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China’s first democratic elections

Chinese people at the polls are casting their ballots in China‘s
first nation-wide: general elections. Elections for lower posts have
nin progress for several months and are expected to be com-

™MUnicipal and provincial bodies.

Pleted by the first half of 1954.

' the All-China People’s Congress.

The process will be completed
Then elections will be held for

Three of five Soviet
deputies newcomers

By RALPH PARKER

Three out of every five of the

for the first time.

MOSCOW
1,347 deputies élected in the Soviet

nion’s recent general election are members of the Supreme Soviet

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A total of 120,321,192 citizens—99.98 percent of the electorate—
Voted in the election of the two houses of the Supreme Soviet, the

Soviet of the Union and the Soviet
°f Nationalities,

The voters, men and women of
all walks of life, of the most varied
Professions and personal beliefs,
€xpressed unanimous confidence in
2€ candidates of the Communist
and Non-Party Bloc.

All the candidates received more

4n the 50 percent of votes need-
ed for election. —

The honor. of being put up as
a Candidate for the Supreme So-
“et of the USSR is generally ac-

rorded to men and women with

°ng records of public service.
hose elected for the first time
ave most of them served on other
tlected bodies of local government
lies the governments of the repub-

Kirill Kolenko, the successful

Candidate at Voroshilovgrad, in the

aine, for instance, is a worker

With 40 years experience in the

same factory, who enters the Su-
preme Soviet with a record of
action in protection of his fellow
workers’ interests.

Maria: Mordanenko,. aged 41, of
Rostov, was put up by her fellow
workers in a big agricultural mach-
inery factory. She has a long trade
union as well as welfare work re-
cord.

A feature of the lives of the
workers and collective farmers’
deputies is the close and long
association with the districts they
represent. They are men and wo-
men whose public spirit may be
said to have grown with the fac-
tories and farms where they work.

A combination of active partici-
pation in the national life as a
worker, outstanding civil servant
or collective farm worker, with
public spirit, gives the Soviet depu-

ties their special character.

MPs shocked
by reburials

LONDON

Labor MPs have been shocked
by Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden’s statement to the British
House of Commons whitewashing
the reburial in hallowed ground of
97 Nazi war criminals. “It was
done decently,” he declared.

Among the bodies are those of
Joseph Kramer, “The Beast of
Belsen,” and Irma Grese.

Eden refused point blank to make
any protest about this posthumous
glorification of people who made
lampshades out of human skin.

He seemed. quite unmoved by the
sinister implications of the reburial,
which one Labor MP, Barnett Jan-
ner, described as fostering the

growth ot neo-Nazism and militar-
ism in Germany.

Eden said the British government
has no responsibility for the action
of the Lower Saxony government
in transferring the bodies. :

“This did -not require British
permission and I do not propose
to take any action in the matter,”
he declared. —

War no answer

The retiring British represen-
tative at the UN, Sir Glad-
wyn Jebb (above) told the annual
Pilgrim’s dinner in London last
‘week that Communism was not
going to be defeated by physical
means. Another world war cer-
tainly would not result in the
disappearance of Communism, he
Rather it would be likely

to result (whatever the name

said.

might be) in its universal ex-

tension.

Reject U.S. aid, says
Pakistan United Front

KARACHI

Demand that Premier Mohammed Ali’s government repudiate its recent agree-
ment with the United States and reject U.S. military aid as ‘‘detrimental to’ the inter-
ests of Pakistan’ was voiced last week by the East Pakistan United Front following
its landslide victory over Ali’s Moslem League in the East Bengal provincial election.

The election represented a crushing defeat for the

Ali government's polity of
{ accepting ,U.S. military aid in face
of popular opposition and despite

the strong disapproval of Pakistan’s
neighbor, India.

The East Bengal United Front,
a loose alliance of Moslem groups
outside the Moslem League, Hindu
groups, Communist and other left-
wing groups formed to oppose gov-
ernment policies, swept the polls,
despite police persecution through-
out the election campaign and the
arrest of some of its candidates.

Of the total of 309 seats in the
East Bengal Provincial Assembly,
72 of which are reserved for non-
Moslem groups, the United Front,
at latest count, had won 147,
Independents 8 and the Moslem
League 4. Results in another 78
seats were still to be reported.

In the last legislature the Mos-
lem League held 237 seats against
72 for the combined opposition.

What gave the election its sig-
nificance was that densely populat-
ed East Bengal, although occupy-
ing only one-sixth of Pakistan’s
geographical area, holds more than
half of its 76 million people, in-
cluding some 10 million Hindus in
the province. ;

The fact that the Moslem League, *
which has held office nationally
since Pakistan came into being in
1947, has virtually been routed in
East Bengal is in effect a repudia-
tion of Premier Mohammed Ali’s
policies. The U.S. military aid
agreement became one of the
central issues of the election cam-
paign and popular opposition to it

was reflected in the vote.

