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Action

National action committees zt
workers, Fellaheen (landless Bee
ants) and students Migr EE a
throughout} -Egypt recen : oF a
Haam, organ of the Israel
munist party, reports.

i y ting of the
This follows the meeti
néwly established Congress of Hie
National Front of Workers f
Students on October ‘21, where

committees fo

tion committees with the fellaheen
to fight for the following program:
against Egypt's participation in
the imperialist blocs, full support
to the world peace movement,
action to secure a Soviet-Egyptian
non-aggression pact, struggle for
release of all political prisoners
and against anti-democratic laws
and censorship, for abolition of
the “secret. police” and for a ban
on the activities of British and
American agents such as_ the

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“Moslem brotherhood.”

The resolution on the Sudan
question emphasises that “the road
towards liberation of Egypt and

the Sudan is the common struggle
of both peoples against a’ common-
enemy: imperialism. The Sudanese
people have the right to free them-
selves from the imperialist yoke,
and the right to self-determination
must be reserved to the Sudanese
neonle.”

was decided to férm national ac-

oviets divert river into

The first important stage in

rich irrigated land reclaimed from ae seis
workers and collective farmers of the region,

Tbilisi Sea.

The entire Soviet press hails ee
event as another link in the tea
Stalin power and irrigati a
schemes. Particular interest pe ;
tains to it because the site o
the new Tbilisi reservoir is the
locality where over 50 years eo
Stalin organized the fores He
workers’ May Day gathering 1
Georgia. 2a .

To build up a store of ee
sufficient to irrigate so a
parched land southeast of Tbil red
engineers who began to yee
1947 had to deepen three exis ne
Salt lakes and build a new channe
bed for the Lori from its enue
in the glacial régions of the H ee
Caucasus. They began the ns
by exploding a 500-ton charge 4
ammonal. To complete the ahs
they had:to excavate 5,000,000 cu
metres of earth and rock and e
lay nearly 300,000 cubic metres 0

-Yeinforced concrete. ae tes

Georgia’s biggest irrigation and
Power scheme is classified as one
of the great post-war achievements
and has been hailed as a construc-
tion for peace. mie

Plans are already being drawn
up to build new holiday centres
On the banks of the Tbilisi Sea.
Much of the reclaimed land will
be planted with orchards.

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Exile ends as
Greek MP's win
right to seats

: LONDON

ter world protest, the Greek
ee caret has finally been forc-
ed to allow seven of the ten mem-
bers of the Union of the Demo-
cratic Left (EDA) elected to par-
liament in the recent elections ae
take their seats. The 10 ce
members were elected despite the

‘fact that they were in exile or

ke direct
ris6én and unable to ta

rane in the campaign, and hous.
ands of their supporters were dis-

franchised. : ‘

ressure from democratic
ae Ron, the Greek dg
ment consented to the seven E :
MP’s-elect in exile returning to
take their seats and they were
sworn in despite a rowdy regis
stration in parliament staged fie
members of Papagos’ Fascist Rally.

anjeffort to prevent the, peo-
Je or welcoming their aie
bers the government had the nava
vessel returning them to Gurece
dock, not at Piraeus but the sie
fishing port of Rafina, from Ww iF
they reached Athens in the early
hours. Within a few hours, ee
ever, the streets around the o pee
of the newspaper areas ty
were thronged with cages a
waiting to welcome them. ater
the seven visited Nicos Bplay sane
Resistance hero, who is one of | ae
three EDA MP’s still held-in jail.

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Vote against pact

Defying party whips, 33 Labor
members, including supporters of
Aneurin Bevan, ‘voted against
endorsing the U.S.-dictated Jap-
anese peace treaty in the British
House of Commons this week.
The majority of Labor members,
acting on their- right-wing
leaders’ instructions not to op-
pose the treaty, which was signed
while the Labor government still
held office, voted with the Con-
Servatives. The vote was 382

,votes for, 83 against endorsation,
of the treaty, with some 200
members absent or abstaining.

.sociates greeted

Truman’s assault
on peace hit by
DuBois acquittal

WASHINGTON

The campaign of the Truman administration to outlaw the fight
for peace has been handed a major setback. Even glum government
prosecutors were admitting this here this week as a jubilant peace move-

ment throughout the! U.S. hailed the acquittal of Dr. W. E. B. DuBois

and: four associates in the Peace Information Center of charges they

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were acting as “foreign agents.

Trial of the distinguished Negro
author, scholar and peace leader
and his associates ended abruptly
on Tuesday last week when U.S.
District Judge Matthew F. Mc-
Guire granted a defense motion
for acquittal on grounds the gov-
ernment had failed to prove the

charges set forth in the indict-
ment. 4
The sharpness of the judge’s

remarks led a government attor-
ney to complain, “it is very diffi-
cult to get proof of the kind Judge
McGuire demands.”

