Roundup of world news = + Ux Nazis’ actions revealed BERLIN—(ALN) — Facts on what prominent Nazis and fas- cists are doing in the Ameri- car and British zones of Ger many are revealed in the Ber- liner Zeitung. Ex-Regent Nicholas Horthy of Hungary, Hitler’s old ally, lives in a 12-room mansion in Bav- aria in the American occu- pation zone. Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler’s ec- onomic wizard who is suppos- edly serving a 8-year jail sen- tence, has been holdimg press eonferences on how to rebuild Germany. Hans Fritzche, chief wartime Nazi broadcaster, is also in jail He edits the prison newspaper — presumably to educate the other prisoners on democracy. New security in force BELGRADE—(ALN)—The first comprehensive social security sys- tem in Yugoslavia’s history is now in force. : Pensions are provided for in- validism, old age and for wid- ows and dependent children. Un- employment is no problem in this country where the government’s reconstruction plan involves every available worker. Pensions are determined by the average monthly earnings of the insured person plus the length of employment and the heaviness of work. Pensions for invalids cover not only those who are totally incapacitated but also those who cannot continue to work in their regular trade. To qualify for invalids’ pen- sions, workers must have been insured for five years.' Old age pensions are granted at the age of 55 for those in very heavy work, at 60 for those in heavy work and at 65 for others. The age limit for women is 60. Fif- teen to 25 years’ insurance is re- quired before old age pensions are payable. Protest strike planned GUATEMALA CITY — (ALN) — Unions in Central America will stage a 15-minute stoppage July 24 to protest British retention of the territory of Belize and British Honduras, the Federation of Guatemalan Unions has re- vealed. . Interference opposed LONDON — (ALN) — Reynolds News, organ of Britain’s power- ful nine-million-strong coopera- tive movement, is withholding its applause for U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall's call to Europe to work out its recon- struction needs before any single country seeks a U.S. loan. “Britain’s role is not only to welcome Marshall’s speech,” the. newspaper comments. ‘It is to seek a clearer public definition of the intentions and conditions behind the offer. “We can take no part in any plan which attempts to reverse the drive toward nationalization and public ownership of European industry. We can cooperate to the hilt in any plan which helps Europe without interfering with the freedom of her people to or- ganize their affairs in the way they think best.” The newspaper warns that Eur- ope is not interested in “ ‘occu- pation dollars,’ carrying with them the right to dictate the pattern of Europe’s economic and social life.” Japan teachers merge TOKYO Japanese teachers have strengthened their organiza- tion by voting to merge their three unions into one nation-wide body. Representatives of 500,000 teachers took the action at a special convention here. FRIDAY, JULY Hi, 1947 | Secretary Gathered in closed session, these top CIO leaders surveyed the Taft-Hartley anti-labor law and prepared for court battles to test its constitutionality, with CIO President Philip Murray sound- ing the keynote in his statement, “We propose to fight the political restraints in this legislation.” In New York, however, leading labor lawyers, both CIO and AFL emerged from a conference with the conclusion that the fight against the major provisions of the law could not be successfully conducted on the legal level. In their opinion, the law could only be fought by militant resistance. CIO prepares to fight Taft-Hartley anti-labor law 3 Above are shown left to right): President Emil Rieve of the Tex- tile Workers, President Jacob- Po- tofsky of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers, CIO President Mur- ray, CIO General Counsel Lee Pressman, Vice-president R. J. Thomas of the United Auto Workers. PARIS — Spokesmen for the communist party ‘last weekend de- nounced the forthcoming British- French sponsored conference on the Marshall Plan as an attempt to stave off the expected economic collapse of “capitalist America’ at the expense of the European nations. Communist leaders in a series of speeches and newspaper ar- ticles, scored the scheme as an attempt to exploit and divide Europe, isolate the Soviet Union, and bypass the United Nations. Florimonde Bonte, chairman of the Communist Party, blamed the attitude of British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and the French Foreign Minister George Bidault for collapse of their pre- liminary conference with Rus- sia’s Foreign Minister V. M. Mol- otov. “The road on which Bevin and Bidault want to commit their countries is extremely dangerous because it moves away from the organization of collective security and peace of the United Nations which assures the independence