_ Non-aligned nations urge

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wee this colonial war as a lesson to all Third

|
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s- Fe

x Fidel Castro, Chairman of the Movement of
;on-Aligned States addressed an appeal to all
= 448 of state of non-aligned nations warning of the
ll scale war in the south Atlantic.

. Castro's message warns of the “‘possibility that
inthe next hours the government of Great Britain,
With the support and cooperation of the U-S., will
ash its air and naval forces against Argen-

4, All attempts for negotiations,”” Castro wrote,

have come to a standstill and the latest news
Patches contain more and more threatening

| Statements by London, supported by Washington.”

He pointed out that the imperialist powers are

orld states, whatever their political or social sys-
w Who may try to defend their sovereignty and
TTitorial integrity.

‘Itis in the interests of the defence of the rights

te
M

of

i of our countries,’ Castro wrote, “‘and of

Manitarian solidarity with the Argentine people
4nd with British soldiers sent into combat, that we
a Our firmest condemnation against the con-
Mation of hostilities and call for a negotiated and

suite solution to the conflict respecting the sov-

~~ “In rights of Argentina.

he Jaking into account the decision adopted on
© Malvinas by the Conference of Non-Aligned

ries and the communiques issued by the coor-

hating bureau at the United Nations,” Castro

| “oncluded, ‘I appeal to you to take those steps you

nsider prudent to halt the imminent Anglo-U.S.
€ssion against the Argentina people.”’

ee x *k *
~ The Communist Party of Great Britain, meeting

WORLD

5| negotiation over Falklands
1]:

in emergency session May 5, called for a wide
campaign of protest against the reckless Tory pol-
icy and demanded an immediate halt to war ac-
tions, the recall of all armed forces from the region
and the turning over of the Anglo-Argentine dis-
pute for consideration by the United Nations.

The final resolution of the dispute, the CPGB
said, is possible only in the event Britain renounces
its outlived claims of sovereignty over the Falk-
land/Malvinas islands. The party called on the
leadership of the Parliamentary faction of the
Labor Party to stop its support for Thatcher's war
policy and demand the government halt its military
actions in the South Atlantic.

* * *

The New Worker News Service reports that the.
New Communist Party of Great Britain has.

charged that Britain has no right to the Falk-

land/Malvinas island and urges a political solution ;

to the crisis under UN auspices.

It condemned the support to Thatcher given by

the Parliamentary Labor party and the role of the |

United States and EEC nations in backing Bnitain’s
efforts at re-colonization.

ok

The position of Grenada’s Revolutionary |
government was outlined by its Foreign Minister |

Unison Whiteman, who said his country’s support
for Argentina in the dispute was based on the
PRG’s opposition to colonialism. Whiteman noted
that successive British governments had had an
opportunity to settle the question in keeping with
UN resolutions, but had refused to do so. While
recognizing Argentina’s claim to the islands,
Whiteman said, Grenada favored a peaceful, nego-
tiated, political settlement to the crisis.

PHOTO — MAXINE ORRIS

I oe |

Co

HAVANA — 1,500,000 Cubans marched through their capital

- May Day, in a river of humanity under the slogan of production
and defence of their nation. Referring to NATO naval exercises
in the Caribbean, trade union leader Robert Viega told the
crowd: “They are mistaken if they believe they can intimidate
us... we will respond to their provocations with the boldness of
a people sworn to live its revolution or die with it ...”

>

Intemational Focus:

Tom Morris

- How would

Wwe feel?

Supposing that between
and 1945 a large portion of

__ the United States had been oc-

Cupied by Nazi Germany. And
Supposing that before it was
Over, the U.S. had lost 20 mil-
10n people, thousands of
towns and villages and saw its
€conomy in ruins.

And imagine, then, one of its
allies, the USSR, had provided
Sanctuary to the war criminals
Tesponsible for such genocide
and destruction.

A May 16 CBS program, ‘‘60

Minutes’’ has charged that’s

€xactly what took place — ex-
Cept it was the United States

| Which sheltered the entire Nazi

Occupation government of
Byelorussia, brought them to
Its territory and incorporated
them into the new anti-Soviet
“Intelligence network being
built.

