TLou hast great allies;
Thy friends are exultations,

agonies,

And love, and man's unconquer-
able Blind,

WORDSWORTH

':THOU HAS! GREAT ALLIES'1

S these ps^es are being written. World War II has ended,
and the pincer attack of Fascism from West and East with a view
[to world domination has become a lurid recollection. The pers-
pective, however, which opened before the people of every coun-
try when Hitler attacked the Soviet Union on that fateful day in
history—June 22, 1941—the perspective of marching arm in arm with
the Soviets to destroy not only Fascism but all its allies and to
smash up the vary structure of World imperialism whatever its label,
still awaits fulfilment.
That June 22, 1941, marks one of history's climacterics cannot,
on any computation, be doubted. The cruel assault on the country,
to whose Red Star progressive movements everywhere had hitched
their wagon, the assault on the land of victorious socialism which
stretched across Europe and Asia and was a perennial nightmare
to the world's money-bags, deepened our concern for the outcome of
the War and made everyone think hard and think afresh.
On June 22, 1941, imperialism was confronted with the most
excruciating dilemma. Fascism was in very truth imperialism's vile
progeny and long-nurtured protege. It was intended and expected to
be the spearhead of the capitalist attack on the workers' fatherland,
the fortress of World Revolution—the Soviet country- And so from
1931, when World War II to all intents and purposes began, the
conspiracy was fairly obviously going on. When Japan grabbed
Manchuria and China's northern provinces, her ruling class had
no abler and no more unashamed advocate than the British
Foreign Secretary, Britain, indeed, was for years the leader
of international reaction. Mussolini's adventures in Abyssinia pro-
duced no real application of the sanctions provided for in the
League of Nations Covenant. When Hitler and Mussolini were
brazenly making mincemeat of Spanish freedom, Chamberlain and