PLAIN WORDS

For the U.S. and its allies, it was a time for laying it on the line, in plain words:

Rhys M. Sale, president of Ford Motor Co. of Canada: "I want to see the people of Canada wide awake to the fact [that] we are living in a tinder-dry world in which a gigantic fire is raging and dangerously near to being out of control. . . In the arsenals of every land behind the Iron Curtain, the sweating slaves of Communism are beating out the weapons for world conquest . . . World War III is here. It is going on right now. The thinking people . . . are prepared to face the cold, hard truth . . ."

Charles E. Wilson, U.S. Mobilizer: "How much armed strength?

As much as it takes for this country, in partnership with its allies, to block the aggressive designs of Soviet Russia."

Governor James F. Byrnes: "No man knows what the Kremlin will do. But I know that the Soviet leaders understand only the language of force. A firm stand by a united people may deter them from war. A timid course by a divided people will certainly encourage them to make war."

Senator James Duff of Pennsylvania: "In my opinion, it is impossible to overestimate the danger this country is in ... We must measure up to the Revolutionary heroes who served in America's last great crisis."

General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French commander in Indo-China: "Without these [French] troops, this country would be enslaved overnight to Communist tyranny. Even if some naive people do not see the danger, we must stand against it. There is no neutral way."

Harold Stassen: "I found the whole world is rapidly awakening to the extreme evils of Communist imperialism. Very little remains of the fuzzy thinking of the immediate postwar years when many thought that in some manner Communism would be the wave of the future and would turn out to be benign."

Premier Alcide de Gasperi: "Italy has accepted its duties and its place in the political array of the world after an accurate examination of its ideas, its interests and its geopolitical position. If she wavered, if she betrayed intrinsic and explicit loyalties, she would finish as Masaryk and Benes finished."

Carlos P. Romulo, Philippine Foreign Minister: "The march of Communist aggression cannot be arrested by a policy of moral retreat and surrender. The goal of Communism, is domination of the world. Communists may change their tactics and modify their methods, but their final goal of world domination stands unaltered through all such cunning wiles and opportunistic strategems."

Dr. Harold C. Urey, University of Chicago atomic scientist:

"I think we should say that we will send the bombs to Moscow just as soon as the Russian Army makes a false move in Europe, so that there may be no misunderstanding on the part of Moscow."

Charles Malik, U.N. Delegate of Lebanon: "When anybody in the West says . . . 'We can get along with Communism'. . . 1) either he is a Communist himself; 2) or he is an appeaser; 3) or he does not know what he is talking about; namely, he does not know the nature of the thing with which he says he can get along; 4) or--and this is the most grievous thing--he does not know the supreme values of his own heritage which Communism has radically rebelled against and desires to extirpate."

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