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_ ponent "got to learn to rule ourselves. We are daily being pushed into a third world war on the assumption that we are the sole possessors of Truth and Right and are able to pound our ideas into the world's head by brute force." The "National Guardian" of March 8, 1950, page 8, carried an article entitled "What We Need" by W.E.B. DU BOIS. In this article, Doctor DU BOIS points out that public welfare must replace private profit as the end of effort and planned economy must bring order and justice out of the anarchy of Free Enterprise and Private Initiative. Doctor DU BOIS also points out that we need increased Government control of land ownership and use; socialized medicine to protect the public health; abolition of slums and publicly subsidized housing on a nationwise scale; unemployment relief, sickness and old age security on levels sufficient for decent life; the protection and subsidizing of workers in any essential industry like farming, which has long suffered from the present organization of industry; and en- couregement of all forms of self-help, like consumers coopera- tion. The “National Guardian" dated August 29, 1949, page 4, disclosed that in Mosccw an ali-Russian Conference of Peace Partisans opened with 1,500 delegates attending. From the United States came Doctor W.E.B. DU BOIS, eminent scholar and historian who will write his impressions of Russia for the "National Guardian". TT Cc es available on March 20, 1950 a printe nvita m to attend the annual dinner of the voint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee. This dinner was in honor of the Spanish Republicans and was held on March 21, 1950 in the Belvedere Room of the Hotel Astor, New York City. Doctor W.E.B. DU BOIS was listed as being a guest. a conn