Executive Report

The report considers the Executive Report and reprints in full the section dealing with "The IUS—a Detachment of the People's Movement for Peace" as the key section of the report. Two quotations convey the tone of this section:

"In the post war period two forces have merged—forces of peace and progress supported by every honest and peace-loving person in the world, and the forces of war and reaction directed by a small group of imperialists from Wall Street who in their frantic drive for profits and world domination are trying to drag the world into a new and more horrible bloodshed." . . . "On the other hand the reverse is true in the countries engaged in peaceful reconstruction . . . the aim of the Soviet Union Government is to ensure steady improvement in the Living conditions of the people . . . In their worldwide preparations for war the U.S. warmongers need to fasciae their own and other countries and have found among existing fascist organisations their best allies."

Other sections of the report: National Independence, for example, all emphasise the IUS in the fight for peace and the necessity for concentration on the Stockholm Appeal.

Twelve delegations, all from the West, found the Report unacceptable, and all the rest accepted it without reservation. (P 5, 6, 7, 8, 9).