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ton of peace. calling forth the
greatest irritation in those coun-
tries whose governing circles set
themselves the objective Of force
and military solution Of the i'm
perialist contradictions.
In his speech. the French Min
lister Of Foreign Affairs also men
toned Frances interest, and the
invitation to the US.S.R. to join
the League of Nations. In a num-
Der of other countries, mainly
small ones, fearing that they will
be unable to resist involvement in
the conflict between the big i'm
peraist powers, and become VIC
tins of these conflicts, recently
the idea has acquired increasing
popularity that only the partici-
patton of the U.S.SR. in the
League of Nations could convert
it from an organization which
separate great powers try to utl-
lie for their imperialist aims, into
an organ at least somewhat facili-
tating the struggle against the war
danger.
Actually Japan and Germany,
leaving the League of Nations, are
namely, countries Which do not
even consider it necessary to hide
their determination by rearma-
ment to realize annexations and
wars. Their imperialist appetites
put forward the question whether
the League of Nations cannot to a
certain extent, become gathering
place for forces, which, regardless
of motive, are prepared at present
to retard a bloody solution of the
contradiction, facilitate at least the
relative strengthening Of peace.
THE dialectics Of the develop
ment of imperialist contradiction
which led to the fact that the old
League of Nations, which was
planned as an instrument for the
enslavement Of small, dependent
and colonial countries, and prepa-
rations for anti-Soviet intervention,
turned out, in the process of the
struggle of imperialist groupings as
an arena in which, as Litvinoff
stated at the last session Of the
Central Executive Committee of the
USS.R.:
Apparently. that trend is
triumphing which is interested in
the preservation of peace. This
perhaps explains the profound
change noticeable in the compo-
sition of the League"
Even before the speech of the
French Minister of Foreign Affairs.
a turbulent discussion commenced
in the international press around
the project of inviting the U. S. S.
R. to join the League of Nations.
Imperialists Fear Soviet Peace
Policy
Opponents to this invitation,
primarily, turned out to be coun-
tries which recently left this body,
because to certain extent It ham
pered the fulfillment of their ag-
gressive intentions. It is very Gu
rious that the press, precisely in
these countries, commenced an aim
less discussion of the subject Of the
conditions Of invitation, or accept
ance of the U. S. S. R. of the League
of Nations. This discussion was
without object because the question
of invitation or non-invitation of
the Soviet Union in the League in
general does not depend on these
countries. The question of the &C.
ceptance or non-acceptance of a
possible invitation will be decided
only by the Soviet Union, based en-
tirely upon the interests of the
struggle for peace.
THE very presentation of the
question of invitation to the Soviet
Union to join the League of Ma
tions is new proof of the growth
and international Importance, of
the prestige of the Soviet Union,
the country of the victorious con-
struction of the socialist society, the
country whose uncrushable power
is the most important power for
peace.
The forces striving to destroy
this peace are afraid, not without
reason, Of the growing international
Importance of the Soviet Union.
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