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"Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs, or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase 'I told you so', Uttered by friends, those prophets of the past."

-Byron

I'm guilty. one of ,nlr.*"oionhets of the past" that Byron wrote about. Under ordinary conditions the use of that "I told you so" remark is evidence of a weak mind; or, at the most, very poor judgment. But not always' Often, in serious matters,*it f "_.tt, very soothing.

Personally I find that prohibited phrase rushing instinctively to my lips every time I think about Russia and the deliberate mayhem she is practicing on the civilized world. And, since it seems impossible to forget the horror that is Russia, even in sleeep these days, it plainly follows that I am "I told you so-ing" th*e greater par:t of the time.

Russia has always been a horror to me' That great, dark, stupid, deadly thing we call Russia has always seemed to me as dark and deadly and poisonous as she is today- So, when the press of the nation began early in 1933 to express the fear that this government was going to recognize Russia, I began screaming like a panther in this column against putting the badge of national fellowship on that malignant government. Of course my voice was nothing; but that didn't keep me from using what little I had. Every American mentality for which I had any respect was shouting the same song-"Don't re;oS*niz; Russia."

But, of course, we did recognize her; and that act formed the foundation of all our troubles today. Because of that act we are now, in time of peace and immediately following the winning of a terrific world war, re-arming, drafting an army, an air force, and a navy. Because of that act we are again draining our material resources to the bottom of our pockets in an attempt to develop security for ourselves. Because of that act, the world today stands trembling. on the brink of such a war as the human mind scarcely dares to contemplate. It was all because of our welcoming an utterly uncivilized government into our brotherhood of nations. It was like inviting a mad wolf into a well stocked chicken yard. ,F x x

It required neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet to predict what has happened. Away back in President Wilson's day Bainbridge Colby made an official report on Russia describing her character and predicting what she would do if she got the chance, just as definitely as though the report had been written today. Many, many other thinkers were doing the same right up to the time we made the fatal error of recognizing Russia. Most thinking men in the country can look back and say on this subject-"I told you so."

Winston Churchill cut loose the other day, and, fearful lest we make another colossal blunder, this time with regard to the atomic bomb, he spoke his mind on that subject. What he said was that the only thing that stands beween civilization and utter destruction today is the fact that the United States has the atom bomb. He said that should we destroy or surrender that monopoly, the rest of the world would be overrun by the Russian hordes, and that the bomb is the only reason they haven't don'e it already.

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He warned against any hope of a friendly settlement of differences with the Soviet government; that under no circumstances will the Russians cooperate with us to help the cause of peace; that the possession of the bomb is our only protection, and that the "growing aggressiveness and malignity of the Soviet government and its complete breaches of faith" warned us of our danger. and added: "Indeed, I only wonder that it took the British dnd American people, in spite of all the lessons of the past, so long to realize the fearful challenge to their life and freedom which was being opened up upon them from the East." Churchill was saying "I told you so."

The vicious Vishinski ,rr"U ," suggest to the United Nations meeting in Paris that Russia already has the atom bomb. Nuts to that! New York is still standing, isn't it? And Chicago? And San Francisco? And Los Angeles? And Washington? And Seattle, and Dallas, and Flouston, and New Orleans, and Kansas City, and Detroit, and Boston and all the others, not to mention London? They are still standing, aren't they? Then Russia hasn't got the bomb ! That is self provable. Do you think for a minute that the gang that deliberately let five millions of their own people die of starvation because there were too many of them; that destroyed through kangaroo courts that horrified the world tens of thousands of the better class of thinking Russians jdst because they dared to think; that keeps millions of their own people in prisons and concentration camps, because of their political opinions; do you think that criminal gang would hesitate to destroy us completely if they had the bomb?

"The Russian leaders" *rU "n"r"nill, "dread the friendship of the free civilized world as much as they would its