The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-16
Comment On
World Events

The idea that Communists are
willing to live peacefully side by
side with non-Communists is given
devastating blow by the execu-
tive committee of the Social Demo
cratic party of Germany which
points out:
"A detailed study of Communist
policy and tactics anywhere in the
world leads to the irrefutable con-
clusion that dictatorship and ter
rorism are basic to the system de-
veloped by Lenin and Stain"
The committee goes on to say:
"Social Democrats, however, are
convinced that only by following
the road Of parliamentary demo-
cracy will socialism be achieved.
They are firmly welded to those
democratic principles which de
, mand free and secret elections and
which find their ultimate express
sion in the duly chosen majorities
of parliamentary institutions. The
Theological foundations of the So
cial Democratic party are broad.
Marxists as we'll as Christian So
cialists can be counted among its
members"
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Explaining why the Social Demo-
cratic party cannot work with the
Communist dominated Socialist
Unity party of the Soviet zone of
Germany, the S. D. executive COM
mittee says:
"The political development of the
Soviet zone, offers one more proof
of the indisputable fact that Com
munists continue to act strictly in
accordance with the principles laid
down in the History of the Com
munist Party of the Soviet Union
fBolschewiki)'. The bible of COM
munism' is the handbook of Com
munist politicians in their efforts
to impose dictatorial rule on one
country after another, resulting as
it does, in the enslavement of the
people. Resolutely opposed to this
conception of Socialism, the So
cial-Democratic party has declared
open warfare on the Communists.
Nor are those politicians belonging
to the bourgeois parties spared,
whose political naivete makes them
believe that basis of agreement
and actual cooperation with the
Communists is possible.
Experience has taught US that
the Communists are prepared to
cast aside all moral considerations,
every democratic rule, every pact
and agreement, that, in fact they
are willing to employ the most un-
|scrupulous means to further their
ends. AS long as they are unable
to achieve power by democratic
and parliamentary means they will,
for that very reason, jealousy
guard against the encroachment of
"a single democratic right in order
to be able to carry on their Fifth
Column work for the Kremlin un-
disturbed.
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Eagerly they prepare for the
day when they can bring down the
democratically elected government
Of their country. If, as in Czech
oslovakia, they come to power by
means of a coup d'etat genuine
democratic government ceases to
|exist, the people are terrorized, ar
rests by the secret police become
the order of the day and all public
opinion is 'gleichgeschaltet.'
"In the Russian Zone of Germany
lit was the work of the SMA and
the Russian army which literally
lifted the Communist minority into
the seat of power. SED Party
workers are the willing tools of
MWD agents and serve as MEM
bers of the Peoples Police In the
struggle to preserve those liberal
values, which are the very life
blood of social democracy, and
which the Communists are deter
mined to destroy, there can be no
compromise. 1t is a bitter and re-
lentless struggle demanding sacri-
fices, which German social demo-
cracy is willing to bear for the
sake of a free Germany in a free