Py | lll, End sought to Cyprus Wéxecutions, curfews ~ _ NICOSIA i, isd Suspension of curfew and executions by the British jp? etnment in Cyprus was urged last week by the English- gap ‘SUage paper, the Times of Cyprus. aly’ UC probes e/tedundancy A 4 LONDON ot tine National investigation, at tom at fixing a scale of tee sation pay. for workers io! Bia redundant, is to be 1 saa Cted _by the British af €s Union Congress. : thie ets of the TUC Econ- A Committee, meeting in my a On last week considered y ot submitted by sever- ai on the wide scale a ancy being caused as TF the lt of automation and Mio’ eT nment’s credit i Ma: pf me Unions affiliated to the eH ac Will } i tetaiy, e asked to submit Va tix of local agreements as WW}, ‘St step toward shaping ytonal policy. “a iS be the TUC’s an- Made je repeated demands he the,employers during tion Titish Motor - Corpora- tn . bute that compensa- “hati must be decided on a yal basis. ¢ New trial tor Nelson c.... NEW YORK Count hited States Supreme * fop St as ordered a new trial “Ist “ey Nelson, Commun- ens ~ leader in western leaginy Vania, and four other § Communists. Ueno, 1d so because the evi- Tent of yet another govern- Minis ress against Com- Sis more or less admit- M7] foyer, — Perjury. Even the to cee is now compelled been Se that the witness has om. Ying, yeti ti ior... PMs ati: ace ote) 20j e it is Joseph D. the 193 Who gave evidence at t trial when the five Ing a accused of “conspir- erty teach and advocate by vi TOW of the government ? 0] i ence,” Yow us. Justice Department } Whig, “S$ Mazzei gave evidence the government has t €ason to doubt.” "ch We defendants were | Minnie wtenced to ‘five yedrs Ett, nent. They appeal- € Supreme Court. ( *rioy ey tohuio SYDNEY Dert g. Weapons — research +S it) .f William Penney 1 WUehiere reports on cattle Othe, in Australia’s j i as Territory. ‘ Xtiye - tle were made radio- a Dlogi Y Britain’s atomic test Mare es 400 miles away at , Talia 88 in the South Aus- - desert, , tong ; thyroid glands were i © be radioactive, but The paper suggested a four- point plan to achieve a “new atmosphere” while the pro- posals of Lord Radcliffe were examined. Lord Radcliffe’s are expected within weeks. The plan proposed by The Times of Cyprus is: proposals three 1 Suspension of punitive curfews, executions and other such measures “which because of the emotion they arouse, would inevitably condemn Lord Radcliffe’s labors to oblivion even before they were complete.” 2B The Bishop of Itium and the Ethnarchy secretary Should be released to re- store the machinery of the Ethnarchy Office with- out which negotiations are impossible. (The Eth- narchy is the ruling body of the Greek Orthodox Church in Cyprus). . The government should enable the Ethnarchy to seek ‘the instructions of Archbishop Makarios, now exiled in the Seychelles Islands. 4. If Archbishop Makarios’ reply is favorable there should be another cease- fire, to be followed by a truce and: the understand- ing that the Ethnarchy would be brought into a final settlement. Meanwhile, in Athens, the Greek General Labor Confed- eration has protested to the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions against “Hitler methods” used by British military authorities in Cyprus. It also called for release of arrested Cypriot trade union- ists. The Greek General Labor Confederation asserted that British soldiers had entered prisons at night, stripped Cyp- riot trade unionists being held there and beaten them with weapons and bayonets. The protest added __ that Greek workers demanded the intervention of the ICFTU to “bring to an end these Hitler methods and free the trade unionists, detained without reason.” Aattie found radioactive the Geiger count was “not alarming,” according to the chairman of the Australian Safety Committee. Three British atomic de- vices have been exploded at Maralinga in the past two weeks. The owner of a cattle station 400 miles to the north- east said an atomic cloud from the first test passed over his ranch, * Here Theodor Blank, retiring West German defence minister, presents commissions to Adolf Heusinger (left) and Hans Speidel, as the first lieut. generals in the new Wehr- macht. Both held commissions as major generals in Hitler’s army. West Germany opens up campaign for production of atomic weapons BERLIN The West German government is pushing ahead with plans .for equipping the new Wehrmacht with atomic weapons — eventually to be produced in the Federal Republic — and with gearing industry for war production. For West Germany to produce atomic weapons, the restrictive clauses in the Paris agreement would have For the moment, Bonn is going about this cautiously since it is aware of opposition in Europe to a new Wehrmacht staffed by former Nazi S.S. officers and Nazi generals and equipped with atomic weap- ons. Last week a West German war ministry spokesman an- nounced that over 3,000 form- er Waffen S.S. — officers had been accepted for the new Wehrmacht and that the ma- to be altered. jority of them were already posted to their units. Not all the West German militarists and armament man- ufacturers make an attempt to camouflage their intentions. They point out that it would hamper their plans if West Germany had to rely on other NATO states for weapons, in- cluding atomic weapons. They are urging that West Germany re-establish its own huge armament industry, so that they are in no “danger” in case international tension should be further reduced and disarmament plans agreed upon. A conference between West German government. heads and industrialists is now in preparation to discuss full re- storation of the war machine which twice in the past 40 years has caused such devas- tation. Six million West German unionists go on record against rearmament By PHYLLIS ROSNER BERLIN Delegates of six million West German trade unionists have gone on record against rearmament. The delegates who took this stand at the West German Federation of Labor congress were also in favor of peaceful reunification of their country and ban- ning of atomic weapons. Delegates to the congress, which ended in Hamburg last week, also made it clear to the. employers that they want a 40-hour week without loss of pay. An independent commission to study the social and econ- omic effects of automation and to propose legislation pre- venting harmful effects has been suggested. Rank-and-file trade union- ists in West Germany worried by the growing power of the old Nazi forces and they called on the government and judi- cial authorities to take more decisive measures against them. To thunderous applause, Er- ich Essel, Social Democratic member of the Bavarian par- liamenf, said it was a disgrace that the West German war ministry was accepting form- er Waffen S.S. officers into the army. The call to all responsible politicians in the world to ban experiments with, and production of, atomic weap- ons was enthusiastically adopt- ed. The congress demanded public control of the peace- ful use of atomic energy in Western Germany, and said all nuclear materials should be under state and not private control. Delegates instructed their leaders to work out by May 1 next the trade union move- ment’s proposals on German reunification. “Unity,” said the manifesto adopted, “cannot be achieved by the unconditional taking over of the political, econom- ic and social system of one part of Germany by ~