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    "ocrText": "-2-\nHe further emphasized the contrasting attitudes of the police\nstate and free nations in relation to the pact, as follows:\n\"For us, war is not inevitable. We do not believe\nthat there are blind tides of history which sweep men one\nway or the other. In our own time we have seen brave men\novercome obstacles that seemed insurmountable and forces\nthat seemed overwhelming. Men with courage and vision can\nstill determine their own destiny. They can choose slavery\nor freedom -- war or peace.\n\"I have no doubt which they will choose. The treaty\nwe are signing today is evidence of the path they will\nfollow. 11 I\nSecretary Acheson Indicts Soviet Policy . - Testifying before\nthe Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the inauguration of\npublic hearings on the Atlantic Pact, April 27, Secretary Acheson\ndescribed widening evidences of Soviet pressure and penetration:\n(1) in the UN, the basic purposes and principles of the Charter\ncynically violated; (b) in Eastern European countries, their\nright to self-determination extinguished by force or threats of\nforce, human freedoms suppressed, and economic problems dealt\nwith by dictation rather than international cooperation; (c) in\nother areas, the same methods attempted -- penetration by propa-\nganda and the Communist Party, attempts to block cooperative\ninternational efforts in the economic field, wars of nerves, and\nin some cases thinly veiled use of force itself. The North Atlantic\nTreaty, the Secretary noted, is the practical expression of the\nresulting determination of the Western powers that an aggressor\nshall not divide these nations and pick them off one by one. He\nsaid: \"The knowledge that armed attack will be met by collective\ndefense, prompt and effective, will surely have a steadying effect\non anyone from whom that transgression might come,'\n2\nAmbassador Jessup Analyzes the Pact. - Ambassador Philip C.\nJessup, on April 7, pointed out two aspects of Soviet policy\nwhich have caused the sense of insecurity leading to the North\nAtlantic Treaty: (1) failure to cooperate with and through the\nUN to make the peace secure; and (2) commitment to the Marxist\ndogma that \"a series of the most terrible collisions between\nthe Soviet Republic and the bourgeois states is inevitable\" (Lenin) .\nThis sense of insecurity, Mr. Jessup said, can bo removed if the\nUSSR will begin to build up confidence where it has already\nbuilt up fear and will cooperate in making the UN the effective\ninstrument for world peace it was intended to be. \"Since the\nworld has not yet received convincing evidence of a change in\nSoviet policy, \" he continued, \"the way in which the United States\ncan\nIbid., Apr. 17, pp. 481-482.\n2Department of State press release 294, Apr. 27."
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