Napalm bombs did this These are the Korean victims of napalm bonibs, now | widely used by the U.S. air force in its attempts to impose the “Ameri- can way of life’ on Korea. Vietnamese crush | - | by _ French forces new victory PEKING Four French battalions were wiped out by Viet Nam ‘eople’s Army troops in the five days ending January 17, States an official communique of Viet Nam People’s Army Seneral headquarters. Battles took place in Baochu, and’ Vin- yen, Phucyen, Bacgiang and Bacninh provinces north of anoi., The communique stated that Curing the battles, despite active intervention of French aircraft and artillery, People’s Army troops destroyed many strongly fortified positions and wiped out ‘Our battalions which were com- Posed mainly of BHuropean and African crack units. French losses included 1,930 killed, and $0 taken prisoner. “The Vinhyen battle is the first Steat victory of the Viet Nam People and army in 1951 and the fi : : reer Sreat victory of our main “rces on the plains, It marks ts unprecedented progress of our “my especially in tactical con- “eptions and of our. people in “ensciousness and _ organisation e how to serve the front. It will ‘ad to greater victories on the Slains in 1951,” the communique “oncluded. feecanWhile, a delayed dispatch ee Rangoon reports that steps fr © taken to form a united ®nt of all Indo-chinese peoples Papers suppressed TOKYO getore _than 1,200 Japanese pap- hay Which speak for the people tice been suppressed by the Am- shia. Sponsored reactionary Yo- . C& government in the period ee June last year, when Aka- munist oo of the Japanese Com- arty, was banned + b MacArthur, ” : : ib fr atest Paper to be suppressed li the Voice of Peace, whose pub- ‘sher, Morio Asano, and other Der, : : ~~ 8008 connected with it, were “rrested, | fighting the French imperialists at a conference held last year, The meeting held November 20-22 was attended by representatives of the Viet Nam, Laos and Cambo- dia National Fronts. They elect- ed a preparatory committee to study the problem of the forma- tion of a united front and issued a manifesto which was signed by Hoang Quoc Viet for Viet Nam, Prince Souphanouvong for Laos and Sieu Heng for Cambodia. Britain seeking African forces of half-million ALEXANDRIA Announcement that Britain is seeking to recruit and train an army of 500,000 African Negro troops to be at the disposal of the Anglo-American war bloc in Africa and -abroad, comes as no surprise to military circles at this British Middle Hast war base. It is well-known here that large numbers of British officers have been in Africa for some time, seeking African recruits for their colonia] army. The report circulating here em- phasises that the British imperial- -|ists have no intention of creating a self-contained African Army, but a series of service units to be attached to the existing imper- jal formations for service in the colonies and in the Mideastern and Far Eastern battle zones. South Africa’s ‘pro-fascist Pre- mier Daniel F. Malan is vigorous- ly opposed to British plans for arming Africans, knowing that any military organisation of the African liberation movements which are spreading throughout the continent would annihilate him and the other handfuls of “white supremacist” exploiters of The French General Federation Pleven gov't orders WEFTU out of France, uses secret degree ? Acting without warning or trial process of any kind, the French government has ordered the World Federation of Trade Unions to close its headquarters here and wind up its business in 30 days. The WFTU, which has consultative status with the United Nations, has protested the order as a violation of the international responsibilities of France. PARIS of Labor (CGT), an affiliate of the WFTU, has appealed to all French workers to “demonstrate in every possible way, without delay, their indignation and their desire to see the three government decrees an- nulled at once.” The three decrees referred to by the CGT seek to close the Paris headquarters not only of the World Federation of Trade Unions, but also those of the International Democratic Women’s Federation and the World Federation of De- mocratic Youth. The decrees make all activities of these organizations illegal in France and outlaw affil- iation of French national organ- izations with the three worldwide bodies. No warning, hearing, interview or other process to weigh the evi- dence or hear the organizations concerned preceded the govern- ment ban, which was made known simply by the printing of decrees signed by Interior Minister Henri Queuille in the official government gazette of January 25. There was no preliminary debate or discussion in any parliamentary body. The measure expelling the WFTU, WFDY and IDWF from France was prepared in secret by cabinet ministers, The precedent from which it claims to draw its powers is a set of similar decrees also hatched in secret, dating from 1939 and 1940. These older enact- ments were produced by the governments of Premier Edouard Daladier, who sold Czechoslovakia down the river at Munich, and Marshal Philippe Petain, who ran the French quisling government under the Nazis. The official protest by the W F T .U, which has had its head- quarters in Paris since 1945, con- tains the following statement: ‘In taking its decision the French government completely ig- nored one very important fact, that the WFTU is a body recog- nized by the United Nations and enjoys consultative status A (the most important category) with the Economic and Social Council of The UN. The Economic and Social Council, which has closely associ- ated our - organization with its work, has in this way recognized | the capacity of the WEFTU to con- tribute effectively to the realiza- tion of the aims of the UN as de- fined in the UN charter. “We do not think the French government wants definitely to hinder the normal and legal func- tioning of a body which is part of the whole structure of the UN. We think the French government will take into consideration its intérnational obligations and the respect which it owes, as a mem- ber of the UN, to obligations to which it has solemnly subscribed.” Another protest was sent to United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie at Lake Success, New York. The WFTU has challenged at- tempts to discriminate against it and ignpre its UN status in the past. Last year, it success- fully fought a U.S. government refusal to give visas to its dele- gates to attend the United Na- tions General Assembly, gaining the support of many delegations and forcing the U.S. to reverse its stand. AGENTS SHADOW WORKERS of all UN NEW YORK The United States Federal Bur- eau of Investigation maintains its own spy network within the Un- ited Nations secretariat and has full control of its activities, ac- cording to reliable sources in Lake Success. The FBI system is headed by Frank M. Begley, chief of the secretariat’s maintenance and en- gineering division. One of the highest ranking UN employees, Begley is a former New York policeman. Under Begley’s direction, FBI agents carefully shadow all pro- gressively-minded employees’. of the secretariat who, directly or indirectly, express dissatisfaction with American policies or criti- cize the actions of official U.S. representatives. Begley’s spies include elevator boys, the staff of the UN restau- rant and cafeteria, guards in the Secretariat’s building and Ameri- can citizens employed by the Sec- retariat. This state of affairs is causing growing resentment on the part of the Secretariat’s staff. FBI spies on activities employees al TURE Chinese people give eight billion dollars to Korean aid fund PEKING Some 400,000 zift parcels, 400,- 000 letters of greetings - and over eight billion dollars in Peo- ple’s currency were received be- tween January 6 and 15 by the ‘Chinese People’s Committee for World Peace and Against Ame- rican Aggression for the Chin- ese people’s volunteers and the Korean People’s Army. From Shanghai which donat- ed over four billion dollars, came a letter of greetings which said, “Your heroism hag won warm support and admiration in the world. The eyes of the whole world are focussed on the Chinese people.” The writ- er, Liu Liang-mu, was a Shang- hai delegate to the Second World Peace Congress at War- saw. TREE TE TREE tr TT ny tt They’re pleased with thenicclves the 180 million black peoples. and so Look who’s congratulating Warren Austin, chief U.S. delegate to the UN, on having put over the resolution to condemn People’s China as an aggressor man at left is Col. Ben C. Limb, foreign minister in missions denounced as undemocratic — before the fighti: block peace negotiations. The Syngman Rhee’s regime, which UN com- ng broke out in Korea. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — FEBRUARY 9, 1951 — PAGE 3