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Isn’t it time we stopped
insulting peoples of Asia?

By ARTHUR CLEGG

LONDON
The delivery of U.S. military

equipment to the French invaders |

in Laos, in Indochina, is not only
a blow against the liberty of a
small nation struggling to be free.

It is also one more insult by
the American imperialists to an
Asian nation.

U.S. Secretary. of State John
Foster Dulles describes the strug-
gle of the Laotian Liberation
Army as “invasion” and . “aggres-
sion.” This is an absurd lie.

It is more than that. For it
implies that the people of Laos
are congenital idiots unable to
desire freedom from imperialist
rule unless “invaded” from out-
side.

Similarly, General Harrison, the
American spokesman at Panmun-
jom, insulted all the Asian peo-
ples when he said that Asian na-
tions were incompetent to act as
responsible neutrals to take charge
of prisoners of war.

President Eisenhower on April
16 declared that one of the prin-
ciples of American policy was that
nations had an “inalienable right”
to choose their own form of govy-
ernment and economic system.

_But when Asian nations choose
to exercise this right the rulers
of the U.S. refuse to recognize
both the process and the result if
they dislike it.

In 1949 the Chinese people ex-

ercised that right.

But we are now in 1953, and
the U.S. government does not re-
cognize that People’s China exists.

The Korean people have long
wanted to settle their own affairs,
but the U.S. wages war to stop
them and will not allow the war
to end.

The people of Viet Nam in 1946
elected a parliament and People’s
government and their state was
then recognized by the French
government.

But when the French govern-
ment broke the agreement the
United States backed its efforts
to prevent the people of Viet Nam
from exercising their inalienable
right.

On April 16, too, President Eis-
enhower demanded an end to
what he called “the direct and
indirect attacks upon the security
of Indochina and Malaya.”

By what right does he in Wash-
ington speak for Indochina and

“Malaya?

They are not even nominally
part of the U.S. empire, and their
peoples have certainly never ask-
ed for President Eisenhower to be
their spokesman.

On the contrary, they have for

years been struggling for the
right to get a chance to speak for
themselves.

Consider too the people in Asia
whom the U.S. government con-
sents to recognize:

Syngman Rhee, of South Korea,
a byword throughout the world
for corruption, who was defeated
in the 1950 election in South Ko-
rea despite his police repression.

Chiang Kai-shek, who maintain-
ed himself in power in China by
butchering Chinese democrats and
whom only ‘the U.S. China Lobby
has chosen as the ruler of For-
mosa.

Bao Dai, “Emperor” of Viet
Nam, the playboy of the Riviera.

General Tempier, of Malaya.
What an example of the inalien-
able rights extolled by Tom Paine!

Pibul Songgram, of Siam, who
helped the Japanese to build the
Burma-Siam railway, every mile
founded on the blood and bodies
of British and other POW’s.

After being kicked out by the
people on the defeat of Japan,
Pibui Songgram was brought back
to power, not by election, but by
a U.S.engineered coup. He now
rules as a dictator in a land where
to breathe the word peace is to
invite arrest.

‘Land of toys is a land of peace’

By J. A. SZCZEPANSKI
BERLIN
Have you ever heard of the
* town of Sonneberg in Thurin-
gia? Probably not, and I too,
until I made a trip through the
. German Democratic Republic,
’ +. did not know much about this
little town, tucked away in an
out-of-the-way’ corner in one of
the loveliest parts of Germany.
Thuringia is an unusual part
of the world: home of the troub-
adours and the minnesingers,

Thomas Muenzer, the Peasant
Wars and the Almanach de
'.. Gotha, Goethe and Bach; and
at the same time the land of
the Zeiss lens and the perlon
stockings from Rudolstadt. .
But if you have not seen
Sonneberg, then you. do not

_ an enormous toy museum, with
_ a collection of articles turned
out by the toy-making industry

_ over a period of centuries.

celebrated its 80th anniversary,
has an average of 72,000 visi-
tors every year. ae

The museum has works

al art. There is a wonderful
Ulliver in Lilliput” made in
‘the last century, a strange mag-
ician performing his tricks,
and a grandmother at the spin-
ning wheel: all the work of a
great native artist. There is
another large group “Oasis in
the Desert,” an aquarium full
of fish, and a minute singing

wonderful toy, a laboriously:
made miniature work of art.
And then the modern toys—
-— tractors and cars, a primitive
train dated 1846, and next to

the country of Luther and-

The museum, which last year

bird of paradise, a fragile and |;

W orld’s finest collection of toys

it an electrie railway with
points and crossings, great
cranes and steel works.

