people. The -general said that some of his own men stole his jeep and fi fled and the remainder deserted 3 him. Always he tried to go south, but always he found the Economic crisis hits Australia “Ominous cracks” are appear- ing “in the postwar pattern of unemployment,” the Australian Financial Review says here. Bearing out this statement, the Melbourne Age _ reports. shut- downs in Victorian clothing fac- tories as well as mass firings in the shoe and leather indus- 1s tries. is The Leather Dressers ‘Union in Sydney reported the employment situation in the industry is worst since 1934. The Automotive In- dustries Federaittion Chamber warns the auto industry “may retrench employees as a result of credit restrictions.” Dr. H. V. Evatt, Labor party leader, states that the slump in the building’ trades indicates “the liklihood of a recession: in the next few months” despite the desperate need for 300.000 new homes. Common Cause publication of the Australian Miners Fed- eration, cites a statement by banker T. Hytten that the na- tion needs a “reserve army of unemployed” for “economic health” and says: “It.is hoped that the presence of an unem- ployed army will act as pres- sure to force wages down and By ALAN WINNINGTON General William Dean, former U.S Korea, wandered as a fugitive for more than a month near Taegon without finding a single South Korean willing to help the Americans and was finally turned over to the North Koreans by the local MELBOURNE. jed 190 pounds. At the ‘time of PANMUNJOM . military. governor of South had “a go back ‘to the place he left. These facts were given by Gen- eral Dean to Australian journal- ist Wilfred Burchett, in a recent interview. , The ened said that he was encircled five times, mostly be- cause children saw him and re- ported to their -parents, who promptly ‘summoned the local “Home Guard,” as the general described. them — armed people Who wanted and still want the victory of the North Koreans. “T realized then that North Korean infiuence had been exer- cised in South Korea and that no place was really safe for me,” said General Dean. Eventually he met a Korean hé trusted who spoke English, and to whom. he promised $1, 000 to take him to Taegu. This Korean led him along a road ~occasionally hiding him, until they came near some Kor- ean People’s Army men. The ‘Korean promptly turned him over holding his pistol in this hand when General Dean trted to. draw a gun. General Dean formerly weigh- his capture he estimated his weight at 130 pounds, and now his weight is 180 pounds, He cannot find praise too high to describe his treatment by the Koreans. _At one time he protested that the food was too good, since his guards were not getting eggs’and butter, as he was. He/has written ‘to North Kor- ean Premier Kim Ir Sen, thank- ing him for the ‘treatment ‘he ihas received. > The general’s present bomb- proof home is in the Pyong- yang area. By what must be a very strange co-incidence, a nearby place was Strafed and rocketed shertly after particu- US. Sai Dean is interview by Wilfred Burchett (left) of Ce Soir. Gina Dean couldn’t find one South Korean | who would assist him : ROOM BURR ORR RRO BEER OR RUB. By Cube wikie United Leff defeats minister who banned Communists, unions BOMBAY T. K. Narayana Pillai, former chief minister who ban- ned the Communist party and Several trade unions in the ‘southern Indian state of Tra- vancore-Cochin, has been de- feated by the Communist- -SUup- ported candidate of the United Left Front. SURO MC tnt tt Tt ait? 7 i etirst ALBANIA’S ANNIVERSARY - Old land where everything i Is new PRAGUE Albania is a country where “everything happens for the t time.” The first hydro- electric station has been built, . the first road bored through the mountains, the first great sugar refinery opened, the first ‘big textile combine built, ‘the © first university opened, the first literacy classes held on a mass scale. All these things have hap- pened during the past few years in Albania. They show the rapid strides forward that Albania is taking to turn a backward, poverty - stricken, isolated country into a mod- ern democratic state. And they show ‘the great achieve- ments of the People’s Democ- racy in Albania which on Jan- vary 11 celebrated its sixth anniversary. In People’s Albania unem- ployment is an unknown word (to. the ‘younger generation. - Now the problem is to find enough workers. In every village, every factory, there are classes to abolish illiter- acy and to raise the people’s cultural level. Women who yesterday were confined to their homes ‘are now fee to work in factories or to take part in public life. And they are doing so, as the recent con- ference, of Albanian women proved. The achievements of the People’s ‘Democracy can ‘be ‘best seen in the great new factories ‘that ‘have sprung up, factories equipped with the latest Soviet machinery, They can be seen ‘in the fine new homes which are surround- ing 'the factories; in the new agricultural combinés which are working for the first time in cooperative fields. The hydroelectric project already completed now pro- vides water* and light to the capital city of Tirana and the surrounding district. And a still greater hydroelectric pro- ject to be built will electrify the greatest part of the coun- try by tthe end of. the HV Gris Year Plan in 1955. For the first ‘time Albania | has a university. ‘A teachers’ ‘training institute has been ‘opened, a politechnic, and an agricultural institute. This small but enthusiastic People’s Democracy which 6c- eupies a strategic position in the, Mediterranean area is a constant hindrance to the plans of the Anglo-American warmongers. They have. tried unsuc- cessfully to cut Albania off from the other People’s Democracies. But the ships still come bringing new ma- chines and materials for peaceful construction. They have tried to disrupt the country from Within by sending in spies and sabo- teurs. But they have fail- ed in this, too, owing to ‘the vigilance of the Albanian people in defending their democracy. The Albanian people, who have seen occupation under the Turks, ‘the Italians and the Germans, are determined to defend their liberty and. strengthen their position in the world peace camp. No truck with Hitler’s heirs’ | ! D An estimated 10,000 demonstrators, protesting against the Israeli government's decision to open negotiations with the West German government, were charged by steel-helmented police outside the Israeli parliament buildings in Jerusalem last month. Slogan of the demonstrators was, “No truck with Hitler’s heirs.” lars of the American POW’s had been handed over by the North Koreans, the closest raid ° that General Dean recalls, hours up and intimidate the people into the militarization required by the war drive.” . ¢ PACIFIC TRIBUNE — FEBRUARY 1, 1952 — PAGE 2. . ry