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Ahalf mile deep in a mountain near
Colorado Springs is the NORAD
command centre, jointly staffed by
Americans and Canadians,

Trident 1 |
The long range (4,600) Trident
ICMB (above) will be fired from the
Trident submarines. The missile,
34 tt. long and 6 ft. in diameter, can
carry up to 10 nuclear warheads.

Minuteman 111
The U.S. has 550 land based 38
ton Minutemen 111. Each carries
three independently targeted nuc-
lear warheads with a range of
8,000 miles, and the force of 510
kilotons of TNT.

1940s G.B. Connally, ex-President L.B.
Johnson's personal friend and the former
secretary of the U.S. Navy, whom the
right-wing Democrats want to nominate
for the presidency in the future, worked
in the administration of the Boeing Corp. ~
And now let us turn to Western Ger-
many. Franz Josef Strauss, the leader of
the most reactionary group of the
right-wing CDU/CSU (Christian Dem-

 -cfati¢ Union and Christian Socialist

_ Union) coalition and revenge-seeker, is
_Close to the Messerschmitt concern, As
othe Germans say,even the-‘‘sparrows One»

the roofs are chirping about this.’’ As

minister of defence in the 1950s F.J.

Strauss put this concern back on its feet
by providing it with contracts from the
Bundeswehr (West.German army).

In France P, Anxionnaz, the former
secretary of state for the defence min-
istry and general secretary of a party of
right-wing radicals, is a member of the
board of the Dassault Co., the leading
circraft construction monopoly. It is
worth noting that this politician was the
grand master of the Great East Mason
Lodge over a period of several years.
This lodge wielded special influence on
French politicians.

Let us add another example. This per-
sonality is from a relatively small coun-
try, namely the Netherlands, which is
also a member of NATO. Until recently
Prince Bernhard occupied an especially
privileged position there. He was
inspector-general of the Dutch Armed
Forces. A closer look revealed that at the
same time he is a member of the board of
the Fokker arms-manufacturing concern
which is closely linked with similar com-
panies in the USA and the FRG.

‘ The list could be extended by adding a ~
dozen distinguished names and hundreds
of less distinguished ones. But this ts
ly necessary. The newspaper is not
an investigator. ects

And now the answer to the question in
the title. :

The death merchants’ international
exists. This is a real historical fact, one
that is confirmed by documents. What
Was it created for? :

Not merely for the purpose of techni-
cal cooperation between the military- in-
dustrial firms. Not only for the exchange
of patents and licenses, the division of
markets, joint plunder of state budgets
and fixing of maximum prices for mass
destruction weapons.

All these motives exist. But at the
same time thére is another’, highly impor-
tant purpose —a political one. The arms
manufacturers have joined hands to act
and scheme behind the scenes and thus
constantly to inhibit detente, to promote
and even accelerate the arms race. This
is being achieved by exerting constant
pressure on the Western governments,
on the bourgeois parties and NATO.

Philosophy of History

We can go even further and deeper to
deal with the sphere of the philosophy of
got to in actual fact? |
~ In the past none of its apologists could
have believed this to be possible. A sec-
ret ‘association of billionaires has been
created to accelerate a process which

amounts to a slide to global disaster. In

other words, having reached the final
stage of its development, capitalism is
risking the physical (and not only the
social) existence of mankind. Could any-
body but science‘fiction writers have
conceived a situation liké this?

Maoist China is ‘establishing direct
contact with the ring of monopolies
manufacturing mass destruction
weapons.

It was recently reported that Peking
representatives were conducting talks in
Bonn with the Messerschmitt concern on
the purchasing of military helicopters for
the PRC. This is apparently only the
beginning of a series of business deals.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, assistant to the
U.S. president, in an interview October
10, 1977, said that in the event of nuclear
wart only about 10% of mankind would
perish. He added that approaching the
question from a purely speculative and
theoretical standpoint this was not yet
the end of mankind.

