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LABOR LED BY GOD CAN LEAD THE WORLD
(New World News Service)
World labor is being torn apart by the war of ideolo
gies. The ideology of Communism has alreadv captured
control of the major unions in France and Italv, as well \
as the countries behind the Iron Curtain and has even
infiltrated many of the unions here, in spite of the ef
forts of sound union leadership to stop it.
Recently two large unions, the United Public Work
ers of America and the United Electrical Workers, were
black-listed by the Atomic Energy Commission because
their leadership is suspected of Communist affiliation.
Today we see the spectacle of sound labor men either
trying to stamp out Communism in their unions by
strong arm methods or being slowly sucked under by |
the Communist strategy of smear and sabotage.
Fred Copeman, former British delegate to the Com
intern, and now Chairman of Central Lewisham Labor
Party said recently,“ Our own labor movement has lost
the fire and faith of George Lansbury, Keir Hardy, and
Tom Mann—men who were led by God. Communist di
alectics enabled people to die willingly for the party.
This is because Communism convinces people that its
ideas and ideals are the ones needed for the present
world. What is the answer to all this?” Copeman
stressed that the answer is not negative criticism, but!
building “a greater, more constructive, inspiring, fight
ing ideology and living it. Moral Re-Armament is such
an ideology. The workers have more to gain than any
one else from a moral system. Any person convinced
about the rightness of this can influence national policy,
trade union and industrial organizations.”
Labor has a destiny. Labor led by God can lead the
world. Labor can be the uniting force that brings na
tions together. Communism says, “Workers of the
world unite.” MRA says, “Workers unite the world.”
The battle of right and wrong has no neutrals. You
default if you do not fight. I
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“WALLACE IS ALL WRONG”
(By Eleanor Roosevelt
In the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune
I read a quotation from a speech made by Henry recent
ly, which read:
“There is an illusion of unity among the United
States, Great Britain and France which reallv does not
exist. It is a unity of governments, not of the people.”
I do not know to whom Mr. Wallace talked when he
traveled in Great Britain and France, but I personally
think there is a greater division possible between the
three governments mentioned than there is among the
people. I would judge from casual conversations with
people whom I have met in both Britain and France
that there perhaps is more understanding among us
than ever before.
The French people know they helped the United
States in her revolution many years ago, and it is easy
to like people whom you have assisted. They listen to
speeches. They are well informed and thoughtful on sit
uations confronting us all.
The British, I find as a rule, still consider us, in spite
of our revolution, and so-called peculiar ways, as some
how connected with their family of nations. And though
we may be more severe on our families than we are
where strangers are concerned, still when danger
threatens the ranks are quickly closed.
And when Mr. Wallace goes on to say that—concern
ing the latest accusations against Russia—in case this
conflict is ignited, the British people will not be our loy
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leads to such a strange conclusion.
There always are things we do not like about the Bri
tish. and there are things that thev do not like about us,
and on both sides we keep doing things that irritate
each other.
But to say that we would not be firm allies in any sit
uation that might arise between us and the Soviet
Union shows a complete and utter lack of understand
ing both of the people and their leaders.
There are no people on earth—and I mean the average
people—who want war. And T think that the people of
the world are beginning to be well educated as to the
rights and wrongs of most of the questions now arising
among nations, and that is one of the great advantages
of the United Nations.
It provides a forum where people may speak an 1 be
heard by other peoples of the world.
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U. S.-CANADIAN DEFENSE
(Rocky Mountain News)
If there is one aspect of the security problem on which
Americans are more completely agreed than anv other
it is the necessity for IJ. S.-Canadian co-operation. For
in defense the two neighbors stand or fall together, whe
ther they like it or not.
That is dictated bv geography. Their strategic fron
tiers are the same. The historically unfortified border
between the two countries means more than mutual
confidence that neither ever will attack the other.
But that bolder would become an immediate m°nar.e
to the other if one were attacked by a third power.
Hence the necessity of joint defense.
