‘Red!’ bogey LONDON—The American public] is being fed a barrage of anti- Soviet and pro-war propaganda, - member: of Parliament D. N. Pritt commented here after a short tour of the U.S. Big business hysteria over “what it calls ‘communism’,” he said, “is directed equally to- wards the mildest of socialists as it is toward the USSR.” Despite this campaign, aided by some “terrifying and unscrupulous” newspapers, Pritt said, “I could not help coming away with some feelings of optimism because I felt that the bulk of decent-think- ing Americans did not like this business and in the end decent reactions must prevail.” Stalls on controls NEW YORK—Even President Truman's half-hearted proposals for renewed controls are arous- ing fury in the Republican Con- gress, indicating that little or nothing is planned to deal with what the President himself de- scribed as “an alarming degree of inflation.” Removal of controls has already reduced the purchasing power of the pre-war dollar to 60 cents. Despite this, Congress is appar- ently not even prepared to in- troduce price controls and ration- ing on a selective basis, as Tru- man proposed. They had it before BERLIN—The greater part of the German press is refusing to cooperate in General Lucius D. Clay’s anti-Communist propaganda campaign, American officials have found here. A US. Military Government analysis published here shows that only 2 or $ percent of the German papers in the U.S. zone are participating in the campaign. A considerable number have ob jected editorially to Clay’s pro- posal that German papers aid in the anti-Communist drive. The Christian Democratic news- paper Frankfurter Neue _ Press, quoted in the official analysis, commented: “If some believe that we should suddenly get out the old flag of anti-ccommunism, they should be reminded that once be- fére ‘anti-ccommunism’ was used te give fools and criminals politi- cal power hr Europe.” U.S. ‘aid to China’ SHANGHAI—Thirty-five | thous- and university students are strik- ing in several Chinese cities to protest newly-announced Kuomin- tang (government party) thought control measures. Students are also demanding an end to the civil war and to U.S. intervention in China. Théy are particularly incensed at the advice recently offered Kuom- intang leaders by “unofficial” American emissary William C. Bullit. He proposed that the gov- ernment conscript into its civil war army al) students who oppose civil war. Mexico gets new party MEXICO CITY—A new political party, aimed at uniting all those who oppose war, seek the in- dustrialization of Mexico, support land reform and oppose machine politics, was created at a meeting of 10,000 people in an open air arena here, The new party, called the Popt- lar party, is headed by President Vincente Lombardo Toledano of the Latin American Federation of Labor (CTAL). Lombardo stress- ed at the meeting that the Popu- lar party will not be exclusively @ workers’ organization but will be a means of uniting all social groups and all types of political thought in the country. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1047 de Gaullist front Robert Schuman, 61-year-old lican Party is interviewed following his appointment as premier of Immediately after forming «a ‘coalition’ France. (with the Communists excluded), workers to return to their jobs or face dismissal. Schuman has already issued army mobilization orders aimed at breaking strikes, and engaged in anti-Soviet provocations. He is reputed ta have strong sympathies with De Guallist elements. member of the Popular Repub- government he warned striking postal Strike-breaking helps Marshall ‘plan’ operate SANTIAGO, Chile—Suppression of Chilean labor unions is apparently an integral part of the Marshall plan, according to American business man Wallace Graham, head of the Anglo-Chilean Nitrate oe and the Chilean-American Assn. of New York. “Chilean nitrates,” Grabedi told a press conference here, “are listed among the raw materials con- sidered indispensable for. the Marshal plan, and they can be produced at full speed now that strikes and slowdowns have been ended.” Graham was referring to the Chilean government’s. use of troops and mass arrests to break the recent strike of 18,000 miners who were demanding an increase in their $l-a-day pay and a re- duction in their 10 to 12 hour workday. One result of the strikebreaking and the consequent speedups now being introduced, Graham said, is that “less workers are needed to produce 28,500 tons of nitrate daily now than turned out only 24,000 tons daily last week.” Graham also told the press that “a very favorable reaction” had been produced in the U.S. by Chilean governmetit measures “against communism.” “For example,” he said, “the Court upholds a ‘free press’! LONDON—The editor of a Lancashire weekly news- paper, charged with pub- lishing a “seditious libel” against Jews in Britain, has been acquitted, thus ending a widely-hailed test case on amti-Semitic propa- ganda. The case revolved around an editorial published by James Caunt, in which he said: “Jews are a plague on Britain. . . . Violence may be the only way to bring them ta the sense of their responsibility to the country in which they live.” . Tried by a jury, Caunt was acquitted after the judge warned that “nothing should be dome in this court to weaken the freedom of the press” and that, before Caunt could be found guilty, it must be proved that he “had the intention of pro moting violence by stirring up hostility and ill-will be- tween different classes of His Majesty’s subjects.” US. government at once consign- ed 40,000 tons of coal to Chile which had been earmarked and paid for by other countries.” The coal was sent to Chile by the U.S., Graham failed to ex- plain, in an acknowledged move to help the government smash the miners’ strike. The coal miners were leading a movement for higher wages which involved U.S.owned nitrate interests in launched a _ counter-attack against what they consider or- ganized fascist térrorism aided and . abetted directly and indi- rectly by the present Italian gov- ernment. On the night of November 4, a. secretary of the Farm Workers’ Union was murdered in Sicily. He was the 19th labor organizer killed in Sicily alone during the past year. None of the assassins has been caught by police. ‘One night later, in a farm dis- trict just outside Milan, three union organizers were shot. Sus- picion pointed to a notoriously pro-fascist local landowner, A small group of workers went to over to the police. The workers found the landowner had barri- caded himself jn a barn. When he refused to come out, they tried to force the door. Sudden- ly,’from the barn loft, the land- owner started shooting, killing one worker: and seriously wound- ing two others. The infuriated workers, ignoring the barrage of fire, forced the door, captured the landowner and beat him. He later died. When news spread in Milan that a worker from the Breda plant had been killed, 200,000 workers left the factories to hold a protest demonstration. During the meeting, news ar- rived that a bomb had exploded in Communist party headquart- ers, killing another worker. It was after this that the workers circulated through the city, wrecking the headquarters of fascist organizations. These are the bare facts. This was the pattern repeated in other cities. But the facts mean little unless seen in the light of the political climate that has been ushered in since the Chris- tian Democrats started to govern the country alone five months Chile. Fascist revival sparks violent events in Italy" By GINO BARDI ROME—Killings, ‘bombings and’ strikes, have been the order of the day throughout. Italy recently. “That the workers have used violence is Pincauesdonel {But they have been amply provoked. have his estate, intent on turning him] ago. Exasperated, they The government’s tolerance of resurgent fascist groups has pro- voked alarm even among moder; ates, One of these fascist groups. is known as the MSI and is made: up of “pure fascists”—those who: fought with Mussolini te the. last. MSI groups hold meeting wheré Mussolini and fascism are cheer ed and fascist songs are sung. The newsstands are full of their anti-democratic publications. De- spite a law forbidding the for- mation of a new fascist party under any mask, MSI was allow ed to participate in the recent Rome administrative elections, Alarmed by this turn of events, La Voce Republicana, organ’ of the moderate, middle-of-the-road Republican party, declared Nov- ember 16: “With the re-entry of fancints in government administraton, we have seen the beginning of a ‘purge’ in reverse, against the anti