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“The Americans see the air line
creeping southwards, with Battle
of Britain style air war reaching
nearly to the front. They can
no longer fling on the conference
table their claims to dominate
the air right up to the Yalu
River.”

PANMUNJON

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HE American generals in Ko-
yea’ have some. arithmetical

problems to solve.

How many tons of bombs, they
may well be asking themselves,
equal one ounce of morale?

How many thousand shells off-
set one soldier’s unwavering oa
in the righteousness of his cause:

How many planes can smother
the ardor of a volunteer army?

There is no answer. — The
generals may as well stop trying
to work out their sum.

They have another lesson to
learn.. It is this.

The days when a few gunboats
in a river could conquer a king-
dom are past, as General Nam I,
the chief Korean delegate in the
cease-fire talks, pointed out to the
American Admiral Joy. The days
are gone, also, when people de-
termined to be free can be crush-
ed by mechanized war:

The evidence is there for any-
one who cares to look.

For two months the American
negotiators delayed the i<orean
talks.

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They held off agreemen y.
every method, while they made a
desperate bid for military gains
—a handful of useless,

ridges. The effort failed.

And that faliure is, above all,
-a [failure of American war tech-
nology against people. It is the
defeat’ of machines by morale,
of imperialism by an awakened
nation. ©

All over, the world oppressed
nations will have taken note of
the fact.’ ny

American newspaper corres-
pondents here freely admit the
enormous casualties the
armies have suffered in their at-
tacks on the ridges north of the
38th Parallel. It is, for instance,
an open secret that the First
Cavalry Division has been deci-
mated.. ‘ :

One of the correspondents said
to me the other day:

“We can bomb, shell, napalm,
mortar, and when our troops 80
in, why there the Koreans and
Chinese are still shooting.

“What use are bombs, even
atom bombs, against men sitting
under 20 or 30 feet of rock, wal
ing to deal with our infantry?

It is believed here that Ameri-
cans dare not use the atom bomb
as a tactical weapon without ex-
posing the fact that it cannot
be decisive in battle — it would
only mean an extension of the
‘mass murder of civilians.

scrubby

US. -

What about the bombers that
have devastated so many defense-
less villages, burned and blown
to death so many old men and
women and children?

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Their targets are not simple
any more. They are not defense-
less any more. Of that the
wrecked B.29’s that strew North
Korea and its coastline are proof
enough.

Fighters are meeting the bomb-
ers, and meeting them so fiercely
that the Americans now admit
they can no longer use bombers
in daytime. But night bombing

is almost useless against targets
in North Korea.

+ The Americans see the air
line creeping southwards,

with

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Before attacking, they have ot-

ten used up to 40,000 shells daily

against one small hill. Then ‘the

planes try. After that, the in- -

fantry.

But when the infantry arrive—
many of them bewildered boys
who are still not quite sure why
they are in Korea—they meet a

. withering fire.

‘

A Szechuan peasant named Hsu
Tin-liang told me how his squad
dug into a nameless hill near here
and drove off six such attacks in
one day. The Americans used a‘
whole company against the hill
and lost more than 60 men.

Hsu’s squad had several wound-
ed but not one man was killed.
The story can be repeated almost
as many times as there are hills.

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Battle of Britain style air war
reaching nearly to the front.

+ They can no longer fling on
the conference table their claims
to: dominate the air right up to

‘ the Yalu River.

During all this time the Ko-
reans and Chinese have not
mounted an offensive. But they
have flung back the American
offensives with one hand.

They have proved finally that
it was the Americans who created
incidents to delay the cease-fire
talks while they attacked. They
have shown equally decisively the
U.S. failure to interrupt. North
Korean supply lines from the air.

American generals and politi-
cians are no longer able to hide
the mounting U.S. military losses
from their public at home.

The have suffered casualties of
60,000 American and 120,000 of
other troops since they bombed
Kaesong at the end of August as
an excuse for their offensive.

The American negotiators who
faced the Koreans and Chinese
across the conference table last
week again were not the men
they had been a few weeks be-
fore. Whatever they have learn-
ed or forgotten, they have been
constrained by hard facts get-
ting daily harder.

That is why they have lowered
the price for peace, though their

. present demand is still for more

than 1,000 square kilometres of
territory. They are still horse-
trading, but with less bluster.

Morale is very high among all
the Koreans and Chinese I have
met.

They have faced and defeated
the worst that can be done, and
they know that they own skill
and fighting strength is growing
daily.

Whatever the final outcome of
the talks here, the Americans—
and the British Tory government
should consider these facts
carefully.

