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By JOHN PITTMAN

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.
Guatemala has charged that U.S.
Official and press circles are pre-

_ Paring intervention against this

Small Central American republic
%f three million people.
Dr. Guillermo Toriello Garrido,
Guatemala’s representative, declar-
ed that some members of the U.S.
State Department have personal
interests in United Fruit Company

and are responsible for the propa-},

Sanda campaign inciting hatred
and enmity against his nation.

. Speaking in the Assembly plen-
aty debate on the Soviet draft re-
‘Solution, Dr. Thoriello Garrido
Warned against preparations for
Autervention against his country.

He said he would have voted in
favor of the paragraph of the So-
Met resolution calling for a ban
oN propaganda had it not specified
that such propaganda was prepar-

or a new world war.

The U.S., he said, was not car-
"ying on propaganda to prepare
& war against Guatemala but

as inciting hatred and enmity
8s the preparation for a type of
intervention. He then charged
© U.S. was carrying out “econ-

Mic aggression” against Guate-
Mala,

Guatemala, he continued, was
Co Ng only to have United Fruit
Mpany comply with its laws. His
had a small army of 3,000
= It had no navy, or air force,
pn ads. And United Fruit Com-
th Controlled its railroads. How
*n, could it be a threat to the
Peace?
aay the contrary, he continued, his
Rett was acting in accord-
hat; With the principles of inter-
tonal law and the UN charter.

Dr. Toriello Garrido’s statement
inte Sharp contrast to the pro-
‘An US Of friendship for the Latin
‘rican peoples voiced by U.S.

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t eresentative Henry Cabot Lodge

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assembs ; at any time the legislative
resolutin of Puerto Rico adopts a
Dlete ton in favor of. more com-
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EAST AFRICA

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‘Buganda in tears
Paulo Kavuma, Kat ikkiro
(prime minister) of Buganda,
told the Lukkiko (parliament)
last week, “The whole of Bu-
ganda is in tears,” over the Brit-
ish government's action in depos-
ing and exiling King Mutse II,
Kabaka of Buganda.

Canadian corporation
behind Buganda action

LONDON

- Big foreign investors, including Canadian interests, are behind the action of British Colonial Secre-

tary Oliver Lyttleton in kidnappin

protectorate treaties.

g Mutesa, the Kabaka (King) of Buganda and tearing up the province’s
(Buganda is the main province of Uganda, which borders on Kenya.)

: These investors are pushing ahead with mining and industrial projects in East Africa. Their
interests lie in an East African federation and in low taxation.

They are opposed to any political
developments which would bring
them under the control of an Afri-
can government.

This would happen in Buganda
if the king and his people won
self-government or if all Uganda
was converted into a federation of
African states.

Last month the Uganda De-
velopment Corporation Ltd. an-
nounced that it had reached
agreement with Frobisher Ltd.
(the Canadian mining company
and subsidiary of Ventures Ltd.)
for the completion of Kilembe
copper mine in western Uganda.

Frobishers would contribute
about two-thirds of the $19 million
capital.

The ore would be brought for
smelting via a new rail extension
right across Buganda to Jinja on
its eastern border.

The new smelting works at Jinja
would also treat copper ore from
the Macalder-Nyanza copper mine
in Kenya.

In an article on these industrial

Nixon boycotted by
bloc of Indian MPs

NEW DELHI

Vice President Richard Nixon of the United States spoke to Indian

members of parliament last week

India’s own affairs.
He attacked India’s new trade

— and deliberately interfered in

agreement with the Soviet Union,

saying that many people in the U.S. would view “with alarm” the con-

clusion of such agreements as a
sign of an inclination to “totali-
tarianism.” :

Unfortunately for Nixon he is
visiting India at a time when the
public’s attention is mainly focus-
ed on the new trade treaty and
the Soviet note to Pakistan warn-
ing against U.S. bases there. .

Nixon informally addressed a
poorly attended meeting of mem-
bers of both houses of the Indian
parliament.

The Communists, Revolution-
ary Socialists, members of the
Forward bloc, and the Peasants
and Workers’ party ‘boycotted
the meeting.

The bulk of Praja Socialist par-
ty MPs did not attend either. In-
dia’s vice-president, Doctor Radha-
krishnan, also made Nixon’s job
pretty difficult. : :

He asked him to tell President
Eisenhower that Asia was pulsat-
ing with a new life and demand-

ing racial equality; political free-
dom, economic progress and inter-
national peace as the only way to
save democracy in the world.

Kenya congress
hits federation

NAIROBI

The Kenya Indian Congress de-

clared in a statement here last

week that East and Central Afri-

can Federation was out of the ques-
tion.

