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:"The IPR has been considered by the American Communist Party and by Soviet officials as an instrument of Communist policy, propaganda and [[military intelligence]]. The IPR disseminated and sought to popularize false information including information originating from Soviet and Communist sources. . . . The IPR was a vehicle used by the Communists to orientate American far eastern policies toward Communist objectives. . ." <ref>U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Report on the Institute of Pacific Relations, Washington 1952.</ref>

:"The IPR has been considered by the American Communist Party and by Soviet officials as an instrument of Communist policy, propaganda and [[military intelligence]]. The IPR disseminated and sought to popularize false information including information originating from Soviet and Communist sources. . . . The IPR was a vehicle used by the Communists to orientate American far eastern policies toward Communist objectives. . ." <ref>U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Report on the Institute of Pacific Relations, Washington 1952.</ref>

==Korea and the nuclear arms race==

==Korea and the [[nuclear arms]] race==

On Sunday morning, June 25, 1950, Communist armies of [[North Korea]] crossed the border in an invasion of the southern republic. Two days later [[President Truman]] announced: "I have ordered the United States air and sea forces to give the Korean government troops, cover and support." The next day American ground and air forces were fully engaged in [[South Korea]] in what the President called "a police action." John T. Flynn described the perplexity of the American electorate: "Thus [the U.S] became enmeshed in an obscure tangle of circumstances... involving objectives so dimly seen, stretching on to problems so insoluble, and promising stresses on our economic and political system ... in pursuit of ends no one understands and involving costs and consequences we cannot measure."<ref>[http://www.mises.org/books/whileyouslept.pdf While You Slept : Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It], [[John T. Flynn]],  New York : The Devin - Adair Company, 1951, pgs 9-10 pdf.</ref>  The [[Korean War]] disrupted the postwar economic boom with military service, shortages, restrictions and cost-of-living inflation which could not help but breed discontent. And through it all, Prof. [[Carroll Quigley]] points out, "the press kept up a constant barrage of 'Communists in Washington,' 'twenty years of treason.'"<ref>''Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time'', Carroll Quigley, Collier-Macmillan, 1966, pg. 986. ISBN 0-945001-10-X</ref>

On Sunday morning, June 25, 1950, Communist armies of [[North Korea]] crossed the border in an invasion of the southern republic. Two days later [[President Truman]] announced: "I have ordered the United States air and sea forces to give the Korean government troops, cover and support." The next day American ground and air forces were fully engaged in [[South Korea]] in what the President called "a police action." John T. Flynn described the perplexity of the American electorate: "Thus [the U.S] became enmeshed in an obscure tangle of circumstances... involving objectives so dimly seen, stretching on to problems so insoluble, and promising stresses on our economic and political system ... in pursuit of ends no one understands and involving costs and consequences we cannot measure."<ref>[http://www.mises.org/books/whileyouslept.pdf While You Slept : Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It], [[John T. Flynn]],  New York : The Devin - Adair Company, 1951, pgs 9-10 pdf.</ref>  The [[Korean War]] disrupted the postwar economic boom with military service, shortages, restrictions and cost-of-living inflation which could not help but breed discontent. And through it all, Prof. [[Carroll Quigley]] points out, "the press kept up a constant barrage of 'Communists in Washington,' 'twenty years of treason.'"<ref>''Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time'', Carroll Quigley, Collier-Macmillan, 1966, pg. 986. ISBN 0-945001-10-X</ref>