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COMMUNIST PARTY, U. S. A.
questioning in a wave of war hysteria aimed at the Soviet Union.
The remembered Hes of the press on the Munich "peace" are being surpassed. The plain truths are twisted or
ignored.
The Finnish bourgeois-landlord rulers,
incited and supported by world impe-
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rialism,
Soviet borders they attacked at two
points yesterday morning. They were repulsed by the Soviet Union which took the necessary steps in defense of its national interest.
It is the sheerest hypocrisy for the press to pretend moral indignation at "a little country" engaged with a "big country like the Soviet Union." They know that behind the Finnish ruling cliques stand the mighty forces of Brit- ish and American imperialism, goading, encouraging, supporting the hostile acts of Finland.
The Finnish bourgeois-landlord cliques were willing to play this role of provoca- teur. They stood at the Soviet borders holding open the doors of war. The Soviet Union yesterday closed the doors. No war dogs of world imperialism will pass through (Daily Worker, December 1, 1939 (editorial), p. 1).
Forge the friendship and peaceful co- operation of the American-Soviet-Brit- ish coalition and all the freedom-loving peoples * * * (Statement issued March 5, 1946, by National Secretariat of the Communist Partv, Political Affairs, April 1946, p. 291).^
Take steps to restore Anglo-American- Soviet unity as the cornerstone of coop- eration among the United Nations * * * (Lawyers Guild Review, vol. VI, No. 2, May-June 1946, p. 518).
* * * The revitalization of coop- erativerelationsamongthegreatpowers and especially between the United States and the Soviet Union, points the path to peace. To aid in the revitaliza- tion of the cooperative relations among the great powers it is imperative that the United States and the Soviet Union compose their differences in the briefest possible time and lay the groundwork for the composing of differences among other nations and thus advance the cause of peace and the principles and purposes of the United Nations,
* * * Adherence to the principle of concurrence and cooperation will eliminate the need to consider measures inconsistent with the spirit of the United Nations, such as the contemplated North Atlantic Pact or any other mili- tary arrangement by any powers which may breed hostility and suspicion * * * (Lawyers Guild Review, vol. IX, No. 1, Winter 1949, pp. 55-56).
End the "cold war," *
store American-Soviet friendship, the key to world peace and the fulfillment of the people's hope in the United Na- tions * * * (Political Affairs, Sep- tember 1948, pp. 938-939, Article, 1948 Election Platform of the Communist Party).
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continued their violations of the
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