lag beaten
by Czechs

PRAGUE

The Slansky conspiracy inflicted

enormous damage on Czechoslovak
economy—but in the period since
the leading traitors were removed
from their positions great progress
has already been made in repairing
it: ‘
For both these conclusions there
is the clearest evidence in the re-
port on the fulfilment of the State
Economic Plan in the third quarter
of this year, published in Prague
early in November.

Gross industrial output, the re-
port shows, has reached a level 21
percent above the production in the
third quarter of 1951.

In that quarter production was
abnormally low—and in the Prague
People’s Court last month the full
reason stood revealed in the treach-
ery of the 14 self-confessed agents
of capitalist restoration.

It was the short supply of cap-
ital goods for heavy industry,
deliberately caused, which depriv-
ed the mines of coal-cutters, the
engineering and building indus-
try of scheduled equipment, and
the factories of. coal and power.

It was an attempt to put the
building of socialism on clay feet.

This year, the returns show the
overall plan for industry being ful-
filled at the rate of 98 percent, and
the most rapid increase is shown
in the heavy branches.

The ministry of fuel and power,
Covering the mines, records 101
percent fulfilment, and there are
the following particularly signifi-
Cant rises in output figures:

Hard coal—23 percent; iron ore
—28 percent; crude oil—56 per-
Cent; mine cages—100 percent;
coal mills—109 percents; concrete-

mixers—247 percent.

In several important sectors, how-
ever, the plan figures have not been
attained. The lag in the program
of capital investment in the build-
ing industry is notable. ‘

Despite an increase on last year,
the program was fulfilled by only
71 percent. .

This failure was due, states the

fortnightly economic survey issued
by the ministry of foreign trade, to
“non-fulfilment of the program of
Plant and equipment deliveries.”
_ Now, however, mechanization is
M full swing. Since January, the
Industry has been supplied with
ne-third more eranes, 16 percent
More concrete mixers and 11 per-
cent more dredgers.

For the Czechoslovak people the
winding up of the Slansky group of
traitors and U.S. spies means the
tnd of.a dark shadow that had
fathered over their path to pros-
Perity and socialism.

Thousands of factory meetings
during and since the trial have ex-
Pressed the workers’ determination
to destroy every obstacle in this
Toad and have pledged support to
President Klement Gottwald’s ever
Uncompromised leadership of the
Czechoslovak working people’s fight
for a happy, secure and peaceful
existence.

The stakes are the hugest.

very resource of capitalist re-

action is being called out in a
bid to ruin the Gottwald Five-
Year Plan, whose success will ex-

Pose and discredit capitalism in

the people’s eyes throughout

estern Europe.

One glance at the plan’s magnifi-
Cent aims supplies the reason.

By the end of next year, when
Ne plan ends, output of heavy en-
Sineering industry will be four
times greater than the highest ach-
teved before the war.

And on this basis output of food,
Clothes and consumer goods will
‘’xceed even the 1948 level of 70
Percent,

Industrial

JOMO cen yiera
‘Barbarity’ in
Kenya camps

LONDON

Erection of a gallows in full view

of men, women and children round-

ed up and herded into compounds

by British troops and police in

Kenya has been denounced as bar-
barity by British Labor MP’s.

“Faced with the demand that he
“either remove unconvicted  in-
ternees, or alternatively remove the
gallows,” Colonial Secretary Oliver
Lyttleton evaded the issue.

“T don’t know what you mean by
internees,’ he said to one Labor
member, Maurice Edelman. “These
people are in prison. {t may be
that they can see the gallows.”

‘Why should they?” shouted La-
bor members. But Lyttleton con-
tinued to evade the question.

‘was told by D. N. Pritt, QC, that

Without leaving the court, the
Supreme Court judges decided that
the trial, in which Jomo Kenyatta
and, five others face eight charges
of allegedly conspiring with the
Mau-Mau, would go on in Kapen-
guria.

Pritt, who is leading the defense
of the six Kenya leaders, declared
that the government had specially
picked Ransley Thacker to hear
the case.

Thacker began to hear the Kenya
African Union case only one week
after his appointment as a resident
magistrate in the Northern Prov-
ince. ;

Pritt pointed out that two years
ago, in hearing a case concerning
Fred Kukai, one of the present de-
fendants, Thacker had described
Kukai as “quite unworthy of belief.”

