| | | I | Gi nere volunteets capture G.1.‘s This picture, unteers who have surprised their patrol. : claim to have captured 1,000 American prisoners 4 : . ‘ 1- jved from Chinese sources, shows American soldiers surrendering to Chinese vo! fens The Korean People’s Army and supporting Chinese volunteers in northeast Korea alone during the NOvember-Decem- ber counter-offensive that smashed MacArthur’s armies and drove them out of North Korea. Indochina as U.S. props up tottering colonial regime As the United States orders its diplomatic, military and Economic officials already est- ablished in Indo-China “to prepare a thorough review of th situation there” in order to “reas- sess” the whole problem — and prepare United States direct military intervention against Viet Nam in view of the French colonialists rapidly deteriorating position on the “stiffening ‘ of the campaign under the new command of General Jean Delat- tre de Tassigny. The. announcement states that General Delattre as a military head is being given’a civilian as- sistant who will act as assistant high commissioner in charge of running the civilian side of the “dirty war’ in Indochina. The man chosen for the Goutier, was Seneral secretary of the French! colonial administration in Mada-; Sascar. He had left a black re-| cord in Indochina where from | 1940 until 1944 he had been gen-; eral secretary under the notor-; ious Admiral Decoux. Both Gautier and Decoux served Petain and the Japanese warlords faithfully throughout the occupa- tion. This drew for Gautier: his ignominious dismissal from the French colonial service after the liberation. However, Gautier, discharged vensionless, argued that he had always been a devout Roman Ca- tholic and joined the MRP (Chris- tian Democrat Party). Under Pressure gf this government par- ty he was. duly reinstated and sent to Madagascar where he act- ed under De Gaullist governor De Chevigne during the phony “ris- ing” two years ago that led to fierce repression and massacre of many Island nationalist and: .de- moerst leaders. Gautier’s - black record as. one of the fiercest supporters of Pe- tain’s .so-cailed Veterans’ Legion — actually black fascist militia that savagely fought the French tesistance patriots and helped the Nazi invaders throughout the oc- Cupation -- highly qualified him for the post in Indochina under the United States “reassessed” hulitary, political and economic chiefs who are now taking in hand the Viet Nam “dirty war” from the French colonialists. PARIS Profits hit new high while British people wer re FEegt rearmament bill LONDON | | British workers, and all other British consumers, are paying higher prices for practically anything. They are told this is a necessary sacrifice under the policy of “guns before butter.” But profits are not being sacri- ficed under this austerity program which calls for heavy rearmament and claims that it seeks to save the nation from bankruptcy and disaster. Figures just issued show that profits, like prices,. went way up last year. Only living stand- ards’ went down. The ‘London Financial Times, in an analysis of the profits of 2,381 companies in 1950, found they totalled $3,890,000,000—or $354 mil- lion ‘more -than in , 1949. - The gravy train was led by the air- craft and automobile industries, which service rearmaments and made 82 percent more.than in 1949. The building and building materials industries showed a profit 27 percent higher than in 1949... The electrical, radio, cot- ton and rayon industries each upped profits over 20 percent. That the workers are paying for these higher profits under the armament economy is clear from price figures. ° In basic foods, butter costs 33 percent more than a year ago and bacon 10 percent more. . ‘Clothing, especially woolen clothing, is also up. A man’s suit costs about 9 percent more and a man’s overcoat about 11 percent more. Since the price of raw wool has jumped by a fur- ther 8 percent in~ the last three weeks alone, ‘further sharp in- creases are inevitable. Coal for household and heating purposes .has risen from $12.80 to $14.02 a.ton -—- or almost 10 percent. A housewife now ‘pays $7.76 for a pair of sheets, where she paid only $5.50 in 1949 — a rise of .40 percent. This jump occurred in a year in which profits of textile mills rose more than 20 percent. Motorists have seen the price of tires go up four times during the past year. Last October the price was hiked 17 percent, and a few days ago another 20 percent hike was announced. Motor oils have also risen. These increases affect everyone, not only motorists, since they also mean an inevit- able rise in both city and long- distance bus fares. OPPOSE U.S. SCHEMES German demand made great strides ahead. tion tops that of 1936; its 5-y war outputs by 100 percent. — by German public opinion to agree to negotiations with the German Democratic Republic on the problems: Unification of Ger- many; demilitarization of Ger- many; a peace treaty for ~Ger- many and withdrawal of all for- eign troops from Germany. In Germany today — East and West, — the focal point of poli- tical discussion is the message of Prime Minister Otto Grote- wohl of the German Democratic Republic, to Bonn Chancellor Adenauer, suzgesting that a plan be adopted for formation of an All-German Constituent Council. Grotewohl’s message declared: “The partition of Germany was a national calamity, which is