Tibetan women greet Chinese i For these Tibetan women, shown here welcoming ( People’s Liberation, Army means an end to feudal oppression. and respect of their customs has been guarant At the Chinese troops, the coming of the Chinese eel by the Chinese People’s government. same time, freedom of religion Dulles plots. revival of Japanese militarism, return of territories ican envoy to Japan for negotiating a separate John Foster Dulles, the special Amer negot to return to former militarism and feudalism, peace treaty, has. invited Japanese reactionaries In a recent interview he promised that the peace to retain the reforms introduced during the occupation. Japanese militarists can amend the Constitution to remove the provis- ions prohibiting rebuilding of the armed forces and reconstructing their arms industry. © This treaty provision will ex- tricate the Americans from their Present dilemma. ‘They are anx- ious to rebuild Japan as a military Power to be used in aggression against People’s China and the Soviet Union but at the same time they have been embarrassed by the Postwar Japanese constitution’s re- munciation of armed forces “for- ever.” : While most of the reforms which Were written in the constitution or adopted since the war have re- Mained on paper or become inop- erative, American reaction, no less than Japanese, is anxious to, be rid of them, particularly the anti- Monopoly laws which have been the target for criticism from Am- erican big business. Annulment of the reforms would legalise what has become a de facto situation under the occupation. With this step Dulles bares. the Teal purpose of the separate peace treaty—-reconstitution of old feudal Militaristic Japan as a junior part- Ner in American plans for world Conquest.. Under the occupation long ‘steps have already been taken along this road. As the New York Times admits, the “rearmament of Japan actually has started,” hundreds of war criminals have been released or unpurged” and the Japanese in- dustry ig already producing war Material for the American army. The civil rights provisions of the Constitution have been flouted in ‘a Vicious ‘campaign of the Yoshida f0vernment against trade unions and the. Japanese Communist Party, whose paper has been bann- ed and which is itself threatened With banning. The people’s re- Sistance to this rapid drive to fascism would be hampered by Dul- €s’ proposed abolition of the re- forms. The peace treaty proposed by Dulles will rouse strong opposi- tion from Britain and some Members of the Commonwealth, Particularly Australia and New treaty will Specifically this will mean that NEW YORK not bind the Japanese rulers Zealand who despite their anti- Communism have a strong fear of a rethilitarised Japan. While the reactionary Tory government of Australia seems to be modify- ing its opposition to Japanese rearmament, the feeling in the country remains “strongly against the rebirth of Japanese militar- ism. Acting Prime Minister of Aust- ralia A. W. Fadden says now there must be a “limit” to Japanese re- armament and couples this with the statement that it is impossible to\ leave a “power vacuum” in Ja- pan, On the other hand, Dr. Herb- ert Evatt, leader of the Labor op- position in the Australian parlia- ment and former president of United Nations General Assembly, says the proposal to rearm Japan is in direct conflict with the armis- tice signed by her. What more Dulles ymay have promised in order to woo Japanese militarists is a matter for specula- tion. The Japanese are known to have been blackmailing the Am- ericans by pretending opposition to remilitarisation. Premier Shigeru Yoshida has piously pointed to the constitution- al restriction on rearmament as preventing remilitarisation and Finance Minister Ikeda has claim- ed that it would be impossible for Japan to finance the rearmament. Some indications have been prov- ided as to the price the Japanese rulers set for serving as American mercenaries. The Liberal party convention called for return of the Ryukyu Islands including strategic American-occupied Okinawa. It also wants the. Bonin Islands and the Soviet Kurile Islands. The undeclared price is even higher. The United States News and World Report says the “minimum price for willing co- operation seems to be the restor- ation of Formosa and possibly Korea gnd recovery of the con- trol of Manchuria.” CULLUM UE British fear trade war with Japan if peace treaty signed SYDNEY Japanese competition for Southeast Asian markets is ‘al ready becoming a real threat to British exports to that area: With the U.S. demanding early conclusion of a separate peace treaty with Japan, Britain is ex- pecting an all-out trade war. Britain has not been pressing for conclusion of a Japanese peace treaty since her position on the*Allied Control Couneil for in collaboration with American Broadcasting this _ revelation,, Free Greece Radio gives details of Greek military plans, ‘which, it states, were drawn up by the mili- tarist clique headed by Marshal Papagos, commander-in-chief of the monarcho-fascist army and by American. General Jenkins, who visited Ioannina to inspect Greek forces and observe the progress of the invasion plans on the spot. In- structions on the invasion prepar- ations were also brought by Ad- miral Robert Carney when he visit- ed Greece recently. : Free Greece Radio declares that the Greek General Staff is “con- fident of the quick success of the operation which it has already named ‘lightning’.”” The invasion is‘ to be launched with an initial force of two divisions and one commando brigade of Greeks of South Albanian origin and of re- actionary Albanian emigres, Navy ‘Captain Spyromilios will lead the invasion forces. About. 