fanger

| Canada.
tory over’ fascism, and of
» peace structure through.

es. The imperialists. of--Bri-
on and America have. tempor-,
fly, at least, thrown aside. the
meiples of the Yalta agree-
mt for a new policy which~
alls war if permitted to go.
checked. ss

"he danger signs were many.
2re_is the threat of a new
sup against. the. Soviet dele-
“ions at San Francisco over
. security council’s veto pow-
‘, similar to- the lineup which
iroaded the admission of
“cist Argentina to the world
furity conference. There are
, current: Anglo- -American in-
“ventions in
woslavia, in Italy, Austria
‘d the Balkans, and the im-
rialist wrangles over bases in
: Levant. In Canada, reaction
attempting to stage a real
meback under the Tory ban-
©, under which are now in-
ded all the nationalists and
seists in Quebec, paced by
milien Houde who raves for
aew war against the Soviet
ion. $
| 3ince Germany's: defeat,’ and
hh the absence of the late
psident Roosevelt’s restrain-
influence upon the most re-
| donary and imperialist forces
the United States, both
aerican and British policy has
2red sharply ‘away from the
adsSions of Yalta on a number
questions. Here’is iwhat the
70rd shows:

{ Poland, the foreign policy
of Britain has gone directly
trary to the agreement
sched at the Crimea. confer-
‘e. Prime Minister Churchill
evidently interpreted, the
ta agreement to mean the
snstruction of the _Polish
ernment around the pro-
“gist London “government-in-
ve,” and net through the
‘adening of the democratic
drsaw government. Church-
'; “interpretation” is the real
‘son for delay in seune this
‘cial question.

The Polish problem’ has been
de still more difficult by the
tish government’s announce-
cot that it is arming 250;000
ish troops who will take up
‘itions in the _ British-con-.
led area of occupied Ger-
“my. :

‘This move is ominous for the
sure. The new Polish army
I be led by the rabidly. anti-
viet generals of the London
jigre regime. It is the same
‘ny that has been training in
otland during the whole per-
| of tne war and whose fas-
'b. officer clique has been
‘Ined in anti-Soviet and anti-
nitic provocation. It will be
nembered that just last year
1umber of its Jewish soldiers
te provoked into deserting
a appealing to the Churchill
vernment both for protection
ainst: their anti-Semitic offic-
s and for the opportunity to
a in the British army.

y placing such a pro-fascist
my in the British area of
supied Germany, Churchill
8 in effect not only informed
2 Nazis that he intends to £0
sy on them, but has extended
Be Anvitation to- the Polish’

*HE oe signals are flying. this ek i in Buee
The ‘stresses and ‘strains caused by a

Poland and —

ignals Fly in
Norld Politics 1 41 rain

at San Francisco,
n Europe fighting to complete the
a world striving for peace, have opened some minor cracks in

and here in

which the men of Munich haye. come crawling from their

colonels to create “incidents”
against the Soviet Union’s area
of occupation in Germany. And
that invitation is not likely to

go long unheeded.
@

: %
gr the Balkan question, the
most open expression - of
British imperialism’s policy is
séen in Trieste, the American
province of Carinthia which is
historically Slavic, and the at-
tempts to prevent the Italian
working class parties from
uniting Italy into one powerful,

democratic state.

There was no justification for
British and American interven-
-tion against Marshal Tito’s
forces. Field Marshal: Sir Har-
orld Alexander’s © provocative
charges were obviously intend-
ed to incite the Yugoslav Parti-
sans into answering by force of
-arms. There would, in fact,
have been open strife had it not
been for the statesmanship and

restraint of Marshal “Tito: ‘and
of Palmiro Togliatti.and Pietro
Nenni.

Putting aside for fhe moment
all the arguments which the re-
actionary press attemptéd to
use in justification, the one
naked fact of Anglo-American

interference in Yugoslavia and: .

Italy is simply this—an attempt
to suppress the working class
and resistance force in these
two countries and substitute an
AMG form of control in the
same way that British bayonets

‘attacked the liberation move-

ment in Greece and, reestab-
lished the fascist-royalist re-
gime.

