Th the South African House Of As Minister Swart, rising to move fond reading of an apartheid Tacist) bill, held up a photo- aph and described it as “dis- Susting.” Shown above is the photo- Ah Which so offended him. Jo Is the wedding picture of P Seph Appiah, of Nigeria, and lated: TIPPS; daughter of the ate Sir Stafford Cripps, taken after their recent marriage in ndon, ‘ met to Swart, obsessed with aa Malan government’s white ey policies, it was the @ ding of “the daughter of a Tmer British cabinet minister a Nigerian blanket native” ~* slurring reference to the = Swart works up sweat Over wedding picture sembly last week, Justice’ traditional tribal robe worn by Appiah. If such a thing took place in South Africa, he assert- ed, it would be “the end.” The Malan government’s own end, in every sense of the word, is apparent in the bill Swart is proposing. Designed to _re- move legal obstacles to aparth- eid legislation, it provides that no measure reserving amenities for one race or class can be in- validated because similiar am- enities have not been reserved for any other race or class. Introduction of the bill fol- lows court decisions invalidat- ing legislation to reserve sep- arate amenities for Europeans and Non-Europeans on trains, railway stations, post offices and other public places. U.S. military clamps gag on returning POWs, fans hate campaign with atrocity ‘tales’ United States military authorities have put a gag on returned prisoners of war to prevent dis- cussion of the good treatment they received in North Korean POW camps. The people of the US., Canada and other countries will be allowed to hear only such “atrocity” stories as returning POWs can be induced to lend their names to—stories calculated to inflame public feeling and conceal the shame of North Korean and Chinese POWs massa‘cred in U.S. camps on Koje Island and elsewhere. The gag bears out’ earlier Unit- ed Press reports that U.S. military censors would forbid returned POWs “from revealing all their experiences in the Red prison camps.” The UP report said there were 10 “specific topics” which would be taboo. Details of these topics were not to be made public and correspondents were to be forbidden to reveal them. The ban on discussion with U.S. correspondents hits all categories of POWs. Those felt to be unsym- pathetic to the official U.S. posi- tion are not permitted to give in- terviews. Others are being closely watched by U.S. military censors during interviews. According to the UP report, re- turning POWs are being required “to sign statements that they un- derstand the ‘censorship rules.” These statements “bind the pris- oners even after they return home and talk with newsmen outside military censorship.” Fear that returning POWs will discuss matters ‘‘reflecting on the behavior of United Nations cap- tured personnel, or reveal infor- mation which might make good propaganda fodder for the Com- munists,” is said by the UP to be the reason for the rigid censorship. Actually, U.S. military authori- ties are trying to prevent any re- petition of what happened during the exchange of sick and injured POWs last spring. Then the U.S. propaganda campaign about “ill- treatment” of POWs fell flat when British and some American POWs told of the good care they received in North Korean camps. U.S. free food stunt recalls Nazi swindle By STANLEY HARRISON PRAGUE The U.S. free food stunt in East Berlin has evoked many painful memories in Czechoslovakia, as a glance at readers’ letters to Prague newspapers shows. The Czechs have experience of similar grandstand plays of feed- 10,000 held in one month NAIROBI About 10,000 Africans have been arrested in Kenya by British authorities during the past month, while between July 13 and August 4 alone 188 had been killed. These details of mass arrests and mass murder in Kenya were given to a press conference here last weekend by General Erskine, British commander in Kenya. Erskine said there would be no quick or spectacular results from the military campaign. He described what was taking place in Kenya as a “civil war,” in which it was the duty of the British forces and police to give their supporters every possible support. There were, he said, still many who were “sitting on the fence,” and those who support- ed the British “needed moral as well as material support.” ing the hungry. When the Nazis took their country after Munich they sent round vanloads of boil- ed beef and cabbage. Then they photographed the scenes to show how they were feeding the starving Czechs. Mean- while the German soldiers stuffed themselves with the cream, cocoa and fancy cakes they had not had for years at home. The letters recall all this. One correspondent writes: “Hitler