The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-23
Page Four
The Peace Policy of the y. S. S. R.

THE peace policy and peace proposals OF tne
y. S. S. r have always been an eyesore TO
the capitalists and their governments. The
Soviet proposals for universal disarmament
which we're made by the Soviet delegation IN
Geneva, at the preparatory commission on dis
armament about three years ago, shed bright
light on the underhand play Of the imperial
lists for whom the talks about peace and dis
armament serve only as a cover for new and
furious ornaments and the preparation OF new
wars This proposal was recognized by Messrs'
BRAND. Macdonald and Zalesky as too radical
In reply to this the Soviet delegation introduced
a project of partial disarmament which entalled
a real reduction in the armies war stocks ana
ornaments. This proposal was rejected by the
inaperialist members of the conference. The
necessity for the further expenditure OF mllllards
on cruisers, guns, shells and the manufacture
If new poison gases, the imperialist governments
tried to defend in the eyes of the masses by the
existence in the East of huge proIetarlan staIe'
which recognizes neither the bourgeois order nor
private property, nor even god, and represents
tremendous danger for the world. At the Gen
eva Conferences fascist Poland and Rumania
supported
cynically declared that for them there can be
no question of disarmament since they are
threatened by the danger Of an attack on the
part of the Bolsheviks. Fascist Finland sue
ceeded in obtaining the adoption by the League
Of Nations of its proposal which guarantees any
country subjected" to an attack the financial
support of the League The League of Nations,
the blind weapon of the French and British i'm
perialists, will be the one to decide as to who
was the aggressor. In accepting the proposal OF
Finland the League of Nations knew quite well
that what was in question was an open anti
soviet manifestation. The Soviet delegation
said: You assure us that you cannot disarm
only on account of us and that we stand in the
way of universal disarmament. We are pre-
pared to disarm simultaneously with you under
public control. Already now our army is half
the size of the army of the former TZarist Rus
sia Already now the land of the victorious
proletariat surrounded on all sides by enemies,
is spending on its defense many times less than
you are spending, as it devotes all its attention
to peaceful labor and the raising of the ma
terial and cultural level of the toiling masses.
With all their hostility to the Soviet Repub-
lies the inperialists were compelled outwardly
to take account of the proposals of the Sov1ets.
They tried to discredit these proposals by chat
ter about the Soviet projects not being serious,
that they we're too "exreme" and that their
only object was propaganda" 1t was just this
which made clear their refusal Of any kind Of
disarmament and assisted in their own ex-
posture in the eyes of millions of toiers.
And now, when under the shocks of the econ
on1ic crisis, the danger of new imperia1ist wars,
and intervention and an armed attack on the
USSR. has enormously intensified the Soviet
Union has again come forward with peace pro-
posals as a reply to the wicked and criminal
policy of the imperialists and their agents, the
Second and Amsterdam Internationals. Of what
are they accusing the workers and peasants Of
the Soviet Union? Under the cover of which
arguments are they now conducting unceasing
preparations for an armed attack on the Soviet
Union? The bourgeois governments, the cap-
talist and social-fascist press say to the work
ers and peasants of their countries whom the
bourgeois are subjecting to the biggest priva-
tons which are continuously increasing as a re-
suit of the crisis: Do you not see that it is the
Soviet Union which must be blamed for the fact
that we are reducing your wages, that we are
depriving you of work and that we are decreas-
ing unemployment relief? 1t is Soviet dumping
which is to be blamed for all this. The Soviet
Government with the assistance Of forced la
Dor, produces cheap commodities which 1t eX-
ports abroad and sells at dumping prices with
the insidious object of exploding the economics
Of capitalist countries. The full falsity of these
arguments becomes clear at once when it is re-
called that the Soviet exports form but an in
significant part of the world export trade, that
the orders for machinery and equipment to the
value of millions, are now in a period of crisis
feeding the industries of such countries rs Eng
land. Germany and the United States, and are
providing work for tens of thousands of work
srs. The export of Soviet grain, in regard to
which so much noise was raised; is at the pres