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EOPLE who have not lost their'reason will ask: Why are the American rulers, losing a
small war, striving to unleash a big one? It is difficult to answer/this question ; there is no

logic, only signs of mental disorder. They can no longer restrain themselves. Some are driven,

mad by greed, others by arrogance and still others by fear. They see their salvation in war.

They know, of course, that

plain truth is unattractive, so _

they have hundreds of argu-
ments for the simpletons.

Mr. Acheson, for instance, af-
firms that in preparing for war,
“Americans are fulfilling a
Christian duty.” Mr, Truman
alleges that his policy, paving
the way to disaster, is “based on
Lincoln’s behests.”

Mr. Hoover suggests building
battleships and also praying to
“God. Senator Ferguson asserts
that the “atom bomb will’ save
the Christian world from atheist
Communism.” Mr. Dewey vows
that a hundred divisions must
be equipped at once for the “de-
fence of truth’. But it is most
unlikely that anyone will mis-
‘take the atom bomb for a dove
of peace, or General MacArthur
for a Tolstoyan. They are no
longer hiding behind clouds of
incense or the Statue of Liberty;

the world now knows that they |

have decided on war.

' They have ‘everything they

need for war: the signatures of

eleven vassals to the Atlantic-
Pact, and the soundly thrashed
_MacArthur who is longing to re--
store his tarnished glory. They

have atom bombs, plague fleas

and the bacteria of hundreds of

other diseases. They even have
a commander-in-chief in the per-
son of General Eisenhower who

is now on the lookout for a

_ comfortable castle for his head-

quarters. a

They. have prepared war plans

-— political, strategic and econo-

mic. They already have a “na-

_ ‘tional emergency”. They have a_
_ ‘few dozen European supporters,

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who not of military age, have
responsive hearts; M. Moch, Sig-
nor de Gasperi, Mr. Van Zee-
land. :

They are provided with every-
thing: bases, uranium, the UN
flag, instructions for grilling
“suspects” successfully applied in
Korea, three thousand war cor-
respondents and five thousand
cameramen, spam for Britain’s
Laborites and concentration
camps for the five continents.
Finally, Brig. General David
Sarnow, president of Radio Cor-
poration of America, has prom-
ised to organise, for the coming
war, television programs so that
the destruction of European
towns might be served to every
American for breakfast, like cof-
fee and grape-fruit. They have
everything for war except sol-
diers. i

There are, of course, many
people in America capable of
carrying arms. But here we
must :stop to think of the dif-
ferent meanings of the word
“war” in the Old World and the
New. ;

Europeans regard war as a
terrible calamity: the men in the
belligerent countries go to the
front; many are killed; military

operations often take place on

their own territory. But they
have a different idea of war in

the New World. The Americans.
send arms and supplies to Eu-
do the

rope; the Europeans
fighting and get killed; as for
the American soldiers, they show
up at the front just in time to
claim the glory of the victors;

gression in Asia.

all this takes place thousands
and thousanas of miles away
from the United States.

This conception of war is very
deeply rooted in the minds of
Americans and, taking this into
account, the rulers of America
say to Europeans: our dollars,
your soldiers. But at this junc-
ture something goes wrong; it
proves to be much easier to per-
suade Mr. Attlee or to secure
full and free use of the UN flag
than to find soldiers who are

willing to. die for, the decorated

truth of Mr. Truman.

The American journal, Reporter
recently published an article un-
der ‘the loud headline: “Will Eu-
rope Fight?” The author recog-
nizes that this question, expres-
sed aloud, “might be dangerous
and tactless”. Mistrust towards

Europeans, according to the au->

thor of the article, is a common

feature in the US.

The cause of this is explained
in articles which appeared in
Readers: Digest. These articles
point out that, together with the
United States, countries declared
their intention of supporting the
war in Korea. The total popu-

‘lation of these countries is well

over 800 million people. The
maximum number of troops they
offered to send to Korea amounts
to 41,000.

It is absolutely clear that the
anti-Communist countries are
not prepared to take. immediate
action. against Communist ag-
Nor will they
do so in Europe. According to
Senator Malone, the British are

concerned only for their colonies
and Mr. Attlee wants the Ameri-
can Army to do the fighting for
them in Korea.

The Washington Star commen-
ted that the British and French
had shown the white feather,
and added that the Americans
must declare outright that nei-
ther Britain nor any other coun-

_try has the right to veto any

American weapons and the atom
bomb, in particular. Walter
Winchell said that the “French

and British with their dreams.

of appeasement,
defeatists.”

The Chicago Tribune complain-
ed indignantly: “We, Americans
were not niggardly in giving
them dollars and what did we
get in return?”

Referring to the dollars allo-
cated to the European countries
for armaments, Mr. Hoover de-
scribed the allocations as sacri-
fices never before known in hu-
man history. Hoover warned the
British and French that unless
they behave themselves and send
troops, the Americans, will not
give them a single dollar.

are acting as

e

The witless rulers of America
seem to have
much has changed in the world
since the days when kings col-
lected mercenary soldiers. In
those days they usually succeed-
ed in recruiting a few thousand.

