MOSCOW SOVIET HOME SERVICE AUG. 27, 1957 0545 GMT (PRAVDA ARTICLE BY ANDRE WURMSER: 'WHEN PEACE CAUSES FEAR')

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MOSCOW SOVIET HOME SERVICE AUG. 27, 1957 0545 Grre
(PRAVDA ARTICLE BY ANDRE WURMSER: "WHEN PEACE CAUSES FEAR)
In a few months' time we shall be celebrating the 40th
anniversary of the ten days that shook the world. And on that
day, when the news spread of the victory of the October Revolu-
tion the press of all countries, both those which had been Russia's
allies and those which continued the struggle against her, and
even those who had managed to remain neutrals unanimously declared
that although Socialism had of course taken the upper hand in
Russia, this was a transitory happening.
, A few weeks ago the President of the United States
declareh that of course Socialism had consolidated itself during
the past forty years throughout the area from the Baltic to the
Black Sea and from the Pacific to the Caucasus, and that many
countries and peoples had been attracted to its side, but that
this is still a transitory happening. He did actually say transi-
tory happening, but failed to add, (that this?) was stated by
the New York Herald Tribune nearly forty years ago.
Nearly forty years have passed since Lenin offered
peace to the peoples and their Governments. At that time, the
world was in the grip of the first World War. Western politicians
in one voice said that Lenin's proposals played into the hands of
the enemy. They did not RPr NOT say "maneuvers around peace,n or
"intrigues around peace," as Min Dulles says today. They said that
the Bolsheviks must be ignored and gave the same reasons for this
as Dulles gives today for ignoring the Chinese Communists in order
not RPT NOT to strengthen their rule.
Forty years ago, the Paris paper Matin and the Berlin
local Anzeiger expressed themselves in a similar vein, Their
attitude was inhuman, disgusting, cynical, and stupid: but logical
from their point of view. These papers were fighting against
peace, against Socialism, for they belonged to the reign of
Capitalism. They were afraid that peace would help the victory
of Socialism; they were afraid of Socialism, which establishes peac
between nations.
Nearly forty years have passed, and some people are still
possessed of this double fear and have been repeating these same
formulas for the past forty years. All the diplomats of Capitalist
countries may not RPT NOT be tigers, but there is no doubt that
there are parrots among them.
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Two World Wars have followed one another The
tic against Soviet Russia, and later the Nazi invasion, elded
In failure. The Socialist world has been persistently saying:
Peace means peaceful competition between different economic and
political systems, In our view, this competition must be peace-
ful. It is a contest on which the future depends. It is also a
contest which began on unequal terms: France, Germany, Britain,
and the United States were at the outset perhaps a whole century
ahead of Tsarist Russia and two centuries ahead of Hungary and
Rumania. And this initial handicap accounts to a considerable
extent for the duration of the contest. Now the gap has been
considerably reduced economically, and in many other respects the
camp of Socialism has already overtaken the Capitalist world
There is no doubt about one thing: the two systems
will not RPT NOT remain equal. One of them will prove itself
more capable of satisfying the needs of all peoples, their
needs for bread and roses, happiness and justice. We are con-
vinced of the outcome of the contest. It is the Socialist syet s
which will emerge victorious. Our opponents probably hold the
opposite view,. Only the future will show which of us is right.
Consequently, it is one of two things: either they believe in
their victory, and in that case if they are not RPT NOT maniacs
possessed with a thirst for destruction -- and if they do not
RFT NOT worship the hydrogen bomb they must, logically, accept
the challenge -- or they will not RPT NOT accept the challenge
and will reject the pnoposal made to them, and this defeatist
attitude could have only one explanation: that they share our
belief and already consider themselves vanquished. If one of
the systems proposes peaceful competition and the other rejeete
this proposal, it is clear that the system refusing to compete
does not RPT NOT believe in its forces and knows that it must
be overtaken by the other. The best proof of the superiority
of Socialism is its opponents' refusal to accept honest ceelpeti
tion. They prefer another solution -- reither eompetition nor
a peaceful settlement, but the method of the cold war_
Neither the Guatemalans the Algerian, Egyptian, nor the
Korean people, like you and ourselves, believe that it is humane
feeling which has held back the Imperialsists on the brinl, of a
real wart Their good sense is explained by other considerat.i.ono_
the latest mock atomic attack in the United States cost --
fortunately not RPT NOT in reality -- 57 million American lives,
This means that three or four attacks would be enough to 6estroy
a great people to whom no one bears any ill intent,
In 1914 a certain German Prince applauded the new and
happy war. Later, Mussolini sang the glories of war, Gecring
used to say that guns are more important than butter. Today
neither Dulles, Bidault, nor even Adenauer, dares to express such
views. If they fear peace they are equally afraid of war; and
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not RFT NOT without justification, for if this war does nee RP
NOT destroy mankind, it will quite certainly destroy international
Capitalism. That is why they have chosen this tightrope form of
political acrobatics -- the cold war. And these are the influen-
tial leaders of the Capitalist states.
