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all-out fight

The Communist party challenged
ment, or to rob the American people °
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in a statement on the “outlaw act

“It will carry this fight to
Corimunist party

hational committee of the
and Pettis Perry, it declared:

“The widespread condemnation
of the measure. by newspapers,
trade unions
and persons from all walks of life
gives us confidence that this fascist
law will be nullified, even as were
the Alien and Sedition Acts 1955

lawyers, historians,

‘years ago.”

Expressing a calm determination
a vindication of
the Bill-of Rights. the party state-

to fight through to

ment asks:

“Is the battle lost to the Me-

Carthyites?

“Is America doomed to take the

fatal path to totalitarianism an
war?”

“Emphatically no,” the
ment replies and continues:

“The needs of the peuple can
The

honor of America and its devo-
tion to its democratic heritage are

break through the hysteria. :

not gone down the drain as
Carthyism. The national wl t Abie aes) ai niacty
peace is bound to assert itself in ‘We are Saale ina

a demand for an end to McCarthy-

ism.

“I¢ the Humphreys in Congress
— with their frantic appeasement
of McCarthyism and their cry for

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more guns and more pro-war pr
oI pall with

feelings"
of the millions of workers, small
farmers and the Negro masses who
follow the lead of the Democratic
party because they still believe 12

voeations — think to play
reaction, this is not the

it: %
“The line of the
would spell big

mits the worst reactionaries

road.” 1
The Communist
ed its aims expressed
program which has
distributed in more
copies:
“The
1954 must be to prevent the
enhower administration and Con-
gress from taking the country
further down the road to Mc-
Carthyism. Defeating McCarthy-
ism requires the turning of the
present administration out of po-
litical power, first by changing
the composition of Congress In
1954, ahd then by electing 4
new administration in 1956.”

immediate objective in

state-

Humphreys
gains for the Re-
publicans and McCarthyites 1D the
coming elections — this line er

pose as anti-war and middle-of-the-
party reaffirm-
in the party

already been
than 600,000

Eis-

“the right of Congress to
f the right to make their o
issued this week.

A by William Z.

Communists begin
forrights

ban any political ideas or move-
wn political and social decisions.”

the courts and to the people,” the statement said. Signed for the

Foster, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

WILLIAM Z. FOSTER

ement’ said,
Se farmers and the Negro
people use their democratic
strength, they ¢an change — the,
character of Congress by retiring
the MeCarthyite-McCarranite-Dix-
iecrat cabal and electing men and

to defend the Constitution and the
Bill of Rights. :

“The 15,000,000 tgade unionists,
together with the Negro people
and the working farmers, if united,
could quickly wipe out the peril
of McCarthyism in the United
States.”

In a stirring call for the broad-
est unity of the people the party
urged “all Americans who stand
by the Constitution to unite in a
common effort to invalidate and
repeal this monstrosity.

“we Communists,” the state-
ment concludes, “shall continue
our fight for peace, democracy, the
people’s well-being, for the rights
of labor and the Negro people.
Despite this new attack our party
stands unterrified. It walks in the
great tradition of American move-
ments like the Abolitionists and
the pioneer trade unionists who
survived organized persecution
and government efforts to illegal-
ize them. :

The “Communist party will
function under any and all cireum-
stances and fight for its legal ex-
istence,” the statement said.

“In so doing it is fighting not
for its own rights alone, but for
the Bill of Rights for all Ameri-

women who will have the couragé
pana ee eee

cans.”

LONDON

Irrigation schemes in the Soviet
Union are “beyond anything we
have ever thought of,’ Professor
Sir James Scott Watson said here
on his return from Moscow.

Sir James, who is scientific ad-
viser to the Ministry of Agricul-
ture, was the leader of a five-man
delegation of experts which visited
Moscow at the invitation of the
Soviet Ministry of Agriculture. He
told a press conference:

“The sort of thing they would
think of in Britain is turning the
rivers of Wales round to run into
Essex.”

Britons impressed by
Soviet developments

Engineering, and three of the
country’s. leading botanists. and
geneticists was treated with “the
most lavish hospitality,” Sir James
said.

He described the Agricultural
Exhibition in Moscow which the
delegation visited as “magnificent.”
It had been staged to impress on
townspeople the importance of
agriculture and to arouse a com-
petitive spirit between State and
Co-operative farms.

The’ standard of animal health
was very good and much use had
been made of foreign breeds of
cattle. Sir James added that ‘pro-
ductivity per land worker was

The delegation, which included
Ww. H. Cashmore, director of the
National Institute oft Agricultural

lower than in Britain. Crop yields
were much the same but milk
yields of dairy herds were lower.

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LONDON

Behind the backs of Britain and France the United States has
been planning with West German military leaders an increase of
the German Army to 48 divisions—some 1,600,000 men. :

This astounding revelation was made August 26 at a press
conference in Berlin by Karl-Franz Schmidt-Wittmack, member of
the West German Parliament and a former supporter of Adenauer.

He also revealed:

1, That the aim is to re-estab-
lish German military “prepon-
derance in Europe.”

