Evening star., 1939-11-06
Mo|otoff Scores
U. 5. for Repeal
OF Arms Ban
Terms 1t Mask to
Cover Struggle
For Profit
~ the Associated Press.

TUT CIOJ1t
9y the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Nov. 6.-Premier- For
eign Commissar Vyacheslaff Mo-
lotoh today assailed the United
States for repeating the arms en-
barge asserting it was only a mask
to cover their struggle for profit" :"
In speech opening a three-day
celebration of the Bolshevik revo-
lution's 22d anniversary, Molotoff
also attacked Britain and France,
accusing them of wishing to pro-
long their war against Germany.
Josef Stain, War Commissar Mar
shall Klementi Voroshiloff and other
leaders were among those in Bol-
siloy Opera House who applauded
his words which included a sweep
ing attack on capitalism.
Manifesto Published.
The premier spoke shortly after
publication of Communist inter-
national manifesto calling on work.
ers of Britain and France to go
against those who favor continual
ton of imperialistic war"
Molotoff, asserting that half the
world is at war because of a con-
flict in Europe, declared the capital
lst system was sure to fall now.
He said the workers and peasants
no longer would put up with capital
lists, especially those who want to
fight Under the pretext of defense
of democracy"
The Soviet Union wants peace, he
said.
U. S. Envoy Present.
Most of the diplomatic corps was
present. including the United States
and British Ambassadors. Laurence
A. Steinhardt and Sir William Seeds.
Also present were most members
Of the Finnish delegation which is
here for vital negotiations over
Soviet territorial demands.
The German Ambassador Count
Friedrich Werner Won der Schulen-
berg, will not return from Berlin
conferences until tomorrow.
Mention of Stalin's name brought
more cheers from the assembly than
the name of Lenin.
Molotoff boasted of improvement
In the Soviet Unions diplomatic and
military importance and of strides
in her industrial and agricultural
output during the current year.
1--WE do not know what can hap
pen." he said. "We are not afraid
Of anything. We know that our
country is the best, our policy is the
policy Of peace and we will 60 the
same way in the future. which will
bring US to final victory '-' go
U. S. Bourgeois" Attacked. .''
The Communist international at
tackled the American bourgeois"
for repeal of the arms embargo in
a sharply worded manifesto, occupy
ing four front-page columns In
Pravda, Communist newspaper
The bourgeois Of the so-called
neutral countries" the international
said, warm their hands near the
fire of war - Under the mask
of neutrality they become rich on
military supplies. o.
The American bourgeois, very in
terested in further developing the
war. repeals the embargo on the
export of arms in order to secure
huge profits to the kings Of the
munitions industry"
Defense Of Chinese Urged,
The manifesto, signed by the In
ternationals Executive Committee.
urged the workers of the world to
unite to defend the Chinese peo-
pie. to 60 against those who favor
continuation of war and unmaSk
them as helpers of imperialists.
Wives and mothers were told to
demand that their sons come back
from the front"
Britain and France were accused
Of oppression in India. Indo-C Chino
and Arabia, and of keeping half
the world in the chains of colonial
slavery"
"The bankers in London and Paris
will preserve the worst reactionary
regimes in Europe" the manifesto
added.
The italian bourgeois waits only
for a convenient moment to throw
itself on the oppressed and have its
share Of the spoils.''
Soviet Power Praised.
The statement praised Soviet
Russia's power and said that when
the Polish state ceased to exist the
Soviets gave a helping hand to their
brothers in the Western Ukraine and
White Russia, taking 100000 out
OF war and delivering them from
oppression"
Britain and France, the manifesto
said. are trying to involve the
Balkans in war. but, it declared,
Russia will disturb" this plan.
AS Russia embarked on the
gigantic celebration of the revolu-
ton. a Finnish delegation waited
on the sidelines, series of vital
talks with Soviet officials appar-
emily temporarily suspended.
Tomorrow morning thousands OF
troops and workers will march
through Red Square in review be-
fore Stain, Voroshilod and other
Soviet leaders. The parade was
expected to continue for at least
10 hours.
No Indication of New Talks.
There was no indication when the
Finnish delegation, apparently
awaiting further instructions from
Helsinki, would return to the Krem-
lin for a resumption of converse
tions.
1t was generally believed, however,
that negotiations would remain at
a standstill until the Soviet celebra-
ton Is completed The Finnish mis-
sion, headed by DR.. Juho K. Paasi-