< e Foreign companies have increased their control over the Domini- can Republic’s sugar and tourist sectors. Gulf and Western, owners of the Romana sugar mill, control 25°/, of sugar exports, the lifeline of the Dominican Republic’s economy. Gulf and Western have re- invested their profits in agricultural projects, livestock plans, tour- ism, hotels, real estate and other businesses. Today Gulf is a power in almost the entire eastern part of the country. Latin solidarity meet hits U.S. ‘investment’ MONTREAL — A teach-in on solidarity between Quebec and Latin America in late September attracted hundreds of interested persons to hear speakers deal with the situation in Latin Ame- rican countries. Resolutions passed criticized Canada’s role in relation to the Organization of American States, denounced U.S. take-overs in .the guise of investments, and expressed solidarity with peo- ples fighting for independenc and sovereignty. A resolution calling upon Canada not to join the OAS pointed out that this organiza- tion “has not realized the hopes of the Latin American peoples, but rather has become an instru- ment in the hands of the United States to realize its foreign policy.” The presence of Canada in the OAS, the resolution says, “‘would be proof that Canada intends to follow the same dangerous poli- cy of domination of countries as the USA does.” Another resolution charging that the USA controls the econ- omy of Quebec and Latin Ame- rican countries, said that “the local bourgeoisie” and ‘“Cana- dian financiers are too often ac- complices of American big business,” while “workers and farmers are the victims of that foreign exploitation.” The resolution denounced “the nature of American exploitation by its foreign investments,” Canadian complicity in Latin America and decided to organ- ize information forums through popular movements in Quebec “to explain the nature of for- eign investments and the politi- cal utilization of those invest- ments.” Dealing with inroads into Montreal University by the In- ternational Centre of Compared Criminology (CICC), the gather- ing requested that Montreal University “withdraw its charg- es against students in Crimi- nology and Anthropology who are on trial for demonstrating their opposition to the CICC on Montreal University campus.” The resolution continues: “We request the expulsion of the CICC from Montreal Uni- versity,” and an end to “the ex- change of information” with criminology services of Brazil, Iran and Ivory Coast. “We request of the Canadian Agency for International Deve- lopment already involved in Vietnam, and of the Quebec minister of justice, who finances the ACDI along with the Ford Foundation (which finances the CIA) not to play the game of the dictators, and to break its relations with anti-democratic governments and_ universities gagged by those dictators.” The resolution concludes ex- pressing ‘“‘solidarity with the peoples of other countries who are living under oppressive re- gimes and who are fighting for their independence and _ their sovereignty.” The U.S.-Canadian firm, Falconbridge, has also begun to process ferronickel in the Peguera mines. The company has invested $200 having: a law which regulates. foreign investments:, PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1972—PAGE 10 . People’s UN Chinese obstruct detente | By SPARTAK BEGLOV The Chinese leadership of the Republic of China (PRC) likes neither the detente taking place in some parts of the world nor the various initia- tives in the sphere of disarma- ment. Such is the main conclu- sion one reaches after a careful study of the speech made by the Chinese delegate at the pre- sent UN General Assembly. The first programmatic state- ment of Peking in the United Nations, indicates that the Chi- nese leaders are going to take their own “special stand” on all pivotal questions of peace and disarmament, ignoring what has been achieved through the ef- forts of other states. By impos- ing its criterion that “what’s good for Peking is good for the rest of the world”, Chinese dip- lomacy factually seeks to mono- polize the right to act in the in- ternational arena as it pleases. What was the yardstick which Peking’s delegate at the UN ap- plies to the various manifesta- tions of detente? The U.S.-Chinese contacts at the highest level, the agreement to normalize Sino-Japanese re- lations — all this is “important” and consequently ‘“‘good”. But the Soviet-U.S. summit talks and the agreements on limiting strategic arms — this is cause for “suspicion”. : The European peoples’ efforts to establish security and to make Europe into a continent of last- ing peace arouse no sympathy of the Chinese spokesman, only irritation and fantasies about some sort of: “subversiva acti- vity by the superpowers”. Or take the matter of dis- armament. The Soviet proposals ‘for the non-use of force and the banning for all time the use of nuclear weapons are now in the centre of UN attention. For peaceloving nations this is an important initiative eliminating the barriers to genuine disarma- ment. But for the Chinese dele- Death camp vets promote peace) MOSCOW — Representatives of former prisoners of the Nazi Mauthausen death camp came together in