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Stalin replies to nine questions
on vital issue of peace and war

PRIME MINISTER STALIN in Moscow last week reiterated his belief that the
= world is in no “real danger” of a new war, declared that “monopolist possession” of

the atomic bomb could not long continue, and urged the United States to get out
of China as one step toward lasting peace.

“even if they so desired,” and called for the

“demilitarization and democratization” of
Germany as another ste

Pp toward “stable and lasting peace.

Followins are the questions and answers:
: ; NO WAR DANGER AT PRESENT

Q. Do you believe in a real danger of a “new war”
of which at the present time so much irresponsible talk is
f£o0ing on throughout the world? What steps must be taken
for preventing ‘of war if such danger exists?

A. I do not-believe in a real danger of a “new war.’’
Those clamoring about 2 “new war” ehiefly from military—
political intellisence agents and their supporters from
among civilian, officials. They need this clamor if only for
the purposes:

alg (a) To frighten with the specter of war certain naive
se politicians from among their counter-agents and thereby.
help their government to wrest more concessions from the
counter-agents, :

(b) Lo make it difficult for some time to cut military
budgets of their countries. ay

(c) To put a brake on demobilization of troops and
thereby evade the quick growth of unemployment in their
countries.

One shouid strictly differentiate between the hue and
cry about a “new war? which is taking place now and a
real danger of a “new war” which does not exist at present.

SEES NO ENCIRCLEMENT’ POSSIBLE

Q. Do you believe that Great Britain and the US. are
consciously creating for the Soviet Union a “capitalistic
encirclement” ?

A. £ do not think that the ruling circles of Great Bri-
tain and the U.S. could create a “capitalistic encirclement”
for the Soviet Union even if they so desired, which, how-
ever, I cannot assert.

PACTS BAR UTILIZATION OF REICH

¢

@. In the words of Henry Wallace, used in his last speech, can Britain, western HMurope and
the U.S. be certain that Soviet policy in Germany will not turn into an instrument of Rus-
Si2a ambitions against western Burope? eee :

A. Tf believe utilization of Germany by the Soviet Union against western Europe to be
precluded. I believe it is precluded not only because the Soviet Union is bound by ao treaty
of mutual “assistance against German aggression with Great Britains and France and with the
US. by the decisions of the Potsdam conference of the Big Three powers, but also because the
police of utilization of Germany against western Europe and the U.S. would mean a departure
of the Soviet Union from its fundamental nation interests, Briefly. speaking, the policy of the
Soviet Union on the German problem amounts to the demilitarization and democratization of
Germany.

I believe that the demilitarization and democratization of Germany represents one of the

most important guarantees for stable and lasting: peace.

CALES ACCUSATION ABSURD

@- What is your opinion concerning the accusation to the effect that the policy of the
Communist parties of western Europe is dictated by Moscow? ;

Az ‘This accusation I belieye to be absurd, borrowed from the bankrupt arsenal of Hitler
"and “Goebbels.

FRIENDLY RELATIONS POSSIBLE

i i ibili i tin cooperation of the Soviet
believe in the possibility of friendly and last £ ) : ‘
U: a aa ee eskorn democracies, despite the existence of ideological differences, and in
tng aera competition” between the two systems which Wallace mentioned in his speech?
oO

A. ff absolutely believe so.

2 the visit of the (British) Labor party delegation you expressed, I under-
ose nae ete «possibility of friendly relations between the Soviet Union and Great
Piein What would help in the estaplishment of these relations which are so ardently de-
sired by the wide masses of the British people?

i ibili i lations between the Soviet
i dad confident of the possibility of friendly re twe
hits ne ee Soe The strengthening of political, trade and cultural ties ‘between these
countries would considerably contribute to the establishment of such relations.

URGES TROOPS’ WITHDRAWAL

Q@. Do you believe in the earliest withdrawal of all U.S. troops from China to be vital for
the future peace?

A. Yes, I do.

ATOM’: BOMBS INSUFFICIENT :
Q@. Do you believe that virtual monopoly by the USA of the atomic bomb constitutes one

of the main threats to peace? ‘ 7 ae ais
tomic bomb to be as serious a force as certain politic s

1 i A 3 ee a nie epanibe are intended for intimidating weak nerves, but they can-

inclined to rega: teome of war, since atomic bambs are by no means sufficient for this pur-

oes estas ae TG possession of the secret of the atomic bomb does create a threat,

but at least two remedies exist against it:
(@) Menopolistic possession of the atomic bomb cannot last long.

(b) Application of the atomic bomb will be prohibited.

POSSIBILITIES OF COOPERATION a : : :
i ’ i further progress of the Soviet nion toward commun-
- Do ou believe that with the : : ;
ism She Bee ities of peaceful cooperation with ene outside world ania decrease as far
as the Soviet Union is concerned? Is “communism in one country” possible?
t doubt that the possibilities of peaceful cooperation, far POD PESPEASIAS, may
ae Be ota in one country” is perfectly possible, especially in a country like the
a 2 Srow.

