The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-22
Soviet Union
Strengthens
Defense Corps
c. P. S. U. ReOrganizes
Forces, Emphasizing
Peace Policies
Especial to tn. Daily worker)

MOSCOW, June 81 CBy RADIO -
The Central Executive Committee
of the U. S. S. r. has just published
a decree regarding the reorganiza-
ton of the War and Navy Com
missariat of Defense, following the
general organizational lines laid
down by the decisions Of the 18th
Communist Party Congress
Strengthening the Capitalization of
management, liquidating the col
legiums in elective organs, etc..
The government thus liquidates
the collegium of the CommiSsariat
Of War and Navy, and also the
Revolutionary Military Council. The
Commissariat of War and Navy was
renamed Commissariat of Defense.
The two assistants appointed to him
are Gamarnik and Tukhachevsky.
Isvestia, organ of the Soviet Gov
eminent, in an editorial on the
Transforming of the Commissariat
of War and Navy into the Commits
sariat Of Defense, writes that:
"A great political idea underlies
the remaining of the Commissariat.
1t stresses the idea that the whole
military art of the U. S. S. r. is
matter of defense, excluding any
desire for aggression, attack or ex-
pansion. By their very essence the
Soviet Army and Soviet Fleet
naturally never we're or could be
weapons of attack. This could not
be more graphically stressed than
in the naming of the Council of La
Dor and Defense. Now this is again
emphasized with all force in the
remaining Of the War Commissariat
itself.
''Litvinoff, in one of his recent
speeches, has already stated that
the Soviet military are the most
ardent agents in the policy of peace.
In this respect there is no resem-
blance in the U. S. S. r. to the
capitalist countries, where the gen.
eral staffs are specialists in mill
tary corporation, usually constitut-
ing a nucleus of a so-called mill
tary party" mostly inclined toward
adventurous attack upon neighbors;
toward a policy of firm military
hand; toward a solution of all or
any problems by fire and sword"
Firm Peace Policy
This occurs because specialists of
military art in the capitalist coun-
tries represent a military caste
which extends the policy of even
their own class beyond the necessary
limits; therefore they mouthe;
More royalist than the king
Nothing common is observed with
u.s.
Since the ruling class of the Soviet
country are the proletariat they are
conducting policy of peace which
is opposed in principle tc agrees
sion, which is expressed in the en-
tire general foreign political life of
the party government. The Soviet
military have no special policy, do
not constitute any military party
This does not mean at all that the
Soviet Army is outside the policy
1t is the agent, and conscious agent
OF the party government policy.
Being gigantic school, the great
labor and cultural force of the So
Wet country, the Soviet army, Soviet
fleet are ready at any moment to
defend their socialist fatherland.
But all forces of technical and
economic manpower resources which
the Soviet Army possesses constitute
the reserves Of the Soviet country
for peaceful construction, and are
not, as is the case in capitalist coun-
tries contrary to it."