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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-02-06

of other members unless published
treaty authorized their stay"
You see, the United Nations, as well
as the Moscow pledge, is now taken
care Of So the Times concludes that
"the statement is interpreted as paw
ing the way for expansion of the
American Military Advisory Group in
China :"
To the average person, who wants
peace everywhere, investing 81 billion
in a Chinese civil war is crazy-and
investing American boys is wicked.
All is clear, however, if we take the
Brass Hat or the Wall Street point of
view, both of which seem to blend so
we'll in government thinking these
days.
For the Brass Hat approach we
quote the New York Times Marking
correspondent who said September l
that u. S. officers there want Fighter
plane bases on an aerial route leading
from Okinawa through West China to
the Lake Baikal region of the Soviet
Union" A house armed services sub
committee followed this up on Novem-
Der % by urging that the U. S. obtain
permanent use of naval facilities at
Tsingtao, in Northern China"
The Wall Street idea was put by
William C. Bullitt in Henry Luces
Life magazine in October. Bullitt
said let's help Chang but ask him to
sell all government-owned industries
ito the highest bidder" in return. He
also suggested that Chang welcome
foreign (read U.S.) capital in fact as
we'll as words" In other words, the
taxpayers dollar will keep Chang in
power Meanwhile the Wall Street
dollar will buy his factories-and oper-
ate them under adequate military pro-
lection.
Plans abroad are not only interest
ing places for Wall Street to invest
dough. There are other angles. Think
how easy it will be for some manu-
facturer here with plant each in
the u. S. and China to shift orders
to that cheap labor area if his workers
here cut up. Or shut up his expen-
sive U. S. plant for a while when that
slump comes. Insurance? You bet,
but not for the wage Garner.
Fortunately, us. workers have in
surance too. The Chinese people are
too mad, and too well organized for
Chang to win.
Continued on Page FOur)
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WelleS in which he urged congress to warn the
Kremlin that the United States might use
force in Europe; this in turn conceded with
q declaration from Admiral Nimtz that Amer
lean flat-tops would be able to carry atom
bombs
Marshalls statement was followed twenty
four hours later by an announcement that four
of the Navy's powerful fleet-type submarines
were being sent to Turkey and six submarines
to Greece in addition to the six gunboats
which had already been handed over to Greece
paid for out of the 300 million dollars ear
marked for the reconstruction of that country
The lengths to which the Secretary of State
went in bludgeonng congress into full and
unconditional approval of all phases of the
Marshall plan reflected the ruthlessness of
the makers of American foreign policy, as we'll
as their increasing anxiety over the trend of
political events throughout Europe in general,
and military events in Greece in particular.
The essence of Marshalls statement was
its frank admission that the Marshall plan is
the foreign policy of the United States With
out it there is no American foreign policy, at
least as far as Europe is concerned.
The genesis of this position is no simple
matter; we are not spending 16 billion dollars
for simple thing. The gambit implied in it
is enormously complicated.
In it's simplest terms, the Marshall plan
permanently reduces the industrial level of
the nations of Europe. 1t provides for the
determination by the United States of the
volume and character of the imports and
exports of the recipient nations, thus be-
coming the arbiter of their economies. Con-
troll of the direction of imports of these
nations automatically means control by the
United States of their foreign policies.
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Johannes Steel Analyses SocaLed European Recovery Plan