The conclusions drawn forty years ago are again being
put into practice. In 1957 just as in 1917, any individual or
organization attempting to promote friendship between peoples and
the easing of international tension immediately become the object
of repressive action by the leaders of the Capitalist states.
Peaceful proposals can always be called a trap. But what nation,
what man of common sense, can call peace a trap and prefer atomic
war?
It is therefore not RPT NOT good enouh to reject peace
proposals, particularly when they reproduce one s own proposals.
It is necessary to suggest another course which leads to peace.
But this is just what the Governments of the West fail to do.
One periodically sees complaints in the major Bourgeois
papers, such as: We have no ideal which we can offer our youths
an ideal which is dynamic and arouses enthusiasm (passage indistinct).
Being forced to reckon with the public opinion of their
countries, the spokesmen of the cold war have been faced with
the problem of disarmament. Why is it that in this matter they
are showing such really remarkable stubborness. Statements in
favor of continuing the cold war, said N.S. Khrushchev last month
In Czechoslovakia, are heard only from those who own industries
in the United States and in a number of other capitalist counteies
which make great profits out of the manufacture of armaments.
At their works they make, for example, steel, and turn it into
tanks, guns, and aircraft, and make enormous profits out of this,
Millions suffer from this, while only a handful of rich people
benefit.
An enemy would say that the First Secretary of the
Central Committee of the CPSU is bia.bed and that his organization
is engaging in polemics.
There are papers and specialized magazines published
In Paris for readers such as bankers, financiers, and industrial-
ists. This is what the "Bulletin Des Scoietes" said on June 8;
one of the continuing factors is still rearmament, which absorbs
such a considerable proportion of production that one sometimes
hears certain capitalists make the paradoxical statement that if
the United States and the USSR reached agreement it would spell
disaster and in July, the magazine *Banque" wrote: the fluctuations
on the New York stock exchange during the last week of May were
caused by indications of a relaxation of tension occasioned by
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the disarmament talks. If by some miracle a durable peace prevailed
it would result in a profound disruption of the world systeme That
the situation on the New York stock exchange deteriorated when the
disarmament talks took a favorable turn can be explained by the
fact that the development had an immediate effect on United States
firms working on national defense contracts, particularly the air-
craft and atom companies. Such a process could bring many enter-
prises to a standstill if there had to be arms cuts. Many factories
might lose their markets, and there would be surpluses in certain
raw materials.
Thus, the Capitalists in their own part of the world give
the same explanation for the arms race as Nikita Sergeyevish
Khrushchev. They therefore prove that Capitalism is no more
capable of spontaneously becoming an innocuous system than the
bacillococcus is capable of magnanimously deciding henceforth not
RPT NOT to be a carrier of tuberculosis.
There is a real danger to mankind, for the cold war
can turn into a catastrophe. But there another course. Those
who reject peaceful proposals are not RPT NOT in absolute control
of the destinies of people, not RPT NOT even of their own country's
destiny. The monopolies are wavering, apprehensive of the conse-
quences of war, and the peoples are rejecting war with greater
determination and awareness than ever before. The peoples fervently
hope that ideological and political differences will be resolved
without recourse to arms. The monopolies regard disarmament as
a disaster, while for the peoples it is the arms race that is a
disaster. The vigilance of the peoples is gratng and is defeating
the cold war. The peoples are bringing increasing pressure to
bear on their leaders, who whether they like it or not RPT NOT,
must reckon with that pressure. Can one imagine Dulles saying,
as one of his Western subordinates did, that the cold war must
continue since a relaxation of international tension would reduce
the dividends of General Motors? Of course not RPT NOT!
We shall win peace. But you might ask me: Have you not
RPT NOT just explained that those who reject peaceful coexistence
are threatened with ruin? Of course. but it is not RPT NOT they
who control the destiny of the peoples.
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