WILLIAM Z. FOSTER

J.S=has created all obstacles
to reaching firm peace in Asia

NEW YORK

dB establish peace in Korea is
obviously of the most pro-
found importance to the peoples
of the whole world. The war-
mongers, at the head of whom
stands American monopoly capl-
tal, are trying feverishly to de-
velop the Korean war into a
devastating third world war.
Consequently, the* achievement
of peace in Korea would deal
a real blow to these assassins of
of the people. Every progressive
force in the world, therefore,

should strive for peace in that

sadly ravaged country.

Three major issues are involv-
ed in the setting up of a firm
peace in Korea. These — not
necessarily in the order of their
importance—are the return of
Taiwan (Formosa) to the con-
trol of China, the seating of the
representatives of the Chinese
People’s government in the Un-
ited Nations, and of the with-
drawal of all foreign troops
from Korea. Of basic signifi-
cance to the whole situation is
that all of these problems have
beén “made in America.”

Take the
wan: The

“question” of Tai-
occupation of this
Chinese island by American
forces, especially through the
United States naval blockade, is
@ gross outrage against the
Chinese nation. The plain fact
of the matter is that the United
States, following out the insane-
ly aggressive policy of General
MacArthur and taking advantage
of the war situation in Korea,
arbitrarily seized control of
Taiwan, obviously with the aim
of transforming it into a great
military-air-naval base.

Thé U.S. had no more right
to occupy Taiwan than a Euro-
pean power to grab control of
Long Island. It was a mon-
strous infringement upon the
Sovereign rights of (China, of

which country Taiwan has been
' an integral part for centuries.
The Taiwan “problem”  there-
fore, is entirely of American
making. The only answer to it
is for the American armed
forces to be withdrawn forth-
with from that whole area.

The “problem” of Chinese’ rep-
resentation in the UN is also
altogether of American concoc-
tion. The Chinese People’s gov-
ernment clearly represent the
475 million people of China, and,
therefore, under the terms of
‘the charter of the UN, it is in-
disputably entitled to be seated
in that body.

‘Recognizing the logic of this
Situation, a whole group of na-
_ tions, including India, Pakistan,
Burma. Britain, the USSR, and,
of course, China, together rep-
resenting a large majority of
the peoples of the world, sup-
ports the seating in the UN of
delegates from People’s China.

But the U.S. government, do-
ing the bidding of Wall Street,
emphatically says No! It has
refused to recognize the new
‘Chinese government and, backed
up by its mechanical majority of
votes in the UN, consisting of
representatives of Marshallized
countries in Europe and Wall
Street stooge delegates from
Latin America, it has so far
succeeded in preventing the
seating of ‘China. In this out-
rageous manner, the U.S. has
manufactured the “problem” of
the matter of China’s delegates
in the UN. »

The answer to this is for the
U.S. to cease its arbitrary, dog-

in-the-manger opposition and to
allow the great Chinese people
to occupy their proper seat in
the world organization.

(The “problem” of the with-
drawal of foreign troops from
Korea has also been arbitrarily
and artificially created by the
U.S. For it was this country
which first sent foreign troops
into Korea, thus interfering in
the civil war in that. country.
This ruthless invasion of Korea
by U.S. soldiers constituted an-
other violent attack upon the
peace and national integrity of
that country and China.

‘That this American interven-
tion in Korea was cloaked un-
der pretended UN auspices, fools
nobody but. political illiterates.
The burden of responsibility, un-
der the head of getting foreign
troops out of Korea, rests, there-
fore, upon the U.S., which creat-
ed the probelm in the first place.

In connection with the estab-
lishment of peace in Korea there
are two fundamental facts clear-
ly to be borne in mind.

