The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-30
Nv WEsTBROOK PEGLER
Copyright, 1915, BY King Features Syndicate.


| fcorvrirht. 1915, BY King Features Syndicate.)
No honest American observer of the COM
munist conspiracy it has operated in the
United States can have been surprised by the
sudden abandonment of the pretenSe which had
been maintained since Pearl Harbor and the
renewal of open hostility to the American form
and system of government. This change was
announced in long article In the Daily Worker
| the old party organ, by French communist
named jacques Duclos, which took precedence
over the leadership of Earl Browder, who now
appears to be sacrificial goat. Duclos damn
ed Browder in providers own paper for hera-
sew to the pure MARKHAM revolution and the
class war and, such is the discipline OF the in
ternational conspiracy, direct from Moscow,
Browder had to run the piece with an editorial
precede under his own signature humbly prom
Using to the matter up at the next meet
ing of the communist organization. For ex-
pedience, this bund has been calling itself a
political association rather than a party, for
about one year.
It goes without saying that the American cell
of the conspiracy will now take off its whiskers
or, more properly, resume the whiskers and
take off that capitalistic plug hat and the plush
weskit adorned with dollar signs and picket
the White House again.
For the purposes of Americans, this is all
for the best. 1t vindicates those ske ptics who,
from years of observation, had anticipated just
this very switch in the party line to take place
as soon as Hitler was demolished. Such predic-
tons called for no marvellous intuition.
Stain was in deep trouble from June 1,1941,
until his troops were enabled to shoot their
way into a Berlin demolished by American
bombers marching on American canned rat
ions from the stockyards of Chicago and the
orchards ana farms of California and equipped
with American vehicles nd guns. In this coun-
try, it was Browder's mission to promote trust
in Russia and beguile the naive American ma
tive with sentimental propaganda about the
fundamental likeness of our people and theirs
and the rightist tendency of communism in
Russia. In fact during this period, Browder
and the rest of the lodge had little to say a
bout communism which, to Americans has an
offensive smell as of the debauchery Of young
girls, mass executions of political heretics and
immortality fixed code of conduct. Aware
OF this fastidious prejudice, they used the word
democracy instead and got Henry Wallace tc
thump tub now and again with loose-mouthed
assurances that this democracy was in many
respects, superior to ours.
/ BY folding up the communist party tempo
rarily, Browder enabled his most Jealous sub
jects to join Sidney Hillman and the Roosevelt
party in the fourth term campaign in the re.
suit of which, naturally they claimed de-
Gliding influence. Now, however, Russia's war
with Hitler, which was Russia's only war, has
ended, and the United States is miltarily and
politically committed to the destruction of Rus
sia's other enemy, japan, and the delivery of
an Asiatic empire to Russia, free of any cost
to Russia in exertion, life or material There
being no further reason to placate or gull the
American people, the old purposes OF the in
ternational communist program and activity
may be avoWed again.
This change now directs close attention to
the conduct of those unavowed American COM
munists who collaborated with the protesting
bolsheviks during this time They are numerous
in Washington, in Hollywood, in the theatre, on
the air and in the unions of the CO. If they 90
along with the communists in the new venture
they commit themselves and vindicate the Dies
committee. But if they recant they perish be-
cause it was only by the power of clamor-
Gus propaganda that they were enabled to
claim a status above the grade of nonentity
Franklin Roosevelts death might have hur-
RED the pitchers delivery in this case, but
that is one OF those propositions which he,
with his ready wit, would have called iffy The
communists had got from him about all that
ne could give. Through the American people
he saved their country, made possible the de-
struction of their only formidable rival in Eu-
rope and delivered the continent to them from
the Pyrennees to the Bosphorus, with the div
1dend In Asia already voted and soon to be
delivered. At home, since his accession, Presi-
dent Truman has plainly shown, as all Ameri-
cans knew all the time, that he is ill-at-ease
in the presence of the fellow-traveler and So
inevitably and soon, he would have rejected
the communists in any guise and their col
laborators in favor of Americans who speak
the American language
AS a net gain, whatever the communists do
to him, and even though they should lure him
back to Russia and shoot him they did so
many others for theological error, BroWde!
may point to many advantages wrought by his
association with the new deal The American
Merchant Marine, the greatest cargo fleet III
all history, is controlled by party line subsidia
| disguised union which gives orders not
only to the shippers but to the government
agency in charge.
The communists have established their
espionage in radio and wire communications,
also by means of Union penetration and they
can tie LIP the mining and refining OF non-fer-
rous metals so necessary for peace or war. The
production of ball and roller bearings which.
as General Carl Spaatz demonstrated in Ger
many, are vital to traffic by air. sea and land
also is at their mercy and we have few secrets
Of trade, science, finance or technical method,
which they cannot steal through union agents
The new manifesto frankly calls for
resumption of the riots and sabotage which de-
lighted the palace guard of the new deal and
the Kremlin in the organizing days of the CIO
Obedience will follow and it will be possible