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Greek woman executed

ATHENS—A woman, Kirialoulo
Elefteriadi, has been executed in
Salonika.

Ten other democrats, including
@ woman teacher, have been sen-
tenced to death by a Lamia court
for working with an armed band.

Soviets explore Arctic

LONDON—The Soviet News re-
ports that. Russia is sending at
least nine expeditions into the
Arctic soon, :

The Soviet Academy of Sciences
was said to be outfitting six ex-
peditions to study soil formation,
plant development and micro-or-
Zanisms frozen for thousands of
years.

The Soviet Arctic Research In-
stitute is also preparing several
meteorological expeditions.

War rumors discounted

BERLIN — A Major Savaliev,
Presumably speaking for the So-
viet occupation command, advised
the Germans by radio last week
to ignore rumors of an imminent
new war. “Peace is secure for a
long time,” he declared, “because
not a single government can wage
war again the will of its people.”

Anglo-Yugoslav pact

LONDON. — Negotiations for
Signing ‘of an Anglo-Yugoslav
trade agreement are expected to
be launched in Belgrade shortly,

* it is revealed here.

FoNowing recent completion of
a trade agreement with Poland
and current negotiations with the
Soviet Union for a great recipro-
cal trade agreement, the project-
ed Yugoslav pact is regarded here
as evidence of a further rift in
Anglo-American trade policies in

Europe.

Ecuador Democrats win

QUITO—The Democratic Civic
Movement, a coalition of progres-

'_ Sive. groups, will have the. ma-

_ jority
“€ongress which meets next year

17 . provinces;

ain

in the new Ecuadorian

as.a@ result of last week's elec-

' tion, A: record total of 300,000

voters returned the Conservatives
in ‘only four of the republic’s
the . Democrats
Sweeping the other 13.

Extend social security

OSLO—Norway has increased
its social security. budget from
225 million kroner ($45 million)
to 360 million ($72 million) to
make up for decline in the kron-
er’s purchasing power.

The new increase raises social
security standards above the pre-
war level. All workers are now
guaranteed unemployment and
sickness compensation. Illness pay-
‘ments extend for as long as two
‘years in the case of tuberculosis.
Benefits apply not only ‘to the
worker but to his entire family.

—

Denmark resists U.S.

COPENHAGEN —The ° Danish
government indicated this week
it intended to retain full sover-
eignty over Greenland and was
prepared to resist U.S. efforts
to hang onto Greenland as a
military base.

Denmark, it was stated, is un-
willing to grant any one power
the exclusive rights to bases.

Possibility that bases might be
established under control of the
United Nations would be con-
,Sidered, the statement added,

FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1947

SOFIA — The government of
Premier Georgi Dimitrov has ac-
cused opposition . leader Nicola
Petkoy of plotting to overthrow
the coalition regime and an-
nounced that he was under ar-
rest.

Petkoy, secretary of the Agra-
rian National Union Party and a
former cabinet minister, was ar-
rested late last week after a
six-hour debate in parliament on
the charges against him.

Petkov was alleged to have

Bulgaria nips plot

to overthrow government

sought army support for his ‘re-
volution’ plans.

It was charged that he tried
to organize .secret cells within
the army, to rise when the
signal for revolt was given.
Petkov’s name was linked with

those of defendants in the con-
spiracy trials now under way.

It was alleged also that he got

into contact with Ivan Mikhailov,
sought as a war criminal, who
was a Macedonian leader during

the war.

Petkoy denied all charges be-
fore he was put under arrest,

The government charged that
Petkov was an accomplice in
both ‘Tzar Krum’ and ‘Neutral
Officer’ conspiracies,

Both these plots, according to
reports, were organized by. ju-
nior officials. ;

The Tzar

Krum organization,
which took the name of the
founder of the first medieval
Bulgarian state, was said to have
pursued totalitarian right wing

aims. It was uncovered at the

beginning of last year.

The neutral officer conse
it was asserted, was organized Res
career army officers against
appointment of political co ;
sars to the army.

Discovery of this, plot coit
cided with the dismissal a
Defense Minister Damian V'
chey who had opposed an army
purge. This plot was discov-
ered at the end of 1946.

Food destroyed

While millions of people in Europe go hungry, a ‘glutted market’
was the lame explanation offered by U.S. department of agricul-
. ture officials for the destruction of the thousands of tons of ‘potatoes shown here. To
make sure no one would eat the potatoes kerosene was poured over them.

The Communists declared they
will fight Premier de Gasperi’s
program on the grounds that the
workers can have no confidence
in a government from which
their party is excluded. Backing
de Gasperi is the Common Man
Party, which sponsors a fascist
program.

De Gasperi, Christian Democrat
leader, three weeks ago forced a
cabinet crisis when he demanded
the resignation of Communist
members. His decision, it was dis-
closed at that time, reflected U.S.
pressure which insisted that Com-
munists’ be excluded from cabinet
offices as the price for an Amer-
ican loan. }

The Communist statement de-

Italian Communists call —
for government's defeat —

ROME—While Premier Alcide de Gasperi this week
made a public bid for a U.S. loan, spokesmen for the Com-
munist Party called upon all left-wing parties to unite in an
effort to overthrow the new cabinet.

clared its immediate object was
the overthrow of de Gasperi’s
government by a vote of non
confidence in the constituent as-
sembly. Its opposition, it said,
would follow accepted parlia-
mentary procedure and expressed
the certainty that “hopes of non-
Italian and Italian reactionaries
will once again be frustrated.”

