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What is more, in Western Europe as a whole the Communist position has deteriorated. All that this shows is that the relation between atomic power and the ebb and flow of Communism is complicated and indirect. There is no ground for Sen. Knowland's prediction that an atomic stalemate means the Communist conquest of the world...
...atomic stalemate, which renders general war intolerable and improbable, will give the free world a better chance in the rivalry for the allegiance of mankind. To say, as he does, that in the atomic stalemate nation after nation will be "nibbled away" is to sound as if Mr. Knowland wants to go to war as soon as possible. If that is not what he believes, then he may fairly be asked to explain more clearly just what he is talking about...
...KNOWLAND'S QUESTIONS SHOULD BE ANSWERED...
Republican Majority Leader William Knowland's now famous speech warning against the dangers of an "atomic stalemate" has been much criticized for warmongering, doom-merchandising and bad logic. But in all the criticism of Sen. Knowland's position, no really convincing answer to the questions he posed has been forthcoming. First, he senses that a deal with the Soviets may be in the making. Second, Knowland wants also to serve notice on the Communist rulers that there is a price which the United States will not pay for peace. Third, he wants to remind the American people that...
...Knowland may be wrong. There may be, for example, some undisclosed reason why our position is really getting better and better, as claimed, while the Soviet Union is obtaining the means to destroy us. But no one who has talked to him can doubt that the big, lumbering Republican leader is absolutely sincere in the course he has chosen...