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BY ADAM LAPIN

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Here is the proof of a story the Pacific Tribune carried in its
issue of February 13. The clipping reproduced above is from the
Toronto Daily Star of January 7, a story which Sidney Silverman, Brit- .
ish Labor MP, shown below (centre), termed ‘as shameful a bit of
dishonest reporting as I have come across in a long time.”

a ee And here is the letter Selnee Silverman wrote to Emanuel Bloch,
J eke counsel for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, in which he denounced the |
Toronto Daily Star story as a fabrication.

Desr Mr. Bloch,

by your letter a
reached me only this morni

e It reveals about
of dishonest reporting a s

press did not report st sil!

Rosenbergs but the United States Government.

I remaig of thet opinion and

use of this letter es you wish.

Y ours very truly

LS

not take the U.P. BETVICE es og

“the Korean war is

Just move into them.

John Foster Dulles spills
some beans about Korea

wt John Foster Dulles had to

say about the Korean war in
his first speech after taking over
as U.S. Secretary of State was
overshadowed by the  bluntness
of his warning to Western Eur-
ope to speed up the armaments
program and the sheer nerve of
his allegations that it is the Soviet
Union which is ‘encircling the
U.S. rather than vice versa.

It has been overshadowed since
by the raging controversy about
some of the Eisenhower admin-
istration’s proposed ‘war moves
in the Pacific. But Dulles’ state-
ment on the Korean war did
contain some remarkable admis-
sions which remain significant,
which caused seasoned diplomatsi
to gape in amazement ‘and left
New York Times diplomatic cor-
respondent James Reston cluck-
clucking’ in gentle dismay.

‘Reston noted with surprise that
Dulles “explained the United Na-
tions action jn Korea not as an
act of collective security against
naked aggression, but as a stra-
tegic move in defense of Japan.”

That. was exactly what Dulles
did. He asked in his speech what
“all about.”
And he answered: ‘Well, one
thing that it’s about is Japan.”
In fact, he never got past that
one thing in his explanation.

As if he were exposing some
sinister Soviet move, he said:
“Yiou see, the Soviet Union has
already moved into the northern
islands which are very close to
Japan.” Of course the islands
he meant, the Kuriles, are ad-
jacent to the Soviet Union as well
as to Japan. And the USSR didn’t
It occupied

13th Janua ry I953

I am shocked end distressed deyond words
nd gnclosure of the 8th. instant, which hes

as shameful a bit

have come across for a long time.

On 6th Je nua ry I took p art in a pudlic

Forum in London a bout the Pra gue tria 1s. I said that, they
were certainly not a nti-Semitic; that they were certainly enti-
Zionist; that they might therefore lead to unintended anti-
Semitic results. I said, in passing, that it would be as wrong |
to infer anti-Semitism merely from the fact that many defendants
w ere Jews a nd were described as Jews as it would be to infer
a ntijSemitism in the Rosenberg case merely because the Judge,
both counsel, both defendants, snd the chief prosecypting witness
were all Jews whereas there was not a single Jew on the Jury.

: so far from intending to imply any support
for the hysterically extravagent sentence on the Rosenbergs (éven
if guilty, which seems to me very doubtful) I had only the’
previous evening been the principal speaker at‘a large and very
crowded public protest meeting which epparently the United States
In the course of my speech I saic
that I did not think a conviction on the evidence could have
been obtained or held on appeal in the United Kingdom and that
to carry out the capital penalty would be to indict not the

you tay make such

‘ney Silvermen.
P.S. I have talked to the United Fress News Fditor here tis morning.

He informs me that he has no record a nd has no ‘nowledge of
a@ ny such report end that in any case the New Y ork

Post cces

_ started the

the Kuriles, historically part of
Russia, in accordance with the
solemn approval of the U.S. in
the Yalta agreement—renounced
by the Eisenhower administration.

Anyway Dulles went on:

“And you can see from
map that if they had not only

this area up to the north of Jap-.

an, but also had all of Korea, then
Japan would be within the Com-
munist pincers. And if the Rus-

sians or Chinese Communists got:

control of Japan, with its great
industrial power, then they could
use that to process the raw mat-
erials which come from Asia, from
Manchuria, and from China and to:
process them into the arms and
weapons for the vast manpower
of China. y
“And that, if it happened,
would be a very unfortunate thing
for us. It was hard enough for
us to win the war against Japan

in the Pacifie- when Japan was —

alone, when China was our ally
and the Soviet Union was neu-
tral. If Russia, China and Japan
all combined, it would be pretty
tough for us in the Pacific.”

Dulles then went on to say
that “the Soviet Russions are
making a drive to get Japan, not
only through what they are doing
in northern areas of the islands
and in Korea, but also through
what they are doing in Indo-
china.”

