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On 25th June, the second anniversary of the aggression in Korea, 1.000 American women demonstrated before the headquarters of the United Nations demanding “No Third Year of War in Korea”. In the State of Washington, three mothers of solders in the United States Army initiated a movement lo give the people of their state an oppor- tunity to vote for peace. In Louisville, Kentucky, 200 wives and mothers of men in the " 623rd National Guardsmen’s Field Artillery demanded that their menfolk be brought back from Korea. In Little Rock, Arkansas, the father of a prisoner-of-war collected in 30 days one million signatures tc a petition calling for an immediate exchange of ail prisoners-of-war. Many mothers in different parts of the country are refusing to accept their sons’ posthumous medals, as a protest against those who sent them to their death. When the women of the United States learnt of the use of burning gasoline against defenceless women and children, when they learnt of the savage massacre of unarmed prisoners-of-war on Koje Island, by protesting indignantly they expressed their will for peace. You yourselves have not joined with them in raising your voices against this horror — the systematic extermination of women and children by burning them alive. Neither the sorrow of the American mother nor the martyrdom of the mother of Korea has aroused from you the least protest to your Government which sacrifices their children. You did ncthing when your Government boastfully set out to rase by bombing 76 Korean towns, the pitiful remnants of homes already reduced to ashes, You claim that you denounce germ warfare. Yet in your capacity of United States representatives in the United Nations Organisation, you have taken no steps whatever to condemn it or to press for ratification of the Geneva Convention by your Government. When your Government's spokesmen recently repudiated as “unrealistic and actually harmful” the statement of principle made by the late President Roosevelt in 1943, that the United States of America would not use bacteriological warfare unless the enemy used it first, you said nothing. Your attitude demonstrates that you are trying to conceal the truth, to hide’ the guilt of the United States Government regarding the Korean war, and is revealing you to the women of the whole world as accessories to this crime against humanity. They judge you not by your words but by your deeds. Yours truly, Vr War ll aut Gulurie, Marie-Claude VAILLANT-COUTURIER General Secretary Women's International Democratic Federation. 13, unter den Linden. Berlin W. 8. Germany. /00 -3 ‘ol -