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"The preparation for a new war is being carried on literally before the eyes of the whole world. The warmongering propagandists now do not even try to conceal it. They openly threaten the peace-loving nations [i.e., Russia] with war, trying at the same time to shift on to them the responsibility for creating a new hotbed of slaughtering. . . .
"It should be noted that the capitalist monopolies, having secured a decisive influence during the war, retained this influence on the termination of the war, skillfully utilizing for this purpose governmental subsidies and grants of billions of dollars as well as the protection they enjoyed and still are enjoying from various governmental agencies and organizations. This is facilitated by the close connections of the monopolies with Senators, members of the Government, many of whom very often are either officials or partners in the monopolistic corporations. . . ."
Vishinsky then named nine U.S. "warmongers" with a thumbnail indictment of each. Among them: Virgil Jordan, president of the National Industrial Conference Board; George H. Earle, former governor of Pennsylvania and U.S. Minister to Bulgaria; Charles Eaton, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs; Senator Brien McMahon, former chairman of the Senate Committee on Atomic Energy; Senator C. Wayland Brooks of Illinois; Paisley B. Harwood of Cutler-Hammer, Inc. (electric equipment). No. 9 on Vishinsky's list was U.N. Delegate John Foster Dulles who, sitting beside Delegate Eleanor Roosevelt, listened grimly while Vishinsky cried:
"John Foster Dulles in a speech delivered on Feb. 10, 1947 in Chicago urged 'a tough foreign policy towards the Soviet Union,' declaring that if the U.S.A. does not take up such a course, counting on the possibility of reaching a compromise with the Soviet Union, then war is inevitable. In the same speech Dulles boasted that since the collapse of the Roman Empire no nation ever possessed such great superiority of material power as the United States, and urged the United States to utilize this power to promote its ideals." While Vishinsky foamed, Dulles scribbled a reply: "I did not make the statement which Vishinsky attributed to me. I have repeatedly said that another war need not be and must not be, and I have dedicated myself to that end. . . ."
Next Vishinsky lit into the U.S. press:
"Numerous organs of the American reactionary press which is in the hands of such newspaper magnates as Morgan, Rockefeller, Ford, Hearst, McCormick [the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Bertie McCormick] and others do not lag behind the reactionary political statesmen who busy themselves with warmongering. Morgan controls the following magazines: Time, Life and Fortune, published by the well-known publishing corporation, Time Incorporated, the largest shareholder being, by the way, the Brown Brothers, Harriman and Co."*
The N.Y. Herald Tribune also received a lambasting.
Vishinsky concluded:
"The U.S.S.R. delegation on instruction of the Soviet Government declares that the U.S.S.R. considers as a matter of urgency the adoption by the United Nations organization of measures directed against the propaganda of a new war, which propaganda is being carried out at present in some countries, chiefly in the U.S.A."