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Council, Civil Defense
clash in Coventry tests

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Week Tepe in Coventry last
held a | €n Labor city councillors
fie moet rally across the road
Ebomb € Churchill government’s
Mb civil defense exercise.

he blare of rival amplifiers

Trade mission
goes to Britain

By SAM RUSSELL | LONDON

A, trade mission from People’s China is to visit Britain with the
full support and approval of the British government .

Announcing this in London last week, the Federation of British
Industries said the decision follows discussions held in Geneva between
the Chinese Foreign Trade Vice-Minister Lei Yen-min, and Peter Ten-
nant, the federation’s overseas director.

The delegation is expected to

Ningleq ae : arrive in Britain about June 16 and
ictims” an ee anae =o oem will consist of three leading Chin- Briti sh can i
Sduad cars racing to the scene. ese trade experts led by Lei Yen-

min. :

At the invitation of the federa-
tion, they will visit Britain factor-
ies and discuss with leading Brit-

€ councillors heir micro-
ph , over their micro
whote’ kept up a counter-flow the
88 ¢ time the civil defense exer-

ommentary was being broad-

break boycott

Said k : ish industrial representatives pros-| @
“We d oud. S. Stringer: pects for a vast expansion of An- if U an rt |
The :§ On't object to the exercise. glo-Chinese trade:
Ore people see of them, the

Nore th The Board of Trade and the min-

ey will realize how futile istry of supply were consulted be-

LONDON
€ do object to a govern-|-

Mental € do obje fore the Geneva discussions began.| Sir Andrew Cohen, British gov-
Payers a Ane pe by the pa In addition ‘to the Federation of] ernor of Uganda, has proclaimed
Dron ere carrying ou British Industries, Tennant repre- - : A

*Paganda against the city coun- a state of virtual martial law in

cil sented the London Chamber of
Commerce and the China Associa-
tion. These had consulted to-
gether about improving trade be-
tween Britain and China.

Now the three organizations, to-
gether with the Nationai Union of
Manufacturers and the Association
of British Chambers of Commerce,
are setting up joint machinery to
arrange the Chinese visit.

They are also arranging 4 visit
by British businessmen to China.

While welcoming the possibility
of increased trade. between Britain
and People’s China, federation of-
ficials stated however, that they
intend to do nothing to get the
British government to lift the pre-
sent U.S.-imposed embargoes on
trade with China. :

Tennant reported that the Chin-
ese delegation had expressed inter-
est in building materials, and pre-
fabricated building units, pharma-
ceutical and medical products, tex-
tile and materials such as wool tops
and rayon and also chemicals and
scientific instruments.

People’s China is also ready to

Buganda, the largest province in
the colony.

The state of emergency is the
British government’s reply to the
month-old trade boycott by the
African people following an appeal
by the Uganda National Congress.
It follows similar action taken by
British Colonial Secretary Oliver
Lyttelton against the peoples of
Kenya and British Guiana.

Governor Sir Andrew Cohen has
already used the emergency laws
to ban three newspapers, and has
threatened others with similar
action.

The three banned newspapers
are the Uganda Post, the Uganda
Express and the Uganda Eyogera.

The boycott was called for by the
Uganda National Congress on April
22, and came into operation on
May 1. It urgéd all Africans to
buy nothing except necessities for
three months.

Although the British govern-
men and settlers at first tried to
laugh off the boycott, at the end

Cooter controled Coventry City
civil q recently voted to end
a lefense as a waste of time
of Money in view of the nature
entry. hydrogen bomb, and Cov-
Was pel defense organization
the pooned from taking part in
Xercise,
Setipt to Councillors objected to the
eter a the exercise prepared by
tiv) .,2llver, British Home Office
tense organizer for the
region.
to imac mentary told “victims”
entry aM that, because of “Cov-
long ti t% Council’s attitude, a
Coulg “ would elapse before they
The rescued.”
bombed. nie — held in some
the ai houses in the centre
oUt by litz City — -was carried
bile Cot ome Office imported mo-
bom olumn. It was the first H-
Alder teise in Britain.
ayor ay Cresswell, recent Lord
Which ner the protest rally —
ent an uded many other prom-

Ten years after the end of the war British children are still
living in the shadow of the guns.