1,000 Albanian fascists have been mobilised for saboteur work, to be sent to Albania to create disorder which would be called an “uprising” against the People’s government. At the same time plans are laid for a so-called United Nations Balkans Commission to issue re- ports about the “mass entry of bandits trom Albania” dnto Greece to cover the launching of the monarcho-fascist offensive. The Greek General Staff’s plan, says Free Greece Radio, is based on the asumption of simultaneous action against Albania by Tito and Italy, along the lines of generally- conceived American schemes. The radio recalled that a similar plan for the invastion of Albania was drawn up in 1945 by the monarcho-fascist staff, but its prompt exposure by the Commun- ist Party of Greece and the action of the people prevented its applica- tion. Broadcast bares Greek plans to invade Albania PRAGUE The General Staff of the Greek monarcho-fascist army, generals and military advisers, has completed a plan for a lightning invasion of the People’s Republic of Albania this spring, the Free Greece Radio charges. Brifish vets score German rearmament LONDON U.S. release of Nazi war crim- inals is “an insult to the memory of our fallen comrades, and the ideals for which they fought,” 149 London units of the British Leg- ion, representing 60,000 veterans of World War I and II, have declar- ed. The 149 units, gathered in an! area conference, called’ upon. the national executive of the Legion to convene at once to meet the “danger to world peace” repre- sented by the U.S. action. The Legion resolution is one symptom of the revulsion against both the rearmament of Germany and the Korean war now apparent in Britain. Reflecting popular pressure, the London News Chron- icle, a Liberal party paper, wrote editorially: “The important thing is that nothing irrevocable. shall be done either: in the East or about rearming Germany before negotia- tions have been tried again.” It stressed that ‘very few people, Peace With China councils have been set up in the past two months in widely scat- tered parts of England. The councils hgve a varied member- ship. Six MP’s are associated with the local branch in the in- dustrial city of Birmingham alone. Purchase of.cars by private by 400 percent last year. Japan gave her the opportunity to prevent excessive competition from the Japanese. At the re- cent London Commonwealth con- ferende Britain took the posi- tion that some control should be maintained over the! Japanese economy even after conclusion of a peace treaty. \ ‘ REECE ERNE E REEL Republics nine times as many. this year. 400 PERCENT INCREASE Car sales up in USSR ~ In the Ukraine seven times as many cars were sold as last year, and in the Uzbek and Armenian Soviet In the Siberian town of Irkutsk 340 cars were sold in the last quarter of ‘1950 alone. In the Estonian Soviet Republic, where before the war not a single farmer had his own ear, hundreds of collective farmers own automobiles. To satisfy the increasing demand, 30 new shops selling cars have been opened in the industrial centers of the Soviet Union MOSCOW citizens in the Soviet Union rose PARIS Tens of thousands of Parisians on February 15, battled with steel- helmeted police on the approaches to the Paris business district. Des- pite the government ban on public demonstrations against the official presence of Nazi militarists in Paris, huge demonstrations took place . They were attacked by thousands of police in an opera- tion resembling a regular battle engagement. The West German representat- ives had come to Paris to attend the “European Army” conference. They included Nazi Colonel von Maizieres, former chief of Nazi Marshal Guderian’s general staff, who reported to the conference on the integration of West German mercenaries into the “Atlantic Pact army.” ; Several thousand former political prisoners paraded through the streets in their striped concentra- tion’ camp uniforms and were greeted by huge crowds shouting: “Paris wants peace,” “No Nazis in Paris” and “No more Oradours” (Oradour is a French village which was razed to the ground and its population exterminated by the INazis). Some 500 demonstrators were arrested. Despite police terror, the French people scored a victory by prevent- ing the coming to Paris of the two military advisers of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, Nazi Demonstrating Parisians block visit of former Nazi officers officers Speidel and MHousinger. Fearing that the presence of these two could sweep it out of office, the French government asked that other less notorious Nazis be sent instead. The wave of revulsion which has swept France in the past month has brought forward hundreds of protests from organisations of all political shades. } The French - government has actualy committed two unconstitu- tional acts. It has committed high treason by negotiating with the military representatives of a pow- er with which France is still in a state of war, and has deprived French citizens of the freedom of public expression. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MARCH 2, 1951 — PAGE 3 onto i | 1 ene Tai ee i