SOVIETS LAUNCH 'PEACE' DRIVE IN WEST, CONCENTRATE ON EAST
Soviets Launch 'Peace Drive In West, Concentrate on East Gideon's Isolationism Cleaks Soviet Aims iAn fdJtor/al) IT HAS REMAINED for Henry Wallace once again to remind us of how the Soviets...
...Max Eastman, Dr...
...George S. Counts...
...G. Serebryakova disappeared, 1939 A. Voronski disappeared, 199t Frldland Ter-Vaganyan executed, 1936 Sergei Sviatapolik-Mirsky disappeared, 1939-39...
...Of the others, John Howard Lawson spoke on CP domestic problems, and Richard Lauterbach reiterated the "we're both wrong" idea for the gentle fellow -travelers...
...disappeared...
...1940...
...1934 Boris Pasternak nothing published since 194S...
...1937 B. KetnJkw...
...Under a sign reading "One World*— or None," speakers called attention to Russia's purges of writers and scientists...
...S. Mullcr, artist George Biddlc, composer Nicholas Nobokov, Morris Ernst, Arthur M. Schlcsinger, Jr., Louij Fischer, Bertram D. Wolfe, and Prof...
...CP Gets Word At New York 'Peace Parley' By Anatole Shub YELLPeace' in the West...
...Victor Orlov disappeared, 1999...
...But Wallace (as far as we know) is Still head of the Progressive Party, and a* such is presumably expressing that Party's position on foreign affairs...
...There was one Western Europe speaker, William Olaf Stapledon, who made a point of his political naiveness, and renewed the "let's get together" plea...
...At tlu opening banquet, magazine editor Norman Cousins received a round of bood for declaring that Americans were antiCommunist, but not anti-humanitui ian...
...And at Freedom House, a counterrally organized by Americans for Intellectual Freedom drew an overflow crowd...
...BOknaU Zorts<P?n^oTB%» slace 194...
...POETS A. Akhamatova disappeared, 1146 Nikoai Oumilyov...
...of Pushkin and Lermontov...
...In a CBS broadcast replying to Secretary of State Acheson's defense of the Atlantic Pact, Wallace declared: "Now the Atlantic Pact plunges us Into the maelstrom of European politics...
...consolidate Asia...
...I. Maleyev..................disappeared...
...The line was re-echoed a hundred times...
...Lieutenant Peter Pirogov, Aery Red Army flier who escaped to Austria and then America, set the keynote for all democrats when he crieS: "Don't lose hope...
...The carrying out of "this fine did principle," Fadeev asserted, "could be a deciding factor" in U.S.Soviet relations...
...Boris Guber disappeared...
...disappeared, 1139...
...1939-33...
...At such...
...That, in seven words, is the gist of the new world Communist strategy, as it emerged from New York's bitter weekend "Battle of the Culture Conferences...
...Telegrams from T. S. Eliot, liertrand Russell, Senatdr Paul Douglas, Arthur Koestler, and Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin were read...
...Ivan Makarov disappeared, 1937...
...has been all wrong ever since Itlt, with the brief exception of tha "wartime unity" period...
...Those who spoke were Dr...
...And the voice of the Cominform, Polish delegate Leon Kruizikowski: "Do not believe those who tell you that peace and the defense of peuce |s a Communist scheme...
...ANTI-SOVIETS WERE BUSY, mean, while...
...Russian movie producer M. Chiaurelly ui£ "The leader of the Soviet people -—the...
...The Soviet Union and the people's democracies are waging an uncompromising struggle in defense of peace...
...2. For tha fellow-travelers: The United States and Russia are equally at fault...
...The universal values which bring men together irrespective of all else but their common humanity . . . are the hope of peace...
...of Turgenev and Hersen, has been barren for three decades...
...New York publisher Ted Thackrey said: "I am not one of those who hold that any single nation, including my own, bears the exclusive responsibility for violating both the spirit and the letter of the great United Nations Charter...
...The land of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky...
...1937...
...While pickets barricaded their sessions with a blistering wall of invective and American and- Eastern European democrats stoned two impressive counter-demonstrations, delegates to the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace got tHe J^ti^ramlinlino, and were "work far peace'' nMjlQltsM9)snV'< In the plush ballrooms of tKe WaldorfAstoria Hotel, beneath ' the rococo vaulting of Carnegie Hall, and under the glaring spotlights of Madison Square Garden, Russian and Communist speakers hammered home the following points: 1. For the Communist hacks...
...Hfvte these merely the ravings of one "fttnt they could bj passed over lightly...
...Bryn .1...
...The latter country got three mentions at the Garden rally, as compared to one for Cardinal Miml::;'enty and none for Tito...
...Bruno Yagensk^ cHsa^a...
...Were not the old Ciiai ist Russia and American democracy able to come to an agreement and live in peace over more than a century...
...But it was in the City Center basement casino that the Soviets got their" mos/ telling answer...
...always meet on grounds where our interests are identical, namely, on the grounds of foreign nonintervention...
...Dmitri Gorbov disappeared, 1939...
...Boris Pilnyak ......disappeared, 1939...
