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only the United States and Canada seek to unleash a new war, but this path is
also taken by the 20 Latin American countries, whose landlords and merchants
thirst for a new war somewhere in Europe or in Asia in order to sell their
merchandise to the belligerent countries at excessive prices and to make millions
in this sanguinary business. It is no secret to anyone that the 20 representa-
tives of these 20 Latin American countries are now the most cohesive and obedient
army of the United States in the United Nations. The United Nations is thus
entering on the inglorious path of the League of Nations. Thereby it buries its
moral authority and dooms itself to disintegration.
Question--Do you consider a new world war inevitable?
Answer--No, at least at the present time it cannot be regarded as inevitable.
Of course, in the United States and Britain, as well as in France, there are
aggressive forces thirsting for a new war. They need war to make super-profits,
to rob other countries. They are the multimillionaires and millionaires who
consider war a profitable affair, yielding colossal profits. These aggressive
forces hold the reactionary governments in their hands and are guiding them, but
at the same time they are afraid of their peoples, who do not want a new war and
who stand for the preservation of peace. For this reason they are striving to
use the reactionary governments to entangle their peoples in lies, to deceive
them, and to represent a new war as a war of defense, and the peaceful policy
of peace-loving countries as an aggressive policy. They are striving to deceive
their peoples with a view to foisting upon them their aggressive plans and to
involving them in a new war. It is precisely for this reason that they are
afraid of the peace-defense campaign, fearing that it may expose the aggressive
intentions of the reactionary governments.
It is precisely for this reason that they have turned down the proposals
of the USSR for the conclusion of a peace pact, for the reduction of armaments,
for the prohibition of atomic weapons, fearing that the acceptance of these pro-
posals would undermine the aggressive measures of reactionary governments and
render the armaments race useless.
What will be the end of this struggle between aggressive and peace-loving
forces? Peace will be preserved and consolidated if the peoples take the task
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