“th a CZECHOS LGle nae IANS, > ee . ‘BAN! gw, ind MoSCOW DG DI ia My ANA SAUDI ARABIA Who's planning aggressive war? ini i i v . But, asi this map shows, American The Truman administration proclaims its desire for peace : : Construction crews in Turkey are rushing to completion air bases that will put bombers within one Moscow itself. hou i Sovi il fields and only three hours from *p o . bane Dantes en fiber And official propaganda brazenly refers to them as “defence” projects. Similar air bases are British general scores U.S. ‘stand on Taiwan LONDON United States authorities are de- liberately exaggerating the strat- sic importance of Taiwan (For- ™Mo0sa) in order to mislead Ameri- fan public opinion and those peo- Ple who are not versed in the prob- lems of military strategy. This is he opinion of Lieutenant-General Sir John Harding, commander-in- Chief of the British Far East Land °rees, as quoted to Telepress news agency by a source close to Brit- “in’s defense ministry. General Harding recently attend- & meeting of British Far East- ‘rn representatives and in talks With highly-placed officials of the defense ministry he has challenged © statements on the alleged ex- . a0rdinary importance of the island or the United States, made by cer- vas American military leaders. Kuch Statements, Harding said, “ve no serious basis and they aim Primarily at explaining the Ameri- tea Cccupation of Taiwan which Si Mise as a base for Chiang Kai- Dees forces and as a threat to “ople’s ‘China. It is impossible to convince com- ferent authorities, Harding said, at Formosa must be regarded as & vital point for safeguarding Unit- States communications to Japan nd Korea, It is also very difficult we believe that; the Americans x uld consider using Taiwan for “Val purposes. aN his Opinion, any greater con- wo. tion of ships in Taiwan ports Ould expose them to a_ direct ‘cot Of air force attacks from the ‘nese mainland. “Formosa (Tai- Sten is not worth the United aie Tisking a big war with Harding said. Diplomat asks asylum PRAGUE ro -Fakan, secretary of the asked t Consulate in Bratislava has 0 the Czechoslovak kovernment Cobpy tt him asylum because he about ho longer remain silent Fre the hostile activities of ch . diplomatic officials” in “€choslovakia. in South for a 24thour political Africa on May 2, - The strike will be part of the growing protest campaign against the Malan government’s “repre- sentation of non-Europeans” act now before parliament. would not only greatly restrict the already limited franchise of color- ed national groups, but would force them to be “represented” in par- liament by three white députies in- stead of their own elected repre- sentatives. ‘ Protests are also rising against the government's proclamation putting into effect, as of March 30, the Group Areas act in the Transvaal, Natal and Cape pro- vinces. The act means the herd- ing of all non-white peoples of these provinces into separate ghetto groups. Indians, Chinese, Malayans and colored (those of: socalled “mixed” origin) will now suffer the same form of segrega- tion inflicted on the native Afri- can peoples in their own home- land by the white supremacists, spokesmen for South Arica’s 80 percent non - white population pointed out. A statement issued by the Natal branch of the South African Indian Congress immediately after the gov- ernment proclamation said: “We in this country are determined not to submit to such humiliating racial laws and the South African Indian Congress is to meet soon to devise a means of combatting this threat in this country.” The bill} to the very existence of our people So widespread has the opposition béen to this act that the govern- Political general strike May 2 Africa CAPETOWN After an all-day conference here, representatives of close to 100,000 African, Malayan and colored national groups in South Africa, joined by. progressive whites, announced plans general strike throughout South Australians oppose Nazi immigrants SYDNEY The Menzies government's plan to bring 100,000 Germans to Aust- ralia has already been condemned at two huge overflow rallies held in Sydney and Melbourne. “We're not against Germans as Germans, but against Nazis as Nazis” and “Bringing in Nazi mi- grants is like spitting on my mates who died alongside me at El Ala- mein”—these declarations keynoted the two meetings. Both rallies un- animously approved resolutions de- manding that the Menzies govern- ment bar from Australia any Ger- mans still “indoctninated with Nazi ideology. So huge was the crowd which turned up for the Sydney meeting that the Town Hall was jammed and 5,000 - 6,000 people could not side, chanting, “We want peace” and other slogans. The Melbourne rally, called by the get in. The overfiow remained out-' men delayed ih . U.S. POW’s in China risoners of war (above) are given friendly treat- Sey ius wpread People’s Army and Chinese volunteers, Hund- ved 6 PpowW’s have demanded an end to U.S. intervention and r 2 just peace and their letters have expressed their penis cee ig onte over the death and destruction caused by Ss. 2 one year after bitter parliamentary debates and public demonstrations of protest. Interior Minister T. E. Donges announced that immediate steps would be taken in the Transvaal and Natal provinces to uproot and shift non-European populations in- to specific “group areas” already defined by the government. In Cape provinces, where various ghetto areas have not yet been defined, “controls” will be introduced as established. The “controls” will be strict, Donges warned. World protests French ban on peace council PARIS _ Protests from all parts of: the world are pouring in against the French government’s ban on the World Peace Council, which has its headquarters here. The decree, issued April 9 by the interior ministry, came three months after a similar ban on other world organizations—World Federation of Trade Unions, Wo- men’s International Democratic Federation and World Federa- tion of Democratic Youth — and is widely construed as reflecting French government subservience to U.S. war plans. The World Federation of Demo- cratic Youth has accepted the in- vitation of the Union of Hungar- ian Working Youth to establish provisional headquarters in Buda- pest while it continues its fight against the French government's ban. ; ha : “saturation bombing. its enforcement for soon as the necessary machinery is | Council against Nazi Immigration, was attended by delegates repre- senting 50,000 Australians. Main speaker at the Sydney meeting was Dr. Herbert Evatt, deputy-leader of the Federal Labor opposition and former head of Australia’s delegation to the Unoted Nations. : “This magnificent gathering,” Evatt said, “shows that the people of Sydney—-and Australia—are un- easy at certain tendencies in the country today. This meeting is not racial, but the very reverse. It is a protest against the introduction to Australia of the intolerable Nazi doctrine of racial superiority.” He warned that if the immigra- tion of Nazis is allowed, the next step will be rearmament of Japan, “ “which no one can tolerate.” Pro- longed applause greeted this statement. Professor Julius Stone said Labor Minister Holt was proposing to bring in large numbers of Volks- deutsche—Germans who had settled in other countries and acted as a fifth column for Hitler. At .the Melbourne meeting, newspaper columnist Ron Steph- ens said there had been no talk by the government of bringing anti-fascists “to Australia. The plan calls for importing ' only Nazis and collaborators from DP camps who ‘dared not return to their own countries because they were branded there as traitors, he said. While welcoming Nazis, the Men- zies government has a policy, bas- ed on racial grounds, of excluding and even deporting Malayans and other Asiatic people with good war and trade union records, The two rallies favored a quota system of migration, based on Aus- tralia’s capacity to house and pro- vide jobs for the migrants. Such a system would exclude fascists but would not discriminate against mi- grants on racial grounds. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — APRIL 20, 1951 — Page 3.