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erm wy [D 2avsas c i non ry: - a aon ad te 7/&3 ~ én a TRANSLATION FROM FRENCH ae 4 "DEMOCRATIE. NOUVELLE" \ on July, 1948 aa Book Reviews ‘rae a ee TOWARD WORLD PEACE BY eur? WALLACE Combining the personal opinions of the Third Party candidate in the coming presidential elections in the United States about the great problems of the present time, "Toward World Peace" constitutes from many viewpoints, a very important and a very useful contribution to the struggle for peace, for American—-oviet friendship, against the belligerent plans of the bi-partite coalition. HENRY WALLACE places in the foreground the necessity for fighting the slightest idea that war is inevitable between the United tates nd the Soviet Union. He explains that the nation of Socialism and the capitalist world may exist peacefully, and that in the final analysis peace depends upon the realistic possibility of attaining a modus vivendi between the two systems. The question of learning which will triumph over the other is not decisive today, the author asserts, peaceful competition between the two will decide. BY SP/RSL ICL He therefore condemns the reactionary anti-Soviet policy of ; Ame rican imperialism, under all of its aspects, notably under that of di s the Truman Yoctrine, and the Marshall Plan. He clearly analyzes the pose relation between the fact that monopolist capitalism profits greatly ec? [from the armament program, and from the proraganda in favor of the Heures) ON CONTAINED s ge 5 inevitability of war, and concludes on this point, that the first step <i gegtith the aim of guaranteeing the peace must be the elimination of the ey e e “« omen , “swscontrol exercised by Wall Street over the Government, through the election wa ¢.j0f an administrative machine belonging to a new party. R “7 WALLACE refutes a certain number of anti-Soviet arguments (7) by the warmongers. He considers that the October Revolution marked a con- siderable progress in the history of the world, justifies the Moscow trials against the "Nazi-Trotskite" conspirators, correctly estimates the role of the Soviet Union in the battle for collective security prior to 1939, and recognizes the legitimacy of the Germano-Soviet Pact. “hen he is told that the USSR is too suspicious, he replies that this attitude is justified by history (capitalist interventions, Munichis and by the present (policy of the United States Government). g Z - Sk -/AS RECORDED - 135 3 The work by the presidential candidate also bra +B gimerican grea people useful data for its struggle with re ane to | number of other points: EX: lst. It emphasizes the gigantic power of the monopolies in the y Epnited States, arid the absolute control which they exercise over the “entiré economic and political life of the country. COPIES DESTROYED i, 205 NOE «v4 2. €