A Byrnes-Bevin ‘‘peace’’--its wonderful

Senator Tom Connelly of Texas can only see the Paris Peace Conference in a “yah, yah, yah” setting. To this the delegate from
‘socialist’ New Zealand added ‘quack, quack, quack.” Mackenzie King of Canada, as he surveyed the graves of Canadian dead
at Dieppe, lamented the ““wasting of time.” U.S. Secretary of State Byrnes and Foreign Secretary Bevin promote this cynical din
as part of the strategy in transforming the Peace Conference into a war council against the USSR and nations friendly to the USSR.
Their objective is not Peace . . . but war, and the “yah, yah quack, quack”’ symphony represents the chagrin of thwarted followers.

By G. N. W. WEBSTER

URVEYING the world scene it is quite evident that fascism is far from dead. It is

resurgent in many countries and not least on this North American continent. Even a
Britain Mosley’s party is again in evidence, and is being granted full privileges of speech
and assembly under the all-embracing camouflage of “democratic rights.”

The Attlee government in Bri-
tain, one is increasingly afraid
has no real ‘guts.’ It has an
enormous parliamentary major-
ity, and thus every opportunity
to be very definite and, if ne-
cessary, drastic in implementing
its various reform measures. But
it is trying to do two opposite
things, viz., to be mildly social-
istic at home while maintaining
the old imperialist and colonial
policy abroad. The British peo-
ple are suffering, and are go-
ing to suffer much more in the
near future, because their gov-
ernment is still trying to assert
itself as a great (if not as here-
tofore the great) world power.

Before the war the Empire
was Britain’s gold mine. She
reaped an enormous income
from her overseas investments
in the Dominions, crown colon-
ies and elsewhere. Semi-slave ia-
bor in too many places paid
the dividends. Then, too, the
Hmpire was Britain’s best ex-
port market. The war has dras-
tically changed all that, and the
impending loss of India, not to
mention the adjoining Malay
States, Burma, etec., which will
Speedily follow India’s independ-
ence, will scarcely
unearned revenues of British in-
vestors.

So:

EVERTHELESS class

cepts are still domimant in
Britain, and Labor men (like
Bevin and Morrison) who have
climbed into cabinet posts with

the accompanying style of
“right honorable gertleman” be-
come inflated with their own
self-importance, and only tco

readily tend to forget their pro-
letarian origin. The temptation
io do so is great, especially if
they have ambitious wives (in
#rance, mistresses), and recent
history shows that too many
such men demonstrate all to
clearly that any usefulness they
once had to their former fellow-

workers is behind them.
Amn indicative straw in the
wind in this connection is the

Oppose U.S.
role in China

NEW YORK. — Most
Americans are against con-
tinued U.S. aid to the Gov-
ernment of Chiang Kai-shek
whose drive against Chi-

nese labor was _ protested
this month by both the AFL
and CIO.

In a recent nation-wide ‘Ques-
tion for America’ broadcast, the
American Broadcasting Com-
pany asked representative citi-
zens whether they thought that
U.S. Marines should be with-
drawn from China, where they
are propping up Chiang’s regime.
Most of those interviewed an-
Sswered “Yes.” :

A poll of listeners brought
brought even more striking re-
sults. Those on the East Coast
were 3 to 1 in favor of bringing
Marines home. The score in the
Midwest was five to two in fa-
vor and in both the Southern and
Western States it was 2 to 1.

Summarizing ali results, the
radio network concluded that the
opinion throughout the country
runs eight to three for getting
armed forces out of China and
stopping interference in China’s
internal affairs.

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recent

_ Chamberlain’s

The ‘peace’ makers, Secretary Byrnes, Senator Vanden-
berg, Mackenzie King, and Ernest Bevin, who set the
pace for the “quack, quack, yah, yah, time-wasting”
program, designed to scuttle the peace conference.

royal garden party at
Buckingham Palace, at which
not only cabinet ministers but
back-bench Labor members turn-
ed up in tail coats and top hats,
although -it had been clearly
stated previously by the Lord
office that lounge
suits would be in order. We
have come a long way from
the time when Keir Hardie as
a miners’ representative appear-
ed in the House in a cloth cap,
the derision -of his top-hatted
fellow-members. affecting him
not at all.

Having viewed labor-socialist
politics at fairly close range for
nearly half a century one be-
comes more and more doubtful
as to whether really basic so-
cial change can come only
through the existing parliamen-
tary set-up. The latter, of
course, was devised and since
been developed for quite other
purposes. How it will come in
these days of armaments so
potent now in the hands of the
possessing few is not so clear.
But all the indications are that
a way will be found, and that
not far in the future.

The five-year period of the
present Attlee eovernment in
Britain is likely to be the final
world test as to whether or no
capitalism can be ousted (not
merely ameliorated) by Fabian
means. Surgery may be the an-
swer. In other words the only
way to eradicate the capitalist
virus is to “cut it out’—and one
means ‘cut. But the surgeon
must be bold, skillful and cer-
tain of what he aims to actcom-
plish.

Se
NE has watched social-demo-
eratic governments having
periods of office, sometimes with
absolute majorities, but more
often by coalition, as eg., in

Britain,
Many and Scandinavia.

