and a fairly substantial number in Britain and Italy did nct oppose it, even many of these
voiced the belief that the prospect of another world war has been increased and that the

work of the Moscow foreign ministers’ conference may be undermined.

Former Prime’

Minister Winston Churchill and the ulta-conservative Daily Telegraph which echoed his

statement that “ no step that I
have seen taken lately has more
increased the chances of mainten-
ance of world “peace” were virtu-
ally alone in voicing ‘unequivocal
support of Truman.

The London Times. stressed the
“challenge” inherent in the speech

while the. influential Manchester
Guardian pointed out that the
American President bypassed the
UN commission now conducting
an investigation in Greece.

The Labor party. organ, the
Daily Herald, which usually re-
fiects government policy, warned
that if the U.S. does not compel
the Greek government to hold
free elections and release politi-
eal prisoners, its aid “will not
lead to the attainment* of free-
dom and _ stability.”

If U.S. public opinion accepts
the Truman thesis that the
well-being of the world rests
“apon the might of the U.S. as
a counter-force to the might of
Russia,” the paper declared,
“the prospect of am armed
clash between the two great
powers on the earth becomes

frighteningly clear.”

_ Izvestia, Soviet government or-
gan, hit the Truman proposal for
its implication that the U.S. is not
“acting in the Greek question as
one might have expected of a
member of the United Nations or-
ganization ..... Truman did not
even consider it necessary to
await the results of the security
council commission specially sent
to Greece to clarify the situation
on the spot.”

_ “American arguments for rend-
ering assistance to Turkey are

_ based upon a threat to the in-

tegrity of Turkish territory,” Iz-
vestia commented, “though no
One and nothing threatens Tur-
key’s integrity.”

_ Pravda, organ of the Soviet

Communist party, asks why, if
Turkey and Greece are “Teally
threatened,” the matter is not
only for the U.N. “Is it not ex-
plained,” it asked, “by the fact
that the aims of U.S. policy,
announced by Truman, are in
contradiction _to the principles
of the UN and the principle of
- the equal rights and
sovereign rights of small and
large countries?” ‘
Former Premier Leon Blum,
one of France’s most powerful
‘men, wrote in the Socialist organ
Populaire: “I have liked neither
the argument nor the vocabulary
of the (Truman) speech and I
wish in particular that on the
other side of the Atlantic they
would abandon the dangerous
habit of using the same terms
to describe the Hitlerian regime
and the Soviet regime.”

' The newspaper L’Ordre, one of

France's most consistently con-
servative organs, charged that
Truman's “concern is not for de-
mocracy but for the interests of
American big businessmen who
are in full action in the Near
East.”

_ Le Monde interpreted the Tru-
Man speech as meaning that “the
bounds separating the east from
the west laid down since the
termination of hostilities will not
be crossed without prior permis-

_ sion from the U.S.”

_ According to Ce Soir, Truman
considers democratic only: those
countries where executive pow-
er lies in the hands of the
trusts. He considers totalitarian,
it said, “the countries in which
the power of the trusts has been
broken or at least considerably

_ FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1947

PRESIDENT TRUMAN
‘Turkish delight’

diminished.” Greece, the paper
charged, is “under the sway of
reactionary elements whose rule
is nothing short of fascism.”
The EAM (Natl. Liberation
Movement of Greece), which. the
government is seeking to extermin-
ate by civil warfare, commented

man does not explain how a
‘genuinely _ elected
supported by the ‘majority’ of
the people, is in no position to
confront a small ‘combative min-
ority’” without U.S. arms.

“He conceals the fact that
the British intervention and the
fascist regime which was spon-
sored by it failed due to the
resistance of the overwhelming
majority of the. Greek people
and an impasse was created
which ‘is exploited by Ameri-
can imperialism. This is proved
by the fact that Truman did
not wait for the verdict of the
UN investigation commission
but hastened to forestall and
substitute it, thus hitting a
deadly blow against the very
existence of UN.”

The EAM also pointed out that
the announcement of projected
U.S. support encouraged the gov-
ernment to conduct a wholesale
arrest of over 600 labor ana other
opposition leaders.

The Franco-controlled Madrid
radio found that the U.S. has

finally come around to Spain’s
way of thinking. Truman has

‘stupified’ Stalin, it says, “be-
cause the world that Mr. Roose-
velt had offered to the Soviet
Union to be placed under its tyr-
anny and barbarism is the world
that Mr. Truman is prepared to
snatch from the Soviet Union
and to return to free and Chris-
tian mankind.”

in its mimeographed organ: “Tru- |:

government’:

In Italy, the rightist Corrierre'|.

della Nazione was pleased be-
cause the U.S. is extending its
frontiers. The Communist organ,
L’Unita, warned that» an effort to
“push back democracy in the
Mediterranean” may well lead to
“the danger of fascism and there-
fore of war.”

The Socialist organ Robotnik in
Poland commented somewhat bit-
terly that the U.S. doesn’t have

enough money to help continue.

UNRRA, which ‘gave relief to all
peoples, but has enough money
to keep reactionary governments
in power.

In Sweden, commentator Alfred
Oeste wondered whether Tru-
man’s speech will make the job
of peace-making at the foreign
ministers’ conference virtually im-
possible. The Finnish newspaper
Tyoekansan Sanomat found Tru-
man’s definition of totalitarian
‘stupefying’. To Europeans, it said,
the outstanding examples of fas-
cism on the continent, aside from
Spain and Portugal, are Greece
and Turkey.

