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( ~i2- (} . in this account of conditions) in wretchedness and subject to routinized injustice; a syllable of sharp criticism of the despots, i fain. rs < The good name, prestige and vast reservoir of good will built un oy relicf organization into those of political and economic propaganda, One of the books being promoted by the Service Cormmitree is U.S.A. Todry by Helen and Scott Nearing, A review of this book appearing in PEACE NEWS, August 10, 1956, says, ‘The analysis is Marxist in its essentials, and in those essentials is probably right. Vorld Yar Ilwas merely a lot-up for the hard- pressed capitalist economics of the /est, Tho eternal problems of over- production and unemployment are now beginning to rcappear, and, by a process which Nearing calls cancerous fascism, spread through the U.S. ' In public debate, Nearing takes the side of the Soviet Union and belittles the United States. He is not an idealist who has mace a few missteps. He is one of the most inveterate communist frontiers in the United States. His bock pens with this sentence: ‘Within two short decades the United Srates has been trans- formed from its position as one of the half-a-dozen powers into the world power, seeking to establish economic and. military demination over the five continents and the saven seas, ' (Gur country was in position to do just that at the close of Yorld Yael w r . tot but we made no move in that direction. We did the opposite. We demobiiizee wean ee tae A a a wee ae