The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-12
BY WEsTBROOK PEGLER


portance to the document called the resolution
of the presidium of the executive committee
of the Communist International which was
b1 oadcast last May and ballyhooed the world
over and accepted by most of the world as
al act dissolving the called comintern,
which is Russias fifth column in other coun-
tries, including ours. Any government which
was capable Of maintaining such an organiza-
ton in the first place would not hesitate to
pl actlce small deception in its own inter-
ests, and intelligent and wary people cannot
be expected to believe anything it says or rely
on any of its promises. The communist faith
is so treacherous and immoral that no act
which to normal and decent human beings is
wrong is forbidden a communist if it serves
his political beliefs and aims Anything that
serves communism is right and good, and
that is the only moral test that a communist
knows. 10 him it is not wrong to commit
wrong but it is grievously wrong to refuse
to do SO if the interests of communism seem
to require such commission He is exactly
like the nazi and the fascist in this respect
and the fact that he is at odds with the
fascist and nazi and, for this reason is killing
large numbers of Nazis, should not confuse
our judgment.
Some of our statesmen and our people 60
in fear that if we recognize these truths and
keep them to the fore by discussion Joseph
Stain will be hurt in his feelings and moved
proposition and more mplimentary to Sta
lin than anything that could be said about
the known duplicities of his communists in
our midst, for it assumes that he is man
who would make important decisions petu-
lantly when the fact is that Russias interests
are his only guide in all decisions. He would
neither take any action unfavorable to us for
any such reason nor be sWerved from any
such decision out of gratitude or friendliness
haGOttpn
part.
So even if the resolution of the presidium
of the executive committee and forth had,
in fact, professed to be dissolution of the
fifth column known as the comintern and rep
resented here in a number of CIO unions
which enjoy the favor of the new deal ad-
ministration, no shrewd or cautious American
would have had any excuse for believing it.
AS the resolution itself said, in the course of
long and strikingly Hitleresque confusion of
theological jargon and double talk: Com
munists have never been supporters of the
conservation of organizational forms that have
outlived themseles." This means that if and
when the communists decide to reorganize
their fifth column and reshape it and rename
it, they will do so; but nowhere in the resolu-
ton is there any excuse for believing that
they have any intention to abandon its ac-
tivities and purposes
But the fact is that this resolution did not
announce the dissolution of the cominern, and
the further fact that editorial writer's and
savants and commuters of the Sis all thought
it did constitute a triumph for those who COM
posed the resolution. They tossed off whole
newspaper column of rhetorical ropetricks,
and by the time the saps got down to the
important part the effect on them was the
same that induced by particularly goofy
chapter of Mein Kampf This is not accidental.
1t is methodical.
Did the last paragraph OF this resolution
say the comintern had been dissolved? Well,
what do you think
1t says the presidium and so FORTH "puts
forth the following proposal for ratification
by the sections of the Communist Interna-
tional'
The following proposal is that the COM
intern be dissolved but the resolution itself is
not an act of dissolution, although it was
gulped down as such all over the world and
the communists, themselves, in the United
States secretly chertled over the dumb stu
pidity of their enemies in deceiving them
selves through careless reading
I am afraid that it is going to be necessary
to stand toe-to-toe with Joe Davies and Henry
Wallace this issue of communism in our
country because Davies, greatly swollen with
self-importance, and Wallace, grim and hot
eyed with the zeal of the political bigot, would
have our people trust Stain and the commu-
nists with unquestioning faith-which is one
sure way to set our country up for a serious
disappointment. They have almost succeed
ed in making us believe that we have had
solemn promises from Stain, the nonfulfill-
1nent of which would grieve us sore, when
the fact is that he has not bound himself
to serve anyone but Russia and has let us
do all the promising and idealizing.
And that resolution did not announce the
dissolution of the comintern.
OHOT TIONC