NATO TOP BRASS OPPOSES ARMS CUTS

Generals plot to ruin Geneva

By SAM RUSSELL

GENE
—SSNERAL GRUENTHER

ADMIRAL
EARL MOUNTBATTEN

GENERAL TWINING

Even Even own paper said nothing

Press silent as lynch mob runs

British newsman out of U.S. town

LONDON

mapa resPondents for British |
ee in New York and Wash-
a are indignant at the treat-|
Of a a colleague at the hands

Ych mob in the deep south.

nae Victim is Ronald Single-

of the London Daily Express.

en has passed since he

pe iden out of the Mississippi

of ois. Sumner for the crime
ing to Negroes.

retyene wSPaPerman who has just
ug ae to Britain from the U.S.
es at British journalists there
@nnoyed that no official pro-

has been made to U.S.
’Uthorities.

a Daily Express has’ failed
t to print Singleton’s account
dup @ night of terror at Sumner
‘ting the trial of two white
< acquitted of the lynch-mur-
* of a 14-year-old Negro boy,
=n Till, because he allegedly

ea Wolt-whistleg” at a white
®man,

Journalists say the Daily Ex-
ies not publish the story
© of its policy of not writ-
Teports critical of the
“rlean way of life.

Si :
"Ngleton went from New York
Dai “mner to cover the trial. The

u Express printed one story
224 * his name—on September

After that date, silence.

For on the night of Septem-
Singleton was kidnap-

atm, ¥ a gang of a dozen men
With rifles and pistols.

to ne fired shots when he tried

ae sa prey. Recaptured, he was

a Car to Clarksdale, some

a os eat Way, and warned not to
to Sumner.

he re reporters to whom
hi the story did not believe
ean yo ln, pretended not to. Ameri-
Teturn VYers advised him not to
he h, ° Sumner, and told him
aa No hope of legal redress.
wag ngletr” P.m. on September 21
2 ro, as where he had rented
Yoon ‘if When he opened the
; Ound a man with a gun.

‘ne
from ae of the gang came in
© garden. One stuck a

| pistol in Singleton’s ribs and told

/him to put his hands up and get
moving.

Singleton broke away and
istarted running. The mob blazed
away. He gave up the attempt
to escape.

They searched Singleton and
questioned him. He was handled
roughtly. | Then they bundled
him into a car, drove him 10
Clarksdale, turned him out and
drove off.

“Don’t come back to Sumner,”
was the parting warning.

Back at Sumner the story was
put out by the sheriff that Sin-
gleton had been drunk and that
the men who rode. him out of
town were law enforcement men.

But Singleton believes that
the real reason was that dur-
ing the hearing that day he
had openly spoken to Negroes
in the street—as any honest
journalist seeking the facts
would have done. :

One lawyer told him he had
been unwise to do this, since
racial tension was running so
high, and advised him to forget

about it, adding: "You ought to
think yourself lucky to be alive.”

Went back to the house | @

NIKITA KRUSHCHEV

iJ e e @e
Willing to visit U.S.

Chairman Mao Tse-tung of
the Chinese People’s Republic
has expressed his willingness
to visit the United States if
the U.S. government invites
him, according to Seigo Ham-
ano, member of the Japanese
Diet, who recently returned
from a three week tour of
China with 23 other Japanese
parliamentarians, all members
of the governing Democratic
party.

LONDON

These men mean murder — the murder of the Geneva
spirit, of the world’s growing idea that peace and under-
standing between East and West are possible. .

In the past three weeks — as if speaking from one set of
speaker's notes — they have opposed any disarmament,

demanded ‘that no matter what
cuts the Soviet Union makes,
not a man, a gun or a ship must
be cut from the Western forces.

_They are part of a whole
rogues’ gallery of British and
American generals and admirals
who are out to wreck the Big
Four Foreign Ministers’ Confer-
ence which was to open in Gen-
eva Thursday this -.week.

On October 10, General Sir
John Whiteley, British’ chairman
of the Atlantic Pact Military
Committee, echoing U. S. Secre-
tary of State John Foster Dulles,
dismissed Soviet peace moves as
a “tactic”’ He said that the cut
lof 800,000 in the armed forces of
the Soviet Union and the People’s
Democracies was “no significant
reduction.”

U.S. Admiral Wright demanded
no reduction in Atlantic Pact
naval forces or even any level-
ling-off, while British Admiral
Sir George Creasey complained
he was not getting enough war-
ships. :

On the following day, U.S.
Air Force Chief of Staff General
Twining boasted of “our bases
strategically placed around the
globe,” also echoing Dulles who,
in his October 10 speech at
Miami,
right of the U.S. to have bases
on the territory of 44 nations.

Washington observers noted
“almost a calculated parallel”
between the two _ speeches.
General Twining also demand-
ed that there should be no re-
duction in U.S. armed strength,
no withdrawal from any bases.

On the same day he was re-
echoed in Paris by the U.S.
Supreme Commander in Europe,
General Alfred Gruenther, who
demanded the continual build-up
of the Western Powers’ armed
forces.

Only another 24 hours elapsed
and Field-Marshal Lord Mont-

‘

Kruschev to visit Afghanistan

Florida, defended the!

gomery was on his feet before
the Royal United Service Institu-
tion in London outlining his
strategic plans for a global East-
West war, with the demand that
“the men must be kept for two
years,” to maintain “the high
standard required for a future
nuclear war.”

On October 13,, Britain’s First
Sea Lord, Admiral Mountbatten,
was toasting Anglo-Soviet friend-
ship at Admiralty headquarters
in London with Admiral Golovko,
commander-in-chief of the Soviet
Baltic Fleet.

Yet a few hours afterwards
he was mouthing the Dulles
anti-Soviet propaganda in a
speech at the annual dinner of
the Chamber of Shipping of
the United Kingdom.

The Soviet Navy, he declared,
had become “the greatest potential
threat the Royal Navy has ever
been called upon to face.”

Last weekend, top British and
U.S. generals revived their
“super weapon” propaganda with
claims of new super weapons
“that would stagger the imagi-
nation.”

In Londonderry, Northern Ire-
land, British Maj. General C. P.

Jones, commandant of the British
army staff college, said Britain
has a gun that can “throw a
weapon which will be the equiv-
alent at the receiving end of the
concentrated salvo of several
hundred medium regiments, and
at a very much increased range.”

At Fort Benning, Georgia, U.S.
Army research chief Lieut.
General James Gavin said that
the U.S. now has new weapons
“that would stagger the imagina-
tion.”

The conspiracy of generals
and admirals against peace
could not be clearer. Equally
clear is the need for a crushing
answer from the people.

The Afghan embassy here has announced
that Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin and
Communist party secretary Nikita Krushchev
have accepted an invitation to visit Afghanis-

tan in November.

tries.

In recent years the Soviet Union has been
aiding Afghanistan in developing its roads,
modernizing its cities and establishing indus-

Trade relations between the two countries

MOSCOW

have been strengthened, with Afghanistan
sending wool, dried fruit and cotton in return
for Soviet machinery, cloth and oil. Afghan-
istan also has a trade agreement with Czecho-
slovakia through which it receives machinery.

The Soviet Union recently financed build-

ing of silos, bakeries and a cotton ginning mill
for Afghanistan.
@ Picture at left shows the walled town

of Ghazi, an important point on the road to

Kabul, capital of Afghanistan.
PACIFIC TRIBUNE — OCTOBER 28, 1955 — PAGE 3

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