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Show EKS DENOUNCES 'ACIFIST CLAN MOVE AR 8ECRETARY ADVICES PUB. i LIC TO LOOK BEHIND PROPAGANDA I i iblnet Member Thinks Veterans' i Pension Is Not Rightly Charge. able to Cost of Wars Washington. "Pacifist" propagan. : sts and organlzatona la the United , atcs wero denounced ns public lemlcs Friday by Secretary Weoks , a statement mado public by tho ir department. Americans would do well, tho . atement said, "to Inform thorn. . Ives of the facts end to examine j to tho charactor and patriotism thoso who nro promoting tho iciflst campaign, boforo taking a . cp that may readily align them 1th tho enemlos of tho republic." Widespread circulation ot ''In. rrect nnd misleading statistics," , r. Weoks said, hnd been accom. Ished by pacifist agencies, in-udlng in-udlng "thoso forces in America who o preaching revolution and tho os. bllshmont ot a communistic govern. 1 Qjnt nnd also thoso who seom to ho. ve that any nrmy or navy Is un-iccssary" un-iccssary" Unlnformml but patrio-: patrio-: cltlzons, it was added, nro lend- 1 g thomsolves to reduce It not des- i oy, tho military safeguards of the 2 itlon as u result of pacifist propn- i nda. i Appended to Mr. Weeks' stntcmont 1 is nn official chart prepared by o war department ln graphic form i lllustrnto comparisons botwoen i o rogulnr nrmy of tho United States id thoso of foreign powers. "Actlvo i mlcs at O2S.00O mon in Russia, of t 0,000 ln Franco, 275,000 ln Italy , id 100,000 in Gcrmnny woro corn-rod corn-rod to thnt of 130,010 In tho United atcs, Including tho regular nrmy, sorves on active duty and tho j |