THE British dominions are, floundering more and more in the quagmire of Ameri- ja’s aggressive and reckless policy in Korea and the Far Fast. And parallel with this, Wall Street and Pentagon control over the dominions— old members of the British Commonwealth—is becoming more and more complete, 1- creasingly total. . Hand in hand with the sending of Canadian, Australian and New Zealand armed forces to take part in the American armed interven- tion against the Korean people goes * complete subordination of these dominions to the United States leadership and military command. The statesmen and mil- itary men of the dominions re- ceive their military instructions directly from Washington or else themselves make trips to Wash- ington for this purpose, by-pas- sing London. More and more 1S Canada being turned into a mili- tary area of the dollar empire. The American military has en- trenched itself on Canadian ter- ritory and is using Canadian mili- It was recently reported in the press that the Australian govern- ment has concluded 2 secret a- greement with Washington on the conversion of Manus Island and the island of New Treland and New Britain into American mili- tary bases. Britain was not even informed of this agreement. Be- sides this, there is a plan afoot to lease the northern part of Que- ensland to the Americans. Fairly clumsy attempts were made in Australia to refute this report @hich was cited by the Soviet magazine New Times, among other publications. “The Austra- lian refutation however, was more like an indirect confirmation of the re about the island bases. It is no secret to anyone that when the American forces depart- ed from the Australian bases after the Second World War the Aust- ralian government promised them: to America should, the need arise again. Since the Menzies govern- ment came to power, and espec- ially since the “beginning of the military gamble in Korea, the American military feels itself complete master in Australia. In the middle of June, a military conference was held in Melbourne under direction of Field Marshal Slim, chief of British imperial staff. In this connection too, the British press remarked on the in- visible presence of American rep- resentatives. It is perfectly ob- vious that today the true inspirer and guide of Australia’s military policy, just as Canada’s and New Zealand’s, is not the British but the American command. On orders from the.U.S., the British dominions are making & sharp increase in their war bud- gets and are converting their economy to a war time footing. This of militarization al- so carries with it increased depen- dence .on the U.S. on American supplies and loans. The war econ- omy of the dominions is being created as an appendage to the U.S. war economy. Citing well-informed sources, the Canadian Press points out that in the military and economic mobilization plans Canadian and American industry are regarded as “a single entity” and that Can- adian industry will be subjected to the measures of economic con- trol adopted by the White House. The militarization of the Cana- dian economy is directly tied up with the further colonization of this dominion by American cap- ital. e The Second World War and the post-war period have been marked Bi tt te i Perret a tik nd Wall Street’s new empire IBHBIEE POMC MEM MELO LOUD OL UU UL UL UU i A a Tt and detectives because ae tn Pr ete OL Lia ah al elit belie fy tt) ty dt ts EV BUEUEUEENE , by a vigorous Wall Street econ- omic offensive against the British dominions. British investments in Canada dropped from $2,700 million in 1938 to $1,600 million in 1948, while American investments grew from $4,000 million to $5,250 million and represent 70 percent of all for- eign investments. The 2,000 American enterprises in Canada constitute the key pos-- itions which the Americans have captured in Canada’s economy. The Americans hold 95 percent of the automobile industry, a big |__| mee ee By PROFESSOR I. LEMIN share of the rubber and oil in- dustrics, about one-third of all Canada’s processing industry. It is not surprising that the more zealous American imperial- ists are openly calling for an American-Canadian “customs un-. ion”, which means simply swal- lowing the British dominion. In the Union of South Africa, American investments doubled during the Second World War. Since the end of the war, the Americans have bought an inter- est in more than 100 gold-mining companies. At the present time et re ty He ted ed smrymugmyymrymo(R RBM rms Cm RRR Li oe) they are seizing the uranium mines discovered there. Before the Second World War, British investments in. Australia were 15 times greater than the American. During the first three - years after the war, 42 of the 107 new foreign firms established in Australia were American. By the beginning of 1950 there were 124 American firms and 112 Ameri- can-Australian companies opera- ing in Australia, American capital is especially active in the Aust- ralian automobile, oii, chemical, machine-building, film production LONDON W ITH the possible exception of the proprietors of the Hotel de Golf and the Casino, people at Deauville, and at most other spots too, are thoroughly sick of King Farouk of Egypt. The general sentiment is that this gross and uncouth potentate is making approximately the big- gest exhibition of himself and his way of life that he possibly can. And for people who have a vested interest in kings in general and the status quo in Egypt in particular, this is bad. ; While Farouk wins his $90,000 at the gaming tables in Deauville, thousands of innocent men and women rot in the Egyptian jails. While he eats his fabulous sup- pers at $15 a head, plus cham- pagne and liqueurs, his subjects starve, He employs scores of food- tasters, bodyguards, informers he has driven his people to a point of fury and frustration at which he rightly believes they may try to kill him. : Fat, venal, he is a king of the night clubs and foreign gaming houses. And he and his regime com- mands the support of the Western powers because he is a savage anti-Communist, a killer of trade * union leaders, a Russia-hater and an