Cities follow Coventry,
suspend Civil Defense

LONDON |is really asking them to commit

Me Or councillors and alder- _| suicide, and we are not prepared to ANAT : s

thing a. that there was no such One of the oe a papal subscribe to that position.” ay ee oS ee aes ve yr ane any: age to ae

Colt S defense agMinst the bomb.| orities in South Wales, ‘1. has| In Salford City, the Labor party it needs for her vast developmen at it had cu © only a

Senqj Yer stated later that he was|(Glamorgan) Urban Council, has followed the example of Cov- projects, for. flood control, dam| quarter of heir normal level in
i

building and hydro-electric pro-
jects.

decided unanimously to suspend
Civil Defense activities in the area.
One councillor, Gwyn Phillips,
said that people. throughout the
land were thinking in terms of
peace, ‘and they wanted those in
authority to think in terms of peace
also. ;
: “We are urging people to think
of peace. To urge them to think
of warfare as it was ten years ago

Malayan Communists give plan
Or ending of seven-year war

LONDON

spite of government orders not
to support it. ;

etary report to the Home Sec-

entry by calling for disbandment
Tally “VOUt the exercise and the

of the city’s Civil Defense organisa-
tion on the grounds that no defense
against the H-bomb is possible.

The resolution will now be sent
to the. Labor group that controls
the city council, where many coun-
cillors are known to be in sym-
pathy with the Coventry council’s
attitude.

Goya

alter lor Mrs. E. Jones said

anything: “I have never: seen

lif "S$ So ridiculous in all my
@

a seed came screaming out of

W Toad covered all over in

at
kofoh y Snould imagine was tomato

Which pe Malayan Communist party has called for an end to the British war against the Malayan people
4S now gone on for almost six years. : Ke Batch authorities
to acpi has declared its readiness to begin negotiations to end the war and called. on ae

Lessening of oppressive taxa-
tion on the people and use of
profits of British monopoly firms
as the chief source of revenue. _
Giving of free land and cheap

It to such negotiations.
all,» Pledged cooperation with

that ¢ 1€s, groups and individuals
a0 Wa ate for an end to the Malay-

i ort for the ending of the|4
ae oar Viet Nam and Malaya by
negotiation, and the party and the
army were always ready to fight
for the realisation of this, it says.

u.
loaded at Tegucigalda.

- Ih Ss
Munig, nessage to the British Com-

ee j the peasants. e
Loin DANY. Sent to the recent] ar que Brish imperialists Were ee atonal in-| WeDo CIINS shipments seen
and erence of Communis llicose they wou : Sag 3 .
Ish Workers’ Parties of dhe Bot, Se a ae all to ignore this reso- dustry and commerce and im-.

provement of the life of the work-
ers.

as threat to Guatemala

GUATEMALA CITY
Negotiations between the U.S.

Malayan tions and Colonies, the

ts S@ Communist party sets out
BL N-point program. —

tra weSsage which was delayed

lution.”
The seven points or slogans of

opular movements, and external-
the Malayan Communist party are: v6 Si

iti f the present s 1S: $
a 3 . ly, if the opportunity can be creat-

tem of slave education and

tai, Ve significance is the one
ial 22 end to the British
t sf -war of aggression
eb . Malayan people.

Com “ asic ‘policy of the Malayan
a Says Tust party is one of peace,
reson, 22d it points out that the
°R the war in Malaya was forced

4 4Wo
tional Years ago the Malayan Na-
tiberation Army declared

Nsit, declares ‘that the point| J

© ge
“™eriatigg yD people by British | :

Iending ot the war, abolition
of all “Emergency Regula-
tions” and all measures against the

people based on these laws.

2

coalition people’s

Ending of colonial rule” and
establishment of a provisiona
government bas-

ed on all patriotic parties and

groups.

Lessening of international
tension and extension of
Malaya’s trade and cultural rela-

tions.

development of the culture of each
nationality in Malaya on patriotic,
democratic and scientific lines.

The Communist party hopes that
all Malayan patriotic parties and
groups will support these Seven
points, but it emphasizes ending of
the war as the main task.

“We welcome joint action with
those parties, groups and individu-
als who accept the main slogan but
have not yet accepted the other
slogans,” it says.

and Nicaragua for sending arms
to the dictatorial Somoza regime
began as early as April 19 — be-
fore the U.S. government seized on
overseas shipments of arms to
Guatemala as the pretext for rush-
ing arms to Nicaragua and Hon-
duras, it is revealed here. —

U.S. arms shipments to - Nicar-
agua and Honduras are seen by
observers here as being intended
for use internally, to maintain re-

F E : : {
actionary regimes in power against

ed, against the progressive govern-
ment of Guatemala.

The Somoza regime in Nicaragua,
acting at U.S. behest, has already
severed relations with Guatemala.
Somoza, multi-millionaire dictator
who controls textile, distilling, cof-
fee and cattle interests, has been
indebted to the U.S. since 1932
when the U.S. Marines ended their
occupation of Nicaragua and made
him commander of the national
guard. :

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JUNE 11, 1954 — PAGE 3