| Show AMERICA CHARGED WITH BEING CRUEL A week ago Leon Trotsky the tho soviet war minister expressed dis- dis distrust distrust dis distrust trust of America when hen he be made this statement The T e United States is the tho most democratic country which plunged Into this Imperialistic war star ar without idealistic stimulation It has he- he be become come a ft colossal tower of babel and andis lis Is trIng to Ing to digest In Ita its stomach lall all the huge gains It realized grom rom Ithe I gromI the war It Is now keeping aloof from European affairs but hut at the same Bame time Is careful preparing I for e war tar It Is placing avis avia aviation tion Ion and asphyxiating gas foremost I In its equipment It 1 Is developing those these destructive agents not only foi rOI a struggle against enfeebled Japan but hut also against Europe When we e te see the United States ing preparing to use gas to extract II a revolutionary tooth from Europe we must be on the tha alert In the mean mean- meantime mean time Americans are trying these e new new gases upon their criminals discarding the use use se of electricity as asla asa asa a means of at killing wrongdoers wrongdoer la Picture our elf rich and satisfied AmerIcan sending to famine famine- famine stricken rei re Europe bole I thole squadrons of f airplanes which ea eaten en to r rain ln these noxious gases upon our heads beads This Is no fantastic romance We Wo would like to know what percentage of tho the people of Rus- Rus RusI sn Rus-sn 81 I accept Trotsky s B view of o the United States K It the minds of the generally are tilled with the thought bought that America Is preparing Ian I an attack a II deep seated prejudice may develop which eventually gh gie e us trouble I A May dav day has bas been issued by the Communist Interns Interns- warning the membershIp that the United States Stales i la Is still greedIly reaching out for Cor new striving b bi fraud and vie vie- vience vio nce to monopolize the world i iA A member of the central commit commit- committee committee tee of the communists charges that America Is preparing II a a world war bleh will be unexampled In Its and de devastation At the command of the capitalists he be de- de de declares ICI claret clares the blood of millions will be shed Since the Spanish American Iwar war he asserts the United States has bas become a great empire having acquired a number of col- col colonies col onles onies and suzerainty over South American republic Rich In man manpower manpower manpower power strong economically and power unlimited In capital it Is no now pre pre- pre preparing paring to ln ade Ho Hov N do those foreIgners get such Buch Buchan I IHo an idea of America No careful and up close-up study of this disclose ant suggestion or of Ithe the things charged The United States has great grat man manpower manpower PO power er and capital but nowhere Is there any sentiment for tor conquest or a desire disclosed for Imperial ImperialIstic ImperialIstic triumphs I The army of or tho the United States Js Is at its lowest est point In ears The organization has been reduced un- un un-tl un t I 1 military men ha hate haic e become dIs- dIs dIscouraged dis discouraged o er 0 er the neglect of what tiey tel teim m the e essential of sif SJ defense The navy has lost In c e The guns are outranged those of other nations The Pan Pan ana ana can 1 is onen to attack For four years or mote male the instruments of war in America rusted and et et the uninformed In Europe and e elsewhere are accusing America of aggrandizements The charges as to the use ot of poison polson gases must ha e grown out of a vivid Imagination applied to the execution of or the Chinaman In Nevada evada who t ho was as put to deat death by byl l that gas There Is la no other structure bo however boever ever frail on which to bull build the monster mo ster they have cre cre ate atea It if tile the world waits alts for tor America searching for tor conquests to start another world war tar ar the people of foreign lands who are reading the bogie stories of ot a CI duel giant can call quiet their minds with the assur assurance anco ance that there will b no beno no war aar ar no gas no horrors Indicted on the world by lea 00 tio |
