Washington and Lee University School of LawWashington & Lee University School of Law ScholarlyCommons

Powell Speeches Powell Papers

9-23-1962

Conflict We Are LosingLewis F. Powell Jr.

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The Conflict We Are Losing

I. ANALYSIS OF THE NATURE OF THE COMMUNI~ THREAT

1. Distinction between People, Government and Party

(Aa Soviet Union is major base of international

comauniat movement, will discuss this distinction

in relation to it• though same situation largely

exists in China and other coD1J1.1niat countries.)

(a) Russian people

We could live in peace with them.

(b) Government

Facade

Constitution - window dreaaing

But even if government were merely If '· - I

totalitarian, we .. might live in peace with it.

E. 1g. Spain, Portugal, etc.

(c) Partv (only 3-1/2 to 4i)

Dr. Charles Mslik: It is impossible to have any peace with the Marxist-Leninist International Comaunist Party aa such. So long as this Party dominates any government,

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ther• can be no peace. Marxism-Leninism ia an absolute spiritual assault on the fundamental ·valuea of man, freedom, truth, spirit .and God, and with such an assault $liiie can be no peace."*

The Co11111111iat Threat is the Marxist-Leninist Party

With it, there can be no compromise. There 1111st

be victory or total defeat.

II. SOURCES OF STRENGTH or COMMUNIST PARTY IN USSR

1. Must Ugderstand These - Otherwise No Hope of

Defeating Marxism-Leniniam.

(a) Necessity for education in depth on·

Colll'IILlniam.

2. A ''cause" - With Great Appeal to the Ignorant and

to Naive Idealiftf (Slogans)

(a) Claaaleaa aociety • "withering away of state."

(b) "To each •~cording to his needs; from each

according to his ability".

3. A "Program"

(a) Marx'• philosophy - inevitability of c0111l11niam

(b) Lenin's pragmatic concepts of an international

revolutionary movement - with professional

leadership.

*Speech, Va. State Bar Aaa'n, July 1962.

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4. A "Means"

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(a) Dictatorship

(b) International conspiracy

Education• A Source of Power and Tool of Party

Nicholas DeWitt: "CoD1DUnist education sets itself a JDJeh broader task than mere instruction. It not only aims at providing the youth of the country with those kinds of knowledge and skills that will be most useful to the state, but also it see~ to remold the character of the individual and inculcate a uniform pattern of prescribed beliefs, attitudes and values - all consonant with coI11DUpist aims and ideology".,

Elementary and Secondarx Educatiog

Home replaced

210 to 230 days (6 days per week)

~ A.Mhto ·6 ,- P.M.

Circle~, ~ ·extra curricular work.

Boarding schools• 2,500,000 pupils*

Curriculum• science and ma.th

foreign language

"Sweet taste of physical labor"•

two years of labor

"'Dr. Gordon o. Thayer, Address to NAM Board, Homestead, September 22, 1961.

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Science and Engineering• "Secret Weapon"

(a) Secondary Schools

(b) Higher Education - Quality

Nat. Science Foundation· (DeWitts Study 1962)

57l of all graduates at bachelor

level were in science and engineering•

as comparged with 241 in U.S.

Soviet Union produces 190,000 such

"professionals" each y~ar, the U.S.

produces only about 90,000.

(c) Higher Education• Quality

National Science Foundation: "Soviet professional higher education in most scientific and engineering fields is at least equiv~lent to• and sometimes is more extensive, than that of the U.S."

Admiral Rickover.

Scientific Research

Party Schools

(a) Inter-regional party schools• 25,000

enrollees. Cf, with 10,000 is law schools.

(b) Higher party schools

(c) Foreign students

(d) News media - all journalists, radio and

TV personnel uust go to party school.

10. The Iron Curtain

Black-out of truth

11. The "Ugly American"

The Hate campaign

12. Dicipline of the People - Extraordinary

Hard work

Spartan life

Low Crime rate

Dicipline of youth

13. Pride in Achievement - Fierce

World Power

Sputniks

14. Total Lack of Moral Scruple

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Marxist theory of "e~d justifying means" - a .

vicious weapon .against own people and the world.

III. WHAT CAN . WE DO TO WIN

1. Education at,All Levels• The Most: Important \_ .... ~ • • r1

Thing.

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If We Had Understood CoU111Unism - j ,,- ~:'

(a) Aid program in. World War 11,would have differed. t

(b) Never made concessions at Yalta.

(c) Never made the absurd Berlin arrangement.

(d) Never pnitted USSR' to become a nuclear

power.

(e) We would have lf9!l Korean War - we had the

capacity to win it.

(f) We would not have disarmed after World War II.

(g) We would not have trusted Soviet Union to

abandon nuclear testing.

(h) We would never have tolerated a Soviet

base in Cuba.

(1) We would understand that co111111nism never

negotiates in good faith; that "co-exitence"

and "total disarmament" are merely a part

of Sovietyatrategy to destroy us.

3. Urge Our Government to Take Offensiye

(a) Sell our product - Freedom

(b) Tel1 the truth about Comaunism

(c) Intensify Propaganda

(i) Our effort is mere trickle

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(d) Economic pressu.re

(e) Use "Foreign Aid" as weapon c,f Cold War

(i) Deny aid to countries which

aid coIDDUriism. _

(f) Support :our friends vigorously

(i) Our sell-out of Dutch in New

Guinea is tragic example of how

to keep on losing cold war.

4. Recognize There Is No Choice Between Winning

the Cold War and Losing Everything,

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