OMEN OF AFRICA. Photo shows women of the new Republic of Mali taking part in militia training to de- ee ‘the freedom of nee mfomerland: ments, Liberal and Tory, &ve spoonfed the Canadian People ‘With tons of propagan- 8 praising American leader- Ship. On issue after issue, anadian policy down the he supported the position of e United States. Many Can- adians,. not aware of all the facts, swallowed the hog- ash. p “They're in for a big jolt. -An-American writer, Fred f ‘arner. Neal says frankly phat US. understanding. of , © Soviet. Union by Ameri- 7°20 leaders is distorted ‘“‘be- Pond reason,” and has been ‘key factor in the ever-pres- got nuclear war scare in the Ys World. i “The American people have pecen misled to a point where pblic -Opinion constitutes a €al barrier to the kind of #Ompromises that are so vit- ly Necessary,” ‘Neal -writes Be Pamphlet, U.S. Foreign icy and ‘the Soviet Union. : It was issued by the Cen- € for the Study of Democra- € Institutions, ‘Sarita “"Barb- 4, Calif. an arm of the nd for the Republic Incor- orated. ; e Neal, one-time correspond- t for. the Wall.Street Jour- al and later consultant for Oviet affairs with the U.S. ritate department, ‘says Am- ican leadership has been a fismal failure since the -war. d Now a professor of inter- fie tional relations at a -Cali- pOrnia university, he calls for’ re-evaluation of American ee policy .. . “a rethink- Ms ‘in terms of the realities the nuclear age.” i “There has evolved an Am- ican image of the Soviet eos the Communist Pro- he, by N. Khrushchev, Report on the Program- ov x of the €.P.S.U..,.to.. the 2nd Congress of the Party. _ Available at the People’s -0-Op Bookstore, nder. St., Rlaneb ueer. ci te U.S. IMAGE OF USSR NRONG SAYS PROF. or years, Canadian govern- ste that is not only dis- | torted but hardened ina miasma of fear and emo- tions.” Other points he makes in the 60-page pamphlet include: (1) The U.S. failed to un- derstand revolutionary cur- rents after the war and wrongly interpreted them as. movements towards commun- ism. (2) The Berlin status-quo is by no means vital to_U.S. in- terests. “That it cannot be preserved in any event is il- lustrated by the comparative ease with which it was alter- ed when the Russians and the East Germans more or less walled off East “Berlin.” (3) The U.S. attitude toward disarmament is “ambigous”; the world will. never, snow. whether the “U.S. sincerely hopes for ‘total disarmament | @ unless the Soviet challenge is ¥ ‘BY GEORGE LOHR ) LEIP ZI1G—tThe firm which got.the most applause—and a prize—at the Fourth Inter- national: Documentary «and! Shorts. Film Week - recently is -ealled ‘“Allons -Enfants Pour °L’Algerie,” -with -the subtitle, “Suffering -and Struggle of-a Colony.” The first prize “was shared by ‘the Soviet documentary, “Blue ‘Gas,’ “Showing the problems of building a gas pipe line in Tashkent, “and the Polish ‘documentary “A Ship Is Born,” with faboulous camera work. The film about Teetia is| a product of the DEFA Film Studio of the German ‘Demo- cratic Republie and its pro- ducer is Karl Gass, one of the top documentary film men of the GDR. He spent weeks in the refugee camps of Tunisia where hundreds of thousands of Algerians who were able to flee the terror of their homeland live in un- speakable Se ee and misery. With deep political insight and human eompassion, Gass has produced a powerful in- dictment of the barbaric French Ultras, of the French colonial. policy and of -the West German Nazis and in- dustwialists who-are backing the ‘“dirty- war’ against the Algerian people because they igir] ‘like a “wild ‘beast. There ‘are ‘the ‘five laughing sadists’ with in this Germany .and not in the one where Nazis and mil- itarists are in the driver’s ‘seat, underscores. once again ‘the basie differences between the two Germanys. There is the Argerian with a ‘rope around his neck and his ‘torturer next to ‘him. There is the Algerian. who has just been beaten with ‘a whip. Thére ‘is the “Algerian stripped and chained their victim, ‘a boy ‘whose genitals have been connected with an electric torture mra-| .| chine. ° There is much €vidence of the tie-up between French colonialism in Algeria and West Germany, such as fold- ers of West German firms inviting capital imvestments in Algeria, and also news reel shots showing former Nazi and now NATO General Hans Speidel arriving in Algeria to inspect units of the Foreign Legion. Much of the film is devot- ed to telling the story of Aicha, a still young and beau- tiful Algerian woman who wanders from one refugee camp to another in an effort 1o bring some aid and medi- eal care. Producer Gass met this heroine of the liberation struggle in one of the 100 refugee camps in Tunisia, want to enrich themselves on. Sahara‘ oil-ana other national wealth. The fact that this could only -have been made taken up. e Neal ‘coritinues: “Agreement on nuclear weapons is inextricably tied up with political ‘settlements and political settlements are unlikely without an easing of ‘tension. “Here American ‘policy, again based on the assump- tion of Soviet military aggres- sion, has shown no indication of moves toward settlement of issues making for conflict. “Tt is apparent ‘not only that we are unwilling to dis- cuss