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foes ry he CAP sPBJ (Foster ~ Kedirest} BY 100-81752 (tm. 9/20/45) rina at with she Rowe tact oP ewe t Bre fie Bis post tion nm + pal af the Yarty wes that the war in its initial stares was an inper ist war The objectives ef the grast monopoliats ef France, Great Britain and the United . States were icrerialist etjectives, Presitent ROISEVEL? was a liberal and no doubt wanted €o fight Pasclem within the frerework of inperinlist eapltalion but =< - the decletvo caritalist fereer in the eountry had a different idea in mind, If the war had gene ne further it would have been gust an faperialist war, FOSTER paid that in his opinion hat it not bean for the entry of ths Soviet Government fate the war, it would have been another izperialist war, It was the entry ef the Berist Goverment that shanged Ais general eutlesk upon ths war. ‘This gave strength te the deweratic forces of all the world who wanted to firht Fascian te reelly tone dust on anti-Vasciat war, (m. 14,641) PoSTER stated that in eonnestion with point 87 in ‘eonnestion with the advocacy and teashing of Karrist-Leniniat principles, be modified ths position he | exprecsed in his pamphlet entitled "Ine Rallread Workers ant the Mar” published ix. Way, 3941. Me anid that he modified his position and he thought his previous answer ecvered this point, POS TER aduitted that as ehairman of the cP, TSA be fasued the the "Daily Werker” on Ame "3, “1941, That statenent was an official statenent ef — the CP, USA or the date it wes publishe? but it €1¢ not represent a fundamental ebanes in the policy ef the CF, 5A toward the war in Europe. (T™. 14,642) FOSTR stated that it represented a shange in polisy but mot a funcanental reorientation of their line, The dacision was arrived at by the applica- tios of Farxist-Leniniet principles, It did not represent a fundansntal chenge ef line because prior te the war the C¥, Ud had eonducted a lon: strugcle apainst the Faseiat forees at hore and abroad and had wnadertaken to pranote the ideas of the. ‘wnited front of all pease-loving sountries acuinst the Axis powsra, The war meent a sharpening of this policy, The war itself made the differance between participation as against noreparticipation, FOS TNS was referred to pace £25 of the March, 18946 issue of “Folitical Affairs" appearing in point 46 which ts a quotation of part of an article by ZIGEWS DIEXIA entitled “The Kole ef the CF in the Present Bituation". PORTER agreed that this article was part of a report on the politioa] situatian in the [United States and the tasks ahead delivered by DciVXIS at a Nations] Comittee meating ef the CP, Ula held Pebruary § te 8, 1948, FOSTER sald he was present when that report wes rendered and as shetrvan ef the CP, V5A eoneurred tn thet report. He aald it representa the a present role ef the CP, TEA os 0 Marxisteleniniet party. (nm, 14, “e44) Pos rer eatt that the report deait with the application of varxiat- Leniniet prineiples to the eurrent situation in the United States, He said that it explains and puts in proper eontext the quotation appearing on page 223 set forth is Point 48, FOS TP etated thet he was in full arreomant with the text of the atatenent An point 46 but thet the 4ext in no seuss represents the lins ef the article. ‘The article is a genaral statement of policy and this taking one small item out of content 3