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By WILFRED BURCHETT

_ Diem, Rhee plotting
i to restart two wars

HANOI

There are now plenty of indications of plans to tear up the armistices for both

Viet Nam and Korea and restart the two wars.

While the dictator of South Viet Nam,

ae Ngo Dinh Diem, has rejected consultations for elections, thus repudiating the Geneva
hs agreements, the International Commission Supe nvising the carrying out of the agreements

is virtually paralyzed in the South.

Historic moments

-GENEVA—Bulganin, Eisenhower, Faure, Eden

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Pe POTSDAM—Attlee, Truman, Stalin

YALTA—Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin

TEHERAN—Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill

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The French disclaim further re-

; sponsibility.

.| vestigated in. the South,

Inspection teams investigating
massacres and reprisals in the
South have now had to be with-

drawn by the Commission because

for the last two months it has ‘been
prevented, by physical violence
and sabotage by the Diem authori-
ties from functioning.

The fact that U.S. secretary of
state John Foster Dulles jumped
in to support Diem’s repudiation
of the Geneva agreement only con-
firms where the real sabotage of
the armistice is originating. :

The oft repeated slander ‘that
lack of democratic freedoms” in
the North make discussion, on elec-
tions impossible, solemnly repeat-
ed by the Western press, is re-
pudiated by the International Com-
mission’s findings.

Not even one case of repression
of democratic freedom is alleged
against the North. On the other
hand, there. have been 42 cases in-
involving
the massacre of hundreds of REO:
ple.

The International Commission
found the French High Command

— primarily responsible — guilty!

of violations in ten cases. Nineteen
cases of investigations are finish-
ed, but the findings are not yet
announced.

_Kight other cases of investiga-
tions had to be suspended due to
obstruction by Diem authorities
and non-cooperation by the French.
Only three accusations have been
dismissed.

This is the real picture of demo-
cratic freedom.

Diem has slaughtered hundreds
of thousands of people because
their religious views don’t coin-
cide with his clerical fascism, and
wars are still carried on against re-
ligious sects.

PEKING

The Chinese People’s Govern-
ment has proposed the calling of
a conference for the peaceful set-
tlement of the Korean question.

It asked for Asian countries to
be invited as well as those coun-
tries already dealing with Korea.

The proposal, made by the Chin-
ese Foreign Ministry, denounced
the attacks by the Syngman Rhee
puppet regime on the Neutral Na-
tions Commission in Korea.

It declared that the U.S. bore the
main responsibility of taking “ef-
fective measures immediately to
stop the threatened action of the
Syngman Rhee clique” in starting
the war. again.

It added that the governments
of all the other countries partici-
pating in the UN Command in
Korea also have the responsibility
of seeing that the Korean armis-
tice agreement is carried out.

“We'’ hold that the Korean
armistice must be consolidated,”
said the Chinese government
statement, “and nobody should
be allowed to wreck: it.”

Representatives of the 16 na-
tions with troops in South Korea
continued their discussions at the
State Department in Washington
on Rhee’s threats.

At the same time, however,
Syngman Rhee’s Defense Minister,
Sohn Wohn Il announced in Seoul

thai the U.S. would hand over an-! becomes
other 30 Sabre jets to South Korea. couniry.

No candidate for Henley

USSR Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov ig an old hand a
ing diplomatic shoals and reefs, but he proved to be
less than a skilled oarsman at a recent garden party in
Bulganin’s villa near Moscow. Molotov beached the rowb

t ave :
something

Premier
oat he

was handling and dunked his distingiushed passengers, the

tine ambassador and the wife of the Indonesian aonb

aoe

Jailed Sinn Feiner
elected in Ulster

Disqualified by Commons resolution from taking his S°

ats

year-old bricklayer Thomas J. Mitchell has again been elect i

Mid-Ulster’s MP—with an increased majority. 3
T. J. Mitchell (Sinn Fein), 308%) —

Thursday’s byelection was:

Beattie (Ulster Unionist), 29, 586.
In spite of his being in jail,

spite of the fact that he is Goren

The result of

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Twice-defeated Baillie may

ened with disqualification again} choose to claim the seat | et

and again in an endless series of.
byelections, Mitchell has more than
trebled his majority for Irish Na-
tionalism.

He was disqualified as a “con-
victed felon.” He is serving a sen-
tence of 10 years penal servitude
for his part in the raid on the
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers’ depot
at Omagh (Tyrone) last October 17.

He was nominated for the by-
election by the same people who
supported him last May, and_ his
address was given as “H.M. Prison,

tion, but if there is no aes , te
tion, the Tory majority ?
House of Commons may be @ s
ed to declare the seat vaca! iy] 00
In which case Mitchell vl
doubt stand again. He might per!
increase his majority still fu

onn0®

The Irish Republican ot!
pledged “to chase the Brill®
of Northern Ireland,” is appt
for recruits here following ts.
cent raid on three army

San Marinese defeat
U.S. intervention .

U.S. intervention in the elections in the tiny republic
Marino high in the mountains of Italy backfired last
Communist party -and its Socialist allies won a smashing

of 5
a od

creasing their seats in the 60-member parliament from” 31 t

their majority in the popular vote from 127 to 751.

Much publicity was given dur-
ing the pre-election battle to the
transatlantic flight of 97 former
San Marinese from the United
States to their former homeland.
Sponsors of this State Department-
backed junket sought to repeat
'U.S. techniques used in the Italian
elections of 1948.

A spokesman for the U.S group
confidently predicted that the 97
votes and the moral influence ex-
erted by Washington’s proteges
would turn the tide j

Other San Marinese, living out-
side their country in Italy, France
and Belgium were of no ‘mind to
see the republic forfeit its 1,600-
year tradition of freedom by bend-
ing the knee to the wishes of Wall
Street.

They flocked back in the hund-
reds to cast their votes in last Sun-
day’s polling and the “crusaders”
from across the ocean were left
with nothing but expense for their
pains. :

Balloting by former residents of
San Marino is made possible by the
fact that a San Marinese by birth

retains his citizenship even if he
naturalized in another

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE — AUGUST. 19, 1955-—

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Athens opel?

‘island hell’

A first batch of 200 polit ?
prisoners has already beer aa ine
the “Devil’s Island” of ¥ eek eo"
Aegean Sea, which the Gree
ernment reopened last wee? “pe

The news, which reach ve
outside world this week, 32 ade
that the government Be: nds ;
Field-Marshal Papagos it? Fe “thot
intensify its action again ats
ands of imprisoned - democt@
trade unionists. ne soil

The prisons on Yura ie ‘
by forced labor. In 1952 ‘ed 10°
government was compellet
them by protests in
throughout the. world.

Yura is a rock island i é
two miles wide at its W}
and only five-miles Ine
grows there except a 4°
on one height, :

/Before 1952 they: were : y i
hanging up political oe rf
torturing them. Hundre hu
a result of torture and
more were left with ruine