The Campaign for a Cominform Peace

Those who sincerely work for peace will read the article on "Salient's" front page thoughtfully. The case against the "Peace" Movement is clearly stated and will be concluded in our next issue.

Peace is every student's concern, but it is also our duty to be sure that we do not lend our support to a cause whose aim is a particular kind of peace with which we as students and citizens can have no sympathy. Peace imposed at the price of all intellectual and spiritual freedom is a mockery of the ideal. The "Peace" Movement fights for that kind of peace.

Strongest support for the "Peace" Movement is to be found in the Communist countries and the tenets of that philosophy are vital issues in the cause for peace. Dr. Charles Chairman of the Lebanon Delegation to the Fourth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations puts it this way: "For the truth is above politics, and so long as logic is logic the proposition that Communism by damning the non-Communist world, means war and revolution, is as true as the multiplication table. I shall rejoice as a child if Mr. Vyshinsky can refute me, not indeed by vituperation and rhetoric, but by cold and honest reasoning. For the whole issue of war and peace in our generation hinges on whether Communism is or is not militant and revolutionary."

We must examine the "Peace" Movement and if it is, in fact, dominated and controlled by Communism, then we must reject it.