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(Left) Captured Americans are marching through Seoul, and (right) Koreans continue their fight for independence from bomb-shattered villages.

‘Captured British newsman deécribes experiences

US air raids in Korea ‘cruellest thing possible’

The correspondent of the con-
Servative London Observer, Philip
Deane, who was captured in Korea,
has written an article in the Soviet

terary Gazette condemning Am-
rican terror raids in Korea as
‘the cruellest thing possible.”

Deane describes some of the
‘Owns he passed on the way to an
internment camp in Pyongyang as
being turned into ruins. “Not a
Single house remained, only the
Smell of smoke and the horrible

stench of decaying corpses,” he

said,

He writes that after being taken
prisoner near Taejon -he was
shown every care and attention. A
doctor bandaged his wound and
the prisoners at the same food as
the Korean soldiers, and smoked.

“In a tiny village on the road to
Pyongyang,” Deane writes, “we
were twice bombed by American
aircraft. If there was any military
object in this tiny village, then it

must have been the Korean soldier
who convoyed us.”

In Seoul, the .prisoners bathed
and shaved. On the same day, Am-
erican aircraft raided the city a
number of times, and from his
window Philip Deane could see
whole residential blocks burning
after having been hit by American
raiders.

On his arrival in Pyongyang, he
Was placed in a camp for internees,
in a place safe from raids, from
which !; daily witnessed bombing

of the town. He said that after one
big raid Pyongyang was in flames
for hours. He writes that he also
learned of the demolition of a hos-
pital where many Koreans were
killed.

Deane’s article says that Amer-
ican soldiers had no desire to fight
the Koreans. The U.S. army had
suffered great casualties. It was in
the battle of Taejon that confirma-
tion was given to the fact that
aviation is not a universal remedy.
Aviation does not give the desired

result on mountainous terrain, for
the pilots do not see their targets,
and, thereafter, all bombin is blind,
Deane reports.

Deane, described by his paper
as “one of the most adventurous
correspondents,” ends his article
by saying: “The Koreans are just-
ly protesting against the mon-
strous American bomb raids.
They are fully determined to up-
hold their freedom and I cannot
help admitting that these people
well know what they want.”

British press
hits MacArthur
for statement

LONDON

“Nobody, in the western world
SUutside the confines of-a narrow,
®r’ exceedingly powerful, group in

© US. is prepared to march into
aed War III behind the uninvit-

8 banner of MacArthur and his

“Publican friends,” the influential

Weekly magazine New Statesman
Nation wrote September 2 as
of the growing British reac-
8gainst General Douglas Mac-
Urs Formosa statement that
United States strategic fron-
Citie ow embraces “the entire Pa-

Ocean which has become a

vast m ‘
We uele tn protect us as long as

oe Manchester Guardian. one
Saileg Sones editorial oracles, as-
front; his statement that America’s
_ the er has “shifted to embrace
eee Pacific Ocean” which can
domin, & peaceful lake” only if
Asia ee by the U.S. “But does
becone site that the Pacific should
Pap, © an American lake?” the
er askeq August 29.

Part
tion

he
tie

the right, the conservative
tembe bserver advocated Sep-
Counc that the UN Security
hea; reconsider its refusal to
Ching representatives of the new
Not nic, wven our allies who do
Ment Cognize the Chinese govern-
terest Ve @n urgent practical in-

tives san Meeting its representa-
*stablishine ground, and thus

Ng some contact,” it said.

mactt of center, the New States-
the ew Nation also wrote: “In
Sur 2 AS everything proves more
lastiy day by day, there will be no
Unti] ‘ Settlement in the Far East
is hej, Unpleasant charade that

"8 played with Chiang Kai-
Cople'g brought to an end, the
Tecopn;, Government of China is
the ty o°4 de facto and de jure by
that ~~ aNd the representative of
Plaga °Vermment takes its rightful
‘ ‘a the Security Council.”

Ak
Maca, Daily Worker points out that
rae Ur’s statement exposes
Policy al aims of American war
its Witha it was for that reason
Presigg tawal was ordered” by
y nt Trumah,

Korea for Koreans

Here a Korean family hang a
picture of Kim Ir Sen, premier
of the Korean Peoples’ Demo-
cratic. Republic ‘and symbol of
Korea’s fight for independence,
in their humble home. Up to Aug-
ust 28, 9,680,000 ‘Koreans had
signed the Korean people’s peti-
tion demanding the withdrawal
of American troops from Korea
and the public trial of Korean
traitors, in response to the call
of the United Democratic Bath at
land Front of Korea.

