i People’s China would welcome fair probe mito germ warfare NEW DELHI are The vice-chairman of the Chinese Investigation Commission AS: sao Germ Warfare in Korea, Liu Chen-chi, said last week that the mese People’s Republic would welcome any independent inves- tion, according to press reports from Peking received in India. ees But any such investigation “must be fair, just and unbiased, Piles not seek to fish out any information which may affect ry secrets to give to the enemy.” ‘ Alan Winnington (left), correspondent in Korea for the Lon- yea Worker, visited the Chinese Volunteers’ Epidemic Pre- On Team in Korea on March 31. Photograph above shows Beastor of Bacteriology Wei Hsi identifying for Winnington Teleas of paratyphoid (Salmonella paratyphosa) found on flies US a gro germ bombs reported as having been dropped by ; tes, Here, another member of the Chinese Volunteers’ Team, Pro- , ie of Bacteriology Fang Liang, illustrates the smear slides of ahi of bubonic plague (Pasteurella pestis) and its serum Pitant to Winnington. : 7 ont this photo, Prof. Wei Hsi shows Winnington (kneeling) and other containers for germ-laden insects which constitute are, dence on which charges against the US. of conducting germ are in Korea are based. the evi - STANTON, MUNRO & DEAN _ Barristers - Solicitors -. Notaries UITE 515 FORD BUILDING 193 E. HASTINGS (Corner Main & Hastings Sts.) MARINE 5746 U.S. plan for attacks on Sensational -(Editorially Le Monde said that a copy of the Fechteler docu- ment was “intercepted by Brit- ain’s military research department representatives in Washington and passed on to the first lord Yof the admiralty on January 24. (“It was after this first ‘leak’ that the document was communi- cated to us and we could make a copy of it on the express condi- tion that we should not reproduce in extenso certain paragraphs containing purely technical de- tails or considerations of a purely military character.’ The report has created a sen- ‘sation in Paris, the more so be- cause Le Monde declared that the British Admiralty had a copy al- though the admiralty and foreign office denied this. Neither Supreme Allied Head- quarters nor the North Atlantic Council were willing to comment on the report. In Washington Admiral Fech- teler’ himself—issued a statement that he had not written a letter or report to anyone on the lines reported by Le Monde. Le Monde quotes Admiral Fechteler as saying that U.S. war preparations have already gone so far that clandestine or- ganizations in Albania have been supplied by U.S. sumar- ines with arms and explosives.’ Revealing that a full-scale war plan is in existence, the report declares: “The resistance organizations in the Balkans will probably take their place alongside the U.S..in a future war if the Mediterranean is used as a theatre of military operations.” According to the report, the admiral declares his belief that in a future war, Turkey should march against the Caucasus and Bulgaria, Greece against Bul- garia and the Yugoslavs against Bulgaria and Hungary. : He adds that it would be very easy to supply and support these operations, thanks to American superiority in the Mediterranean, for present upsets in North Africa which endanger U.S. plans. Urging American support for Arab nationalism, the report says that the Arabs “if well-equipped and trained would represent a use- ful reinforcement for the armed forces. “Tf the Arab forces were used, even temporarily to hold North Africa and the Near Bast, they could maintain control over this and blames Britain and France By SAM RUSSELL mocracies have been disclosed in Paris by the newspaper Le Monde, influential of French conservative newspapers published what it described as a direct translation of a secret report made by U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Fechteler to the U.S, National Security Council, which had come into its) possession. ‘ People’s Democracies, USSR bared by, F rench newspaper | LONDON details about U.S. plans for attacks on the Soviet Union and the People’s De- This most authoritative and free zone, thus allowing the bulk of the Allied forces to deploy strategically. “Thanks to bases set up in North Africa and the Near East with the friendly support of the Arabs, there would be some as- surance that the Mediterranean could be used as a theatre for de- cisive operations. . - hie ’ According to the report, Ad- miral Fechteler declares that war is “inevitable before 1960,” and whoever held Gibraltar, Suez and the Dardanelles would win. He also claims that the Soviet Union possesses a detailed plan for an atomic attack on Britain and that the Soviet Air Force could occupy Western Europe’s airfields four days after a war began. , Thus the report argues that the Mediterranean should be re- garded as the main theatre for offensive operations against the Soviet Union. The military power of the U.S. and its satellites should be built on Mediterranean pases as close as possible to the Soviet Union in Syria, Iraq and Bgypt, it is added. “In the Mediterranean,” says the report, “robot planes _and rockets could be used in conjunc- tion with the tactical air force to support combined ‘operations.” The admiral is quoted as ex- pressing the view that the main operations should be directed against Albania, Bulgaria and’ Rumania. “America’s strategic position demands a thorough examination of Mediterranean problems. “a rational solution of these problems will decide the effective- ness with which the _Mediter-' ranean theatre could be used for victory in a future war.”’ The report demands that France and Britain should accept! a compromise in the Mediter- ranean as laid down by the United States and puts forward U.S. Am- passador to Turkey McGhee, as a proposed ‘‘mediator.” Commenting on the report, © Le Monde said that this may well be ‘the reason for the long-standing disagreement be- tween Britain and America over the Mediterranean command.” “Admiral Fechteler has just re- turned to the U.S. from, London after failing to get British gov- ernment and admiralty agreement on plans for U.S. command of the Mediterranean. US. parley to fight Smith Act NEW YORK A National Conference to Win Amnesty for Smith Act Victims will be held in New York City on June 14, by the wives and families of the 11 Communist leaders convicted under the thought-control Smith Act. The call states, in part: “One year has passed since the United States Supreme Court up- held the conviction of the 11 lead- ers of the Communist party who were indicted under the thought- Amnesty sought for control provisions of the Smith Act. “Tt has been a year of cruel punishment for these men and the wives and families from whom they were torn. Many Americans have come to believe that their punishment is unwarranted; many that these men did not have a fair trial; still others that the law they were accused of violating is itself anti-democratic and un- Churchill eae \A - bombs eould ruin Britain LONDON Prime Minister Churchill last week declared his virtual agree- ment with the theory, attributed to Admiral Fechteler, chief of U.S. nava) staff, that Britain might be rendered untenable by atomic warfare. In the House of Commons, Labor MP Emanuel Shinwell ask- ed him to give a complete repu- diation of the document publish- ed by the French newspaper Le Monde, said to be written by Ad- miral Fechteler, but Churchill would not do so. On the contrary, he went out of his way to declare that “‘the great Anglo-American base in East Anglia undoubtedly renders this country specially liable to the counter attentions of the other side.” The, whole House was aston- ed by this statement and also by Churchill’s admission that he had not read the document, and his emphatic assertion that he did not intend to do so. r) it 6 American, “During the past year, the de- partment of justice, which prose- cuted them has itself come under national suspicion and criticism and the attorney general forced to resign his post. “During the past year. there has developed also a broad na- tional demand for the repeal of the Smith Act.” PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MAY 23, 1952 — PAGE 8