“It makes it impossible for him
now to give that man any impartial-
ity,” said Pritt.

Appearing in |the case with
Pritt are Pardiwan Chananlai,
prominent Indian lawyer from
New Delhi; Hezekiah O. Davies,

one of Nigeria’s foremost legal

have seen in 43 years’ experience.’

The internationally known British lawyer was applying to the Supreme Court to have the
trial of the six leaders transferred from Kapenguria, 200 miles north of Nairobi, to Nairobi itself —
where the ends of justice and convenience of counsel and witnesses would be better

experts; Kola Balogun, secretary

the indictment contained
?

Kenya charges branded
‘vaguest allegations of
conspiracy ever seen’

NAIROBI

As the trial of six leaders of the Kenya African Union opened last week, Kenya Supreme Court
“the vaguest allegations of conspiracy I

served.”

of the National Council of Nig-
eria;| Dudley Thompson, West
Indian lawyer; A. R. Kapila,
from Nairobi, an Indian lawyer;
and Kobun Kessie, from the
Gold Coast.

Kessie asked the Gold Coast goy-
ernment to intervene on his behalf
when officials told him the Kenya
government would not permit him
entry without a pass.

Referring at the Nairobi hearing
to the location of the trial, Pritt
said there was a police barrier seven
miles from Kapenguria, where per-
mits had to be shown to enter the
Northern Province.

Two people from the defense had
presented a letter from the superin-
tendent of police to the police bar-
rier asking that a permit be issued,
but both had been stopped and not
allowed to enter the province.

With. the trial at Kapenguria,
every time the defense wanted to
call a witness it was almost a mathe-
matical certainty that the witness
would be miles away and a lawyer
would have to be sent south to see
him.

‘The witness ‘would be at the

mercy of the police in seeking a
permit to’ enter the province and
attend court.

It had been stated that if the
case was held in Nairobi or in the
vicinity there was likely to be a
danger of excessive interest and
possible disorders.

Pritt submitted that interest in
the «ase was a tenfold reason for
holding the trial in Nairobi.

“The whole historical essence
of British justice is that cases
should be tried where they arise
and where the public can, through
its representatives, make its view
and feelings known,” he declared.

“In fact, it is not a public trial,”
he added.

A case of such importance should
be prosecuted “frankly and public-
ly and in the open where all the
world can see and listen to the
evidence and where the parties con-
cerned can attend with reasonable
‘convenience and make their de-
fense with reasonable convenience.”

Ss Ss

. Bie
s Democracies

Delegates to the United Nations from the Soviet Union and
the People’s Democracies are photographed at UN héadquarters.
They are (left to right): Kuzma V. Kiselev, Byelorussia; Dr. Gert-

ade Sekaninova-Cakrtova, Czechoslovakia; Andrei Gromyko and
Andrei Vishinsky. USSR; Stanislaw Skresezewski, Poland; A. M.

Baronovsky, Ukraine.

Same people who played Arabs against Jews

New “friends” of the Jewish
people who not long ago played

Arabs against Jews are the target

of scathing remarks made in an
interview here by Professor Hyman
Levy, professor of mathematics at
the Imperial College of Science, —
Professor Levy, commenting on

in Prague, refuted the suggestion

that the trial was anti-Semitic.

LONDON |’

.alist countries are up to the same

press reports of the recent spy trial |},

British professor hits new ‘friends’

of Jews

Reealling that Hitler and the tsars
used Jews as a political weapon to
split and confuse the workers, Pro-
fessor Levy said:

“Today political detractors of the
People’s Democracies in the capit-

game.

“This time they suddenly emerge
as ‘defenders’ of the Jews because
its suits their political purposes.

Jews have become the stick with

which to beat the socialist countries.

“We know that game too well,”
said Professor Levy.

He described the Prague trial as
a defense against splitting the uni-
ty of the Czechoslovak workers,
Jew and non-Jew alike, by those
who wish to create a division ef
allegiance between Czechoslovakia
and Israel.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — DECEMBER 12, 1952 — PAGE 3

“We are not deceived by our
new ‘friends.’ Not long ago they
were playing Arabs against Jews.
Now they hope to play Jews against
the socialist countries.”

Professor Levy, who is the auth-
or of many popular scientific books,
said that the Chief Rabbi of Prague
had seen through this games. “So
do we,”he added.

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