The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-26
Line Runs Backward
By ARTHUR KROCK

that can be managed. Sometimes MOSCOW mas
changed the course so suddenly that the Amer
lean Communists have been caught out for a
day on positions which headquarters has
abandoned. But, obediently and without the
visible embarrassment they have
taken up the new positions with unabated
Two recent publications in Russia, however,
seem to have drawn their inspiration from the
United States and to have been based on
made for Moscow in America. This
is a new development, and the Congress OF
Organizations-its Public Action
Committee in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. have FULL
credit for the change. 1t is no mean compli-
ment when the official Soviet line runs in
adopted there.
gandists in the Krenlin originated these
American political arguments which they are
now continuously voicing in their press, and
the CIO-PAC was merely their advance pub.
hclty agent. But to suggest that is to dim
the ulster OF what appears to be the first lead
ership OF the Communist party line by citizens
of another country than Russia. And, since
the record does not support the suspicion, the
record should be accepted on its face.
The publications in Moscow which establish
the ClO-PAC in the United States as a creator
OF russian export thought, and not, like the
Communist party, a slavish follow.
er' were the Oct. 20 broadcast by the official
MOSCOW radio and an article in Izvestia today.
In the broadcast the Seventy-ninth Congress
was attacked as a tool OF reaction in this
and hope was expressed that voters
mere On Nov. 5 will support "progressive'
Cor the Eightieth. These were de-.
scrloed as candidates backed by the CIO-PAC.
Osslpov, who made the broadcast in English
SAID the advanced" American public knows
mat II the hopes of the Republicans for a
dominant position in Congress are indicated
thls would mean a national disaster for the
country, the end of democracy in America. }
ne went on to say none can dispute that
me majority OF the old Congress, at times
tacl!ly and at times very eloquently. strength.
ened the expansion of the dollar or .to1ni,
policy of reactionary circles in tho
country a policy dangerous for the United
atd,es and Tor peace throughout the world y
ana OsSlpov included a verbal ho,,oue+ fou
Henry A.. Wallace. ii
The ~Izvestia article invisaged what it calls
the government and the Congress steering
our ship OF state toward the side of reaction.'
Ihls opinion was founded on the recent Con-
gresslonal debates on labor legislation. The
government" doubtless a reference to the
branch, and the Democratic
party" said 1zvestia, are constantly Welding
to a reactionary bloc OF Republicans and con-
Democrats and wasting that politi.
cal capital which they gained under Roose.
Finally, Izvestia asserted that the New
York State Democratic organization, through
the activities of "such foes of the progressive
policy OF Roosevelt as James A. FARLEY and
j. Flynn" is giving aid to Governor
Dewey.
Few will question 1zvestia's information
that Mr.. Farley is something less than en-
about the candidacy of Senator
Mead. But Mr.. Flynn is as fanatically de-
voted to Roosevelts memory as he was to
the Presidents person. And to reter to him
as a foe of Roosevelt's policies reveals
faulty b%riefing of Izvestia's editors by some
one in this country.
But Moscow has a special bone to pick with
Flynn because he is supposed to have
worked at a political accord between the
5oviets and the Catholic. Church, and at the
moment the official Communist attitude is
anti-Vatican. This would serve to
explain the slight ~fouling of the CIO-PAC
line when it was being received
At the offices of 1zvestia. There may have
been suggestions in the radical press here
hat Mr.. Flynn is rendering passive aid to
Dewey. But this correspondent has
lot seen them.
With this slight exception, however, that
0ssipov broadcast and what Izvestia publish.
ID about the Nov. 5 elections is pure CIO-PAC
material. It is to be found in hun
1reds of its well-written publications and in
countless speeches by its orators and by the
whom it endorses. The secular
'adlcal press took the same line tor months
before the Moscow radio, Izvestia and Pravda
got around to it.
All these said repeatedly that: the bipartisan
in the Seventy-ninth Congress was
"a tool of reaction'; only those endorsed by
the C1O-PAC are progressives'; disaster to
democracy will be the price of a Republican
in the next Congress; Mr.. Wallace
is the true leader Of the people,; the Pres
ident has deserted Roosevelt's policies. or let
them lapse with faint praise: and Mr.. Truman
has yielded to the children of Mammon and
of darkness.
Now this has become the official line in the
Soviet press, with only one tumble, and that
to a Russian political necessity
with respect to the Vatican which is not a
part OF the CIO-PAC argument. The Com
munlst press in this country and the few who
they belong to the party have never
which is imitation, and which Moscow now
showers upon the CIO-PAC.-New York Times.
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