obedient man where the City of London and Wall Street are concerned. Farouk is quoted as saying he will soon marry the 16-year-old Egyptian society beauty, Narri- man Sadek. No doubt the wedding will be conducted in a flood of. pictur- esque (and incredibly costly) Ori- ental glitter and ceremonial. The Egyptian people are paying Farouk’s bills in a big way. Can they afford to pay them? Nobody who has seen the life of Egypt's peasants and town workers could think So.: Egyptian demonstrators take possession of a Cairo street. The king nobod Poverty, disease, hard work and. misery are the lot of the Egypt- jans. Farouk lives in the beautiful, luxurious Abdhin Palace in Cairo, when he is not acting the playboy on the Riviera, in Switzerland or elsewhere. The average Egyptian peasant a mud hovel near the cot-. lives in tonfields, likely enough on ‘the brink of a canal seething with malaria-carrying mosquitoes. Malaria is only one of the many diseases that afflict the people. The majority of the population suffer from bilharzia, a worm dis- ease. Over 90 percent have eye diseases, as the traveller immed- iately notices. Something like 60 percent of the people have an average of three diseases each. The town worker is not much better off than the peasant. Look- ing at his huddled tenements when you pass through Cairo, you get at first a sharp impression of bombed buildings. Then you real- ize you are looking at generations of tumbled, mud-brick walls. Only too often the day’s food consists of beans and coarse brown bread, and not too much y wants of that. Most Egyptians have the best foundation for: all sickness— chronic malnutrition. Farouk’s glistening wealth is based on a realm of rags and mis- ery. And he keeps it so with blud- geons and: bayonets. There was an incident during Farouk’s Deauville jaunt that threw a sudden light on the way Egypt is ruled. . A cameraman was about to photograph the King when Egypt- ian police advanced on him with hands on their revolvers. The French police intervened and removed the photographer’s _ film and he was then allowed to _ go. ate Yes, Egypt is a police state nd when working people make any move to better their lot, hands: leap very quickly to the’ holsters of revolvers and there is nobody to calm the police down. Trade unions are all but illegal, ‘and their leaders are clapped into jail on the flimsiest excuse. Youssef el Mondarrek, a leader of the World Federation of Trade Unions, has spent long terms in jail. Others who oppose the govern- ment have been arrested since, tried by court-martial on charges of “Communist activities” and jailed for many years. Coming to power recently of Nahas Pasha, leader of the big Egyptian National party, Wafd, and alleged enemy of Fa- rouk, made no difference. Behind the sham of parliamentary goy- ernment is stark dictatorship and terror against the people. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 29, 1950— the. and rubber and boot and shoe in- dustries. The following figures give an idea of U.S. trade expansion in the British dominions. American exports to Canada in 1938 were four times greater than the Bri- tish, and in 1947 they were 12 times greater. American exports to Australia were three times less than the British in 1938, and in 1947 were only one-sixth less. Be- fore the war American exports to the Union of South Africa were two and a half to three times less than the British, while in 1947 they exceeded British exports. - Behind the hubbub of the war in Korea the American imperial- ists are striving for complete sub- ordination of all the British dom- inions. In the second half of August of this year a $100 million Ameri- ean loan to Australia was a> nounced, primarily to increasé armaments production. The 10a" is made through the Americal- ~ controlled International Bank for Reconstruction and Development: This same bank assumes the - further financing of Australia’s entire industrial ‘development. In this way the Menzies govef?- ment is putting Australia’s entire. economy under supervision a? control of the Wall Street mol- opolists. Taking advantage of the favorable situation, the U.S. has dealt its British ally and com petitor a shattering blow. Military and economic control by the American military and tb© American monopolies is inevit@ bly leading to political subjus® tion of the British dominions t their “silent partner.” Americat- — ization of the dominions is ir full swing. The South African fascist® speak of ‘spiritual affinity” with the American fascists. The hard reactionaries of Australi® New Zealand, the Union of South Africa and Canada are vying with the United States in passing 1aW* and introducing bills to probi it the Communist party and othe progressive organizations. In the sphere of foreign PO icy, Australia and New Zealadl’ like Canada, strictly follow AM can orders, and where U.S. an British interests come into oY’ ious conflict they stick to i American and not the. Britl® course. Menzies’ recent trip to Toky? | to pay his respects to MacaArtht : testifies to the Australian gover ment’s support of the gressive and arch - adventul” policy of this fascist-minded 8” | eral, depite the fact that this PO icy, which completely ignores ba tain’s interests, is arousing in satisfaction and criticism eve? British ruling circles. a oi Such is the irony of nists The British ruling circles at° dering all-out support to can imperialism in its aggressive playing with fire are guided, primarily, ive of preserving their at the same time, bloc, the American ial are pursuing a “cold cond" ish of remote sections of the B Bri empire, in particular of the ee tish dominions. © ur” The successes of the peace ged porters in the dominions, the oan | eral strike of railwaymen us nee ada, the refusal of Aust vi oe men to ship war material ation : ea, the upsurge in outs liberation movement i? iat Africa - all these and False facts show that the imP© tions sts. making thelr) OP CL gee without the real mast€™™ racy forces of peace an i are growing in the forces. that are defer freedom and independ their countries - and run the decisive word them. pace