erS of American foreign policy are against in
ternational control of the Ruhr if the word
international implies Russian participation.
Mr. MarshalTs statement that the European
countries g. will prepare periodic state
ments of their needs . ;" and that the U. S.
decision to act on these periodic statements
will be taken after review by the specialist
Economic Cooperation officers in each country
and by the special United States Ambas
sador :" makes the American representa-
tives the economic dictators of the recipient
countries.
The further statement that "A substantial
amount of the essential needs of Europe
must come from countries of the. Western
Hemisphere other than the United States"
assures Mr.. Marshall another instrument of
pressure upon the nations of Latin America
by putting him in position to guarantee
them profitable export market.
The provision that "A stable proportion of
the funds appropriated for the European Re-
covery Program should therefore be available
for the FINANCING of purchases made out
side the United States" applies not only to
Latin America but also to Germany. The
United States will thus pay for war materials
bought in Germany and delivered to France
after determining what they are to be and how
they are to be used.
By becoming adjuncts to the American
economy, the nations of Europe will become
sensitive to its every manifestation. If our
economy faces a crisis, it will pull down
Europe with it. 1t should be remembered that
while the American system has an amount of
resistance to crises and may be able to survive
them, Europe has no such resistance and the
Continent may be thrown into chaos.
Continued Next Week.
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January Z that lou trOOp-car-
rying GAG planes had been
Hsold" to Chang at one-tenth
what they cost the American
nation.
Yet every days newspapers report
military defeats for the man receiv-
ing these gifts. The capitals own
well-informed Washington Post now
writes that "Chiang Kai-shek cannot
be pushed down the Threats of the
Chinese people, Chiang's Chinese
dollar has skidded to a low of 100000
for one American buck. u. S. arms
don't help Chang because his soldiers
don't want to fight for him. U. S.
money fails to prop up his economy
because if flows straight into the
pockets of greedy officials.
So what is the Truman admins
tration going to do now? i am sorry
to report that it seems likely that it
will send more U. S. marines, perhaps
initiaIly to port like Chinwangtao,
to help supply Chiangs beachhead in
Manchuria-or evacuate it if too hard
pressed. The theory is that if Chang
can't control China by his land power
it can be done from the sea through
a coastal base policy" with Amer
lean forces on islands like Formosa
and in few key ports.
One difficulty so far has been the
4 Ia inin 1sFif "a
at the Moscow Foreign Ministers
Conference in December 1915, that
both powers would withdraw troops
from China and refrain from meddIine
in her home affairs. Soviet armies
pulled out in May 1916. The U. S
high of 10000 to about 5000 today
Now the 5000 may serve as a nucleus
for new expansion for which {
illegal" groundwork was laid by
Chang kai-shek's government on
October IS.
Here is the New York Times ac-
count of what happened then, "a new
legal base for the presence of U. S.
troops in China was laid in . a Chi
nese Foreign Office statement that
these troops were on Chinese soil
with the consent of the Chinese gov
eminent According to Chinese
sources, the U. S. embassy requested
the statement because of res
olution adopted by the United Nations
General Assembly that member states
their troops from countries
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1t is amusing in a macabre sort OF
way to see the COP, who first thought
I'D the communist menace, faced with
the dilemma of appropriating billions
supposed to be used to fight commun.
ism while at the same time struggling
to fulfill that most important promise
10 their hackers to cut taxes.
The trouble with the Marshall Plan,
as / see it, is that our present national
economic philosophy is so against the
idea of planning, presumably because
the word itself has become a symbol
of defeat to the private enterprisers,
that any money appropriated will have
to be spent according to this philoso-
phy, lie the old business of spending
it at the top and letting the trickle
trickle where it may. The millions
poured into the pockets of the Greek
profiteers is dangerous enough, but it
seems to me to use billions in the same
way will certainly guarantee war.
1t will do more than that. It will
guarantee the need of pouring all our
there never was one yet that wasn't
used for war sooner than the people
thought possible.
have never subscribed to the theory
that Wallace is impractical. 1t seems
to me that he is the only practical
man in public life today. How can it
be called practical to keep on making
the same old mistakes? Aren't we
supposed to learn sometime? l fail
to see the practically of going to war
to fight fascism in order to support
it later. fail to see the practically
of showing concern for principle by
underwriting the partition of Palestine
only to show that we are ready and
willing to let the Jews be exterminat- |
ed by the Mufti. Were we shown pic
lures of the crematoriums in Germany
so that we could better appreciate
the Muftfs qualifications for chief
executioner for our side? Sincerely, |
BRAMMER.
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Under the plan, the United States viii
block vast sums of national currencles IN the
respective countries. This will result in the
building up of billions of dollars of foreign
currency reserves which can be manipulated
at will by the United States.
The final result of this policy will be tc
lower the living standards of the nations OF
Europe They will be converted into food-and
raw-material- producing colonies; this is clear
ly indicated in the provision for the stock
piling of critical raw materials.
Under the Marshall plan, the United
States will also have full control over Ger
man coal exports. Germany will pay her
debt to the United States in terms of coal
which not only can be channeled at will but
will also determine the character of the in
dustriaI production for which this coal is to
be used. This gives the United States direct
control of the level and character of French
production and of the entire development of
its industry, which cannot exist without Ger
man coal. In addition, Germany will export
other goods to the United States and to South
America, leaving nothing for PREPARATIONS to
the victim nations of German aggression.
1t is an over-simplification to say that the
Marshall plan MERELY envisages the recon
structon of a strong western Germany. 1t
does seek a strong western Germany, but at
the same time Germany firmly in the hands
of American monopoly, transforming the Thys-
sens Krupps, Flicks, Voeglers and other indus
trialists into German counterparts of the T.
" Soongs, the Chen Brothers, and other Chi
nese compradors with the uniformed and civ
ilian representatives of American monOpolies
and cartels paraleing in Germany the position
of the old China hands,.
Therefore to protect this situation the max
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BILE Member Agrees
With Voice On
Truman
The Peoples Voice


