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Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru
recently stated in an interview that
the solution to India’s food crisis
Was adoption of birth control. In

- contrast, the Communist leader, A.

K. Gopalan, stated that if the peo-
Ple assumed power in India, the
threat of famine could be forever

lifted within a year.

Gopalan, who was ten times gen-
ral secretary of the Congress party
in Kerela and is now the foremost
Communist leader in the province,
Was only recently released from jail
after four years’ imprisonment, The
High Court of Madras found that
his detention was illegal but he has
Sce been re-arrested,

Tf the people were in power, Go-
Palan declared, they could “lift the
burden from the backs of the toil-
ing peasants by reducing rents and
Siving them land.. We will smash
the black marketeers. . . . We will
Sree the idle landlords to work.”

Placed responsibility for the
amine squarely on the shoulders
9f the Congress government.

of tempting to belittle the extent
Starvation in India, Nehru told a
Correspondent, “The question whe-
1, We have a famine depends on
Rau interpretation of the word,”
Ut he was forced. to add, “certain-
People are dying as a result of
"ndernourishment.”

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grain offered by China.

The contrast between China’s
generous offer and the way in
which the U.S. has played politics
with the famine situation is having
tremendous repercussions in India.
The, non - Communist Lucknow
paper, New Dawn, says it reveals
“who has genuine concern for the
welfare of the Indian people.”

The Economist, British big busi-
ness weekly, comments: “The
mere fact that a®country (China)
which previously imported so
much food can now export it” is
causing considerable comment in
India. Sections of the Indian
press, it says, are pointing out
“that land reform has enabled

China to’ solve its food problem
in one year.” ‘

Failure of the Indian government
to carry out effective land reform
is one of the basic causes of the
present food crisis. The old feudal
relationships are still dominant in
the countryside, as they were un-
der British rule,

While the Chinese offer of food
grains has no strings attached, the
US. bill to provide “aid” is bottled
up in the U.S. Senate Rules Com-
mittee because the Indian govern-
ment refuses to endorse the United
States aggressive Far Eastern
policy. The majority of Senators
en the Committee refuse to allow

LONDON

The “gift” of two million tons of grain promised to
India by the Truman administration, is unlikely to’ be ap-
proved by Congress, but India is now negotiating regarding
shipping arrangements for the one million tons of food

the grain bill to go before Congress
until India drops all opposition to
any phase of American Far East-
ern policy.

In the meantime, the famine situ-
ation in India is becoming more
acute. “Large quantities of rice
and other grains are needed before
May,” according to the Madras cor-
respondent of the London Times, or
“large scale famine is inevitable.”

“This year’s famine now looks
like exceeding the Bengal disaster
of 1943,” says The Economist, “if
not approaching the long-rémem-
bered horrors of 1897-99,” when
millions died.

In many parts of India the star-

vation ration of nine ounces of
grain a day has been cut to six. All

rationed grain prices have been
raised, which is expected to mean
an immediate jump of 18 percent in
the cost of living. Higher grain
prices follow the recent increase in
textile costs, and have been brought
about by failure of the government
to continue subsidies.

Protest against the government’s
policy of putting the burden of the
food crisis on the impoverished
workers and peasants is widespread
hroughout India. Trade unions in
Bombay are planning a general

strike.

there

Behind the scenes

Japanese trade.

“What worries British industrial-
ists 'is the future pattern of Japan’s
overseas trade,” says the Economist,
British big business weekly. It
points out that with former mar-
kets and sources of raw material in
China and Korea closed to Japan,
by American policies, she must find
new markets and expand old ones
to pay for more expensive raw
materials purchased primarily in
the dollar area.

The Manchester Guardian points

our that Japan is plahning to bal-
ance a deficit in its dollar trade,
with a rplus in its sterling
trade achieved primarily at the
expense of British exports to
Southeast Asia and Africa.

“The idea of an import surplus in
dollars and an export surplus in
sterling is a clear sign of Ameri-
can inspiration,” says the Guard-
ian, adding: “The carrying out of
this is certain to make trouble.”