This was Dulles’ explanation of

what the Korean war is “all
about.” -No wonder the acute
New York Times correspondent

was dumbfounded.
e@

Although at the tail end of his
speech, Dulles inserted a char-
acteristic passage about how his
foreign policy is based on “prin-
ciples of openness, simplicity and
righteousness,” there was prac-
tically none of this doubletalk in,
his discussion of what the Korean
war was “all about.” ;

‘As Reston pointed out, there

‘was no nonsense here about “col-
3

lective security” or “naked aggres-
sion,” about great moral prin-
ciples supposedly at stake.
Instead, there was a ‘cold “and
calculating discussion of how it
would be “pretty tough’. for the
U.S. in the Pacific from a military
and economic standpoint if., Ko-
rea and Japan moved to the left.
Of course, all this was jn the
framework of the big lie about!
Russian “encirclement.” But
Dulles did not trouble to assert
again the familiar claim that the
North Koreans, ostensibly under
orders from the Soviet Union, had
war. ‘
‘Nor was there ‘anything in his.
speech which would not jibe logic-

‘ally with a contrary interpreta-\
tion—that the Korean war was-

not only a “strategic move” but
a “preventive”.-one launched by
the U.S. on its own—with the ad-
vice of Dulles, who was on the
spot at the timé—to halt the al-
leged “encirclement” by the So
viet Union. .

Reston attempted to explain
away Dulles’ statements on the
ground that he spoke “extempor-
aneously.”

There is another explanation,
improbable as-it may seem—that

- Dulles for once told at least part

of the truth. And this, of course,
is the real explanation—that Dul-
les inadvertently provided an in-
sight into the real facts about the
Korean war when he discussed it
as a “strategic move” by U.S.
imperialism rather than as a high-
ly moral “act of collective securi-

ty against naked aggression.”

After all, nobody else knows
“all about” the Korean war as
well as the new* U.S. Secretary
of State. :

this °

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — FEBRUARY 27, 1953 — PA a

LETTERS |
~ from our ~

READERS |

Early days recalled

GEORGE HARDY, London,
England: Many thanks. for the
book, He Wrote For Us, which 1
received. today. I have spent @
few hours going through several “
chapters, and find it deeply im7
teresting to recall some of the
former struggles and reading the —
names of old-timers I knew quite
‘well, including Bill Bennett. +

I lived most of the eight years

I spent in B,C. in Victoria, with

a short period in Vancouver. The

last time I was in Vancouver was.

in 1922 when I spoke at 1a series
of meetings. on the Coast. “This
was when I made a tour on be
half of the Famine Relief organ”
ization during those terrible days —
that befell our Russian colleagues:

Looking back it was a marvellous
. feat of courage, determination —

and enterprise, faced as they were

with such a disaster in the midst _
of war, and defeatism on the part —
of many weaklings. . . . ay
I was the secretary, of the Mine
ers Liberation League on, Val
couver Island, after the sentence?
of a large number of miners fol
lowing the open struggle with
‘scabs at Extension. Those mii"
ers certainly put up a fight that
is one of the greatest in
history for tenacity and determin:
ation. That : historical struggle
was a political struggle in which

the government of McBride 22

Bowser was determined, not only ‘

to smash thé union but to drive

the socialist miners from the coal

field. This. they succeeded in, 0%

ing to a large extent. Many mil”

ers emigrated to Australia, NeW

Zealand and went to other coal

fields. . . i 3 %

I: recall a number of big strug”
gles in B.C. One on the ThomP
son river when the constructiO?
workers struck on the building”
of the ‘Grand Trunk Pacific; @
other on McGuiness’ Cut, at

Prince Rupert end, when many —

workers were imprisoned, and ‘3 is

free speech fight in 1911 at the f

Powell Street’ Grounds in V4" _

couver. :

I was the organizer of. a
Teamsters in Victoria (AFL): Wes
presented demands which the
Trades and Labor Council w
not endorse. But when we bk
by strike’ action inside @ ee
hours, then we were “congralt
lated.” :

Later our union went ovet bes
the International Workers of the
World (IWW). That was #?
error aS was proven in practis®s
because the men were not ide?
logically prepared and because
-nonsensical sectarianism 00 ‘1 Si
gion that was peddled to polit

cally immature workers. ey.

stuck in the Wobblies until oe
expelled me in 1922 for mY ae
for the Communist party. 1! Jor
ed the CP in 1921.) |
I have seen Tim Buck S¢
times over the yearssas he pave
through Britain and when Mo
tended the Communist Party —
gress here as fraternal delegr

If he should be in. Vancouve? rim
‘time give him my greetings: :

Buck certainly has put up @
vellous fight. He has turme™
to. be the outstanding leader ys
“the Canadian people. praise
‘remember an event when ae 1
on a speaking tour in nite es
had attended a meeting in #
ener. Leaving next’ morning 4
was waiting for a train 740

freight passed through. —
should come on the platform was

Tim, covered with dust. e. ° B.C:
just returning from a trip a
for the Communist party-

&

veral

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