‘One day | will yoturn’

British-born editor
deported by U.S. gov’t

Cedric Belfrage, British journalist and.author' who defied the McCarthy inquisition
and witch-hunt, was deported from the U.S. last week. With his American wife, Dr.
Josephine Belfrage, he was placed on board the Holland-America liner Nieuw Amsterdam.

Senator McCarthy’s inquisition has sent hundreds of innocent Americans to jail.
The deportation ends Belfrage’s 2'7-month fight for his right to U.S. citizenship after being

Goa deaths bring all
India to a standstill

- NEW DELHI

The killing by the Portuguese of at least 15 passive resist-
ers in Goa has roused India’s millions to the highest pitch of
indignation. A hartal (general strike and closure of businesses,
etc.) has been declared throughout India.

In the cities and towns, in-
dustrial and commercial life is
paralysed. Mills, factories, shops,
schools and universities are clos-
ed.

Mass demonstrations broke out
in many cities demanding drastic
action against the Portuguese, and
there is resentment at the reitera-
tion by Premier Nehru of his policy
of a peaceful approach.

In Bombay, all factories, mills
and transport came to a stand-
still. Police fired| on demon-
strators, wounding 14, and 11
police were hurt by stone-throw-
ing.

A crowd of 5,000 broke a police
cordon, entered the Portuguese
Consulate and raised the Indian
national flag at half-mast.

In Calcutta, the Portuguese
Legation was ransacked and
papers and files made into a bon-
fire. The Portuguese flag was
torn down and the Indian one
hoisted in its place.

:Nehru told parliament that the
Indian government would continue
with its peaceful approach and not
resort to armed force.

Nehru added that 800 Satyagra-
his — peaceful demonstrators —
were still on Goan territory, out of
the 2,000 who had entered.

“The behaviour of the Portu-
guese authorities — | am using
restrained language—was brutal
and uncivilised in the extreme,”
Nehru said.

‘J am not aware of even any
hint that these Satyagrahis had any
weapons. They were totally: un-
armed.

“According to the view of the

Soe ee :
PRIME MINISTER NEHRU

Portuguese authorities, they may
have been committing an offense
and they were entitled to take
proper measures. After all, Satya-
graha is the deliberate committing
of an offence. "

“The question is how far a gov-
ernment. is justified in killing
people who are unarmed and be-
having peacefully and not attack-
ing them.

“In several instances Satyagra-
his sat down on the ground, and
some reports say that they were
shot at by a certain Portuguese
policeman and others who were
sitting in chairs at the time.”

“This is not the| end of the
story,” Nehru continued. “The
story will not end until our ob-

jective is achieved.”

Relatives

BERLIN
: Unless the West Berlin authori-
ties pass new legislation by the end
of the year, relatives of men such
as Goering and Himmler will be
claiming the colossal fortunes they
left.

On December 31 next the denazi-.
fication laws lose their validity and
relatives of some of the most prom-
inent Nazis can ‘claim the fortunes,:
mostly deposited with private
banks, or even ask for a pension.

According to the West Berlin
evening paper Der Abend the ex-
tent of these fortunes runs into
millions, often deposited under
somebody else’s name.

Just how much money Hitler had
is not yet known as even now not

all his bank accounts have been!

run to ground.

Goebbels’ fortune was deposited
in several banks in order to try to
cover up how much money he had.

Men responsible for the murder
of millions, S.S. leaders, Gauleiters
and kindred criminals are report-
ed to have salted away huge
amounts of money.

The West Berlin Minister of the;
Egypt.

Interior is working out a proposal

of Nazis

claim loot

to enable the money to be confis-
eated and will present a law enab-
ling proceedings to be taken.

Sudan demands British,
Egyptians clear out

KHARTOUM
The Sudanese parliament last

week passed a resolution calling:

for the evacuation of British and
Egyptian troops to clear the way
for the Sudan to choose her own
future.

The resolution, passed unanim-
ously, called on the Governor-Gen-
eral, Sir Knox Helm, to notify Brit-
ain and Egypt of the parliament’s
desire for arrangements to be put
in hand immediately for self-deter-
mination.

The 1953 Anglo-Egyptian agree-
ment provides that after the pass-
ing of this resolution a constituent
assembly shall be elected to map
the country’s future course.

The choice, in effect, is between
independence and union with

a permanent resident in the US.
since 1937.

Correspondent and, since 1948,
editor| of the U.S. progressive
weekly The National Guardian, Bel-
frage was the only Briton td face
the McCarthy witch-hunt, apart
from the U.S. Communist leader

‘Johnny Williamson.

The Nationai Guardian has an-
nounced that Belfrage would sub-
mit to deportation as means of
“restoring his full freedom to write
again, although in exile,” and will
continue his *work for the paper
from abroad as “editor-in-exile.”

In a statement before leaving
New York, Belfrage declared: “I
will return.”

