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During the latter phases of the war, when it became clear that Germany and Japan
would be defeated, it was also made pretty obvious that the big capitalists of the United
States were determined to establish world imperialist leadership once the war had ended.
The production of the atomic bomb has greatly speeded up and intensified this drive of

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ikini Atoll_atom bomb tests?

By WHLLIAM Z. FOSTER

American imperialism for world domination.

The whole affair of the atomic
bomb has been a series of provo-
eations against world peace, one
after another, of which the Bikini
Atoll test is but the latest

The provocative use of the bomb
was manifest from the very start.
When it was proposed to construct
the bomb at the
outset, scientists
were gathered to-
gether from Great
Britain, Canade,
and other coun-
tries, but the
Russians wers
carefully exclud-
ed. This was little
short of a direct &
insult to a loyal
ally, then fight
ing desperately :
and successfully; and it spoke
volumes regarding the post-war re-
lations among the great powers
contemplated by American big
capital. The Russians could not
have failed to get the point of all
this.

Then there was the use of the
bomb itself at Hiroshima and Naga-
sagi. This was more political than
military in character. While the
bombings, together with the entry
of the USSR into the war, hastened
Japan’s collapse, Japan, at the
time they took place, was tottering
and just about licked. A few weeks
more of armed attack, as previ-
ously conducted, would have fin-
ished the job.

The atomic bombing of Japan’s
cities, therefore, had no decisive
military purpose, but it did serve
the vital political objective of
dramatically letting the world
know that the United States pos-
sesses this dreadful new weapon
and is prepared to use it freely.

This, too, was a sinister hint to
the USSR.

Wext came the provocative ex-
pressions by President Truman, in
his Tennessee interview and his
Army Day speech, to the effect
that the United States has a mon-
opoly on the bomb and intends to
keep it. According to the Presi-
dent’s idea, the rest of the world
was expected to recognize . the
moral right and duty of the United
States alone to control the bomb.
But it is safe to conclude that other
countries, especially the USSR, felt
themselves definitely threatened by
Truman’s speeches.

The effect of such speeches
could hardiy be other than to pre-
ecipitate an atomic armaments
race.

To make matters worse, not long
ago an announcement was blared
through the press that the United
States was busily manufacturing
atomic bombs building up a big
stockpile of them. Three months
ago it was stated that the number
of bombs on hand was no less than
1,500 and, so it is said, their manu-
facture is stilk going ahead rapidly.

This whole business of bomb-
making is war provocation of the
most malignant kind. With no
other nation possessing the atomic
bomb, there is no reason whatever
for the United States to pile up
a great store of them. Nations
without the bomb cannot possibly
avoid finding a serious threat in
this.

Now we have the Baruch report,
which is no less provocative than
the other phases of the atomic
bomb policy. Mr. Baruch proposes
that all other nations turn over
their bomb-making facilities to a
United Nations Commission (which
the United States would surely
control), while this country retains
its bomb monopoly indefinitely.
This report, in substance, claims

_the right of the United States to

rule the world by virtue of its sole
control of the’ atomic bomb.
S

Finally, there is the current
Bikini Atoll test of the bomb. This
tremendous air and naval spectacle
is also political rather than mili-
tary. It is highly provocative, too.
if, as we pretend, we are going
to turm the control of the bomb

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e smoke

U.S. imperialism sends up a war smoke signal; huge
radioactive mushroom bursting through lower cloud levels
1000 feet up, 30 seconds after the atom bomb blast at
Bikini Atoll.

over to. the United Nations, with
the idea of eventually doing away
with this murderous weapon, then
there can be no reason whatever
for the grandiose experiment at
Bikini. The real meaning of the
Bikini demonstration is that it is
calculated to impress and frighten
the world, particularly the Rus-
Sians, by showing what a devastat-
ing weapon of death the United
States has in its possession.
American diplomacy is also gear-
ed to the provocative use of the
atomic bomb. All over the world
United States policy is hard-boiled,
expansionist and aggressive. The

core of it is the so-called get-tough-
with-Russia- policy. The present
deadlocked situation is the inevit-
able result of this militant im-
perialism, based so much on the
sole control of the atomic bomb.
The Russians are curtly given the
alternative of either yielding to
this country’s great pressure, or of
taking the consequences of our
atomic bomb displeasure. Evidently
they are choosing to stand their
ground in the face of the brand-
ishing of the atomic bomb.
The domestic military program
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ing at top capacity and within
output will have reached the
Potsdam agreement.

