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Ff wtLOgUre aje j C Stoekiola, Sweden. - 4) Be ~ April 24, 1947. ‘ad! } . . ” Despatch Wo. 449. . ; the same high ideals as Alfred iiovel--who is ore widely known “for his philanthropic deeds and for his Peace Prize than as the inventor of dynamite, The world needs more ploughs and tractors and less tanks and air fortressese We need more development of world trade and fewer atomic bombs, more cooperation between the United States and Russia, and fewer angry words. ‘ie need more action by the United Nations. We need more talk about interna- tional justice and less chauvinistiec talk about "my country right or wrong. I an beginning to think that in the western world the nonebelligerent Right is of very great importancee A few well-~ toedo people who want peace can neutralize this warlike force much nore effectively than thousands of aggressive leftevwingers,. I want a program so broad on behalf of poace that no man of good . will is shut out, no man even though he may have millions of dollars. hy shut him out from neace if his heart is for peace? Why shut him out ty calling him 6 capitalist if we can help it? A great British leader to whom wo all owa a great debt of gratitude has honored we with the name of crypto-coummuni st. It suggests that in some hidden and secret way I am maneuvering against the goneral welfare of the world. I refuse to be disturbed by any name-calling of this sort, no matter how distinguished may be the source fron which the neme=calling cones because I now that the cause of peace has never been served by naue-calling. The cause of peaco is never served by hatred. By love greater things can be aChieved than by hatred. 1 When I appeared before a conservative group of the dritish Parlionent I described myself as a "prograssive Tory". I don't want to shock the people of Sweden by suying I am not a Socialist, and I am not a Communist. I nave always refused im the US to say that I am not a Comuunict, bacause in the US they have used methods 80 utterly unfair against the Communists that 1t has tended to make them grow by process of persecution. Thus I have always refused in the US to say that. I am not_qa Cornmunist. These progressive Tories--and most of the liberal people in ths US are not more progressive than the progressive Toriase-these progressive Tories of Whom I count myself one, would in the US be continually pushed from one position. to another, and no matter how far thoy proceeded so the Right would stil] be aon the rune : I am convinced that 99 per cent of the wealthy, people of Sweden want peace and that tney would be happy to cooperate with their opposite numbers in France, tngiand, and the United States on behalf of peaco.s I have been so glad to learn here in Sweden of this newborn wovemont on behalf of tha United Nations. The days of imperialism are numbered. - The nations wich seek expansion and power will destroy thomselvea. The nations which seek to serve will profit evormously. Those are fundamental laws ‘of life which the future will verify. I am sure that Sweden is in a