OTT Pa A TRE Be eB ELECTED IN S.A. PROVINCE Communist wins seat CAPE TOWN The appeal to African voters of the Western Cape made by 3am Kahn, first Communist MP to sit in the South African par- liament, to elect Fred Carneson, Communist candidate, as their representative to the provincial council, met a response in Carne- son’s smashing victory over his United party opponent in the re- Britain, Australia warned to respect Chinese rights PEKING The People’s Daily, a leading voice of the new Chinese People’s Republic, has accused the Australian zovernment and Britjsh colonial authorities of ‘‘chauvinist atrocities” towards overseas Chinese. The Peking paper carries a sharp warning in an editorial entitled “Infringement of the legitimate rights and interests of >versea Chinese will not be tolerated.” i % The editorial states that the People’s Republic roughshod over the rights of oversea Chinese. hinese republic will free Tibet | Imperialist plans to annex Tibe the past century and more by Britain ONDON et, fostered at various ‘limes during and the U.S., are shortly to be scotched once and for all by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. As a part of China, Tibet is to be freed of The imperialists, however, are government’s claim to Tibet as part of China. Certain circles in Britain in par- ticular are evincing a determina- tion to “use” Tibet with whatever success they can, if possible, to es- tablish. it as a puppet “buffer” state, Thus they are now contend- ing that Tibet is an independent country and that any advance over the border by the Chinese People’s Army will prove to the world that the new China is aggressive. The aim of this propaganda is twofold. Firstly, it is intended to justify Bevin’s abject submission to the U.S. state department in ‘delay- ing recognition to’ Mao Tse-tung’s government inj} spite of Britain’s clear and indisputable interest in doing so immediately. Secondly, it ‘is calculated to provide some of the necessary “justification” for the boycott and the cold war which, Acheson has openly declared, are to be the instruments through which every attempt is to be made t6 “bring Red China to her knees.” ‘ven after the Chinese people’s government has been recognized, this policy will be carried out—in fact with.greater enerey because the U.S. will then have one of her notorious “listening posts” in China with all manner of spies and paid agents posing as diplomats. It goes without saying that Britain will be forced into line because the lesson of postwar history is that America does not become so obsessed with the fight against communism that she overlooks the essentially relat- ed battle of ousting rival imperial- isms, : : With a glorious contempt for his- torical fact, the London Times warns: : “The position of Tibet is regu- lated by treaties; if these are viol- ated, no confidence can be put in Communist China’s attitude” to ward other international obliga- RIOUS a4 fs : 4 Three months ago a statement broadcast by Peking radio chal- lenged the world to find “in any map published in China or abroad cor in. any document concerning China's domestic or foreign af- fairs’ grounds for denying that Tibet is part of China. : Neither the British foreign of- fice nor the U.S. state department has made any attempt to answer this challenge. Moreover, when the Nehru gov- ernment indignantly, but uncon- vineingly, denied that India was acting as the stooge of Britain and America in interfering with the affairs of Tibet, it most certainly did not take advantage of the oc- casion to dispute the statement - that Tibet,is part of China. (Inter- esing confirmation of this British- American-Indian plot appeared in a recent issue of the Economist, which pessimistically noted: “The encouragement-which India has al- ready given to Tibet has already been sufficient to cause Mr. Nehru to be denounced by the Chinese Ccmmunist radio as a ‘stige of Anglo-American imperialism’!”) - Finally, there is the. rather telling point that in. a map in- cluded in the recently issued U.S. ‘White Paper on China, Tibet is " ; . reactionary feudal rule. not prepared to recognize the new shown clearly and unmistakably to be a part of China. According- ly, it presents precisely the same challenge to the People’s Libera- ticn Army as Taiwan and Hai- nan Island (to free which the Liberation Army is how report- edly assembling a maritime “will decidedly not tolerate the imperialists riding It is stipulated in Article 58 of the Common Program farce). (provisional constitution) that the Central People’s government of the Republic ‘shall do its utmost to protect the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese nationals liv- ing abroad.’ “We enjoin! overseas Chinese to unite as one under this Common Program; support the Central Peo- ple’s government, resist the atro- cities of the imperialists and fas- cist chauvinists and strive for the legitimate rights and interests of overseas Chinese.” The People’s Daily attacks Aus- tralian Immigration Minister Cal- well’s decision to deport large num- bers of Chinese who have resided in Australia for many years, and adds that “many Chinese have been detained, maltreated or deported.” In the recent so-called “purge of Communism” in Malaya, nearly 10,000 Chinese have been deported, while 5,000 have been imprisoned or killed, the paper charges. Malan gov't plot seen ‘in Basutoland murders JOHANNESBURG The day before his execution by hanging for ritual murder Basuto- land’s second chief, Bereng Griffiths Leretholi, wrote in his last letter from jail: “I feel I am unable to be silent but have to say it is untrue these cruel murders are committed by the chiefs. found a trick by which the chiefs can be taken by surprise and killed, under the pretext of law, and so do away with chieftainship in Ba- sutoland.” ‘ : Bereng Leretholi and Gabashane Masupha, the fourth chief of the land, were executed the same day in August. : Bereng’s letter recalls an occa+ sion at Maseru when the resident commissioner rebuked the para- mount chief for not co-operating with the authorities, the commis- sioner then declaring “chieftainship in Basutoland will come to an end” in the same way it did at the place Scientists told, ‘But for USSR | you'd be dead’ —LONDON. Professor J. D. Bernal, the scien- tific brain behind D-Day, has hit back vigorously at the British As- sociation for the Advancement of Science, for its action in barring him from re-election to its