The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-18
Of august 1885, BY special permission Of The A7jcan Mn, Lc
By HERBERT WILTON STANLEY

International at Moscow adopted the new policy Of
the United Front for all official communist parties
throughout the world, INCLUDING THE UNITED
STATES Briefly, this policy required that commun-
lists abandon their former sectarian attitude Of total
opposition to all other non communist radical groups
and enter into United Front alliances with Socialists
and Leftwing liberals to agitate specific issues.
1.-TWO detectives have been accomplished by this
strategy. First, a vast public has been brought
into the orbit of communist influence by such
Red championship Of specific causes, public which
the Comrades hope eventually will be shepherded into
the actual communist movement. Second, by DISCUS
ing themselves as champions of civil liberties, or
Negro rights or immigrant welfare, or world peace
communist agitators have won an immunity from at
tack WHICH THEY WOULD NOT ENJOY IN OPEN
ROLES. THUS, WHENEVER A HEARST Or A
CHALLAUX ATTACKS A COMMUNIST WHO
AT THE MOMENT MAY BE DOUBLING IN
BRASS AS A FUNCTONARY OF THE AMERI-
CAN LEAGUE AGAINST WAR AND FASCISM,
THE INDIGNANT COMRADE CAN SHREK
"RED-BAITER" AND APPEAL TO A LIBERTY
LOVING PUBLIC TO RALLY TO HIS DEFENSE
IN THIS "UNAMERICAN" PERSECUTION OF A
FOE OF "FASCISM." It is indeed, an extremely
convenient device for turning defendant into prose-
eutor before the bar of mudded public thinking. -.
An examination of the literature of the League
demonstrates that PEACE Is NOT THE PRIMARY
OBJECTIVE OF ITS EFFORTS "The points of
continuous emphasis at present" pamphlet de-
cares, ARE (1) activity toward the stopping of the
Halo- Ethiopian war, and the prevention of conflict
in the Far East, and (2) opposition to growing
American fascism as expressed by the of troops
the American Legion, Law and Order committees,
and vigilantes in strikes and labor conflicts 80"
~ COURSE, such program bluntly reveals
the disingenuousness of the pretense Of pacif
ism NONE OF THE ABOVE ACTIVITIES
HAS ANY LEGITIMATE PLACE IN A.GENUINE
PEACE MOVEMENT. 1t should be obvious, even to
the most gulhble, that American activity against
Italy and Japan would lead the United States not to
peace, but to INEVITABLE PARTICIPATION IN
WAR. But both programs would STRENGTHEN
SOVIET RUSSIA, whose interests demand the curb
ing of the fascist nations in Europe and the inveig
ling of the United States into the expected future
war in Manchuria- Of course; such manipulation of
American public opinion, in the interests of Russia
is the actual purpose of the League under the cant
of pacifSt phrases.
Moreover, it is highly difficult to reconcile the
campaign of the League against MIR. Hearst with any
other but communist detectives Whatever opinion
one may hold of Hearst journalism, there can be
little question that during the last eighteen months
he has rendered yeoman service in exposing the
propaganda maneUveTs of the communist movement.
1t is for this that the League is penazng him, and
not for any mythical fascist" desigrz Since the
Hearst press commenced its campaign against
munism, widespread movement has been initiated
by the League to infame RACIAL GROUPS to boycott
Hearst papers by appealing to antiNazi emotions.
In New York, groups of League members have been
organized to go from theater to theater, protesting
the Hearst newsrees with the object of frightening
theater owners into caneellng contracts
What all this activity has to do with PEACE is
beyond ordinary comprehension. 80.
w THILE the League Against War and Fascism
w can be pigeonholed as an unquestionabEy COM
munist subsidiary, it is not so easy TO charac-
terize that other conspicuous Leftist group, the
Women's International League for Peace and Free
dom. Admittedly its ranks are filed with enthusiasts
whose interest in the class war is keen as their