Stopping a War/Chapter 11

by Scott Nearing

11. "Set Morocco Free!"

Again on June 23 Doriot, speaking in the Chamber, reiterated the position of the Communist Deputies. "If we were in power we would bring an immediate end to the French occupation of the colonies." M. Renaudel interrupted with a question as to whether he had correctly heard. Doriot retorted: "We shall arrive at power by the revolution. It will be a proletarian dictatorship. We shall proclaim the independence of the colonies, Algeria, Madagascar, and all the colonies will have free choice as to their form of government."^[1]

Never was the issue made clearer. Never were there more emphatic and categorical statements concerning the right of self-determination for small peoples.

1. L'Humanité, June 24, 1925.