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Socialism More Potent Than Atomic Bomb
LONDON.—"Ruling circles in the United States think that their atom bomb monopoly
offers only temporary advantages over the Soviet, and they are anxious to turn these temporaiy
advantages to political account."
I
N making this point, the Daily
T] Worker offers this American belief
in atomic monopoly as one explanation
for the failure o£ the Foreign
Ministers' Conference.
"However," says the Daily Worker,
"the most potent forces in the world
to-day are not secret weapons, even if
their destructive power is a thousand
times greater than the atomic bomb
dropped over Hiroshima.
"The ideas' of democratic Socialism
which to-day inspire countless millions
will triumph over those who bg
violence or threat of violence seek
to turn back the clock of human
progress."
The Daily Worker says that President
Truman appears to be acting on
the assumption that for the present,
and, indeed, for some years ahead, the
United States can exercise a potential
threat against other countries.
"It is this assumption that is coloring
American foreign policy to-day,"
adds the papa:.
"Although confident that Britain
does not possess the resources neces-
sary for manufacture of the atomic
bomb, President Truman refused to
commit himself to such categorical
statements in relation to the Soviet
Union."
Latest Trade Union to demand
United Nations sharing and control of
atomic secrets is the Railway Clerks'
Association. The President, Mr. Percy
Morris, MP, warned the Association's
annual conference that attempts to
monopolise secrets would "create suspicion
and sow the seeds of a new
and even more terrible war."
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