The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-25
MEMO FROM ONE GUY TO
 ANOTHER
(Mr. Josef Stalin, The Kremlin,

(Mr. Josef Stalin, The Kremlin,
 Moscow, USSR.)
 Your Excellency: Your declara- tion of yesterday was most well come. It took us all by surprise, because the actions of all Big Pow CTS since San Francisco have point ed in the opposite direction.
 For instance, on the very front page of the N. Y. Tribune Sept. 24th) in which you say there is no danger of a near war. your Ambas- sador to the United States, MT. Gromyko, said that U. s. and Bri- tish troops were causing uneaSi- ness. If our army causes fear, don't you think that the 61a million Rus sians under arms also frighten peo- pie?
 You say that there is no danger of a new war at PRESENT But did you say in your February "elec- ton" speech that war with the capi- talistic nations is inevitable. That is either a flat contradiction, or it means war later, though not now.
 You state that war talk is caused by the desire for more conc cesSionS. The U. s. gave up it's biggest con cesSion" in the Far East, the Philip pines. We haven't read of you giv- ing up Estonia, Lithuania or Lat via, nor have we heard of England giving up India
 We have cut our military budget to decimal-less than l3 of our wartime aviation budget. On the other hand, YOUR SATELLITE countries-Poland, Yugoslavia, and especially Czechoslovakia, have the highest military budgets in their history.
 You say the world-war talk is to put brake on demobilization and to evade the quick growth of U. S. unemployment. This is sheer non- sense. We had nearly 1300O,000 men and women in our armed forces Far and away the vast percentage are now out of the service And we do not face an unemployment crisis. This is where our intelligence ser vice thinks your intelligence service has completely misinformed you. There is man-power shortage in America. We have the biggest back log of orders in our history. There is more than enough work for all all in the U. S., though strikes and lockoutS in key industries have halted the production line.
 One of the principal reasons that we don't fear unemployment also, at present, is that if really per- manent peace platform exists, foreign orders will keep us busy for years. For instance: Think what customer Russia would make-or at least that's what your embassy urges us to think!
 You state that you do not intend to use Germany against the west ern nations. Yet you personally have stated, and the Russian radio has continually proclaimed, to the world and to the German people, that a free, independent and very strong Germany is a keystone of Russian policy. Does that mean you intend to use Germany to protect you from us? It certainly got us both in 8 beautiful mess the last time we tried it.
 You must admit you have treat ed us with highest suspicion. MT. Grornykos attack on us in Tues days paper proves my point. Now, suppose we applied the same test to you?
 On July 10, 1946, your MT. Molo- tov declared in Paris that 1t had become fashionable to talk of the dismemberment of Germany. He went on to say that the key to the dismemberment of Germany was to separate her from the Ruhr With out the Ruhr, he declared, there can be no Germany. This, said MT. Molotov, was opposed by Russia. The destruction of Germany should not be our objective, he said. And then MT. Stalin, he quoted you as saying: Tt is no more possible to