Yesterday and today

of his country were 1,200 milgs.,

away from the frontiers of ‘his
country,

Tn 1947 the former commander
of the First Canadian Army,
General Crerar, announced that
the strategical frontiers of Can-
ada pass through Japan and
Korea, and that these are being
threatened by the Communists.

Thus in the opinion of General
Crerar the frontiers of his coun-
try pass 3,500 miles from the
frontiers of his country. Who can
dare say after this that there is
no progress?

Chapter Ten: Franco will al-
Ways be Franco,

In moments of adversity the
Viennese used to console them-
Selves with the song, “Vienna
Will Always Be Vienna.” I sug-
Sest a new song for the night-
clubs of New York and London—
“Franco Will Always Be Fran-
co.” Of course Franco has had
to change his vocabulary some-
what, For example, he now says,
“In a certain sense we, too, are
Americans.” In 1941 he said: “We
feel that we are the brothers
of the Fuhrer’s gallant soldiers.”
But these are minor points, and
Only a pedant can cavil at them.
As regards essentials, General
Franco has undergone no change
Whatever.

In 1941 he arranged with Hit-
ler to send Spanish soldiers to
the Soviet Union.

As reported in the Paris-Presse
Cf October 2, 1948, Forrestal’s
Personal representative, Air Gen-
€ral Boatner, was conducting ne-
Sotiations with General Franco
concerning the number of divi-
sions which Spain would be able
to place in the field in the event
of war against the Soviet Union.

I, myself, think that General
Franco is offering his new cus-
tomers the same old “Blue” divi-
sion, As facetious Frenchmen
Say, even the most beautiful girl
Cannot give more than what she
hag,

Chapter Eleven: Pavolini and
Patrissi, ’

In November 1943 the Italian
fascist party held a congress at
Verona. At that congress Deputy
Pavolini declared: “Traitors have
done us much harm. The enemy
iS in Naples. But with Germany’s
‘help we will crush Communism.”

In 1948 Deputy Patrissi de-
Clares: “America will crush Bol-
_ Shevism, and we will restore the
monarchy, a monarchy revivified
by evangelical fascism, of which
We are the new apostles.”

Chapter Twelve: Dancing part-

hers stay on.

In 1941 Marce] Deat, who, as”

& super-traitor, was too much
even for traitor Petain, wrote:
A Russian invasion would sig-
nify the Bolshevization of France.

All that ‘remains for France is.

to take her place, without res-
‘‘tvations and without reticence,
at the side of a Germany fighting
for the defence of the common
ideals of the West.”

In 1948 Paul Plandeu, one of

he leaders of the RPF, General .

ns Gaulle’s - party, states:
Whether we like it or not, Ger-
any is our protection, our

‘Shield against the Soviet men-
ace,” : f

om 1943 Friedrich Grimm said:
cons formation, by a
Stoup of sound-thinking French-

‘Bay of the French legion of

ism,” ;

tn the summer of 1944 I had
°ceasion to witness the inglorious
“nd of the “French Legion.” The

\

‘doned the

small

ciate against Bolshevism, is ‘
aaoweee first contribution to the
®fence of Europe from Bolshev-

first “contribution” was anything
byt a success,

In 1948 Le Monde, organ of
“sound - thinking” Frenchmen,
writes: “A European army will
necessarily be a Franco-German
army.” Apparently, Plaudeu and

-his friends hope that the second

“contribution” will turn out bet-
ter: they have a very tall gen-
eral and a very short memory.
e

Chapter Thirteen:
back to its vomit.

Dog goes

Paul Shafer, member of the
Armed Services Committee of the
U.S. ‘House of Representatives,
recently stated that the indus-
try of western Germany could
be restored quickly enough to
play its role in a war.

General Halder, former chief
of staff of the Wehrmacht, assures
that he can build up a German
army in Bizonia at short notice.

The roles have thus been dis-
tributed: Shafer takes care of
the .cannon and General Halder
of the cannon fodder. All this
is taking place in 1948 — three
years after the surrender of Hit-
ler Germany and the signing of
the Potsdam Declaration.

The posthumously hanged Gor-
ing can give General Halder no
help in his new activity; nor can
he recall that at one time he
said: ‘The British and the Ameri-
cans were mad when they re-
fused to rely on Germany in the
fight against Eastern: anarchy.”