Helena, Montana
Dear Captain Bruce: I have been re.
ceiving the Peoples Voice regularly
for about year now and it occurs to
me that my subscription is soon due.
Therefore please find enclosed a
money order for $500 as my renewal
for the next year
To say that | am satisfied with the
Voice would be somewhat of an under
statement. | think it one of the best
publications in the West.
AS for most of your editorials l can
only say, YOU ARE so RIGHT.
| wish more of our labor union mem
bers would take and read the Voice,
it reads more like a political digest
than any paper published in the state
of Montana.
This being election year you will
have a busy time with your columns.
Give my best regards to Harry Bill
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TRUMAN, FRIEND OF LABOR?"
was very good. l doubt if l could have
done better myself.
With best wishes for your contin-
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TON, local Chairman BLE) Great
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McElroy Farmers All
For Wallace

Probably the first Montana Farm
ers Union local to endorse Henry A.
Wallace for president is the McElroy
FL local Ill at Westby, Montana.
According to Anna U. Lutness, secre-
tary, this action was taken at the Jan
uary 8 meeting. Previously, the Nc
Elroy local had also gone on record
in opposition to the Marshall Plan
and the Truman Doctrine.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-02-06

by the newspapers as soldierly. There can be
no doubt Of that; in fact, he was peremptory
He no longer represented the Marshall plan
primarily as a plan for the economic recon
struction of Europe, but as means by winch
to defend American security. He virtually
said that those who voted against the Marshan
plan would be as guilty as those who had voted
against the fortification of Guam.
Hammering away at this point with par
rage of press and radio propaganda, the sec
retary's appearance before the senate foreign
relations committee was preceded by twenty
four hours by a State department-insp1red
story that the Marshall plan would produce
almost miraculous results. This conceded
with scare headlines in the Scripps-Howard
papers that "French-Italian Reds plot midsum-
mer blows" and followed an article by Sumner
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-02-06
More U.s.. Dollars and BOYS
Slated For China
By ISRAEL EPSTEIN, Allied [

Service
billion dollars of American has al
ready gone in form another help Dictator Chang
Kai-shek get back astrde the unwilling Chinese
u officers Sec of State George c. Marshall told Congress
IL last year, training Chiangs civil
New right
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PUTS TRUST IN VOICE
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me People voice
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Gentlemen: We appreciate your fine
paper and hope you will be able to
continue it. 1t is so seldom one can
and we certainly need a paper which
expresses truth and frankness.-MRS.
c. A. MOORE, Arlee, Montana
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VOICE OF A PROPHET
The Peoples Voice

Helena, Montana
Mr.. Bruce's editorial on what Are
We Buying, in The Peoples Voice
Of January 23rd, is very timely and
written very well. He speaks with
the voice of a prophet when he says,
''It is high time for all of us to begin
to question the policies of our govern
ment." - DANIEL S. McCORKLE,
Conrad, Montana.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-02-06
BY JOHANNES STEEL
Nationally Known Radio Commentator

II there had been any doubts of the de-
termination with which the administration,
manipulated by the bipartisan power bloc, in
tended to put the Marshall plan into operation.
they were resolved on January 8th. On that
date, Secretary of State George G. Marshall
gave congress an utimatum. He said in eff
feet put up or shut up.
- General Marshalls bearing before the SEN
ate foreign relations committee was described
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LETTERS FROM OUR READERS
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OWN COMMUNIST TRAP

Editors Note: In long and inter
esting letter from Caroline Brammer
of New York (and former Townsend
woman). Here are excerpts contain
ing food for thought.
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Coolidge And Ford
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January %, 1948
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