2. West Germany is to have an
“effective air force,’ paratroops
and other “special units.”

3. That the plan for this enor-
mous expansion of German arm-
ed forces is now being drawn up
in detail by a special committee of
German and U.S. generals and is
to be ready by November 1.

He told the conference, which |
was attended by 100 journalists,
ethat the United States had sta- ‘
tioned‘ about 30 atomic guns in

West Germany.

Herr Schmidt-Wittmack said that
West Germany’s contribution to
the European Army had originally
been fixed at 400,000 men in 12
divisions.

While he gave no estimate of
the number of men in the 48
divisions now planned (24 ac-
tive and 24 reserve) on the same
basis this would mean an army
of 1,600,000.

This is as large as that of Hit-
ler when he invaded Czechoslov-

akia and would make the German
army the largest in Europe.

Herr Schmidt-Wittmack was a
member of Dr. Adenauer’s Chris-
tian Democratic Party, vice-chair-
man of that party in Hamburg and
a member of the EDC committee
of the West German Bundestag,
the lower house of Parliament.

Two weeks ago he sought asylum
for himself, his wife and daughter
in Eastern Germany. ;

Giving the reason for his action,
he said:

“Tt was not in a position to make
this statement in Bonn; I would
have been silenced.”

The secret American and Ger-
man talks were held in June and
July this year at Bad Godesberg,
near Bonn, he said:

-Leading delegates at them were
General Alfred Gruenther, Amer-
ican Supreme Commander in Eur-
ope, and ex-General Adolf Heus-
inger, of the West German “De-
fense Commfssioner’s Office,’ the

tee on European Security but be-
cause he belonged to the “inner
EDC circle” of Christian Demo-
cratic Deputies whom the Chan-
cellor, Dr. Konrad Adenauer, told
these things.

The parliamentary ‘ committee
had been fobbed off with theoreti-
cal discussions for months but told
nothing of the detailed prepara-
tions*for rearmament.

Replying to questions, he said
he knew of secret protocols to the
EDC treaty, as mentioned recently
by Dr. Otto John, the former .West
German security chief who also
went over to East ‘Berlin.

But, like Dr. John, he would not
say anything about their contents
because “that would be called
treason, and furthermore it is the
job of others who are competent
to do so.”

He said he had never known
Dr. John.

“T was forced to realise that the
Chancellor does not inform the
Bundestag and its committees on
important questions of foreign
policy and rearmament, and makes
decisions which are in contrast to
his assurances towards the public
and his treaty partners,” he said.

The activity of the office of De-
fense Commissioner Theodor
Blank was “largely excluded from
parliamentary control.”

It had completed the selection
of future officers from former
Wehrmacht officers on the basis
of their World War Two service
without consulting parliament
or the public.

“Thus parliament will not be
able to prevent undemocratic and
nationalist elements from penetra-
ting within the EDC framework,”
he said.

A typical example was General
Gerhard Matzky, commander of
the West German border police,
‘whose views hardly differed from
those of former times.” ;

“These elements count on other
partner states not being able to
establish a similar number of divi-
sions and they therefore link the
EDC with the hope of restoring the
(German) position of preponder-
ance in Europe,” he said.

Herr Schmidt-Wittmack said op-
position within Dr. Adenauer’s
party was “impossible” in view of

General Staff and War Office of
Western Germany.

Neither British nor French rep-
resentatives had attended the talks
and the whole plan was to be kept
secret until France ‘and Italy had
ratified the European Army treaty,
he said.

“Tt is well known that stores of
American material have been put
aside for German use for some
considerable time in the so-called
Kaiserslautern triangle in south-
west Germany on the left bank of
the Rhine,” he added.

“It was decided at these nego-
tiations to charge a special com-
mittee of German and American
military experts with completing
the detailed mobilization plans by
November 1 this year at the
latest,” Herr Schmidt-Wittmack
said.

It had earlier been known that
plans had been almost completed
for the establishment of an army
of 400,000 men in 12 divisions, an
air force of 80,000 and a navy of
20,000, but these figures had now
been overtaken. é

Herr Schmidt-Wittmack said he
had been informed of these

details not because he was a mem-
ber of the Parliamentary Commit-

the Chancellor’s authoritarian atti-
tude, which brooked no contradic-
tion.

He said he had tried, up to quite
a.short time ago, to discuss his
“eonflict of conscience” with,
among others, the party’s Parlia-
mentary Leader, Herr Heinrich von
‘Brentano.

“Though my. ideas found an
echo, I could not notice any readi-
ness to do something about it
soon,” he added.

He had therefore decided to
find a platform where he could
speak freely without being
“silenced.” He had never been
a Communist or Marxist and had
no intention of becoming one.
He intended to continue striving

“for a policy of understanding in
the Christian-Democratic sense.”

He said he had once believed in
the need for West German rearma-
ment in view of the alleged threat
from the East, and he had intend-
ed to help this policy by ensuring
that West German armed forces
would remain under democratic
control. .

“This belief has been mainly de-
stroyed through my committee
work in the Bundestag and in the

Christian Democratic Party.”

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