Delegations representing 50 jintries and 12 international | pnizations attended a Solid- \Y With Vietnam conference MHanoi Nov. 25-29. } ®nouncing America’s “dirty against the Vietnamese jwble, the conference expres- ie full support for the South \, tnamese people’s struggle, hi by the National Front, to l€ve independence, demo- Cy, a better life, peace and 4 ality, and eventually ‘ceful national reunification. rte Conference held that the ae solution to the South ham problem and the pre- : pation of peace in Vietnam, }, china and Southeast Asia The U.S. government must P at once all its acts of sabo- a Of the 1954 Geneva Agree- mye 2d, together with the }. “ments of the other parti- iting countries of the Ge- Agreements on Vietnam, Pect the sovereignty, inde- wences unity and territorial perity of Vietnam, and re- 1 from interfering in its in- al affairs. 4 2. The U.S. government must a immediate end to its ag- ve war in South Vietnam, }, Ove all U.S. military bases 4 South Vietnam, and let the in Vietnamese people settle nai Own affairs themselves ac- aa to the program of the ‘0nal Front for Liberation. 4. The question of the peace- "eunification of Vietnam is 7 itair of the people of Viet- Pend must be settled by the amese people themselves. § «The U.S. imperialists must a, a immediate end to all ’ iy ovocative and aggressive \, og against the Demo- ‘yy Republic of Vietnam and Hct its territory, air space territorial waters. i conference made an ur- : appeal to the world’s peo- en launch a wide-spread x Ment for the realization of Solution outlined above. s 8ppealed for stronger moral Ne neaaterial support to the he 2Mese people, above ail €roic South Vietnamese in Ne how engaged in an ar- Ne; Struggle against the U.S. alist aggressor. 8ppealed to the American This is Tran Thi Nham, who escaped to North Vietnam five years ago, showing the scars on her shoulder and breast where her torturers in South Vietnam tore off pieces of her flesh with red hot pliers. people to further widen the movement for solidarity with the people of Vietnam, actively struggle to demand that Wash- ington end at once .its aggres- sive war in South Vietnam, and its dangerous and provocative activities against the Demo- cratic Republic of Vietnam. The conference appealed to the co-chairman and the gov- ernments of the participating countries of the 1954 Geneva Conference to take effective measures to compel the U.S. government to respect and strictly implement the Geneva Agreements. It decided to observe every year Dec. 20, anniversary of the founding of the South Vietnam National Front for Liberation, as an .nternational day of solid- arity with the South Vietnam- ese people, until they win final victory. * * * For 10 years Washington: has been sabotaging the 1954 Ge- neva Agreements on Vietnam and attempting to turn that country into a military base for U.S. aggression. The U.S. has illegally intro- duced into South Vietnam some 25,000 officers, troops and “mili- tary advisors” and vast quan- tities of weapons and other war materials. Since 1961 the U.S. has openly carried out in South Vietnam an undeclared war. - The population has been herded into fascist-type concentration camps dubbed “strategic ham- lets’ and “prosperity zones.” Toxic chemicals have been used Every week small groups of young people escape from South Vietnam to the North by swimming across the Ben Hai River, which divides the country. Photo shows Tribune reporter Bert Whyte inter- viewing some of these escapees at a North Vietnam village on the. river bank at the 17th parallel in 1961. riving about Jan. 10. Historical photo (left) shows the first congress called by the South Vietnam National Liberation Front. (Right): soldiers of people's armed forces rest after a march. End U.S. intervention in Vietnam! to kill crops. The International Conference for Solidarity with Vietnam said that “faced with this extremely serious situation, the South Vietnamese people have no other alternative than to reso- lutely take up arms against the U.S. agggressors and __ their agents, and wage an armed struggle combined with political struggle for self-liberation.” people and destroy Conference delegates expres- sed their- admiration for the great victories recorded by the South Vietnamese people in their just struggle. These set- backs to U.S. imperialism have caused the Saigon puppet ad- ministration to sink into a state of continual crisis, while the Pentagon warmongers are go- ing further_and further into a “tunnel with no end in sight.” around the world CEYLON faces a general election following the government’s loss of a confidence vote by 74 to 73 last week. Critics charged that Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the world’s only woman prime minister, had failed to solve problems of unemployment and liy- ing costs ... Welt der Arbeit, organ of the West Germany Trade Union Federation, says in its last issue that some 10,000 nazi murderers remain unpunished in West Germany. They were mem- bers of “special units” which, particularly in the Soviet Union followed behind the nazi armies and indiscriminately committed many murders among the civilian population. * Ke * A NECROPOLIS of the tenth century has been discovered in the Varna district in Bulgaria. Contents of 75 graves show that the corpses had been cremated and the ashes put in clay urns and buried. Besides the charred bones, nuearly all the urns con- tained some objects that were evidently used by the deceased This shows that pagan traditions still persisted a century after the conversions of the Bulgarians to Christianity in 865 ... All British companies and their branches in Indonesia are now direc- ted and controlled by the Indonesian government, under a decree issued by President Sukarno. 3 - * * es WAR: The Unesco Courier notes that “during the last years of the war, the world devoted about one half of its resources to destruction” . . . Three great-grandchildren of General de Mon- tholon in a letter in Figaro hit back at British scientists theories that he poisoned the Emperor Napoleon with arsenic. The autopsy on Napoleon, “made in the presence of many British witnesses,” showed he was suffering from a stomach lesion large enough to cause death, they claimed. * * * DIVORCE rate in Czechoslovakia is rising rapidl 16,427 cases in 1961 to 17,040 in 1963) and 71 aa ne ie broken marriages involve families with children, reports a Prague news agency. The most frequent cause is infidelity; in two-thirds of the cases, men were unfaithful and in one-third women... Two Czech scientists have joined Soviet polar experts aboard the Estonia at Leningrad; the ship will carry them to Antarctica, ar- * * * GAS OVENS: The special type of oven the nazis used to dis- pose of the bodies of victims in concentration camps is now made by the same firm in West Germany for profitable sale as a crematorium unit... An agreement on the abolishment of visas has been signed between Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. December 18, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7 qi TT!