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East of Suez’
policy hit by
British MP

LONDON
An “East of Suez” policy cost-
‘hg the British people £600 mil-
| (0n this year can no longer be
Stified, Bob Edwards, MP, de-
tlared this week.

This was one-sixteenth of all
S0vernment expenditure, and a
(uarter of the British defence
Udget, he told a Movement

a Colonial Freedom conference
ere,

Edwards said that Britain was
‘pending £50 million a year to
€ep the 36 “tinpot sheiks” in
© Persian Gulf area in power,
‘itd without us they would not
St five minutes.

Who were the 50,000 British
"oops in Singapore and Borneo
‘ipposed to be defending, ask-
*d Edwards. They were defend-
Ng the sultans against the peo-
ble, whose union leaders were
Riled without trial.

Foreign Secretary Stewart had
‘tid Britain must stand by her
Nends. “But the only people
Who are interested in being de-
lendea by us are people with
Whom we have nothing in com-
Mon,” declared Edwards.

The conference passed an
1€ government to take imme-
fiate steps to bring the Smith
€gal racialist regime in Rho-

€sia to an end.

*mergency resolution calling on -

r

‘Among the many weap-
- Ons is the State History

Museum in Moscow is Na-

Poleon‘s sword. It has its
. Own history.

Manufactured by the
best armorers of Versail-
les, it, has a Damascus
Steel blade on which is in-
Scribed: “To Napoleon Bo-
Naparte, the First Consul
Of the French Republic.”
The hilt is inlaid with mo-
ther - of - pearl, and has
ronze and filigree work
aS ornamentation. At the
€nd of the hilt. is a lion’s
head and a ring. The scab-
bard is of black leather,
Ornamented in bronze. The
Signature of Boutte — the
armorer — is engraved on
the top clamp of the scab-
bard. The only time Napo-
leon ever parted with his
Sword was under the fol-
Owing circumstances.

When the French army
Was routed and the allied
troops entered Paris, on

arch 31, 1814, the high
Command decided to exile

apoleon to the Island of
Elba. Among the. three
®llied commissars who
Were to accompany him

Napoleon's sword

was Count Pavel Shuvalov,
aide-de-camp of Alexander
J. When he learned that an
attempt was to be made
on Napoleon’s life at one
of the ports through which
they would pass, Count
Shuvalov offered to change
clothes with Napoleon, and
gave him his army great-
coat. As a token of grati-
tude Napoleon ‘presented
him with his personal
sword.

In 1912 the sword was
exhibited at an exhibition
for the centenary of the
Patriotic War of 1812. At
the close of the exhibition
it was returned to Coun-
tess Vorontsova-Dashkova,
nee Shuvalova, and was
preserved for a long time
at her estate in the Ukra-
ine.

In 1926, a Red Army
officer, whose name is not
known, presented Napo-
leon’s sword to the Mu-
seum of the Red Army as
the weapon he_used in the
war. A little Jater one of
the museum’s staff disco-
vered the inscription and
the sword was given to the
State History Museum.

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imperialism.

Nguyen: Huu Tho, chairman of the South Vietnam
National Front for Liberation, is shown in top left
photo. The National Front was born on Dec. 20, 1960.
The liberated areas under its control constitute four-
fifths of the territory of South Vietnam with a population
of about 10 million. (Bottom left): People in the liber-
ated areas are shown making poisoned arrows,-which
guerrillas use against the invading Americans. In some
mountain areas the bow and arrow is just as effective
as a gun. Photo:above shows woman sharpshooter Li
Thi Tuyet, one of the brave young fighters against U.S.

-Bonn-Nuremberg and back:

West-German impressions

By Y. GRIGORIEV
BONN’
It is a five hours’ ride from
the West German capital to
Nuremberg, a city associated
with many events of old and re-
cent history. The medieval tow-
ers and walls breathe the spirit
of remote epochs. The house of
the great German painter Duhrer
survived as if by a miracle. The
ancient cathedrals stand in all
their resplendent glory. Monu-
ments of ancient history are al-
ways impressive.

But there are other traces of
the past in Nurember. They
tower as monumental scabs of
the Third Reich. Here is a huge

- unfinished structure which was

oc

supposed to become a “nazi
Colosseum” of sorts. And a little
way off, across a pond, there is
a field of Hitler’s parteitags, sur-
rounded with the oppressive pil-
lars of the stands. Memory
automatically recreates the fa-
miliar movie frames: the fren-
zied Hitler addressing ecstatic
erowds ...

The word “Nuremberg” be-
came at one time a synonym of
the nazi brutality—just as later,
in 1945, it became a synonym,
of the trial of fascism and its
crimes, a stern warning to the
forces of militarism and war.

““The trial of Nuremberg
should not be forgotten by any
means,” Max von der Grun, a

former miner and now a well-
known writer, told me. “The
trial has lost none of its signifi-
cance to the present day. It is
a lesson. And now all who are
kindling war — as the Ameri-
can aggressors are in Vietnam—
should be called to account.”

I recalled these words, utter-
éd in the writer’s small flat in a
Ruhr mining village, the mo-
ment I found myself on the
Nuremberg terminal square. An
unusual picture struck my eye
in the foggy darkness of a cold
evening. Some 20 young men

were seated on an island of a
tram stand. “Peace to Vietnam!”
read the slogans -written on
plain sheets of paper. mis

And this small sitdown dem-
onstration was a vivid reminder
of the necessary conclusions
which West Germany must
draw from the lessons of pre-
war Nuremberg and the post-
war trials of Nuremberg. These
lessons have become a com-
mandment for the peace forces
of the FRG. But unforturately
they are ignored by those who
are: shaping the policy of West
Germany today.

* * x

When I returned to Bonn, an
old nazi movie, pulled out from
the film archives, “Kolberg,”
concocted by Goebbels and
propagandizing sentiments of
great-German chauvinism, was
being shown in one of the capi-
tal’s playhouses.

I also saw inside the Bonn
railway station how a _ broad-
shouldered man bought a news-
paper and avidly read the
screaming headline and the de-
tailed story preaching  anti-
Semitism.

The forces of revenge and
war in the FRG are deliberately

forgetting the grim lessons of /

history. But, as before, the Nu
remberg trial is a stern warnifg
to those who ignore Ahese
lessons. és

December 24, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5