The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-15
Seventh InStalIment)
4. THE LEGEND OF THE "NON-AGRESSION

4. THE LEGEND OF THE "NON-AGRESSION
PACT"
THE Popuaire Of June % published an article
by Leon Blum entitled Unity of Action"-an
article in which he expressed himself against unity
of action. The editorial board of the PopuIare, Of
which Leon Blum is political head, supplemented
this article by trick On the pretext that the
editors of the paper, Gin view of the armistice
of the bourgeois parties" desire "the armistce
Of the proetsrian parties it published two docu-
ments side by side: the text of the Franco-SoW
Ncn-Aggression Pact and the draft of so
cialist- Communist Non-Aggresson Pact"
If I member of the French Socialist
Party, I would have answered this article of Leon
Blum and the trick of his editorial board as
follows:
Dear Leon Blum and dear editors Of the Popu-
1are Il am in favor of the unity of action of all
French prole5arans, whether Socialists Commu-
nists Confederatives or Unitarian trade unonists
[ am IN favor OF 1t with my whole heart and with
my whole understanding I demand Of the lead
ers of the Communist Party of France as we'll
as of the leaders Of my own party, that they
take this unity of action and also us individual
workers, seriously. But I protest against the fact
that you, dear Leon Blum and the editors of the
POpuIaire little disposed to take us seriously
that in the central organ of the French Socialist
Party-Surey not with the intention OF forging a
document-you have reprinted the Non-Aggres-
sion Pact between France and the Soviet Union
in falsifed form Among the names which are
here produced signatories to the pact, the name
of the Soviet Ambassador in Paris, Dovgalevsky
is preceded by that of Comrade Stain general
secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union. We Socialist workers too know that
Comrade Stain is a statesman of world historical
Importance but know equally well that he is
not state functlonary of the Soviet Union and
therefore does not sign any international treaties.
ATTACKS BLUMS FRIVOLITY
"We would prefer it if the editors of the Popu-
laire, upon such serious occasion, did not dis
play such frivolity.
But still more strongly do protest against
the fact that the editors of the PopuIaire regard
our relation to our Communist class comrades as
identical with the relation between the Socialist
Soviet Union and the bourgeois Republic of France
Do you not think that this is an insult to the
Socialist workers?
Despite the vast number of articles by o.
Rosenfeld published in the Pcpulaire, we know
that the Soviet Union is proletarisn state Despite
the articles of Frossard, know that France is a
republic OF French imperialism. We also know
that the Soviet Union, as proletarian state has
made the cause OF peace its own cause. It is in
terested in doing SO since peace is necessary for
the continuation and completion of the work of
socialist construction. To it is quite clear that
the Soviet Union concludes treaties with all bour-
geosie states in order to secure peace. This also
serves the interests of the whole international pro-
letarian. We know likewise that the Soviet Union