and Goebbels shouting about their hu- manity, social sentiments and the help which was saving the Czech people—this was considered the biggest swindle of the century, yet some people were taken in! “Perhaps they began to have different ideas when this ‘protec- tion and aid’ ended up in concen- tration® camps. “One might think such a colos- sal fraud could be carried out only once in history. But now the Americans are trying to do the same ‘thing.” Other letters tell, the U.S. to give the food to the starving of its colony Puerto Rico—or even to the under-nourished millions among their own people. Te nh “4 thousand uew tamily homes by 1955 - forty thousand by 1960 New university city rising in southwest Moscow ‘By RALPH PARKER “MOSCOW 0 the, many, southwest Moscow is tower © University whose mighty the hae aes from the crest of Js . S. But southwest Moscow “ady much more than that. 6,00, e the university, with its ng om students’ hostel, was ound ompleted the bare plateau It was being criss-crossed with new parkways and the foun- dation pits of new buildings dug. Under the Moscow Ten-Year Plan about 10,000 new family homes are to be ready here by 1955, some 40,000 by 1960. —_. Moscow’s builders had previous- ly shunned this region, partly for reasons of transportation, partly because of its exposed position. But the reconstruction of the Kal- uga Highway and modern methods lestival delegates Set forged pamphlet By GEORGE MacDOUGALL BUCHAREST abou sthand proof of the “lie factory” which churns out yarns a th the World Youth Festival. e Port N they boarded a train in Pamppy et t© be an official festival Visitors © 22 English, introducing 8 cley, to Rumania. In fact it was a forgery, ay a Over of the pamphlet was Pamphice replica of a festival National Issued by the Inter- Months Union of Students several lege : haa It contained an al- "% the wssage from the president it, Umanian People’s Repub- hen ; “ueatig Sections dealing with 1, Political structure, in- Peoples’ Democracies has been found by British delegates Vienna they found ‘copies of what dustry and women in Rumania, there followed cunningly worded slanders and misrepresentations about the Rumanian people. The foreign visitor is told that Rumanian children receive mili- tary training from an early age, that the Soviet Union controls all industrial production, and many other lies. The forgery has fooled no one— but it has made many people real- ise to what lengths some groups in the West will go. of , tree-planting have overcome these drawbacks. Foreign visitors to Moscow ar- riving by air have often been puzzled to notice the old shabby buildings that lay in southwest Moscow, , so different from the brand-new look of the Kaluga Highway along which they enter the city. Now, as if by the sweep of a broom, these remains of the past have gone. The whole of the new project is being tackled as a single plan. ‘ What this part of Moscow main- ly lacks is color. Monotonously grey in winter, its lack of natural features offer no contrasts in sum- mer. The architects are therefore paying special attention to achiev- ing brilliant color effects. The- Russian spirit rejects the heavy toneless appareance of so much modern apartment building. It is always straining for gaiety and color. This has always shown itself in church and palace archi- tecture. In Soviet times it is ex- tended to houses built for the people. But the severe climate often de- feats attempts to achieve ‘bright external effects. Only recently with introduction of the use of ceramics and factory prepared blocks of masonry as well as the application. of beautiful marbles, has it become possible to make the outsides of modern buildings re- |. Moscow University rises on the Lenin Hills. flect a gaiety. In southwest Mostow the new buildings wilt glow with brilliant colors, the deep red of Siberian marble contrasting with the pale Moscow limestone, the blue tiles and the pale ochre of the foam- concrete. New standards of service to the public’s daily needs are be- ing set in southwest Moscow— underground private garages, a children’s library, kindergarten and creche on the ground floor spirit of light-hearted of every block of flats. A two- hall cinema for 800 spectators in every block. A large indoor swimming pool in each district of the new region. Four schools, each accommodat- ing 880 children, are being built for completion in 1955. Moscow’s largest hospital is going up, with a special health centre for the university students. When present plans are fulfilled southwest Moscow will accommo- date about one quarter of the city’s population. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — AUGUST 14, ]953 — PAGE 3 ease sala Looe li dal er ep Te