Evening star., 1949-01-22
Pravda' 5 Editor
.Hur|sDefiance
Anew at West
Peace Held Possible,
But Journalist Sees
Communist Victory
By Eddy Gilmore
Associated Press Foreign Correspondent


editor, in the presence of Prime
Minister Stain, declared last
night that this is the century of
communism, not of Wall street.
At the same time, P. N. Pospelov,
the editor who addressed Soviet
leaders on the 25th anniversary of
the death of Lenin, declared Soviet
Russia has an "unshakable will for
international cooperation" He re-
minded his audience of Mr.. Stains
assertion that peace is possible be-
tween the differing systems. but Bit
terly attacked anglo American
Warmongers
Pospelov's speech appeared to
be the latest development in the
East-W West cold war in which
there have been signs of a Soviet
drive to convince the world she
wants peace. He spoke just day
after President Truman in his
inaugural address called Com
munism false philosophy" and
predicted it's followers in due
time would recognize democracys
strength, "abondon their delu-
sions" and join with the rest OF
the world in an international
settlement)
Cites Chinese Red Victories.
Pospelov cited China as an exam
pie of the failure of plans of Amer
ican reactionaries" and said the
Communists there were winning
decisive victories"
He said Lenin once wrote that the
issue of the struggle depends in
the end on the fact that Russia,
India, China and others constitute
the overwhelming ma ajority of the
population.
And precisely this majority of
the population is being drawn with
extraordinary speed in the course
of the last years into a struggle for
their liberation" said the editor.
Concluding that there are 24,000,-
900 Communist Party members
around the world, Pospelov declared:
The Goth century will be century
of the complete triumph of Lenin,
the triumph of the great theology
of equality and friendship among
the peoples"
Citing 1ndonesia, Malaga and
Indo-China, he declared the growth
of national liberation movements in
colonies and semi-colonies are ex-
pressions of the general crisis of
capitalism. Capitalism is decaying
no force exists which can
prevent its downfall"
At the same time he declared the
countries of Western Europe which
fell under the heavy yoke of the
enslaving Marshall Plan" were strug-
Cling with burden of growing un-
employment and rising prices.
China Termed Example.
China, he said, was an example
of how hundreds of millions of sub
jugated toilers of the East are being
taught and educated for the revolu-
tionary struggle by capitalism itself.
Is it not American capitalism which
is assisting in tanning the civil war
in China. dispatching to the aid nf
Chinese reactionaries an enormous
amount of modern ornaments?
Notwithstanding this fact, the
peoples liberation army of China
has liberated from the yoke of the
reactionar;es a considerable part of
China's territory, is winning decisive
victories while the 'far-seeing policy
of American imperialists in China
remains hanging in the air"
He said Mr.. Stains foreign pol
icy was directed toward a consist
ent struggle against the forces of
aggression, against the instigators
of a new war, toward exposure of
the expansionist policy OF Anglo
American imperialists
This consistent, peaceful policy,
he said, flowed from Russia's "un-
shakable will for international CO.
operation on a basis of reciprocity
strict observance of contracted OBJ
legations"
Refers to Tito.
Pospelov, who is a member of the
Central Committee of the Commu-
mist Party, as we'll as editor of its
official newspaper, spoke for more
than an hour to the distinguished
gathering in the Bolshoi Theater.
At one point, referring to Marshall
Tito of Yugoslavia, he said there
was considerable jubiiation among
the "imperialists" at 1.-The secession
from Marxism of Titos nationalist
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