US. infrigues lo influence Indian ballot NEW DELHI With the Indian general election called for January 2, American 88encies are stepping up their ef- sorts to gain® full control of the Most influential Indian papers. In this, they are making full use of , © financial difficulties of certain Publishers and of difficulties in Rewsprint supplies. Reports are circulating among Delhi journalists to the effect that ents of the United States Infor- Mation Service in India have pass- d more than 800,000 rupees (about $170,000 Iu.s.) through the Gaekwar aharajah) of Baroda to four “dian ‘papers. These are Nau- Wan, Lucknow; National Stand- ard, Bombay: Statesman, Calcutta; fe Press Journal, Bombay, all ‘daily papers. pone Americans demand that paese Paper publish “news” and eres supplied by the U.S. In- synation Service and that they ipport pro-American candidates N the coming election.. The papers .2%e also obliged to step up cam- "aligns against democratic parties std organizations in India and to Publish compromising material on “Rdia’s progressive politicians. This Material js being prepared and de- Nvered by the Americans. app henever the Americans are un- fa hc. to bribe the Indian papers _ ‘lected as vehicles of U-S. propa- panda, they attempt to gain con- a Over them by manipulating j tpevsPrint supplies, which are ex- fs Mely scarce in India. In this ane it will be recalled, the US. 5 °rmation Service gained control € newspaper Atom. \ ine te American are now attempt- ne to establish their hold on the ‘tional Herald (Lucknow) and ntarbharat (Delhi), or at least Tevent their normal appearance, bag Placing every possible obstacle ag way of their obtaining ade- bite Newsprint supplies and by ~~°ng typesetters and editors. a has been established that cer- ti S0vernment members and Shtwing leaders of the Indian Tess party are well acquaint- ith these activities of the U.S. §.0: ormation Service. However, . are not interfering with the Nicans in any way, as they © for American support in the e lection campaign, : Tt to raise million tla fighting fund NEW YORK tebe international convention of -nited Electrical, Radio and anv te Workers opened here with Bates Mous decision by its. 600 dele- to raise a million-dollar fund t the wage freeze and police laws, and, for peace. The by the ‘Tepresentatives of am Workers in 1,020 plants boy, Shortly after President Al- ley J. Fitzgerald opened the par- oi h a call for a fight to repeal ty 8ft-Hartley, Smith and Mc- tate Acts, and the government- €d wage freeze, Greek democrats win parliamentary seats from prison _ LONDON It is reported from Athens that the following ten candidates of the Union of the Democratic Left have been elected in the Greek general elections of September 9, final results which were released this week: : General Sarafis, former leader of Elas (wartime Resistance Army) ; Manolie Glezos, resistance hero and journalist, ‘now in prison under death sentence; and General Hadzimichalis, also a Resistance hero, all of them elected in Athens; Tony Ahbatielos, seamen’s trade union leader, also under death sentence; and Manolis Proimakis, Resistance hero, both elected in Piraeus; Kostas Gavryilides, secretary-general of the Agrarian party ; Professor John Imriotis; and John Mousterakis, Elas Leader, all three elected in Salonika; Ilias Iliu, lawyer, elected in Lesbos; and Tsochas, a trade unionist, elected in Larissa. Manolis Glezos, is the man who lifted the hearts of the people of Greect, and of anti-fascists everywhere, when he tore the Swastika from the Acropolis during the Nazi occupation. First the Nazis and now ‘the present regime sentenced him to death. . Tony Ambatielos, secretary of the Federation of Greek Maritime Unions, was sentenced to death in 1948 and has been in jail ever since. Only the constant pressure exerted by trade uhions throughout the world and the campaign waged for his. release by his wife, now living in England, has stayed the government order for his execution, Recently, the government aroused a new storm of protest by arresting Ambatielos’ aged mother. “The election will be a gigantic«farce unless the prison gates open and Tony Tmbatielos and his comrades are allowed to take their seats to fight for their people,” the. London Daily Worker, says, com- menting’ upon the fact that all the elected democratic candidates are either in prison or exiled in one of the dreaded concentration camps. The electoral success of the EDA (Union of the Democratic Left), which was “achieved despite unprecedented terror, is a tribute to the steadfast character of the Greek working-class and the democratic move- ment,” the paper points outs. China's anniversary i Two of the world’s greatest living writers, Russia’s Iya Ehren- burg and Chile’s Pablo Neruda, are now in Peking to take part in the Chinese people’s celebration of their national day, October 1, at which Chairman Mao Tse-tung (above) will speak. ‘ * ‘ Church leader A-BOMB SHELTERS BUILT High officials only : Some 2,000 building workers are engaged on burrowing an Xtensive network of atom-bomb proof tunnels under London. vernment departments are refusing to give any details of the | Project, Stretching from Holborn to Sere Fi Given top priority for labor and materials, tunnelling is going | °° seven days a week, 24 hours a day. Workers have been care- Y screened. t tunnels are designed not for London population, but for *Dinet ministers, top civil servants and “defense chiefs.’ calls for peace LONDON In a sermon ineSt. Paul’s cath- edral here, Archdeacon Percy Hartill, president of the Anglican ‘Pacifist Fellowship; called for a new attitude to the Soviet Union and other socialist nations. LONDON Pointing out that fascism is be- b} ing revived in Germany and Italy, he called for spending money now used for armaments to feed the hungry nations/of the world. “We must acknowledge,” he added, “that there is much behind the iron cur- tain that is righteous and true” while “in our society there is ’ much which goes against Christian i belief, such as racial prejudice and Westminster a mile away, these economic greed.” HAMBURG VOTES ‘NO’ with a united Germany, the Plebiscite Committee announces. The committee is opening a Young peace partisans here Oppose rearmament A total of 111,614 citizens of Hamburg have so far voted against remilitarization of Western Germany and for a peace treaty can sign peace lists, so that young men liable for military service can express their opinion on compulsory conscription. up order during a peace rally of 10,000 people, demonstrating their determination to refuse compulsory military service. HAMBURG Hamburg Anti-Remilitarization special office where young people recently burned a copy of a call- Twenty thousand protest posters appeared in Osaka. In Tokyo a number of monks fasted to demon- strate their demand for an over- all peace treaty and against the rearming of Japan. Kitamura Toku Taro, a leader of the Japanese National Demo- cratic party, has denounced Yoshida’s statement alleging that all the Japanese people want a “security pact” as incompatible with the facts. He assailed the pact as unacceptable to the Jap- anese people and calculated to cause unrest in Asia. ‘ “It has been a@ serious problem of how to promote friendship be- tween Japan and those countries,” stated the newspaper Mainichi comenting on the absence of the Asian countries at the conference. Both Mainichi and Asani Shimbun have commented bitterly on Yosh- idd’s speech at the San Francisco conference. _ Japanese islanders protest against treaty, fly flag at half-mast PEKING Inhabitants of Japan’s Amani Gunto Islands, now under U.S. trusteeship, lowered their national fla of profound indignation against the signing of the separate peace treaty and of a “‘security pact”. According to news received from this is one of the number of demonstrations of open opposition to the American imperialists and their own government’s treachery. g to half-mast for 20 days as a sign “Tokyo, Fascist immigrants obtain farms denied native Australians a outskirts of towns in rural ums and shanties.” Aboriginal delegate Vesper, revealed that original tribal land belonging to his ancestors was denied to the aboriginal people for farming, but was made available to whites, in cluding ,» ‘new Australians”, many of them fascists from East- ern Europe, who now had thriv- ing farms. wishes of the people. As an outward symbol of op- position the people of the “Copper Belt”, where there is’ a militant trade union movement, have adopt- ed a black and red ribbon, the cbdlors signifying the African work- er. Hundreds of workers are al- ready wearing the ribbon in this town, and despite threats from employers are wearing it at work. At the annual conference of the Northern Rhodesia African Con- gress held recently at Lusaka, president general Godwin Lewan- ika proposed that the governments of the three central African terri- tories be asked to call a conference of African leaders to meet in Lon- don to discuss,- question, amend or reject proposals for federation. He described the federation scheme as reflecting “the impatience ~of the European politicians to increase their power before we Africans are ready to stand alone against them.” To retain Central Africa as a stable war base of the Western powers Britain wants the federa- tion scheme pushed through as soon Trade union-leaders in Rhodesia are strike in the event of the proposed British Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland being The scheme to bring the federation into being is well’ advanced, but the people are determined to oppose the scheme with all the means at their disposal. : (Africans threatening general strike against federation in Rhodesia NDOLO, Northern Rhodesia discussing calling of a general Federation of Northern and forced on them against the as possible. Lewanika declares that Britain’s plans are doomed to failure be- cause they ignore one vital factor —the African people, who are not interested in plans for a third world war, but are concerned with maintaing world peace and winning their national independence. Yugoslavia becoming Anglo-U.S. war base Over 600,000 miles of strategic roads and highways, over 250 miles of railway lines, six new military airfields as well as dozens of new barracks, army depots and other military installations are being built in Yugoslavia, turning the whole country into an Anglo-Amer- ican war base, the Bulgarian Paper Rabotnichesko Delo reports. Work on peacetime construction projects such as “New Belgrade” is being abandoned. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — SEPTEMBER 28, 1951 — PAGE 3