PT TE TTT Te The United Nations police force in Egypt has now grown to more than 1,000, the majority of them still camped at Abu Suweir behind Egyptian lines. Here a UN truck passes British troops in their positions. The Egyptian government this week called on the UN to demand that Britain, France and Israel state when they intend to withdraw their invas- ion forces from Egypian territory. Egyptian Foreign Minis- ter Mahmoud Fawzi charged in the UN Assembly that there were indications Britain and France were actually build- ing up their forces in the Suez Canal zone. oviets, Czechs rebuke Tito MOSCOW A Warning to Tito not to in- *tfere in the internal affairs %f other Communist parties 88 given last week both by © Soviet Communist paper Vda and the Czechoslovak Paper Rude Pravo. , hey were dealing with a Peech made by the Yugoslav Tesident in which, after de- "ing his support for the ar government in. Hun- th Y, he attacked “leaders” of On Soviet, French and other Mmunist parties. favda quoted Tito’s declar- ®n that Soviet intervention “Ungary was necessary and et Yugoslavia supported the “dar government. yt, it continued, in other atts of his speech Tito was ‘ng to put Yugoslavia for- as the country providing Ya.0nly possible road to So- Ist development. Us, it said, radically con- Gicts the Marxist-Leninist St that each country can © its own methods. added that Tito’s speech “Unds a sharp dissonance ‘Pared with what has been “ of late by the leadership nn the Yugoslav Communist 4.) On the international sit- Nog @ 2nd mutual relations of t ‘alist countries and Com- _ thist pparties.” . his speech, given on No- Tber]1, Tito alleged a sharp Slon among Soviet leaders Policy toward the East Eur- hm States and said some of &m had imposed on the whoie “tship a “Stalinist”? line. Speaking to party activists at Pula, he said those leaders did not want to let other Com- munist countries have the sta- tus attained by Yugoslavia. “The root of all later mis- takes lies in the insufficient confidence in the socialist forces in those countries,” he said. Soviet leaders had called the Yugoslavs “fascists and butch- ers” after the Cominform break in 1948, “We must help them to re- member this today, when they want to throw the blame on us for events in Poland and Hungary,” he said. Tito criticized French and Albanian as well as, Soviet Communist leaders. Pravda commented: “The speech contains certain state- ments which both in form and in essence contradict the prin- ciples of proletarian interna- tionalism and the internation- al solidarity of the working people. “Tito enters into a sharp po- lemic with those who consider that the influence of Yugosla- via was reflected in the ore- parations of the outbursts which took place both in Po- land and in Hungary. “Tito alleged the future de- pends on whether the new course begun by Yugoslavia is victorious in the Communist parties. “Tito’s speech obviously smacked of tendencies to in- terfere in the affairs of other Communist parties. A great deal of space is devoted in the speech to a polemic with peo- ple whom Tito calls Stalinists. “The attempts to divide the Communist parties into Stal- inists and non-Stalinists can only inflict damage on the Communist movement, since life, now as never before, re- quires. cohesion_ inside_ the Communist parties and in the entire international Commun- ist movement. “Tito also alleged that the cult of personality of Stalin was the product of a definite system. “However, it is well known that it is. precisely reactionary propaganda in its struggle against Marxism - Leninism which is now repeating with particular insistence that the cult of the personality of Stal- in was engendered allegedly not by specific historical con- ditions, which have already become a thing of the past, but by the Soviet system it- self. “It is also well known that these fabrications of reaction- ary propaganda are refuted by the entire course of the de- velopment of Soviet Socialist society.” Rude Pravo said Tito’s as- sertions were “leading to a disturbance of the interior un- ity of the Communist parties in the Socialist and capitalist states and to the disturbance of the unity of the internation- al Communist movement.” LONDON Behind British Foreign Of- fice allegations that the Middle East has power vacuum” is a plan to get a NATO base in Israel and to enlarge present NATO bases in Cyprus, Turkey and Greece. The argument is that the British withdrawal from the Suez Canal under the 1954 agreement with Egypt left a “power vacuum” in the Middle East. become “a The British Foreign Office Says Egypt is too weak to fill it. The United Nations decis- ions will not allow the British and French governments to fill it on their own. Therefore NATO must act. As part of this plan, intense propaganda has been started in Western Europe and in the United States to the effect that the Soviet Union is stepping into this Middle Eastern “pow- er vacuum, The fact that the Soviet Un- ion has repeatedly stated that it is ready to cooperate for peace in the Middle East with both the Western powers and Egypt is deliberately ignored. The Manchester Guardian reported from Paris last week: “A small group of SHAPE officers, which has been studying the problem of the flank, concludes the allies need a far greater force in the Eas- tern Mediterranean. “In their view, it would be a great advantage, if the Middle East is to be “neutral- ized” to have radar and warn- ing systems installed on Is- raeli territory, and if NATO forces could have the right to use Israeli airports and land- ing fields.” This, however, the officers add, would not be enough. NATO bases in Cyprus, in Tur- key and in Greece must also be “vastly increased.” British decree death for Cypriots sheltering sons from military NICOSIA Cypriot parents sheltering sons who have engaged in action against the British forces may be hanged in fut- ure. This is the effect of a great extension of the death penalty in the island announced last week by Field-Marshall Sir John Harding, British gover- nor of Cyprus. Death is threatened for “con- sorting with armed persons” — the clause which in the Kenya Emergency Regulations led to the hanging of innum- erable Africans on trivial of- fences and earned infamy throughout the world. At present in Cyprus the death penalty can be imposed either for killing or for firing on the British forces or police. Now the illegal manufac- ture of arms or the carrying of arms and explosives will also carry a death penalty. In Kenya* similar penalties enabled police agents to work off all sorts of grudges by planting arms on innocent people and then giving evid- dence against them. Harding claimed that the activities of ‘terrorists and their associates” left the gov- ernment “no option but to im- pose sterner penalties.” NOVEMBER 30, 1956 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE — Page 15