Soviet Union.

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The First ASGEES=10N, has played a great Part in the talks of
Politicians since the outbreak of the war. The United

Aggressor Nations had as its main reason for coming into exist
ence as a political foree in world affairs, the ending for all time of
ageression as a4 means of dealing with relationships between nations.
This idea lay at the bottom of Roosevelt's conception of such an
organization and Roosevelt was undoubtedly the father of that body.
it is then a Sinister, and damnable, indication of the fact that
Roosevelt’s ideaj has been sidetracked a long way smce his death
to find that the first 2geressor nation since the founding of the
United Nations is the United, States.
The actions of U.S. imperialist representatives in their dealings
with smaller powers are only different in degree from those of the
Nazis under Hitler. fhe insolent, arrogant and truculent behaviour
of these gangsters
fruits of the brains of

Czechoslovakia or
Union.

At the conference on Post-war aviation, Participated in by
the nations of the United Wations, which was hela in Montreal
about a year ago, a feeling prevailed that the air should be free
to all civil aviation. The domineering attitude of the U.S. represent-
atives was responsible for dispelling that feeling. They opposed it
and were successful in establishing the propesition that no civil
Planes should fly over the territory of another country than their

subjected to ferocious
preposterous punishment.

Wor is this high-handed aggression aimed at any one particular
country; it is applied to all countries. With the control of the atom
bomb. U.S. imperialism seeks to become the supreme world dictator.
@he reactionary Senator Vandenberg at the Peace Conference, de—
manding a voice for the United States in the control of the Danube
waterway. is Carrying out this policy of blustering ageression, It
would be just as logical for the Soviet Union to demand a seat on
the authorities controlling the Suez canal, the Panama canal and
the St. Laurence waterways.

The stand of American imperialism on the Dardanelles question
is also part of that policy of world: aggression. Hor just as the elaim:
to own porperty is a denial of the right of all other people to own
it, conversely, so the denial ef the Soviet Union’s Claim to protect
herself in the Dardanelles. the back door to her land. is a claim
of America’s right to the Dardanelles.

‘Peace NOTHER chapter has been added to that. “horrid tale
5 4 of perjury and strife. murder and spoil; which men
Crimes call history.” The Nurenberg trial is over. In about 56

Per cent of its findings it was 4 farce. There was too much law and
not enough justice.

If there was any difference in degree in the criminality of the
Sang of murderers, rapists, torturers and incendiaries in the dock,
that could have been allowed for certainly, but not in the manner
the court decided. The least guilty should have been hanged at least
onee, the more guilty twice and the most Guilty three times. That
should have been done on the basis that not to punish such crinre
as it deserves is to encourage it

That Baldur yon Shirach, who was Hitler’s medium for the
corruption and perversion of a whole generation of German youth
should be sent to prison for 20 years, is a erime itself for which the
Nuernberg court will be held responsible before the bar of history:
is with the exception of the Soviet judge who rendered 2
minority decision.

It is criminal too, that the U-boat heroes, the scoundrelly Raeder
and Doenitz, whose toll of murder is listed in the thousands of
unarmed seamen of the allied and neutral nations who went “down
to the sea” to return no more. x

And,

as the

Dimitrov S the trial went on, reading the little we were

5 allowed to learn of it through our “free”? press,
and Goering we were often compelled to wonder if the dope-
addict Goering remembered while sitting in that court, of another
court in which he was also a prominent figure—in Leipzig, where the
proletarian hero, Dimitroy, defended himself, his party and the
working class.

Dimitrov was so relentless in his defense of Communism, that
Goering, foaming at the mouth, advanced, on him with clenched
fists, shouting, “I did not come here in order that you might question
me like a judge, in order that you might hurl reproaches at me.
You are a scoundrel who ought to have been on the gallows tongs:
ago!”

Although Goering was only a witness, he ordered the police to
remove Dimitroy from the court, which was done while Goering
shouted after him, “You are a scoundrel! IT am not afraid of you!
Look out—don’t fall into my hands when you get outside this court!”

The political situation today in Europe proves who was right in
the Leipzig court. The blustering, hysterical, dope-inspired Goering
is a2 convicted criminal, a monstrous eriminal, who in a few days
from the writing of this will have met a well-merited fate as such,
a dishonorable death by hanging. a

Dimitrov is the leader of a nation which he hnetped to save
from fascism, He is honored and respected by his fellows, many of
them former victims of Goering and his Nazi hordes. He is helping
his country to establish a democracy of a higher order than Byrnes
ever knew, one where the press does not carry its daily story of
negro-lynching and the elubbine of striking workers.

ERIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1946