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-But it appears that the Rus- Sians possesS at least an ele mentary knowledge of mathe- Mmatics. Given the line-up, any ‘school child can tell you that Byrnes and Attlee will muster a majority at the Paris Peace Conference, while they cannot always be certain of a two- thirds vote. On the other hand, the Soviet Union is always sure to lose on a simple majority vote, but has some chance of blocking an Angle-American de- mand by one-third of the votes.

It was this plain fact that Molotov pointed out to the rules committee of the peace confer- ence, when Byrnes sought to re— mounce the agreement on pro- cedure reached by the Big Four Foreign Ministers: :

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After Molotov related the sim- pie facts of life, devoid of the faney “demecratic” trimmings with which our Secretary of State likes to adorn them, Byrnes was as ruffled and peeved as a2 man could be. No magician who has built up an elaborate facade for his act likes to have his trick exposed in public.

And Byrnes had taken great pains to prepare the Paris Con- ference with more than the us- ual amount of verbiage about democratic processes and the right of small nations. He could really afford te let himself go on these matters, for he thought that the outcome of any vote in Paris was as certain as a South Carolina’ election.

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Diplomacy by addition dates back to the San Francisco Con- ference, where the United WNa- tions was chartered. Its birth coincides with the emergence of the “get tough” spirit in offi- Cial Washington, and the swing toward ganging up against the Soviet Union.

Among the great victories of that policy at San Francisco was the admission of Argentina Gyhose yote Washington is still trying to sew up) and the ex- clusion of Poland from the ini- tial UN gathering. Ever since, there has been a terrific Anglo- American drive, trimmed with the usual small nation] chatter, to get all important issues be- fore big and “democratic” gath- erings where the Anglo-Ameri- Can adding machine could be put to work.

“From the beginning, the math- ematiecs of the Anglo-American bloc was seen as the alternative to peacemaking by unanimous

By JAMES ALLEN

Anglo-U.S. arithmetic falsifies _ democracy in vote manipulation

uld seem a rather painless way to make peace. The

could be determined in advance by counting upon Mr. is sure to get from the Anglo-American bloc. ~

decisions of the Big Powers. Al- though the United States was among the first to insist upon the so-called veto power in the Security Council, at a time when its policy was still pointed to— ward Big Three understanding, it is now among those leading the fight against the unanimity principle.

Byrnes now operates on the opposite principle of isolating the Soviet Union through pre- arranged agreements with Bri- tain, on the basis of which their majority bloc can be. mustered in the Security Council, the Par- is Peace Conference or the forth- coming United Nations Assem- bly. Even in Paris, where the proportionate Soviet strength is greater than in any other gath- ering likely te be convened by

the Anglo-American bloc often places the Soviet UWnion in the position of opposing a “majority” view. But this must be seen in its true light as a fight against Anglo-American dictation of the peace.

The Anglo-American com- mands a numerical and not a democratic majority. The more democratic the ‘world becomes, the less would be that majority. For it so happens that the dem- ocratic advance of the nations of Europe and of the colonial world can be measured by the Gegree to which they are able to free themselves from the im- perialist domination and pres- sure of the United States and Britain, <

While many of the measures

_advocated by Byrnes bear a for-

The Byrnes-Bevin bloc talk peace, but their formula of atomic diplomacy, plus political loans, plus ‘simple ma-

jorities’ lead only to war.

the United Nations, Byrnes and his bloc enjoy an easy majority. Se

For the time being, the Soviet Union can be mechanically out- voted in any United Nations gathering. And while the United States no longer needs the for- mal veto power because it en- joys it in practice, the principle of unanimity has become even more vital te the Soviet Union. It is one way of assuring eqzaal- ity for itself as a world power in relation tq Britain and the United States. It is an impor- tant weapon to be employed to prevent decisions unfavorable to -the Soviet Union and to the new democracies of Murope.

This manipulation of votes by

. mal resemblance to democratic practice, in essence they are no more democratic than the white primaries or the techniques of imperialist rule. Even the white primary uses a democratic form, the secret ballot, but this does not hide the complete denial of democracy in disfranchising the Negro.

At Paris a wholesale disfran- chisement is being sought, which would exclude the Soviet Union and the peoples of liberated Eur- ope from an equal voice in the peace. Molotov spoke out firm- ly at Paris against this diplom- acy by addition, which would foist upon the world a policy compounded of the atombomb and the white primary.

