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...fact that such faith and courage can be stamped out. Mikolajczyk was a brave man, but the Communists chased him from Poland. Benes, who stood up to Hitler, was a brave man, but the Communists broke him. Petkoff was a brave man, but they shot him. If the Communist terror machine keeps rolling over Europe and Asia, erasing faith in freedom, the Reds will be strong enough to fight a war with the U.S.; they may be strong enough to win it. If the Communists should get control of Europe and China and hold them, they might beat...
That is Berialand, the most rapidly expanding power in the world today. It moves in wherever a society decays or falters or listens to fools, and destroys what is left. Patriots like Nikola Petkoff in Bulgaria are shot. Compromisers like Jan Masaryk are driven (by Communist hands or their own despair) through windows. Men like Talich, who can express what the people feel, are silenced. Beria's march will continue until the brains, the dollars, the power, and a reawakened moral force of the West stop...
...almost throttled open opposition in Eastern Europe. Last week their stooges took over the remnants of Mikolajcyk's Peasant Party in Poland and denounced "Anglo-Saxon imperialism." Last fortnight a military court sentenced Rumania's Maniu to life imprisonment. Yugoslavia's Mihailovich and Bulgaria's Petkoff had long since been shot. Hungary's Communists had swallowed the Smallholders Party, and last week Czech Communists began to break up their opposition with arrests...
...paper protests of the U.S. Government against crooked elections in Poland and Hungary or against Petkoff's condemnation make the dullest Communist leaders just laugh, because they know as well as you that the U.S. Government is neither prepared nor willing to back its protests by that which counts, i.e., by force...
...confessions" had been bringing Mikolajczyk's own arrest closer. He had said many times: "I will never leave the country." But lately he had also been saying more & more often: "I will be arrested. And when I am, they will do to me what they did to Nikola Petkoff...