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Swift Urges U. S.
Tell Stalin to Quit
Occupied Nations
WATERVILLE, Maine, May 27
"NATIONAL
(A))-Justice John E. Swift of the
ARCHIVES AND
RECORDS
Massachusetts Superior Court pro-
SERVICE"
posed last night a national refer-
endum on an ultimatum to Pre-
mier Stalin to "withdraw his
forces from every inch of ground
1
in Europe and Asia where free and
unfettered elections disclose that
his presence defies the people's
will."
If Stalin refused to heed the
ultimatum, Judge Swift said,
American forces would, under his
plan, "demolish every Commu-
nist military establishment and
every Communist soldier in groups
large enough to prolong the Rus-
r
sian menace that now hangs so
heavily over the hearts and minds
g
d
of mankind."
a
Judge Swift, who is Supreme
b
Knight of the Knights of Colum-
i
bus, outlined his proposal at a
e
golden jubilee convention of the
Maine Council.
"That's the simple program," he
said. "To the skeptical or the faint-
I
hearted we present the militant
F
challenge."
If his proposal for a plebiscite
1
on sending an ultimatum to
Stalin "is neglected, we will be
plunged into. the only alternative,
that Third World War that all
foreign statesmen are so timor-
ously awaiting," he said
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