1 their treatment of the defeated Germans, I pre- dict the Russians are once again going to astonish the world. Mind you, I am not talking of - revenge. The Russian, by- his nature, is too great-hearted to go in for revenge. He does not think in-such terms. He can be remorseless, when need be; wipe out a nest of spies as dis- passionately as a bacteriologist empties a test tube of bacilli into the sink. All this is true: But this is also true: the Red Army, en- tering Germany, will not go about bayoneting children. It is odds of a hundred to one that if a Red soldier sees a German child weeping along the road, he will look about and find Some bread for it. And it is an absolute dead certainty, to my mind, that the Red Army will not hang any innocent civilians. But. .. That is what the German is terrified of—that but. The Ger- man is afraid that the Russian is going to take him—take him physically—and_ do something to him. And the German is - dead right. Only it. isn’t. physical. The Russians have sworn that they will make the German hate war for the remainder ‘of his life. They are determined to decontaminate the Nazi crani- um and transform the Germans into decent human beings again. The Russians have repeated- ly said that they intend to keep in Russia large numbers of Germans to. make them rebuild a great deal of the country that they ravaged. Long ago; Kremlin leaders decided what they wanted to. do with these German prisoners, and they set up the apparatus to achieve it. Rather, they es- tablished a branch of an already existing apparatus—the N.K.- V.D.—and charged it with this Specific task. To work with it, the state police enlisted the co- operation of anti-Nazi Germans and Austrian exiles who had been living in Russia since the rise of Hitler. There were, by the early spring of 1945, altogether about 1,500,000 German prisoners of war in European Russia, Siber- ia and Central Asia. Thousands were already at work in the Ukraine, building roads, restor- ing bridges, working in the fields, and cleaning up demol- ished cities such as Stalingrad, Kharkov and Kiev. And Presi- biologist rebel at the intrusion of the dam-builder? A vast new project imperils the sal- mon that survive. There exists the possibility that the con- struction of new dams is the wise course. The proposed structures would generate 5,- 894,300 kilowatts -of power at the cheapest rates on earth. This hydroelectricity might re- habilitate countless other re- sources spent by the waste of war. It is claimed that the Grand Coulee Dam will tum arid sagebrush into 40,000 ‘pro- ductive farms; that Uvnatilla Dam will cut down the cost of fuel shipped to the Inland Em- Russia Doesn't Coddle Prisoners dent Roosevelt indicated, at his first press conference on his’ return from Yalta, that Stalin’s Plans for using German prison- er labor had his approval. In Siberia whole industries are operated by German pris- oners, including foremen and skilled technicians. Some make higher pay than Soviet work- ers. A German factory worker gets the same bread allowance, _ in aecordance with work per- formed, as a Russian. _ Moreover, the energetic Stak- hanovite Fritz can win extra allowances of certain foods, better quarters, clothing and Special ‘privileges. Excellent workers are promised eventual freedom—the right to go home. And top workers were almost invariably the quickest students at the political lectures deliv- ered to them by Free German indoctrinators. There are already more than "100,000 “de-Hitlerized” prison- ers in this category of trusty workers—the majority of them taken early in the war. Many have joined the anti-Nazi; ver- erans’ committees organized under the Free Germans, and are being trained for special political tasks. Wherein lay the potency of the “decontaminating” process used by the Free German Com- mittee in backing up the Rus- sian merit system as an induce- ment to work? The Free Germans do not preach Communism or Social- ism as such; nor democracy as we know it, but devote their efforts to these principal aims: 1, complete discrediting of Hitler and the upper Nazi hier- archy; 2, restoration of the German soldier’s hope and faith in his people; 3, convincing both officers and men that they can, after atonement for Hit- ler’s crimes, still have a future aS a sovereign nation by co- operating closely with the Sov- iet Union. ; All of which leads to the logic of the Free German pro- gram, which calls for: over- throw and punishment of Nazi leaders and atonement for their crimes, liberation of political prisoners ,abolition of racial laws, restoration of civil liber- ties, abolition of National So- BiologicalExperiment pire and reduce the price of the wheat, fruit, and beef that are transported out of that spacious region. If the dam project is under- taken the-vast salmon experi- ment will go on. Millions of eggs will be fertilized, millions of fingerlings sent on their way down to the sea, their fins clipped for identification. Each year, as one class of Uncle Sam’s Fish College is graduat- ed, alumni of a