Volume 1, No, 19, March 17, 1945

bIndo-China Manifesto
_ Guerrilla Warfare Against Japs

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iter-American Meet
arks Forward Step
| Hemisphere Amity

S1EXICO Cley “The Inter-American Conference on
sems Of War and Peace, has resulted in the highest level

Ser-American mutual confidence achieved in Pan-Ameri-

Pistory and demonstrated

the basic identity of the post-

fims of he American republics.

* new trust which Latin
-ans place in the United
| which has often been a
® in the past, was shown
@ oly in their insistence that
Fited States join in guaran-

hemispheric peace and
E-eady acceptance of most
Economic Plan, presented
1 U.S., despite what are con-
f Significant ommisions.
( three basie objectives of
u inference, which met in
s’s Chapultepec Castle,
he mutual adjustment of
wnomies of Latin America
»> U.S. to the greatest de-
Possible, the strengthening
Piz-American political and
fic mechanisms and the
‘ing of barriers against

CENTE LOMBARDO
TOLEDANO
itration of fascist capital
mericas. While in large
2 these objectives were
! both the regional poli-
pid regional economic or-
on have been left in a
7€ Stage with decisions in
dre of tentative and gen-
Sitions.

#s due to the fact that the
-0S were composites of
ls made by 20 countries,
'€ases contradictory, and
‘them satisfactory to all
Ve had to be edited in
erms liable to varying in-
*tions. To a certain ex-
/evefore, clarity and con-
S have been sacrificed
Saltar of harmony. Latin
(a differcnees with the
ston Oaks plan, which cen-
od the claim that the plan

doés not allow them to use force
to preserve regional peace unless
sfecificaJly authorized by the
plan’s se.urity ceunecil, are ex-
pected to be ironea out at-the
San Francisco United Nations
meeting on April £3.
FOREIGN MONOPOLY
DOMINATION

Latin American labor’s objec-
tions to provisions in the Hco-
nomic Plan submitted by the
U.S. delegation were stated by.
Vincente Lombardo Toledano,
president of the Confederation of
Latin American Workers (CT
Al), who warned that phrases
in the plan on free trade and pri-
vate initiative may conceal the
possibility of the domination of

Latin America by foreign mono-
polies. He warned that parts of
the plan may be construed as be-
ing “against the Latin American
people, contrary to democratic
opinion in the United States and
Britain and contrary to the views
expressed by Churchill and
Roosevelt.” z

Pointing out that the plan
suggests “fairer treatment”? for
foreign investments and avoids
mentioning the regulation of
such investments, the CTA
leader added: “Acceptable fo-
teign investments must tend to
develop backward economies
and cease being retarding fac-
tors. Uncontrolled investments
by foreign capital in Latin Amer-
ica can cause the collapse of
plans for industralization and
heighten the one-product nature
ef Latin American economies.”

Toledano’s criticisms, which
were also voiced by many Latin
American delegations, were fol-
lowed by the rewriting of sec-
tions of the plan in which clauses
were added dealing with the
right of access to products need-
ed for economic development and
a provision that the removal of
tariff barriers will depend on
whether they result in “assured
high living standards and the
solid basis for economic growth.”
Further coneretization of the
Economie Plan is expected at a
special economie conference set
for July 15 in Washington.
ARGENTINA
Throughout the conference
argentina was the central theme
ef most informal discussions and
the views of the Farrell regime
were presented secretly to the
conftcrence Steerins Committee,
while Pan-American proposals
were also made known to Buenos

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J. Curran, CIO delegate to the World Trade Union Con-
ference, interviews two G.I:’s in London.

Socialist

paralleling that approved by
ference here.

The Socialist program op-
poses the division of Germany
into separate states, although it
states that this does not exclude
necessary changes of frohtiers
or the establishment of a special
regime for the Rhineland, Ruhr
and Saar. Any return to an un-
democratic regime, it asserts,
must be regarded as a new at-
tack on the peace.

