The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-27
The U.S.S.R. and Peace

ERESH from his studies under Hitler,
Hearst comes back with a vicious blast
backing the Nazis' policies in the Saar,
charging France with being the war ag-
gressor The implication, of course, is
since the distorted statements of the French deputy
Archimbaud the Soviet's peace policy that the
U.S.SR is involved
This is the response of all the fascist forces
supporting Hitler to the revolutionary peace policy
Of the Soviet Union. Making clear to the entire
world that German fascsm and Japanese imperial
ism were driving the world to new slaughter the
Soviet Union entered into mutual assistance pacts
with France and other countries offering the same
pacts to Germany and Poland as we'll as to all
Eastern European countries
These mutual assistance pacts provided that in
order to secure peace in the face of the open
to war of certain imperalist countries at this time
that the countries entering into the pacs give one
another every help against the country who proved
to be the aggressor. The Soviet Unions definition
of aggressor included in all of the security pacts
signed by the workers fatherland declaring that
country aggressor which puts its armed forces
across the border of another country
Naturally, this powerful buwark of peace of the
Soviet Union aroused the hysterica vtuperation of
those countries who making ready to revise the
boundaries Of Europe and the world by immediate
armed force
The Soviet Union, the world fortress of the pro-
letarian revolution, fighting in the interests of the
toling and oppressed masses of the whole world is
ready to use all the forces of its growing powerful
Socialist society to block the movements of those
imperialst powers who want to plunge the world
into new, criminal imperalist war.
THE UsSR strives for alliances for peace, utiliz-
ing the imperialist conflicts to the detriment
of those imperalist countries who want war NOW
AS Litvinov, Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs
declared: "The guiding principle of our foreign
policy is outlined in Stalins brief but expressive
formula We do not covet foreign land, but not
single inch of our will we yield. 1t follows that
once we do not want foreign land, we do not want
wars"
This is the answer TO all of the enemies of the
Soviet Union who try to draw an analogy between
the peace alliances of the Soviet Union today and
the imperialst war alliances of Czarst Russia with
France The pre-war alliances we're formed on the
assumption of the community of interests of certain
powers and the antagonism of interests as against
other powers
Inc powers with kindred interests undertook to
support each other against the powers with interests
antagonistic to theirs The Soviet Unions peace
security pacts, however circulated with only one
aln1-namely, to preserve peace They assume Joint
action on the part of all signatories to the pact
COuAlGIy violate peace. linus
they provide a counter-weeht to the violation of
peace, no matter from what side it may come, and
strengthen the security of all signatories equally
But no matter how the Soviet Union strives and
nights for peace utilizing every possibility of action
against those powers driving to war now the major
acnon against imperialist and for the defense
of the USSR rests in the allies of the proletarian
dictatorship in all capitalist countries the working
masses.
The peace policy of the Soviet Union backed by
the masses in the land of Socialism, together with
the revolutionary struggle against war in the i'm
periast countries is the most potent force making it
dlflcult for the imperialists to plunge the world
into new slaughter.
It is no accident that the Trotzkyite counter
reyoutlonsts raise their voice in unison with Hearst
and the German fascists and Japanese mperiasts
against the Soviet Unions peace policy, and its
actions to guarantee peace.