U.S. big

in order

NEW YORK

Terming the present economic
situation “‘intolerable,” the presi-
dent of the National Association
of Manufacturers has suggested
a “‘preventive’” war as the way
out.

NAM President Claude A.
Putnam made his proposal’ for

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business wants “preventive war’
to ‘solve’ economic difficulties

immediate war to solve the eco-
nomic dilemma of big business at
a private meeting of President
Truman’s Advisory Committee on
Mobolization Policy.
~ His remarks were reported in
the syndicated column of Robert
A. Allen in the New York Post.
Putnam’s position was endorsed
at the meeting by the chief spokes-

man for the second most power-
ful big business organization in
the United States, President Otto
A. Seyferth of the U.S. Chamber
of Commerce.

As quoted in Allen’s column,
Putnam said:

“This tension has to break some
lime. We cart stand it indefi-
nitely. A’ preventive war would

be one way to end this intolerable
situation. Our country, and es-
pecially business, can’t stand in-
terminable mobilization.”

CIO President Philip Murray,
who was present at the meeting,
was reported to have remained
silent in the face of this advocacy
of war.

Seyferth of the Chamber of

Commerce was not as reticent.

“Personally, I feel the same
way,” he said. ‘We've got to
get this over with some time, and
I feel the sooner the better. In-
dustry can’t take this forever.”

Encouraged, Putnam added,
“I can’t see but that this is the
only way to clear up this situa-
tion.”

- Atrocities in

Korea bared by

British paper

“Nothing so -horrible as the massacre of the Seoul citi- !

zens by the Americans and th
y

LONDON

eir Korean quislings has hap-

pened since the defeat of the Paris Commune in 1871.”
In these words, John Gollam, assistant editor o fthe Lon-
don Daily Worker, addressed the first London meeting of pro-

test against atrocities in Korea.

JACQUES DUCLOS

Attempt made
fo assassinate
Jacques Duclos

PARIS

“The American imperialists are
resorting to assassination to free
their hands for further acts of ag-
gression and to intimidate those
who fight for peace,” the French
newspaper L’Humanite charged last
Week after an unsuccessful attempt
on the life of Jacques Duclos, French
Communist party chairman, wound-
€d 10 persons.

The attack was the latest in a
series of attempts to murder Com-
munist leaders. In August, Julien
Lahaut, Belgian Communist party
chairman, was shot to death by
gunmen and his assassination was
followed by attempts on the lives
of Palmiro Togliatti, Italian Com-
munist general secretary, and To-
kuda, Japanese Communist general
secretary. :

Duclos was addressing an open
air meeting of some 5,000 people at
Auch in the south of France when
a bomb was thrown from a nearby
monastery. The bomb, deflected by
the branches of high trees, fell short
of the platform and exploded in
the front rows of the audience. Ten
persons, two of them women, were
injured.

Gollam pointed out that it is the
duty of the progressive section of
the British people to start a wave
of mass protests to save Korea but
also to save the honor of the labor
movement in Britain. &

The Daily Worker recently pub-
lished a full page of photographic
evidence of the unspeakable hor-
ror of the American, war in Korea.
One picture shows the crucifixion
of a guerilla fighter, Li Dukkoo, on
the island of Chejoo-do. Another

shows a dead mother lying amidst
the wreckage of her home of sticks,
mud and bamboo matting, her in-
fant child crying at her breast.

“The dead mother is an American
military target. She is a target
they could not fail to miss, since
the Koreans do not possess the war
potential necessary for defense
against the American air fleets ...
The Americans fly on, admiring the
results of their saturation bomb-
ing,” the Daily Worker comments.

Another picture shows Syngman
Rhee’s sailors in American uniform,
shooting anti-fascist workers at In-
chon, following the U.S. landing.
Still another photograph shows a
huge mass of rubble eloquently de-
monstrating how the Americans
“liberated” Seoul — by complete
destruction with saturation and
fire bombing.

“General MacArthur,” states the
Daily Worker, “is celebrating the
victory Over the smail, courageous
Koréan People’s Democratic Repub-
lic, Like his predecessor, Hitler,
he is making his claims too soon.

“Worea is undefeated. Korea
eannot be defeated because she is
part of the struggle of the common
people everywhere. But Korea
needs help.”

A medal for Wall Street

President Truman’s claim that the United States is only trying to save the peoples of Asia
from becoming the “colonial slaves of a new imperialism” will have a hollow ring in Asia whose
peoples see the U.S., not the USSR, as the imperialist aggressor. Here Truman pins a medal on Gen-
eral MacArthur, whose American armies haye restored the repudiateg Syngman Rhee regime to
power in South Korea and retrieved Wall Street’s billion dollar investment in that country.

COST OF 25 MILLION YEN BORNE BY JAPANESE

§ building huge war bases in Japan

SAN FRANCISCO

All along the western coast of
Japan an elaborate string of Am-
erican military, air, and naval
bases is being constructed at a
cost of 25,000 million yen which
will have to be paid by the Jap-
anese taxpayer.

Following the American decision
that all expenses in connection
with the new bases would have to
be covered by taxation inside
Japan, the Yoshida government
has decided, to increase the taxa-

tion on the civilian population and
to raise the fares on Japanese
state railways by 65 percent.

The network of bases is strung
practically continuously along the
entire western coasts of the three
main islands of the Japanese
Archipelago, Hekkaido in _ the
north, Honshu in the centre on
which the majority of Japan’s

population lives, and Kyushu in
the south.
Construction of, these bases

makes it clear that the separate
peace treaty with Jiapan proposed
by President Truman is designed to

perpetuate the American occupa-
tion of Japan under the cover of
an “aSreement? between the United
States and the supposedly “sov-
ereign” Japan.

In view of the Japanese people’s
opposition to the conversion of
their country into an American
war base—opposition which is par-
ticularly keen in the regions in-
volved — even greater repressive
measures against the democratic
movements and organizations are
expected.

It is also clear that huge finan-

building military bases will lead to
further deterioration in the stand-
ards of living. Already prices. of
many essential commodities are 40
percent and more above the level
before the outbreak of the Korean
war and there are some 13 million
unemployed in the country.

The 25,000 million yen demanded
by the Americans for their mili-
tary installations alone amounts
to some five percent of Japan’s
budget for the next year, of which
one-sixth already goes to the Amer-
icans in the form of “occupation

cial outlays for the purpose of costs.”

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