being aggravated by the re- militarization of Western Ger- many and its inclusion in the plans of preparation for war. The German people are deeply perturbed by the threat offered by the imperialist forces to their national interests.” For two months the Adenauer régime ducked ‘answering the Grotewohl unity proposals. Kurt Schumacher, the Social Democra- tic leader — the Coldwell of Ger- many, -- said that the -Germans had no right, or power to discuss these matters and proposed that the whole matter be passed on to the High ‘Commissioners of the U.S., Britain and France. But the unity pressures of the German people have forced Adenauer to agree to negotiations. Adenauerand. his - regime..are hell-bent for war. Of that there can he no doubt. They have received the Brussels Atlantic Pact scheme — to raise 200,000 West German soldiers and air- men, organized in brigades of 6 to 7,000 men, under U.S. General Eisenhauer’s supreme command — but they have a plan of their own. This plan was put forth by two of Adenauers cabinet minis- ters Blucher and Schaffer. The Blucher-Schaffer plan is forma- tion of 22 all-German divisions, including 10 panzer divisions and the creation of a German airforce. This means creation of a new German Wehrmacht. Schumacher adds.to this the demand that the US., Britain, and France put armed forces in- to West Germany in the same pro- portion as the Bonn regime raises an armed force, and that the aim bitions to the East! It is a cunning scheme to har- ness West German steel, coal and manpower to the Yankee plan for anti-Soviet war, and at the same time, to create the im- pression that Adenauer and Schumacher . are fighting for German “independence, equality and parity.” A veritable storm has arisen in Europe, including Germany, over the U.S. plan to re-create a ‘200,- 000-stronge German army, officer- ed by former Nazi generals. A majority of the West German people are against it for they have had enough of war and they want to live in peace. But there is a powerful cabal of forces in West Germany — around the Ruhr. steel magnates and the Nazi-Prussian generals who are tied with a thousand strings of power and gold to the imperialists of London, Washing- ton and Ottawa — who pin their hopes upon an aggressive war against the New Democracies of Europe and the Soviet Union. In such a war, they calculate, they could realize Hitler’s insane, mur- derous aim of making an imperia- list Germany master of Europe . and the world. These insane must be to restore Germany’s am-‘ people peace BY CHARLES SIMS The German. Democratic Republic, in its first year has Industrial and agricultural produc- ear plan aims to increase pre- Politically it has scored a mas- sive success, for the Adenauer pro-Yankee West German government has been compelled; | UE a a TUT eee te ea at tn SP att nt ue Thousands march in ‘Tel Aviv to profest German rearmament TEL AVIV More than 15,000 Israeli wor- kers, soldiers and ex-servicemen marched in giant demonstrations in Tel Aviv and Haifa to pro- test the rearmament of Ger- many. The demonstrators pro- tested “against IAsrael’s line-up with the Atlantic pact powers which are sponsoring German rearming. A frequent slogan appearing on their posters was: “We will not be in the same pact with the Nazis.” Other slogans carried prominently de- manded peace instead of war preparations and action by Is- raeli representatives in the United Nations to secure the banning of the atomic bomb. ST Eee 0 dreams are not dead! Stalin hit the nail on the head when he declared that a democra- tic Germany, working in friendly cooperation with the Soviet Union, would end the imperialist aims to drench Europe once again in the | people’s blood. ‘ f ‘Greenland being transformed info ‘aircraft carrier’ COPENHAGEN Large ‘quantities of American armaments of all kinds as well as harbor equipment, small as- sault vessels, building materials for airfields and ammunition dumps, and machinery for arma- ment repair shops are now arriv- ing in Greenland in a steady flow. Under the plan of building up American military bases in Eu- lrape, recently approved by the +Senate, the U.S. plans to transform ‘Greenland into a gigantic air- craft “carrier. A pact signed by the- Danish and U.S. governments in June, 1950, gave the U.S. the right to maintain military bases on the island for an “undetermin- ed _period”, and meant. as well the sell-out of Greenland’s econo- my to American capitalism. The military bases which are already there, and which served the American troops in the Sec- end World War, are now being speedily rebuilt to serve the war preparations against the Soviet Union and People’s Democracies. 7,000 greet Sharkey on release from jail SYDNEY A huge crowd of 7,000 in’ the Sydney Domain greeted Lance Sharkey, general secretary of the Australian Communist party when he emerged from _ jail’ recently. Sharkey’s first public utterance was “Long live international peace!” —- the last words he said in public before being jailed. Sharkey was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment for state- ments in defence of peace which were deemed “seditious” by the government. At the Domain. rally Sharkey called. for an intensification: of the fight for peace — a fight, he said, “which must be carried. on first, last and all the time.” PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JANUARY 19, 1951 — Page 3