~ads United Nations viene Woman to preside over the United Nations is Mme. as Lakshmi Pandit who succeeds Lester B. Pearson of Canada © of eat She is a sister of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru ‘Is Asia’s will to be flouted?’ demands Nehru, scoring U.S. opposition to voice for India NEW DELHI Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru declared here last week that the United States, in opposing India’s membership of the Korean peace conference, had ‘flouted the will of Europe and Asia.” He warned that “the countries of, Asia, however weak, do not propose to be ignored, do not propose to be bypassed, and certainly do not propose to be’ sat on.” The basic issue bedevilling the United Nations, he declared was the question of the admission of People’s China to membership. China, he said, was a founder member of the United Nations Or- ganization; the only question was who represented China. It was completely unreal and artificial to talk about China be- ing represented in the UN or on the Security Council by someone “who cannot speak for China, who cannot do anything in China and can only at the utmost ex- press strong disapproval of China.” Nehru, who was addressing the House of the People, lower house of the Indian parliament, on for- eign affairs, opened his speech by dealing with disarmament. He said: “We live in a precari- ous state between hope and fear. “On the one hand there is the atom bomb, the hydrogen bomb, and now even talk of a cobalt bomb. At the same time there is the prospect of an infinitely better life than ever before. Abundant food, consumer goods Soviet aim in next two years MOSCOW A ter : ndanee of meat, milk, but- ds og oes? 8S well as of all three : Vegetables, within two or “ats — this is the aim of 4°, SOvie i etary SUBSE party's new 0 Pays at a meeting of the a report committee follow- ist § the yy Nikita Krushchev, the go ier ostam Was published in As welt Press last week. foy te « *S More and better food Tay Mae consumer, and more Dandi Uae for the swiftly ex- dusty OViet food and light in- f°2ure . Program also outlines mers) ~° Make the collective More ofan Ctk more profitable “The 4.cnt and easier. ; Mitten. °°. SAYS the central i _Tesolution, “is to three Years 1, Re next two or "Wuitemen: the increasing food ANd ¢ tise © of our population is for jj ht weeties of raw mater- Mdustry, Sht industry and the food { ie } itsbandny test advance in animal «© Collen: Principally that of S vitat pe and state farms — ~ Utes the the Country and consti- aatty and eo urgent task of the tural Shere ent in the agri- a ] Stieultu a Soviet. and $i Sanisations and all font to 1 28ticulture exert every EVelo ‘ Coun retinues ne animal husband- tock 1, e The X Produce,» = 2nd other th €solutj : aaent by 4 tion calls for achieve. Mill; of target ~ Popyr. 02 co A eae oyedlatio Ws, a total cattle Of n et and 4 is Million farly 66 million; ang? eteen Percent and at least pmou Steppe, semi-desert iat eis ‘districts. ‘ hay? . Ae Production, eol- 109°, Hoe Culd by 1954.55 og to ao Of Poult fy uo laying ce at least Am : Under grain or every t .Ne me ' achi asures > . al ‘i Sve these tangets my - HS . : | b the by the eee State _ ber ane a Wmer—foy livestock, potatoes, and other vegetables. Collective farmers are to receive immediate advances of about 25 percent of money. received from the sale of livestock products for the last quarter’s work days. A great expansion in the area of land under fodder crops. 2 ildi the y the newly-elected | > More farm buildings for accommodation of cattle, sheep and poultry. If it is economic- ally expedient, collective farms are to be encouraged to produce their own building materials. 4. More machines, both for use in livestock breeding, in mechanisation of fodder produc- tion and for improvement of meadows and pasture. More trained personnel for “this most intricate branch of agriculture.” : Demanding a ‘‘sharp rise .in the production of vegetables and potatoes,” the resolution calls for mechanisation of vegetable cultivation, the extension of hot- house facilities, and for the use of press, radio and films to popu- larise up-to-date cultivation meth- ods. Discussing the present position, the resolution declares that Soviet agriculture is the “biggest and most mechanised agricultural sys- tem in the world. “It has indisputably proved its decisive advantages over small-scale peasant farming, 4s well as over large-scale capital- ist agricultural production.” But, says the resolution, in put- ting forward its very sharp criti- cisms of existing shortcomings, it does not at present fully satisfy the population’s |increasing need for food, or light industry’s need : Sheep and goats for raw material. é ing is particularly unsatisfactory; there are now nearly nine million fewer