PEACE WITHOUT REVENGE

...Leave The Passion Of Revenge' The article goes on to call for United Nations support for the working class and the social democratic forces in Germany against the Junkers, industrialists, and army officers...

...Proof And A Warning And here is what a Dutch underground newspaper has to say on the same subject: "You will have to go beyond the dethroning of the reactionary powers (in Germany...

...Here are excerpts from Norwegian, Polish, and Dutch underground newspapers, reprinted in England by the International Transport Workers' Federation...

...It cannot be solved from the outside...

...Let the American and British governments help, yes, say the underground workers, but let them not try to impose something that is alien to Europe's organic growth...

...But this can easily change into the desire to dominate other nations, and thus, after the defeat of Nazism, its very methods and ideas would be triumphant again...

...Therefore every policy of holding down Germany economically, let alone of dividing her up, is out of the.question...

...Here is proof enough that the spiritual vitality of Europe is surviving...

...The yearning for revenge, so just and understandable, today makes us clench our fists in righteous fury...

...Nevertheless, the problem must be solved...

...The United Nations, for their own good and for the sake of future peace, must be prepared to promote a democratic system of government in Germany as well as in Italy and other dictator countries...

...We shall therefore have to leave the passion of revenge and seek the ideals of justice...

...The Polish nation is fighting this war, not for revenge, but for the stabilization of its future which can be brought about by the realization of its just demands...

...The aim for which we should strive is a commonwealth of all nations and the collaboration of all the states of the world...

...What matters is that the European community, and no longer the national state, should be taken as the starting point of our considerations, and suitably be left to the particular states and statelets...

...Intervention against popular democratic and socialist movements are not only contrary to the spirit of the Atlantic Charter, but will also strengthen reaction...

...it is definitely necessary to receive Germany into a planned European economy...

...The following is from the Norwegian newspaper Free Trade Unionism, issue of July 10...

...The Polish underground newspaper Freedom writes: "The seeds of hatred, force, and crime, sown widely by the Nazi occupation, will grow quickly, trying to cover the whole of Europe, and change it into a jungle free-for-all...

...It was the tragedy of the Weimar Republic that for the masses of the German population democracy was synonymous with inflation, war debts, depression, and unemployment...

...Whoever wants to persuade the Poles to adopt Nazi methods (and there are some who do), whoever wants them to apply these methods after the war to weaker or younger nations, actually wants to destroy for Poland the effects of victory...

...Peace Without Revenge By E. Dixwell Chase (Managing Editor of Worldover Press) EVIDENCE continues to arrive from Occupied Europe to prove that, by some miracle, the men and women of the overrun lands are still able to think constructively about long-range peace problems, despite the desperate pressure of the immediate, personal, day-by-day struggle to keep themselves alive and uncompromised...

...The evidence consists mainly of copies of underground newspapers that have found their way to neutral and allied countries...

...Here is also a sharp warning that Europeans intend to have a hand in shaping their own affairs after the war...

...The destruction of all free organizations and the Nazi poisoning of youth, together with the material effects of war and defeat, do not provide a favorable basis for the reconstruction of German democracy...