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    "ocrText": "-4-\nand \"in fact there was no broad comprehension of the Communist problem\namong the liberal and labor forces\". She said that in 1946 \"we in\nMinnesota, like liberals in so many other parts of the world, exper-\nienced the full impact of the new Communist offensive. We in the\nDemocratic Farmer Labor Party in Minnesota were 'taken over' by the\nCommunist Party. She declared \"we learned the hard way how Com-\nmunists thrive on confusion and disorganization\" and \"we learned the\nbitter way how Communists can subvert an innocent majority into a\nchaotic mass--can use without any moral scruples decent but unsophis-\nticated people, use them as their own instruments and toss them aside\nafter they have ceased to be useful.\nBut we also came to learn\nthat if Communists could work hard, we could work harder. \" and that\nif Communists could confuse issues we could clarify them. 4\nMiss Fosdick on Eventual USSR Cooperation. -- Dorothy Fosdick,\nmember of the Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, declared in\nan address before the Horald Tribune Forum in New York City on\nOctober 26, published in November, that \"one hears some people saying\nthese days that since the Soviet Union shows no signs of really work-\ning with us in organizing the peace, and, in fact, usually works\nagainst us, we might as well count her out for good; we might as well\nTheman\nresign ourselves to a divided world.\" She continued:\n\"We have embarked on strengthening the free world against\n: ARCHIVES SERVICE\" NATIONAL RECORDS AND\nCommunist pressures in part for the very reason that we have\nnot given up for good. We are betting that in time the realities\nof the situation may persuade those who have not been convinced\nby words that the road to international collaboration is to their\nown best interest. The Soviet Union knows what we are looking\nfor--such a modification in its action internationally as to\nmake clear that it intends to work persistently and faithfully\nwith the rest of the world in building the peace.'\nMiss Fosdick said that \"how soon the processes of history will\nproduce the change we hope for, we cannot know, \" but \"we should con-\ntinue to uphold those standards of international behavior that we are\nasking the Russians to respect. And we should continue to help mold\nthe realities of the free world to persuade them that respect on their\npart for that behavior is their own best bet. \" 5\nMr. DePalma on Divergent Views Regarding Freedom of the Press. --\nReviewing the UN debate regarding the Convention on the International\nTransmission of the News and the Right of Correction, in an article\npublished in November, Samuel DePalma, of the Office of UN Economic\nand Social Affairs, Department of State, reached the following con-\nclusion:\n\"Current national concepts of freedom of the press or free-\ndom of information, far from being characterized simply by the\ngap between the Soviet thesis of the state-indoctrinated society\n4Bulletin, Nov. 21, p. 788.\n5\nIbid. Nov. 7, p. 708."
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