RESISTANCE TO PEACE PLAN

Chronicle (Levin), 7 November 1946, Page 9

RESISTANCE TO PEACE PLAN

Press Assn.

COMMUNIST SECRETARY ATTACKS REACTIONARIES IN BRITAIN AND AMERICA

By Telegraph

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Reeeived Thursday, 11.15 a.m. LONDON, November 7. "The carrying out of the peace programme has met with resistance organised by reactionary elements in a number of states--— in. the first place in Britain and America," declared the Secretary-General of the central committee of the Communist Party, M. Zhdanov, speaking at the October Revolution anniversary meeting in Moscow. Reuter's correspondent says that M. Zhdanov, in the absence of Generalissimo Stalin, gave the impression that he was speaking on the highest authority. M. Zhdanov added: "There is alsomot only of the Allies, but also of a tendency to go back 011 all joint the nations who have thrown off declarations made by the Allies not the yoke of Fascism and entered so long ago, thereby imdermining the way of democracy. The powers Big Power co-operation. Lately the of democracy are gaining ground Soviet Union, as the focus for the not only in those countries which dcmocratic forces of the warld, has were democratic before the war, but bccn the target of greatly expanded also in those which followed Hitler. slander and propaganda by those "The Labour victory in Britain for whom war is a profitable bus- was a sign to the Left, and the same incss, and who are afraid of the thing can be observed in France rising forces of democracy. The and in the Colonies. blood of our people was not shed "Stalin unmasked the warfor imperialist expansionists and mongering campaign and showed pretenders to world denomination that the Soviet Union cannot be — for atom blackmailers. frightened by threats of a ' new "We must consider the interests war."