_..DEAN ACHESON _ ~** General Motors’ man- REMIDR- Joseph Stalin’s state- “* ment, madé: last week in answer to. questions submitted by a ‘group of American editors, that: war is no closer and that beaceful ‘coexistence of capitalist and socialist systems is possible “if there is an observance of the Principal of equality and no in- terference -in the. internal af- fairs of other states.’’ recalls his historic interview a year ago With a Pravda correspondent, M which he exhaustively analys- ed the causes of the existing ' tension in the international at- Mosphere. In that interview, held on February 17, 1951, Stalin pointed out, in particu- lar, that in the capitalist coun- tries ‘and, first of all, in the Unit- ed States ‘‘there are aggressive forces who are thirsting for an- other war. They need war in °rder to rake in superprofits and to plunder other countries. These are the billionaires and million- aires, who regard war es a pay- Mg proposition yielding gigantic Profits.” The largest American corpor- ations and trusts are engaged in the manufacture of arms. Each he upper crust of the financial Close ties with war industry, Armament orders have become the source of wealth for many Of the more powerful American ankers and manufa:turers. The “ousé of Morgan, which, accord- Mg to the press, now controls Ver one-fourth of the capital of American corporations, start- €d out by selling the government Gefective rifles during the Civil the DuPonts, who play such an important role. in American ®conomic.and political life today, Made their pile on the produc- “on of gunpowder and their part- hership| in the international Powder cartel. - War industry has played a Major part in the development Of industry and the rest of the ‘S. national economy. Only in “Wartime has the curve of the pa coaly developing American a Ustry gone up. Whereas the onde annual increase in in- aah output between. 1870 a: 1939 was four percent, it ent up to seven percent during © First World War and to 15 Bent during the Second World < The national wealth of the aba States, the larger part Which is owned by magnates ites have become known as the any of Wall Street, increased Fi and a half times during the rst World War. | That war, ‘ i Of the eight groups making up © Oliganchy of the U.S. has very’ ar in the United States, and_ f PUSS LURES LAL LT which cost mankind 10,000,000 in killed and 20,000,000 in ‘maimed, yielded American big fits, and by the conclusion of the ‘Versailles Treaty,. America scounted 21,000 new millionaires. | From the Second World War, ‘which took the lives of 50,000,- 1000 people, American big busi- ‘mess extracted even more fabu- ‘lous profits, amounting to $117,- '000 million by conservative of- sficial. figures. ~.A good. many American. . corporations made iprofits during the war that were ‘10,-50, and even 100 times their profits in prewar years. The number of giant corporations with a capital of over $1,000 million each rose from 28 in 1939 to 45 in 1947. It is no wonder. therefore, that the big war industry mono- polies of the United States play- >ed a very active part in prepar- ing and unleashing of the Second World War, in particular,.in re- viving and revamping German imperialism’s war industry po- tential, and in arming fascist Germany and imperialist Japan, It is known that 60-odd Am- . erican factories were operating in Germany supplying Hitler with arms, which later were turned against American troops. Every shell sent off by the Nazis brought profit to America’s “merchants of death.’ The steel from which it was made was smelted by Ruhr magnates, who were connected through many eartel agreements with American capital, with the Morgan group, and the explosives for the shells were manufactured by the I. G. Farbenindustrie, a partner of the American trusts, DuPont de Ne- mours and Standard Oil of New Jersey. The peoples made immense: sacrifices and suffered incredible privations to defeat the: aggres- sive fascist bloc, inspired by the bope of peaceful development. But the blood of the millions of A’ least ‘nine Negroes were murdered in various parts of the United States during the month of March “solely on the basis of race in violation of the UN Convention on Genocide,” the Civil Rights Congress report- ed this week. The listing was released by. William L. Patterson, executive secretary af the CRC, who re- cently filed with the United Na- tions. “We ‘Charge Genocide.” the petition charging U.S. gov- ernment bodies with genocidal killings and persecution of Ne- gro Americans. The “acts of genocide” during the month of March was listed by Patterson in the following cities: ¢ Yonkers, New York — James and Wyatt Blacknall, killed by a retired policeman because he _ Merchants of death ‘victims had hardly business $38,000 million in pro-. By N. INOZEMTSEV cooled be- fore the American billionaires ‘began to plan a new war from ‘which they ‘new profits. might ‘amass vast Holding the U.S. Administra- ‘tion, Congress and the rest of -the state machine in their grip, the Morgans and Rockefellers, -DuPonts and Mellons, and the : Wilsons and Harrimans have openly and _ uncermoniously shunted the country’s economy onto a war footing, set up the gressive North Atlantic bloc, and have been persistently trying to ~~ LAMONT