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Claudia Jones — Part 4
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Judge GUNTHER: _
Célonel IRWIN:
Miss JONES:
Colonel IRWIN:
Miss JONES: .
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Wait a minute, you talk about the United Nations. You font
ddny today thet the United Nations, with the veto power of . -
Russia is only ® (unintelligible) and is not ‘practical? © ed
"At the present tine, Judge GUNTHER, the problem that we face -
today is this, How can we work together to see that we -
reduce the enormus cost of military expenditures, not only = acd =
in our country but throughout the entire world and use all: --
these materials to help build homes, to heip build schools,
hospitals, and things that we need; and we can do thatif ~
we have a policy of wrking together through the United Nations
to achieve that object. a hk
wg Russia doing that? Is Fussia setting an , example te the
world? We are, but Russia isn't.
"What did we do after the first World War? ‘We scrapped .
ships pl lanes, everything in the world, We sunk millions
and | millions of tons of everything.
(unintelligible because of everyone talking 2 at once), °
"Let's get back to the original, question. She asked me was
I for preparedness in peace or war, and my answer is to you,
that is the reason why I asked you if you were a Communist,
in favor of Commniem, which is exemplified to the world by |
Russia, ien't it? and in their constitution they have com
pulsory military training, and today they have fifteen —
soldiers for every soldier that we have. Now, what are we
preparing for? ‘he answer is we are preparing for exactly
. what you bring UD.
“Colonel, IRWIN, under di seussion phere on this radio debate,
as I understand it, is whether a policy of universal military
training serves the best interests of our own nation.
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"Matt's correct, © 8 a
"Will such a policy contribute to peace? I maintain that” |
such a policy will not contribute to peace because itis
not disconnected with the other policies which our State ©
Department and War Department are pursuing, and what are
these policies? It is the policy which we see in the presa,
just yesterday and the last few days = a policy which is
leading to armed intervention, civil war, and strife, directed
against, for instance, the people of Greece.
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