- unfortunate wretches; but wars

were different) then; mercenary
» fought mercenary; whereas,
nowadays, mercenary soldiers

are compelled to fight against
great peoples.

The gentry at the White House
would do well to recall the re-
cent past! Hitler also had his
allies, but what did they do in
the war? ‘They did not fight,
they surrendered.

Whom did Hitler manage to
recruit in Europe? A handful
of hired assassins, the French
‘Yegion” and the maurauders of
the “Viking” and “Wallonia”
divisions, They were allright at
looting, but fight they did not.
Is it possible with such rabble
to set out to storm one-third of
the earth’s surface?

“But what can be done? ask
the American advocates of war.
The above-mentioned article in
the Reporter suggests that the
Communist parties in Western
Europe be smashed. American
aid, says this article, must be
accompanied by constant inter-
ference in the internal affairs of
the countries.

And if we will not deceive our-
selves by banal references to in-
ternational law, we must admit
that interference in the internal
affairs of other ' countries has
become a common occurrence,
therefore, we must not bother
ourselves with pangs of consci-
ence.

One can be quite certain that
the Washington wolves are not
now, and will not, be troubled
by pangs of conscience for the
very simple reason that consci-
ence is not part of their make-
up. They would gladly accept
the Reporter’s proposal had it
not been for the fact that they
just haven’t got the soldiers with
which to launch a world war,
nor have they got the soldiers to
smash the Communists in France
and Italy.

The Reader’s Digest hacks sug-
gest ‘recruiting soldiers every-

where .— in Germany, Japan,
Turkey and Spain.
Special trust is reposed by

these hacks in the Falangists
because, as they say, the Span-,
ish troops are violently anti-
Communist and can be relied
upon for the German front
against Russia. According to the
reasoning of the Reader’s* Digest
gentry, in addition to the Falan-
gists, the Nazis will fight for
America, and Western Germany
can supply many anti-Commu-
nist divisions. = —

_ Yican must not be

- ese will fight

forgotten that :

Senator Martin says the Ame-
scrupulous
about choosing. allies. Senator
McCarran places his hopes on
General Franco. yj Senator Smith
sings the praises of the Turks.

Mr. Dewey displayed greater
energy: like a shaman he ex-
claims: away ‘with illusions,
peace is now impossible. Turkey
possesses the greatest army in
Europe, an army that will fight.
Tito has 30 divisions and, in my
view, said Dewey, he will fight
on our side. Franco, he con-
tinued, has 22 divisions and will -
fight. The Germans and Japan-
if we negotiate
with them, We must recruit
them; they will fight against
their old enemy.

Mr. Dewey gaily adds up the
foreign divisions, but he is not
quite sure that the Tito soldiers
er the soldiers of Franco or
Adenauer will actually fight. And
so from building castles in Spain,
Dewey returns to “bitter truths”
and suggests placing under arms.
every man and woman in Ame-
rica’ over 17 years of age.

Truly, they are not squeamish
and know no scruples. Nobody
can call ruling America a fasti-
dious dame. She would take on
all comers. Tito .. . then, let
it be Tito; if janissaries, let it
be janissaries. Nazis with
pleasure. The only thing she
fusses about is to get hold of
soldiers. But the soldiers are
no where in sight. Adenauer
agreed, the Hitlerite generals
agreed, but the ordinary German
answers: “Have a go, my dear.
We've had it.”

‘So far the formation of a Ger-
man army has led to one thing:
even the Americanized French
now realize what their benefac-
tors have in store for them. I
am not suggesting that, prior
to this, the American could count
on French soldiers, but now the
Americans would do well to giye
French soldiers a wide: berth. In
their hunt for divisions, the rul-
ers of America tried to kill not
two, but a dozen birds with one
stone. And whom did they get?
Tito.

They have no divisions, and
no brains. They cannot under-
stand the simplest thing: nobody
is going to fight for them. eX ig
best they might be able to
knock together labor battalions
from among their European
sheriffs, yesmen and turncoats.

However gullible the average
American may be, he is begin-
ning to realize that all is not
well in his house, that the deco-
rated truth of Mr. Truman is
simply a barefaced lie, that nei-
ther God nor morality has any-
thing to do with it, and that
the dividends of the trusts are :
the only thing that matters.

The average American is be-
ginning to understand that Mac-
Arthur is all right when it is
a matter of shooting down the
defenseiess, and at razing open
towns, but that he is useless as
a soldier, that dollars cannot
buy either love or divisions, that
the world war of which he is
continually told by his news-
papers will be fatal not only for
Europe or Asia but for America
itself.

The average American posses-
ses both common sense and con-
science. One more declaration
by Mr. Truman, another dozen
speeches by Mr. Dewey, one more
gamble similar to the march on
the Manchurian border and the

average American will under- ©

stand that there really are wol-
ves on the banks of the Poto-
mac. in : s

It is my earnest wish t the

- rulers of America will come to

their, senses and not fire the first

‘shot which, for them, may prove
‘to be the last shot. ais .

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