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Ralph Parker documents U.S.
‘Conspiracy Against Peace‘

IT WAS Victory Day in Mos-
cow. From the window of the
U.S. embassy on’ Mokhovaya
Street the American minister si-
lently watched the throngs be-
low. -Then he turned from the

window and remarked. grimly,
“They are cheering . . . they
think the war is over, but it’s

only just beginning.”

That is how Ralph Parker in-
troduces his readers to the story
of American and British diplo-
matic intrigue and espionage
against the USSR he relates in
his new book, Conspiracy Against
Peace As he himself says, he
paid little attention to the Ame-
rican minister’s words at that
time, “but now, after four years,
they are engraved on my mem-
ory as deeply as anything I saw
or heard on Victory Day.”

For the minister was George
F. Kennan, designer of the U.S.
state department’s notorious Pro-
ject X, the plan for organizing
every fascist, every Trotskyist
wrecker, every Communist rene-
gade, every red-baiting Social
Democrat, every dispossessed in-
dustrialist and landowner, into
a network of espionage and
sabotage against the Soviet Un-
jon and the People’s Democra-
cies.

As a correspondent for the
London Times and the New York
Times . . . in Prague during the
days before and after Munich,
in Belgrade during the early
part of the war, in Moscow from
1941 onward ... Parker had an
opportunity to observe the events.
that have~ become the history of
the past two decades. net

He could neither blind him-
self to nor cynically detach him-
self from the utter shameless-
ness of Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain’s appeasement of
Nazi Germany, as he saw it exe-
cuted at Prague, nor fail to

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contrast what he saw with the
British government’s hypocriti-
cal official pronouncements. As
he writes:

“Within a month of the fall

of Austria, the Czechoslovak le-

gation in London was aware that
the British minister in Prague,
Basil Newton, was advancing ar-
guments to his government in
favor of Czechoslovak’s inclusion
in the German orbit, which, of
course, would mean her renun-
ciation of her alliance with the
USSR and France . .. At the
same time the British minister
of foreign affairs advised the
Czechs not to take too s¢riously
the significance of a declaration
by Prime Minister Chamberlain
that Britain might become in-
volved in a war over Czechoslo-
vakia. _ 3 ‘ }
“The appeasement of Hitler:
was connived at by traitors in
the Czechoslovak government.
Rejecting the advice of the Com-
munists and left-wing Social
Democrats, the government of

‘Milan Hodza, leader of the right-_

wing Agrarians, played into the
hands of Chamberlain and Dala-
dier. It ignored the only pos-
sible solution of their problems,
honest sincere collaboration with
the Soviet Union. . .”

One is constrained to ask: Of

how many governments in wes-~ the Red Army’s. successes,”
“writes.

tern Europe today, including Bri-
tain, arming and being armed
by the U.S. for war while hypo-
critically talking about peace,
will it have to be written that
they ignored “the only, possible
solution to their problems, honest
sincere collaboration with the
Soviet Union ». .?”

Belgrade, when Parker arrived
there in 1939, was the cénter of
a British network of espionage
spread throughout the Balkans.
And, writes Parker, “it. was clear
that this secret organization was

supplying arms’ to .people who

were intended to be used as
supporters of England in the

kans, while at the same -time

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denying them to those who might
use them against tht traitors to
their own people.”

Through a conversation he had
with George Rendell, British
minister in Sofia, the reader is
given an insight into the. story of
intrigue and black betrayal, still
not fully told, that has produced
Tito as a latter day Mussolini’
in Yugoslavia.

Rendel, he reports, was “one
of the clique of Roman Catholic
diplomats in the (British) for-
eign office above all concerned *
with the problem of preserving
what was known as ‘order’ in
the Europe that would emerge
from the war,” and even in the
1939-41 period of the war he was
proposing that ‘Britain “should
make plans for either eventu-
ality — for the defeat of ‘the
USSR, and for the Soviet victory
over Hitler, if a German attack
on the Soviet Union could be
Managed.” *

# KS ak *

- IN MOSCOW, from 1941 on-

was in-
the at-
titudes and activities of the staffs
and the British and American
embassies there. J

“In these diplomatic cireles ad-
miration for the Russians dimi-
nished in converse proportion fe

e
“By the time the enemy
had been driven from Soviet’ soil,
suspicion had turned to some-
thing near hatred.”

American military men, in par-

‘ward, Parker saw and

ticular, refused to credit the Red

~Army’s victories, ‘There was a

Colonel Park, who explained that
the Soviet offensive at Stalingrad

could not be called a genuine
military operation, since the Ger-
‘mans had anyway ‘planned their
withdrawal.’!”

And, as another commentary
on the attitude of Americans
posted to the U.S. embassy in
Moscow: 5 :

“ T¢ the Russians,..a diplomat
said to..me~one day, ‘are not
capable of repairing my car, I

don’t see how they” can expect .

el

to beat the Germans.