previous class will return for their quinquen- nial reunion on the tidewater tributaries of the Columbia. Each year the faculty will be that much wiser. PAGE 14 — P.A. MAGAZINE SECTION cialist economic laws,- organiza- tion of free jabor and peasant unions, confiscation of the wealth of war instigators—that is, land-owners and industrial- ists who supported Hitler—in- ternational collaboration for peace—with emphasis on Sovi- et-German friendship — and eventual reconstitution of the Reichstag by- a nation purged of Nazism. German prisoners now go through a screening which div- ides officers from men, separ- ates party and army S:S. troops and Gestapo members from -non-party men, and singles out individuals held accountable for specific atrocities, on the basis of evidence compiled by the War Crimes Commission, which has branches in every army div- ision and every local soviet. The screening also covers labor apt- itude. Anti-faseist German agitat- ors on the Russian side have a regular series of lectures to de- liver to the more promising captives. This includes chapter- by-chapter refutation of Mein Kampf; basic information on origins of the war and analysis of the day-by day war news; and a modified Marxist explan- ation of causes of the war and cures for Germany. This, then, is the Russian plan. Those, who expect stern measures of revenge, must re- member that Marxist ideology rejects the notion that. the “German race” is biologically and congenitally incapable of human decency; according to this ideology, the German mind has become warped by the class forces that shaped it—fascism. In this connection, the Russians have usually stressed the “anti- fascist??- and “anti-Hitlerite” PH] i |e | pl ped [ae | » Dae xe ae) KI By Negley Farson nature of the war, rather than the anti-German. Soon, the world will hear of huge numbers of Germans graduating, like classes, from these labor-battalions. They’ll hear of German labor-prison- ers marching back from Russia, singing songs. Polish split in the Coalition. Espec- ially from the time of the armed intervention against the Belgian and Greek peoples, this direction of British Cabinet policy sustained also by the European policies of the State Department, came much more sharply to the fore. It is to be hoped that the British elections campaign will reveal the con- tradictions which now appear so clearly between the announced policy of the 20-Year Alliance with the Soviet Union and the practical day to-day direction of policy on the Continent. In addition to the Polish trial, the resurgence of the Belgium crisis and the more clearly de- fined position in Italy, where thé anti-fascist forces of the North now play a leading role, must influence the elections in England. King Leopold’s adamant stand upon returning to Belgi- um, with a cabinet of his own choosing, has already produced a new crisis. The Belgium workers are ready to go on general strike should the King return, and the Cabinet of Van Acker is ready to resign as soon as» he puts his foot on Belgium soil. The Tory predil- ection for royalty is well known, but it would be a mistake to think that this is merely a matter of tradition and taste. As in Italy:and Yugoslavia, the issue of the monarchy has been used by British policy as a means- of preventing or imped- ing liberation governments and of imposing reactionary ones. The world, in its will be sure to say. they have been treats sent back to sing the Russia. This is on Bolshevik propagand again.” But the Ru: not care. For—you m of this—in their tre the millions of Ger the Russians have hands, the realistic S sian will begin ano experiment in the b: of man. Trials That is the issue in The people will not reactionary regime 1 cover of monarchy. The same question s fire in Italy, where th of a new six-party under thé premiershiz eral Parri, Actionist leader of the North, | portant step towards cratically-elected and - ent government. The _ front, now united aga government, is pres: regular elections. Bot cialists and Commur asking for the withd the Anglo-American tr are pushing vigoroi speeding uv the purge cists. Communist lead atti, as new Minister tice, is in an especial! able position in the gov to press ‘the purge. The demand for tl drawal of Angio-A troops from Italy strike note in the Huropean ~ It marks advance of t fascist .and liberation ments to the point o: greater insistence upo rights of self-governm against interfernece fr outside of a kind whic to bolster up reaction ~ pede the consolidation anti-fascist gains. This pecially marked also in where in practically all tion front circles the been for some time in resentment at Anglo-A: interference in internal ES ESE IEEE CECE ESIC IEICE c= or & cod Reading Try These FOR THE CHILDREN , A Delightful Story of a Husky Pup Written In Verse Dk) REPORT ON RED CHINA Harrison Forman Come in and look over our library, which sold-out at extremely low prices. PLUS POSTAGE ca eS oe is being ae PEOPLE’S BOOKSTORE 420 West Pender Street ae eee 4 x] Le 4 ex x ae ee SATURDAY, JULY 7 Phone MArine 5836 :