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‘In A Common Cause

T HREE years ago, on June-22, 1941, Hitler
attacked the Soviet Union, and the Eastern
Front, which was to see the Nazi “world-con-
querors’’ beaten and sent reeling back from the
Soviet land, began.

On that day, Prime Minister Churchill
stood up in the House of Commons in London,
stand by
Russia’s side.

And that same week Joseph Stalin ad-
dressed his people over the radio from the Krem-~
lin, inspiring them with firm faith in victory,
declaring that the Soviet war to throw out the
invader would merge with the lKberation
struggle of the peoples of the Continent and
asserting that the alliance between Britain, the
United States and the Soviet Union would con-
tinue and grow stronger.

The heroism of the Eastern Front has gone
down in history. the word “Stalingrad” has

_ taken the place of “Thermopylae” as a symbol

of the utmost in patriotism and courage. And
all of the Soviet Union has been a Stalingrad.
Mortally wounded, Hitler's Army has been sent
stumbling back to where it started from and

Soviet troops have crossed into “Festung
Europa.”
Last December, Churchill, Stalin and

Roosevelt met in Teheran and declared their
full agreement on winning the war and organ-
izing together the shape of a democratic, peace-
ful and progressive postwar world.

And today, the Western Front is on, to
match in heroism the glory of the Eastern
Front. The great alliance is being sealed with
blood. And Winston Churchill can this day
predict that final victory may be ours within the
year.

And beyond the victory, there stretches the
promise of Teheran, the prospect of humanity
taking its own destiny into its hands to guar-
antee peace and orderly social progress for gen-
erations to come.

The unity of nations and peoples which
could have prevented the war,or at least have
written the story of 1944 in 1939, has been
achieved. It has indeed grown the stronger since
1941, and it must and will continue to grow
in the future.

Unity of the capitalist democracies and the
socialist Soviet Union is delivering the world
from slavery and the fear of slavery and is
building a new world based on principles of
freedom out of the agony of these terrible years.

‘That unity alone is bringing us victory.
That unity alone can serve us as the cornerstone
for the edifice of the world of tomorrow.

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HAL GRIFFIN
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Associate Editor
A. CG. CAMPBELL

Now we are fighting inside of Festung Eur-
opa from the East and the West and the South.
We are marching together and we will meet
triumphant in Berlin. ae

In the final, fierce struggles for victory and
in the years and generations beyond let us
cherish our alliance and our friendship with
the Soviet Union as the lifeline to our country’s
independence, peace and progress:

In the words of the Teheran Declaration,
let us repeat what Churchill, Stalin and Roose-
velt pledged, that we are “friends in fact, in
spirit and in purpose.’

CCF Responsibility -

| n a sweep reminiscent of that which returned
progressives from the prairie provinces aiter
the last war, but under very different conditions
and at a higher stage in the development of the
people’s movement, the CCF has been elected to
power in Saskatchewan. The new government
has great opportunities and grave responsibilities.
Harold Winch, CCF provincial leader, has
returned to British Columbia heady with suc-
cess. He insists that the Saskatchewan vote
was a clear mandate for ‘socialism,’ although
it is patent that the vote was both an expres-
sion of revolt against the failure to introduce
deep-going reforms in the past and of hope
that they will be placed in effect in the future.
The CCF leaders in this province, who are
now indulging in the demagogic misrepresen-
tation of which they complain so bitterly in
their opponents, should be warned by the
reception their victory has had in two particu-
larly malodorous quarters.

Despite M. J. Coldwell’s studied disavow-
al of Bloc Populaire support, Andre lLauren-
deau, Quebec provincial leader of the Bloc,
said:

“In Saskatchewan the only way to get rid
of the old parties was to vote for the social-
ists. In Quebec, voters will oust imperialism
and economic dictatorship in voting for the
Bloc Populaire ‘candidates who fully uphold
Quebec's national and social aspirations.”

And in the United States, Norman Thom-
as, the Socialist’ leader, who calls for a ne
gotiated peace with Hitler Germany and who
has the blessing of Col. Robert McCormick,
sees the CCE victory as “a great encouragement
to all of us on the North American continent.”

When such pro-fascists find an affinity in
CCF official policies and derive encouragement
from them it is surely time for every honest
to examine them in the light of the warning
conveyed.

a Palme Dutt Writes On - - E
Implementation

Teheran Agreem

(Condensed from “Notes of the Month in the Labor |

a HE military and political tasks of the final off

the defeat of fascism connot be separated. The
ening and fullest support of the democratic ‘anti-fasc
ments in the European countries, and of governm
upon their basis, is not only a vital political task fe
filment of the democratic anti-fascist aims of the
is of no less urgent military importance” for -facily
operation with the invading armies of liberation, r
the fullest support of the peoples: and hastening the

the offensive. 5,

Signal advances have been
achieved since Teheran, in the
fuller. recognition of the Jugoslav.
National Council under the lead-
ership of Marshal Tito, in the in-~
itial steps towards a change in
Greece, in the signing of, the
Gzech-Soviet Treaty, and.in the
strengthened positions of, the
French National Committee. So-
viet initiative has begun the -im-
provement of the situation in
Italy after the Amgot mishand-
line. ee

But much remains to be done.
There is still the danger-spot ‘of
the General Sosnkowski clique in
relation to Poland. Above all,the
interests of the Western offen-
sive urgently require the fullest
agreement with the French Na-
tional Committee and resistance
movements on the forms of -or-

ganization and administration in

liberated France. : i

Here the methods of procedure
already worked out in Czechoslo-
vakia provide a model of demo-
cratic co-operation with the /in-
vading armies and for the speedi-
est setting up of new authori-
ties based on the people.

i \BQ all, the unity in policy,
planning and leadership of the
decisive partners of the alliance,
Britain, the Soviet Union and the
United States needs to be
strengthened for the great tasks
which arise with the offensive and
will further flow from victory.

There is still too little appreci-
ation, even in informed comment,
of the significance of the co-oper-
ation opened at Teheran. ;

There is still too wide a ten-_
dency to calculate in the old
terms of setting one combina-
tion, in place of recognizing
that the three-power co-opera-
tion of Britain, the Soviet Union
and the United States is, and
must be, the foundation-stone

of future world organization.

When a British minister an-
nounces “concessions” to the

United States on air transport, -

there is an outery of alarm. «The
economist raises a graye warning
that “the British Government is
contemplating the acceptance of
about three-quarters of the
American thesis both on currency
and on commercial policy,” and
pleads for “delay” before a “tra-
gedy” may happen.

Smuts and MHalifax demand
a counterweight. for Britain
against the.preponderant strensth
of the Soviet Union and the Unit-
ed States, and seek to find it
either in schemes for a Western
Huropean federation under Brit-
ish control or a centralized or-
ganization of the British Empire.

All these arguments reflect the
pre-Teheran outlook. There can

be no co-operation withont con--

eessions. :

_ The fear of British subordina-
tion to “the Americon Colossus”
is only the counterpart of the fear
of “the Soviet Colossus,” of the
outlook which views with suspi-
cion too close British-Soviet: co-

operation, seeks to bui
unstable balance aga
influence in Europe ani
plains of a sense of y

relation to the United

‘The Pan-Europe s¢
the unification of Wi
Central] Europe o
Soviet Union mean, i
continuation and ada
the. Nazi “New {
Europe. For that y,
Such schemes (some
sented. in “Socialist”
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