THE SHAMAN OF MOSCOW (09/17/60)

THE SHAMAN OF MOSCOW

by Clarence A. Manning

The world has seen many spectacles in its long history. It has seen the miracles of the ancient wonder-workers. It has seen the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire supporting in luxury the alchemists of Prague. It has seen the maneuvers of that famous impostor Cagliostro. It has seen the spoofing of the American people by P.T. Barnum. It has seen the antics of that pious fraud Grishka Rasputin. It has seen countless medicine men in the other continents. It has never seen anything analogous to what we are to listen to seriously in the next weeks and days. That is to come when the shaman of Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev, arrives at the United Nations with his full category of appointed (popularly elected) leaders of the People's Democracies, to proclaim to the wondering delegates of nearly all the nations of this world that he has at last found the mystic key to the promotion of universal peace - the acceptance of the leader of Lenino-Marxism safely entrenched in the Kremlin of Moscow. We have seen kings and emperors by the grace of God. We have seen divine rulers. We have seen medicine men with divine power. Never have we seen before the full panoply of wisdom and power given to one man by the grace of his own inheritance from his predecessor Stalin, a man whom he has himself announced as an insane and suspicious sadist, and we are asked to believe that he is the very incarnation of human wisdom and human perfection - a Muscovite shaman in such terms that the simple native of an undeveloped country can visualize them and that they can be rationalized by the effete despiser of those traditions that have developed civilization.

Genocidist of Non-Russian Nations

Who is Nikita Khrushchev? A Russian peasant like Grishka Rasputin who won his right to fame by appearing as the Hangman of Ukraine. He gained his right to be a leader in the Communist Party of the USSR by administering successfully the great famine ordered by Stalin to carry through compulsory collectivization in Ukraine. The bloody Khrushchev can justly be held responsible for the deaths of several million Ukrainian peasants who had done no wrong except that they wanted to till their own soil. He was responsible for the mass graves in Vynnytsia; for the suppression of the rights of the Ukrainians in their homeland after the ending of World War II and he was promoted for it to a post in Moscow. He used his time well and when the aged Stalin (of course voluntarily) yielded to death as a natural solution, he was in a position to become the first of equals and then the first by his denunciation of Stalin.

That led to the developments in Poland and then to the open effort of the Hungarians to recover their freedom, when he had temporized in Poland Khrushchev did not hesitate. He showed the same determination in hanging and slaughtering the Hungarians that he had shown in Ukraine and he proved himself fit to be not only first among equals or first but a Russian Czar of the greater type.

It was then that he began to preach "peaceful coexistence." He had seen that the West was going to sympathize with the Hungarians but that they were not disposed to meet Russian tanks with other than pious resolutions. It showed him at once the meaning of the United Nations and from that time he has made it clear that the Communist soil is sacred, that the doings of the Communists are not to be questioned and the "peaceful coexistence" means the right of Khrushchev to interfere directly or indirectly everywhere outside Communist territory, to defy the decisions of the United Nations as he will, and then to use the United Nations as his sounding board for attacks upon those nations and peoples who are trying to support it. (Pardon, the Constitution of the USSR provides that only the Communists are forward-looking citizens who know what the masses desire and should desire and are entitled to act accordingly).

In 1959 he found his opportunity by receiving an invitation from President Eisenhower to come to the United States to see the nation and the people as they are, a peace-loving and thrifty population which by hard work and freedom have become a hope for humanity. More than ever he determined the break that conception down.

He found his opportunity in the Summit Conference which he had called for. No one can doubt that if it had not been for the episode of the U-2, he would have had abundant reasons dating back at least for twenty years that could have served him as the excuse for his insulting attacks upon the American President to be supported in case of necessity by attacks upon any American who happened to appear upon the horizon, including many of those who are willing to criticize President Eisenhower for failing to apologize and to bow to the shaman of the Kremlin.

Now he is appearing before the leaders of the United Nations and the delegates of those nations which are members to announce that he is in favor of universal disarmament (except for such forces as are necessary to maintain Communist control of an unwilling population). He will be heard with marked fervor by the leaders of the underdeveloped nations who have in their hearts the desire to escape from a world in which they have played a negligible role. He will be heard with equal interest by representatives of the population of more advanced nations who have not learned that the price of freedom is constant vigilance and that freedom can be lost by honest weakness as well as by deliberate treason. He will be heard by those who do not believe in Communism but have a fantastic admiration for Holy Russia, that great one and indivisible "homeland" of the Slavs. He will be heard by the "idealists" who believe in togetherness, whatever that means, and do not see that the human race has had a hard struggle to win its ideals and will not submit peacefully to the wiles of a Kremlin shaman, no matter how many of his train he produces or what titles he gives them.

To produce a greater effect, Khrushchev has chosen to appear before the United Nations in the middle of an American campaign for the election of a President. He is discomfited and humiliated that as a chief of a friendly nation who is aiming to overthrow not only the leader but the way of life of another friendly nation, he is not to be allowed to campaign at will for his own candidate. In Paris he declared that it was of no use to negotiate with the President of the United States but the Kremlin knows with whom it can negotiate - the leader of the new Communist Party approved by Kremlin. So in the United Nations he calls for a meeting of heads of government so as to add further insults to the past in favor of "peaceful coexistence" - a stunt worthy of the shaman of the Kremlin.

It is for the American people to treat him with coldness, with dignity and contempt. As regards the Congo as everywhere else he has shown his contempt for the United Nations, insofar as it is not Communist. He has shown his contempt for the American people, for the free world, for all the ideals of humanity. It is for the delegates to that body which he purposes to insult to treat him as he deserves on neutral soil but Republicans and Democrats alike should make it clear to him that they are free men and women intelligent and not to be imposed upon by any tricks or effects produced by the stage setting and the manipulations of larger-de-main, even when they are fortified by the solemn assertions of the shaman of the Kremlin, the self-made ruler of the Communist Party who most piously worships his maker - Nikita Khrushchev.

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