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RICHT Rev. Hewlett Johnson,
Dean of Canterbury, who
Was to have addressed mass meet-
ings in Holland for a world pact
0f peace and against the rearma-
Ment of Germany, on the an-
Niversary of the destruction of
otterdam, last month, was refus-
ed admittance as an “undesirable
alien,”’
AT last the truth is out. Peace
is “an undesirable alien’’ in
Holland, in England, in France,
in Western Europe, in America
and, indeed, in the whole Western
World,

World peace conferences are
banned in England. The World

€acé Council. is banished from

Yance.

As an alien undesirable, the
Dean of Canterbury, as a Christ-
‘an minister, who should speak
°n ‘behalf of world peace and
*8ainst the monstrous policy of
rearming the men who destroy:d
Otterdam and murdered men,
men and children by the mil-
°n in Auschwitz and other con-
Sentration camps, is refused ad-

Ittance into Holland,
reno is banned. Nazi fascism
admitted. Peace is disarmed.

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°m one bombed city to speak

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dicate policy in America and
those who obsequiously accept
that dictation here.

The people seek peace. Therein
lies our hope.

* The mothers of England be-
gin to feel deeply apprehensive
for their homes and their child-
ren.

* Apprehensive as their boys
are sent now to this battlefront
and now to that and fail to re-
turn,

* Apprehensive when they see
England turned into an American
airplane base,

No, it is not the common. people
but their rulers in the West who
think war, speak war, plan war.

It is the West that breeds her
people for armaments. Cripples
her schools, blights her education,
starves her hospitals and robs her
young lovers of the houses which
could build up England’s homes,

The West aims at building the
largest armies, navies, and air
forces that the world has ever
The West screams across

seen. >
the Eastern frontiers “atomise
them all.”

No, it is not the common people
but their rulers who dictate war;
policies, their rulers from Wall!
Street and Washington. This is
where the dictation comes from,
that turns us into a colony and
atom base for America.
) Western imperialist. America
gives orders to her satellites, who
meekly submit. Western generals
dominate our army, dictate our

weapons, dictate our years of
conscripted service.
American admirals rule our

Navy. American financiers dic-
tate our currency; dictate with

whom we shall and with whom
we shall not trade; commandeer
our airstrips to launch:their atom
bombs and plan to send our West-
ern lads to (Western battlefields
as cannon-fodder to save their
own,

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Imperial America rings the
Soviet world around with 500 air-
plane bases, sends her armies and
ours fighting throughout all the
world and wages wars at this
moment 4,000 miles away from
her own shores to protect her
shores, seizes Formosa through
its puppet.

And now bids us arm up to our
strength and far beyond it on the
plea that the Russian armies are
vast and her war expenditure
gigantic.

They lie. And they know they
lie.

They know that while Russia
has in the year 1950 increased her
budget arms expenditure , merely
from 20 percent to 21 percent, the
Western Atlantic powers have
trebled theirs and now scream
for more.

Soviet Russia reduces her cost
of living by 25 percent at one
blow, and that is the fourth re-
duction in four years.

And, in addition, builds vast
skyscrapers and a magnificent
university centre to house and
lodge 6,000 students. And then
launches out on four schemes
vastly surpassing anything yet
attempted in the world to_ bring
to cultivaion desert lands as large
as Italy, France, Britain and Hol-
land put together.

To speak of Russia as prepar-
ing for war makes no sense.

Russia has no soldiers on for-
eign soil, save in two places speci-
fied by the Potsdam agreement.
Russia speaks peace in towns and
villages, in factory and country-
side.

No country seeking to drive
its armies to aggressive tasks
ever does that, Witness the four
years of war propaganda in the
U.S,

Russia welcomes peace confer-
ences and works for peace.

Most significant of all, per-
haps — significant by way of
contrast—is the fact that Rus-
sian-planned socialist economy
needs no war. nor war boom,
as a shield against unemploy-
ment.

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Every dollar spent on war or
war preparation is a boon to U.S,
economy. It is they themselves
who say it. And say it openly
year in, year out. Boast of it, in
fact.

“The day the nations talk
peace, the U.S. faces economic
disaster.”

“Only an
tional situation can dim
business outlook.”

Those quotations from the U.S,
News and World Report and the
U.S. Journal of Commerce are
samples of hundreds more.

The U.S. calls us on from one
disaster to another, beckons us
by her efforts to rearm Nazi Ger-
many and fascist Japan, to the
brink of World War Three.

Beckons us to war, even in face
of the military situation in small
Korea, where: she blunders on
from one disaster to another,

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calling us at this moment to the
culminating disaster of war with
China.

Hence 'the compulsions to which
we yield stage by stage; of an-
tagonism to ‘China, with deadly
blows at all our own interests in
the East, killing our Eastern
trade, endangering Hongkong and
Malaya, poisoning our relations:
wih India and antagonizing the
whole Asian world against us and!
splitting our Commonwealth im
two from top to bottom.

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What can we do before it is
too late?

One thing at least, and one
which will yield vast resuits.
One thing dreaded by imperial-
ist America and her satellite
sovernments more. than any-
thing else.

Millions and millions of votes
cast now, cast at once, demand-
ing the conclusion of a pact of
Peace between the Five Great
Powers.

Here is the clarion call to alt
peace-seeking organizations, so-
cial, cultural or religious.

Hundreds of millions of votes
from hundreds of millions of men
and women of goodwill can turn
the flood tides of the world from
war to peace.

The world’s common people can
do it if they will,

The effort to silence them, to
ban peace councils and confer-
ences and speakers, to avoid at
all costs the making of the Five-
Power Pact, is the measure of
the peoples’ executive power and
the challenge to you.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JUNE 22, 1951 —. PAGE 1