Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-07-07

have lost their touch. The year is 1850, not
1939 In the murky air of IL years ago. there
were those who could be taken in by the
Workers back-pedaling explanations of such
hard -to-explain events as the Nazi-Soviet
Pact and the Soviet invasion of Poland But
this year, you'd think American Communists
would have evolved more convincing dope
for the public.
The Workers editorial left nothing out.
President Truman was, of course active
participant in the plot to drum up war; "AI
the fanfare of official Washington shows
prior p a mi ng the melodramatlc rushing
of the President to Washington, the swift
mobilization of the obedient votes in the
UN security council, the accompanying news
paper and radio clamor, the writer con-
cluded. Seems the purpose was not only
'to curb the peoples peace movement at
home but "to force the japanese people to
accept an endless military occupation and
the transformation of Japan into an armed
camp" Maybe the explanation is that the
Workers editors were caught mapping. May
be this was the best they could do on short
notice. But it's hard to believe they live right
in New York.
Short notice not, the editors were able
to find an authority" on the background of
the Korean situation. They dug up an article
from the "ergan of the Communist Informa-
tion Bureau" by one PAX Han En-, described
as deputy chairman of the central committee
of the Workers Party of South Korea - in
other words, a back the line Communist
leader i'm the democratic part of the little
Far Eastern country. The Worker published
excerpts from this article which had as its
theme: "There is no doubt whatsoever that
if the American imperialists had not inter-
fered in the internal affairs of Korea and
trampIed under fOt the will of its people, the
Korean people would long ago have realized
ON national scale the democratic trans
f0rx h;ah far hoxTo hon oft afnH
only in North Korea" Pretty lucky for the
editors of the Worker that they found PAX
Han Ems article. Maybe they wouldn't have
been able to handle the situation at all other
wise.
Tipoff that the Worker staff were more
than a little beWildered by the news from
Korea was their main news story on June
26 In effect it was another editorial a not
unusual happening in the Daily Worker.
Moreover the re-write men did some tough
scrambling. Dispatches from Seoul, capital
of the quisling government in south Korea"
were confusing they wrote. The truth ap-
parently was hidden in second hand accounts
of radio broadcasts from the North Korea
Peoples Republic. Broadcasts were relayed
by the UN Commission. So the Worker editors
evolved this sentence: "The UN Commission
declared that the North Korean radio charged
that the Rhee troops had crossed the 38th
Parallel - border line between the two parts
of Korea. The quisling governments attack
had been repulsed and Southern Korean
troops forced to retreat back to their terri
tory"
The Security Council, chastity summoned,
passed an American resolution blaming North
Korea without waiting for further reports"
the Worker said. Implication was that had
the Soviet representatives been present at the
Security Council, everything would have
been different as indeed, it might have
been The Russians won't occupy their Coun-
Gil seat because the UN has refused to let
representatives of the Chinese Communists
represent China.