Vol. 71/No. 25      June 25, 2007

After tipping its hat to the worthy ideals of the action, a June 13 Times editorial asserted, “Yet the very size and fervor of this movement makes it inarticulate.”

Actually, it was the authoritative voice of American capitalism which was rendered nearly inarticulate by the idea of a million people marching in the streets and declaring, with fervor, their opposition to war and nuclear weapons.

What’s really needed, the Times advises, is an “intellectual” approach.

The Times, and those it speaks for, hated and feared June 12. They correctly saw it as the historic event it was, a giant outpouring of people determined to make their voices heard on this issue.

June 24, 1957
The United States government is now under extremely heavy pressure to accept the proposal made by the Soviet Union for a halt to the perilous nuclear weapons tests. The breakthrough for a ban on the terms came June 14 with the proposal by the Soviet Union at the current London disarmament parley that nuclear explosions be suspended for two or three years beginning immediately, and that this period be used for negotiating a permanent ban.

The Soviet offer coincides with a powerful body of world public opinion that elementary human safety cannot permit continuance of the radioactive explosions. Washington has made it plain that it wants to avoid cessation of the nuclear tests even for a limited time.

June 25, 1932
The lifting of the ban on the Nazi Storm Troops has already led to a big spurt in the number of armed and bloody clashes with working men all over the German Reich. In Hamburg, in Altona, in Kiel, in Essen, in Berlin, in Frankfort, the street battles between the Hitlerites and the workers have resulted in about a dozen deaths and in scores of wounded during the last week alone.

Every day, the plans of the Von Papen government—as the government of the organization of the Fascist coup d’état—are becoming clearer.

With the tremendous growth in the number of armed conflicts, the danger of the Hitler coup becomes a matter of days.  
 
 
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