council because of his famous Moscow speech. He told the Association that its action fully justified the contention in his speech that the uSe of science for war preparations is a first step to destroy scientific freedom. “By not re-electing me to their bedy and by publishing their rea- sons to the press, the council have, in my opinion, taken a political position on a disputable point which was outside their competence,” he wrote. Professor Bernal pointed out. that the council had been led into the position of lending its support to a policy of using a scientific effort far greater than is made available for improving the conditions of life of the peo- ple of this country, to produce new “scientific” weapons clearly directed against the people of the Soviet Union. = And he gave the association this reminder: “But for the sacrifices of the Soviet Union, which were far heavier than ours, all. decent: scientists here would mow be in ‘concentration camps or dead.” The government has the commissioner previously admi- nistered. : Bereng wrote: “It is quite evi- dent that the hanging of chiefs and many other people ismtneanes sult of that speech: you made.” This last letter has come to light in the same week that 32 Basuto- land chiefs have petitioned the king to protect them against Dr. Mal- an’s threat to incorporate their country into the Union. Sent from Paramount Chief Man- sebro Seeiso the petition says that the Basuto people are afraid of the increasing numbers of South Afri- can nationals administering the protectorate, “The object of their government at the present time is to sever their connection with the British Crown and establish their independence as a republic. “Their government of black peo- ple is not attractive to us, and we see that their presence in our country changes the administra- tion of affairs.” Shortly before they died Bereng Lerotholi and Gabashane Masupha obtained the special permission of the resident commissioner to pre- sent evidence to the British anthro- pologist now investigating the mur- ders, The theory being spread that ri- tual murders are being practiced by the Basuto chiefs in order to win more power for themselves, Bereng Leretholi described in his evidence as “a conspired lie which has no basis.” : “T swear that there is nothing in the records: of Basutoland that any chief was ever accused of ritual murder. Such murders. were never known in the time of darkness in Basutoland. There is no reason why it should happen since all the people have seen the light and pray to God.” ‘ There is not even a word in the language of the Basuto people for “ritual murder”, said the chiefs. “IT believe,” Bereng said, “that murdering and mutilating is go- ing on but I definitely refute with all sincerity that they are being done by the chiefs to make medi- cine. I say these murders are committed by a hand in the dark- ness which cannot be seen. I say this is all to do away with chieftainship in Basutoland.” cent election. Carneson is the provincial council. e win freedom and equality.” General Smuts’ United party, of party candidate at the polls. visit to Britain.. His application Kahn, who represents one of the three seats in the Union parliament elected by the African people, wrote from London where he is now visiting, urging voters of the Western Cape “to make your voice heard even louder by giving Fred Carneson a bigger majority than you gave me” so that the election would be “a mighty demonstration of the African people’s determination to To win the seat Carneson defeated A. G. Long, candidate of campaign, “No man who believes in the color bar and white sup- remacy can represent the Africans.” Premier Malan’s pro-fascist Nationalist party, promoting its policy of apartheid (segregation), did not contest the election, but Nationalists supported the United Indicative of the alarm felt by the Malan government at this latest expression of gathering opposition to its policies, particular- ly among the African people themselves, is its refusal to permit Kahn to visit the countries of Eastern Europe during his present first ‘Communist elected to the whom Carneson said during the for a visa was refused. Mine-Mill children join parents _ Children of striking members of Local of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, In Carlsbad, New Mexico, messhall. three potash companies. 415, International Union union workers are on strike against join their parents in the Soviet A-bomb now decisive in Europ Despite American statements that nothing is LONDON changed, the western powers do not know what to do about Russia having the atom bomb, Professor P. M. S. Blackett, author of The Military and Political Con- sequences of Atomic Energy (published in the U.S. under the ttle Fear, War and the Bomb) told the Foreign Press Club here. He said that the policy of the West had not changed but colos- sal changes in military opinion were already evident. The U.S. might drop’ atom bombs on Russian cities, but could not defend any Western capital, he ad- ded. dete Asked if the Russians had nc® used mostly German scientists on their atomic work, he replied un- equivocally “No”, because the Bri- tish and Americans very efficient- ly removed every single German atomic scientist when they went {to Germany. Now that Russia possessed the bomb there was no longer any bal- ance of power in Europe. The only sensible thing to do was to outlaw the bomb. : Professor Blackett’s views are shared by the well-known military writer, Max Werner, who wrote re- cently that , Russia’s discovery of the bomb has altered the relation- ship of power inside Europe. It had neutralized Britain and written off France as a partner in any coa- lition against the Soviet Union. “The U.S. atomic bomb cannot win the war against the Soviet Union because of strong Soviet’ air defences and Soviet space. The Soviet atomic bomb cannot win a war agaimst the U.S. be cause of American technological power. But the Soviet atomic bomb is decisive in Western Eu- rope.” French planes aid Kuomintang in China Chinese Foreign Minister Chou En Lai has lodged a strong protest with French authorities in Viet Nam over the violation of the Chi- nese border by French planes on December 14. : His ‘statement, based upon re- ports from the headquarters of the Liberation Army at the Kwangsi front, charged these planes were aiding fleeing Kuomintang troops. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—DECEMBER 30, 1949—PAGE 2