Soviet Talks "Peace" On Its May Day Parade

Wanganui Chronicle, 3 May 1949, Page 5

Soviet Talks "Peace" On Its May Day Parade

(N.Z.P.A,—Renter—Copyright) LONDON, May I.—Trade unionists and workers throughout Europe today celebrated May Day with demon Strattons, marches and speeches. Throughout Eastern Europe, Government leaders reviewed parades Stalin stood for several hours on the top of Lenin's mausoleum in Red Square reviewing a parade of more than 1,C00,000 people. The theme of this year’s May Day demonstration, dominating an orde. of the day read out by Marshal Alexander Vassilevsky, the Soviet Armed Forces Minister, and repeated in slogans throughout the city and on ban ners carried by demonstrators, that the Red Army would never b< used for aggression.

The order of the day declared that the “ruling circles in America” want ed a new war, and the North Atlantic Pact showed that this aggressive policy was directed against the U.S.S.R. and the people’s democracies, “but these efforts of the warmongers will be in vain.” Stalin's son, Major-General Vassily

Stalin, led the air parade over Red Square, and the aircraft included bombers and a large number of jet planes of a new type. About 209,000 took part in demonstrations in Prague. President Gottwald reviewed the military and civilian parade. He said the parade demonstrated the Czech's people’s solidarity with the progressive forces of the world in “the fight against new warmongers.’