The lesson of the past two
months with all the bloodshed,
with all the unavailing use of
guns, planes and bombs against
unbreakable morale, is that 20th
century imperialism is already a
dying force, dragging the world
into a war it cannot win because
of its own internal weaknesses.

If that lesson is learned peace
will take a big stride forward.

The Soviet people sign for peace

MOSCOW

HE. Soviet Peace Committee
has received data on the course:

of the campaign, which began in

the USSR in September, for the -

collection of signatures to ‘the
World Peace Council’s Appeal
for the Conclusion of a Pact of
Peace among the Five Great
Powers.

The data received from the
Union Republics, Territories and
Regions show that all the, peoples

of the Soviet Union, all sections

of the population of our country,
are unanimously supporting the
Appeal and are fully determined
to defend the cause of peace
and security of nations.

At the present time the signa-
ture campaign has developed in-
all the districts of the country
and has taken ona truly nation-
wide character.

According to information reach-
ing the Soviet Peace Committee
from the Republican, Territorial
and Regional Peace Committees
of the World Peace Council’s Ap-
peal for the conclusion of a five-
power Pact of Peace had been
signed by 96,729,946 Soviet citi-
zens, from the beginning of the
campaign in September through
October 10. 5

The signature campaign is pro-
ceeding with great success in
Moscow, where 2,840,769 persons
have already signed the Appeal.
In Leningrad 1,465,075 persons
haxe affixed their signatures to
the Appeal. In the cities and
villages of the RSFSR the Ap-

peal was signed by 51,778, 465

persons. The following is a table

of signatures collected in the
other republics:
Ukrainian SSR ...... 18,617,592
Byelorussion USSR .... 4,569,800
Uzbek SSK ...........- 2,868,393
Kazakh SSR ....... ae» 2,501,107
Georgian; SSR .......- * 2,181,061
Azerbaijan Saas Seta eS 1,579,799
Lithuanian SSR ....... 1,465,747
Moldavian SSR ........ 1,321,790
#Tatvian SSR io. 1,239,418
' Kirghiz SSR .......... 717,568
Tajik SSR ./@......... 656,490
Armenian SSR ........ — 800,795
Turkmen SSR biandyc < ., 899,184
Estonian SSR ......... 621,567
Karelo-Finnish SSR 239,427

The campaign for the collection

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actors, writers, academicians and engineers.

A Lithuanian conference of p

of signatures to the World Peace
Council’s Appeal is proceeding in
the USSR in an atmosphere of
tremendous upsurge of political
and labor activity and is helping
to mobilize the working people
cf our country still more toward
the further strengthening of our
Soviet State as a bulwark of peace
throughout ‘the world.

At enterprises, institutions, col-
lective farms, machine and trac- |
tor stations, state farms and edu-
cational establishments of the
country, mass meetings and gath-
erings of the working people have
been held, dedicated to the col-
lection of signatures to the World
Peace Council’s Appeal. In all
the Union and Autonomous Re-
publics, Territories and Regions

eace supporters was recently held
in Vilnius, capital of the Lithuanian SSR. Delegates included leading
workers from factories, mills, collective farms and state farms, and

Stase Vitkene, a Heroine

of Socialist Labor from the Geguzhes Pirmoii collective farm, is
shown signing the Appeal for a Five Power Peace Pact,

of the RSFSR, peace conferences
were held at which the tasks of
the Soviet people in the struggle
for the preservation and consoli-
dation of peace were discussed.
Republican, Regional and Terri-
torial Peace Committees were
elected at these conferences.

In their speeches at conf
ences, meetings and gatherings
the Soviet people fully approve
the peaceful policy of the Soviet
government, condemn the imperi- |
alists who are striving to unleash

“a new world war, demand cessa- :

tion of American intervention in
Korea, and come out resolutely
against the remilitarization of
Western Germany and Japan.

The Soviet people are backing
up their signatures to the Appeal
for the Conclusion of a Pact of
Peace with selfless labor. Mil-
lions of Soviet people have in
these days declared themselveg
on the Stakhanovite Peace Shift
and have undertaken to raise the
productivity of labor, to overfulfil
production quotas, to improve
the quality of production, and to
conclude farm work in an exem-
plary manner.

The successful course of the
collection of signatures in the
WSSR to the World Peace Coun- |
cil’s Appeal serves as a powerful
demonstration of the moral and.
political unity of the Soviet peo-
ple, the devotion to the Bolshevik —
party, to the Soviet government,
and to the great standard-bearer —
of peace, Comrade Stalin. ¢

The collection of signatures in
the Soviet Union to the World
Peace Council’s Appeal for the
conclusions of a five power Pact
of Peace is continuing. : f

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