‘U.S. rule worse tha ARN Poison gas used : ——LONDON ' (a= government troops bkave used poison gas against the guerillas, reports Free Greece Radio quoting Elefteri Elada agency. Gas was used in the Kastoria-Nes- torion area on March 15, states the report. Free Greece Radio declares that this violation of interna- tional law is. “proof of the Monarchists’ helplessness and the lack of confidence to which they have been brought by the increasing activity of the De- mocratic Army.” : (According to the Greek News Agency in New York the Athens regime is making urgent de- mands on Washington for im- mediate despatch of American troops to Italy because of its own military weakness.) | “4 direct responsibility also falls on the American generals and other officers who are per- sonally leading the Fascist troops in the struggle against the Democratic Army, Free ‘Truman’s E Free Greece radio, broad- casting on the first annivers- ary of |US. intervention in Greece, has charged American officials with establishing a re- gime of “violence, terror, slaugh- ter and extermination,” worse than during the Nazi occupation. “They have filled our country with Hitlerite camps, with jails and graves,” the broadcast de- clared. “More than 10,000 Greek demo- cratic citizens have been murder- ed by Truman's tools in the most inhuman way during the last 12 months. More than 50,000 Greek patriots are being neld in jails and concentration camps under conditions of terror worse than those of the Hitlerite regime. “The prisoners are ofter mur- dered and are being exterminated in every possible means in the name of Truman’s democracy. Five hundred thousand peasants have been displaced and are wandering homeless in the streets in accordance with the plan of military men in Greece.” Flaying the “Western pattern - of democracy” as espoused by President Truman, the broadcast listed the measures of suppres- statue of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt onto its pedestal in Grosvenor Square, London. collected from Britons. Pact exposes Palestine deal Included in the deal is the port of Haifa, military no access to the sea, Public —LONDON absorb the proposed Arab state and part of the proposed Jewish state in Palestine here reveal. important to the Transjordan has: tenance of British troops at key airfields, arrival of new troops in event of war “or a menace of hostilities” of Transpordan equipment with U.S. and equipment. British military The disclosure coincided with a report from UN headquarters ized construction of a new pipeline across Palestine which is said to be intended outlet, it was indicated, is to be handled by Iraq American, Du and mainly for oil produced in Transjordar. The would be Haifa. The pipeline project Company, jointly owned by French oil interes -for sion taken against freedom of thought in Greece. “They have suppressed all papers opposed to such a type of democracy. They have sup- pressed the expression of thoughts and opinions. They have sup- pressed the circulation of all, books of progressive contents. With their law about the allegi- ance of employees and workers, which is the exact copy of an American law, they brought back the days of the dark Middle Ages. They have suppressed the most elementary rights of man and citizen.” . < « government, it is completely sub- The Athens pointed out, servient to the U.S. state depart- ment. “The so-called Greek min- istries are under the complete domination of the Americans and simply carry out the orders which serve U.S. interests in our ~- country. The so-called Greek Army is under the absolute con- trol of the U.S. military mission. The council of national defense, the general staff, and the war ministries are confined to the role of simple executors of Amer- “jean orders.” j President Truman’s pretentions about economic assistance to Greece have also been completely By Walter Lowenfals PHILADELPHIA ai lovee United States Army is starting to train young Ameri- cans in languages for service in 26 foreign lands. This fact has been established through a mimeographed Army memorandum calling for fangu- age training in the Organized Reserve Corps. In a personal telephone con- versation with this correspon- dent, an army officer admitted that the language training was to prepare troops for service in —INDIANAPOLIS ENRY A. WALLACE, third party presidential candidate, has charged President Truman with the responsibility for incit- ing hoodlum attacks upon his campaign rallies. The , accusation, suppressed by the press, was made in Indiana- polis the day after hoodlums at- tacked a campaign rally in Evansville, Ind. and slugged three Wallace aides, including c. B. Baldwin, manager. The accusation preceded by & day President Truman's hesitant and reluctant comment, in re sponse to reporters’ insistent queries, that such mob violence was improper. ‘ Wallace charged that Presiden Truman's recent personal at- tack upon him was agreed upon by the Democratic high com- mand “to stir up certain bigots and zealots to vigorous action.” The third party presidential candidate also lashed at the press promoting