Volume 1, No, 19, March 17, 1945 bIndo-China Manifesto _ Guerrilla Warfare Against Japs \ 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 —Continued on Page 16 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 —Continued on Page 16