Thus security association was tested and advanced
during the war. Fortunately, it was one Fe’d in whieh (
our defense planning was not allowed to lag in the early \
post-war period during which we neglected so many|
phases of preparedness.
Nevertheless, it is’nt sufficient to retain wartime gains.
The air and atomic age vastly increases the interdepend-]
of the United States and Canada. The increase in co
operation must go along with the multiplying need.
If the United States is ever attacked by Russia, the air
assault will be across the Canadian Atlantic and north
west approaches The best news to us recently is the tan
gible evidence that the two neighbors are intensifying
their point-defense efforts. Chairman Lilienthal of th°
U. S. Atomic Energy Commission says the two govern
ments, together with Britain, are expanding their com
mon efforts in atomic research. That apparently in
volves exchange of raw materials as well as information
The recent conference between U. S. Defense Secre
tary Forrestal and Canadian Defense Minister Claxton
is a sign of the times. Presumably they discussed closer
liaison, the role of Canadian industry in the American
rearmament program, radar protection, the degree of U.
S.-Canadian participation in the West European De
fense Union, and similar subjects.
In our judgment, the increasing security co-operation
Iron Curtain
Caused By
Soviet Mind
(By Dorothy Thompson)
One always looks forward with
apprehension to the meetings of
the general assembly of the United
Nations. Again we read mutual
accusaions and never that sober
and candid deliberation which the
magnitude of the crisis requires.
?.!;•. Vishinsky opened the meet
ing with a demand for a reduc
J n of all armaments by one
third. There is nowhere on earth
an objection to this or more radi
cal reductions. But his accompany
ing speech was an harangue
against the United States „as a
scheming aggressor, and an attack
oa the American viewpoint (also
held by Roosevelt) that disarma
ment without effective controls re
peatedly has been tried and failed.
“If,” sneered Mr. Vishinsky,
‘‘we take into consideration that
4he American plan provides for
the transfer to an international
control body not only enterprises
but whole industries ... it is not
difficult to understand what the
American plan may lead to.”
We can only see that it would
lead to the international socializa
tion of the greatest potential
ource of energy mankind ever is
. hely to have. We cannot see why
an international Socialist should
oppose it except that it is incon
sistent with the veto, the iron cur
tain and the plan of any state for
world domination.
Mr. Vishinsky quoted articles
frot i the American press describ
ing hew another war would be
fought, as proof of American plans
for aggression. But to describe a
perspective is not to champion it,
and what is discussed privately in
Russia is printed openly here. The
Soviets certainly have plans—as
we do—in case of war with any
specific enemy. Both states main
tain war colleges. But these are
not a cause of war but a symptom
that no effective system of collec
iee security—nor any enforcable
law to deter aggressors—exists.
The Soviets are the unfortunate
prisoners cf their own "princi
ples" which include the "princi
ple" cf the "inevitability" of war
es long as "Communist" and "cap
italist" stales exist, and as expres
sed by Lenin whom Mr. Bevin
quc e i. Ler.in has been dead a
long time but unfortunately there
s an apparent return to this the
ory—if the Soviets ever veered
from it.
The same view is expressed in
a recent book by the Soviet dep
uty president of the council of
ministers (Satlin’s aid), N. A. Voz
nesensky. Again the “principle" is
repeated that imperialist expan
sion is inherent in capitalist states,
that the U. S. A. is the most pow
erful contemporary expression of
such a state; that therefore war
is inevitable and could be pre
vented only by the military and
economic disarmament of America
and the world hegemony of the U.
S. S. R. Voznesensky refers to the
identical passage quoted by Bevin:
"Lenin taught us that the fate of
all revolutions has been decided
by a long sequence of wars and
that with the civil war we ended
only one series and had to be pre
pared for the next series."
Now, a state that believes war
is inevitable can only be preach
ing disarmament <without control)
as a means of making the disarm
ed its victims.
The most dangerous thing in the
world is for a state to believe it
knows tho certain outcome of his