The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-10-28

| SELDOM PAY very much atten-
ton to monographs; especially when
the record played is an aged and fam
liar one. But in this instance, | shall
ignore custom by replying to Mr.. E.
Johnson Deas, who, in the October IA
issue of the GUARDIAN, accused me
of being in the camp of French and
British Imperialism" The occasion
for Mr.. Deas' accusation was my recent
article dealing with the notorious
Hitler-S Stain pact.
FIRST OF ALL, let me say that
much of what appears under the sig
nature of Mr.. Deas, | had read many
times before in Communist papers and
magazines and also heard the same
cline" from Communist speakers try
ing to justify the united front between
Hitler and Stain. Upon each occasion,
when [ have been exposed to the nau-
seating experience of listening to the
futile attempt at justifying this ALI
ance [ have been tempted to offer the
Communists the following advice
"When you have a good case you don't
have to lose your head, and when you
have a poor case you can't afford to
lose your head" That the Commu-
nists are aware of the poverty of their
case is evidenced by the type of wit
nesses they are calling to their defense
Each witness summoned by them i'm
mediately becomes a hero in their eyes
IN A RECENT issue of the DAILY
Worker, the Communist daily Bible
was reprinted an editorial from a
Florida newspaper in which appeared
the following; "How the darkies
shouted when they heard that joyful
sound! They didn't own the Georgia
which Sherman was marching
through" The editorial was an at
tempt to defend Stains invasion of
Poland from the rear while the Poles
were facing the Nazis. Another of
the famous witnesses which the Com
munists never hesitate to call is Mr.
David Lloyd George, former Prime
Minister of Great Britain and one of
the men largely responsible for the
peace treaty of Versailles. Suddenly
Lloyd George has become a hero to
the Communists although the Welsh
man at the end Of the last war had
more power in his hands than Cham
berlain has today to free the people of
Africa, India and the West Indies
from the shackles of British Imperial
ism.
IN THE ARTICLE under his sigma
ture, Mr.. Deas speaks of the betrayal
Of Manchuoko, Spain, Ethiopia, AL
bania, India, Austria and Czechoslo-
vakia by French and British Imperial
lists" but he was silent regarding
Russia's role in those betrayals. II
would have been most enlightening tC
the readers of the GUARDIAN if Mr.
Deas had told us about Russia's supply
ing of oil to Italy during the latter's
rape of Ethiopia. 1t was largely Rus
sian oil which supplied motive power
to italian aeroplanes in their destruc-
tive flights over Ethiopian villages II
would have been equally enlightenin9
if Mr.. Deas had related Russia's part
in the Fascists' crucifxion of Spain
While the Spanish masses were heroi-
callv facing the barbarians of Franco
Hitler and Mussolini, the Russian Die,
tator, Joseph Stain, practically" held
them up" by predicating any assistance
Uiyen TO Spanish democracy uDon the
Spanish people first eliminating from
leadership those tried and true labor
leaders in Spain who had faithfully
and efficiently served the Spanish
working class to choose its own leader
ship played into the hands of Franco
and his Nazi-Fascists allies is too gen