Chapter
lampshades.
Commenting on the Yalta De-
claration the Volkischer Beobach-
ter wrote: “The heroes of the
anti-Bolshevist war will get, not
the punishments which the blind
Mr. Churchill promises them, but
the laurels of history.”
Churchill has proved. to be not
so blind after all: speaking re-
cently in the House of Com-
mons, he referred to “the hateful
processes of denazification trials.”
Karl Schaefer, president of the
NDP (German National-Demo-
cratic party, a new edition of
the “NSDAP), who thrives in the
American zone, declared that he
demanded that “denazification be
stopped immediately.”

It seems to me that Churchill’s
wishes and Karl ‘Schaefer’s de-
mands have been anticipated. Dr.
Schacht is now treated with all
respect. Heinrich Wilhelm Kopf,
the butcher of Poland, is prime
minister of Lower Saxony. It
is hard to enumerate in a’ brief
article all the war criminals who,
even if not “the laurels of his-
tory,’ got good ministerial port-
folios. I shall only record the
fact that General Clay has par-
woman executioner
Ilse Koch, the one who had
lampshades made out of the skins
of Buchenwald prisoners.

@
Chapter Fifteen: A little geo-
graphy. : ‘
In 1941 the Frankfurter Zeitun
wrote: “No one will ever again
dare to dispute our rights to
Alsace and Lorraine.” In those
days—recent and yery distant—
many did not agree with the
opinion of the Nazi newspaper,

Fourteen: Intimate

for example, the population of

Alsace and Lorraine.

In 1948 the already mentioned

president of the NDP, Karl
Schaefer, convened, with the
blessing of the American occupa-
tion authorities, a meeting of

tried and tested Nazis in Stutt-

gart and = grimly proclaimed:
“Germany must get back all her
lands, including Alsace and Lor-
raine.” ge

It seems that it was right after
this that Remadier declared in
the Chamber of Deputies that

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France was menaced by Soviet
Russia. It cannot be said that
he is very strong in geography.

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Chapter Sixteen: Edouard the
Victorious.

I recall Edouard Daladier’s tri-
umphal entry into Paris in the
autumn of 1938; that was after
the victory he had won in Mun-
ich. Daladier then said: “Hitler
will be engaged in the Ukraine,
and Russia is a colossus on feet
of clay. The Red Army is poorly
armed and in general is not a
force to be reckoned with.’ :

In 1939, Daladier thad the walls
in France plastered with placards
reading: “We will win because
we are stronger,” After that the
Germans entered Paris,

When “the colossus on feet of
clay” reached Germany and
France’s hopes revived, Edouard
the Victorious reappeared on the
scene.

Recently Daladier again assert-
ed in Carrefour that Russia is
a colossus on feet of clay, that
the Soviet Army represents no
force and that its armaments are
“old and demoded.” °

He is obviously drafting a new
placard reading: “We will win
because we are stronger.” Da-
ladier was born in the Vaucluse
department; this is some 25
miles from Tarascon, which gave
the world another, more modest,
but nevertheless famous victor—
Tartarin. ,

Here I end. I must admit that
I set out on this effort with a
smile, but I soon stopped smiling
—you cannot read without in-
dignation the statements of the
new cannibals who, sitting nap-
kined at their dinner table, dream
of being served 70 million human
lives. You cannot read without
anger the speeches of M. Jules
Moch or M. Ramadier who in
their blind hatred for Communists
are re-enacting the disgusting
story of Severing and Noske.

Some readers may ask: Is it
possible that everything will be
repeated? No. Ecclesiastes said
that all the rivers run into the
sea, and that unto the place
whither the rivers go, thither
they go again. Yet the rivers
never go backward, nor does
time ever turn back.

What if Daladier does repeat

what he said before France’s
debacle? As we know, there is,
besides Daladier, the French

people, which has learned a great
deal in recent years. This people
does not want to fight the Soviet
Union — together with German
fascists and under the command
of American racists. Very likely
the “Franco-German army of
Europe’ will

*“Moch and. Oberburgermeister

Reuter, who, joining hands, will:

wend their way to the nearest
American bar to celebrate the
latest pay.

Besides the neo-fascist Patrissi,
there lives on the Apennine Pen-
insula the Italian people, and
Scelba knows very well that this
people has realized and learned
a great deal. ;

I appreciate that Churchill is
fond of reminding people of his
existence. Still, Britain does not
consist of Churchill alone; there
are many ordinary people there;
they may perhaps be phlegmatic
and slow, but they think and
understand, and they are not in
the least inclined to die because
Professor Oppenheimer feels an
urge to “press a button.” Finally,
in the U.S. too, where there are
many bullies like Admiral Zach-
arias or Paul Shafer, there are

many more peaceful people — -

foundry-workers and farmers,
physicians and teachers, lumber-
jacks and garment-makers. Be-
Sides . . . there exists the Soviet
Union.

