NEGOTIATE WITH RUSSIA; NEVER USE THE H-BOMB

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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT states her foreign policy.

I AM troubled, as are so many other people, by statements made in various responsible quarters which indicate that there is a growing feeling among United States officials that negotiation with the Communists is impossible and that, perhaps, the inevitable end to our present concentration on atomic military power is the use of these atomic weapons. I think I must say that, for me, the H-bomb has always been something no nation could ever use because the destruction created in any country, which would include the killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent people, would be too revolting to the human conscience.

I would not, therefore, cut down completely on other modern weapons which could be used in localized wars because, human nature being what it is, it will take a long time for people who have always turned to force to learn the ways of reason and peace. But in the United Nations we have the machinery for helping people in every corner of the globe to become educated.

I think we should turn to the question of how to accomplish our ends through methods which we can countenance, and which are not methods of force. I be lieve we are in a rut. We seem to have neglected the arts of diplomacy and negotiation. Let's concentrate less on atomic power. Keep it in the background. Let's not allow our ordinary military power to go down, but let's concentrate as we have never concentrated before on the ways by which we can regain the friendship of statesmen and people who have been drifting away from us. And let's negotiate with the Communists, with the assurance that we have more strength both economically and spiritually than they have, and more to offer to the peoples of the world.

KREMLIN SOON READY FOR ALL-OUT ATTACK

AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION, in a formal resolution signed by Generals Jimmy Doolittle, Ira Eaker and Carl Spaatz, among others, says the U.S. should think of A-bombs as conventional weapons and be ready to use them any time.

The Free World is fast approaching a JL time of total danger, when it is possible to destroy a nation's capacity and will to retaliate. Only our ability and our announced willingness to take decisive action during the present period might still resolve the issue between world freedom and world slavery. Soon the Kremlin will be militarily ready to launch a large-scale surprise assault on the United States. Our current strength in air power and nuclear weapons, thus far the major deterrent to all-out war, has not been exploited in our reaction to continued local aggression.

We believe that our people and the peoples of the Free World are confused as to how our government plans to use air power for peace. We believe it likely that the Soviets have no clearer understanding of our policy and not understanding it, are therefore unlikely to be deterred by it. We believe that our national policy must clearly define nuclear weapons as legitimate and conventional instruments for resisting aggression, or the Free World's temporary advantage in weapons technology will be seriously compromised.

SOME "LIBERALS" PROVE WORSE THAN McCARTHY

NEW YORK POST, most partisan Fair-Deal paper in the East, says the Democratic maneuver on the antisubversion bill was "a retreat without honor."