British soldiers photographed with the severed head of a Malayan patriot.

The British
government first insinuated that such pictures were faked, then had to admit they were authentic.

British peace leader greets
Malayan guerilla fighter at

peace conference in Peking

With tears in his eyes a delegate of the Malayan guerilla fighters shook

° PEKING.
hands with an

Englishman here who denounced British crimes against the Malayan people.

Speaking to the Asian Peace Conference, Ivor Montagu, of the World Peace Council, de-
Clared that General Templer and his chief, Oliver Lyttleton, were war criminals, “morally every
Whit as guilty as those hanged at Nuremberg.” Z

In four years of war, land,
Sea and air forces had been sent
™M from Britain, Australia and
€w Zealand with recruits from
Feji, Nepal and Africa, police
Tom Palestine and head-hunters
from Sarawak.

“Yet the Malayan people are
Not cowed,” he said and added:

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_ *‘O four years resistance can be

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“onducted by just ‘bandits’ and
terrorists’,

Even among an audience, many
of whom know from their own
*xperience how oppressors hold
down the people, blood ran cold
*S Montagu recited the deeds
‘ommitted in the name of the
Titish people.
iinet

Destruction of Tcrops, defile-
ment of the dead, razing of vil-
lages, use of chemicals in war,
torture of prisoners, collective
punishment — all were offences
against international law.

“Please remember,” he told
the conference, “that if those
corrupted British boys who

stood grinning beside the sev-
ered heads of Malayan’ patriots
were of my people, so, too,
were those others who defied
regulations to pass out the
photographs to the _ outside
world.

Spokesman from the Mongoli-
an Peoples Republic and the So-

viet Union were able to report
on breathtaking progress on con-
structive works.

The head of the Soviet dele-
gation announced that work
was beginning on a grand scale
to use the’ power and resources
of one of the mighty rivers of *
Asia, the Angari, now uselessly
pouring its waters into the Arc-
tic.

‘We have no military bases in
other lands, but we have one

worth ail these—a. firm, warm
base in the hearts of people all

over the world,” he said.

‘Soviet power no longer island
encircled by capitalist countries’

MOSCOW
1 “The Soviet Union might have
°St the war but for the last pre-
ar purge, which eliminated all
€Nemies, destroyed the Fifth Col-
Umn and prepared the party for
© defense of the country.”
Addressing the 19th Congress of
© Communist Party of the Soviet
ph, Malenkoy said this in the
ction of his speech devoted to
© part played by the Communist!
Party between 1939 and 1952.
b In 1939 the party had a mem-
*rship of 2,447,666, On October
» 1952, it was 6,882,145.
After the war the number of
fombers newly admitted during
t © war was reduced by the cen-
‘al committee owing to the fall-
Ss down in standards of politi-
41 education.

He said proper selection ‘of,
cadres had been unsatisfactory.

“Nepotism has been rife. Some
people in leading positions have
assumed that discipline does not
apply to them. Facts of embez-,
zlement and other crimes, and
disclosing: of secrets gale come
to light.

“Criticism and self-criticism
from below is an absolute ne-
cessity, and conditions must be
created to assure that every-
one in the lower ranks can come
forward fearlessly with his
criticism.’’

Stressing the importance of
Premier Stalin’s economic works,
Malenkov said that ‘economists
must be guided by Stalin’s direc-
tives.”

He then concluded:

“Our Soviet power is no
longer an island encircled by

capitalist countries,,

“We advance together with the
great ‘Chinese nation, with the
many millions of the popular
masses of the People’s Democra-
Neies and of the German Demo-
cratic Republic,

Al] mankind sympathizes with
us and supports us.

“Our powerful motherland is
in the full development of its
strength: and marches toward
new successes, .

“We have all that is neces-
sary for the construction of a
complete communist society.

The natural wealth of the So-

viet country is inexhaustible.”

. Ageressive militarism’

Molotoy accuses
U.S. on four counts

“MOSCOW

Deputy Premier V. M. Molotov; welcoming -delegates to the
19th Congress: of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, ac-
cused the “aggressive anti-democratic camp, led by the right wing
ruling circles of the United States,” of bearing responsibility for:

V The Korean war.

V_ Seizure of, the Chinese is-
land of 'Taiwan (Formosa), head-
quarters. of Chiang Kai-shek.

V MTurning Western Germany

j}and Japan into dependent states.

Vv “The setting up of aggres-
sive militarism! in East and West,
such as the North Atlantic Pact.’’

He declared this pact was ‘‘di-
rected against the Soviet Union,
China and the People’s Democ-
racies.”’

Though capitalism was pass-
ing through a crisis: today, the
“main imperialist countries are
still waging propaganda for a new
war,’’ Molotov stated.

“Nothing. can conceal the in-
ability of the capitalist countries
to solve the mounting threat. of
an economic crisis and the growth
of unemployment.

“All this leads to contradic-
tions and conflicts among these
states and to the inevitable
growth of the class struggle with-
in these countries.”’

He went on to refer to ‘‘the
mighty movement of Peace Par-
tisans which unites hundreds of
millions, including many mil-
lions, in’ capitalist’ countries.

“In the struggle to ‘secure
peace we, Soviet people, never
forget the need for preparedness
and vigilance for the active re-
sistance to any aggression on the
part of the imperialist camp.’’

Molotov then recalled Stal-
in’s statement that “peace will
be preserved and consolidated

V. M. MOLOTOV

if the peoples of the world will
take the cause of peace into
their own hands and uphold it
to the end.”

He then added: “But war
will become inescapable if the
warmongers were to succeed in
confusing the popular masses
and drag them along with
them.” i

Concluding, Molotov told the
delegates that the Communist
party had come to the 19th Con-
gress ‘“‘more powerful and united
than ever.” .

‘Peaceful development’

Beria reveals vast ’

industrial

progress

MOSCOW

Soviet industrial output during the last two years was greater
than that of the first and second Five Year Plans put together,
Deputy. Premier Lavrenti Beria reported to the 19th Congress of

the Communist Party of the Soviet Union here.

Machine-building in 1952 alone, he said, exceeds the results of

both plans.

Speaking of the calm, confi-
dent: advance of the USSR, Beria
said that only hopeless fools
could believe that the Soviet peo-
ple could be frightened by provo-
cations,

Beria accused’ the American
multi-millionaires of aspiring to
world domination. They were
more afraid. of peace than of
war.

They were sending spies and
agents recruited from degener-
ates against the Soviet Union.

They organized war manoeuvres
on Soviet. frontiers, designed to
keep up, the war hysteria in Am-
erica. : :

But -they would not succeed

in provoking the Soviet Union
into diverting her from the path
of peaceful development.

Beria devoted much of his
speech to Lenin-Stalin national
policy. :

He said cultural, economic and
political’ inequalities had been el-
iminated in the. USSR, where, in-
stead of backward peoples, there
were modern socialist nations
where illiteracy was abolished.
Socialist industry ‘advanced and
agriculture established. -

Unlike the U.S. and South Af-

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rica, no racial discrimination ex-
isted. -

The accelerated rate of devel-
opment in the farmer tsarist col-
onial empire led to the result that
five Soviet Asian Republics, with
a@ population of 17 million, had
three times the electric power of
a vast area of the Middle East
with 150 million population.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — OCTOBER 17, 1952 — PAGE 11

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