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American Friends Service Committee — Part 26
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propaganda here.
Despite the great body of Stalin’s writings
proclaiming the necessity and inevitability oZ
a world commu coup, the Quakers’ repor:
dlithely ignores the Cominform and professes
that “war between the United States and the
“. Soviet Union is not inevitable.” The reason?
The Soviets would gladly welcome “peaceful
co-existence if ‘new historical conditions’ made
“it appear advantageous.” ~
“The report goes on to chart a future course
‘which would not only appear advantageous to ~
Stalin but which, in fact, includes every con-
sion he has demanded over the, past three
ears. Although the report does not menticn
the Berlin blockade, it recommends lifting o¢r
: embargo on war-potential goods to Russia, with-
drawing our troops from Germany, and scuttl-
ing of the West German republic. Without a
“word about the Baruch plan for international
atom control, we are asked to surrender our
stockpiles and devise some vague new scheme
(unspecified in the report) which would win
Russian approval.
A number of other concessions are demanded
sall made by our “bold initiative.” Significantly
ugh, the report has nothing to say about the
East, where the Stalinist machine is run-
smoothly. The Friends’ report, in a word,
Urges us to turn the other cheek. Such a course
noble if you wish a joyous and speedy sum-
ions to the hereafter; in this world, howev:
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