WORLD SCENE

RECOGNIZE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

BERLIN—Diplomatic recognition of the German Democratic Re-
public by countries of the West took another step towards normalcy
last week when Finland and the GDR agreed on full diplomatic
recognition and exchange of ambassadors. Earlier, in August, a
GDR-Switzerland protocol was signed, establishing state-level. trade
missions, which “will serve the universal promotion of trade, eco-
nomic, financial and traffic relations as well as the corresponding
Official and commercial contacts.”

More than 30 states maintain diplomatic relations with the GDR,
and more than 100 countries have economic and trade ties with it;
but recognition by Western Europe, and particularly NATO coun-
tries, has. been.successfully blocked until recently. The treaties of
USSR and Poland with the Federal Republic of Germany, making
inviolable present GDR borders, followed by the four-power agree-
ment on West Berlin, as well as agreements between the GDR and
the FRG, and the GDR and the West Berlin Senate, are considered
here to have set in motion the eventual admission of the GDR to its
rightful place in the United Nations. :

EGYPTIAN EDITOR ANSWERED
MOSCOW-—lIzvestia carried an article by commentator Mikhail
Mikhailov critical of statements made by the editor-in-chief of the
Cairo paper Akhbar Al-Yom and charged he was joining the cam-
paign against Soviet-Arab friendship and cooperation.

Mikhailov said that editor Iskham Abdel Kuddus in one article
puts the relationship between the Soviet Union and Egypt on the
same level as relations between Israel and the U.S. Mikhailov said it
is hard to comprehend how this can be done in view of the difference
ene socialism and imperialism, national liberation and imper-
ialism. ;

In another article Kuddus questioned the Soviet Union’s fidelity
in carrying out the treaty of friendship and cooperation with the
Arab Republic of Egypt (ARE). Mikhailov wrote that such absurd
allegations can bring joy only to imperialist and Israeli ruling circles,
and only harm the Egyptian people in its just struggle to eliminate
the consequences of Israeli aggression. Such charges malign the
Soviet Union, he wrote, stressing that Soviet-Arab cooperation and
friendship are permanent in strengthening the anti-imperialist posi-
tions of the Arab peoples.

Mikhailov said that the Soviet Union fulfilled all its obligations
and that the Soviet Union is “deeply confident that prevalent in
Se is the striving to further develop Soviet-Egyptian friendly
relations.”

BRITISH UNION CONGRESS HITS TORY POLICY

BRIGHTON—The Trades Union Congress voted last week to op-
pose entry into-the Common Market, to “press for the repeal of the
European Community Act and to campaign vigorously for Britain’s
withdrawal from further negotiations and, if necessary from the
European Economic Community.” The resolution passed with a
1,376,000 majority. On another key issue, the right-wing leadership
defeated a resolution to defy the Tory government’s anti-labor
Industrial Relations Act. While the Congress, representing 10 mil-
lion British workers, overwhelmingly condemned the Act, right-
wing pleading that they could defend their members under the Act
captured the vote. The resolution by the Amalgamated Engineering
Workers and the General Transport Workers Union calling for a
complete boycott, won 3.5 million votes, but suffered defeat.

The Congress took a progressive’ step by voiding a 38-year-old
ban barring delegates who are Communist Party members from the
Congress.

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" ic. Apart fi ny ;
ese boys and girls who are studying in the GDR, nearly 5,000.
children from some 30 countries have spent a five-week holi-
day with their German friends. The 110,000-strong Pioneer

organization has 48 camps at its disposal.

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Cuba one big construction

The first socialist country in
the Western Hemisphere, Cuba
has successfully beaten back
U.S. military invasion and the
attempt to strangle it by econ-
omic blockade, and is today
“one grand construction site,”
Canadian Communist _ leader
William Kashtan reported on his
return from a two-week visit
there.

