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Friday, July 18, 1947
Karl Marx Had Lowdown On Russia
Karl Marx is deified by the Russians as the prophet of
Communism. But he was also an observer and prophet
of the Russian drive for western domination, and that,
in words written almost 100 years ago, is his subject in
this editorial. The passages which follows are taken
from dispatches written by the Communist thinker be
tween 1853 and 1856 when he served as London corre
spondent of the New York Tribune. The reference to
American intervention in the Mediterranean involved a
dispute with Austria over U. S. protection of a Hungar
ian refugee. The excerpts appeared as an editorial in
a recent issue of Colliers magazine.
(By Karl Marx)
Politicians are wont to refer to the Testament of Peter
I, in order to show the traditional policy of Russia in
general, and particularly with regard to her views of
Constantinople. ... Is it probable that this gigantic and
swollen power will pause in its career?
“With the annexation of Turkey and Greece she
(would have) excellent seaports, while the Greeks
(would) furnish skillful sailors for her navy. With
Constantinople, she (would stand) on the threshold of
the Mediterranean; with the Albanian coast, she is in
the very center of the Adriatic. . . .
“And then, the broken and undulating western fron
tier of the empire would call for rectification; and it
would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs;
from Danzig, or perhaps Stettin, to Trieste. And as sure
as conquest follows conquest, and annexation follows!
annexation, so sure would the conquest of Turkey by1
Russia be only the prelude for the annexation of Hun
gary, Prussia and Galicia. . . .
“Russian diplomacy has rested on the timidity of
western statesmen, and her diplomatic art has gradual-j
ly sunk into so complete a mannerism, that you may1
trace the history of the present transactions almost lit
erally in the annals of the past. ...
Who is to rule in Constantinople would then no
longer be the question—but who is to command all Eu
rope? The Slavonic race long divided by internal con
tests . . . would then for the first time assert its unity,
and, in doing so, declare war to the knift against the %. .*
races which have hitherto ruled the continent. Pan-|
Slavism is not a movement which merely strives after
national independence; it is a movement which, thus
acting upon Europe, would tend to undo what a thou
sand years of history have created; which could not
realize itself without sweeping from the map Hungary,
Turkey and a large part of Germany. Moreover, it must
subjugate Europe in order to secure the stability of these
results, if they are ever obtained. .. .
“Russian diplomacy, more dangerous than Russian
generalship, is again at work. . . .
“England, especially, has been imposed on. She has
been bullied, and is so still. She has not dared to declare
her soul to be her own from the beginning to the present
day. France, too, has been bullied. But both together
have been frightened out of the only policy which could
at once have guaranteed the preservation of peace,
while maintaining their own respectability. To the arro
gance of the autocrat they have replied with the sym
ptoms of cowardice.
“If at the outset they had used a manly style of lan
guage adequate to the position they hold, and the pre
tensions they set up before the world, if they had proved
that bluster and swagger could not impose on them, the
autocrat would not only have refrained from attempting
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it, but would have entertained for them a very different
feeling from that contempt which must now animate his
bosom. There is only one way to deal with a power like
Russia, and that is the fearless way. . . .
“It is cheering to see the American intervention in
Europe beginning just with the eastern question. Be
sides the commercial and military importance resulting
from the situation of Constantinople, there are other!
important considerations, making its possession the!
hotly controverted and permanent subject of dispute
between the east and the west—and America is the
youngest and most vigorous representative of the west.)
“Constantinople is the golden bridge thrown between!
the west and the east, and western civilization cannot,!
like the sun, go ’round the world without passing that!
bridge: and it cannot pass it without a struggle with
Russia.”
—
Stronger Than Ever
(The Denver Post)
JOHN L. LEWIS, the old hard bargain driver, has
done it again.
This time, the United Mine Workers have won the!
biggest concessions ever obtained through a single con
tract.
