Massive Appeasement?

In the album of Communist propaganda, no lie is more overworked than the argument that "aggressive" American policy is dictated by Wall Street millionaires and merchant-of-death munitions makers against the will of the working class. Last week Plumber George Meany, leader of 10 million A.F.L. workingmen, told the annual convention of the New York Federation of Labor that U.S. policy was not aggressive enough.

Speaking on the eve of the Indo-China truce, Meany said: "The policy of massive retaliation, which was put forward in the early spring as the policy of the Eisenhower Administration, has vanished into thin air. Let us hope that it will not be replaced by a policy of massive appeasement on a world scale that would make Munich of 16 years ago pale into insignificance."

Going further, Labor Leader Meany warned against the allure of arguments for "coexistence" with the Soviet bloc. Said he: "Only if Russia offers evidence of good faith . . . may coexistence be possible. If we accept the current philosophy of coexistence, must we accept the end results of aggression, the enslavement of millions of people, the denial of basic human rights? . . . We cannot accept the principle of coexistence with gangsters unless there is evidence of good faith through the remission of their freedom to those people who have lost that freedom through a diabolical conspiracy."

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