Anti-Missile: Means to Victory

America—Too Young To Die, by Major Alexander P. de Seversky. McGraw-Hill, $4.95

The Washington scuttlebutt has it that General Douglas MacArthur instructed President Kennedy, when the latter visited him after the Bay of Pigs debacle, that there can be no peace until the power of world Communism is broken at its center: Moscow. Salvador de Madariaga remarked in U.S. News & World Report that there can be no peace as long as Russia is Communist, specifically that “peace depends upon the liberation of the Russian people from Communism” which denies “individual liberties” and intends to “control the world.” Thus runs the counsel of the most illustrious soldier of our time and that ripe, cogent and lucid Spanish statesman-scholar. It is counsel that penetrates the shallow politics of the West, bringing into bold relief the crisis of nerves afflicting the statesmen and publicists of the English-speaking powers. It is counsel, likewise, that exposes the decadence of Liberalism which, once stormily demanding the military defeat of Nazism, now equivocates, stammers and shudders at the equally plain necessity of destroying a more comprehensive challenge to the organic, evolving and hopeful West.

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Forrest Davis

America—Too Young To Die, by Major Alexander P. de Seversky. McGraw-Hill, $4.95

The Washington scuttlebutt has it that General Douglas MacArthur instructed President Kennedy, when the latter visited him after the Bay of Pigs debacle, that there can be no peace until the power of world Communism is broken at its center: Moscow. Salvador de Madariaga remarked in U.S. News & World Report that there can be no peace as long as Russia is Communist, specifically that “peace depends upon the liberation of the Russian people from Communism” which denies “individual liberties” and intends to “control the world.” Thus runs the counsel of the most illustrious soldier of our time and that ripe, cogent and lucid Spanish statesman-scholar. It is counsel that penetrates the shallow politics of the West, bringing into bold relief the crisis of nerves afflicting the statesmen and publicists of the English-speaking powers. It is counsel, likewise, that exposes the decadence of Liberalism which, once stormily demanding the military defeat of Nazism, now equivocates, stammers and shudders at the equally plain necessity of destroying a more comprehensive challenge to the organic, evolving and hopeful West.