The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-09
USSR WRITES A
NEW PAGE in ITS
FIGHT FOR PEACE
For Charter Rights of
S a f e t y and
Independence
AFFECTS ALL NATIONS
Defines an Aggressor;
Supports Oppressed
BY n. BUCHWALD.
European Correspondent. Daily
Worker.

Worker.
MOSCOW, Feb. S.-(By RAJ
dio).-In an editorial "Char-
ter Rights of Nations Safety
and independence" the Soviet
paper 'Tzvestia" comments on
Maxim Litvinoff's speech at
the disarmament" conference,
in which the Soviet delegate
boldly defined an aggressor nation.
After many years of preparation,
"Izvestia" writes, the disarmament
conference made no step forward
during the past year. being unable
to find q way out of the net of con-
tradictions in which all the imperial
ist powers are ertangled. The Soviet
delegation advanced a plan for in
ternational disarmament, it demand
cd that all powers shall throw out
the monstrous modern means OF war
as unnecessary rubbish. rejecting the
principle of force in the solution oil
disputable questions. The capitalist
politicians rejected the Soviet pro-
posals under the pretext that they
are utopian and demagogic. The So
Wet Union then advanced a mini
mum program for the reduction OF
ornaments by so per cent. This also
has been rejected as unreal"
The conference itself, however, was
unable to elaborate any real program
for arms reduction. 1t raised the idea
of safety" in opposition to the So
Wet proposals Litvinoff's speech at
the conference on Monday wrenches
the safety argument from the
hands of those who wish to represent
certain nations as the only ones ca
pable of attacking others. But how
is one to define who is the attacker?
The imperialistS have baked at such
a definition. Litvinoff answers this
fundamental question in way which
admits Of no eyaSions. He boldly de-
fines as an aggreSsor that country
which first invades the territory OF
another or which attacks by sea, land
or air forces another country, or
finally declares a blockade against
another country. T h IS definition
once and for all puts an end to any
SANDER of Red imperialism" against
the Soviet Union. Jitvfnoff declared
in front of all the world that the
u. S. S. r. doesn't intend to resort to
attacking anyone. Let other great
powers and their vassals display a
similar readiness to reject force in
international relations or have the
courage to openly reject the Soviet
proposals.
Rights of Oppressed Nations.
Does the Soviet declaration imply
that the Soviet Union recognizes the
sanctity of existing frontiers which
as is known in many cases do not cor
respond to the iaterest Of the OPP
pressed Municipalities? No! The So
Wet declaration does not reject the
right of the national masses to change
these fronties by force.
In front of the entire world, the
Soviet Union has advanced a propo-
sal which is of the greatest histo-
rical significance. Faced with the
menace of armed intervention, which
increases yearly, the Soviet Union has
advanced a great program which can
give all nations the feeling of GER
titude of tomorrow and enable them
to adopt course of reduction of ar
maments. The charter rights of ma
lions to safety and independence pro-
posed by the Soviet delegation con-
stitutes concrete demands which
would convince every one who really
wishes to ensure the safety Of ma
tons. The imperia listic powers will
not be able to uproot these proposals
from the consciousness of the ma
tional masses Should the "Disarma
ment" Conference reject these propo-
sails then the worse for world impe-
rialism, whose real aims will thus
become obvious to all toilers.
BY It's proposal of charter rights of
safety and independence for the ma
tions, Soviet diplomacy has written
a splendid page in the glorious his
tory of the struggle for peace which
the Soviet proletariat are conducting
under the direction of the Soviet CO.
yerpment. All those who hate inn
perialistic wars and crave peace will
advance this charter as their de-