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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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