Moscow, Sept. 27, from 13 countries. Held in one of the most sinis- ter Nazi concentration camps of World War II, they had united themselves in a powerful inter- national resistance movement. In May, 1945, the prisoners rose. Having disarmed _ the guards, they prevented the ex- termination of new tens of thou- sands of people doomed to death at Mauthausen. “We are united by the memo- ry of over a hundred thousand of our comrades who have for- ever stayed in the inferno of Mauthausen,” said Robert She- pherd, president of the Interna- tional Mauthausen Committee, opening the general assembly of this international organization. “But we should not only look back,” he said. “We should look forward. We must tell the new generation what fascism can lead to, warn it against the hor- rors of war.” Addressing the assembly par- ticipants, General of the Army Pavel Batov, chairman of the Soviet War Veterans’ Commit- tortured to death at Mauthau- gate this is “obvious deception”. To weaken the power of the Soviet initiative the Chinese de- legate did not hesitate to give a slanderous twist to the Soviet motion. He alleged that this mo- tion contains an “unfounded demand” to deprive this or that nation of the right to resist ag- gression and imperialist expan- sion. The Soviet proposal stipu- lates this right in a clear and un- ambiguous manner. Peking dip- lomacy needed lies to try and split the forces of peace and anti-imperialism. The falsity of Maoist claims to be the “champion of the in- terests of small and medium na- tion” is exposed by the obstruc- tionist position which Chinese diplomacy has taken in regard to all international initiatives in the solution of cardinal prob- lems of an equal basis. In Europe, for example, the preparation of an all-European security conference for the first. time in history provides all coun- tries on the continent with a unique opportunity to take their own contribution to general security and cooperation. Small European nations, neutral states — they all are getting the pos- sibility to say a weighty word in this question of vital impor- tance for them. Peking is against this. The-idea of a world disarma- ment conference has also at- tracted many countries in the West and in the “third world,” primarily because it involves all countries, whatever the area, population or military-economic potent. Chinese diplomacy is against this as well. A new independent state, the Republic of Bangladesh, emerg- ed in Asia recently. Its people decided to work out their own destinies. However, the Chinese dele- gate called the admission of Bangladesh to the UN “prema- ture”, claiming that it is Peking which should have the final say. sen. He recalled that in some Western countries neo-Nazis are rearing their heads and fas- cism is being revived with the support of revanchist circles and reactionaries. Delegates discussed mainly what the anti-fascist movement veterans can and must do in the further struggle for peace, Nazi crimes By JOHN PEET Some old Nazis seem to have managed to convince themselves that nothing nasty ever really happened. The lacest case to catch my. attention concerns Reinhard Gehlen, who until a few years ago headed the West German intelligence service. Be- fore that he was the top man in Nazi military intelligence on the Eastern Front. In such a posi- tion he must obviously have been informed about nearly everything, including the un- hideable mass murders. Recently, General Gehlen has taken to talking to journalists. An acquaintaince of mine re- cently had a talk with him, and ~ asked him when he had first learned of the mass murders of _.Jews,. Russians, Ukrainians. and. . a. , single . so on, friends are Jews.” A year ago, millions of peor Bs of goodwill rejoiced that 1” rights of the Chinese people ; the UN had been finally tes ed. The public at large h? that with People’s China for UN the unity of the penta ces would be further strengt ed. Fi Prior to this the comm if front of anti-imperialism fi anti-colonialism in the UN opt | gained in strength and S070) putting imperialist diplomacy F the defensive. The govern |. of many » countries, inclu feat | dozens of newly indepen states, made no mean contr! tion to the elaboration of nt decisions on promoting inté nelle tional security. They } their hopes on the neW tivés aiming to place the 2 i| law on the non-use of for eit interstate relations and t0 © | the deadlock over disarmait i.) All the key proposals 4 int tiatives now figuring in vitie agenda are the fruit of activ by peace-loving peoples, 4” antl pression of their dreamy Vit, hopes, their political cap! vested in the future. Once in the United Peking diplomacy right : showed that it was conee 4) with something different 1) the further consolidation ee i successes achieved by the fogtt r forces. Juggling with the $™™ a) of “the struggle against t minance of the two supe ; ers” the Chinese leaders y frankly spearheading ae ; gan against the Soviet list the first country of socl® a) The fact that every statens . by Peking diplomats 1S a ed by imperialist propag@?™ "(| was the case with the spect iy the PRC delegate at the CUP (y General Assembly, speaks umes. 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