Political union of Kenya with
other East African territories
should not be considered until
Kenya “gets away from the racial
basis of politics,” and until such a
union was freely accepted by the
people of the other territories, it

said.

developments on November 21 a;

special correspondent of the Lon-| are not so intended.”

don Times declared that: | This resolution opposed federa-
“In these circumstances actions | tion with Kenya and demanded a

such as that of the Great Lukkiko | fixed date for the independence of

(the Buganda Council) in passing|Buganda within the Common-

the October resolution are a grave | wealth.

Labor leaders save
Tories by withdrawal

LONDON

Seldom has the weakness of the right-wing Labor party leadership

been more obvious than in last week’s debate in the British House of

Commons precipitated by the Conservative government’s action in
deposing and exiling the Kabaka of Buganda.

The Labor party submitted a}
motion censuring Colonial Secre-|
tary Oliver Lyttleton for his con-|
duct of “African affairs.” James
Griffiths, colonial secretary in the)
former Labor government, with- |
drew the motion at the close of the)
emergency debate on Buganda on}
Wednesday night last week. Then,
while Labor back benchers anxious-
ly tried to find out what their lead-
ers intended to do with the motion, |
the right-wing leaders decided not}
to proceed with it at all, announc-
ing their decision only on Thurs-
day night last week.

The Conservative -party, hard-
pressed to defend its repressive
African policies, immediately seiz-
ed the opportunity to ridicule the
Labor party’s amazing stand and
divert the issue from one of policy
to one of procedure.

embarrassment, even though they

The Conservative statement said
there were few precedents for a
motion of censure to be published
at home and abroad without those
responsible placing it for debate.

The statement issued by the
right-wing Labor leaders, explain-
ing withdrawal of the motion,
claimed that it Was not their inten-
tion to embarrass Lyttleton. They
contended that a mistake had been French released
made in issuing the motion of
censure and informing government)
whips about it.

Rot for years has the Labor party
made itself look so-ridiculous as in
these attempts to help the govern-
ment to maintain its hold in Bu-
ganda.

Benoit Frachon, general secre-
taryof the General Confederation
of Labor, largest and most in-
fluential labor oganization in
France, was reported this week
to have been released from jail.

An almost unanimous call of “Re-| He was said to have been given
sign” went up Sairinaae aoe a “provisional release’ by a
benchers when Lyttleton to: S| grand jury — a phrase that in-
on Monday last week that he had dicated Iueiilily of dks French
seized the king and was bringing = sitcom naa chengde

him to London. ; :
But feeling of indignation found| °f “endangering the internal
no expression in the right-wing) security of the state” against
Frachon stick.

leadership’s statements.

West Indian leader appeals to Privy Council

St. Vincent fears fate of British Guiana |

LONDON

After surviving an attempt at

assassination a man who may be

the future prime minister of the

West Indies island of St. Vincent

has arrived in London with an ap-
peal to the Privy Council.

Nearly a year ago Ebenezer
Icahn, 8 is president of the
People’s Political party, was ar-
rested after making a speech in
which he attacked the police. A
charge of sedition was dismissed,
but he was found guilty of public
“mischief.” oe

In London he is petition!
leave to appeal to the Privy Coun-

i ainst the court’s decision.
oath his counsel, Ralph Mill-
ner, he is declaring that in criticiz-
ing the police he was only assert-
ing the right of free speech. :

Last July an unknown assassin
fired into his room at 4 o’clock one

morning, and then escaped.

Aware that an attempt might

made on his life, Joshua had
etited on friends to guard him,
but five were arrested by the
police before the attempt.

The People’s Political party is
supported by thousands of under-
paid people working in the arrow-
root, cotton and sugar industries

of the West Indian island. “When I go back I want to make

“There is a state of serfdom
among many of the workers,” says
Joshua. .

“The minimum wage is about 3
shillings and 10 pence (about 40
cents) a day, and housing condi-
tions are deplorable.

“We want a united party repre-
senting the people, and we seek to
improve conditions by constitution-
al means. :

“But we are very conscious
that if we are returned to power
the British government may try
to smash the constitution as it
has done in British Guiana.

people alive to the crime that has
been committed in British Guiana.”

If the People’s Political party
wins the elections next year, Joshua
will be in approximately the same
position as Dr. Cheddi Jagan was
after the election in British
Guiana.

“What happened in British
Guiana might have happened in
St. Vincent,” says Joshua.

(St. Vincent, which has a popu-
lation of 70,000, is in the Wind-
ward Islands. The capital city is
Kingstown.)

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