CCORDING to many well - inten- tioned people, the Marshall Plan offers a Program for American aid for the economic re- Construction of Europe. Since Public sentiment was strongly pposed to the Truman Doctrine of military intervention we were tola that the Marshall Plan is Something altogether different. But you can’t fool the New York Times, it seems. With Close contacts on Capitol Hill, and as the paper often chosen to “leak” State Department pol- icy for the entire commercial Press, the Times declared: “The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plar are two sides of the same coin.” The Marshall program has emerged as a direct effort to bypass Big Four agreement and action on Germany. At Yalta and Potsdam, Bri- tain, Russia, France and the United States agreed on con- trol of Germany, its demilitariz- ation and democratization. A Four Power Council of Foreign Ministers was set up to Carry out these decisions. After One meeting in Moscow last Winter, it was agreed to confer again in London in November to try to settle the German is- Sue, The Marshall Plan provided instead for a “European confer- ence” to settle the German Question. It is already clear that the Settlement of Europe’s prob- b under the Plan wilt be @sed on the revival of a pow- €rful German Ruhr. wane Wall Street magazine Usiness Week put it this way: ashington and London now See that European recovery hinges on the rebuilding on Ger- Pal industry . . . Washington an announcement at the €nd of the Paris conference.” he announcement came last l H At Ih | ® Test of freedom Paci celal by Philip Murray ---------------——- ®@ The Doakes family by B. Marcuse and Emil Bjarnason -..- Indonesian war A report from Batavia, Java --------—---- ‘gave oO a Tia) (il exactly that. A revived Germany as the cornerstone of the Mar- shall Plan for Eurcpe. This would be directed, just as Truman had suggested in his March 12 speech, against the the new democracies of Europe, against the Soviet Union, and against the the march of Euro- pean people to greater democ- racy and social control of their national economy. It was made plain that the so- called aid to Europe (which the GOP Congress has not even supported) will have strings at- tached. The New York Times indicated what those strings are. In addition to reviving a reac- tionary Germany, the “aid” is based on barring the progress of European countries toward nationalization of their indus- tries. e trace the origin of the Traeea Doctrine is to get the final evidence of what it really means, On March 20, shortly after Truman’s speech, when the campaign’ was on to sell it to the people, Virgil Jor- dan, president of the National Industrial | Conference Board ut advance information cn the Marshall Plan. Research director of American big busi- ness, Jordan is @ member of the inner sanctum, and here’s how he put it: “Let us first offer the utmost capacity of our economic power for reconstruction freely to ev- ery people who will undertake AS abolish all national military expenditure and disarm down to the level of the local constabu- ce a a i coset tvenn ht Leb >| i | | vsvonveseust AH Page 11 “Let us, secondly, demand the unlimited right of continuous inspection and control of every industrial operation and process and every public policy which may have the most remote re- lationship to armament and war- fare.” : “And, finally, let us make, improve and keep plenty of our best and biggest atomic bombs for that imperative purpose; let us suspend them in principle over every place in the world where we have any reason to suspect evasion or conspiracy against this purpose; and let us drop them in fact, prompt- ly and without compunction, wherever it is defied.” And how did the Paris con- ference come about? When Marshall made his famous speech at Harvard University, June 5, he said the “initiative must come from Europe” under his plan. But on June 12 President Truman authorized Under-secre- tary of State Willam L. Clayton to visit British Foreign Secre- tary Ernest Bevin and French Foreign Minister Georges Bi- dault. His mission was to brief them on calling a European con- ference. _ Before the Russians were con- sulted, Bevin and Bidault met in Paris on June 17. At that private meeting the committee plan and all the main details of what was recently adopted at the 16 nation conference in Paris were decided in advance, After they made these deci- sions on June 18, Bevin and Bidault invited Soviet foreign minister V. M. Molotov to con- fer with them. Molotov accepted and _ the three power meeting was held in Paris from June 27 to July 1. The meeting broke up _ be- cause of differences on the fol lowing points: e The Russians proposed and the British and French vetoed a suggestion that the three pow- ers ask the U.S. State Depart- ment what the Marshall Plan was. @ The British and French proposed that rebuilding Ger- many be discussed at the con- ference. The Russians said Ger- Many was supposed to be taken up by the Foreign Ministers in London this fall. @ The Russians proposed giv- ing the United Nations a role in reconstruction. The British and French said the UN should merely be informed. @ The British and French proposed that the Big Powers work out an overall plan and submit it to the U.S. State De- partment. The Russians suggest- ed that each country decide on its own needs. @ The British and French said the overall plan will have priority, the Russians suggested that no powers should have the right to dictate economic plans or conditions to other countries. On July 12 the 16-nation con- ference opened in Paris. Present were Britain, France, Portugal, Turkey, Greece, Iceland, Luxem- bourg, Italy, the + Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Den- mark, Switzerland, Eire, and Austria. Refusing to participate were European countries with more than half the population and resources of the continent: Po- land, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Albania, Finland, Bulgaria, Hun- gary and the Soviet Union. The conference finished its - business with record speed, such speed that Sweden objected that Many questions were not even being discussed. Committees were set up and the overall European plan will be ready by September 1. : On the record then, from the sponsorship and the history of the Marshall Plan, it represents the same diplomacy which has steered America away from the Roosevelt path since April, 1945. Guns, not butter NN the Munich era of Chamber- lain, Daladier and Co, we here in Canada were doing a thriving business with Japan, supplying her with all the cop- per, nickle, lumber and scrap- iron needed for her war mach- ine. Of course it wasn’t polite to publicly question this traffic in war materials, so our ‘free’ press obligingly said little or nothing about it. In this new era of the Tru- man Doctrine and its ‘Marshall Plan’ we are up to the ears in a similar traffic—to destroy the democratic anti-fascist forces that destroyed Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito. (Of course, thanks to General MacArthur and the Truman Doctrine, MHirohito is only figuratively destroyed.) For instance the Seattle New World reports last week that seven hundred and fifty tons of rifle ammunition for Chiang kai-Shek’s soldiers to use against their fellow countrymen in the disastrous civil war, was loaded aboard the American Mail liner the SS Washington Mail at the Seattle Port of Embarcation last week. The vessel is now er route te Shanghai. The rifle bullets are the first of a consignment of 130,000,000 U.S. manufactured cartridges the government has made available to Chiang as a gift. An addi- tional 7,500 tons is expected to be loaded at Seattle piers in the near future. : The cartridges were manufac- tured by the Western Cartridge Co., and are 7.92 millimeter cak- ibre. Longshoremen, who sacri- ficed much needed wages in de- pression years by refusing to load scrap iron for Japan, were not at all happy about handling this cargo. Daily newspapers gave the shipment of the munitions no publicity and some did not even list the Washington Mail as be- ing in port. A photographer, who was not identified, was pre- vented from taking a picture and escorted from the dock. To the big dailies the contin- ued promotion of civil war against the Chinese people is not ‘news,’ but to their spon- sors it is good politics ... and profitable. Herman Goer- ing’s slogan ‘guns, not butter’ finds new life in the Marshall Plan.