...The names of these men, and how their message was lest to the world, are a unique reminder to those who gather at "peace conferences" of the oldest message in the world: There is no peace without freedom...
...The Bolshevik Party's reply was swift and summary...
...executed, 1921...
...Max Yergun, Nobel prize-winner Dr...
...Mouthing Washington's ancient warning against "entangling alliances...
...They proclaim that peace and ^international cooperation is possible between countries whose social, economic and political systems differ...
...The failure of the first line, as evidenced by the showing of the Progressive Party in the last election, is what made the second, the departure 'from the "Russia's always right" routine, necessary...
...A few men raised their voices in the old tradition, however...
...1938-33...
...Frederick L. Schuman—most veteran observers agreed that the most potent weapon in the Stajin petce offensive would be the Schuman approach (equating the United States with Russia in cold war guilt and pleading for a Truman-Stalin meeting to "settle all differences...
...And columnist L F. Stone...
...3. For both: The working people want peace and will .not fight in an imperialist war...
...THAT STALIN'S INTEREST HAS shifted to Asia was fairly apparent throughout the sessions, but most evident at the closing Garden rally...
...Isaac Babel disappeared...
...At the Waldorf panel sessions, newspapermen plied the visiting Communists with questions which, mor<> often than not, were dodged as having "nothing to do with peace...
...Soviets Launch 'Peace Drive In West, Concentrate on East Gideon's Isolationism Cleaks Soviet Aims iAn fdJtor/al) IT HAS REMAINED for Henry Wallace once again to remind us of how the Soviets would really want u* to conduct our politics...
...Ctaevly, the tide that some of our |fliirr|MUS»Ofc^ have abandoned, Wallace has assumed for \\mtfAl, Only with this difference: If Jlmerica'were to withdraw from any participation in European or world affaire—as Wallace evidently desires-$p* field would then be left to Soviet Ihnwia...
...This corresponds not only to the wishes of the Soviet people but to the wishes of tiie American people and the people of the whole world...
...Ivan Kataev disappeared...
...They Were Not Represented Russian literature for vears was a literature of protest...
...In the same way the America of today could come to an agreement with the new Socialist Russia...
...1999-99 r;tOjfoymkt« . Hsappeared, M9C-39 O. Mandelstam disappeared...
...FADEEV HIMSELF led the Cominform chorus when, in the closing oration of the Garden rally, he declared: "If we take the respect of national sovereignty and national culture as out base . . . one can always come to an agreement even in those cases when something is not to one's liking...
...Kv all ace further charges that the Piict rforces us into a European alliance against a European power...
...Helen Tager...
...Thus, "if any post-election doubts remained as to where the so-called Progressives stand- on the issue of world democracy vvt 5U* .JKQrJltL Communist aggression, Wallace has brushed them aside far more thoroughly than Fadeev, Shapley...
...It was the greatest Hiaratura in the world...
...V. Kudashev disappeared, 1936-39...
...Although the well trained delegates at the plenary session went wild when Alexander Fadeev, chief Russian delegate, rebuked this line—as presented byjProf...
...1937 N. Samdin to Siberia, 1936 D. Semenovski to Siberia, 1936 P. Vas'Hev arrested...
...Prof...
...There is no reason why the two conflicting systems cannot live in peace...
...Jkhuman, or even Lillian Hellman...
...Of the nine speakers at the mass meeting, three were representatives of Iron Curtain countries, and three spok ; about racial and colonial minorities...
...great Stalin—recently owe again Extended his hands across the ocean...
...There spokesmen for democracy In Armenia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria) and Russia denounced the "peace" parley and especially the foreign Cora- . munists who, it was maintained consistcntly, are the worst enemies of ton Russian people...
...Organize...
...H. Kluyev ...........................to Siberia...
...We do not think that differences in political views or religious beliefs can prevent us from doing this...
...Several of the speeches and telegram* will be presented in forthcoming issues of The New Leader...
...1922...
...The silver-haired Fadecv had earlier quoted Lincoln as saying Russia and the U.S...
...A. Taxasov-Rodionox...
...disappeared, 1937...
...1932...
...WRITERS V. Arosev disappeared...
...CRITICS Georgi Gorachov arrested and disappeared, 1937...
...Hovde, president of the New School for Social Research...
...While one^third of the Garden speakers were thus devoting their attention to colonial peoples, many of the others —at all sessions'—introduced constant references to Indonesia, China, India, Burma, and Viet-Mam...
...People's art" put an end to protest, and the men who dared touch the Russian soul hare been few...
...The Russian writers who survived the great purges are little more than cheerleaders for the Bolshevik iuqgernaut...
...Russia Is the victim once more ofjcapilalist encirclement Tha U.S...
...Communism is only strong when you don't know what it iS In Russia...
...Abraham Leshnev disappeared...
...Sidney Hook was chairman...
...Novelist Peter Pavlenko declared: "We (Soviet intellectuals) are ready to work with you to the very end in this cause (of peace...
...It is the Job of "democratic progressives" to make sure they do not fight...
...Whin Tolstoy and Dosioevsky probed the moral fibers of their country, men and woman all oyer tha globe watched and listened...
Vol. 32 • April 1949 • No. 14
