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ap Lele 80 NATIONAL AFFAIF Committee’ ts Aid Spanish Democracy, National Counci) of American-Soviet Friendship, Nationa] Federation for Con- stitutional Liberties, Soviet Russia To- day, the Spanish Refugee Relief Cam- _paign, and the American Committee for “the Protection of Foreign Born, Joseph E. Davies: Affiliated with National Council of American-Soviet Friendship and Congress of American- Soviet Friendship. Sent greetings to New Masses. Signed statement of National Federation for Constitutional Liberties hailing War Department otder permitting Communists to become Army officers. Author of “Mission to Moscow,” which , glorified Soviet regime and justified totalitarianism. - * Paul Robeson: Affiliated with Ameri- can Committee for Democracy and In- tellectual Freedom, China Ai Council, American League for Peace and Democ- “* racy, American Peace Mobilization, Art- ists’) Front to Win the War, Ci Committee for Harry Bridges, Joint Anti- Fascist Refugee Committee, Medical Bu- reau and North American Committee to _ Aid Spanish Democracy, National Coun- _ cil of American-Soviet Friendship, Na- tional Federation for Constitutional Lib- erties, National Negro Congress, New Masses, New Theatre League, New Dance League, New Theatre, Southern Conference for Human Welfare, Soviet _ Russia Today, Veterans of the Abraham - Lincoln Brigade, American Youth for Democracy, International Labor Defense, the Abraham Lincoln School, and the Washington Committee for Aid to China. To Pravda, the activities of Russia’s proved that “foreign democratic inteectuals have become more and more convinced that only by following . the les which the USSR is . def g in the field of international _ gelations can the leaders of science and -_qalture be set free from the fate of the _ servants of imperialism.” =i. - Unfortunately, Pravda added, the - “friends of the USSR do not have - . freedom of speech on the pages of news- papers, magazines, and books with great sons are even ; May PartyLine . per. =——_————__een a from Tass, the official Soviet news agency, and thousands of office and factory - ers en route to the 5 p.m. homeward sub- way crush, New York Communists an pro-Communist organizations marched in their annua! show of strength. What The Daily Worker heralded as “united labor” turned out to be the old standbys—the National Maritime Union, the United Electrical Workers, and the International Fur and Leather Workers Union—all CIO and Communist-infiltrated. Only a few left-wing AFL contingents marched and they paid the price—by nightfall, the AFL ordered the three leaders who had sponsored participation in the pasade suspended. . ° By far the greatest triumph of the da belonged to the Communist party itself. It ordered into the parade about 700 vet- erans, in uniform and wearing military decorations. They marched in perfect ranks chanting: “One-two-three-four. We don’t want another war.” ; On placards, banners, and floats, the marchers announced where they stood: @ They were against military use of the atomic bomb, imperialism, the Taft- Hartley “slave” labor bill, Representatives Rankin and J. Parnell Thomas, Senators Taft and Bilbo, war talk, Red baiting, J. Edgar Hoover, President Truman's foreign policy, loans to Greece and = its longest-range’ bom NEWSWEEK \ XS ie ad Turkey, Wall Street, and the House Un- American Activities Committee. °, - @ They were for of Puerto Rico, a Fed hour week, housing, Soviet-Amperican friendship, Gerhard Eisler, Henry A. Wallace, the Negro ballplayer Jackie Robinson, and return of “one-cent bubble gum.” Communist spokesmen vied with each other in trying to cover up an all too apparent fact—May Day, 1947, was a flop compared with other years. Blatantly, Ben Gold, Communist president of the Fur and Leather Workers Union, pro- nounced the parade the “best ever.” Wil- liam Z. Foster, national chairman of the Communist party, addéd: “This demonstration is but a foretaste of the great demonstrations to come.” The Daily Worker announced that 80,000 had marched. The police count: 27,500. peace, independence le —~ ARMY: Potato Air Base Agriculturally, Aroostook County in Norhers Maine could: brag about its smooth-skinned potatoes that make it the nation’s No. 1 producer. Commer- S55 bushels per acre which i converts ushe acre which if conv into starch, ‘sleoh oon seed potatoes or fertilizer, or just lets rot under the government's price-sup- port program. Botanically, the county— i land combined—had also been famous for its forests of magnificent white pines. Militarily, it was another matter. Be- cause Aroosteok County is the closest spot in the United States to Europe, the Army Air Forces last week revealed it would build a $14,000,000 base there for er than Connecticut and Rhode Is-- six-en- gined Consolidated B-36, the Boeing B-50, the Northrop B-35 Flying Wing, and its jet-powered version, the B-49. le radius would put Eu- ral ‘theater, he 35-. ol, dehydrated potatoes, - j { a 4 ; . down ighth -Avenue in New York's .| swarming garment district. Sometimes *-° there were embarrassing gape in it. Some;—_ runway from scratch than to convert . = times there seemed to be fewer Presque Isle or any other field. . L __ than police-2,800 unitormed cops and a ee / The AAF planned to break ground” , woul army of detectives had as ist “ June 15, as soon as the spring thaws are i signed to the route. At Union Square, the = over. Since Aroostook has a virtually sub- reviewing stond Inoked Whe a Sunday CANADA a arctic climate, it would take two sum- . plenic. A mother rocked her baby car-... th. & 6! mers, perhaps three, to complete work. riage in the spring sunshine, Two small NO Pet’ ‘Only then would the field be ready to scramb over the bleachers, . - 4 y base two air groups of perhaps 90 . whacking at each other with rolled-up . a> Ta bombers each. Presumably, a twin base _ . banners. Girls posed for snapshots. It was . U.S.A, ehicage . for the AAF’s over-the-Arctic air strategy ae May Day, 1947. 5 oe ee would be built ip the northwestern