DuPONT turn the United Nations into an instrument of war. Again there are being revived the two seats of war—the Ger- man zone in the West, the Jap- anese zone in the East—it cost the liberty-loving peoples dear to wipe out in the past war. And again there flows a stream of. dollars for reviving the German and Japangge monopolies, the American «apitalists’ partners in international piracy, and tested allies of the American financial oligarchy in enslaving other nations, e . Thanks to the artificial whip- ping up of war hysteria and to did not approve of Negroes be- ing served in a local tavern. The CRC, NAACP, American Labor party and other organizations are demanding the death penalty for the killer, Stanley LeBensky. Birmingham, Alabama—John- ny L. Vann, 27-year old Negro Second World War veteran, shot to death in his bedroom by a Birmingham policeman for “not dressing fast enough.” Vann be- came the fifty-third Negro victim of Birmingham police murder in the past five years. : Deland, Florida — Four Neg- -roes were deliberately killed by three white drivers who drove the Negroes’ car off the road. The white driver was held in jail only for ‘culpable negligence and intoxication.’ The other two were charged as accessories. All the tried, J Spano Poem TTY YET TT Pee 0et tay 0) 00) Ot 0) 00 ‘ VEU EUR BREUER BREE REE EE ERE EEE the arms drive. the net profits of the American, monopolies af- ter allowing for taxes, in 1949 were already 3.4 times those of ‘the pre-war year 1939, and the ‘aggression in Korea ‘furnished sthe boost for even more sub- ‘stantial enrichment of American ‘manufacturers and bankers, Ac- ccording to official figures pub- ‘lished in the American press, ‘monopoly profits, before allow- ‘ing for taxés, were $40,200 mil- lion in 1950 and $46,200 million » jin 1951, more than seven times : the 1939 profits, The DuPont-and-Morgan-con- trolled armament manufacturing concern General Motors; repre- ._ sented in the U.S. government by Secretary of State Acheson; the Morgan trust General Elec- tric, whose head, Charles Wil- son, was chief of the Defensé Mobilization Organization, vest- ed with dictatorial powers, until his recent resignation; the Mor- gan banking interests engaged in financing armament manufac- turers whose confidential agent is Defense Secretary R. Lovett; the ‘Rockefeller trusts making atom bombs—all of these cor- porations made récord profits last year. . All this is at a time when the living standards of the broad mass of American working peo- ple are steadily going down, ‘when three-fourths of American families have an income of un- der $4,000 a year, the minimum amount required for a decent existence, and when the number of unemployed and those work- ing part time exceeds 12.000,- 000. : ‘ Brigadier-General Holdridge, U.S. Army, retired, had every reason to state in his letters to the Detroit News that war had become America’s main business, “the America of the Morgans and! Rockefellers, of the atom bomb and armament kings. Murder, he stated, had become America’s principal enterprise, in which $100,000 million was being in- vested annually. Nine ‘acts of genocide’ in U.S. in three have been released on $1,- 006 bond. os : Hackensack, New Jersey — Simon P, Parker, 26, was club- bed to death by a local police- man for allegedly “creating a disturbance.” 3 ” Washington, D.C. —— James Smallwood, 38, was shot and killed by George Medlin. a white patrolman who claimed ‘‘self-de- fense.”” Medlin was released by aythorities without bond.. The Civil Rights Congress has announced that as soon as the United Nations Human Rights Commission reconvenes, a2 new effort will be made to win UN ment for its violation, of the action against the U.S. govern- Genocide Convention in its faif- ure to stop genocidal murders of Negroes, CHARLES E. WILSON - _ The Morgan interests Recent. data, in particular, Wilson’s- report for.the fourth. quarter of 1951 and President Truman’s messages to Congress | attest to the fact that the “Mur- der Concern” is steadily expand- ing. It is enough to point out that American industry is at the present time fiilling arma- ment orders amounting to over $40,000 million. or two and a half times as much as it had last year. Military appropria- tions under the United States’ 1951-1952 budget are 76 times greater than in 1939. ee Preparation of another: world war for the purpose of gaining ‘world supremacy by the Ameri- — can monopolies and reaping huge’ - war profits is the foundation un-: derlying the foreign policy of the United States. But this poli-’* ey is in irreconcilable contradie- tion with the vital interests of. the people everywhere, of the overwhelming majority of the - globe’s population. . That. is why » it is meeting with increasing re- sistance from all peoples fight- ing for the strengthening of peace and international security. _. The billionaires and the mil- lionaires are trying to deceive the peoples, to foist their aggres-— sive plans upon them and in- veigle them into another war. But, as Stalin has said, “peace will be preserved and consolidat- ed if the peoples take the eause of peace into their own hands and uphold it to the end.” one month ‘W-ripeRTY {9 FoR FASCISM, RACIALISM, WAR MONGERIN AND S¥00L PIGEONS « ’ PACIFIC TRIBUNE — APRIL 11, 1952 — PAGE 9 ’