SALT called appeasement
[Letter as printed in The Commercial Record, 12 July 1979]
It is 5 minutes to 12.... We have only a few minutes to increase our defense. If we do not take action NOW, America may no longer exist at 12 o'clock....
SALT... NO! DEFENSE... YES!!
I watched very carefully the reports from Vienna concerning SALT under the title "Tales from the Wiener Wald," with Strauss music in the background. I listened very carefully as Mr. Carter tried to sell SALT to the Senate and the Congress. Here are my comments.
As an American, Carter is entitled to naivete about Russia (and he is not the first one!), but such appeasement after all the past experiences with Russia should not be expected from an American president. Having been in the Polish Underground, I know how the Russians first joined with Hitler (in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) to "liberate" Poland. I know what happened to millions of Poles taken to Russia and to 15,000 Polish officers murdered in Katyn and then how the Russians "liberated" Poland a second time, this time from Hitler. I also know what is going on in Poland today (Poland, which was sold by Roosevelt into Russian slavery), and I remember the Hungarian insurrection and also Czechoslovakia.
To express my feelings about SALT and other current questions, I will use two of Mr. Carter's own expressions: Brezhnev has "whipped his ass" and Carter's speech to Congress was so much "baloney."
Mr. Carter tries to scare us that "we will not live at all" if we do not ratify the agreement with Russia. I am sure that, with such an agreement and with the way he is disarming America and cooperating with Russia, his scare will be the sad truth.