Central Issues In British Elections

nes like those above were prominent in many western
>s long before the threat of Japanese aggression was
‘aught home by the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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jeveal New Data On
\azis In Argentina

By ANDREW GORDON
MONTEVIDEO — New evidence on Nazi economic

 cheads in Argentina, furnished by Argentine anti-Nazi

“stant Secretary of State Wil-
- L. Clayton. The evidence in-
es such top-ranking Argén-
leaders as Col. Juan D. Pe-
, kingpin of the colonels’ re-
‘, and Finance Minister Ce-
no Alonso Irigoyen. It also
cates that Nazi political and
omic influence continues and
-s at the continued harboring
Argentina of escaping Nazis.

‘he Montevideo emigree fort-
htly Critica Libre makes the
owing two charges: 1) That
kiance Minister Irigoyen is
esely tied to sugar mill consig-
¥es Garvaglio and Zorraquin
2, which in turn is connected
sh German and Italian inter-
i's. Dr. Guillermo Zorraquin
(s president of the Argentine
sociation of Friends of Ger-
jany until its dissolution.
That the construction of an
senal at the Rio Santiago naval
se has been entrusted to the
acklisted German construction
‘+m GEOPE.

Closely eonnected with this
im is Dr. Carlos Ibarguren, Ar-
imtine nationalist leader and
incipal legal adviser of the Na-
onal Bank of Argentina. Also
mnected with GEOPE is the
torious pro-Nazi Gen. Basilio
-ertine, who recently stated in|
‘are Buenos Aires German Club
oat “Argentina is not a country
i traitors, but a harbor and re-
age of its friends.’ Gen. Pista-

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spapers and resistance leaders, serves to bear out reve-
sas on Nazi economic activity in Argentina by US.

rini, who as Minister of Public
Works is presumably responsible
for letting contracts, is also not-
oriously pro-Nazi. A photograph
on the cover of a book on Nazi
influence in Argentina, written
by Radical party deputy Silvano
Santander, shows him giving the
Nazi salute.

MANDL PARTNER :

Early in May -Critica Libre
printed documented charges that
Peron, who is War Minister and
Vice-president, as well as Secre-
tary of Labor, is the partner of
Fritz Mandl, pro-Nazi munitions
magnate, and maintains the
closest connections with him. The
charges were never refuted.
Mandl’s firm has been officially
intervened and he has been offi-
cially interned, but Argentine
democrats say that this was for
show purposes only.

Vanguardia, Socialist party
weekly published in Buenos
Aires, reveals the following four

sspecifie cases of continued Nazi

activity. in its current issue:
1) German Labor Front fees con-
tinue to be deducted from the
salaries of employees of the Ger-
man Transatlantic Bank, indicat-
ing the survival of a leading Nazi
organization in Argentina.
2) Every cadet in the National
Military. College has received a

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See—ARGENTINE

Relate To Postwar Problems

Labor Party Says Homes And Jobs
Only Through Government Action

LONDON Although the British general election is being held while the country
is still engaged in the Far Eastern war, the central issues of the campaign relate almost
exclusively to post-war planning—the rebuilding of bombed-out homes, full employment,

social security, education.
contested on July 5 were entered
this week. A total of 1674 candi-
dates were nominated, the Labor
Party leading with 601 ,the Con-
servatives running 574, the Lib-
erals 305 and the rest divided
among the smaller parties.

The Labor party maintains
that the demands of the British

people for homes and jobs can

be achieved only through gov-

their

ernment action, pointing out that
homes cannot be built - without
controls over the use of land. In
calling for nationalization of key
industries such as coal, Labor
also cites the failure of private
industry to achieve efficient pro-
duction and edequate conditions
for the miners.

The Conservative party cam-
paign is based largely on the
need for re-electing Prime Minis-
ter Churchill. While. the voters
do not actually cast ballots for
the Prime Minister, they would
ensure Churchill’s continuance
in office by electing Conservative
members of parliament from a
majority of the constituencies.
Churchill has so far carried on
the greatest part of the Conser-
vative campaign personally, mak-
ing a four-day tour of the entire
country to urge the electorate to
back his party.

“EXPERIMENTATION”

Churchill’s addresses have con-
eentrated primarily on the dan-
gers of a Labor government,
which- he charged would mean
“Gestapo-like controls’. over the
entire British nation. He also
warned against experimentation
with a new type of. government
when the country is faced with
the crucial tasks of postwar re-
construction. In dealing with the
pressigg problems of Britain’s
postwar economy, he has pledged
his party to the goals of ade-
quate housing and full employ-
ment, but has urged the removal
of most wartime controls, and is
vigorously opposed~to any form
of nationalization of industry.

