— SoRcerned with raising industrial By VERY REV. HEWLETT... JOHNSON, DEAN OF CANTERBURY E.ACE. is World Priority No. 1. All need peace. On the § toad to, peace, great major prob- lems, housing, health, education, security, could be solved over- : night. War costs Britain $2,240,000,000 a year—soon probably to be $2,- ; 800,000,000. With assured peace, military expenditure could drop to $700,000,000 or less. That saving of one and one- half billion dollars a year could build 1,200 houses a day, or six first-class schools,. or two to three first-class hospitals, Every day! ° More than that, with assured | peace, we could release for real education and profitable produc- tion hundreds of thousands of our conscript youth. If, on the other hand, we tread the road to war, we move to the edge of an abyss. Atom bombs will fly. Every deviltry will be released. Everyone needs peace | At Hiroshima one atom bomb killed 70,000 persons in a mo- ment of time, with a quarter of & million other casualties. Babies Subsequently born were deformed monstrosities. . The promised hydrogen bomb is to be even more destructive. A fiendish weapon, its manufac- ture wasting fabulous millions, With no prospect whatsoever of any useful by-product in the pro- cess. ; - ' Other weapons are already Proposed and prepared: bacterio- ‘ogical weapons, cheaper to pro- duce and probably more deadly in action. ‘ Two roads lie before us—war Or peace. te What blocks the road to Peace? One obstacle and one Alone, Hostility to Russia. De- termination at all cost to main- tain" privilege, to check the SPread of socialism and com- Munism, % On Russia, therefore, must the blame be laid, So the press Screams its slogans: Russia ex- Pands; Russia seeks to domin- ate the world; Russia plans war. ; Tt‘is monstrously untrue. Rus- Sia’s main concern is peace. Stalin made peace moves in 1946, $47, 1948 and 1949, to Elliot sevelt, to Henry Wallace, to nm, to Kingsbury Smith. Mere bluff, it was said. This is Nonsense, Six solid facts eg “erline the truth’ of Stalin’s proposals. ° J Russia wants peace, because Russia needs peace. Deeply potential] to the highest possible level, based solidly on the latest achievements of science, includ- ing atomic energy, Russia finds war and war preparations an in- tolerable hindrance. 2 4 The Russian economy wel- “comes peace because Rus- sian economy can consume all that it produces. Higher produc- tion spells higher living stan- ’ Gards for all. The specter of un- employment never haunts a plan- red economy. eo : That Russia neither plans war nor expects war is re- vealed by her Five-Year Plans, which invest more capital in Lat-- via, for instance—so vulnerably near the West—than in Moscow itself. Revealed also by her fear- less rebuilding of houses, col- The emigres w By DEREK KARTUN Let us consider ‘the National Committee for Free Europe, In- corporated, which is neither na- tional, European, nor free. Its streamlined offices are high- up in the Empire State Building in New York. It is the intersec- tion -point of all the muddy streams of anti-Sovietism and the counter-revolution in the United States. eae who 1S i : ieee ares is DeWitt C. Poole, a wartime member of the aS Oftice of Stragetic Services (In- telligence) wh Foreign Nation Chief among alities Branch. its sponsors is Al- len W. Dulles, chief of the ed in Europe during the war, and tl : man who recruited an agent part of the Rajk espionage an wrecking group within the Hun- garian Communist party. Then there are the directors. First, Joseph Cc. Grew, a for- er U. S; ambassador to Japan ee a "yigorous Russia-hater. Ae Arthur Bliss Lane, ages ambassador to Poland, who pu lished unbridle da attacks on the Polish people after his term of office had ended. James ‘A. Farley, former U. S. osimaster-general, who returned P . ny \ ere he headed the ; not long ago from Spain babbling about the virtues of Franco, Henry R. Luce, publisher of- Time, Life and Fortune maga- zines, a wild reactionary. DeWitt Wallace, publisher of the venomous Reader’s Digest. “ To these add Charles R. Hook, former head of the National As- sociation of Manufacturers. And add, too, William Green and Mathew Woll, two of the right-wing leaders of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, and James B. Carey of the CIO who ’ says that “in another war we yill join the. Fascists to defeat the Communists.” Fer te * » A free Europe committee, you say, should include some Euro- peans, Consider, then who they are. ty From Poland, Stanislaw Miko- jajezyk, former premier and bitter opponent of ‘socialism. From Rumania, Grigore Gafen- cu, a renegade diplomat. From Hungary, a former m.p, named. Bela Fabian, who has writ- ten a book praising Cardinal Min- dszenty, the man found guilty of treason against his country. — From Bulgaria, the “peasant” politician Georg M. Dimitrov, also a fugitive from the, Bulgarian” . Europe. leges, factories, rather than tanks and planes. Russia spends only 17 per- cent of her budget on war, less than before 1940. Russia never uttered words of war, or threats to atom- ize other peoples with bombs. Russia has organized at home a great campaign for peace. Hit- ler also spoke peace abroad, but at home he spoke war. Russia stands solidly behind the movement for outlawing atom bombs and all weapons of mass-destruction. She says