Evening star., 1950-12-19
WarHysteria' Caused
Emergency Decree,
Soviet Paper Charges
BY the Associated Press

MOOCOW, Lee. l9.-PraVQa TO-
day branded President Truman's
proclamation of a state of emer-
gency in the United States as "a
new explosion of war hysteria.
The Communist Party news
paper said the Presidents state
ment is demonstration that the
present Government of the United
States intends to continue to carry
out it's already bankrupt aggressive
policy. 1t added that "other than
future failures, nothing can come
of this"
The paper called on the Rus
sian people to intensity their vigi-
lance towards the aggressive
powers and especially towards all
their international intrigues."
First Definitive Comment.
The editorial was the first COM
prehensive Soviet comment on the
presidential proclamation last
Friday. 1t was the third in a
series of front page articles deal
ing with Mr.. Truman's recent an
nouncements. The first dealt with
his November 80 press conference,
in which he referred to the posi-
bility of using the atom bomb
against Communist China. The
second commented on the COM
munique on the conference of the
President and Britain's Prime
Minister Attlee.
Each of the articles has accused
the President of being in a state
OF war hysteria. Each has de-
clared that the United States it.
self is not threatened, that United
States troops are the aggressors
in Korea.
"One might think" Pravda said.
that there are hostile armies at
the United States borders which
are just about to invade American
territory, that hostile naval SQUAD
rons are concentrated at American
shores which are just about to
begin to shell ports and coastal
cities
No Threat Seen to U. S.
The paper declared that sin
reality, as even a small child can
see, no one has threatened and
no one is threatening the security
OF the United States"
1T is American divisions
Pravda continued, which have
invaded Korea and are running
the homes of Koreans, creating a
threat to the security and national
existence of the Korean people.
THE affairs of the present
Omitted States rulers are bad"
Pravda declared. IF they can
carry through their policy only
with the help of emergency
measures"
Soviet Deemed Peace-Loving.
The paper said every one knows
1t is the Soviet Union which stood
for and stands for strengthened
peace in the whole world and for
the decision of all international
problems through normal talks
between states"
The Truman proclamation,
Pravda said, is calculated to still
further kindle war hysteria and
intensity preparations for a new
war"
1t added concrete measures in
connection with the proclamation
come to one thing: ITO subject
the entire life of the country to
forced preparation for aggressive
war and for this to carry out
militarization of the country"
Pravda said the President
threatens to use strong meas
ures against workers who try to
strike or oppose lowering wages
and increases in their working
day"
Thus, said Pravda, the intro
duction of the state of emer-
gency is aimed at liquidation of
the democratic rights of the
American people"
Truman is repeating the policy
of those Hitlerite aggressive
forces which once prepared the
Second World War and proposed
that their population "renounce
butter for guns" it declared.