The first of these is that, as
we have just seen, all the pb-
stacles to peace, the practical
problems that peacemakers have
to contend with, have grown
entirely out of aggressive Am-
erican interventionism. Thus
the three major concrete issues
—the question of Taiwan, the
seating of China’s delegation in
the UN, and the withdrawal of

foreign troops from Korea —
would not exist at all were it
not for the machinations of Wall
Street.

The second basic fact to un-
derstand about Korea is that
aggressive American imperialism
which aims at the conquest of
China as a major phase of its
drive for world domination, will
never voluntarily agree to solve
any of the foregoing problems
revolving about Korea. It~ will
yield only to superior pressures.
That is, on the one hand, to the
unbreakable defense of the
Chinese and Korean peoples, and
on the other hand, to a deter-
mined refusal of the peace-loy-
ing American people to allow
themselves to be plunged into
a ruinous war by reactionary
Wall Street’s maneuvers against
‘China and Korea.

The task; therefore, of the
American people, in fighting to
maintain world peace, is clear.
We must bridle and defeat the
Wall Street warmongers now
controlling our government; we
must put an end to the insane
war hysteria, misnamed the “na-
tional state of emergency”; and
we must insist that the Tru-
mans and MacArthurs keep their
imperialist hands off China, Ko-
rea, and other freedom-loving
peoples of the Far East. In the
present world crisis only vig-
orous action of the peoples can
prevent another terrible world
conflagration.

“The problems in Asia are of U.S. making,”

mS

Chinese worker, Yu Htiu-ting (above) was shot down by his pot-
tery cart (below) by a U.S. plane which crossed the Chinese
border on November 6.

says Foster.

RALPH PARKER

Healing power of _

sleep explored

By RALPH PARKER
Telepress Correspondent

MOSCOW

WT IS a far cry from the world
of the , medieval poets, who

extolled the healing virtues of
sleep, to the clinic of Professor
‘Andreiev in Moscow, .but the
poets were expressing in their
way a belief which is now be-
ing put into practice with some

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LESLIE MORRIS

and Mail.

another going to Europe, we
must prepare for austerity.

While national production is
at a record high, the 1950 dollar
is worth only 44 cents in 1939
terms (maybe less than that)
and the howling contradiction
is seen that while workers pro-
duce more they will consume less
and less.

These are the bitter fruits
of a war economy, and unless
the Canadian people change the
foreign policy of the government

wearable armament.

‘to maintain employment.

because war
quences.

1951 is given as 75,000.

we are going to have a strong taste of ‘what the
British workers are getting—an increasingly low
standard of living because of the production of
vast quantities of destructive, non-eatable, non-

The right-wing union leaders prattle that we
must endorse the present war program of the
government not only to save our “free world” but
: They lie in our faces.

All the evidence, all history, shows that the
heavy burden of armaments is paid for by the
workers in blood and suffering.
not only for those who are on the receiving end ~
of the arms, but for those who produce them
is not a one-way street, and if
North American and British workers are content
to produce arms for the destruction of other
peoples ‘they must expect to suffer the conse-

All of this is being aggravated by the stepping
up of government-financed immigration. The esti-
mate of the number of DP’s who are to arrive in
(To judge by the hundreds
who came over on the same boat as I did last
month, by their conversations and by the fascist
newspapers they carried with them, we are in
for more of the hooliganism from some of them
which has already terrorized communities.) What
is more, there isn’t housing for Canadians already
here and certainly not for the DP’S, and with

Living standards of workers
cut to pay for war economy

WWfUT OUT the frills,’ says the Torpnto Globe
No more of this 40-hour week
nonsense, advises the Montreal Gazette. We are
in for a year of belt-tightening,” puff the always e
anonymous “government economists.”

All the financial pundits, starting with Gra-
ham Towers of the Bank of Canada, are busy
declaring that with a $1,500,000,000 “defense” bud-
get coming up, with an army in Korea and —

war.

That is true

a program of howitzers instead of houses, slum-
dom is going to increase faster than the growth
of the population.

