Below the Mason-Dixon line in the United States the

desegregation battle is a bitter one. The more rabid

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L the South have revived the Klu Klux Klan and are en-
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Jew laws discussed
ly Soviet citizens

LONDON

| Leading Soviet citizens are confident that the changes
€ constitution and the climate of opinion in the
will ensure no recurrence of injustice, says Lord
ley, who has just led a delegation there.

I am not sure they convinced all our delegation in”

self a lawyer and university
lecturer, said he had a long dis-
cussion with the assistant pro-
curator during which he was
told that the whole question
of capital punishment was un-
der discussion.

‘He said that if they decide
to abolish it they would do so
not only for aggravated mur-
der, but also for treason and
other offences — that is, they
would abolish it completely,”
he said.

SUEZ CANAL CRISIS

British Labor

IPs

blast Eden policy

LONDON

Deploring the “gunboat at-
mosphere” in which the House
of Commons has discussed the
Suez crisis, a number of well-
known Labor MPs have con-
demned Sir’ Anthony Eden’s
policy of threatening force
against Egypt. Here are
quotes from statements made
by MPs Emery Hughes, Konni
Yilliacus, Victor Yates, Syd-
ney Silverman, William War-
bey and John Baird:

EMERY HUGHES: Britain
should have been prepared to
play her part in financing the
dam which would have helped
the miserable Egyptian peas-
ants to irrigate and cultivate
more land and provided Egypt
with more electricity.

This would have restored
good relations with Egypt,
which would take more ex-
ports from Britain.

We seem to have forgotten
about the need for more ex-
ports, and our®jingoes are call-
ing for nineteenth-century
gunboat diplomacy, meeting
force with force, and military
measures which would cost
a lot and make things worse
for us all over the Middle East.

The British Labor party
should have its own economic
plan for the Middle East and
not be lining up behind the
Tories shouting stupid and ob-
solete slogans.

KONNI ZILLIACUS: The
United States.will not help
Britain to fight Egypt, and
the French cannot, although
they would like to embroil us
with Egypt in order to help
them step on the hornets’ nest
they have stirred up in Al-
geria.

Unilateral British military
action would turn not only the
Arab world but the whole of
Asia and American public
opinion against us.

Native nationalism, as re-
cent history shows, will al-
ways defeat foreign imperial-
ism, and this adventure would

be the end of Britain as a
Great Power.

It would also split this coun-
try from top to bottom and
turn most of the working class
against the government and
any jingo Labor leaders mad
enough to support them.

VICTOR YATES: The House
of Commons has debated this
vital matter in a gunboat at-
mosphere. I deplore the dom-

ANTHONY EDEN

ination of the military mind
in the debate of a peaceful
solution of this problem.

It was quite clear to me
that many MPs had no other
thought but toughness ex-
pressed by military action,
which means war.

It will take all the ingen-
unity of the peace elements
here to prevent these people
leading the nation to war.

SYDNEY SILVERMAN: I
have always been in favor
or international control of in-
ternational communications
such as the Suez Canal the
Panama Canal, the River Dan-
ube, the Bosphorus and the

_ Dardanelles.

I hope the Soviet Union and
Egypt will attend and that the

preposterous decision not to
invite Israel will be reversed.

But I deplore the insane
flag - wagging, drum - beating
ena general bellicosity with
which the matter has been be-
devilled.

The government will be
making a great mistake if it
believes that the British Labor
party will lend any support to
the arbitrary use of force not
authorized by the Security
Council under the Charter of
the United Nations.

That way indeed would lie
anarchy and a third world war
which would be sheer lunacy.

WILLIAM WARBEY: The
key question, whether the Brit-
ish government intends to ob-
struct the carrying out of the
Egyptian government’s decree
nationalizing the Suez Canal,
was never answered in the de-
bate.

This is a very dangerous
situation because it means that
the House of Commons goes
eway for the summer recess
without knowing whether the
government proposed to use
economic or other measures of
force to try to compel the
Egyptian government to re-
vise its actions.

JOHN BAIRD: Sir Anthony
E7en’s statements on the canal
crisis, his threats of sending
gunboats there and calling up
reserves expose the weakness
of his case.

If he had a just case over
the canal there is only one way
it could be settled and that is
within the United Nations, and
Eden knows that as well as
anyone else.

I do not believe that any
one nation should be able to
hold up world transport to
ransom. Therefore I believe
that vital international water-
ways should have some inter-

national authority based on :

the United Nations.

But if this principle applies
to Suez, it also applies to the
Panama Canal, the Straits of
Gibraltar and the Dardanelles.

General strike in Cyprus
as three patriots are hanged

NICOSIA
A general strike which last-
ed over the weekend was call-
ed in Cyprus against the pre-
dawn hanging Thursday last
week of three Greek Cypriots.
Only essential services were
exempted from the strike call.
Military patrols were the only
sign of movement in-the tense
capitol of Nicosia, where the
executions had taken place av.
the central prison.
The strike was called by the
trade unions. :
In the press the reports of
the executions were restrain-

ed. Newspapers are under
penalty of closure if they are
held to have “incited trouble.”

The executed men were
Yianis Patatsou, 22; who kill-
ed a Turkish Cypriot police-
moan; Andrea Zakos, 25, and
Charilaos Michael, 22, who
took part in the ambush of
British troops.

Prison chaplain Papa An-
tonis, of the Greek Orthodox
Church, said the execution took
place about 1 am. He said
the condemned men “remain-
cd calm to the end.”

The hangings, which were a
signal for a great uproar by
cther prisoners, were observ-
od by senior British officials.

Troops patrolled the entire
area around the jail with their
rifles “at the ready,” and jeeps
cruised by every few minutes
with Bren-gunners crouching
oe their guns on the rear
seats.

The capital looked like a city
besieged, its streets deserted.
Cypriots were banned from
using cars, motor-cycles or bi-
cycles,

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