\ ee | Labor rank-and-file | Voices opposition to_ Attlee gov't policies ¢ LONDON Prime Minister Clement Attlee has just announced the Labor government’s plans to add huge new expenditures to the heavy war commitments which are already straining Bri- tain’s weakened economy and forcing down the living standards of the British people. But what do the British people themselves, and particularly the millions who voted Labor at the last election, think of the A sound indication is provided by recent publication of resolutions Prepared by local Labor organiza- tions for the Labor party’s confer- €nce to be held in October. Taken as a whole, these resolutions con- Stitute the severest criticism ever mace of a Labor government by its °wWn followers. Twenty-seven of the resolutions Submitted by Labor organizations and trade unions, are on foreign Policy. All of them condemn the Labor government’s foreign policy in strong terms and ask for a com- Plete reversal. At least 10 resolutions demand that the atom-bomb be destroyed and banned, The Labor party or- 8anisations of Thirsk and Malton in Yorkshire ask that the govern- ment “take the lead in giving seri- Sus attention to the Russian pro- Posals of 1949: for atomic control.” Feeling of the rank-and-file is effectively expressed in the laco- Nic resolution of the Labor party °rganisation of Saffion-Walden in Essex which demands that the S0vernment pursue “a truly s0- Cialist foreign policy in order to Telieve the present international tension which is leading to war.” Another Labor party organisa- tion demands that the Labor party conference deplore the increasingly Militaristie nature of British for- “ign policy as exemplified in “the *ver-closer integration with the American forces, the enormous and Stowing expenditure on the armed forces, the arrival in Britain of Am- _ tican bombers, and the proposal / Sol ; Way” for storing atom-bombs in Britain, With the consequence of ever-in- teasing tension between Britain And Eastern Europe.” Just at the moment when the S0vernment is about to increase its ar expenditures, Labor party or- ‘Sanisations have submitted several ay olutions demanding an immedi- x ® and drastic cut in armaments enpenditures ; and urging the gov- nmént to take immediate steps .° Yestore and improve trade rela- ‘ons between Britain, the Soviet nion and astern Europe. i Ne demand that “steps ought to png ten to alleviate the sufferings ers Conditions that political prison- Ronin Greece have to endure” is lac ed in a resolution from the ackpool organisation of the La- or party, tee? resolutions are equally cri- Nae of the Labor government’s mestic policies. Among 43 re- : utions on prices and profits, men ronsly criticize the govern- eee for allowing profits and pric- Mfg Tise while keeping wages with Eight resolutions deal au general government policy Heliepenkey problems; seven of legs Poon demmn it and demand not, t more socialism. Truman's war budget bigger than Hitler's | Th MOSCOW ean United States budget for the exper se 26 to 1951 include direct war *nditure of 60 billion dollars. Tar, mounts to 150 billion German Marke at the pre-war rate of 2% n wine the dollar, Other words, the Yankee “cold Mone Strategists have spent more Hitles, for war since the defeat of of Sales than the total war budget logs i Germany in the years of the Se, 1939 before the outbreak of ~ S€cond World War. government’s policy ?. Queensland will become gigantic military camp SYDNEY The Menzies-Fadden government is planning, in collusion with the British and U.S. governments, to turn Southern Queensland into a gigantic military camp, as part of Australia’s war preparations. This camp will be a base for troops from the United States, Bri- tain, other Empire countries and several countries of western Eu- rope. ; Naval bases and airforce stations are to be established and staffed along the Queensland and North Australian coast line. The overall plan is to turn Australia into a huge arsenal from which troops, planes and arms can be ‘sent to “trouble spots” in south-east Asia. Choice of Australia was influenced by its capacity to feed a large in- flux and by its strategical geogra- phic position, ; The camp is to be established under the United Nations flag, a logical extension of the prostitution of the original concepts of the UN which has already been carried out in Korea. 5 ; Queensland will build huge mili- tary barracks, “and more barracks and ammunition stores are to be built throughout Northern: Austra- lia. Occupants in certain emergen- cy housing schemes are to be evic- ted for the housing of conscripts which, the government has announ- ced, will be called up within three months, Demonstrator ‘demonstrator is one of Rape ds of British citizens who- are actively protesting Britain’s involvement in American inter-- vention in Korea. ‘ Turkish poet freed after world protest ISTANBUL | A world-wide campaign deman- ding release from prison here of ‘Nazim Hikmet, great Turkish people’s poet, culminated in suc- cess last week, when Hikmet was freed by the government under an amnesty law recently passed. Pressure from citizens of many countries, including Canada, un- doubtedly helped to win Hikmet’s release, regarded as a civil liber- ‘ Chairman