of - nations great and small,” he said. Maurice Thorez, secretary-gen- eral, at a Communist rally in the huge Velodrome D’Hiver, on Sun- day pledged the party’s 1,000,000 members to fight against “forces which are trying to isolate Russia from the rest of the world.” Twenty thousand cheering Com- munists, who came to protest the recently exposed Black Maquis plot to seize the government, heard Thorez denounce the west- ern blos as “a force to aid inter- national trusts.” “The Communist party will do everything in its power to prevent the dangerous trend to the right in French politics and to allow a return to democratic policies which conform to the wishes of the people,” Thorez said. Although Thorez did not speci- fically mention the plan of U.S. of State George C. Marshall, Raymond Guyot, secre- tary-general of the Communist Federation of the Seine, attacked it as “a device of capitalist Amer- ica to try and save it from its greatest depression expected next year.” PARIS —Gen. Rene Edgard de Larminat, inspector general of French overseas and _ colonial forces, has been relieved of his command as a result of the gov- ernment’s investigation of the ‘Black Maquis’ plot to overthrow the republic. General of Reserve Jean Casi- mir Merson is under questioning by the Surete Nationale, in con- nection with the plot. Last week a gentral alarm was sent out to airports, harbor of- ficials and frontier posts for arrest of Count Herouet de Merville. He was believed by the Surete to have been international contact man for the Black Maquis organ- ization which, the government charges, planned to overthrow the republic and set up an, extreme right-wing dictatorship. It was announced that Larmin- at, one of the country’s most dis- tinguished career officers, had been relieved at the personal order of Premier Paul Ramadier. Larminat is now on an inspec- tion tour of the Cameroons in French Equatorial Africa. Pierre Bourdan, government spokesman, said he had been ordered to re- turn to France at once to be placed “at the disposition of the minister of war.” In the National Assembly, Com- munist deputy Maurice - Kriegel Valrimont gave notice that he would question the government concerning the plot. The newspaper L’Intransigeant, in an article titled ‘The Truth About the Black Maquis,’ said the plot was backed by interests in the United States which sought to stir a revolution in France as a spark for a third world war. Count de Merville, emerging as a mystery man in the plot, dis- appeared from his Paris hotel in May. He registered as coming from Rio de Jeneiro. A wartime resistance leader, de Merville was said to have entered into secret relations with German and Italian right-wing under- ground groups since the end of the war. Meanwhile, it was reported that a list of agents in the Black Maquis plot against the French government included “a large number of Londoners.” The list was found in a building owned by de Merville. Police uncover links with London as — ‘Black Maquis’ plot probed in France ‘Get tough with U.S.’ _ LONDON—A call to Britain to “get tough with the United States” was made in the in- dependent, anti - Conservative Daily Mirror last week. The Dail Mirror said: “When the United States took off controls in her own coun- try she transferred a few of them to us. This unusual and unpleasant process was made Friction seen over Japan WASHINGTON — American- Australian relations, strained Dy. Australian dissatisfaction over U- S. occupation policy in Japan, are moving toward a major clash when the Japanese peace confer ence is_ held. Diplomatic reports from Aus tralia reveal that Herbert V- Evatt, blunt-spoken Australian foreign minister, as preparing tO say in public what he bas beep thinking privately about U.S. uni- lateral direction of Japan. He will have an opportunity % tell General Douglas MacArthur in person this week as he leaves for his planned tour of Japan * preparation for next month® British Commonwealth conference in Canberra on the Japanese settlement. The basic difference in Amel: can-Australian relations — whi has not yet been put into wort, is Australian resentment oH the secondafy position to whi ‘s it has been relegated in P0S war Far Eastern affairs. 1 Evatt believes auatenlie one lay a leading role no etine one in post-war aah toward Japan. He has neve hidden his displeasure that Mac Arthur ‘runs’ Japan as & purely American show. In a recent report to the AUS tralian legislature on sores policy, he appealed to Britain ¢ retain “real awareness’ of wh is happening in the Pacific. t American officials fear th# Evatt will seek at the Canbert@ conference to form a British Com monwealth bloc to oppose dominant American position Japanese peace conference. Evatt has been sending 8 Jong series of protests to the government about MacArthur's policies. Only last week he 0 5 ered his ambassador in Washing’ ton, Norman J. 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