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M.A., New Westminster, B.C.:
Next month many people of dif-
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political. opinions will gather in
Vienna to attend the Congress of
the Peoples for Peace.

This ‘congress will be unlike
those which have preceded it in
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mittees of independent citizens
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tell her story to them.

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jn the New Westminster Council
of Women and Parent-Teacher
Association movement. She has

been associated for many years
with study groups in the Citizens’
Forum and is at present a member
of the New Westminster School
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.during this period.

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Industrial Cooperatives. He com-
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with what he is seeing today in
New China.

His book is called Yo Banfa—
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Be Done! Which is a contrast to
the old days when “Mei-yo banfa”
(there is no way) was the byword.

The book costs $1 and it can be
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Seven years after Hit!
“] HOPE and pray that the moment will soon come when either I or
some other American commander will turn this fine air base over
to some German wing commander with the beginning of Germany’s
new Luftwaffe” said Colonel Robert Scott of the USAF, commanding

officer of Fuerstenfeldbruck Air Base in West Germany, addressing
German newspapermen on October 9.

“You saw first that the great threat to civilisation was to the east,

with the Communist Soviet Union.
sight then in 1945 to understand that.

I wish that we had had the fore-

“] impatiently wait with you for the day when we will. stand

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Communism.”

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Ider as friends and brothers to resist the threat of

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— are false Christians who say that Christians must not kill . : .

We'll reconquer Breslau and Koeningsberg . . . We are against any

kind of planned economy . . . Denazification was the biggest crime and
swindle against the German people. The U.S. is our guarantee of vic-
tory; the Americans are the Romans of our century ... We shall go on:
_ fighting to vindicate the honour of the Waffen-S.S.”

Paul Lueth, leader of the U.S.-financed Federation of German
Youth (B.D.J.) quoted in the New Statesman and Nation, October 18.

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French people resolutely oppose
creation of West German army

E outrageous plan announc-

ed by the West German war
chief, Dr. Theodor Blank, for a
new German Army with half a
million men, 22,000 officers and
40 generals is the first shot in
a battle to get‘ the European
Army Treaty ratified.

Ever since it was signed in Paris
six months ago, the United States
has been using every kind of pres-
sure to get ratification, and es-
pecially by the parliaments of
West Germany and France.

In obedience to U.S. instruc-
tions, ‘West German Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer aims to get rati-
fication from the Bonn parliament
at the end of this month. By keep-
ing Blank’s plan secret until very
recently he hoped there would be
a minimum of discussion.

The ordinary people of West
Germany, of course, don’t want
to have anything to do with the
plan. -

It will mean conscription again.
It will bring ‘back Hitler’s generals
into authority.

Announcement of the plan was
preceded by the emergence from
their funk-holes, after seven years,
of most of the men who made Hit-
ler.

They include Krupp,  Field-
Marshal Kesselring and other war
criminals. :

With the connivance of the West
German government and the U’S.
High Commission, and with the
aequiescence of the British High
Commission, the Waffen SS, the
holders of the Knight’s Cross, the
Condor Legion, the Stahlhelm, and
other militarist organisations are
emerging.

They want to stake claims to ad-
vise, control and direct Dr. Blank’s
so-called democratic army.

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The common people of West
Germany are not alone in their
fear of these plans.

France — the people of France
— are resolutely opposed to them.
Even when French Foreign Min-
ister Schuman signed the: European
Army Treaty last May, there was
no support for it in France,

Since then opposition has inten-
sified.

An outstanding recruit to the
struggle in France against ratifica-
tion of the treat is Edouard Her-
riot, president of the French Na-
tional Asesmbly.

At the congress of the Radical
party recently he said he was op-
posed to ratification of the Europ-
ean Army Treaty and the Bonn
Contract, which gives the West
German government the right to
form armed units and to start
arms production. x

What was more, Herriot told
the congress that there were secret
clauses to the European Army
Treaty which were not to be di-
vulged to the French parliament.

Schumann and French Premier
Pinay were unable to deny that

clauses exist which make it pos--

sible for the German General Staff
to emerge again and that all the
“ouarantees” against this do not
mean a thing.

Now Herriot did not take up
this position because he had a
miraculous vision overnight.

Every day since last May, and
long before then, organizations of
all sorts in France have gone on
record against rearmament of
Germany and against ratification
of the Bonn and Paris treaties.

(The French Resistance Move-
ment was strongly represented at
a great congress of members from
many European countries of the
wartime Resistance movements
against the Nazis.

The congress took place in
Weimar, in East Germany, at the
end of last month. ‘The French
delegation visited Buchenwald

-camp, where many of them had

been tortured by the Nazis.

There, they took an oath never
to allow the re-creation of that
Germany army which brought
havoe to their country.

When they came back they went
to see Herriot and gave him the
decisions of their conference. Her-
riot affirmed that he stood by
every word of his previous state-
ment.

He told the delegates that it was
vitally necessary for the peoples

_of the world to know the exact

text of the Bonn and Paris treat-
ies. He drew particular attention;
to Articles 11 and 12 of the Paris
Treaty.

According to Herriot, they per-
mit establishment of German for-
ces without limits and could en-
able the West German government
to take its divisions out of the
“European Army” at any time.

-The French ‘Communist party
has all along warned the people
of the dangers of these treaties.

It is an indication of the ster-
ling work of the party that Her-
riot is now forced to say, in ef-
fect, that the Communists were
right.

But declarations by French de-
puties against ratification of the
treaties come from organizations
far removed from the French
Communist party.

Thus, Jacques Bardoux, Presi-
dent of the Foreign Affairs Com-
mission of the National Assembly,
recently also received a delegation:
from the /French Resistance
Movement.

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He assured them of his oppo
tion to ratification ‘at least U
there had been a meeting of *
Big Four powers, including the
Soviet Union. é

The Catholic deputy for
Dordogne region, Andre Dé
who ‘recently went to. Germa
has also called for a Big Fo
meeting. :

Communist, Radical, Cathol
Deputies are agreed on this—an®
Socialist such as M. Ar
Deputy for the Var.

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But the French government still
takes orders from the: U.S. G
eral Ridgway and the horde
American officers, diplomats, P?
ticians and FBI men who in
the soil of France.

In the past weeks, this gove®
ment ‘has launched an ‘all-out 9
tack on the only French grade
union organization that matter
the CGT. ‘a

It has jailed one of its gente
secretaries, Alain le Leap;
four leaders ‘of the Union
French Republican Youth oF
trumped up charges of havine,
“conspired to demoralise the ?
tion.” : -

The same government has 4
manded the lifting of the parli
mentary immunity of five Fre?
Communist MP's, _ inclu
Jacques Duclos, so that they i
be imprisoned pending trial 0?
similar charge. ;

The application for the lift
of parliamentary immunity ©
been made under a law pass
the French capitulation gové
ment in 1940. :
It provides for the death P°,
alty in time of peace for thé |
fence of “demoralization’ of ©
nation”—a charge that can m
anything.

The “basis” for the charg
formed by the “documents” sei
ed in raids on French Commu :
party offices. ned

The government has publis ,
“documents.” ‘They
found to contain nothing DY? ©
tracts from public speeches
articles by French Commu

One of the main points of th
articles and speeches is the,
mand that the Bonn and s
treaties should not be ratif
Another is that the dirty Ww
Indochina should be brought
an end,

- It is now apparent that in a
ing such demands the French
munist party was speaking
only for the five million

men and women who vote¢ ~
munist last year. x

It is speaking for the ou
whelming majority of the po
of France, irrespective of P

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