@

§° far as San Francisco is
concerned, Canada is direct-
ly involved in the latest move
to break the Yalta agreement
on the veto question. The news
this week states that Britain
has lined up all the British

bloc which will ‘Oppose the Sovi-
et delegation’s insistence ‘on ad-
hering to the Yalta décision on
this«matter> And the “United

. States, which ‘formerly support-
‘ed the USSR, is now::reported

to’ be r dy. to swing” the big

i nd: » wote -which
would find Sat ligoslavia,
Byelorussia andthe’ Ukraine
voting with. Soviet’ Russia. It
would de. a_ “victory” fer the
imperialists, ‘put it would } be the

opments with Anglo-American
delays in ‘bringing German war
criminals: “to trial, *

squabble
over the Levant*"the pattern of
the new imperialist pelicy be-
gins to take shapex

As yet, Britain. and Ameri-
ca’s basically anti-democratic,
anti-Soviet policies have not be-
come crystallized in one defin-
ite direction. But the defeat of
Germany, having removed the
threat to their own imperialist
interests, has now given them
hope that they may prevent,
wherever possible, -the consoli-
dation of the anti-fascist gov-
ernments that have arisen from
the defeat ofHitler Germany,
replacing these governments
with reactionary and even semi-
fascist regimes.

one refusal -

HE big question now facing

the labor and  anti-fascist
forces of Canada and the dem:
ocratic world is whether this
dangerous turn in Anglo-Amer-
ican policy can be re-directed
again into the channels first
charted at Teheran and Yalta.

It is clear that the majority
of labor and progressive people
in Canada have not yet awak-
ened to the extreme peril of
this. new situation. What is at.
stake is ‘literally “the mainten-
ance’ for many generations of
that peace and ~ security for
which ho many thousands of

“Canadians gave their lives. The

decisions now being made in
Europe and at San Francisco
are not merely the decisions of
the moment, to last only a few
weeks or a-few months. The
actions being taken now are
fixing the pattern of. Europe
and the world -for years, pos—
sibly decades, just as the Can-
adian general , election on. June
11 is going to decide Canada’s"
policy either for progress or re-,
action for an entire period of
history. ue

Failure, then, to halt the
present . Anglo-American turn
toward the old policies of Mun-
ich can easily bring-a complete
collapse of the Big Three coali-
tion and a new upsurge of re-
actionary imperialism that will
make World War III inevitable.
And halting that reactionary
trend is above all the prime re-
sponsibility. of the labor move-
ment.

|Was A Chinese Guerrilla

By WONG

(The author is a Chinese-
American who has been hon-
orably discharged from the
U.S. armed forces having
previously fought in China
with the peoples guerilla
forces against the Japanese
imperialists . . . and as you
will see... . against those who
are seeking to betray China
to the enemy.)

TT HIS story could be told

in this country, but not
in China, where the truth
is suppressed by the gov-
ernment through its secret
agents who spy on the people.
But I ean tell you my story
freely, and I shall tell you how
I joined the “Waipao People’s
Guerillas.”

When the Japanese first in-
vaded Manchuria in 1931, the
students of Canton organized to
petition the government to dis-

“continue the civil wars and to
unite to resist the enemy. For
weeks we put on parades and
public demonstrations and cir-
culated pamphlets but we were
forced to abandon all this and
resort to underground activi-
ties because many of us were
killed or injured by the tity
police who turned on the hy-
.drants and ‘played the water
hoses on the student groups and
attacked us with blackjacks.

After the “Sian Incident of
1936,” when Generalissimo Chi-
ang Kai-shek was captured -by
Marshal’ Chang Hsueh Liang’s
troops. and later released to
head a united nation to resist
Japanese aggression, war was
formally declared on Japan ‘in
1987.

AFTER war was formally de-
elared’ on Japan, a great
change took place in China.
Things began to look more rosy,
because the people were finally

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. bers—many

united in one great cause —
the resistance to Japanese ag-
gression. Civil war prisoners
were partly released.