But it was not only by their
‘attitudes that American, British,
Canadian and other diplomats éx-
pressed their hatred of their
“heroic Russian allies.’ Parker,

‘whose own dispatches were cut

by his editors and who became
increasingly “suspect” because he
told, the truth, writes that “I
used to ask myself why those
people were so determined not
to inform public opinion objec-
tively about the Soviet Union”.
The fact was ‘that the “cold
war” was being fashioned even

* while the “hot war” to destroy

German fascism was still being
fought and the American and
British high commands were op-

THE AMATEUR STAGE

UJPO Workshop scores

with fine production

LAST SUNDAY, the UJPO Drama Workshop in Vancouver
presented Sholem Aleichem’s classic drama /1’s Hard to .be a Jew to

an over-sold house.

Whiting about the play, in the program notes, Garry Culhane,
the director, had this ‘to.say: “We believe our production is in keepmg |

with the author’s desire that the
Jew should be presented as he is,
a human being beset by all the’
problems that befall his non- Jew-
ish neighbors and by the special
problems created by the anti-
Semitic prejudices so assidously
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and setting of his (Sholem Alei-
chems). play: 2.4

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Culhane poijnted ‘out that
although Shapiro, head of the
Jewish family around whom the
play is written, “has some sharp
things to say about his Gentile
oppressors, his sharpest’ condem-
nation is reserved for those am-
ongst his own people who run
away - - change their names, and
lick the boots of their mur-
derers.” ¥

‘

This was the UIJPO. Drama’
Workshop's forceful. approach to
the production Radics

The weaknesses which were
evident stem, I believe, in great
measure from the inability of
the translator of this work to
re-incarnate Solem Aleichem in

the English language. The idiom —

of the people which found ex-
pression through the genius pen

posing the opening of the second
front that would shorten the war

and secure the eventual victory. ,

Foreign embassies became cen-
ters for gathering “intelligence”
+. a polite name for espionage
— and disseminating false infor-
mation to the press. Foreign
diplomats abused their privileges
by buying up furs, antiques and
other articles with German-
counterfeited roubles, which they.
also squandered on orgies such
as the “beggars party” held in
the Canadian embassy in April,
1948, at which the role of “chief
buffoon . . . was Played by
Phillips, a secretary at the Cana-
dian embassy.” : ;

Conspiracy Against Peace (ob-
tainable at the People’s Co-opera-
tive Bookstore,
der) is a book that is ‘must
reading for everyone concerned
with the truth now concealed by
the “Dollar Curtain”. It belongs

on the same shelf as The Great

Conspiracy and, Tito’s Plot
‘Against the Peace,..for the facts
it discloses are weapons to be
used in defending the plot against
the peace of the world.

—HAL GRIFFIN.

337 West Pen- _

of Sholem Aleichem, was sadly
lacking in the translation. Of
course, to some extent this would
be true of any translation.

The rollicking prologue which
moved at a very fast pace and
might have been enhanced by
slowing up, gave promise of a
‘production which held the inter-
est and attention of the audience
throughout. :

Myer Goldberg, in the role of
David. Shapiro, played a very
difficult role with a dignity and
accumen which is especially te
be noted because this was Gold-
berg’s first appearance on the
stage. His performance might
have~been enhanced by a greater
shading of voice, and less res
trained motion of the hands. A
certain tenseness of body was
to be felt during the performance.
Despite this, Goldberg, presented
a strong pivot both for the play
and for, his supporting cast.

Gloria Steinberg, also a ‘new-
comer to the amateur stage, in
the role of Sarah Shapiro, gave
a commendable performance and
evoked both laughs and sym-
pathy from the audience. In the
‘third act, a more consistent emo-
tional portrayal would have roun-
ded off a generally fine perfor-
mance.

Others who turned in a con-
vineing performance were Kayla
Culhane, as Betty, Dave” Pellin
as -the Chief of “Police, Oscar
Osipov as Ivanov, Soli Jackson
as Shneyerson,
“Ketzéle”. ee y

Particular mention must be
made of Sylvia Jackson who dis-
played an unusual talent for the
stage and a versatility in doing
the role of Syomke, a 13-year old,
in’ this play, having turned in
a magnificent performance of a
domineering mother in last year’s
performance of Awake and Sing.
Others who handled bit parts
effectively wer Searle Friedman,
Bernie Frohman, Charlie  Freed-
man, Al Hestrin, Harry Gofsky,
Bernice Wuerch, and Anne Wise-
man. \

Garry Culhane is to be com
mended for his work, which
obviously presented many diffi-
culties, and should feel rewarded
by the enthusiastic audience re-
action
‘It is to be hoped that the
UJPO Drama Workshop will con-
tinue to bring plays of signifi-
cance and distinction to the Jew-
ish community, and the com
munity at lange, of this city a

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