bar the bomb, disarm, produce for, peace. ' Russia rejects the Baruch plan, which had ulterior motives, det- trimental to the development of Russian industry, The Baruch plan demands an international committee, on which the U.S. would have a decisive majority, to exercise complete control over the world’s resources of atomic power, with right for inspection of every country (giving, incidentally, val- uable information to the U.S. Army and Air Force) before they even discuss ceasing the manu- facture of bombs themselves. Russia has her own plans for atom-bomb control. Abolition of all weapons of mass destruction, freedom for all to use atomic energy for peace- ful purposes, together with ef- fective inspection; these are Russia’s peace proposals, 6 Turn now to the West. Does Western economy welcome an assured peace? The scales are weighted on the other side. The U.S. consumes only 75 percent of what it produces, In- dustrial production dropped last year by 22 percent, coal output by 31 percent, railroad loading by 20 percent, departmental sales 12-14 percent. Unemployment in the 'U.S. now touches the 4,500,- 000 figure. ‘ ; All this drop occured despite a furious armament drive fan- ned by the press fantasy of Rus- sia’s warlike intentions, And the decline proceeds, despite vast ar- my contracts. The U.S. rejects a planned ec- onomy. American capitalists also dread a peace which makes war equipment superflous. American economy is a war economy, as Russia’s is a peace economy. Hence. the reiterated cry, as a smokescreen, that Rus- Sia expands, that Russia seeks to dominate the world. It is false. Russia has not ex- panded. The area of the Soviet Union is smaller today than that of Tsarist Rusia to which we took no exception. Then, Russian Sovereignty in- cluded all the Balkan lands, Yal- ta agreed to Russia’s resumption of those lands, and it was Chur- chill himself who said, “Russia is in fact accepting frontiers which over immense distances are 200 to 300 miles further to the East.” But it is the U.S. which ex- pands. The U.S. has secured 489 air bases around the Soviet Union, in strategic positions for assault. America spends 75 percent of her budget on war purposes. America’s Marshall plan re- establishes capitalism on the _basis of Wall Street monopoly, arresting reconstruction and crip- pling industrial development. The Marshall plan rebuilds the Nazi war machine. i Under the Atlantic pact the U.S. supplies the arms, Europe the cannon-fodder for fighting Russia. Following this sinister lead, we speed headlong down the road to war. A We must and can cry halt. We Can make friendly overtures to Russia, and meet Stalin’s repeat- ed offers half way. : We can open the flood gates of trade between East and West, securing, by exchange with our fine craftsmanship, the food- stuffs, timber, and raw materials we need. Cutting our ‘war expenditure, like Russia, to prewar standards, we can save hundreds of mil- lions of pounds and sever the strings of the Marshall plan. We can build, as Russia and Eastern Europe are building on the lines of a spacious plan, a new and progressively mounting ‘standard of life for all. Through understanding with Russia alone we can secure peace. Through socialist and Com- munist planning alone we can secure prosperity. o seek trouble courts, ' From Yugoslavia, another “pea- sant,” Miha Krek. From Czechoslavia, Stefan Osu- sky, former ‘ambassador to France.- : All of these men represent the old regime and have fought the new. And there they are, lined up with the Right-wing leaders of the AFL and CIO with Bliss Lane and Luce and Dulles, laying their plans to hoist themselves back into power. “The state department is very. happy to see the formation of this group,” wrote U. S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson when the committee was formed. That shows how much the group must care for the freedom of * Cs * The work of the committee is varied, extensive and sinister. It undertakes anti-socialist and anti - Soviet propaganda among foreign groups in the US. It sponsors anti-Soviet books, broad- casts and newspaper articles. It maintains, or seeks to main- tain, contact with its agents in- side the People’s Democracies. It works hand-in-glove with the U. S. State Department’s espionage PACIFIC TRIBUNE — APRIL-14, 1950 — PAGE 5 “and wrecking services in Eastern Europe. : It also provides, by the way, jobs for the boys. Six of these peasants with plush -bottoms have been placed in the library of the U. S. Congress to — study the laws of their countries. The treason laws, by the way, must give them goose-flesh. Others are employed on a Das ee ube Vallay research project fin- anced by the Carnegie Endow- ment. Considering that none of them is ever likely to see the Danube again, one can only conclude that the Carnegie Endowment does ‘not know what to do with its mon- ey. ties. They are all doing untold harm _ inside the U. S. | It is fortunate that even when | the laws, and the Danube Valley Plan has been elaborated to the last square inch, the people of — Eastern Europe still won't let them return. | k Others are employed as lec- _ turers and professors in universi- : * they have finished studying all As a matter of fact, it does’t. - look as of the Committee for Free Europe, Inc. will ever get much beyond Lower Manhattan.