Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-23
Nazis and Reds
.SawEye to Eye
A+War's Start.
Molotov's Praise in 1898
Is Recalled
By WESTBROOK PEGLER

travellers to cripple the United
States during the life of the So
called non-aggression pact be-
tween Russia and Nazi Ger
many, the document which
touched off this war. which ter
minated on June %, 1884,, when
Hitler attacked Russia. ~,
Like the Nazis in our midst,
the Communists insisted that
this war was not, and could not
become, the legitimate business
of the United States.
The Communists and the
Nazis, however, had common
purpose TO prevent the creation
Of military strength here. The
sincere American non-interven-,
tionists on the other hand
wanted TO arm the country and
train armies but hoped to be
able to sit this one out.
On AUG. 81, 1899. v. M. Molo-
~ TOW the Russian commissar
of foreign affairs, in speech
to the Supreme Soviet, pub
lished in pamphlet form for.
American distribution by the
Workers Library of New York,
said: ,,t.s
"The non-aggression pact
marks n turning point IN the hfs--s
tory of Europe and not only Of
Europe. Only yesterday, tho,
German Fascists were pursuing
n foreign policy hostile TO ~
Yes, only yesterday We wei Il
enemies in the sphere Of for
eign relations. Today, howevex,
the situation has changed and
we are enemies no longer.
1.-THE pact puts an end TO tho
enmity between Germany and
the q. 8. 8. r. The fact that.
our outlooks and political sys-.
TENS differ must not and cannot
be obstacles To the establish.
ment of good political relations
Only enemies Of Germany and.
the u. g. 3. r. can strive to
create enmity between the peo-
pies of these countries"
DUSSIA was willing TO live
~ and let fascism live as good
neighbors. II was only when.
Hitler repudiated the pact and
attacked that fascism suddenly
became an intolerable evil Of
itself.
On Nov. Is. 1889, Earl Brow,
der, the general secretary OF the
American Communist Party and
leader of the enormous con-
spiracy against this nations re-
armament and military training
program, made a speech In Msdi-
son Square Garden in which he
said:
I'VE Communists clearly and
boldly denounce the present war
"a an imperialistic one, on both
sides, from which the peoples
have nothing 20 gain but misery,
starvation, oppression and death.
we point out that In Europe
this means that the war can
have only the effect Of placing
the socialist revolution on the
order Of business as q practical
question"
DROWDER was not then as
~ strongly opposed TO fascisrn
AS an evil as TO approve war tf
obliterate il. Some Americ q
editors and statesmen latcl.s
have flinched from the possible
ity that communism may sue
coed fascism, from which IL ID
indistinguishable. on continental
Europe and mention of this pos
sibility is deplored and even
suppressed.
Yet on the word OF the boss
Communist OF the United States,
the socialist revolution Is now
on the order of business in
Errope.
In another document issued
by the New York Communist
publishing house in February,
1910. entitled Il Didn't Raise
Ny Boy TO Be a Soldier for
Wall Street" Elizabeth Gurley
Flynn wrote:
"The best insurance 10 keep
of the toboggan slide into war
IL an ultimatum to our govern
ment: stay neutral: not q
dollar for war; Starve the
war; feed America first! We
must hurry. Already, President
Roosevelt has started along the
road that led Woodrow Wilson
10 war"
THE rest Of the pamphlet Is In
Il the same vein and IL these
and many other documents Of
the same kind which were pub
lished then had any effect at all,
it was to retard the arming and
training Of the American fight
ers for whom great cry was
sent up by the Communists last
summer. however, when they
were demanding "a second front
in Europe, and TO impair the
production of weapons. planes
and machines which the same
Communists now demand in un-
limited and miraculous abun-
dance for Russia "A
The lesson taught by this IN
erature is that Russia'S war is y
nationalistic fight for life. not a
gallant defense Of the freedom
which fascism. like communism,