RHETORIC AND PEACE
871
peace, or even the prospect of peace, will prove impossible. Through
a moral, psychological and political counteroffensive, through a world–
wide anti-Communist Resistance, we can disintegrate the Communist
power without the last desperate resort-which otherwise will surely
come-to atom bombs. Such a counteroffensive, driven forward by the
resolute will of free men, is today the only road to peace. Neither sub–
mission nor appeasement nor neutrality nor containment can give peace.
We can have peace in our time only by creating a world political struc–
ture within which the problems and disputes which inevitably arise
among men can be
freely
solved. This condition, too, is identical with the
elimination of the Communist power, since that power solves every prob–
lem not freely but by violence and coercion. We can secure peace not by
the recognition and acceptance of a Communist China, and a Commu–
nist advance into Southeast Asia and India, but only by the freeing of
Asia, and a world collaboration
in
Asia's economic and social advance.
The entry of the Communist power into the Middle East and Africa
would promise not peace for those areas, but blood and destruction.
Western Europe will not find peace in the illusions of neutrality, but in
the perspective of liberation: the liberation of all Europe, of Europe's
West from the gnawing incubus of the mass Communist parties, of its
East from the commissars, the Red Army and the MVD. A Europe tom
in two, with one half directly under the slave master's whip and
the other paralyzed by internal subversion, will never have peace. Peace
can come only to a Europe that is reunified and free.
Against the lies of the spokesmen of slavery, disguised as Partisans
of Peace, it is our duty to declare that there is only one road to a peace
which is worth having, or even possible: peace,
yes-peace through
freedom.