-

consist of Jules

similar work.”

By ALAN
WINNINGTON

— HARBIN
[N the liberated areas of Chi-
na, women are now free;
their equality with men is
guaranteed by law. The pur-
chase and sale of women, pros-
titution. concubinage are ille-
gal; free choice in marriage is
guaranteed; divorce is equally
available for women and men;
equal pay for equal work is in
force in every factory.

It is one thing to enact such
laws. but it is quite another to
get the women themselves to
take advantage of their new
freedom. The feudal customs
of centuries cannot be defeated
by a law, and only the women
can emancipate themselves.

’ This is the problem now be-
ing tackled with vigor by the
20,000,000-strong Women’s Un-
ion of the Liberated Areas.

In the countryside, the big-
gest break was made by the re-
form of the feudal land-hoid-
ing system. To China’s peas-
ant millions land is life—the
ownership of land means se-
curity and social status. Under

must be equally distributed to
all peasants, irrespective of
age or sex :

Everywhere hot discussion
raged among the women:
Should engaged girls have
their land at their father’s or
their future husband’s place?
What should they do with their
land on marriage? Should wo-
men have separate title deeds
to their land? Argument swept
from family to village meeting
and back again.

The Women’s. Union encour-
aged and helped the women
to take a leading part in this
gigantic redistribution which
revolutionized every village.’

In areas near the fronts, wo-
men carried out the whole re-
form themselves while. their
men were helping the army.
and they did not hesitate to
take up rifles and spears to
prevent sabotage by armed

lords.

With the menfolk flocking
into the army to defend their
new freedom,. almost all wo-

al work.

In addition, helped by the
Women’s Union, they are car-
rying on innumerable side oc-
cupations: spinning, weaving,
making uniforms and shoes.

All these profitable occupa-
tions are doing more than in-
creasing the family income and
providing for the army—they

pendence and a new social sta-
tus

From this it a short step tc

learning to read, studying po-

gangs inspired by the land-.

“Girls of 15 to 25 normally join the women’s militia, which
cooperates with the men’s militia in minelaying, sniping and

the new agrarian laws, land _

men are now doing agricultur- —

are giving to the women inde-.

20 million women
choose freedom

litical affairs and taking part
in local administration.
td

In all the battle zones women
are the backbone of the non-
combatant work. They tend the
fields while their men go to
help the army, transport mu-
nitions or carry the wounded;
they prepare the armies’ food.

Girls of 15 to 25 normally
join the women’s militia, which
cooperates with the men’s mi-
litia in minelaying, sniping and
Similar work.

In the battle areas the wo-
men medical workers are out-
standing. They train them-
selves to run, jump. ford riy-
ers, and, with full equipment,
keep ae with the People’s ar-
my, e€ swiftest infan i
the world. oe

Li. Ling-Ting is typical; only
24 she has had seven years of
gruelling battle experience
and heads her medical group.
During a sudden retreat in

ssu, she found herself
with 500 wounded to evacu-
ate and only a few stretcher-
bearers. Li mobilized local
peasant women and, herself
carrying the leading stretch-
er, extricated every man un-
der strafing from Kuomin-
tang planes,
é s

The emancipation of women
in the town has been even
swifter than in the country-
side.

In the New China. the indus-
trial workers are the leading
class, assuming the responsibil-
ity of creating a modern indus-
trial state from the ground up-
ward. Women are crowding in-
to industry, studying tech-
nique and being appointed to
high administrative positions.

Their conditions of work
were fixed by the recent Sixth
All - China Labor Congress.
They include: equal pay for
equal work; paid leave up to
two months for confinement
Or miscarriage; a basic eight-
hour day; restrictions on over-
time and night work, and free
education,

Today in New China the wo-
men are setting themselves
free. Already the basis of all
the old vicious customs has
been destroyed. Now there is
no economic reason for tor-
mented mothers to sell their
girl children, or for women
to remain the victims of ar-
ranged marriages

Lo Feng-lien, who herself
was sold to a landlord at the
age of three, ran away at 14
to join the army of the people,

Summed up her views by say-

ing:

“The only way for China’s
women to win their freedom is
to take part in the revolution
and in production.” ,

This ex-slave girl, now fac-
tory director, is typical of the
awakening that is taking place
among ‘the women in Liberated
China.

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