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‘POW murder’
Stories aimed af
barring cease-fire

Seeking desperately to prevent
& cease-fire in Korea, one of the
“General MacArthur’s gang”, Col-
Onel James M. Hanley, chief of
the U.S. Eighth Army’s war
crimes section, charged last week
that 5500 U.S. war prisoners had
been “massacred sby the Reds’
Since the outbreak of war.

Expressing “regret” at the way

€ announcement was made, Gen-
€ral Matthew B. Ridgway then
“confirmed the authenticity” of the
report{ and hastily added that

ey’s statement “had of course
no connection whatever with the
current armistice negotiations.”

Evidence suppressed by all daily
newspapers included letters from
American  prisoners-of-war (see
Photostat on nage one) and numer-
Sus photographs from the prison
camps in North Korea. i

Photos on this nage show (top)
Yankee troops surrendering to
North Korean séldiers and Chinese \
Volunteers; (centre) captured
Americans in a prisoner-of-war
camp; (right) an American pris-
Oner reading a copy of the San

Tancisco Daily People’s World.

Letters from American prisoners-
°f-war tell of the good treatment.

€y are receiving, ask relatives
8nd friends to oppose sending
°f more U.S. troops to Korea and

work for a negotiated peace.
This is the truth which the daily
Papers fear to print.

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hopes for negotiation and agree-
ment between the five great pow-
ers responsible, in accordance with
the terms of the UN charter, and
by their own strength, for the
peace of the world. The campaign
of the World Peace Council for
a pact between the big five is,
therefore, looked upon: by world
opinion as justified by the course
of events and the present ineffec-
tiveness of other methods.

The World Peace Council calls
the attention of the General As-
sembly to the following points in
particular:

1 Peace and international co-

: operation cannot result from
imposing on the whole world de-
cisions taken by the majority of
member states, most of them rep-
, resenting, moreover, a minority of
mankind. It is by the methods of
negotiation. and conciliation that
the agreements essential to the
peaceful development of the world
can be established.

Since such agreements must ex-
tend, in particular, to Asia, con-
siderations of justice and a real-
istic view of international policy
require the admission to the UN
of the government of the People’s
Republic of China.

The failure of the conference
of the four foreign ministers’
deputies and the agreements reach-
ed in Washington and at Ottawa
by the sixth session of the Atlantic
Council makes difficult all moves

for disarmament, prevents the
German people from determining
themselves the restoration of their
unity, and increases the danger of
war in Europe.

Negotiations between the great
powers can lead more rapidly to
the establishment of a unified, de-
mocratic and. demilitarized Ger-
many. This solution corresponds
at one and the same time to the
desire of the vast majority of the
German people, to the interests
of Germany’s neighbors and to the
interests of peace.

Accordingly, the World Peace
Council urges the UN to use its
infiuence to obtain respect for the
international agreements on Ger-
man disarmament and to acceler-
ate the conclusion of a peace treaty
that shall make possible the with-
drawal of occupation troops and
the reconstitution of a unified and
demilitarized Germany.

Minority must
admit China to
UN, talk peace

VIENNA

The World Peace Council, meeting in Vienna earlier this month,
addressed this appeal to the General Assembly of the United Nations,
to public opinion and to the peoples of the whole world:

The worsening of the international situation in recent ‘months
disturbs and worries the men and women of all countries. Everyone

The restoration of peace in

Asia concerns all mankind.
This restoration has been seriously
imperilled by the San Francisco
treaties with Japan. It (the restor-
ation of peace) implies not only
that all hostilities in progress, first
and foremost those in Korea, be
ended by the conclusion of armis-
tice agreements, but that the right
of the Asian peoples to indepen-
dence and _ territorial integrity
without any forcing interference,
be assured.

The maintenance of peace in

the Middle East and in North
Africa cannot be assured in a
Satisfactory way by the continua-
tion of arrangements and situa-
tions contrary to the peoples’ right
to self-determination. The fight of
the peoples of Egypt, Iran, Moroc-
co and all the other countries of
the near and Middle East and
North Africa to conduct and man-
age their own affairs, without
pressure of foreign intervention
and without being subjected to
military occupation, open or dis-
guised, must be recognized and in
an effective way.

The arms race can bring no-

thing to the peoples but the
certainty of ruin and the threat
of a war disastrous for humanity.
Therefore the road of simultane-
Ous, progressive and effectivly con-
trolled disarmament must be taken.
Such disarmament must include,
Specifically, the prohibition of

atomic weapons and other weapons
of mass destruction, the use of

armament proposal adopted in
Vienna, November 6, 1951.

This proposal can under no cir-
cumstances result in a disequilib-
rium to the advantage or disad-
vantage of one state or another.
By the strict control system that
it prescribes, this propesal guar-
antées the Security of all at every
stage of disarmament.

The World Peace Council is con-
vinced that war is not inevitable
and that a peaceful co-existence
of different political and social re-
gimes is possible, and that its pro-
posals conform to the interests of
all mankind.

China, Tibet linked by

army - built

PEKING
Trucks are now carrying sup-
plies to remote settlements on the
Sikang-Tibetan plateau over a road
that traverses some of the most
rugged terrain in the world. Com-
pletion of the new Sikang-Tibetan
highway by units of the People’s
Liberation Army assigned to the
project last summer, was announc-
ed here this week.

To construct the road, which
links Szechwan province with the
Tibetan border regions, the army
workers had to carve their way

across the slopes of towering
PACIFIC TRIBUNE —

highway

Damalashan to the storm-swept
5400-foot summit.

For the people of the recently
liberated Sikang-Tibetan plateau
the highway is a link with the
New China of which they are now
a part. Already hundreds of
Tibetans are returning to the
homes they were forced to leave
because they could not pay the
extortionate levies demanded by
the Kuomintang. And tea and
salt, vital commodities in these
regions, which reached prohibitive
prices under Kuomintang rule, are
now within reach of every one.

NOVEMBER 23, 1951 — PAGE 3