The students were no longer
confined to underground activi-
ties but were at last able to
continue their work and educate
the masses in the open. Many
schools started military in-
structions. The civilians started
to build air. raid shelters. Local
organizations were started to
raise money for war activities.
In short, the whole. nation. was
preparing to fight Japan.

In the first two years of war,
China lost much territory. Sea-
port after seaport, important
industrial centers, one after an-
other fell into the hands of the
Japanese. Japan was well pre-
pared for the war. Her troops
were well trained in modern

warfare, whereas, China was
wholly unprepared.
e@
oe the meantime, before the
Japanese army arrived in

‘Canton, all the city officials and

had withdrawn their
filled

officers
money. from the banks,

their cars with gasoline and

moved with their families to
Suikwang, in the northern part
of Kwangtung Province, leav-
ing the army behind. When the
Japanese arrived, the army
withdrew itself and the city was
taken without any organized re-
sistance.

The rich had escaped to Hong
Kong by way of Macaco, and
the poor were left to face the
Japanese tyranny. When I join-
ed this group at Pingshan, there
were only fifty members. Some
were students, and others were
farmers. -All the arms we had
were ten old-style German rifles
and about two hundred rounds

_of ammunition.

After two weeks, we = in-
creased to two hundred mem-
of whom. came

from nearby villages and

seouncil,

brought their own (Tifles and
ammunition. .We were divided
into five groups—organization,

" propaganda, educational, politi-

cal and battle instruction
groups... During the day, each
group carried out its particular
work, and at night we trained
in guerilla teehnique.

After a month, the organiza-
tion increased from _two hun-
dred to five hundred*menibers.
Many were. students from *Hong
Kong and Singapore,:male and
female; some were. nurses, oth-
ers were mechanics. And .these
new members brought. | rifles
and ammunition, too.

@-sm fo.ce

At this point,.-the Japanese

drove into our village. By
this time; ‘we had evacuated all
children, women and .old men,
all our equipment and our en-
tire organization to the nearby
moutainside and continued our
training there. Besides training,
we produced our own ammuni-
tion and repaired our old equip-
ment.

Within two weeks, the Japan-
ese had robbed. the village,
burned the houses and killed all
the domestic animals. Then
they withdrew from the village
because they were attacked by
Central Army troops who were
camped on the east bank of the
Pearl River.

During. .the ‘night-of the at-
tack, we assisted by destroying
the Japanese lines of communi-
eation and damaged the roads
to prevent the arrival of Jap-
anese reinforcements.

Upofi the withdrawal of the
Japanese, we returned to. the
village:.and removed the reac-
tionary*’*faction of the village
We set up our own
democratic policy and reduced
all “kinds of \rents and taxes,
helped the farmers. to ‘produce

crops, set up -a public school
and public*-héalth unit — and
continued. our training.

By this time,-we had in-

creased our organization to al-
most a thousand members, in-
eluding doctors and nurses,
seamen, laborers, and more girl
students from Hong Kong. Our
main financial support -was
from the local farmers and
overseas Chinese.

Early in 1940, we received a
certificate of merit from the
Central Government im recogni-
tion of our good work, and we
were incorporated into the Cen-
tral Fourth War Zoe under the

‘Command of Hong Hing Ping.

We tried to obtain supplies:
and ammunition from the Cen-
tral Government throuzh Hong
Hing Ping. After a month with-
out any result, he informed us
that our command must join
the Koumintang before our de-
mands could be met. Only then
could we do what we want and
get what we want.

In reply, our commander in-
formed him that. it was not
necessary because it. was not
our intention to become high
officials of the Koumintang. In-
stead, our purpose was to fight
and defeat the Japanese — in
the people’s war, and not the
Koumintang’s. only.

QvuFr commander then gave us
a stirring address. He said,
“Dear Comrades: You must all
realize what is growing up be-
tween us and the Kuomintang.
You have been worrying about
the source of our supplies. Now
we know that we cannot get
them from our government, so
we will have to get them
through our own efforts.

“We must have supplies to
fight the Japanese. We must
get the supplies from the Jan-
anese ... But how can we get
supplies from the Japanese?
The answer is that we must
make contact with the Japan-
ese.

Continued on Page 13
SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1945.

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