Evening star., 1949-04-24
Chinese Red Victory
Stirs Paris Congress
To Rousing Acclaim
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1y fhs Asseeiossd Press
PARIS. April 23.-The loudest
cheers of the 4-day-old World
Peace Congress were given today
at the announcement of a Com
munist war victory in China.
Two minutes of wild cheering
greeted the statement of the days
chairman, J. G.. Crowther. a Brit
ish historian. that I'VE have just
learned that the democratic
Chinese forces have entirely lib
Grated Marking"
The delegates sat in stunned
silence earlier when one speaker
criticized. "proletarian bureaucrats'
and mixed boos with catcalls when
an American, o. John Rogge. said
Russia lacks political freedom.
They got their first shock when
Harvey Moore, a British lawyer.
told them. they could not be for
war and peace at the same time
and that:
"Proletarian bureaucrats as well
as bourgeois bureaucrats will have
to learn that people want freedom
of the individual, freedom OF
speech, freedom Of elections and
freedom to change their govern
ment II thy want to-"
Receives Few Cheers.
When the delegates sat silent,
MIR. Moore demanded, Where are
your cheers?"
He got q few then, and went on
with the comment:
"I rejoice to see so many Com
munists here advocating peace
It is a great step forward. If you
are sincere, you cannot want war
Do you want war 10 continue in
China until the triumph of the
Democratic forces?"
A chorus of 'yes" greeted him
and he continued:
do you want peace now?"
There was a chorus of no"
do not deceive yourselves. You
cannot be for war Tin China and
peace at the same time" the Bri-
ton exclaimed.
He had to ask a second time for
applause when he remarked that
anyone. American, Russian OF
Bulgarian who would have any
thing to do with dropping an
atomic bomb on his fellow man is
a cad"
Rogge Also Shocks Session.
The second shocker for 1.-THE
delegates was a declaration by
MIR. Rogge. former United States
Assistant Attorney General, that
Russia and the United States
were equally responsible" for the
cold war.
Boos and Kisses interrupted his
speech when he said there was
lack of equality for racial minor
tiles in America and likewise
there Is not sufficient freedom
for political minorities in the
Soviet Union"
Other boos and catcalls greeted
his assertion that capitalism and
Communism should learn to live
together peacefully.
Mr.. Rogge said he would not
criticize his own country while
abroad. but had done so at home
He repeatedly ran counter to the
general tenor of the congress: this
has been to blame United States
'imperialists" alone for threats to
peace.
America, he said, is not threat
ened by the Soviet Union and the
Soviet Union is not threatened by
the United States. The real
threat to peace is fear. he said
adding that it was wrong to play
on fear with such phrases as "Red
Fascisfn" and capitalist imperial
ism"
Rogge Cheered and Booed.
Mr.. Rogge excited alternate
cheers and boos when he said the
United States must keep its
hands OF" social reforms in Brit
ain. France and Italy. and that
Russia must quit interfering In
the internal affairs Of other coun-
tries.
Expressing some misgivings
about the Cominform. he said 81
am greatly disturbed by attempts
to set up q new Mecca. or a new
Rome, with only one doctrine, with
everyone else considered as here
tics"
Ilya Ehrenburg. Soviet writer.
told the conference American
leaders were seeking to eradicate
Fascism by forming SIS divisions
and the American people must
not become a new Germany"
I'VE do not want to settle our
quarrel with arms" he said.
China War News Hailed.
The ovation given the an
nouncement of the Communist
march of arms in China came only
lew mInuVeS aIteQt MF. moore
speech.
A similar demonstration was set
OF in an overflow" congress at
Prague. where the delegates seized
Chinese representatives and car
ried them on their shoulders
around the hall.
A Czechoslovak spokesman said
the demonstration for a war sue.
cess was not strange because "this
means the beginning of q real
democratic peace In China"
Mr.. Moore, 57-year-old lawyer.
told the delegates there has been
too much stirring up Of hate at
this conference. No wonder Pi-
casso's dove looks so sad"
A painting Of dove by the pro-
Communist artist pahlo piraSsn