Evening star., 1951-08-01

The teTt OF PrGUdd'S reply to
British Foreign Secretary Her.
bert MorriSon'S message to the
Russian people:
In his statement Mr.. Morrison
raises two groups of questions:
Questions of domestic and foreign
policy.
l. DOMESTIC POLICY:
Mr.. Morrison asserts that in the
Soviet Union there is no freedom
of speech, no freedom of the press,
no personal freedom.
Mr.. Morrison is deeply mis-
taken. In no country is there
such freedom of speech, freedom
of the press or personal freedom,
freedom of organizations for
workers, farmers, intellectuals, as
in the Soviet Union. Nowhere
are there SO many workers and
farmers clubs, so many workers
and farmers newspapers. as in
the Soviet Union. Nowhere has
the organization of the working
class reached the stage that ii
has in the Soviet Union. 1t is
an open secret that the entire
working class, literally all the
workers of the U. S. S. R., are
organized in trade unions, just
as all the farmers are organized
in co-operativeS.
Does Mr.. Morrison know OF
this? Evidently he does not
Moreover, apparently he does not
even want to know of thiS-he
prefers to draw his data from
complaints coming from repre-
sentatives of the Russian capital
lists and landlords, who were
driven out of the U. S. S. r. by
the will of the Soviet people.
In the U. S. S. r. freedom OF
speech, freedom of the press, free
dom of organizations does not
exist for enemies of the people
for the landlords and capitalists
overthrown by the revolution
Nor does it exist for incorrigible
thieves, for Subversive agents, ter
roriSts and asSassins sent in by
foreign secret services for the
criminals who shot at Lenin, who
killed Volodarsky, Uritsky, Kirov
poisoned Maxim Gorky and Kui-
byshev. All these criminals, from
the landlords and capitalists dowr
to the terroristS, thieves, assassins
and subversive agents, are out tt
restore capitalism in the U. S
S. R., to restore the exploitation
of man by man and to drench the
country in the blood of the work.
ers and farmers. The prisons anc
labor camps exist for these gen
tlemen, and for them only.
Other Freedoms Listed.
Surely it is not for these gen
tlemen that Mr.. Morrison seek
freedom of speech, freedom of tn
press and personal freedom? Sure
ly Mr.. Morrison does not thinl
that the peoples OF the U. S. S. r
would consent to grant these gen
tlemen freedom of speech, free
dom of the press, personal free
dom and. hence freedom to exploi
the working people.
Mr.. Morrison makes no men
ton of other freedoms of mucl
greater significance than freedom
of speech, freedom of the pres
etc. Specifically he does not Sa
anything about freedom from ex
ploitation for the people, abou
freedom from economic crise'
from unemployment, from power
ty. Perhaps Mr.. Morrison is un
aware that all these freedom
have existed for a long time /
the Soviet Union? And these yer
freedoms are the basis of all tn
= other freedoms. Does not M
Morrison baShfull. keep siler
about these basic freedoms be
cause, unfortunately, tn y do NJ
exist in Britain and British work
ers still suffer from exploitatio
by the capitalists, in spite of tn
fact that the Labor Party hs
now been in Office in Britain fc
six years?
Mr.. Morrison asserts that th
Labor Government is a Socialis
Government and that the radi
broadcasts organized under tn
supervision of such a governmer
should not meet with an
hindrances by the Soviets.
Unfortunately, we cannot agre
with Mr.. Morrison. At frst, whe
Labor had just come to powe
one could have thought that tn
Labor Government would tax
the path of Socialism. Subse
quently, however, it turned OIL
that the Labor Government di1