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...burning a flery cross. It is evident that this was done as a joke, but, if it had been done seriously, the action of the authorities would seem to be such as to discourage freedom of speech and expression of opinion. In his revealing little book "Geneyre contre la Paix" (Paris 1936) the former French Ambassador to Great Britain, the Comte de St. Aulaire, remarks that the "Liberal's" idea of free speech is, "every right and opportunity for me and my friends to express ourselves but none for our opponents." It would appear that Professor Sarton should have some...
They Cried for Peace. Always, in Communist whimsy and in hard-boiled oration, the dove cried "peace." In eight languages the signs on East Berlin buildings proclaimed: "Peace, Pax, Paix, Paz, Pace, Frieden, Béke, Mir." There were peace days, peace weeks, peace bicycle races, peace dances, peace cigarettes. Japanese could buy a sedative called the Sleep of Peace and enjoy it on a Peace mattress...
While the Communists were still muttering over the implications of this, David hit them again, out of his knowledge that Moscow had sent Professor Davidenkov, Russian heart specialist, to attend ailing Maurice Thorez. Next morning every registered doctor in Paris received a Paix et Liberté pamphlet. "A snub to the medical profession!" cried the tract. "Are French doctors unworthy or inefficient?" Yelped the Communist press: "Neo-Goebbelism . . . David is a Wall Street pawn...
Before the National Assembly last week was a bill to extend military service from 12 to 18 months. The Reds had fought it with the slogan: "Down with 18 months' service!" But their campaign melted away when Paix et Liberté countered: "Down with 18 months' service! We want three years' service, same as in Russia!" Then the comrades showed how badly they had been hurt. They decided that Paix et Liberté was so dangerous that it had better be ignored. Mention of it was banned in the Red press...
David is reserving his own best efforts to exposure of "the greatest Communist lie of all-the lie that Communism seeks peace." This week 150,000 Paix et Liberté posters will go up all over France; on them Picasso's dove, featured in the Communist Stockholm petition, has been painted bright red. Under it are the words: "La colombe qui fait bourn!" (The dove that goes boom!). From the red bird's mouth dangles the olive branch, but its feet are the treads of a tank and its wings sprout guns...