The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-04-08
Atlantic Pact Is
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defeats civil-rights legislation, water
down rent controls, fails to repes
Hartley or provide relief TO
growing numbers of our unemployed
Both parties in congress voted for
bigger Air Force-but cut low-cos
housing.
And all this we do and fail to do
in the name of surrounding with
armies a nation which no respon
sible statesman claims either can
or will launch a military attack
beyond its borders.
PUTS US ON A WAR FOOTING
But perhaps the worst disaster
created by this new pact is not
material one at ALL This pact will
place us upon war footing, and all
these millions of Americans who still
wish to question, who still wish to
seek peace, will be reviled in the
press. and attacked on the pulpit.
AS l speak to you, the National
Council of Arts, Sciences, and Pro
LESSONS is holding a conference for
Peace in New York. This council
includes among its members some of
our most brilliant men of science and
of the arts.
To try to stop the trend toward
war. it invited to our country SCENT
lists and artists from every country
in Europe. But our State Depart
ment, using a very clever and very
dishonest method, has barred pract-
ically all the non-Communist dele
gates from western Europe, so that
you would think that only the Com
munists were interested in the con-
ference; so that you could easily be
led by the nose to damn outright any
American who participates in it. The
English press is highly indignant
over the barring of DR.. Bernal, who
was decorated only two years ago
by our own government for distln-
guished services during the war.
The State Department is trying to
bully everyone who dares ask ques
tons and demand answers. Since
when have our policy makers become
immune from criticism?. The admin
istration thinks it has presented you
with an accomplished fact that you
will not dare to question or contra
dict. | say to those very clever men
that this democracy takes no march |
ng orders and writes no blank |
checks. No group of men has the |
tight to led US into war in the name
If peace.
There is one particular result of
this new pact which has received
little notice in the press. 1t is
this: IF it now becomes American
policy to re-arm Europe, are we
going to re-arm Germany, too?
1t was German militarism and Ger
nan aggression against which we
7ere forced to fight two wars in
ingle generation. 1t was German
lilitarism and German aggression
hat launched all the carnage of the
wentieth century. Our military
len have already decided to place
rms in the hands of the Germans,
ne very same Germans, unchanged
nd unrepentant, against whom we
ought. Under the Atlantic Pact,
ne Nazis will have uniforms again.
hese will be of American and Aus
allan wool, died new color per- !
APPS, but it will be German dye, and
lie men under the cloaks will be
ermans. AS the military expert of
lie New York Times writes, "Many
our military observes advocate
plan frankly based on the eventual Il
-ilization of Spanish and German
Spain too, of course. II
ecause it was Franco who in No II
.mber of 1914 first proposed in
tier to Churchill the western alli-
Ice against Russia. Yes, Francois II
1ain-the creature Of Hitler and
ussolini-Fascist Spain is in our II
mp because she hates Russia just II
she hates Professionalism. Does II
lyone imagine that the japanese, H
It'll their Emperor intact, his adj H
trails and generals at his side, will H
It be next on the list of American H
lies? H
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