France, Belgium, Ger-
What

has been the result? Through-
out the years there have been
introduced in those countries

mild measures of social reform.
These, however beneficial in
themselves, have done little or
nothing to disurb the retention
of the real power by the finan-
cial and industrial overlords
who, in the background, dictate
policy to all existing so-called
“democratic” governments, un-
der whatever party label.

At the outset the Attlee gov-
ernment inspired hope. Its pub-
lic mandate for a drastic change
was so unequivocal that one
really felt that this time they
would rise to a great occasion.
But such hope is dimming. In
the domestic field ‘nationaliza-
tion’ is proceeding, true; but
how? By compensation at such
inflated levels (as in the case
of the Bank of England share-
holders) that some industries
whose normal peacetime profits
have not of late been large
Show signs of a stampede to
have themselves taken over by
the government on like terms.
We may well ask what will be
the condition of the workers in
industries where such heavy
compensation has to be paid to
former owners? Scarcely, if at
all, any jpetter than before; and
a new crop of ‘rentier’ leeches
is created to feed indefinitely
at the workers’ expense. Mean-
time the latest news is that, as
opposition has developed on the
part of British steel barons, the
nationalization of that most vi-
tal key industry has been in-
definitely postponed.

the foreign field we see
nothing but disaster. Franco
and Salazar still rule undisturb-
ed in Spain and Portugal, both
countries being still permitted
to provide a refuge for well-
known key Nazis. British and
American troops (largely pre-

war civilians), are being held
in service all over the world to
police colonial territories in
which native populations, mostly
with colored skins, are strug-
sling to get out from under the
hated rule of the self-styled
‘superior’ whites. And no less
than 70,000 British troops are
still in Greece, as we are unc-
tuously told “at the invitation
of the Greek government’? to en-
sure that the government re—
mains in control until the re-
turn of the pre-war monarchical-

fascist machine is an accom=-
Plished fact. The reason for all
this? Fear that a Grecian gov-
ernment friendly to Soviet Rus-
Sia might otherwise come to
power. “Our great Ally” who,
as Churchill admitted while the
War was still on “tore the guts
eut of the German war ma-
chine.”

Truly we may say, as do the
followers of Father Divine,
though with something less than
their ecstasy: “Peace! It’s won-
derful.” E

The Yugoslav crisis;--
of USA ‘manufacture’

127 frontier violations against the

sovereignty of Yugoslav territory

by USA imperialism, led to clash

“PX HE .Yugoslav “crisis” which threatened to wreck the
Paris peace conference and threw a shadow across
world peace, is now recognized as a deliberate attempt to

provoke an “incident,”

thrust: aside negotiations for the
peaceful settlement of European problems,

and possibly

force another war upon the world. That this was the de-
sign of the atomic imperialists who guide U.S. policy is
revealed in the statement by U.S. Secretary James F. Byrnes
who during the “Tito crisis” declared he was ready to accept
failure of the Paris peace conference rather than lose a

“showdown with Tito.”

Faced with the slow but cer—
tain progress being Made at the
Paris parley, the atomic imper-
jialists are becoming impatient
and are willing to force a crisis
to obtain the defeat of the new
democracies of Europe and ach-
leve the isolation of the Soviet
Union.

The U.S. State Department ig-
mnored repeated Yugoslav -.com-
plaints concerning unauthorized
flights of American planes over
Yugoslay territory until two of
those planes were shot down.
This fact, which sheds new light
on who is responsible for the
clash last week- between the
U.S. and Yugoslavia, was learn-

TITO
es . . Khe sovreignity of

Yugoslavia will be defended”
ed last week shortly after Act-
ing Secretary of State Dean
Acheson made public a sharp
note by the American ambassa-
dor in Belgrade to the Yugo-
Slay ministry of foreign affairs.

According to the State De
partment, an American C-47 Air
Transport on regular flight from
Vienna to Udine, ran into bad
weather on Aug. 9, and while

“engaged in an effort to find
its bearings” was attacked by
two Yugoslav fighter planes.

The plan crash-landed in a corn-

field near the Yugoslav city
of Ljubljana.
During a news conference

Acheson admitted that the Yugo-
Slay foreign ministry had made
a number of representations con-
cerning violations of its terri-
tory by U.S. aircraft. The latest,
it developed, was made August
10, when the Yugoslay foreign
office charged that U.S. planes
had flown over its territory 172
times between July 16 and Aug.
=

From another State Depart
irent spokesman, it was learned
the note released Tuesday was
the first and only formal reply
to Yugoslay’s protests.

Acheson was asked whether
the U.S. had made any attempt
to secure permission from Yugo-
slavia for American planes to
fly ever Yugoslav territory when
weather conditions on the Vien-
na-Udine route made that ne
cessary. Acheson said he didn’t
know and would have to look
it up. A spokesman for the
Department -subsequent stated
that no such permission had been
sought, declaring that it was
not customary.

The American note to Yugo-
Slavia was anything but friend-
ly. The U.S. position that air

erait in distress should receive
aid sounds reasonable on its
face. There is every reason to

believe that such a request, if
raised as between one sovereign
power to another, would have
been cheerfully granted by the
Yugoslay government. But the
facts revealed indicate that the
U.S. has ignored Yugoslay rep-—
resentations, treated the small
republic with all the insolence
and arrogance of a great im-
perialist power, and then de-
seend upon her with a bulldoz-
ing note that threatens and de-
mancs instead of requests,

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1946