The Labor party leaders have
credited Churchill with being a
great war leader, but they argue
that the Conservative party does
not offer a practical program for
the realization of its proclaimed
goals. Four million homes were
severely damaged by bombs, a
coal shortage exists and the min-
ing industry is acknowledged
even by the government to be in-
efficiently managed, Britain
must rebuild its export industry
tremendously to provide employ-
ment—to solve these problems,
the Labor party asserts that gov-
ernment planning is essential.
INTERVENTION

On the issues of foreign policy,
there is much closer accord be-
tween the two parties but Labor
has pointed out that it is better

Formal nominations for the 640 parliamentary seats to be

equipped to deal sympathetically
with the new democratic Europe
that ‘is now being built, and hits
sharply at the Conservatives for
policy of intervention in
Greece, Belgium and Italy and
their support of Franco Spain.
Labor also states that it is much
more ready to work closely with
the Soviet Union to maintain
world peace and charges that the
Conservatives have permitted
suspicion and distrust to arise in
Anglo-Soviet relations.

Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden answered this charge by
stating that the Labor party is
practically “allowing a foreign
power to dictate the political
color of the government of your
own country. Eden urged that
the system of uncontrolled free
enterprise be maintained in Brit-
ain, describing a Conservative
victory as the alternative to
“bureaucratic tyranny.”

Although the Liberals have en-
tered a sizeable number of can-
didates in the field, the election
shapes up as a contest between
the two major parties — Labor
and Conservative. The Liberals
have adopted a program support-
ing the nationalization of coal
and transport industries, as ad-
vocated by the Labor party, but

no political observers credit the
possibility of a Liberal victory.
COALITION ,

The possibility does exist that
if neither the Conservatives nor
Labor gains a clear majority, an
agreement might be reached be-
tween the Liberals and Labor and
some of the smaller parties of
the left to form a government.
Churchill has stated that he will
not agree to form a government
without a clear Conservative ma-
jority and Labor has already bar-
red the possibility of another co-
alition with the Conservatives.

Of the candidates nominated
this week, there are 88 women,
50 of them Labor. The Labor
party is also running 131 mem-
bers of the armed forces and 151
trade unionists. Labor rejected
an offer of electoral unity from
the Commonwealth and Commu-
nist parties, who with the sup-
port of many leading trade un-
ions were urging that only one
progressive candidate be nomi-
nated in each constituency. De-
spite official rejection of unity
by the Labor party, many local
branches have reached agree-
ments with other parties of the
left to avoid split votes. The
Communist party is running 22
candidates and Commonwealth
25.

Accord Reached On Poland
Means Unification Of Country

MOSCOW—The agreement reached on the formation
of a broadened Polish government means the unification of
the overwhelming majority of Poles, Wladislaw Gomolka,

deputy premier of the new Polish
government, stated at a press
conference here. While pointing
out that the agreement was
fully approved by the Big Three
representatives who aided in the
formation of the government,
Gomolka stressed that the

settlement was reached by the
Poles themselves.

Stanislaw Mikolajezyk, former

premier of the London govern-

ment-in-exile and vice premier of

the new government who joined
with Gomolka in the press con-
ference, stated that “the new

Poland will enter the world arena
in a most positive sense, not asa

source of friction but of unity.”
The agreement will
Polish democrats to
reconstruction of their
and “heal the
he said.

The new government,

enable all
speed the
country
wounds of war,”

they
explained, will be formed on the
basis of the four main Polish
parties — the Peasant, Workers,

Gomolka also stated that there
was no foundation to reports
that the new unified government
will not be recognized by the
Allies before’ arrangements for ~
elections are made. It will be
recognized when the composition
of the government is announced
in Poland in the near future, he
said, adding “probably this
week.”

The new government, Gomolka
stated, will decide on the details
of the elections, taking into con-
sideration the question of bring-
ing back large numbers of Poles
who are anxious to return to
their country. The Crimea agree-
ment that all those except
fascists and other groups hostile
to democracy will be permitted
to participate in the elections
will be observed, he emphasized.
Mikolajezyk expressed the con-
viction that there are no patri-
otic -Poles who would not want

Socialist and Democratic parties.! to return home.

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SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1945