L. de Jong, weekly foreign af-
fairs commentator on the Dutch
radio, found that U.S. “anti-Rus-
sian policy has been carried one
stage further.” He warneq that
the U.S. is supporting the ‘die-

ects of World War III

Truman ‘aid to Greece’ plan undermines UN

NEW YORK —The most general reaction in Europe to President Truman’s
program has dealt the United Nations a severe blow and heightened prosp
and radio comment revealed. Only a small section of the European press gave wholehearted su
to send $400 million plus civilian and military personnel to bolster the two governments.

plan to aid the Greek and Turkish governments is that the new U.S:
, an Allied Labor News survey of European press
pport to Truman’s proposal that Congress authorize him
While most papers in Greece and Turkey backed the plan, i

British press brand US

move threat to peace

By JOHN BRANDON .
LONDON-—British newspapers from the right

to the

left saw a threat to world peace in President Truman’s pro-
posal, March 13, that the U.S. subsidize the Greek and Turk-

ish governments with $400 million plus civilian and military —

personnel, The conservative Lon-
don Times described Truman’s
proposal as a “challenge” which
“may not go without reply” from
Moscow. It poses the question of
whether world security will be
increased, but it gives no answer.

The Manchester Guardian, an-

hard reactionary elements’ in Eu-
rope and “the American people
will certainly be most surprised
some day when the repercussions
of its strong-arm policy become
apparent to all and sundry.”

It is the U.S. and not Rus-
sia, de Jong said, that has the
atom bomb, a powerful navy
and industry in top gear, and
therefore it is the actions of the
U.S. that will determine whe-
ther there will be war or peace.

What's brewing?

“Canada is being sucked into
U.S. militarism and is in danger

of losing her sovereignty,” charged Berry Richards and
William Kardash, members of the Manitoba legislature.
Above are two members of Canada’s armed forces at
Churchill brewing a pot of tea while the warmongers

brew a more deadly potion.

lawing the Communist Party. The
Nazis did that, too. And President
Truman’s justification of a policy
of American intervention in Tur-
key and- Greece on the grounds
of saving these countries from
the ‘totalitarian’ menace and
fuarding the security of the
United States is remarkably simi-

screen of the fascist aggressors,”
Robeson said.

He stated that in his opinion

the President’s speech was a

Halt rule of |
our own country, says Robeson

NEW YORK—“There is an ominous parellel between what happened to Germany
under Hitler and what is happening today in America,’ Paul Robeson, chairman of the

Council on African Affairs, declared last week. “Secretar
campaign of big business to hamstrin

lar to the anti-Communist smoke-|

political tyranny in

y of Labor Schwellenbach joining the
g American progressives and labor, has called for out-

body-blow to the foreign min-
isters’ conference and the
United Nations, canceiling out
the progress made thus far to-
ward promoting world unity,
and that Schwellenbach’s de-
mands, which would lead to the
suppression of all anti-reaction-
ary forces in this country, fit-
ted in logically with such a re-
actionary foreign policy.

“Let the Secretary of Labor
conern himself with the estab-

lishment of a permanent FEPC
to protect the economic rights of
minorities, instead of levelling at-
tacks at a minority political
party,” Robeson said: “And
let President Truman, instead of
charging the Soviet Union with
political domination, act to halt
the rule of political tyranny in our
own Southern States and in the
colonial empires which this gov-
ernment holds or actively assists

other governments in holding.”

other leading daily, points out
that a United Nations commission _
is now investigating the situation
in Greece ang asks why Truman

sided with the Grek monarchists

before the UN verdict was made
known. This, the paper com-
ments. editorially,
grave blow to the UN and serve

to divide the world into hostile —

blocs.

‘One of the strongest condem-
nations was voiced by Richard
Crossman, associate editor of thé
New Statesman and Nation and
a prominent Labor member Of
parliament. Writing in the Sun-
day Pictorial, Crossman says that
Truman “has declareg political
war on the USSR.”

Crossman points out that
Britain “cannot any longer sit
on the fence whispering tne
Magic words ‘UN’.” He urges
that Britain “break off all staff
conversations with the Ameri-
cans” and “try to build up 2
group of European nations —
neither anti-American nor anti-
Russian — which can act as
peacemakers between the co2-
tending parties and so ultim-
“ately create this one world in

‘which UN can work.”

Reynolds News, organ of the
British cooperative movement, de-
scribes the new foreign policy
enunciated by Truman as “mis-
chievous, negative’ and warns
that if it is continued it “will
endanger the prospects of endur-
ing peace.”

The Communist Daily Worker
seeing the future status of
Greece and Turkey as “colonial

appendages” of the U.S., argues

that the Soviet Union would be
equally justified in ~ occupying
Mexico as protection against
the U.S. Piss.

Several Labor MPs expressed
the view that Truman killed all
chances of genuine agreement at
the Moscow foreign ministers’
conference.

Civil rights bill
mooted in Sask.

REGINA—A Dill designed
to protect the civil liberties
of Saskatchewan people has
been introduced into the Sas-—

katchewan legislature by attor-

ney-General Corman. ;

‘The bill provides that every
Person and class of persons shall
enjoy the rights of freedom of
conscience, speech, assembly and
freedom from arbitrary arrest.
“Every person or class of per-_
sons shall have the right to em-—
ployment, to engage in business,
to obtain the facilities of hotels,
theatres, etc., to obtain member-

ship in: any professional society —

or trade union, and to attend any
educational institution. “Without
discrimination because of the race,
creed, religion, color or ethnic oF

national origin of such person OF

class of persons.” % :

Violations of the proposed act
are to be punished by fines of
not less than $25 and not more
than $500 or to imprisonment
for not more than six months.

may deal 2 -P

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