Mao signs petition A total of 44 million people in China have already signed the Stockholm peace petition. And here, Mao Tse-tung, chairman of the Central People’s Government of the Republic of China, adds his ties victory of world significance. name. Road to Seoul tells story of Rhee’s army . By NEW CHINA NEWS AGENCY SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT é From the 38th parallel to Seoul, the road tells the stary of what happened on June 25 and after. It tells, not of any southern Korean frontier force, taken by surprise, but of a well-equipped army which had no stomach to carry out the offensive that had been ordered. Up near the frontier, big field gun emplacements, littered with great piles of shell cases, lie as they were abandoned by Rhee’s_ troops. Throughout the length of the road to Seoul lie in- numerable American ten-wheel trucks, light tanks, damaged field guns, weapon carriers, jeeps, gaso- line drums — all pointing south and all obviously wrecked during the flight. There was no lack of ma- terial — only morale. Though the American-trained troops of the South Korean. army could not fight on the ground; the Americans tried iater to improve the situation from the air, and there are enough flattened villages to show how desperately American planes haye tried to make up from the relative safety of the air, for the lack of backbone of Rhee’s puppet troops and, the indifferent morale of their’ own. Two columns of migrants are moving along the road in the op- posite directions, One, almost con- tinuous, carrying what remains of their. possessions, on heads and backs, is going north. They are the homeless or. those leaving their homes to escape the American bombings of the cities and villages of the south — mainly the middle aged, aged and very young. ' They do not know what their future may be, but for the Korean in the south, the north holds a fas- cination. Southerners all know that life is better in the north. The other column is more scat- tered and for the most part is made up of younger people going south, either to homes which have now been liberated or to join the army near the front in the hope that they will thus get more quickly to grips with the enemy. There is a marked difference be- tween the people of the north and| south. As soon as you cross south of the 38th parallel the people as a whole are thinner and their faces bear that faraway look that was universal in occupied Europe. But although a month has passed since the first soldiers of the People’s Army came this way, the welcome War correspondents blast ‘ferror raids’ PHYONGYANG Four war correspondents now in Korea—Marius Magnien of L’Humanite (France), Alan Win- mington of the Daily Worker (Britain), Jen Min Jih Bao and Li Chuang of the People’s Daily (China) — have issue a joint statement protesting American bombings in Korea as “entirely terror raids.” Their statement said: “We were not able to see whether the bombs carried the symbol of the United Nations, but we have seen the ruins and vic- tims of American aggression...” ih in PO nt tt gets is as exuberant as though it were the first. Especially the children show the depth of the popular. support for the People’s Army. On almost ev- ery wrecked truck, tank and gun is a group of youngsters, waving fronds of corn stocks and shouting long live. And the other side of the occu- pation is also plain to see. Big American cars that belonged to Korean quislings, masses of Amerj- can goods, the vapid faces of Hol- lywood stars’ gaze at you from boardings, you are urged to drink Coca Cola, use this or that soap or toothpaste, Surveying this nearly American Scene, the economic aspect of Pre- sident Truman’s desire to bring all of Korea under Wall Street’s thumb which every unit or car or truck is clear as crystal. Eight. million lost by Chiang in four years PEKING More than 8,000,000 troops were lost by the Kuomintang in the past four years ending June 1950, ac- cording to a statement issued by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. The statement lists in detail the gains and losses of the People’s Li- beration Army during the four years of liberation war. It discloses that the People’s Liberation Army lost 1,522,500 troops. Among the 8,071,350 troops lost by the Kuomintang, 4,586,750 were tak- en prisoner, 1,711,110 were casual- ties, 633,510 surrendered, 846,950 came over through uprisings and another 293,030 accepted reorgani- sation. Among the losses of the People’s Liberation Army, 1,312,700 were ca- sualties, 13,700 were captured and another 196,100 are missing.’ War materials captured by the | People’s Liberation Army during the four years include 54,430 artil- lery pieces, 319,958 machine guns, 3,161,912 rifles and pistols, 21,462 grenade throwers, 15,191 rifle gren- ade throwers, 228 flame throwers, 189 planes, 200 naval vessels, 622 tanks, 389 armored cars, 1,016 loco- motives, 22,012 motor vehicles, 195,- 475 horses and mules, 507,984,800 rounds of ammunition 5,527,400 shells, 3,635,800 hand grenades, and more than 700 tons of explosives, In addition, the People’s Libera- tion Army brought down 190 enemy planes, destroyed 156 enemy tanks and 9 enemy naval vessels. 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