@ BEHIND THE HYSTERIA IN THE HEADLINES Truth about the - Berlin youth rally W HILE the war press was shouting that “Communists” would stage a “putsch” in Berlin on May 28, General Douglas Mac- Arthur, the Yankee miltary boss of Japan, said: “I don’t believe war is imminent because the people of the world neither desire it nor would permit it. °°; . I think it is foolish to assume that the Russians wish to start an aggressive war now.” 3 claration for Peace, acting in uni- son to defend peace. For weeks before this famous Berlin. youth peace rally their ra- dios and lie-papers dished out weird, hysterical propaganda drumming up the idea of war. On April 23, U.S State Secretary General:‘MacArthur said this right at the time when 500,000 German youths were demonstrat- ing their desire, will, and united action for peace in Berlin. He said it at a time when, in every country, millions- of people are signing the famous Stockholm De- Those ‘missing’ _ German prisoners BERLIN OMMUNIST deputies of Hamburg City Council have + asked the council.to demand from the Bonn government of Western Germany publication of the lists of the fallen-and missing’ German soldiers from the Second World War. These lists are in American possession, but they have never been pub- - lished. ; Their story reveals the slanderous background of American charges that the Soviet Union is “preventing the retum of Ger- man war prisoners to Germany.” These accusations have been nailed by the recent official Soviet announcement that its repat- riation of German war prisoners was now completed, which evoked a new outburst of charges. Nevertheless, a review of the story of the German Army lists shows how the U.S. government is playing on the feelings of German families living in the false hope that f th d re It shows how even the their sons or brothers are still alive. dead may become the tools of propaganda. “The unpublished lists, which have been in. the possession of the American authorities since 1945, account for one and a half million dead or missing. This is also the figure which was frequently quoted at one time in propaganda about ‘“German war prisoners in the Soviet Union.” | Subsequently American authorities announced that they had been “table to account for the death” of more than one million German soldiers. The remaining 500,000 dead now form the basis of American anti-Soviet propaganda. i i isti da is, of course, The main purpose of this persisting propaganda 1, 5 a‘ ularly in Western Ger- to whip up anti-Soviet hysteria, partic many. However, the Western powers also want to divert at- tention from the fact. that about 450,000 German war prisoners are being used either as forced labor in Britain and France and their overseas possessions or as mercenaries in colonial wars against national liberation movements—as by the French against Viet Nam. \ Dean Acheson, told the American Society of Newspaper Editors that this whole hullaballoo against the Berlin peace rally had been based upon a planted forgery. Here are his words: “We had, not long ago, a most interesting and exciting paper planted on us by one of our en- thusiastic friends abroad . . . it Was a phony from top to bottom.” The document he was talking about was the sensational “plan” of the German Communists “to use the Berlin peace rally to seize Berlin and invade West Ger- any.” Authoritative sources claim that this vicious, phony document was sent by the U.S. state depart- ment by Dr. Karl Schumacher, the leader of the German Social Democratic party! But the Yankee and Canadian newspaper editors, after getting Dean