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? popular liberties, and second-
+ because the war would re-
t in wholesale slaughter and
jlitary disaster for our peo-
“e. ie

"The warmongers, to make the
‘ar look easy and seductive to

Si.e American people, are trying

create the impression that all
he United States would have to
> in the event of war would

He to drop a few atom bombs

> Russian cities and immedi-
tely the USSR would sue for
sace. But this is a great de-
sption and it would be a fatal
ie for the American people if

en in by it.
itom Bombs?

To rely on the atom bomb
an easy American victory
loulad be idiocy, for who can
‘Iarantee that the Russians
"uve not got the bomb them-
2? The extent of effec-
‘yveness of the so-called bomb

e/ “eret has been deliberately ex-
a sserated by the imperialist
‘Wjarmongers for their own pur-.

ses. Woreover, even if the
nited States alone had the
om bomb it could not Knock
ie USSR out of war with it
artainly, at least, American
ilitary leaders, in their arma-
ents program for the future
te not relying on the atom
Gomb as an all-decisive weapon,
®it are seeking to develop the

Hitgest possible armed forces

ong traditional lines in the
story. of peace-time America:

Thus, the Truman Adminis-
ation is calling for a Navy
‘d an Air Force larger than
ose of ali the rest of the world
mbined, and also for a huge
mmy based on universal con-
viption. Hitler, too, thought
; could defeat the USSR with
S secret weapons, but he did
%£ succeed.

The American people can be
ire that a war against the
SSR far from being the short
id easy one pictured by reac-
Qnaries, would certainly be a
drawn-out struggle, into
; human
(ad material, would be thrown
7 both sides. Moreover, the

nited States would have to

P\age this war against the col-
b3sal power of the Soviets alone;

Or its possible allies in such a

: Pruitless reactionary, murder-

is enterprise would be few, -
feak and reluctant.

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1-Soviet War Plans Based On

By William Z. Foster

olly

MERICAN and British imperialists are now frantically trying te stampede the capitalist world into a general war
“against the Soviet Union. This is the significance of the Churchill speech and its virtual endorsement by the
/ British and Américan governments. It is the meaning of the get-tough-with-Russia policy being followed by these
| vo governments in their drive for imperliaist world domination.
Lhe American people must refuse to be catapulted into the projected anti-Soviet war. Firstly, because such a war
Pould only be a reactionary war and its ultimate objective would be world fascism and the genera] suppression

Air view of Kharkov in the Soviet Ukraine, showing the Dzershinsky Plaza in front of the Pal-
ace of State Industry—then the largest office building in the USSR. Much of Kharkov was

wantonly destroyed by the Hitlerite brigands. Angic-Am
~— -voke- another destructive war against the USSR... — =

What Allies?

What ailies could the United
States count on in the event of
the criminal stupidity of a war
against the USSR? ‘To begin
with, practically all the nations
of Europe would have to be
counted out of such a war. The
countries along the Soviet bor-
der—Finland, -Poland, Czecho-

slovakia, Austria, Hungary,
Wugoslavia, and Romania, all
of whose governments, except

Czechoslovakia, were fascist and
anti-Soviet before World War
TW, would not fight against the
USSR today, because of the Sc-
viet Union’s struggle against
fascism. Italy and France also
certainly would not take the
field against the USSR and any
attempt to force them to do so
would almost surely provoke
their war-weary impoverished
peoples into revolution. Ger-
many, too, has been so badly
weakened that its reactionaries,
much as they would desire,
could not help the United States
in any great measure. Of the
remaining European countries,
Spain would probably go along
in an anti-Soviet war (if it could
choke back its developing revo,

lution), and so would Turkey

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(which would last but a week or
two in the face of Red Army
blows). As for the Scandinavian
lands, they could also be negat-
ed as important military fac-
tors-

In all countries of Europe, it
is true, the fascists would mobi-
lize against the USSR and they
would be dangerous; but they
would fall very far short of
leading the peoples of Hurope
into a new, reactionary war.
In brief, the warmongers of the
United States and Great Britain
would get little real help from
war-weakened, starving, devas-
tated and above all, democratic
Hurope.

