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United States policies in relation to the
U.S.S.R. found expression in a variety of official
statements during January. President Truman, in
his inaugural address of January 20, stated that
the achievement of world recovery and of a lasting
peace was threatened by the Soviet Government,
a
regime which adheres to the "false philosophy" of
Communism. He declared (1) that democracy is based
on respect for human rights, while Communism sub-
jects the individual to arrest without lawful cause,
to punishment without trial, and to forced labor
as the chattel of the state; (2) that democracy
means self-government, while according to Communism
man is unable to govern himself; and (3) that democ-
racy teaches the value of peaceful change, while
Communism maintains that the opposition of classes
o s ARCHIVES **NATIONAL SERVICE" RECORDS AHO
makes violence and war inevitable.
Secretary of State Dean G. Acheson, in a press
conference of January 26, termed Communism a "reaction-
ary attitude and philosophy" which "is an attempt
to crawl back into the cocoon of history.' He said
further that Communism "is a view which goes back
to the period before the Renaissance" and is founded
on the
1/
Department of State Bulletin, January 30, 1949,
pp. 123-126,
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