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The Communist party challenged ment, or to rob the American people ° i ? in a statement on the “outlaw act

“It will carry this fight to Corimunist party

hational committee of the and Pettis Perry, it declared:

“The widespread condemnation of the measure. by newspapers, trade unions and persons from all walks of life gives us confidence that this fascist law will be nullified, even as were the Alien and Sedition Acts 1955

lawyers, historians,

‘years ago.”

Expressing a calm determination a vindication of the Bill-of Rights. the party state-

to fight through to

ment asks:

“Is the battle lost to the Me-

Carthyites?

“Is America doomed to take the

fatal path to totalitarianism an war?”

“Emphatically no,” the ment replies and continues:

“The needs of the peuple can The

honor of America and its devo- tion to its democratic heritage are

break through the hysteria. :

not gone down the drain as Carthyism. The national wl t Abie aes) ai niacty peace is bound to assert itself in ‘We are Saale ina

a demand for an end to McCarthy-

ism.

“I¢ the Humphreys in Congress — with their frantic appeasement of McCarthyism and their cry for

- r0- more guns and more pro-war pr oI pall with

feelings" of the millions of workers, small farmers and the Negro masses who follow the lead of the Democratic party because they still believe 12

voeations — think to play reaction, this is not the

it: % “The line of the would spell big

mits the worst reactionaries

road.” 1 The Communist ed its aims expressed program which has distributed in more copies: “The 1954 must be to prevent the enhower administration and Con- gress from taking the country further down the road to Mc- Carthyism. Defeating McCarthy- ism requires the turning of the present administration out of po- litical power, first by changing the composition of Congress In 1954, ahd then by electing 4 new administration in 1956.”

immediate objective in

state-

Humphreys gains for the Re- publicans and McCarthyites 1D the coming elections — this line er

pose as anti-war and middle-of-the- party reaffirm- in the party

already been than 600,000

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“the right of Congress to f the right to make their o issued this week.

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ban any political ideas or move- wn political and social decisions.”

the courts and to the people,” the statement said. Signed for the

Foster, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

WILLIAM Z. FOSTER

ement’ said, Se farmers and the Negro people use their democratic strength, they ¢an change — the, character of Congress by retiring the MeCarthyite-McCarranite-Dix- iecrat cabal and electing men and

to defend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. :

“The 15,000,000 tgade unionists, together with the Negro people and the working farmers, if united, could quickly wipe out the peril of McCarthyism in the United States.”

In a stirring call for the broad- est unity of the people the party urged “all Americans who stand by the Constitution to unite in a common effort to invalidate and repeal this monstrosity.

“we Communists,” the state- ment concludes, “shall continue our fight for peace, democracy, the people’s well-being, for the rights of labor and the Negro people. Despite this new attack our party stands unterrified. It walks in the great tradition of American move- ments like the Abolitionists and the pioneer trade unionists who survived organized persecution and government efforts to illegal- ize them. :

The “Communist party will function under any and all cireum- stances and fight for its legal ex- istence,” the statement said.

“In so doing it is fighting not for its own rights alone, but for the Bill of Rights for all Ameri-

women who will have the couragé pana ee eee

cans.”

LONDON

Irrigation schemes in the Soviet Union are “beyond anything we have ever thought of,’ Professor Sir James Scott Watson said here on his return from Moscow.

Sir James, who is scientific ad- viser to the Ministry of Agricul- ture, was the leader of a five-man delegation of experts which visited Moscow at the invitation of the Soviet Ministry of Agriculture. He told a press conference:

“The sort of thing they would think of in Britain is turning the rivers of Wales round to run into Essex.”

Britons impressed by Soviet developments

Engineering, and three of the country’s. leading botanists. and geneticists was treated with “the most lavish hospitality,” Sir James said.

He described the Agricultural Exhibition in Moscow which the delegation visited as “magnificent.” It had been staged to impress on townspeople the importance of agriculture and to arouse a com- petitive spirit between State and Co-operative farms.

The’ standard of animal health was very good and much use had been made of foreign breeds of cattle. Sir James added that ‘pro- ductivity per land worker was

The delegation, which included Ww. H. Cashmore, director of the National Institute oft Agricultural

lower than in Britain. Crop yields were much the same but milk yields of dairy herds were lower.

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Behind the backs of Britain and France the United States has been planning with West German military leaders an increase of the German Army to 48 divisions—some 1,600,000 men. :

This astounding revelation was made August 26 at a press conference in Berlin by Karl-Franz Schmidt-Wittmack, member of the West German Parliament and a former supporter of Adenauer.

He also revealed:

1, That the aim is to re-estab- lish German military “prepon- derance in Europe.”

