao Tse-tung’s fourth wife Chiang Ching (now purged), Javanka is a big woman, her eyes as hard as flint, powerful arms and legs and a mind loaded with poisoned fruit, like the tempter held out to Eve on the Garden of Eden, scheming and brutal. Nevertheless. Javanka directly influences Tito in domestic and foreign affairs, a serpent feeding the serpent: Tito is on Vanga, as well, with a tew cronies- These include Stane Dolac, 52, his right-hand man throughout the past sú years. Dolac is Secretary of the Executive Bureau of Yugoslavia’s Communist party and, evidently Tito has picked him to succeed him as Communist party chairman. Also on Vanga is the leading Red theorist and revolutionary Edward Kardelj, Tito’s closest friend and aide for many years and Javanka’s first mentor. Our Central Intelligence Agency has learned much about Tito’s Moscow visit to Soviet Communist party First Secretary (now president) Leonid I. Brezhnev before traveling to Peking. Brezhnev, visited Yugoslavia in November 1976 and both tyrants know each other well — birds of a feather. But this time it was not the happiest of visits. Brezhnev has a hunting lodge at Zavi- dov, 80 miles northeast of Moscow, and after the typical caviar and vodka Moscow banquet, Brezhnev -eceived aim there. Tito castigated Brezhnev for what ht described as “fhe Cominform plot.” In their private discussion, Tito claimed that Brezhnev and the Kremlin are setting up a pro-Soviet Communist party in. Yugoslavia. He stated that this led to the USDA’s arrest last month of 32 Yugoslavs. Brezhnev, of course, denied any existence of a “Cominform plot,” but certainly that is the way the cookie crumbles. And, clearly. Tito is as nervous as a cot- fee-drinking cat about the internal situation in the very place that he rules as dictator. *★★*★★★★★**★★★★**** Farm Agency Statistics Contain Too Much Bull The Foreign Agriculture Service, an arm of the Agriculture Dept., sends both government men and businessmen abroad to promote the sale of U.S. farm products. In all fairness, it must be said that these traveling pitchmen have been successful in boosting foreign sales of ripe tobacco leaf, surplus wheat and other commodities grown in America. They haven't been quite as successful, however, as the FAS likes to claim. Last year, the agency inflated its claims with phony statistics — the better to justify its $40 million budget. There was the matter, for example, of cattle exports to Hungary. A staff investigation for Rep. Charles Vanik, D-Ohio, found that Hungary is buying less cattle from the United States. But the FAS solemnly assured Congress that Hungary is purchasing more U.S. cat-