We are hearing the cry, louder and louder,
for “manpower controls.”
Canadian Legion - (‘whose branch meetings see
less and less of the young vets in attendance)
and the retired officers of the “defense associ-
ations” are commencing a pro-conscription cam-
paign. The history of the fight against conscription
especially in Quebec, being what it is, the unpop-
ular word is being smeared over with all sorts of
treacle—but we can be certain that part of the
government’s scheme to put Canada’s workers
in war-production overalls is to put larger and
larger numbers of young Canadians into uniform.

Less living quarters, more speedup in the

. plants, increased living costs, attacks on the “frills”
which the workers have gained through struggle
such as the 40-hour week and grievance procedure,
a drop in the amount of consumers’ goods and an
increase in deadly armaments which butters no-
body's bread except the war profiteers’—this is
the outlook for the future as it is planned by
the government, the big monopolies and the whole
kit and caboodle of the small group which preaches

Workers in the shops and unionists at their
meetings cannot separate peace from their bread
and butter problems. They are one and the same
thing, at bottom.

Progressives, with their eyes open to these
menaces, have the duty of speaking up on the
union floor and saying, flatly, that the war. econ-
omy now being launched spells ruination for the
working class; that any thought that Canadian
workers can get full employment and high wages
while other people die at the hands of a MacArthur
or an Hisenhower is a snare and a delusion.

The only alternative is to cut armaments,
right away; to demand a settlement of all conflicts
in the UN on the terms of the Charter; to demand
the production and shipment of tractors instead,
-of tanks, to’ compel a peace economy instead of a
war economy; to fight tooth and nail against
the war party and their cohorts who temporarily
occupy seats of leadership in the labor movement.

War economy spells death and privation’ for
the people of Canada. :
must be spread far and wide in every home, every
factory, every union.

The top brass of the

That is the truth Avhich

given

i

remarkable results.

The theory consists in regard-
ing the human organism, wheth-
er healthy or sick, as a whole,
rather than as a collection of
cells; of considering the brain
as the regulator of all the or-

gans; and of taking man’s psy- —

chic life as being inseparable

from his physical organism.
‘The “nervists,” as those who

work to this theory are known,

believe that resistance to illness

depends above all on the state
of the nervous system. If the
brain is disturbed all other or-

gans of the body are to some.

extent affected. Inversely, every
wound, lesion or. local accident
to the body has its repercussion
in the brain and, hence, on the
organism as a whole. Medical
treatment should consist not on-
ly of direct local application but
through the intermediary of the
nervous system.

[This theory which, in Russia,
had its supporters in Setchenov,
and Pavlov, and is today being
developed by Speranski and By-
kov among others, is directly
opposed to that associated with
the name of the 19th century
German surgeon Rudolf Vir-
chow, who maintained that there
Wa@Se nO such thing as a_ sick
person, only an affected heart,
stomach, brain, lung, and so on.
“In Professor Andreiev's clinic
there is a ward that is always
kept in semi-darkness and where
his patients sleep undisturbed
for two or three weeks, Their
sleep has nothing in common
with the heavy drugged state
brought on by narcotics. The
artificial sleep produced by the
latest Soviet soporifics, injected
every three or four hours, re-
sembles natural sleep, that slow-

‘ing-down of the activitiy of the

brain-cells by what Pavlov called
“an application of the brakes.”

As.a cure for diseases of the
nervous system, sleep has been

used for many years in the So-

viet Union.. During the war
Professor Asratian used it sue-
cessfully in the
thousands of

cases of  shell-

“shock. :
More recently, the research of

Professor F. Andreiev, for which
he was awarded ‘ Stalin prize
in 1950, has led to sensational
cures being made in cases of
stomach ulcers,

ma and various skin diseases.

Since 1943, over 700 such cases —

have been treated by artificial
sleep, and now the cure is being
in hospitals in Moscow,
Leningrad and other cities,

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treatment of — ‘

bronchial asth-