2. West Germany is to have an “effective air force,’ paratroops and other “special units.”

3. That the plan for this enor- mous expansion of German arm- ed forces is now being drawn up in detail by a special committee of German and U.S. generals and is to be ready by November 1.

He told the conference, which | was attended by 100 journalists, ethat the United States had sta- ‘ tioned‘ about 30 atomic guns in

West Germany.

Herr Schmidt-Wittmack said that West Germany’s contribution to the European Army had originally been fixed at 400,000 men in 12 divisions.

While he gave no estimate of the number of men in the 48 divisions now planned (24 ac- tive and 24 reserve) on the same basis this would mean an army of 1,600,000.

This is as large as that of Hit- ler when he invaded Czechoslov-

akia and would make the German army the largest in Europe.

Herr Schmidt-Wittmack was a member of Dr. Adenauer’s Chris- tian Democratic Party, vice-chair- man of that party in Hamburg and a member of the EDC committee of the West German Bundestag, the lower house of Parliament.

Two weeks ago he sought asylum for himself, his wife and daughter in Eastern Germany. ;

Giving the reason for his action, he said:

“Tt was not in a position to make this statement in Bonn; I would have been silenced.”

The secret American and Ger- man talks were held in June and July this year at Bad Godesberg, near Bonn, he said:

-Leading delegates at them were General Alfred Gruenther, Amer- ican Supreme Commander in Eur- ope, and ex-General Adolf Heus- inger, of the West German “De- fense Commfssioner’s Office,’ the

tee on European Security but be- cause he belonged to the “inner EDC circle” of Christian Demo- cratic Deputies whom the Chan- cellor, Dr. Konrad Adenauer, told these things.

The parliamentary ‘ committee had been fobbed off with theoreti- cal discussions for months but told nothing of the detailed prepara- tions*for rearmament.

Replying to questions, he said he knew of secret protocols to the EDC treaty, as mentioned recently by Dr. Otto John, the former .West German security chief who also went over to East ‘Berlin.

But, like Dr. John, he would not say anything about their contents because “that would be called treason, and furthermore it is the job of others who are competent to do so.”

He said he had never known Dr. John.

“T was forced to realise that the Chancellor does not inform the Bundestag and its committees on important questions of foreign policy and rearmament, and makes decisions which are in contrast to his assurances towards the public and his treaty partners,” he said.

The activity of the office of De- fense Commissioner Theodor Blank was “largely excluded from parliamentary control.”

It had completed the selection of future officers from former Wehrmacht officers on the basis of their World War Two service without consulting parliament or the public.

“Thus parliament will not be able to prevent undemocratic and nationalist elements from penetra- ting within the EDC framework,” he said.

A typical example was General Gerhard Matzky, commander of the West German border police, ‘whose views hardly differed from those of former times.” ;

“These elements count on other partner states not being able to establish a similar number of divi- sions and they therefore link the EDC with the hope of restoring the (German) position of preponder- ance in Europe,” he said.

Herr Schmidt-Wittmack said op- position within Dr. Adenauer’s party was “impossible” in view of

General Staff and War Office of Western Germany.

Neither British nor French rep- resentatives had attended the talks and the whole plan was to be kept secret until France ‘and Italy had ratified the European Army treaty, he said.

“Tt is well known that stores of American material have been put aside for German use for some considerable time in the so-called Kaiserslautern triangle in south- west Germany on the left bank of the Rhine,” he added.

“It was decided at these nego- tiations to charge a special com- mittee of German and American military experts with completing the detailed mobilization plans by November 1 this year at the latest,” Herr Schmidt-Wittmack said.

It had earlier been known that plans had been almost completed for the establishment of an army of 400,000 men in 12 divisions, an air force of 80,000 and a navy of 20,000, but these figures had now been overtaken. é

Herr Schmidt-Wittmack said he had been informed of these

details not because he was a mem- ber of the Parliamentary Commit-

the Chancellor’s authoritarian atti- tude, which brooked no contradic- tion.

He said he had tried, up to quite a.short time ago, to discuss his “eonflict of conscience” with, among others, the party’s Parlia- mentary Leader, Herr Heinrich von ‘Brentano.

“Though my. ideas found an echo, I could not notice any readi- ness to do something about it soon,” he added.

He had therefore decided to find a platform where he could speak freely without being “silenced.” He had never been a Communist or Marxist and had no intention of becoming one. He intended to continue striving

“for a policy of understanding in the Christian-Democratic sense.”

He said he had once believed in the need for West German rearma- ment in view of the alleged threat from the East, and he had intend- ed to help this policy by ensuring that West German armed forces would remain under democratic control. .

“This belief has been mainly de- stroyed through my committee work in the Bundestag and in the

Christian Democratic Party.”

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