ILYA EHRENBURG Work of Pasteur turned into ‘oarcels .of infected mosquitoes ATE in January this year, the American General Creasy, commanding general of the Chemical Corps’ Research and Engineering Command, came out with an eulogy to the bac- teriological warfare. He stated: “It is my belief that the weap- . ons which we have under de- velopment may provide an op- portunity at the smallest logis- tical cost to reduce an enemy’s ability to resist and thereby to obtain victory without destruc- tion of his economy. . - The biological warfare is essentially public health and. ‘preventative medicine in reverse. The biological warfare represents an- other attempt to examine and control the forces of nature for the benefit of our people—speci- fically here in connection with their military application. Un- like the atomic bomb or other blast weapons, the biological weapon is essentially anti-per- sonnel in nature because it does not destroy buildings and mach- ines but is directed at man him- self or his food supply—that is, his animals and crops.” Somewhat later the Americans decided to test General Creasy’s “research and engineering” in Korea and in China. Is it necessary to speak df the inhuman nature of the bac- teriological warfare? General Creasy, like a saleman of death, praises the spreading of epidem- ics saying that plague, cholera or typhus Would be cheaper than bombs. He estimates ‘‘the smallest logistical cost.” He Yhere are strange things done’, neath the Van- couver Sun - By the men who gather gold; The iron rails have their secret tales stresses’ that if people die of diseases their factories and houses will fall in the hands of the victors intact. This is so abominable, so terrible that it is even hard to believe that General Creasy and those Am- ericans who are now spreading the infected insects are human beings, Their present doings are crim- inal and extremely stupid. Re- alizing that they cannot conquer they are taking an abhorrent and petty vengeance. All the peoples have turned away from them. They can no longer ex- pect support from the people. What is left to them? Insects® But the plague infected fleas will not carry them very far. Joliot-Curie is a great scien-_ tist. He was one of the first to discover the laws of splitting the atomic nucleus. His dis- covery, which was to serve hu- manity, has been inhumanly turned into the horror of Hiro- shima. What would Pasteur, Mechni- kov and Roux have said had they seen how, their work, di- rected towards abolishing dis- eases, towards saving people, is now being turned into packages with infected mosquitoes. An end should be put to this! This is demanded by reason, love of mankind and conscience. We .are convinced that the World Peace Council will do everything it can to stop the bacteriological warfare. Frederic Joliot-Curie is supported by the hundreds of millions of people who signed the Stockholm Ap- is Uf peal, by the international con- ventions and the statement of the Red Cross. Indignation is rising like a mighty wave and if the people who: are trying to conceal the crimes do not come to their senses, they will be swept away by the wrath of all the peoples and I am convinced that the American people, when the truth reaches them, will be able to punish those guilty of these un- precedented crimes. We, citizens of peaceful Mos- cow, demand immediate discon- tinuation of the bacteriological warfare and insist on punish- ment of the malefactors. We demand this not only because we ate-indignant at the con- duct of the invaders, at their evil will to subjugate free peo- ples of Asia, we demand this also because we respect Pasteur and we. despise the pseudb- scientists who breed diseases and because we want to save the people of all continents and all countries from new terrible calamities, “We are not against the Am- erican people, we are against typhus, against cholera, against the plague and against those who breed typhus, cholera and the plague. We are defending the greatest value—thée human life, @® From a speech given by Ilya Ehrenburg, noted Soviet writ- er. to,.a meeting held in Moscow protesting U.S. re- sort to bacteriological war- fare in Korea.) iainent c What ie Pleate. Some say ‘Good old Johnson’... Soon, the press will blare our worth, Greatest party on this earth, That would make your blood run cold, The: neon lights have seen queer sights, But the queerest they ever did see Was that night when we all, by the city hall, Cremated the PUC, Over the Oak Street rail Every nut and bolt Seemed to stab like a driven nail. We'd hold our nose, and our eyes we'd close Talk of your jolt! Till sometimes we ‘couldn’t see; it wasn’t much fun, but the only one That got cursed was the BCE.. And that very night as we sat packed tight Our past record is supreme, We have colored margarine! Fear! not then