Nor would the prospect for
anti-Soviet war allies be any
brighter in other parts of the
world. Thus throughout Asia
and Africa the colonial peoples
would seize upon the occasion
of such a war, not to fight the
USSR, but to liberate them-
selves from the clutches of Brit-
ish, Dutch, French, Belgian and
American imperialism. The
Japanese and Chinese reaction¢
aries, of course would want to
fight the Soviets. but the demc-
eratic forces in these countries
are strong enough virtually to
cancel out their efforts. And
certainly, the United States
could not look for any serious
military help from Latin Amer-
ica.

So, the criminal enterprise
would all boil down pretty much
to a war combination of the
United Statés and the British
Empire against the USSR. And
as for the military value of the
British Empire, it would not
provide very great help as an
ally. The United States as the
major partner in the alliance,
would have to carry by far the

erican warmongers are working to pro-

.

most of the load. As a result
of the recent war, Great Bri-
tain is now financially crippled,
its ramshackle empire is burst-
ing at the seams, and the pow-
erful working classes of Great
Britain and the Dominion have
no taste for an anti-Soviet war.
Obviously there would be pow-
erful mass resistance to the war
in other countries .-

In the event of an Anglo-
American attack against the

USSR which Churchill and his:

American friends are trying to
organize, the armed forces of
Great Britain would be far more
engaged in trying to hold to-
‘gether the crumbling empire
than in helping the United
States fight the USSR.

Thus the war baby would be
placed directly in the lap of
the United States. Outside of a
struggling support from badly
weakened fascist forces in HKur-
ope and the very dubious help
of Great Britain, the United
States would have to carry the
main burden of the war. The
strength of this country is, of
course, very great, but even at
its best it is not strong enough
to defeat the powerful strategi-
eally situated USSR, whose peo-
ple would fight with unconquer-
able desperation against any,
and all assailants. Others in
the recent past have thought
as American warmongers are
now saying, that the Soviet
Union was a “push over” mili-
tarily, and their ill fortune

“should be a warning to us.

Wor should it be forgotten that
our people are weary from the
recent war and our sodliers are
demanding that they be allow-
ed to return to the pursuits of
peace. Under such circum-
stances the United States coulé

never rally its full strength for
a reactionary war against the
USSR; for a war so clearly
against the national interests
of our people. It would be idle
to think that the American peo—
ple could be dragged into an
anti-Soviet war without there
being powerful opposition to it
from the democratic masses of
the United States.

Those reactionaries and hate-
Russia fanatics who believe that
@ war against the USSR would
be an easy task and that the

._ peoples of the capitalist world

would join enthusiastically in
an all-out war against that
country upon a call by the Unit-
ed States and Great Britain,
with the blessing of the Vatican
and the help of conservative
Social Democrats, and, of
course, the fascists. are politi-
cally: For the United
States such a war would be an
unmitigated calamity. it would
squander millions of American
lives in a hopéless, worthless
doomed cause. Two werld wars
we have fought on foreign soil,
with relatively small losses te
ourselves; but the proposed
anti-Soviet war, because of im-
proved military technology
would surely be largely fought
on our territory and would be
accompanied by. stupendous
losses in life and property.

insane.

Military Disaster

For the United States to em-
bark upon an anti-Soviet war

would, therefore, mean to in-

flict a first-class military dis-
aster upon our people. It would
also bring about. world eco-
nomic chaos and mass starva-

tion on an unprecedented scale.
Let us not forget the disastrous
fate that overtook Charles =I,
Napoleon, Hitler and other
would - be conquerors who
thought it would be very easy
to defeat the Russian people
and overrun their country. Let
the people of the United States
ponder this situation calmly
and not be deceived by the war-
mongers and their promises of
an easy victory.

The alternative to the deso5
lation, ruin and defeat of an-
other world war is a policy of
peaceful collaboration with the
Soviet people. Such a policy
will succeed if the American
and British Governments will
but apply it. The Russians, no
less than the masses of our
people, want peace in order to
repair the ravages of the war,
to expand their industries, to
improve the living standards
and general well-being of their
people. The American people,
therefore, and especially the
labor movement, should smash
the plots of war-mongering im-
perialists and compel our gov-
ernment to follow a policy of
genuine cooperation with the
Russians, within the scope of
the Big Three and the United
Nations.