I do not know who helped Brzezinski
to make these calculations. According to
his speculative estimate, 400 million
people killed is not so much. Mao
Tse-tung believed that as a result of nuc-
lear war half of mankind would perish,
i.e., two thousand million people. He
emphasized that there was nothing terri-
ble about this. The ideology of the death
merchants’ international is close to that
of Maoism.

However, neither the former, nor the
‘fatter ideology will have a decisive say.
The’ decisive role will be played by the
ideology of peace-loving mankind. The
people stand for life and not for death.

history: ‘Where has modern capitalism ——

PROTEST BRAZIL’S NAZI HAVEN

BRASILIA — Brazil’s news media has protested the fact that Brazil
has become a haven for Nazi war criminals. The Jornal do Brasil daily
oe said that the arrest of Gustav Franz Wagner is an example
of this.

Wagner, 66, was former deputy chief of the Nazi concentration camp
at Treblinka in Nazi occupied Poland; he is wanted for complicity in
the murder of 700,000 people. But the Jornal do Brasil said: ‘‘This
butcher was so confident that he would go unpunished and unmolested
in Brazil that he did not even bother to change his name.”’

BLACK CHILDREN HELD IN MAXIMUM SECURITY

CAPE TOWN — At least six Black children are being held prisoner
on Robben Island, apartheid South Africa’s maximum security prison,
“‘Justice’’ Minister Kruger was forced to reveal in parliament in Cape
Town last week. Kruger said the six children had been convicted on
‘‘sabotage’’ charges and sentenced to five years each. ‘‘Sabotage”’
under South African law could consist of sticking out your tongue at a
policeman.

FULBRIGHT SPEAKS UP FOR DETENTE

WASHINGTON — J. William Fulbright, former chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a TASS interview that he
favors détente with the Soviet Union. Fulbright said some members of
the Carter administration involved in determining policy towards
U.S.-Soviet relations, are still thinking in cold war categories. He also
criticized the anti-Soviet and anti-Cuban campaign now being de-
veloped in the U.S.

Fulbright called for mutually advantageous cooperation that would
include an early agreement on the SALT treaty.

40% OF CHINA’S BUDGET FOR WAR

MOSCOW — The Soviet Union has accused China of spending over
40% of its budget on preparations for a new world war. The accusation
in the newspaper Pravda said the Chinese leaders were undermining
détente by all means available and that the foreign policy of Peking is a
serious destabilizing factor on the international situation.

“Tt is precisely China that is calling for the creation of a ‘united front’
with the participation of the imperialist forces and world reaction to
fight against world socialism, against all forces that stand for interna-
tional peace and security, for national independence and social

: progress.”

PRAVDA EXAMINES U.S. STAND AGAINST DETENTE
» MOSCOW — In a lengthy editorial, the Soviet Communist Party —
newspaper, Pravda, has severely criticized the twists and turns of U.S.
policy as the Carter administration steers a course away from detente.
Why is Washington making a 180° turn from this only solution accepta-
ble for all? asks a commentator. Who will benefit by this? The Soviet —
Union believes that it will be those who make: profit by making and
selling weapons and who are bent on relying on strength in world
affairs. Such a policy also is to the liking of those people in the west who
are unable to resolve the problem of inflation, unemployment, energy
and slums, and want to beat the drums of war in order to distract the
world’s attention from their ineptitude.

CHINA ORDERS VIETNAMESE DIPLOMATS OUT

HANOI —- Peking has ordered the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to
close three of its consulates in southern China, Radio Hanoi said June
20. Radio Hanoi said Peking has ordered SRV diplomats to leave
Canton, Kumming and Manking, leaving Vietnamese representation
only in Peking. On the-same date as this near break in diplomatic
relations, the SRV foreign ministry asked Peking for clarification on the
arrival of Chinese warships in Vietnamese ports to pick up Vietnamese
residents of Chinese origin.

Rallies in protest against the arms race are sweeping throughout the
U.S. Photo shows a recent disarmament rally in Denver, Colorado.
PACIFIC TRIBUNE—June 30, 1978—Page 7

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