Cuba is a country rich in na-
tural resources but was poor in
peop!e’s. living standards. Hava-
na with its glitter, its hotels
and gambling joints for wealthy
U.S. visitors was surrounded by
poverty before the Revolution.
The people lived in hovels: with-
out electricity, plumbing or run-
ning water—“they bathed when
it rained” in the interior. One
million Cubans were complete-
ly illiterate.

There are no
Cuba today!

Kashtan visited Alamar, not
far from Havana where a city
of apartment ‘buildings to house
100,000 workers is going up,
one of a number of such con-
struction projects. The apart-
ments have all modern con-
veniences. And at the same time
as the housing units are built,
schools, day care centres, stores
and all other things necessary
for a full and rewarding life are
also constructed.

Cuba has started a_ great
school building program. Fidel
Castro told Wm. Kashtan that
by 1980 they will have built

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China-Bonn motives

By WERNER GERHARDT -

BERLIN — The fact that the
journey of the Christian-Demo-
cratic M.P. Dr. Gerhard Schroder
to the People’s Republic of
China has been so high in the
news in West Germany and
Western Europe cannot be ex-
plained solely by the hunger of
the mass media for something
spectacular in the “‘silly season.”
Rather the wild speculations
about the trip of this “Marco
Polo of our age,” as a West Ger-
man newspaper described the
chairman of the Bundestag for-
eign relations ‘committee in
rather exaggerated terms, ap-
pear to suggest the opening of a
phase of overt cooperation be-
tween the Peking leaders and
the imperialist forces in West
Germany which is bound to have
repercussions on the internation-
al scene.

It is common knowledge that
the high priests of the cold war
‘at work in West Germany have at
all times toyed with the idea of
bringing into play “the Chinese
card” so as to lend weight to
their revenge-seeking and adven-
turist ambitions to alter the sta-
tus quo in Europe. Even after
the ratification of the Moscow
and Warsaw treaties these forces

Awards for wines

SOFIA—The Second Interna-
tional Wine and Brandies Com-
petition, held under the auspices
of the International Viticulture
and Wine Organization in Paris
took place in the Bulgarian tour-
ist resort of Slunchev Bryag
(Sunny Beach). Twenty - three
wine - producing countries of
Europe, Asia, Africa and Ame-
rica competed in it. In the nine
days of competition over 750
different brands of wine and
brandy were tasted. ;

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thousands of high schools to ac-
commodate all the youth. They
combine study with practical
work, which not only enriches
the education and brings benefit
to the country, but also serves
to avoid the separation of stu-
dents from people which is often

of the socialist count

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the case in capitalist countries. saw six Soviet ships? "7
International brigades of goods and loading Cuba
young people are helping to ports.

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free loan, with no date
repayment. This is ‘YP
socialist mutual suppor”,

build these schools, among them
also Canadians.

You would have to know the
old Cuba of chronic malnutri-
tion to appreciate the revolu-
tionary character of the govern-
ment’s plan to provide every
men, woman and child in Cuba
with at least a quart of milk
daily!

To achieve this, Cuba has
turned from the sugar-export
economy that prevailed in the
old days to mixed farming, in-
cluding dairy farms. Wm. Kash-
tan visited farms where large
herds are being raised. “It was
a pleasure to see 16,000 cows
and bulls from Canada helping
to build up the socialist dairy
industry in Cuba,” he said.

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are pinning their hopes on ten-
sion and confrontation.

The long-time Christian-Demo-
cratic cabinet minister Gerhard
Schroder flatly rejected the Mos-
cow and Warsaw treaties during
the debate on ratification in the
Bundestag and it was then, if
not earlier, that everybody came
to realize that he was among the

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So it was anything but a mere
coincidence that Schroder was
singled out for the exploratory
talks in Peking. Obviously, the
revenge-seeking forces in West
Germany were also encouraged
by the Peking leaders’ recent
moves to arrive at certain ar-
rangements with imperialist
circles in: Western Europe.
Unfortunately, the efforts that
have so far been made in this
field confirm the suspicion that

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