ROME
Decision of an Italian court here

death of 23-year-old Wilma Mon-
tesi has brought the Christian De-
mocratic party into a full-scale
crisis. The government, headed: by

Premier Signor Scelba, is fighting

to order a new inquiry into the’

for its life in the midst of the drug
and sex scandal uncovered as a re-
sult of the girl’s death.

The girl’s body was found on a
Rome beach last April. Police
ruled, that her death was due to
accidental drowning. Since then
an Italian editor has published

.

‘One-time cabin boy now president revered as ‘Uncle Ho’

Ho Chi Minh leads Viet Nam in struggle

A few cabin boys may in the
Past become admirals but Ho Chi-
‘Minh of Viet Nam has the distinc-
Pot of being a cabin boy who be-

ame president.

By doing so he gained the ear
hy world for the cause of his
ple... - ;
= slight man, though tall among
People, his delicate wispy beard

Poet rather than the revolutionary.
Gi at 63 (he will be 64 on May
) he still rides on horseback
ons his people, learning of their
Oubles and inspiring them in their
Sht for independence.
.-4S name means “He who en-
lightens” and indeed he and the
°mmunist party of Indochina, now
Se Lao Dong (Labor) party of
let Nam, have brought enlighten-
Ment with them.
€n times as many people—men
Men and children—have learnt
read in the Democratic Republic
Viet Nam in the past nine years

to

ae in the previous 70 years of
Tench rule.

Coming from a part of Viet Nam
where resistance to French con-
quest never died out he originally
bore the name of Nguyen Ai Quoc
—John the Patriot.

When he was 23 he left home
and took the job of cabin boy on
a French merchantman. He visit-
ed most of the main ports of the
world. Now he speaks five lang-
uages, among them English.

He was in France after the First
World War and stalked into the
Palace of Versailles to demand the
independence of his country from
Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson
and Georges Clemenceau. They
would not listen.

In 1930 he was back in Indochina
and with other patriots founded
the Communist party. :

In 1940, when Vichy France al-
lowed the Japanese to occupy Indo-
china the Communist party began
its armed resistance.

In 1951 with other organizations
they formed the Viet-Minh — the
League of the Viet people. In as-

sociation with groups of patriots

HO CHI MINH

in the associated countries of Laos
and Cambodia they harassed the
Japanese in the jungles, in the
towns and in the villages, ever
gathering strength.

In 1945 Ho Chi-minh, as the
leader of the people of Viet Nam
(the Viet country) proclaimed the
Democratic Republic of Viet Nam
and in January 1946 after his coun-
try’s first election was elected
presdent. :

At first recognized by France,
for eight years now he has led his
people against the French war of
reconquest.

Last December when two-thirds
of his country was already free, he
stated that, if the French govern-
ment was willing, his government
was preparéd to discuss an armis-
tice.

Work, simplicity, justice and in-
tegrity are the four virtues he re-
commends to his people.

“Uncle Ho,” he is called and
“Father Ho.” :

They love him for his kindliness
and admire him for the way his
eyes flash with fire when he speaks
of the struggle against oppression
and injustice to which he has dedi-
cated his life.

Christian Democrats in Italy
stagger under scandal trials

facts concerning high society drug
parties in which Miss Montessi was
involved. Leading members of the
government, including the premier
himself, have been linked with the
orgiastic parties.

Further evidence provided by a
close friend of the girl charged
that she had passed out from an
overdose of drugs during one of the
parties and was left on the beach
to drown. Officials implicated in
the’ affair have launched a series
of libel trials in an effort to in-
timidate the witnesses.

Scelba, in an attempt to save his
teetering government, has launch-
ed a McCarthy-style witch-hunt. In
a vain bid to distract public atten-
tion from the scandal trials the
premier announced plans to purge _
Communist civil servants from
every sphere of Italian life.

Implicated in the scandals are
the former head of the Rome
police force, who has since re-
signed; Pierro Picconi, the for-
eign minister’s son and Scelba’‘s
own son.

Italian papers have also printed
Pictures of Scelba alongside the

organizer of the “orgies” — the
self-styled “Marquis” Ugo Man-
tagna.

In a report read at one of the
trials, the “Marquis” was accused
of being a one time Nazi collabor-
ator, a procurer of women for
fascist officials, an organizer of
parties for British and American
officers and a speculator in real

estate.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — APRIL 2, 1954 — PAGE 3

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