Evening star., 1941-06-23
u. ). Communists Cal
Nazi Blow an Attack
On American People
Aid for Soviet Urged;
Socialists See 1t as New
Reason for Staying Out
BS the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 23.-Leaders O
the Communist party in the United
States described the German assault
on Soviet Russia as an attack no
only on the Russian people but or
the people of the United States anc
the entire world.
1T CRussia) is waging a struggle
for the cause of the freedom O
all nations and peoples" said {
statement issued last night by Will
liam z, Foster, party chairman, ano
Robert Minor, acting party secre-
tary.
The armed assault by German
Fascism and its satellites against the
Soviet Union is an unprovoked at
tack upon the greatest champion Of
peace, freedom and national indie
pendence-the land of socialism,
the statement asserted.
Statements on the Nazi-Soviet
war also came from Norman
Thomas, national chairman of the
Socialist party; the Committee to
Defend America by Aiding the Allies
and the Executive Committee of the
Fight for Freedom Committee.
Communists Urge Aid.
Mr.. Thomas asserted the conflict
gave now reason for maintaining
the fight to keep America out of
war the Committee to Defend
America by Aiding the Allies called
for immediate and decisive action
with Great Britain in our common
defense" and the Fight for Freedom
group said the German attack was
this country's supreme danger and
supreme opportunity.
The Communist statement urged
American working peoples to view
the Soviet struggle as the cause
of all advanced and progressive
mankind" and further admonished
them to give:
l. Full support and cooperation
to the Soviet Union in its struggle
against Hitlerism.
2. Opposition to all "those reac-
tionaries of every stripe who seek
In any manner to aid Hitler's attack
against the Soviet Union"
The statement declared the Soviet
Union always had sought for peace
among all nations but that the
Munich conspirators" destroyed
possibilities for collective security
and made the second imperialist
world war inevitable"
Russia Liberated" Baltic States.
Russia since that time. it con-
tinued, had pursued a policy of
aiding nations struggling for ma
tional independence and liberty.
The Soviet Union aided the Chinese,
the Spanish Republic. liberated the
peoples of the Western Ukraine,
White Russia. Bessarabia and the
Baltic States"
The reactionaries and imperial
lists of both sides have opposed and
conspired against the peace and
neutrality of the Soviet Union, "
the statement added. They sought
to drag the Soviet Union into the
imperialist war"
The message Rudolf Hess brought
to England, the authors said, was a
vision of a new Munich, a new
conspiracy to redivide the world"
to be dangled before the imperialists
of all countries" especially in Eng
land and the United States"
The Soviet Union seeks a peoples
peace based upon the liberation and
independence of all nations" the
statement concluded.
"No Sympathy" for Stain.
Mr.. Thomas asserted that Socialist
sympathy was with the Russian
people. and added that Hitler can
not rehabilitate himself by becoming
q crusader against the crimes of
Stain"
For Stain we have no sympathy"
Mr.. Thomas statement said. I'm
every way his cruelty and duplicity
have equaled Hitler's own. 1t was
his agreement with Hitler which
unleashed the military force of
which he is now a prospective vic
tim. t*'
1--WE shall watch with interest to
see how fast American Communists
and the organizations which they
control or influence will become
propagandists for American entry
into the war at the side of those
great democracies,' Stalin's dictator
ship and the British Empire"
The Committee to Defend America
by Aiding the Allies, in statement
by Lewis w. Douglas. chairman OF
the National Policy Board, said the
German attack should finally con-
vince all doubling Americans" that
Hitler planned world domination
and asserted that a successful ven-
ture into Russia meant unlimited
oil.
No Choice for Us.
Episcopal Bishop Henry w. Hob
son, on behalf of their Fight for
Freedom Committee, said the new
conflict left America freer than at
any time since the start OF the war
to use her naval strength in the
Atlantic.
LET us strike by air and by sea
and if possible by land" he declared.
LET there be no tagging hands.
1t is War-war to the death"
John T. Flynn, chairman of the
New York Chapter of the America
First Committee, declared Germany
now was resuming where she left off
when England delayed her original
objectives in the Ukraine and in
Rumania.
"If Germany wins, Russia will go
Fascist" he said. IF Russia de-
feats Germany, Germany will go
Communist. There is no choice for
lis at all. The question now Is, are
we going to fight to make Europe
safe for Communism"