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Won't YOU help beat back the crisis facing us? | By PEGGY DENNIS Miened Conference of Non- ‘dopteg Countries next October opted at Colombo and that Ong ;,.2t Diakarta for the Sec- frican - Asian Conference Sch ae for March, 1965, are Omewne, Similar, Although ane different i i ach Petiacs in wording, The international situation, * Str Reo.9, ugele against colonialism, Nialism, imperialism, * Racial a; theig “cial discrimination, apar- * ‘ Pp Nati ®aceful settlement of inter- or y al disputes without threat Pe] *€ of force in international ations + a o,cnomic development and Na ae of the current United S conference on trade, tment Tle tion * United Nations; its role, ‘Mentation of its resolu- » Teview of its character, + tsa OTH peace and general Clear paca; prohibition of nu- No (a nuclear-free zones; Wea, Ssemination of nuclear Wen Si abolition of all nuclear trog Ns; withdrawal of foreign tary and military bases, mili- Pacts, he Secon Proposed agenda for the , The non-aligned countries’ meeting had as its first agenda item “The safeguarding and strengthening of world peace and security, the promotion of all positive trends and new national- ist forces in international af- fairs,” Peking remained cool to the non-aligned countries’ confer- ence, and during his December and February visits to 14 Afri- can and Asian countries Premier Chou En-lai sought to move up the Second African-Asian Con- ference from next March to counter the coming October non-" aligned conference, The USSR, not present at either Colombo or Djakarta, did par- ticipate in the African-Asian People’s Solidarity Organiza~- tions meeting in Algiers last March 22, The Chinese and Soviet views of the Algiers meeting are quite different, The head of the Soviet delega- tion, Bobodjan Gafurov of the Central Asian Tadzhik Republic, told a press conference that the Chinese delegation *concentrated not on the struggle against im- perialism, but on a struggle against the Soviet Union”; that it made “not a single reference to French, Portugese, Japanese or West German imperialism”; that ‘° "re Shows the preparatory meeting for the Second African-Asian con- Nee y 9g “Sintgenich was held in Djarkarta on April 10. took part. The conference is scheduled for next March. Delegations from 22 DOLORES IBARRURI, Spanish Com- munist leader —‘‘La Passionaria’’ of the Spanish Civil War — who re- cently received the International Lenin Peace Prize at a special re- ceptionin the Kremlin. Afro-Asian trends revealed In plans for coming parleys it “made not a single concrete proposal for practical assistance to the fighting people it pro- claimed to support,” Gafurov noted that the meeting did not adopt any of the Chinese proposals, and added: “The dele- gates showed a high level of: political maturity and great con- cern for the unity of the African- Asian solidarity movement,” The China News Agency (March 25) called Gafurov’s crit- icism of the speech of Peking delegation chairman Kuo-chien “4 provocative move” and ac- cused him of “trying to impose the erroneous line of ‘peaceful coexistence’ and ‘general and complete disarmament’ on the African-Asian people’s move- ment,” At Djakarta, the Chinese dele- gation was not confronted with Soviet participation. The speech of Foreign Minister Chen Yi was similar to that of Kuochen at Al- giers and those of Premier Chou En-lai during his tour, These are characterized by their primary emphasis upon the armed struggle of those ‘people still fighting for national libera- tion. The Lebanese newspaper Al Akbar editorially expressed the view of many African and Asian participants at the conf: ences at Algiers, Colombo and Djaka::. when it wrote: *The statements ofthe Chinese leaders that Soviet aid inflicts harm to the political and econom- ic interests of the countries that get such aid, and their call for a boycott of Soviet aid, only weaken cooperation between the african, Asian and_ socialist countries, and push the newly ‘ndependent countries into the imperialist camp.” Supreme Court backs CP of USA The U,S, Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling that the Communist Party of the U.S.A, does not have to regis- ter as a‘‘foreign agent.’’ In back- ing the Dec. 17, 1963 judgment of the U.S, Court of Appeals the Supreme Court obviously was of the same opinion as the party, which has consistently argued that the 1950 Internal Securities Act is unconstitutional because it seeks to force people to incrim- inate themselves, French Communist victory shocks De Gaullist forces The defeat of a Gaullist by a Communist in the May 31st run- off of a National Assembly by- election in the industrial area of Longway has created panic among the rightwing followers of Gen, de Gaulle, It has also demonstrated the mass appeal of the Communist Party and added a telling argu- ment for an electoral alliance. between the Socialists and Com- munists in the first place and for. an even broader one encompass- ing all the democratic groupings opposing the authoritarian rule of Gen, de Gaulle, -Louis DuPont, the Communist, defeated Charles Grein, the Gaullist, by 17,751 to 14,675 in the runoff, In the earlier vote, DuPont had been in front but had not achieved a majority, In the earlier vote, absentees consti- tuted 36.5 percent of the total. The Gaullists, believing that the absentees would vote for their candidate, called for them to come to the polls at the runoff, About 30 percent of the abstain- ers voted May 31 but they also contributed to the victory of the Communist DuPont, The Communist victory will strengthen the hands of the Socialist party leadership which is seeking an electoral alliance with the Communists, It will also weaken the elements in the re- pudiated parties of the center, who are trying to come back to power by forging an anti-de Gaulle alliance with the Socialist party that would bar Communist adherence, U.S. Communist wins big vote LOS ANGELES, Calif, — William C, Taylor, first Com- munist candidate in Los Angeles county since 1949, obtained about one-eighth of the votes for supervisor in the second district of Los Angeles last week, He received 28,611 votes in 1,725 precincts, His vote for all 2,002 precincts will, it is estimated, reach 35,000, con- siderably above what had been expected, His opponent, Ken- neth K, Hahn, incumbent supervisor, said Taylor had conducted a hard-hitting cam- paign, never concealing the fact that he was a Communist spokesman, Salazar’s political foes face serious death threat Some of dictator Salazar’s political prisoners, including Communist leaders, are in dan- ger of dying in jail because they are being denied proper medical care, it was disclosed in a des- perate message which reached London last week, The British Committee for a Portuguese Amnesty, which has received the message, said that many of the men held in the Peniche Fortress, 50 miles north of Lisbon, are serving long and indefinite sentences, The message was smuggled out ofthe prison, June 12, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 11 Paint up! Clean up! For all your painting needs Paints — Paint Brushes Rollers Good Quality Good Prices PHONE (TR 2-2897) George Legebokoff Some of the men are denied visits from their families and correspondence has been stopped, They are subjected to constant punishment and gunpoint threats, Over 200 relatives of prisoners recently demonstrated outside Peniche in protest, despite the risks involved, They are appeal- ing to individuals and organiza- tions all over the world to pro- test immediately to Portuguese embassies and consulates, to the Minister of the Interior, Lisbon, and to the Director, Forte de Peniche, Peniche, Portugal.