In their statement the Commun-
ists charge de Gasperi with. at-
‘tempting to sell Italian indepen-
dence to the U.S. and to reduce it
to a semi-colonial nation. They
declared that de Gasperi had pro-
voked successive cabinet crises
“against the interests of the coun-
try.” ;

Archduke guilty

BUDAPEST — Archduke Jo-
seph of the proud Hapsburg
dynasty was this week found
guilty by a people’s court of
wartime collaboration with the
Germans. The government pre-
Pared to seek his extradition
from the American occupation
zone in Austria, where he is
believed a refugee, to face a
Possible death sentence.

Archduke Joseph, 74, former
president of the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences, was
found guilty, as a member of
the upper house of parliament

under former Regent Admiral
Nicholas Horthy, of urging
‘continuance of the war against
the allies in October, 1944,

Pending the attempt to ex-
tradite the Archduke, the court
ordered all his property ‘con-
fiscated. Penal sentence will
be pronounced if and when he
is returned to this country,

By A. S. R, CHARI

NEW DELHI—Is it a plan for
speedily quitting India or for its
swift Balkanization? This is the
question that is uppermost in the
minds of the common people of
India after the announcement of
the British partition plan. :

Despite fervent appeals’ fo
peace made by Nehru, Jinnah and
Baldey Singh, defence member,
the award leaves several issues
open to further fighting.

There will be considerable dif-
ferences of opinion on where the
boundary lines should fall in both
the Punjab and Bengal.

Similarly a big dispute is likely
in regard to Calcutta, a Hindu

majority area.

TTT TU MUTMNNTTIIT TOIT

British leave legacy of strife in pian for India

The most sinister feature of
the plan is the scrupulous pro-
tection of the princes:

They will be free to declare
ally themselves, with one or other
of the two big states.

A negotiating committee of the
princes set up under the old cab-
inet mission plan met Mount-
‘batten and .were presumably told
that they were no longer bound
to go into the Constituent As.
sembly of .Hindustan or, having
fonce gone, to remain there.

The Indian ‘princes: are going
to be a shock brigade through
which imperialist economic and
military strategic interests will

secure the maximum advantage.

Throughout the document runs

an extraordinary solicitude for a
speedy transfer of power to In-

dian hands “and a desire to quit
earlier than June, 1948.

In fact during the present ses-
sion of parliament, legislation is

to be introduced to confer all do-

minion powers to embryonic states
of Hindustan and Pakistan, and
it is said here that this
done by August next.

The British award thus solves
no problems, but dismembers the
country, multiplies the problems,

and is fully expected to intensify
and speed-up the conflicts
inter-state’ scale.

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Reports from
Hungary hit

PRAGUE — The Internation@!
Journalists’ Congress has ane ab
mously adopted a resolut eae
freedom of the press a is
free access to news, full ae pe
to publish news, and treat pas
tablishing the free flow of ui

The resolution was introdu

by Milton Murray, represent
the American Newspaper
(CIO). it

As amended and approved
said:

“It is the basic right of ae
people everywhere to be nie
ed fully, freely, accurately } ht
honestly. It is from this es
of the people that freedom of
press is born.” ;

Murray’s draft had said a
and freely,’ while a Russian re:
substituted “honestly and ee
ately.” The drafting comm
compromised, agreeing to use
four words.

Hungarian delegates intro
duced a resolution condemning
the “dishonest behavior’ =
some foreign journalists in seek
apest, accusing them of

“false, absurd and insolent”
dispatches. 4
The three-man delegation
Singled out for denial rep?

that police occupied public build
ings in Budapest, that deerme
authorities ordered the a@ppoln
ment of Premier Lajos Dinny®
and that the ministry of interior
planned to expel American jou?
nalists from Budapest.
Greeting delegates,
Czech Deputy Premier
Masaryk said: “If at any
you bump your head into the
iron curtain, ring me up. I
come immediately to see it for
the first time in my life.”

former
Jan

Canadian: planes
go to Argentine

ST. JEROME, Que—The PBY
20-ton flying boat that was forced
down five miles from here 148
week is only one of 15 or
Planes that the Argentine g0V-
ernment is buying from Canada,
it was learned this week.

In addition, 40 of Britain’s lat
est and fastest Gloster Meteor
jet-propelled bombers, are goin&
to Peron’s government to serve 45
models for the Argentine’s OW?
plane factories. -

A talk with an Argentine naval
Sergeant-mechanic, one of the 14
technicians in the crew of the
plane that was forced down,
brought’ out. the fact that thé
PBY’s are flown back to South
America via Halifax and Miami.
They are all manned by Arge®-
tine crews.

The sergeant denied that any
photographs were taken of Cana-
dian territory, but said that their
route home was down the 3
Lawrence waterway, past Anti
costi Island, over the Gaspe Pen-
insula and across Halifax harbor,
then south along the U.S. coast
line. The ‘technicians thus get #
god birdseye view of the entrance
to Canada.

He admitted that the U.S. and
Canada give all Argentine naval
personnel complete freedom of eD-
try and exit.

PBY’s were built for the RCAF

on an

during the war by Canadair in
Montreal. :

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