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American imperialism has hatched a vulture.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 11

_ Allied policy in Germany

The Facts About the Soviet Eastern Zone and the- Allied Western Zones.

By IVOR MONTAGU

BERLIN. Wee is beaind the agitation now busily geing on in official quarters around the “economic unity” of Germany? The Secret conversations between Bevin, Byrnes and Bidault—with Molotov. excluded—even while the recent Paris Conference was going no?

The plain fact is that the Soviet zone is being run success- fully. The Allied Western zones are not:

@he British and U.S. zones are costing millions in subsidies and and expensive administrative apparatus to maintain at 4 poverty food level,

Ehe Soviet zone is a going concern. The Nazis are down, democracy is undér way, peace industries are reviving, ra- tions on tke increase. There is a general level of production and prosperity above that of the other zones. The zone is beginning, apparently, to afford reparations in repayment of some petty fraction of Russia’s gigantic losses. ‘

Faced with this crushing contrast, the British and U.S.

governments cry out for implementation of the Potsdam in- junction to treat Germany as an “economic unit.” _ Of course Germany should be treated as an economic unit. The wrongs inflictea by the German people are a responsibil- ity of them all. They must be regarded as a. whole when it is decided what capital or products shall be apportioned to their victims, at what rate they. themselves shall be permitted to improve their own lot, and so forth.

But the Byrnes-Bevin outcry is a much simpler one. It is that produce should be taken from the Soviet zone, which is being, successfully run, to make up for deficiencies in the Western zone.

Here are the facts. The present population distribution in Germany, though denser in the now more limited boundaries as a whole, is apportioned in relation to the Various zones rather similarly to pre-war.

Official figures are not forcoming. When they are, it may. be predicted, they will be much as follows: Soviet zone, 18,000,- 000; British, 20;000,000; American, 17,000,000; French, 7,000,000; Berlin, 3,500,000. . :

- Ehus the Western zones include two-thirds of the popula- tion, the Soviet zone (which is also the main source for Berlin) fractionally less than a third.

The Soviet zone agricultural land comprises (1937 figures) _ just over one-third of the total agricultural land of what is now Germany. (17,840,000 acres—35 percent of that total; the three Western zones added together include 32,900,000. Peat

As agricultural land for this purpose IT am reckoning all engaged in vegstable food production of any kind —grain* po. tatoes, greens, beets. a (This is a not unfair balance, particularly because ‘and’ was much more devastated in the East than in the West, where}, the battles were less fierce.) - : :

The average productivity of the land is, for all the most important food crops, greater in the Western zone than in the Hastern zone.

Saxony alone, of the Soviet-occupied German zone, ranked

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near the top in the lists of grain yield per acre.

For rye—the most important German grain crop, both U.S. and British zone soils showed a higher average yield than the Soviet zone average. :

Consider livestock. The Soviet zone areas showed 16 to 24 head of cattle per 100 acres of agricultural acreage, the British 28-36, Wurtemberg and Bavaria (in the U.S. zone) 36-40.

A- study of these figures leaves the conclusion inescapable. The resources are not disproportionately distributed. A differ- ence of success east or west is due not to resources but to the way the respective zones are run. 4

What is this staggering falsehood then designed to cover up?

The motives for Western zone “integration” are quite dif- ferent from those stated by its advocates,

One does not make two bankrupt businesses solvent by amalgamating them. The British and American zones are do- ing badly not because they were divided by Potsdam or be- cause of carrying out the Potsdam agreement.

The deficiencies in the western zones are due rather to failure to implement Potsdam—failure to remove and dis— credit the Nazi-minded; failure to encourage the democratic development from below which alone Can revive life and humanity in Germany.

And this is not accidental.

The masters of the Western zones have never had the slightest intention of implementing the Potsdam agreement loyally. Class loyalties prevent them.

They will not demilitarize, because their highest officers are unwilling to discredit the Wehrmacht. They will not denazify, because in the compromised industrialists they see the bulwark against Bolshevism. They will not detrustify, because the Ger- man trust chiefs have powerful colleagues in Britain and Am- erica.

And in the political field their perpetual obsession prevent the unification of the working class. :

The real objective of the British and U-S. “integration” policy in Germany is to separate West from East, so as to have a pretext for maintaining a costly museum and men- acing arsenal of reactionaries in the West — exactly the _ classes and individuals who were so disastrously fostered after the last war. And’ they try to divert attention from what they are doing by placing the blame on the Soviet Union.

These games Lave been played before, and they have al- ways brought catastrophe.

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1946