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SEVENTY-THIRD YEAR
Peace of Brutal, Indiscriminate Revenge American Writer Indicts Conduct
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uprooting of some ten million freedom of speech, press, assemGermans from the eastern pro- bly, radio broadcasting ,etc., vinces, the deportation of some which could alone conduce to democratic revival. The following was written by William Henry Chamberlain, noted Morgenthau Plan, a very large three million Sudeten Czechs. (5) Looting of occupied coun(3) One of the gravest Nazi American writer on Russian and European affairs. Originally a part of which was unfortunately The Russian has looted Marxist and Russophile, he was for twelve years special corres- carried over into the Potsdam crimes was the impressment of tries. forced labour under conditions everything that was not nailed pondent for the "Christian Science Monitor." His studies and ex- Declaration? By this decision of periences in the Soviet Union, which cured him of his Socialism, the Big Three, the spark -plug of that suggested human slavery. down and a good deal that was. were recorded in his book, "Russia's Iron Age," one of the import- Europe's economy, the highly de Unfortunately, this horrible crime American loot ranges from the ant books on Russia, published in the thirties. The following ar- veloped and efficient German in did not start with the Nazis and G.I.'s "souvenir" watch or camera tide was reprinted from an American magazine in the San Fran- dustrial and transportation sys- ha not ended with the fall of the to the art treasures which have Nazis. Forced labour on a large been taken out of Germany on cisco "Monitor": tem, is permanently crippled, if the pretext of safe -keeping. not destroyed.. Many branches scale has been an important fea16) Rape. Especially in the The world's worst war is being of Germans and Sudeten Czechs of non-military mdustry which are ture of the Soviet economic sysfollowed by the world's worst who have been uprooted from absolutely essential to the national tem ever since the "liquidation of Soviet occupied regions ,this has peace. The present "peace," the homes where their families had livelihood of a Germany which the kulaks as a class" and similar been on a mass scale, reminiscent elementary details of which have lived for generations and driven must support a population swollen measures furnished huge batches of the Japanese in Nanking, acto the testimony of many not been framed almost a year cut as destitute refugees to wan- by uprooted deportees within of slaves, now being replenished cording after the cessation of fighting in der the winter roads with only much smaller frontiers because of by large numbers of German war correspondents and officials. (7) Deliberately induced starvaEurope, is not a peace at all, in what they could carry in their the annexation of the eastern pro prisoners and civilians. That forced labour is often a tion. The official German ration any proper sense of the word. It hands. Ask the people of India winces, are forbididen or placed euphemism for treatment so in- of 1,550 calories a day is below is a dismal orgy of violence ,loot- who face new and greater fain- under crippling restrictions. human as to lead to death is evi- what was fed to conscientious obing, oppression, of slave labour Ines. Germany. dent from an inconspicuous item jectors living on a "starvation" and starvation, of mutilation of Atlantic Charter. Incentive for the Germans to in the New York "Times" of Oc- diet under protected conditions, historic ethnographis frontiers of Let's have the Four Freedoms national economic laws. and review the Atlantic Charter. work and rebuild is destroyed by tober 25, 1945. The British corn.' not in bomb-wrecked, heatless the arbitrary decision that the mandant of a transient's camp in cities. Many millons of Germans This peace, which is no peace at all, but only an uneasy armistice is pretty well summed up in the German standard of living must Berlin, Captain G. J. Johnson, and Austrians ,especially in the in the game of power politics, is a wording of the second: "They not rise above the European aver- quoted the statements of return. larger cities and among the refugrotesque caricature of every (the Allied Nations) desire to see age, the Soviet Union and Great ing war prisoners that of 100,000 gees, do not get even this subnorThis Germans captured at Stalingrad, mal diet. Private voluntary repositive ideal for which the Unit- no territorial changes that do not Britain being excepted. ed Nations supposedly fought the accord with the freely expressed overlooks the point that varia- only 6,000 are still alive, and ex- lief until very recently has been war. Let's have a roll -call of wishes of the peoples concerned." tions in national standards of liv- pressed his belief in the truth of forbidden in the American zone. As a final contribution to wholethese ideals, as stated in the Four If there has been an intention to ing are as great in Europe as in this statement, adding: The Germans "One can well believe that death sale starvation, German rail serFreedoms and the Atlantic Char- describe the kind of peace settle- this hemisphere. already a terrific price have paid rate when one sees the miserable vice was recently disrupted in ter. ment that was NOT to be made, Freedom of Religion? Ask the no better phrasing could have for the crimes of their Nazi rulers. wrecks coming through here at the American zone on the pretext To decree that Germany should the rate of 2,000 per day. They of "denazification." Infant mormany priests in Yugoslavia who been found. have been murdered by Tito's Compared with the still incom- have no higher standard of living are all sick or incapable of further tality in Berlin is 231 per 1,000. Let's Make a Fresh Start, Released women of the bands and by his quick -shooting plete peace settlement of the pre- than, say, Albania