In addition to substantial wage increases, the miners
have won shorter hours and a 100 per cent increase in
the amout to be put into their union welfare fund, now
being built up at the rate of about 25 million dollars a I
year. j
Before the Taft-Hartley act was passed, the mine
union fought it on the ground it was a bill to enslave,
labor and destroy unions. i
The new agreement was reached in a surprisingly I
short time, in spite of the necessity for molding it
around the provisions of the new law, and the U. M. W.l
finds itself stronger and more prosperous than ever. !
The mine agreement shows the new law will inter
fere in no way with collective bargaining provided a\
real desire to reach an agreement exists on both sides.
Provisions of the Taft-Hartley bill are recognized by
several sections of the new agreement, including those
related to the unionization of supervisory workers and
the control of the welfare fund.
The desire to reach an agreement as exhibited in the
coal negotiations is encouraging to the country as a1
whole and should reassure labor that its fears of the1
new labor act are largely groundless. I
THAT’S THAT By bruce gustin
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Failure of the Paris conference
is due to the dog-in-the-manger
policy of the Soviet government.
The Russians can’t finance Euro
pean rehabilitation. The United j
States can, and has offered to do'
so. But the Russians have rejected
the Marshall plan. They say Brit-,
ish and French proposals for put-;
ting this plan into operation would
divide Europe. The Russians put,
themselves in the position of
splitting Europe into two groups
because Britain and France have
announced they proposed to go
ahead, with any. countries which
wish to join them, in an attempt to
put the Marshall proposal into op
eration.
Molotov’s squawk about the
Marshall plan endangering the
“national economies and indepen
dence” of small Eurouean coun
tries was one of the most absurd
things ever heard. Most of these
countries have no “national econ
my.” Under Russia’s thumb. Po
land, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria
have no semblance of independ
ence. They are puppets of Mos
cow. The real Russian fear is that
American financial aid in their
rehabilitation might encourage
them to insist upon regaining their
independence.
James Caeser Petrillo’s head is
“bloody but unbowed.” The su
preme court knocked his ears
down when it held constitutional
an act of Congress outlawing his
racket of forcing radio broadcast
ers to hire musicians they do not
need. Now, as czar of the musi
cian’s union, he is threatening to
shut off all musical recordings and
network broadcasts of “live” mu
sic next year “unless I change my
mind.” He hints that he may put
his union in the record-making
business and try to establish a mo
nopoly there. “If there were no
laws, I’d get along fine,” he told
a House committee. That sounds
like a dare to Congress to pass
more laws to make him behave
himself.
President Truman wants Con
gress to admit to the United States
a “substantial number” of the one
million displaced Europeans who,
because of political opinion and
fear of persecution, are unwilling
to return to their former homes.
What would we do with them?
With out housing shortage and
struggles to provide full employ
ment for our own people, our
hands are pretty full. There’s lots
of room in Africa. Why shouldn’t
displaced Europeans be helped to
establish homes there and develop
that country?
If you didn’t know it, you could
easily guess that the United States
is the only country which has any
atomic bombs. A majority of the
members of the United Nations
atomic energy commission have
agreed in principle with a Russian
proposal that all atomic weapons
now in existence should be de
stroyed. But until some workable
system of international control is
adopted to insure that no other
nation is going to make atomic
bombs, the United States would be
a sap to destroy the bombs it has.
Our veto power in the United Na
tions may come in pretty handy
after all.
Congress looks out for itself.
Rent-gougers may run wild in the
rest of the nation, but not in
Washington, D. C. Members of the
nation’s lawmaking body are ten
ants there. They protect them
selves in the clinches. The new
law abolishing the last vestige of
federal control over hotel rates
and permitting a 15 per cent boost
in other rents when landlords and
tenants “voluntarily” agree to that
in leases running through 1948,
states specifically that its provi
sions do not apply to the District
of Columbia but that they cover
the rest of the United States.
The “law of the land,” so far as
rent-control is concerned, is not
the law in the national capital
where members of Congress live
most of the year. They have their
own rent control. That raises again
a vital question: Is Washington,
D. C., a part of the United States?
Its permanent residents are dis
franchised. They have no vote.
They, have no voice in either local
of national government.
One of the basic principles of