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~. ' «30 NATIONAL AFFAIRS —_—_—_—_—_—_——— ee Committee’ ts Aid Spanish Democracy, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, National Federation for Con- stitutional Liberties, Soviet Russia To- day, the Spanish Refugee Relief «Cam- paign, and the American Committee for “the Protection of Foreign Born. Joseph E. Davies: Affiliated with National Council of American-Soviet Friendship and Congress of American- Soviet Friendship, Sent greetings to New Masses. Signed statement of National Federation for Constitutional Liberties hailing War Department order permitting Communists to become Army officers. Author of “Mission to Moscow,” which _ , Slorified Soviet regime and justified totalitarianism. * Paul Robeson: Affiliated with Ameri- can Committee for Democracy -and In- tellectual Freedom, China Aid Council, American League for Peace and Democ- ‘racy, American Peace Mobilization, Art- ists Front to Win the War, Citizens’ Committee for Harry Bridges, Joint Anti- Fascist Refugee Committee, Medical Bu- reau and North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy, National Coun- cil of American-Soviet Friendship, Na- tional Federation for Constitutional Lib- erties, National Negro Congress, New Masses, New Theatre League, New Dance League, New Theatre, Southern Conference for Human Welfare, Soviet Russia Today, Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, American Youth for Democracy, International Labor Defense, the Abraham Lincoln Schoo friends proved that “foreign democratic "in tals have become more and more convinced that only by following . the ‘principles which the USSR is defi g in the field of international relations can the leaders of science and culture be set free from the fate of the - servants of imperialism.” ; ’ Unfortunately, Pravda added, -the “friends of the USSR -do not ‘have freedom of speech " papers, magazines, and ‘books with great . tirculations,. and sometimes these per- ' '' The patty line stretched long and thin ‘ down - Eighth'-Avenue in New Yorks. .. swarmiing-:garment district. ‘Sometimes’ . , times’ there ‘seemed to be r - than police~2,800 uniformed \' ,digned to the route. At Union Square, the tog. Stand. looked’ Mee "Sunda and the. & Washington Committee for Aid to China. & To Pravda, the activities of Russia’s | on the pages of news- . ‘ from Tass, the official Soviet news agency, and thousands af office and factory work. ers en route to the 5 p.m. homeward sub- way: crush, New York Communists and pro-Communist organizations marched in their annual show of strength. What The Daily Worker heralded as “united labor” turned out to be the old standbys—the National Maritime Union, the United Electrical Workers, and the International Fur and Leather Workers Union—all CIO and Communist-infiltrated. Only a few left-wing AFL contingents marched and they paid the price—by nightfall, the AFL ordered the three leaders who had sponsored participation in the pavade suspended. . By far the greatest triumph of the day belonged to the Communist party itself. It ordered into the parade about 700 vet- erans, in uniform and wearing military decorations. They marched in perfect ranks chanting: “One-two-three-four. We don’t want another war.” ‘ On placards, banners, and floats, the marchers announced where they stood: @ They were against military use of the atomic bomb, imperialism, the Taft- Hartley “slave” labor bill, Representatives Rankin and J. Parnell Thomas, Senators Taft and Bilbo, war talk, Red baiting, J. Edgar Hoover, President Truman’s foreign policy, loans to Greece and * Chicage ’ June 15, as soon as the spring thaws‘are Turkey, Wall Street, and the House Un- American Activities Committee. °, - @ They were for peace, indepelidence of Puerto Rico, a Federal theater, the 35-. hour week, housing, Soviet-Ambrican / friendship, Gerhard Eisler, Henry A. ; Wallace, the Negro ballplayer Jackie Robinson, arid the return of “one-cent bubble gum.” Communist spokesmen vied with each other in trying to cover up an all too apparent fact—May Day, 1947, was a flop compared with other years. Blatantly, Ben Gold, Communist president of the , Fur and Leather Workers Union, pro- nounced the parade the “best ever.” Wil- liam Z. Foster, national chairman of the Communist party, added: “This great demonstration is but a foretaste of the great demonstrations to come,” The Daily Worker announced that 80,000 had marched. The police count: 27,500. ~ ARMY: Potato Air Base Agriculturally, Aroostook County ° Northern Maine could: brag about its ( smgoth-skinned Potatoes that make it the nations No. 1 spud producer. Commer- cially, it could boast’ of the astounding 855 bushels per acre which it converts: into starch, alcohol, dehydrated potatoes, - seed potatoes or fertilizer, or just lets rot under the government's price-sup- rt program. Botanically, the county— igger than Connecticut and Rhode Is-_ | land combined—had also been famous for its forests of magnificent white pines. J Militarily, it was another matter. Be- ‘adh cause Aroosteok County is the closest - 4'Sh . Spot in the United States to Europe, the. Air Forces last week revealed it | build a $14,000,000 base there for its longest-range’ -bombers—the | six-en- gined Consolidated B-36, the Boeing B-50, the Northrop B-85 Flying Wing, and its jet-powered version, the B-49, Their 5,000-mile radius would put Eu- rope within six- to seven-hour range of the new Aroostook base. ee The chosen site on Aroostook’s fog-free plateau was 7,200 rolling acres of potato ‘and pine lands outside Limestone Vil- lage, only 4 miles :from the Canadian. border and 80 from the wartime air- ferry hub at Presque Isle. Because ct the immense weight of the new super-' | bombers, the AAF fi it was easier |’. to build the mammoth new 10,000-foot 7 runway from scratch than. to convert ||,” Presque Isle or any other field. ae ‘The AAF planned to break. ground . ~ over. Since Aroostook has a, virtually sub- arctic climate, it would take tro. sum.’ | mers, aps three, to. complete. work.‘ ‘Only then would the Rel? be ready 3 a * bombers éach, Presumably, a twin, Co , -for the Bera en gre Arctic air strategy. . t in the northweste re country ch Aroostook fot: Woy to mat N