Montana labor news., 1948-03-25

garchy or Fascism. Communism has
more democratic elements than either
Oligarchy OF Fascism. Honesty in
government is better than footing and
corruption.
In Greece we are sustaining an Oil
garchy OF swindling millionaires in
Athens and Salonika against the will
OF a majority Of the Greek people.
Seven-eighths OF Greece is in the
hands of the guerrillas.
Turkey is q Fascist state pure and
simple. II the McKellars and the
Mansfields provoke a war, the Rus.
SLAMS would overrun Greece and Tur-
key In 10 days.
China Disguised Marshall
In China, for hundreds of years, the
rule OF the War Lords has brought
agony and misery to the Chinese. A
small force Of 10000 began to oppose
the War Lords Is years ago. This
has grown to 1870 million people-al.
most as many as ourselves. They do
not loot when they capture a city.
General Marshall was sent to help the
Chang government reform Its vile
ways. He returned in disgust. Yet
We are sending $40 million good Amer
lean dollars to sustain Chang and his
War Lords. The best proof that Rus
STA is not helping the Chinese Com
munists is that they have not by now
taken yer all Of China. II Russia
does actively support the Chinese
Communists, they will march through
all China just as fast as a coolie a
lead a horse cart with supplies. A
million American boys might die with
out stopping them.
In 1919 we invaded Russia at Arch
angel and vladivostock to retrieve
options on 10000 square miles Of min
eral lands that the Czarists had given
Herbert Hoover for some London
Bankers. Now our Foreign policy is
largely influenced by Hoover and
Dulles.
There are no rich men in Russia
only the rich profit by aggressive
A fundamental doctrine Of Commu-
nism and Socialism Is a wish for no
aggressive war. Britain Is reducing
her army as fast as possible. So is
Russia. We are bowling loud for uni
versal military training (at 3 billion
a year cost.
There were no Soviet troops in
Czechoslovakia where live the most
intelligent democrats Of Europe. Last
week 1t went Communistic. The only
possible cause for this is that the
Czechs. see that their neighbors, the
Poles, Yugoslavs, Bulgars are more
comfortable than they had ever been
before.
In Hungary. force was used to erect
Communism. This was regrettable.
But force was used in 1776 to erect
Democracy in America. In Romania
several executions followed Commu-
nism. We would have hanged Bene.
dict Arnold II we had caught him. A
good many Tories were executed DUR
ing our Revolutionary war. Some in
%nocent strikers have been murdered
since then.
The Communist countries seem
more willing to learn from US than
we are from them, or from ourselves
even. They have sent men to study
the Tennessee Valley Authority. Now
Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Yugo-
s~lavia, Czechoslovakia are uniting to
form a Danube Valley Authority. The
Danube rises in that part of Germany
now held by Russia. 1t may join up.
The Socialist majority in Austria may
join. Many wars have begun in the
Balkans. A Danube Valley Authority
will do much TO prevent these in the
future.
| am not a Communist. am an
American. On the Sky Line Drive on
top Of the Blue Ridge Mountains Is
a monument to the first seven white
men who eve saw the Shenandoah
valley. One is an ancestor Of mine.
believe our system Is now. and may
be kept. better than any Communist
system. The way to keep It SO Is to
improve it not try to use atomic
bombs on other systems. Every hu-
man institution carries within itself
the seeds OF its destruction" The
seed with us is imperialistic capital
ism. Its cancerous growth Is EVIL
denced by militarism. This is run.
ming our government. The Military
is not subordinate to the civil author
ity. as our basic law provides. Every
where We see this. even In the per-
petuation OF a century Of folly. in
further expectation that Army Engi-