_ CBS says some went to

Work for ‘‘Radio
Europe”’ and ‘‘Radio

i) Liberty’. Others were slated

fora secret army behind Soviet
lines to carry out assassina-

| tions and begin civil war.

Many, up to 300 are still alive

| 32 years later and living in the

LS.
It’s known now that this
- €pisode was part of a much

_ Wider plan which saw former |
_ Collaborators and war crimi-
~ Nals from Germany, Poland,

_ Japan, Romania and elsewhere

Free —

brought to the United States at
war's end.

A few months ago the CBS
made public that the top
officers of a Japanese army
regiment which carried on
human experiments on the ef-
fects of chemical and germ
warfare were brought to the
U.S. and worked for years
with the U.S. army.

Hitler’s top intelligence
chief, General Gehlen, in his
memoires, tells of his rescue
by the U.S. army and his sub-

Pact with the devil... .. <

sequent revival as head of the
secret service apparatus of the
Federal German Republic.

For decades, the socialist

_countries have charged the
‘free world’’ with shielding

and hiding former nazis.
Documented evidence has
been offered with demands for
the extradition of these people
to face the courts.

Canada is not exempt. Many
war criminals found refuge
here; one even ran for parlia-

ment in the 1970s. Others are -

active in anti-Soviet groups.
On May 8-9 Windsor was the
site of an international gather-
ing of the “‘Union for the
Liberation of the People’s of
Russia’’ — former war crimi-
nals, nazi soldiers and ex-
ecutioners.

What a crowning insuilt this
must be to our Soviet wartime
ally and the Soviet people. Just
turn it around and imagine our
thoughts should occupiers and
killers of our people be hosted
in a Soviet city.

And nothing is done. Their
anti-communism appears to be
all they need to operate at will.

What is being seen is not
only a gigantic moral crime,
but a calculated effort, started
before World War Two had
even ended, to build an anti-
Soviet alliance even to include
nazi criminals. é

In short, the cold war, based:

onanti-Sovietism; originated in °

the West.

Basin Plan
down the drain

With appropniate fanfare last
February, president Reagan
announced his Caribbean
Basin Initiative to ‘‘assist”
poor countries in the region
(except those Washington dis-
likes) with $350-million in di-
rect help plus a promise to
relax U.S. tariffs on imports
from the area.

It made good press copy,
even though many Caribbean
states doubted such riders as
the cash going to “private
enterprise’ rather than for crit-
ically needed health, education
and economic development
programs.

A scant four months later the
Plan is sinking.

Last week a Congress com-
‘mittee voted to scrap duty-free
status on such goods as shoes,
handbags, luggage, clothing
and rum. Two weeks earlier
the White House announced it
would impose quotas on sugar
imports — the region’s major
product.

As for the $350-million
poured into mire of ‘‘private
enterprise’’ in those countries,
the decades show that little if
any reaches the mass of the
Caribbean’s people. Even

worse, today it’s exactly the
private sector in those nations
which is fighting tooth and nail
to prevent whatever socially-

based national economic pro-
grams being tried.

Illiteracy, hunger, child
mortality, unemployment —
the everyday lot of millions —
didn’t arise because of social-
ism in the area. It didn’t come
with social and national libera-
tion.

One takes,
another gives

A clear example of the dif-
ference between assistance of-
fered developing nations by
capitalist and socialist states is
seén in what has been called
‘the brain drain’’.

One product for third world
states of their economic de-
pendence on the West is the
loss of skilled people who
leave destabilized and de-
formed economies which have
been turned into virtual satel-
lites.

In contrast, close to 4,200
African and Asian young
people were trained in over 80
professions in 1981 alone in the
German Democratic Republic.
The skills they learned will be
applied at home to raise the
level of their people. The GDR
and other socialist nations
have regular programs of this
nature, that small country
alone graduating some 40,000
trained people in the last 10
years. -

Capitalism takes, socialism
gives. It’s one of many basic:

differences in outlook.

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