In addition to the 82-year old
Dr. DuBois, those acquitted were
Mrs. Elizabeth Moos, former di-
rector of the Peace Information
Center; Kryle Elkin, who was the
center’s- treasurer; Abbott Simon,
its executive director, and Sylvia
Soloff, its secretary.

News of the verdict brought a
flood of congratulatory messages
to the defendants

American Peace Crusade Co-Di-
rectors Thomas Richardson and
Rev. Willard Uphaus wired Dr.
DuBois:

“The crushing of the infamous
indiétment against you and as-
with joy. You
are a symbol to us of the best
traditions of our country and of
the Negro people. Your vindication
is a triumph ‘of these traditions.
It is a victory in the struggle for
the right to speak for peace and
gives us new determination as we

‘Taunch our new campaign for an

end to bloodshed in Korea and for
an agreement among the major’
powers for lasting peace.”
' The Civil Rights Congress said:
“The will of the American
people, and particularly the Ne-
gro peonle, for world Peace and
the banning of atomic bombs, as
well as world-wide protests
against their jailing, won the
freedom of Dr. DuBois and his
four associates, *
“From this great victory, pro-
gressive Negro and white Ameri-
cans must march on together to
smash the indictment of William
L. Patterson, famed Negro leader
of the Civil Rights Congress, who
is scheduled to stand trial January
28; and to smash the government's
chains around Paul Robeson who
is not permitted by the State De-

| partment to go abroad to talk of

the discrimination
of the Negro
States.”

The CRC congratulated Dr. Du-
Bois and his four associates, as
well as “their fighting battery of
Negro and white attorneys,”
headed by former Rep. Vito Mar-
cantonio.

The government, Marcantonio
had told the court, had not proved
that defendants acted for a foreign
principal. or that it was subject
to the control of a foreign princi-
pal. Nor had the government
shown that the center had con-
sented to act for the World Com-
mittee of Defenders of Peace, he
said. :

In an attempt to answer Mar-
cantonio’s arguments, the govern
ment attorneys, J. Frank Cunning-
ham and F. Kirk Maddrix, said the
sovernment did not have to prove
& connection ‘of principal and
agent. “We are content to deal
with an implied agency,” Maddrix
told the court. .

Judge McGuire apvarently irked

and oppression
people in the United

at the government dragnet defini- |”

tion. commented:

“Maybe Congress has used inept
language ... . Now Congress has
said salt conceivably could be pep-

| der and pepper could conceivably

be salt, is that right?”
“That’s exactly what it did,”

Cunningham replied as spectators
suffawed. f

PACIFIC TRIBUNE —

The acquittal ruling was de-
livered extemporaneously by
Judge McGuire, who pointed out
that the government was obliged
to show “a manifestation on the
part of one person. that another
may act on his behalf, and con-
sent by the other so to act,”

He held that the prosecution had@*
not fulfilled its responsibility in
this case.

“When a reasonable mind must
have a reasonable doubt, the judge
must require a judgment of ac-
quittal.

“If I permitted this case to go
to the jury, I should permit them
to speculate on a speculation,” he
said. -

It was at this poirit that he
said “the motion for a judgment
of acquittal will be granted.”

O. John Rogge, former U.S. as-
sistant attorney-general, at one
time prominent in the peace move-
ment and now agent in Washing-
ton for Tito, was the government’s
star witness against his former
associates in.the peace movement.
He charged under oath that the
Peace Information Center was “an
instrument of Soviet propaganda.”

But Rogge’s testimony fell flat
after defense attorneyd established
that, in his own sworn statement,
made at the time he filed as a
foreign agent for Tito, Rogge has
denied that the peace movement
was under foreign’ control. :

Marcantonio stressed in his
final argument that the chief
witness against the peace advo-
cates was himself a registered
foreign agent.

Vietnamese now
able fo produce .
heavy artillery

RANGOON

One reason for the increasing
strength of the Vietnamese Peo-
ple’s Army and jhe defeats it is
inflicting on the French colonial
troops is the efficiency of the young
republic’s war industry, despite
enormous difficulties.

Vietnamese armaments workers
have advanced from production of
primitive hand-grenades to manu-
facture of heavy artillery for at-
tacking strongly fortified French
positions, states a recent report of
the Viet Nam General Confedera-
tion of Workers.

This has been achieved under the
difficult conditions of the liberation
war: lack of machinery, insuffici-
ent technical and professional —
training of managers and workers,
and lack of raw materials. French
air raids have made it necessary
to locate factories in remote areas,
thus creating difficulties of supply
and communication.

Training of new workers has
been undertaken by ithe skilled
workers, who outside of working
hours devote most of their time
to instructing the novices,

An important part of the work of
the armaments industry has been
production of mines and other
types of explosives for use of par-
tisan units.

Outstanding initiative has been
shown by workers in utilizing scrap
material and finding substitutes.
Rails, spent bomb fragments and
other such material is turned into
firearms and ammunition. Success-
ful research has been carried out
in producing formerly imported
chemicals such as explosives and
acids, thus enabling the industry
to attain sulf-sufficiency,

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