Cedric Belfrage’s deportation
was demanded in May 1953 by Sen-
ator McCarthy, when Belfrage re-
fused. to answer questions relating
to his personal beliefs and profes-
sional activities. Senator McCarthy
was inquiring into the U.S. Army
Press teams in Germany at the end
of the war.

Belfrage was picked up by US.
Immigration Department officers
the morning after the McCarthy
hearing and spent a month on Ellis
Island until released on $5,000
bail. i

At the hearing which began in
August 1954, the Immigration De-
partment produced the usual police
informers who claimed to have
“evidence” of Belfrage’s member-
ship in the Communist party.

. In May this,year, after the Board
of Immigration Appeals upheld the
deportation order, Belfrage was
taken to jail, where he has been
held ever since.

“We leave an America,” said
Cedric Belfrage, “that is furious-
ly going forward and backward
at the same time, an America in
which the cold war rages aft
home while Eisenhower, Bulgan-
in, Chou and the other world
leader's strive together to abate

the international cold war.

“It is sad,’ he said, “that the
greater freedom of thought and
movement which was once found
by sailing westward is now found
by sailing eastward.

“Of course, I know what it is
that I have been jailed and deport-
ed for. :

' “1 am guilty of founding and
editing a paper, the National
Guardian, which has_ refused
from the outset to join in the
cold war, either domestic or for-
eign, and has consistently fought
both.” : ‘

-Denouncing the actions of U.S.
Attorney-General Brownell, Bel-
frage said he has created a situa-
tion where “government cnsorship
has come to America only clad in
the harlequin’s rags labelled Free-
dom.” .

He said that during his time in
jail he was with an American
Communist, and declared:

“The day will come when the
people will note what now es-
capes them, that some of the
American Communists now jail-
ed for their thoughts are among
the best human beings in fhe’
land.

“I leave with a clear conscience.” |

Ken

Two young European police inspectors were arreste
with murder in Nyeri last week following an inquest on
oner who died in their custody after alleged torture. A chief
and a district officer were also arrested and charged with doing
harm to the prisoner, an African named Kamau’ who died last May"

at a police station.

He had been in custody suspect-
ed of stealing some money from a
Home Guard post.

The resident magistrate, A. ‘C.
Harrison, said he was _ satisfied
from medical evidence that Kamau!
died from no apparent natural
cause, but probably as a result of
flogging, excessive ill-treatment,
exposure and deliberate neglect.

Harrison said a number of wit-
nesses had described a situation in
the district “which if true is not
merely grave and alarming but in-

ya police flog .
African to death |

deed astonishing.”
There had been much testimony

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d and charged ;
a Kikuyu Dees
inspecle
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to the effect that Kamau was A i
without trial and “was pe

in an obviously agonizing ™: zi
with his arms between his ie ‘hs
his hands handeuffed behine ~~
back.” :

He was also beaten with i
rhinoceros - hide whip, denie
shelter and food, and tortv son
Chief Inspector Geoffrey © ee
admitted under cross-examine oe
by Crown counsel D. P. B. ee at
that he fired a light, automa” age

here Kam
a spot four feet from ten him.”

was standing to “Eight

Premier Kim Ir Sen —
issues call for peace

: Representatives of North and South Korea should meet t0 d
unification of the country, Kim Ir Sen, Premier of the North,

week.

He was addressing a meeting in this capital of North Korea, ©
occasion of the 10th anniversary of the liberation of Korea inom

Japanese.

Kim Ir Sen also proposed that
the North and South Korean gov-
ernments should proclaim to the
world “that they will undertake
not to use force against one an-
other but use peaceful means to
solve all questions relating to
Korea’s unification.”

iHe suggested, too, that both
sides should reduce their armies
to the minimum, “in order to re-
duce the burden of military ex-
penditure on the people in the
South and North and to use the
manpower engaged in non-pro-
ductive work for peaceful con-
struction.”

Consultation between North and
South for the benefit of all Korea
was the key of Premier Kim Ir
Sen’s address in which he con-
demned Syngman Rhee’s threat to
seize areas north of the present
military demarcation line.

To attain the peaceful reunifi-

cation of Korea, he said, the armis-

ide
ere

the
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tice had first to be
and conditions created

Bet
coi
Korea”

The Strijdom government is now
using the Native Settlement of De-
puties Act in an attempt to stamp
out every effort of African work-
ers to improve their wages and
conditions..

This has become evident in a
number of strikes in various in-
dustries here during the past
weeks.

: In. disputes in the engineering
industry, dry cleaning and textile,
the employers have appealed to the
government and police have been
sent in. In some cases arrests of

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — AUGUST 26, 1955 ~

lowed imposition 0 nave
lations, “Native WORKETy e case a
‘come insolent and 1D: a
quite unmanageable. : ace? :

fired. porn ofS <#
. or ke”
In recent disputes the Ene,
at two factories were wage in
after they demande i
crease. {he
In a circular to employ justtiee

Transvaal Chamber of ampere
complains that in areas Sas for

ican labol "peg
shortage of Afric ; control: re be