Q.E.D.

To prove the obvious is sometimes necessary and useful. For almost a year, a special House of Representatives Committee on Communist Aggression has been taking testimony in the U.S. and Europe from Iron Curtain escapees to document the fact that Communism is. a world conspiracy and an intolerable way of life. This week the committee, headed by Milwaukee's Republican Charles J. Kersten, issued its second interim report. Items:

P: In 1932-33, more than 6,000,000 Ukrainians perished in a man-made famine when their Communist masters piled their grain in churches and other buildings and allowed it to rot. After a 1933 tour of the Ukraine, carefully prearranged by the Communists, French Statesman Edouard Herriot reported that he saw no signs of it. (Said he: "When it is stated that the Ukraine is devastated by famine, permit me to shrug my shoulders.'') P: In 1939, Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov forced a treaty of mutual assistance on the sovereign nation of Estonia, and said "the word of a Bolshevik is like steel.

It is sacred." But before the treaty was signed, the Red Army had already printed maps showing Estonia as part of Russia. P: In 1944, on the pretext that some of them had collaborated with the Nazis, the 500,000 people, including local Communist Party members, of the Chechen-Ingush "Autonomous" Republic, just west of the Caspian Sea, were systematically trapped by NKVD troops and deported in cattle cars to Siberia.

To encourage escapes from the Iron Curtain and underground resistance to Communist domination, the Kersten com mittee recommended that: 1) President Eisenhower invite all free nations to a conference that would withdraw diplomatic recognition of all Iron Curtain governments, terminate all commercial treaties with them and substitute stepped-up trade among themselves.

2) The intent of the 1951 Mutual Security Act provision to reimburse NATO countries that recruit escapees into their armies be carried out. 3) A political-asylum bill be enacted to help re-establish escapees in the free world.

4) "Coexistence" be labeled as a Communist myth.

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