disengagement in any form but that we are proceed- ing with a policy of arming our NATO.allies with nuclear weapons. It is not all clear that this policy does not also apply to Western Germany ~ The writer notes that ‘there are two'ways of settling inter- national conflicts — force or mutual compromise. “It is not always clear that (the U.S.) | wants to Conseils mutual com- promise,” he says. Neal urges President Ken- nedy to undertake “cautiously to convince’ the American people that the Soviet Union is “not necessarily. military aggressive,” that compromis- es are both possible and nec- essary, that the Cold War ‘Vancouver, N. E. Story, writes: The article on India’s liberation of Goa-Diu-Damao in ‘your January 12th ‘edition was altogether too guarded in its ‘Observations and ‘con- clusions. Naturally every blow against colonialism is cause for rejoicing and the colon- ial ‘powers will utilize ¢very brutal subterfuge to ‘perpet- uate their colonial ‘plunder. Naturally ‘the Goa-Diu-Damao takeover was progressive and desirable —-aided, ‘we might add, by a splendid ‘Soviet veto. We know all this; the article brings us nothing new near the border of Algeria. She is a nurse and lived in Paris where her Documentary film tells. of horrors in Algeria ing a demonstration in 1953. She “Herself ‘went to jail for five years. She has no idea what happened to her ‘five - children. For three years now, nurse Aicha wanders from camp to camp, sometimes on -horse- back, more often on foot, ° with -a -medicine chest that - is always quickly emptied. ~ Sometimes a truck. accom- panies her, bringing supplies donated by supporters ef the - Algerian freedom ‘struggle.’ When “Aicha comes; virtu-- ally ‘aH the women line up to - be ‘examined, ‘some — with babies that are dying ‘be-’ eause the: mothers cannot- feed ‘them. ‘Aicha, the most’ beloved human being among the people in the camps, is sad that she cannot do more to ‘sustain life for her peo- ple, but Aicha, now 33, is also the symbol of her peo- ple’s determination to win the struggle for freedom. e A French singer and pa- triot, Mme. Fania Fenelon, ~ who has herself suffered the hell of a Nazi concentration | eamp, has composed a song of tribute to Aicha, mon coeur se tend vers toi” (Aicha my sister, Aicha my heart beats. for you), continues with the assurance that “your tears mingle with those of | millions of others” and ends with a flaming appeal to peo- ple: to march forward to- gether for the freedom of husband} qjgeria, “Allons Enfants Pour was killed DY: the police dur-| Algerie.” in ‘this ‘respect. But why @id liberation oc- cur just at this time, with such-sudden haste — after 14 years of hesitation since In- ‘dian independence? Why not ‘5 years ago? or even 14 years ago? Or, accepting the fact that it was not done earlier, why such precipitate haste just now? The -answer is simple: In- dia’s national ‘elections in February. The Nehru bourgeois. gov- ‘ernment, which must in- creasingly move to the right domestically to maintain its power .and -class privileges, agreed that we zontrol — open ma single element potential militar XN slavery. But it will be nece way back into the fellowsh abiding nations. by having to carry guns. doesn’t have to be lost but 307 W., neither can it be won. B.S. burden — we hope,, forever. Prophetic words : As for Germany, that tragic nation which has sown the wind and is now reaping the swhirlwind — we and our Allies ‘are entirely Nazi conspirators, iments of government. We shall not leave them people are not going to be enslaved—because the United Nations do not traffic in human And, in their climb up that steep road, we shall certainly see to it that they are not encumbered They will be ee of that —FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT shall not bargain with the or leave them a shred of or secret — of the instru- of military power — or of y power, .\. . The German ssary for them to earn their ip of peace-loving and law- OPEN FORUM finds its weakening grip lit- tle aided by fabrications of ‘Chinese. ‘border violations. It is certainly not helped by its - failure to solve a single one ‘of India’s basic economic ‘problems. Hence, there could ee no better vote-getter than ‘to yield to demands through- out India to succor Indian brothers oppressed under the Portugese boot. These election tyenefits evidently have in fact been gained, although not to the extent anticipated by Comgress leaders. : Secondly, it is clear that the anomalous position of the Indian bourgeoisie (endang- ered by the imperialist pow- ers on one side and the work- ers and farmers on the other) found expression in a move that was too sudden for In- donesia +o co-ordinate its equally just claim to West . Trian with -it; or -for other - Asian liberation struggles to gain impetus from what might have grown imto a gen- eral anti-colonial upsurge. - ‘This would: have reacted back on. India’s internal ‘situ- ation to the detriment of In- dia’s ruling class. There is nothing new about this contradiction of inter- est within the Indian bour- geoisie. It has characterized their entire history since for- mation of the Indian Nation- February 2, 1962—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 9 al Congress in 1885.