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 fascist aggression. Communists had warned unceasingly in every country of traitors, fifth columnists, pro-fascists in government and among the economic royalists, scheming capitalists who flout the rights of the people, and who preferred Hitler to democracy. Communists had warned of those who would divide the people and pit one group against another by Red-baiting and Jew-baiting, labor-baiting and Negro-baiting —which were Hitler's sharpest and most divisive weapons.

THE COMMUNISTS ARE RIGHT

The people of Europe learned the truth of the Communist warnings through terrible disaster and indescribable anguish. They learned both in countries like France, where they had not heeded, or countries like Czechoslovakia, where they had not the power to resist, that the Communists are right.

They saw the Communists become bold leaders of the Resistance of France and the Partisans of Italy, Greece, Yugoslavia, Poland. They saw 75,000 known Communists shot as hostages by the Nazis in France who hoped in this way to break the backbone of the French Resistance movement. Today they honor the party as "the Party of the Executed."

Do you think that a Hearst, a Lindbergh, a Coughlin, could ever change the feelings of love and devotion which the European people have today towards the Communists of their countries?

The shame is that they can poison workers' minds here in America against our natural allies. Where people became steeled in blood and tears, they say now emphatically to all who will listen—"The Communists are right!" This is why Communists are news around the world. They are making news on every issue, and it's people's news.

Communists are working hard to build new democratic people's governments in the liberated countries. Pro-fascist kings find no "" on the doormat. Government officials and rich families who took everything they could lay hands on and fled, leaving the people to the dire consequences of their treachery, are not wanted in those countries. Traitors who became puppets for the conquerers—not only the Queslings, Petains, Lavals, but countless others, are to be judged as war criminals and the Communists' demand that they be executed 5