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By ALAN WINNINGTON

KARLOVY VARY,
(CZECHOSLOVAKIA)
GREAT movement on an
AA stsirepesn scale will be
organized to achieve the
four main peace aims agreed
here at the conference of Euro-
pean Communist patties. ;

Ending the friendly and busi-
ness-like gathering one day
ahead of schedule, the delegates
unanimously called on ail the
peoples of Europe to take action
for collective security.

The present situation, they
said, urgently needs:

e A treaty between all Euro-
pean states to renounce the use
of force, or any such threat.

eA treaty to prevent
spread of nuclear weapons.

e Active support for all the
West German people who are
striving against neo-nazi trends
and emergency laws and for de-
mocracy.

@ Normal relations between
the European states and the
German Democratic Republic,

the

and between the GDR and West:

Germany.

The statement on security and
peace in Europe also calls for
respect for the inviolability of
neutral countries.

The conference is the first in
which Communist parties of the
capitalist and socialist countries
of Europe have met.

The danger, represented by
the possibility of armed conflict
in Europe, bringing with it the
possibility. of nuclear world war
weighs heavily on the people of
Europe, the statement said.

West Germany, with militarist
forces at the helm, has become
the mainstay of U.S. global stra-
tegy in Europe. The upsurge of
neo-nazism has deeply disturbed
’ European opinion.

-West Germany continues to
try to swallow the G.D.R. and
return to the 1937 frontiers. It
persists in efforts to get nuclear
weapons.

“It is high time to establish
new relations in Europe based
on a real relaxation of tension
and mutual trust,” the statement
went on.

“We Communists in different
national conditions will spare no
effort toward building a collec-
tive security system.”

‘It is vital to recognize the
European status quo as the start-
ing point. This means that ex-
isting borders must be recog-
nized; that two German states
exist; that West Germany must
not get access to nuclear weap-
ons by any means; and that the
Munich Pact was always invalid.

The European Communists
favor opening up new persepc-
tives by partial solutions. All
proposals from any source
should be most carefully studied.

Among existing possibilities
are: the withdrawal of foreign
troops from European countries;

-reduction of foreign bases; crea-

tion of nuclear-free zones and
zones of reduced or frozen ar-
maments; agreements on peace
and cooperation.

The expiry of the NATO Trea-
ty in 1969 provides grounds for
dissolving both it and the War-
saw Pact and creating a Europe
free from military blocs.

Suggestions for the calling of
conferences of all European
states and of all European parli-
aments will be fully supported.

Thawing out the cold war
would free vast economic resour-
ces to provide higher living stan-
dards not only in Europe but
the whole world, just as a secure
peace in Europe would have a
profound effect on world peace
as a whole.

Socialists, trade unionists,
Christians, intellectuals, women,
youth and businessmen should
take up the demand for immedi-

ate steps toward European col--

lective security.

World war is not inevitable,
the statement said. The nations
of Europe are capable of making
their own decisions about peace
on their continent.

“Let them take the destiny
of Europe into their own hands,”
the statement ends.

It was signed by the 24 heads
of delegations representing most
of the Communist parties of
Europe.

Most of the delegates have
sharply emphasized the danger
to Europe of West German ag-
gressiveness in the context of
the U.S.-Bonn partnership.

In a long speech, Walter UI-
bricht, for the German Socialist
Unity Party, carefully analyzed
the German situation and West
German objectives.

He said West German aims
were coming into conflict with
the growing desire in Europe
for a detente.

While there was an increasing
demand for the dissolution of
the NATO pact system the US.
government was exerting every
effort to strengthen it, using
West Germany as its means.

President Johnson’s main Eu-
ropean policy was to have a
“special alliance’ with Bonn.
And 22 years after the war neo-
nazism was again raising its
head in West Germany.

The essence of West German
policy. was aggression against
the GDR, and this was express-
ed in Bonn’s claim to represent
all Germany.

Bonn had a two-stage plan,
Ulbricht said.

Stage 1 included annexing
West Berlin to Bonn and pene-
trating into the socialist states.
Stage 2 included the taking over
of the GDR in a “police action.”

The struggle for recognition
of the GDR was therefore a fun-
damental part of European se-
curity, since any aggression

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against the GDR would mean a
world war.

The essence of the “national
problem” of Germany was to
prevent a new world war from
starting on German soil. A unit-
ed imperialist Germany had let
loose two world wars. Armed
with nuclear weapons it would
hesitate less than ever to take
to war again.

The more the aggressive poli-
cies of Bonn were opposed and
weakened the better would be
the possibilities of developing
normal relations between all Eu-
ropean states, Ulbricht said.

For . the Italian Communist
Party Luigi Longo endorsed the
view that the main danger was
West Germany’s persistent re-
fusal to recognize the existing
state of affairs in Europe.

Italian interests had nothing
against having ambassadors in
two German states. West Ger-
man pretensions to represent all
Germany were an insolent inter-
ference in Italian affairs.

West Germany had had no
nuclear weapons since the war,
Longo said, and asked why did
they find it necessary to have
them now.

There were now big changes
in thinking in Europe owing to
the consistent peace policy of
the socialist countries and also
to the lessons of U.S. and Bonn
aggressiveness.

Like a number of other speak-
ers including Michael O’Riordan
of Ireland and Dolores Iburrari
of Spain, Longo said that im-
portant changes were taking
place in Catholic thought.

There was an improved basis
for winning Catholics in the
struggle to maintain peace. Lon-
go referred to the Italian Cath-
olic MPs who had urged a re-
duction of the military budget
to provide money for the strug-
gle against world hunger.

He stressed the need for unity
between Communists, Socialists,
trade unionists and religious he-
lievers. :

Differences of belief should
not prevent agreement on such
urgent matters as peace and the
struggle against colonialism.

He said that these was grow-
ing resentment against U.S. eco-
nomic penetration, the brain
drain and the growth of neo-
nazism.

Leonid Brezhnev’s statement
that the Soviet Union would
agree with European states over
the use of nuclear material for
peaceful ends opened up a wide
field.

Longo regretted the absence
of Communist parties from a
few European countries, but ad-
ded that the differences between
them were not of a character
which could not be overcome in
discussion. His own party, he
stressed, was strongly in favor
of calling a congress of all Eu-
ropean nations to ‘discuss the
problems of security.

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BREZHNEV:

Events in Vietnam today
underline how important it -
is to consolidate unity of the
ranks of the world Commun-
ist movement, Leonid Brezh-
nev Soviet Communist Party
leader told the Karlovy Vary
conference.

“It is clear,” he said, “that
if we were able to take con-
certed steps with China in the
defense of Vietnam, the task
of ending U.S. aggression
would be much easier.”

Brezhnev stressed that the
Soviet Union was ready to
take joint action with China
in planning and rendering the
widest possible assistance to
embattled Vietnam.

Speaking on European
peace and security, he said:

“If another war breaks out
in Europe it may develop into
nuclear war. European secur-
ity is the key to averting a
world nuclear collision.”

Brezhnev said that the
main threat to peace was pos-
ed by the U.S. and West Ger-
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