Evening star., 1951-12-28
Theme Of Just War
Is Revived in Soviet
Army Newspaper
By EDDY Gilmore
SS
Associated Press Foreign Correspondent

MOSCOW, Dec. 28.-Red Star.
the Soviet Army newspaper, re-
vived yesterday the theme of "the
just war and the unjust war" and
warned it's readers against "bour-
geois pacifism." Wars of "op-
pressed classes against oppressors"
are quite lawful, it said.
Col. F. Khrustov, who holds the
degree of master Of philosophical
science, quoted Generalissimo
Stain and expounded at length on
the idea that a just war is one
which liberates people from capi-
talism or imperialism, while an
unjust war is one of "imperialist
aggression"
(The theme is an old one,
dating back to Lenin, but its
revival at this time is interest
ing. 1t is brought up every
once in a while, usually at some
critical juncture in Soviet his
tory. For example, World War II
was an "imperialist" war until
Germany attacked the Soviet
Union, whereupon 1t became a
just one, tagged by Moscow
"the great patriotic wary
The rest of the Soviet press
yesterday, meanwhile, hammered
away on the anti-American theme,
whose central motif was a sinister
one about spies and Saboteurs bent
on damaging the Communist coun-
tries.
Some of yesterdays headlines:
Training of Saboteurs in the
United States::" Concerning the
Sentence Of the Hungarian Court
in the Case of the American Air
men," Swedish Newspapers on
American Pressure on Sweden"
Exhibition of Americana British
l918-20 intervention in Estonia."
The press also dwelt on the West
Frankfort, H., mine disaster and
other items intended to show the
Soviet public what life might be
like in the United States.
These stories, among other
things, told the Soviet people that
the United States Air Force backs
Russian-language schools at Syra-
cuse. Cornell. Indiana, Pennsyl-|
vania, Georgetown and Yale uni
verSitieS.
Red Fleet, the Soviet navy'sI
newspaper, also was in the anti
American parade. A navy cap
tin wrote: 'It is common knowl-
edge that the result of more than
three years of United States mil
itary operations against Japan wasI
the conquest of a number of SMALL
Pacific islands of no great signifi-
canoe. whereas the entry of theI
U. S. S. r. into the war rapidly
led to the complete defeat of
the japanese military machineI
and the unconditional surrender
of the japanese militarists."
(The U. S. S. r. entered the
Japanese war when it was all
over, after the atom bomb had
been dropped and a few days
before Japan'S surrender)
Colonel Quotes Stain.
In Red Star, which is read byl
all Soviet army officers, the colonel
wrote that "the question OF the
origin and nature Of wars, of the
origin, character and purpose of |
armies, is one Of the most compli-
Gated topics of social and political
problems" Then he quoted
Stain on it:
"'A-The just, non-aggressive
liberation war is aimed either atI
defending people from attack
from without and attempts at en-
slaving it, or at freeing people
from the slavery Of capitalism, or
finally at freeing colonial and de-
pendent countries from the yoke
OF the mperialists, and
"B-The unjust, aggressive war
Is aimed at seizing and enslaving
other peoples"
The colonel went on: "Bolshe-
viks have nothing in common
with bourgeois pacif1sts who try
by hypocritical signing about
peace to conceal their efforts to !
condemn the working people to |
eternal slavery.
"At the same time, Bolsheviks
admit the complete lawfulness of /
wars Of oppressed classes against
oppressors."