‘New peace stamps

PEKING

ew set of stamps has been is-
jamat in Peking to publicise ph
peace signatures campaign. ee
ed in brown, green and blue, t
stamps carry Picasso's white dove

emblem.

British t

Discontent over low wages in
the face of high prices and profits
boiled up when the general coun-
cil tried to hammer through a
resolution supporting the govern-
ment’s wage-freeze, on the grounds
that it was necessary because of
the Labor government’s rearma-
ment program.

The general council had earlier
tried to brush aside numerous
resolutions
prices and profits, and strongly
criticizing the government for con-
tinuing the policy of wage freeze,
while allowing prices to skyrocket
and the profits of the industrialists
to get fatter and fatter. .

The council machine, sure of
its power, rushed the matter to
a vote, and found to its dismay
that its resolution was defeated
by a majority of 222,000 votes out
Of mearly 8,000,000 cast.

Defeat of the council by the
membership is regarded as a ser-
ious loss of political prestige’ for
the right-wing congress leadership,
and the vote serves warning on
the Labor government that the
British workers are going to fight
for higher wages in the coming
period, ° :

Resolutions submitted to the con-
gress convention stressed the need
for economic struggles. “Until
there is a reasonable limitation of
profits and a positive planning of
the British economy, and the com-
plete exclusion of Stock Exchange
speculators, there can bes no basis
for a restraint on wage demands,”
said the Union of Foundry Work-
ers.

The Plumbing Trades Union cat-
egorically demanded both “the end-
ing of the policy of wage-freezing
and legislation to restrict profits.”

The Electrical Trades Union

stressed in its resolution not only

dealing with wages,!

rade unions

repudiate wage freeze

BRIGHTON

Revolt of the membership of the Trades Union Congress, the western world’s big-
gest labor ofganization, resulted in a majority vote against the wage freeze policy of the
Labor: party and the pro-government stand of its qwn reactionary general. council.
congress, representing nearly 8,000,000 trade unionists, held its convention here last week.

The

that the wage freeze should end
immediately, but that wage in-
creases should be granted and met
out of profits.

The plight of the working man
was illustrated in a_ resolution
submitted by the Civil Service
Clerical Association which said:
“Prices have continued to rise
and the living standards of the
working people to fall.”

Finally, the National Union of
Railwaymen, with over 450,000

members, called for “vigorous ac-
tion with a view to effecting a
substantial reduction in prices and
profits.”

In the early stages of the con-

vention the general council ram-
med through a resolution—opposed,
nevertheless, by the votes cast for
nearly 2,000,000 members—support-
ing the Yankee war against Korea,
attacking communism, denouncing
the world peace appeal and calling
for more rearmament.

PEACE COMMITTEE ANSWERS TUC

By THEODORE DOGANIS

LONDON

The British Peace Committee
has issued a strong reply to the
declaration of the General Coun-
cil of the British Trades Union
Congress that the peace cam-
paign is a “hollow sham.”

In a statement to the press
the British Peace Committee
says that “the TUC omits to
mention that if it were not for
the world-wide condemnation of
the atom bomb as expressed in
the Stockholm Appeal and now
supported by no less than 320
million signatures in 70 coun-

World opinion bars
U.S. use of A-bomb

‘roving ambassador,

tries, the atom bomb might al-
ready be in use.” |

“When General Eisenhower |
opposes the use of the atom!
bomb because he does not wish
the American or other peoples
to accuse the United States of
using ‘inhuman methods,’ and
Dr. ‘Philip Jessup, American

says that
by dropping the atom bomb
now America would sacrifice the
respect and support of other na-
tions, it is clear that the world-
wide peace campaign is having
a positive effect.”

The Peace Committee state-
ment points out that the TUC
completely ignores the fact that
the American Baruch plan is
not the only possible solution of
the problem, The statement
points out also that there is no
sham in the fact that 50,000
people can be killed by a single
bomb while further tens of
thousands will suffer sterility,
blindness, and other after-
effects,

The statement concludes with
the sharp rejoinder that a peti-
tion to all governments to save
the peoples from such a disaster
by resuming negotiations is “in
the interests of trade unionists

and all people everywhere.”
.

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