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Won't produce for war

“This machine will never produce for war’ is the proud statement
inscribed on the card hanging on this worker’s machine in a Bologna,

Italy, factory.
ment.

Millions of workers throughout Italy echo the state-

Ready for peaceful
negotiations with

Britain, says USSR

MOSCOW

The Soviet Union, in a note to the British government,

announced it was “ready

Great Britain.”

for peaceful negotiations with
The note, published in Pravda, said “the

government of the USSR will regard highly any step of the

British government genuinely

relations beaween our countries.”
Pravda, at the same time, pub-
lished the full text of the British

_ diplomatic note of February 17

to the USSR, which attacked the
peace policy of the Soviet Union
and denied Britain was planning
to engage in a world war.

The Soviet reply, in addition to ~

urging peace eRnations; de-
eclared that the “unified” armed
forces of the United States, Brit-
ain and France: totalled over 5,-
000,000 men, and that “the num-
bers continue to grow rapidly
while industry is mobilized for
armament. production.” The arm-
ed forces of these capitalist coun-
tries, it is pointed out, “are more
than double the number of the
armed forces of the USSR at the
present time.”

The West’s armed forces, the
Soviet note went one, are “several

times greater than in 1939” while

Soviet forces: equal only what
they were at the outbreak of the
Second World War.

“We speak of ‘the armies of
these powers as a unified military
force primarily because the arm-
ed forces of these three coun-
tries constitute not three inde-
pendent armies, but a _ unified

Accept second offer

Having decisively rejected an
earlier offer, BCER transit work-
ers in Vancouver, Victoria and
New Westminster last week vot-
ed, with 72 percent in favor, to
accept a company offer of a 12-
cent hourly wage increase on

March 1 and a further four cents -

on March 1, 1952.

aimed at improvement of

army, united by. the. American

military and under the command .

of the American General WHisen-
hower,” the Soviet note said.

“Britain has quite definitely vi-
olated its obligations in regard
to preventing the rebirth of mili-
tarism in Germany, and obliga-

tions on the democratization and -

remilitarization of Germany, thus
undermining the foundations of
the Anglo-Soviet treaty and of the
Yalta and Potsdam agréements.”

The Soviet note listed these vio-
lations by Britain of the Soviet-
British friendship treaty: Unifica-
tion of Germany’s western zones,
establishment of a separate cur-

“rency, a separate government and

an occupation statute in West

Germany, and refusal to prepare

a German peace treaty.

The Soviet again charged that
Britain had violated the Potsdam
treaty’ with its approval to rearm
German units and it declaredi the
British government had assumed
the role of protector of ‘Fascist
Yugoslavia.”

The note said that ‘not a soli-

tary tfeaty signed by the Soviet

Union is aimed against Britain
or j~gainst any other country
among the Allies during the war

with Hitlerite Germany.

“The reference to the defensive
nature of the Western union and

the North Atlantic grouping are

quite obviously untenable. More-
over, facts testify that the West-
ern union as well as the North
Atlantic Treaty grouping are
diréctly aimed against the USSR
and the people’s democracies.”

.

Soviet

Union won’

be diverted from

policies of peace

By RALPH PARKER
MOSCOW

The British government’s re-
armament program as announced
by Prime Minister Clement Attlee
in the House of Commons; is con-
sidered in Moscow as evidence
that Britain’s freedom of action
in international affairs has been
completely surrendered to the Un-
ited States.

In particular it is seen as in-
tended ‘to slam the door on any
useful meeting with the Soviet
Union for settlement of the pres-
ent differences, although the Soviet
Union, as evidenced by its ‘most
recent note this week, is continu-
ing to press for such a settlement.

The crude distortion of Soviet
policy with which the British Pre-
mier sought to prepare the public
for the new crushing burdens left
observers here in little doubt that
the British cabinet has decided to
align ‘itself with the U|S. State
Department in an attempt to stifle
tthe movement growing in France
and elsewhere for abandonment of

-plans for rearmament of West

Germany and coming to terms
with the Soviet Union at a new
Four-Power meeting.

In contrast to the uncertainty

and alarm felt by the people of
London, Paris and Rome, the
people of Moscow and other So-
viet cities, although generally con-
vinced that the real threat to world
peace emanates from U.S. policy,
are going about their affairs free
from any war hysteria.

The most suspicious-minded for-
eign observers are forced to admit
‘the absence of any signs that the
Soviet people are being psycho-
logically prepared for war.

This impression is based not
alone of observation in Moscow
‘but in that very extensive area of
the Soviet Union where diplomats
are constantly travelling.

First they are bound ‘to notice
that in all publications, plays and
films, a clear distinction continues
to be drawn between the Ameri-
can people and their leaders. They
hear nothing to indicate that the
Soviet people are being put into
a frame of mind to meet the Am-
erican or any other people on the

battlefield.

Second, they find positive evi-
dence that the Soviet people are

being prepared to expect easier %

times in the near future—the very
opposite in fact ito the guns-before-
butter program of Attlee’s govern-
ment. (The price reductions an-
nounced this week are only ‘one
proof of this.)

“Guns are ‘guns, and our peo-
ple do not mean to forget that,”
declares a character in the most

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countres are expected to attend
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In addition, two million German
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ing the festival.

No one is given any reason to
imagine that the Soviet Union will
be diverted from this path of

peace,

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EDITORIAL — CONTINUED

Defeat Bill 24

ful settlement of all problems witnin the United Nations. ,

The Soviet Union and People’s China have time-and-time-again
made known to the world their consistent desires and readiness to co-
operate with Canada and all countries to strengthen peace. The Can-
adian people, as all peoples, desire peace.

Bill 24 should be rejected by the House of Commons. Across
the country a great storm of protest must arise condemning and rejecting
Bill 24 which is nothing but a weapon of the St, Laurent regime to
impose a dictatorial war economy and police state upon the Canadian
people under the trumped-up big lie of a national emergency.

The answer of all patriotic Canadians must be given on April
7-8 at the National Assembly to Save the Peace. There all peace-
loving Canadians will have the chance to-assert their will, the people’s
will for peace and friendship with all nations. No dictatorship by
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