war hysteria throughout the U.S. “They are continually making fear and hatred the dominating his campaign _ brew, exposed by the record, the broad- cast continued, citing: “In= 12 months the drachma has 50 to 75 percent of its’ value. Food have .increased by 100 percent. Salaries and wages have lost 75 percent of their purehas- ing value, while 60 percent of the workers are unemployed to- day. The manufacturing and agricultural country hardly reaches 50 percent of the pre-war figures and the lost prices produce of our peasants is plun- dered by Americans, who only ridiculous for © it.” offer prices The Greek people, it concluded, either these invaders, weapon in “must vanquish foreign hand, and expel them from our country, crushing at the same time their local tools, or else cease to exist as a nation. no hesitation. They are follow- ing the road dictated by many years of experience against foreign invaders, the road of armed. struggle, for the. conquest of the right to live and of the freedom and independence of our country so rudely threatened by U.S. imperialism. In this strug- gle our people have proved that they have the strength and will to conquer.” production of the _ “In their choice our people shad n Nazis’ uA TUNA Parley folds up . —ATHENS i Greek labor congress, hailed in advance of its _ March 28 opening as “the only free trade union assembly in the Balkans,” virtually disin- tegrated April 5 after a bitter factional fight for power. Tension started the first day when Foties Makris, notorious trouble-shooter for extreme right-wing royalists, invaded the hall with several hundred unaccredited delegates. Makris, whose status as a deputy‘ to the Greek parliament protects him from arrest, took over the plat- form. His followers, posted throughout the hall, started a riot. The turmoil continued until Makris won his demand to pick the credentials com- mittee, assuring five of the nine posts for his followers. Throughout the conference, efforts at conciliation were made by D. A. Strachan, labor ad- visor to the American Mission for Aid to Greece, R. S. Simp- son, attache of the U.S. embassy, and AFL European Represen- tative Irving Brown, who at- tended the meeting as an ob- server. language training various countries—all. within or bordering on the USSR. These 26 foreign countries in- c the language groups listed in the Army memo: Esthonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Rumanian, Persian, Turkish, Norwegian, Danish, He- Serbo-Croatian, Czecho- slovakian, Modern Greek, Bul- garian, Arabic, Swedish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish. clude following Russian, This memo adds that language training will also be given “when qualified instructor personnel are available and strategic require- motives in American life,’ Wal- lace said. The former vice-president re- iterated, however, that the Tru- man-inspired threats of violence will not silence him, nor intimi- date his supporters. He said that on the contrary the incitations to violence from high quarters will boomerang. Referring to Truman’s recent attack, Wallace said, STtue a0 transparently is that kind of a statement that the effect of it will be gain the new party ad- herents. |, “Their objective is to get us to roll around in the gutter with them, but we are just going to keep our attention on the is- sues.” He declared that so widespread has political fear become in’ the country that “people are now afraid to tell strangers how they are going to vote, particularly if they plan to vote for me.” e . REATS of violence closed the doors of every Indianap- olis hotel to Wallace. The presi- 4 instruction” in the following groups: “Slavic, Balkan, Near and Middle East, Scandinavian, Icelandic Asiatic.” ments warrant the and The memo also points out that the instruction “is designed to ex- tend the military and technical vocabulary” of those who al- ready possess an oral ability. The Army memo was issued by “Headquarters, 79th Division , Artillery, Schuykill Arsenal, Phil- adelphia.” It was signed Hoyt K Lorance, Lt. Col. Infantry, Unity Instructor.” ‘ Wallace defies violence dential candidate finally held his press conference at a Negro apartment hotel, in the home of a friend. When reporters arrived, they were handed notices saying: that the management did not share Wallace’s views. Further, the owners sent a pleading message to newspaper editors. asking that the name and location of the hotel be withheld from all news stories. S Since President Truman’s at- on Wallace, urging that his sup- porters be shipped “back where they came from, “there has been a series of outbreaks, climaxed by the attack on the Evansville meeting. | Denial of halls to Wallace in Iowa threatened cancellation of a speaking tour by the presiden- tial candidate in his own home state. Despite the calculated hysteria, however, 800 braved mob threats to. hear Wallace in Evansville, and another 4000 jammed the hall in Indianapolis. Both Indiana towns were Ku Klux Klan strongholds in the mid-twenties. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—APRIL 16, 1948—PAGE 6 .