those bombs atomic, Foot and mouth or plague bubonic. Nor Coalition’s bursted seam, We have colored margarine! On an April day we were swerving our way 3 \ Horse flesh steams upon your table, Stale cakes limp in birds-eye maple, T-bone steaks may be a dream, In our seat out in the aisles, We have colored margarine! Dogs no longer search for poles, Parson’s finished saving souls, Tomeats arch their backs and Seream Liberals color margarine! -Atlantic Treaty USSR. ESE SEATS RESERVED R WHITE MINORITY PROGRESS OF APARTHEID BOB F. HALL Eisenhower: record shows he's for | war, ‘aes Hisenhower has sery- ed notice that if he becomes president he will drive forward with the Truman-Acheson poli- , ey of rearming Germany as the spearhead for an anti-Soviet war. In his report to the North Organization he brusquely rejected the Soviet Union's proposal for a neutral Germany, insisting that Germ- any must be a part of the U.S.- dominated European army, But Hisenhower made it more — clear than either Truman or Acheson have, that Wall Street intends to have not merely Western Germany, but all of Germany. “Surely it would be foolhardy to assume that a great country ike Germany could long DWIGHT EISENHOWER No »veaceful co-existence e remain a vacuum,” Eisenhower said, ° ‘ In other words, he dismissed the possibility of a neutral Ger- many whose neutrality would be guaranteed by the four ma- jor powers, as suggested by the “Unless Germany be- comes a partner of the West, we might eventually see a repeti- tion of the disaster of Czecho- slovakia.’’ he said. In this sentence Eisenhower was referring to the action of ‘the Czech workers in February, 1948, in preventing a putsch or forcible seizure of power in that neycigae labo though their rejection wot speed the advent of a th world war. uo The Hisenhower “report” generally acknowledged to b@ political document; that 1 preliminary statement of platform advanced in the im est of his presidential candid@ Undoubtedly it reveals him - the consummate warmone more definitely than any of ” prior utterances. His hostility to the soci Soviet Union and to the Pe op of Eastern Europe and who are building a new soc® breathes through almost @ line of his report. He rejects | : possibility of peaceful ¢o* tence with the Soviet Union, # : offers no alternative to wa! e cept a continuation of the gram of war preparations, is obviously warbreedins. His insistence that the 5° Union constitutes a perma? threat of ‘advancing Comm" ist imperialism’? marks him ‘a man who believes that a U. Soviet war is inevitable. _— Those in Europe who iy sought to keep their coun clear of this struggle, ne # cuses of holding. the “false f glittering doctrine of nev” ism.” Others, who oppos?® economic and ‘political and a ‘tary domination of theit tries, he denounces as eS ous.’ Hisehhower’s pathal® hatred of all who do not with his “free enterprise’ tics extends to Buropeat ers who have. elected CO” +n ists to leading positions in th trade unions. = In his report he praaenl serts they are “suffering lusion that their inter served by association with munist-led labor groups.” describes their loyalty t® unions as “nightmarish,” provides a pretty clear in tion of what attitude he take as president to any of militancy on the part of erican trade unions, : “Labor must share in Mia sponsibility as equally as. iu share in “productivity,” a Bisenhower. In this pam and the bills overhead In the Kremlin, Stalin’s shaking, In B.C. thesquakes are quaking, _Newsreels flash on every screen, Liberals coloring margarine! context the general ing that the trade must join with their ome if in the drive to uphold “ free terprise” and must unrese? support any war under its name. The report is a reventa ture of the miiltary ™ cruel, ruthless and dict# shallow and uncompre®™ vain, egotistical and eous. It is a horrifyis © that unless the voters SP against him, this five! ken of Wall Street may dent of the Gnited Sta PACIFIC TRIBUNE — APRIL 18, 1952 — country by reactionary Czech agents of U.S. imperialism, The implication of Bisenhow- er’s statement is that having in- corporated Western Germany into, Wall Street’s Eutopean army, that army, spearheaded by the West Germans, would seize Eastern Germany by force on the ground that it could not “long remain a vacuum.’’ Heretofore Hisenhower argued that the Soviet proposals were “glittering blandishments” which must be rejected “for the good of the German people,”’ al- Won’t refuse this small requ Pensioners reaching the heavenly pass, Sink down on the glorious grass, Hear the choir intone serene, Liberals color margarine! There are strange things done, ‘neath the Van- Yet the task was not stupendous, You may see, if you up-end us, Coloring other parties lack, Gleaming yellow down our back! —GADFLY t when we all, by the city hall the PUC. —BETTER SERVICE