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Claudia Jones — Part 4
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Judge GUNTHER: ~ I know: but here, the people of Greece are protecting them,
Ft - selves against the Commnist—inspired revolution and a new °
oa oe form of government that the Russians want to set up. And sh
I'm going to tell you this. If we are strong enough and ~~
ready enough that we can face Russia with everything that
she has, with the atom bomb, we can scare her away. She;
wants to conquer the world. We don't want anything from
Burope. If wa are going to be strong enough, prepared enoughy
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we're going to avoid war.
Miss JONES: "Judge GUNTHER, are you stating to this wait , euitcave that
_ the preparations for Universal Military Training mast be
a war with the Soviet Union? As that your position? - a
Judge GUNTHER: *I say that Soviet Russia is preparing war against Use We
. wanted peace with Russia. We appeased her time and again
in Poland, We appeased her in Hungary, We appeased her.
all over the world, but Russia is in there grabbing with
her imperialism, Does America want anything from Europe?
We want to help them, We want to give them things, don't —
we? but Russia wants to take over the whole world.
Wr. ALBERT: “The main problem that we see ‘today in relation to the
<- . gecurity of our country is this. How can we make our country
o - - gecure, together with the rest of the world, for peace? At =
the present time what we see today is this, and it is very.
disturbing to me and it is disturbing to many American people
who think about this, First of all, we are not aiding our.
allies, We are aiding those forces in Europe that actually
collaborated and helped HITLER, For instance, in Spain we -
are helping FRANCO today, although we promised that we would
not do so, In Greece we are helping the king to maintain .
himself ih power against the wishes of the Greek people,
Five thousand Greek people were arrested on the (unintelligible)
alone, Al these people are people who fought against the
ae Germans, who Want 4 free, Gemocratic Greece, and we inter-
mS fered there. os co ee
Judge GUNTHER: *That's not true, ny friend, that's not true, beecanse the.
elections in Greece have shown that by the greatest majority
the people woted for a democracy, not for commnism,
Mr, ALBERTs "And another thing is this, Whet we must do isthis. We mst
work to see to it that the people of every country have a right
to choses what kind of covernment ther eant te and then work for
AWW We BL Wh Bw eee HK Hirde peasy
those kind of governments, and all peoples to build peace, and
& program that } inspire other countries to
confidence in 6 Ios sii pak.
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