cattle than in 1928, and 3,500,000 fewer thah days. The position of livestock breed- in pre-war During the war the enemy de- stroyed ‘or carried off 17 million head of cattle, 20 million pigs and 27 million sheep and goats. The Central Committee also not; ed that ‘in 1952 alone the coun- try’s total of cattle decreased by 2,200,000 head.” There is also a serious lag in production of potatoes and veget- ables, which hampers the supply of these products to towns and in- dustrial centres. Analysing the reasons for these shortcomings, the resolution de- clares: ‘“‘We did not have an op- portunity of ensuring simultan- eous development of heavy. indus- try, agriculture and,light industry at a high pace.” Insufficient attention has been paid to the question of incentives for the development of the pro- duction of livestock and vegetables in particular. There has been a tendency to increase the delivery quotas of well-run, efficient farms, while ne- glecting the more backward and unproductive farms. Machinery has not been employ- ed to the full, frequently standing idle, and often entrusted to un- trained personnel. The state has given insufficient guidance, particularly in the selec- tion of plant and of personnel, and in political work in rural areas. The bulk of the trained agricul- tural. workers “settle down in various offices” when they really should be out on the job on the farms. Finally, says the resolution, the collective farms have not _been supplied with sufficient building materials. JACOB MALIK Defends charter Proposals to revise the UN ‘Charter are described by Jacob Malik (above), chief Soviet dele- gate, as “attempts to weaken and subvert the Unite€d Nations.” The task, he told the UN last week is not to revise the charter but to see it is fully observed. “The choice before the world is between these two.” Nearly all thé people of the world obviously wanted peace, he went on, but “I must confess that recent events have made me slight- ly doubtful of any permanent set- tlement in the near future.” Nehru implied that the reason for this doubt was the U.S. hand- ling of the question of the Korean peace conference. Making a passing reference to Chinese Premier Chou En-lai’s latest proposals, Nehru expressed the view that representation of neutral countries at the Korean political conference would help to settle the Korean question and ease World tension. He said that the proposal that India should be a member of the Korean political conference had placed her in an embarrassing position. Nevertheless, India felt that she should help if she could toward a peaceful settlement. He noted that in the vote in the United Nations Political Commit- tee on- India’s participation, apart from four countries, all the re- maining 18 of those voting against India were American countries. “Nearly the whole of Europe and nearly the whole of Asia wanted one thing while a number of countries of America did not want it. But the question is an Asian question. “Is the will of Asia to be flout- ed? Is the will of Europe and Asia to be flouted in this way?” Nehru saw hope, however, in the United Nations which “in spite of its failings contains the seeds of hope and peace”—especi- ally if People’s China were ad- mitted. He declared that “racial dis- crimination in South Africa has become a major test for the world.” On Kashmir he said that India intended that the people there should decide their own future. Nehru also admitted that Kalim- pong, a border town between In- dia and Tibet has become an in- ternational espionage centre. Same elements that led to Hitler loose in Germany, charges Bevan TT ANEURIN BEVAN LONDON Speaking to a wemen’s rally at Birmingham this week, Aneurin Bevan charged that the former Labor government of Prime Min- ister Clement Attlee, in which he himself was a minister, had listen- ed to the United States when it should ‘‘have insisted that the great industries of Western Ger- many should not go back into pri- ‘vate hands.” Warning that the men who had put Adenauer in power were “the very people who destroyed Ger- man democracy before and produc- ed the Second World War,” Bevan said: “We have let loose inside Germany many of the same ele- PACIFIC TRIBUNE — SEPTEMBER 25, 1953 — PAGE 3 ments which led to the rise of Hitler, financed by the same peo- ple, and we may still have to pay the price. “I am astounded by the compla- cency of the editorial writers in the British capitalist press, who are as stupid as ever. They don’t seem to realize that what is hap- pening inside Western Germany may lead to a repetition of the hideous story of the inter-war years.” Bevan said he had frequently been criticized for what he termed “frank speaking” on American policy, but, he noted, “I am not criticized so much today. Other people are doing it, too.”