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is what is understood by thes ,;, so-called powers every
time they evoke the problem of dissamination of atomic
weapons .
The interest and security of the Third World dea-nands
that all the means of development, of domination
and demand should no longer be the monopoly
of the west .
In acting today for the preservation of China, to
prevent the destruction of Chines -j power still in limbo,
the Third World has only to work lucidly towards the
consolidation of its security .
In reality, the voice of the unanimous Third World
would weigh with an enormous moral heaviness on the
decisions of the only two nuclear powers on which. the
result of the situation depends .
In the particular case of the U . S . S . R . , its strength, which is today able to
safeguard peace and to serve the development of peoples, was equally menaced
with destruction by imperialism when she was in gestation .
lull th-z: working peoples, without distinction of color, were then allied in -)rdar
to hatch it, to protect it from October, 1917 to 1939 ; longshoremen of every country
boycotted the preventive war against the U . S . u . R . ; seamen rautid ed in )rd ,r
to bring about a triumph of its cause, a cause identifi--d with that of the world revolution
. More recently, sorze scientists, by pure ideological conviction, incurred
national indignity and prison in order to permit it (th-: U . S . S . R.) to have access to
nuclear and thermonuclear power: Green Glass, Klaus Fuchs, Pontecorv o, etc .
On the Ivory Coast, some blacks from the forest dressed in loin-cloths marked
X's on some ends of bamboo without too much realizing what they did, it is true ;
nevertheless, this was their means of signing the Stockholm Appea destined to
assure peace, to forestall a premature war against the U . 5 . S . R. . when its nuclear
force was not yet assured .
ACTIVE
SOLIDARITY
!~ state which was born and developed in such a moral climate should be available
without equivocation, every Limo the peace of people is menaced .
!r. crusade resembling the "peace riovement" when the U .S .S.R . had a real
need for it, should be newly and irninediately launched by the states of the Third
",7orld in a ;how of solidarity with China .
Since the and of WWII the U.S . has been leaving its traditional isolationism, has
passed from one extrerae to the other, and is now defending its 'security' on the