Hours could be spent just
describing the exhibits, the
dolls, the animals, and the me-
chanical toys ranging from the
simplest carts to the most com-
plicated machines. There are
exhibits made of wood, wax,
papier mache, cloth, paper,
china, tin, straw, breadcrumbs
and an almost endless variety
of materials. There are articles
made of glass, ranging from
rough medieval glass to the
most modern glass statuary.

There is a library on toy-
making tools, a collection of
ancient and medieval toys, and
an. enormously interesting col-
lection of toys from all parts

Children’s railway

of the world, toys of Negroes,
of American Indians, of Eski-
mos, toys which had belonged
to peasant children, to middle-
class children, and the children
of aristocrats.

continues.
mas tree decorations, marion-
ettes, roundabouts, Pied Pipers,
clowns, elephants with move-
able trunks, miniature monkeys
on swings. °
“Mama”
bark,
and nightingales sing, just as
in nature.

how the different sounds are
produced has been lost, for the
old craftsmen
secrets jealously.

partment there are talking
books, too, a form of toy long
extinct.

; |to the museum building states:
“The land of
peace.”

¢|Seum is the pedagogic section,
which shows the role played
j| by toys in the development of
.a child, in the training of juv-
enile artistic taste and moral
values.
the theory and practice in ed-
ucation is shown from Froebel
to Makarenko.
is devoted to Makarenko’s edu-
cational methods. .

ing the blue scarf of the Young
Pioneer organization- shyly pre-
sents me with a doll larger
than hérself.
of one of the Polish prisoners
in Buchenwald,” she says—for
a Buchenwald too lay in Thur-
ingia.

chord.

The realm of enchantment
We see the Christ-

Baby dolls say
and “Papa,” dogs
cats mew, cocks crow

In some cases the secret of

guarded their
In this de-

The motto over the entrance

toys is a land of

A special section of the mu-

The development of
A whole room

A charming little girl wear-

“For the orphan

*
This was a fine concluding

Recently he was exposed before
the United Nations as the abettor
of: the aggression of Chiang Kai-
shek troops against his neighbor
Burma.

Now he is being pushed by the
United States to aid French ag-

other neighbor, Laos.

This plot is covered by the fan-
tastic assertion that the tiny army
of Laos, which is already being
attacked by the armed power of
France and the United States, is
also threatening to overrun the
much larger Siam. |

But the Manchester Guardian
has blurted out the real source of
American terror. Editorializing on
the “menace” of Laos to south-
east Asia, it discovered that “the
peril is of a political landslide as
much as of military defeat.”

It added that the situation of
the government of Siam “is very
shaky.”

No wonder. Every Siamese hates

gression against the people of his’

Pibul’s police and Pibul’s habit
of pocketing all the profits from
the sale of rice abroad. And the
fall in tin and rubber prices 1s
causing unemployment and dis
tress in many parts of the country.

Then, too, there is the. contemP
tuous U.S. assumption that the
peoples of Asia are so stupid that
the U.S. can “use Asians against
Asians” to the profit of Wall
Street.

This contemptuous assumption ©
has brought U.S. policy into @
blind alley even in Japan.

Finally, there is the insult of the
Battle Act: that the Asian coun:
tries are so stupid that they 40
not know with whom it‘is best for
them to trade. t

But this is an insult which the .
rulers of the U.S. have thrown 4§
freely at Britain as at India. India
and Ceylon have thrown it back
The British and Canadian gover
ments have swaliowed it.

Isn’t it time we stopped insult
ing the peoples of Asia?

In People’s Czechoslovakia

Inventor honored

—atter 30

BY STANLEY HARRISON

PRAGUE

This May Day in Prague, a

blacksmith’s son, Bohumil Sladek,

received one of his country’s high-

est honors — but the full story
goes back 30 years.

The award of the Order of the
Republic, for inventing a “lead-
ing-in and directing case” for
feeding rolling mills, crowned a
life time’s effort. ;

Bohumil began putting up novel
technical ideas to the bosses at
the Kladno Steel Works, where
he came*to work soon after the
First World War. His purpose—to
lighten the heavy and dangerous
work — got a cold reception.

For one idea, which was ac-

years

cepted, they paid him some ae
For another, which raised prod
tion by a wagon-load per sh
a cigarette. rs
After that, he told the pape.
recently, he remembered Wace
spoken to him by union irate
Antonin Zapotocky, now pres! nti
of Czechoslovakia: - “Wait ™
the factories are ours.”
«Red

Today, still working in tood
Kladno,” which has always § ect
in the forefront of the, rote ie
workers’ fight, he has on his hich
20 successful innovations Wal
have saved the plant several 948.

tly,

lions of crowns a year ae
His leading-in case will
be in use in rolling mills thro

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