Even though @ great part of the
production goes for reparations,
there are more consumers’ goods
left for the Germans than are pro-
duced in the other zones put to-
gether. = :

The main reason for this is that
the Soviet zone is rapidly being
welded into a balanced economic
unit. The industrial planning board
has its fingers on the economic
pulse of the whole zone, which
means that it knows the where-
abouts of every stockpile of raw
material, every workable factory,

every truek and freight car,

No unemployment exists
in Soviet-German zone

By Wi. PETERS
BERLIN.—The Soviet zone of Germany is the only one
in which there is no unemployment.

Factories are now work
18 months it is expected that-_
maximum allowed under the

In addition, the trade unions

have been permitted to take the
lead in promoting production and
regulating conditions whereas, in
the other zones, trade unions heye
very little or nothing to say.
_ in comparison to the other zones,
industry and agriculture in the Sc
viet zone is at least six months
ahead. This has caused great sur-
prise among the western occupyine
powers, whose authorities a few
months ago were criticizing every
thing done in the Soviet zone
They now realize that they are
being left a long way behind.

the first time in 20 years as a

won by a landslide.

Says Truman
on way out

The Democratic Party re-
ceived two sharp warnings
this week that its labor sup-
port is dwindling away. Daniel
J. Tobin, president of the
powerful AFL international
Brotherhood of Teamsters and
chairman of the labor division
of the Democratic Party in all
four Roosevelt campaigns, pre-
dicted that the party would
be “swamped” in 1946 and 1948
elections unless it changed its
policies.

Writing in his union’s organ,
the International Teamster,
Tobin said recent state pri-
Imaries show that “Democratic
candidates are not very much
in demand by the majority of
the working people.” Mean-
while, James Patton, head of
the important National Farm-
ers’ Union, announced that the
NEU is closing its Washington
offices to devote its time to a
“grass-roots” movement among
rural voters. Patton said the
NEU has lest confidence in the
Truman administration and
feels its legislative representa-
tives serve no function.

Labor-backed candidate
wins Mexican presidency —

By CLIVE

MEXICO CITY.—Mexican trade unions will be faced
with a strong, organized anti-labor minority in Congress for

SMITH

result of last week’s elections,

although labor-backed presidential candidate Miguel Aleman

Incomplete returns indicate thst
Perhaps one-fourth of the Mexican
Congress will be Made up of sen-
ators and deputies, Owing their
election to the anti-labor National
Synarchist Union and the Nation-
alist Action. party.

The joint program of these two
Parties calls for establishment of
a corporative state, modelled on
that of Francisco Franco in Spain,

under which trade unions would
be state-run.

While the anti-labor minorities
are expected to exert increasingly
powerful pressure against Mexican
trade unions and on Mexican goy-
ernment policies, a continuing pro
labor policy had been pledged by
all Candidates of the PRI (nstitu-
tional Revolutionary Party), the
soevernment party which elected
Aleman and the congressienal me-
jority.

Mexican organized labor fornis
part of the PRI and labor and peas-
ant organizations are reckoned ta
have furnished about 2,000,000 of
the total 3,000,000 votes in the elec-
tions. Wicente Lombardo Toledano,
Mexican union leader who is presi-
dent of the Latin American Feder
ation of Labor, praised Aleman’s
victory and said that the peaceful
ness of the election was “a mile
stone in Mexican history.”

Aleman’s chief opponent, Eze
quiel Padilla, campaigned on an
anti-labor platform: His Mexican
Democratic Party worked closely

with the Nationalist Action Party
as well as the Synarchists.

See ATOM BOMB TEST

The significance of Blum’s state-
ment can be gauged from the fact
that the French Socialists have
heretofore apologized for Britain’s
policies even when these policies
conflicted with the known views of
the French Socialists themselves.
The French Socialists, for example,
have taken a-strong stand against
the Franco regime, but they have
made virtually no criticism of Bri-
tain’s support for the Franco re-

gime in the United Nations.

French socialists hit
Britain on Palestine

By MARCEL DUBOIS

PARIS.—The French Socialist party leadership, which
has until now given complete support to the British Labor
government’s foreign policy, made the first break this week
when party leader Leon Blum termed the action of British
authorities in Palestine “incomprehensible brutality.”

In his statement on Palestine,
Blum said the attitude of British
authorities has encouraged terror-
ism among the Jewish youth who
were “driven to dispair by a policy
which they can neither understand
nor admit.” The Erench Socialist
leader declared himself “unable to
understand the Labor government’s
present refusal to fulfill their pre-
election pledge of setting up a
Jewish National Home in Pales-
tine.”

Also going up in smoke; inflation in Hungary has reached
such wild proportions that this young lady calmly lights
her cigarette with a note worth $210,000,000 at prewar
rates of exchange. Perhaps we should be thankful te Mr-
King that the worker’s dollar is still worth 65c? ~

FRIDAY, JULY 19; 19