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5. Invite five thousand Soviet "tourists" to vacation at our expense in the
U.S.
6. Repeal the Connally Amendment.
7. Admit Red China to the UN.
8. Put the Peace Corps under UN administration.
9. Stop all U.S. nuclear testing even if the Soviets continue testing.
10. Invite the Soviets to plug into our missile early warning radar
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These platforms did not just happen, of course. They were carefully written by people who
knew what they were doing. Both the House Committee on Un-American Activities and
various state investigating committees have reported that known Communists have
penetrated into key positions within such groups as Women's Strike for Peace, The
Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, and the American Friends Service Committee. 6 The
investigators made it very clear that the majority of the members of these groups had no
idea that they were being used to promote Communist objectives, and probably would not
believe it if they were told. Unfortunately, most of them have never even questioned the
sincerity of the leaders within the so-called peace movement and fewer still have ever
bothered to inform themselves of basic Communist strategy. Consequently, Gus Hall,
head of the Communist party in the United States, is able to boast that the peace
movements continue to gather force and momentum. He stated quite frankly that the most
active of these have been the Women's Strike for Peace and the Turn Toward Peace
groups. He noted that "there are literally tons of literature for peace distributed in this
country; tons and tons of it!" 7
As pointed out earlier, however, the Communists are agitating in this country for
disarmament for a far more important reason than merely fooling a lot of innocent
Americans. Going back once again to the statement of principles issued by the
Communist Sixth World Congress in 1928, we find: "The aim of the Soviet proposals is . . .
to propagate the fundamental Marxian postulates that disarmament and the abolition of
war are possible only with the fall of Capitalism." 8 [Italics added.] Bringing it more up to
date, Khrushchev has said: "The slogan for the struggle for peace must not contradict the
slogan for the struggle for Communism. The struggle for disarmament . . . is an effective
struggle against imperialism . . . for restricting its military potentialities." 9 And in December
1960 at a Moscow meeting of representatives from all over the world, Communist leaders
declared: "An active, determined Communist struggle" must be waged to "force the
imperialists into an agreement on general disarmament." 10
As we shall see, Washington officialdom was thinking along exactly parallel lines and was
putting the whole plan into operation just as fast as American public opinion would permit.
Speaking in Geneva on July 21, 1955, President Eisenhower said:
I have been searching, my- heart and mind for something that I could
say here that could convince everyone of the great sincerity of the U.S.
in approaching this problem of disarmament. I should address myself for
a moment principally to the delegates from the Soviet Union. . . . I
propose, therefore, that we take a practical step; that we begin an