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COMMUNIST PARTY, V. 8. A.
* * The main forces in the
world today are: * * * the camp
of the monopolists who are plotting atomic war and the world-wide peoples' camp of peace in which the Socialist Soviet Union plays the leading role (Political Affairs, April 1949, pp. 64- 66; article: "The Atom Bomb; Myth andTruth" by Joseph Clark).
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* * Wq proposed: That our government announce its immediate readiness to enter into an international agreement providing for the prompt destruction of all atomic weapons and all other weapons adaptable to mass destruction and the complete cessation of all further production thereof. The international agreement should provide for establishing effective compliance with its provisions and prescribe sanc- tions for violation thereof. The aboli- tion of the veto power should not be required as a condition to reaching an agreement on atomic energy {Lavyers Guild Review, May-June 1946, p. 521).
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20. Bretton Woods
The labor movement must speak up During April 1945, the National for the Bretton Woods plan as a whole, Lawyers Guild in San Francisco spon- and demand that it be reported out of sored a series of talks, under the direc- committee intact. The rest of the world tion of Benjamin Dreyfus of the San is watching the United States on this Francisco Chapter. The talks were issue. Our allies will not believe that reported to have followed the Russian we have abandoned political isolation views that the Dumbarton Oaks agree- if we still permit the narrow, private ment should not be amended and that interests of a handful of bankers to the Bretton Woods proposals should keepusboundtoeconomicnationalism, beadoptedastheywere.
* * * The passage of the Bretton
Woods Plan before April 25, certainly
during the San Francisco conference,
is the best way of guaranteeing the
parley's success (Editorial, Daily
Worker, April 6, 1945, p. 6).
The failure to ratify the Bretton Woods agreement, without crippling amendments, would speed up the ten- dencies revealed by the aviation con- ference. * * * (From Teheran to Crimes, by Joseph Starobin, Political Affairs, March 1945, p. 219).
21. Dumbarton Oaks Agreement
The Dumbarton Oaks draft provides (Please see material set forth immedi- for the settlement of disputes on a re- ately above under the caption, "Bretton
gional basis, where possible. But only Woods.") with the prior authorization of the
Security Council itself. We oppose any changes in this respect (Editorial, Dis- cussing Dumbarton Oaks, Daily Worker, March 19, 1945, p. 6).
The trade-unions must be particularly alert to back up the Dumbarton Oaks and Bretton Woods proposals, without emasculating amendments. These are the very heart of the Crimean postwar program, and it would be a disaster if the reactionary opposition were allowed to devitalize them as it is now trying to do (Article: "The Danger of American Imperialism in the Postwar Period," William Z. Foster, Political Affairs, June 1945, p. 499).