or Yugoslavia, work, We have tried a peace of brutal, summary courts. Ask the perse- sent time, the Treaty of 'Versailles is about as helpful to the recon- Wehrmacht auxiliary are either cuted churches in Poland and Ru- and the accompanying settlements struction of Europe as it would pregnant or venereally diseased." indiscriminate revenge, and it furs America has been an accomplice trough) Europe to the verge of thenia. after the last war were models of e beneficial to the economic wellThe Four Freedoms? justice, equity, and genuine self- being of this hemisphere if it were in this vile business of delivering famine and has imparted to all decreed that the American stan- up war piiosners as slaves to the larger victorious powers in Freedom of Speech? Read a determination The consequences may varying degrees (England has the recent A.P. dispatch from WarDoes anyone with the faintest dard of living should be on a par France. saw: "Sources which may not be knowledge of comparative social with that of Paraguay or Vene- be briefly summarised in the fol- least responsibility for the crimes lowing comment of the French of the peace, the Soviet Union the quoted by name reported to -day and economic cnditions in Eastern zuela. greatest) some of the degrading, a new drive by Poland's secret Europe suppose that the people of It should be a sobering thought, newspaper "Figaro": the hypocritical to discouraging "Living skeletons may he seen barbarous traits which in many police, whose net already may Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, exthat finds self-righteousness in the camps almost like those in minds are exclusively associated have swept from 75,00 to 100,000 of Eastern Finland, of Eastern persons into gaols and prisons." Poland would have voted in an pression in those travesties of in- German cioncentration camps; with Nazism. Let's make a fresh of the Look at the press in Germany or honest plebiscite for annexation justice called "war criminal trials" deaths from undernourishment are start, redress as many that with one important exception, numerous. War prisoners have crimes of the peace as we can, reJapan, or in any Soviet-occupied to the Soviet Union? country. Or that historic Polish cities every crime and outrage attribut- been savagely and systematically fuse to be intimidated by cheap sneers about "soft peace," and Ask the like Lvov and Wilno would have able to the Nazis has been and is ill treated." Freedom. from Fear? (4) Oppression. We rail at the give world and European relief innumerable women who have desired to become Russian, or that being committed by the victoriThe excep- Germans for not being democratic, and reconstruction an Al priority been outraged in Berlin, in Vienna, German cities like Breslau, Stet- ous United Nations. in Danzig ,in the formerly fertile tin and Danzig would have chosen tion is, of course, the maniacal per- but permit little or none of the over revenge. provinces of Eastern Germany Poland, or that Koenigsberg want- secution of millions of Jews for purely racial reasons. Both for that have been turned into a de- ed to become a Soviet city? sert, or ask the villagers whose The fourth obligation of the At- its horror and for its lack of even the semblance of rational motive, community was destroyed by the lantic Charter reads as follows: Listen to the "They will endeavour, with due this may be remembered as the British in Java. testimony of John Dos Passos in respect for their existing obliga- supreme crime of our barbarous But let us list the other "Life," testimony that has been tions, to further the enjoyment age. confirmed over and over again by all States, great or small, vic- crimes of the Nazis and see from reliable anti -Nazi sources: tor or vanquished, of access, on whether the United Nations could "The Viennese tell you of the equal terms, to the trade and to come into any impartial tribunal savagery of the Russian armies. the raw materials of the world with clean hands. They came like the ancient Mon- which are needed for their econoSeven Crimes. wishing to gol hordes out of the steppes, with mic prosperity." Here are seven crimes of the war the flimsiest supply. The people The words which I have placed charged against Nazi Germany be presented to His Grace, the Archbishop at this year's in the working-class districts had in black heavy type expose the that are also crimes of the peace Catholic Ball, to be held in the Embassy Ballroom on felt that when :the Russians came shyster lawyer character of the of the Allies: Monday, August 12th, are asked to contact the Hon. Secthey, at least, would be spared. claim that the defeated Axis (1) Arbitrary seizure of foreign But not at all. In the working Powers were not entitled to the territory against the will of the retary, Miss Margaret Sanderson, at the Catholic Girls' class districts the troops were al- application of the principles of inhabitants of the areas concernMovement Headquarters, 81 St. George's Terrace (B2546) So does ed. lowed to rape and murder and the Atlantic Charter. loot at will. When victims com- another phrase which occurs later (2) Deportations of peoples from not later than Friday, June 14th. plained, the Russians answered: in that document, "all the men their homes. What the Nazis Intending Debutantes this year will arrange for their workin all the lands." have done in this respect has "You are too well off to be You are bourgeoisie." How can this phrase of the At- been equalled if not surpassed, by own partners, who will wear evening dress, and dates for ers. Freedom from Want? Ask the lantic Charter conceivably be re- the expulsion of four or five mil- rehearsals will be published later. innumerable conciled with the politically fero- lion Poles from the districts east survivors of the "death marches" of the millions cious and economically insane of the so-called Curzon Line, the
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