SPEEDY AID

Advocating that the powers of
the United Naticns Relief and
Rehabilitation Administration be
strengthened, the conference ur-
ged the speediest aid to liberated
areas, adding that “UNRRA
should within its scope be given
the authority to influence de-
cisions on the allocation of sup-
plies on the same level as mili-
tary authorities. Ships needed to
transport the most urgent relief
supplies should be accorded the
same level of priority as mili-
tary needs.”

ENDORSE DUMBARTON
GAKS

A manifesto on permanent
peace adopted by the eonference
endorses the’ Dumbarton Oaks

proposals as modified at the Cri-

Endorses Peace.

*-LONDON—The conference here recently of the Social-
ist International, summoned by the British Labor party,
adoped a plan jor the post-war control of Germany closely

international

the recent world labor con-

mea Conference, but recom-
mends in addition the immediate
ereation of machinery for inter-
national control of armaments,
and that the first nucleus of an

international police force, includ-
ing international air Squadrons,
armored and airborne forces, be
stationed at danger zones.

The manifesto urges a world
economic plan, including the im-
mediate establishment of raw
materials distribution, deserib-
ing existing commodity agree-
ments as “too limited in scope,
lacking’ general coordinating me-
chanism.” Outlining the neces-
Sities for achieving stable eco-
nomic equilibrium,\ the confer-
ence advocated “offering com-
parable working conditions to all
the peoples of the United Ne-_
tions; equitable distribution of
raw materials; the promotion of
international interdependence.’*

In addition to the British La-
bor party, affiliates of the So-
cialist International. represented
at the conference were the Social-
ist parties of Belgium, Italy,
Holland, France, Norway, Pales-
tine, Czechoslovakia, Spain and
Poland.

Planned

Moye and countermove in
the Pacific war came in rapid
succession this week as Al-
lied commanders indicated
that action against Japanese
forces on fhe Asiatic was im-
minent.

While Admiral Lord Louis
Mountbatten, supreme Allied
commander for Southeast Asia,
conferred with Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek on a four-day
visit to Chungking, Japanese
moved to take over complete con-
trol of French Indo-China, whose
administration they had left in
the nominal hands of French of-
ficials since occupation before
Pearl Harbor.

Chungking official statements
asserted that both French and
natives in the former French
colony were expecting Allied
landings, in apparent corrobora
tion of Japanese charges that
Allies were receiving active help
there already.

CALL FOR
GUERRILLA WARFARE
Interest in these events was
heightened by report that a cali
for guerilla warfare against Jap-
anese occupation of Indo-China
and for national independence is
contained in a manifesto of the
League for the Independence of
Indo-China, dated January 1944,
a copy of which has just reached
here. Urging accentuation of
Warfare against the Japanese,
the manifesto declares: “Against
international fascism, for the
right of the peoples for self
determination and for democra-
cy, the Annamite peoples are
standing by all the anti-fascist
forces of the world in the final
battles. We believe in the san-
etity of the principles for which
the world has shed and is shed-
ding so much blood.

“In the name of these prin-
ciples the Annamite people have
struggled for three quarters of
a century,’ the manifesto con-
tinues. “History has gone ahead
and today they have the entire
civilized world with them.‘ They
are determined to wage merci-
less war against fascist infamy,
but they lack the means. This is
why they raise their voice to all
nations who are fighting with
similar faith and courage,”

The League for the Indepen-
dence of Indo-China was formed
in 1941, on the basis of the com_
mon aim of national liberation.
France surrendered to + Hitler
Germany in June 1940; in Octo-
ber, Japanese troops entered In-
do-China. The same month an
insurrection against the Japan-
ese occurred in Saigon, followed.
in November 1940 and January.
1941 by two more patriotic insur-

‘rections in Indo-China and Do-

luang. ‘
ANTI-FASCIST FRONT

The League includes the entire
Annam Nationalist party, the
New Annam party, the Indo-
Chinese Communist party, the
Association of Young Revolution-
aries, national organizations of
peasants, workers, youth, women,
soldiers and officers and the
Indo-Chinese section of the In-
ternational League Against Ag-
gression. In 1943, the League

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