“In spite of all difficulties,” The
Emonomist pointed out, “Japan re-
establihsed itself last year as the
world’s leading textile exporter.”

It did this, says the Financial
Times, “by starving the home
market in order to foster exports.’
This is part of the “austerity” plan
foisted on the country by U.S. oc-
ation policy.
owThe British are also alarmed that
Japanese shipbuilding yards have
not prepared to agree to any limita-
tions on their production. This
not only forebodes stiff competition

British-American
split looms over
Japanese treaty

LONDON

is a serious. split between

London and Washington over proposals. for a Japanese
peace ‘treaty. Crux of these differences is what the Financial
Times calls the “frightening” prospect of a

revival of

for British yards, but a large
Japanese merchant fleet competing
with the British. :

The London ‘Times’ Washing-
ton correspondent says that no
amount of American “bludgeon-
ing” or “lectures” can hide the
fact “that Japan has always lived
-by her trading with China.” The
‘only alternative according to the
Times is the American market.
“And nothing Mr. Dulles has said
+ -. Suggests that he is propos-
ing to throw open the market
here to her.”

On the contrary the United States
expects Japan to find its markets
at British expense, while becoming
dependent for raw materials on the
U.S. At the same time, Japan's
heavy industry, will, under Ameri-
can direction, concentrate on re-
arming Japan and contributing to
the American war machine, -

In both the Japanese arma-
ments industry and textiles, Am-
erican capital now holds a dom-
inant position and stands to reap
enormous profits.

British capital cannot but look
askance at these plans of American
monopolists which mean an end to
their dgminant trade position in
large parts of the colonial world,
but subservience to United States
war policies has so far kept Brit-
ish opposition from leading to an
open split over the Japanese treaty.

ys politics with hunger

MLPA YASS

Wits = RES ee:
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No'more war

“You can count us out” is the

free translation of the slogan
“Ohne uns” circulating all over Western Germany where General
Dwight D. Eisenhower and his supporters are desperately trying
to whip up sentiment for rearmament and war.

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SOCCER

hof send troops
outside country —

ganized
Arbenz of Guatemala has announc-
ed his country will not send troops
outside the continent.

His statement in effect repudiated preparations are
one of the principal resolutions of
the recent Washington conference
of western hemispheres of foreign
ministers.
dent, who took office March 15, gave
three reasons for his government’s
refusal to send troops outside the
continent.

principles of non- intervention that
has guided and will continue to
guide the democratic regime of
Guatemala which is a zealous de-
fender of the respect due to the
rights of all peoples to self-deter-
mination.”
would encroach upon the United
Nations charter. Third, “Guatemala
cannot divert one single man or the
nation’s limited budget from the
broad program of: production” for
the next six years of the new ad-
ministration.

tions is absolutely essential for
Guatemala,” Arbenz declared.

Even silence suspect
in Columbia under -
ferroristic regime

NEW YORK

Thousands of citizens of Col-
ombia are being murdered by the
armed forces of the reactionary
Gomez government at the same
time that Colombia helps in “lib-
erating” Korea, it is pointed out
by former Colombian Education
‘Minister. German. Arciniegas.

In a letter to the New York
Times, Arciniegas, a leading La-
tin-American novelist and _§his-
torian, declares that “thousands
of country people, leaving their
lands, their cattle, their homes,

said, is

Greek invasion
of Albania waits
only U.S. signal

PRAGUE

High-ranking officers of the

Greek monarcho - fascist general
staff are claiming that the Atlantic

Pact supreme commander, General
Dwight D Eisenhower, has approv-
ed the so-called “lightning” plan
for invasion of Albania this spring,
Free Greece Radio reports.

The general staff, the broadcast
militarily prepared ‘to

over an area larger than the Am- |jaunch an attack as soon as the

erican state of Rhode Island, have
had to seek refuge in the neigh-
bouring countries.” ‘ :
“Freedom of the press,” Arcinie-
gas adds, “does not exist in Col-
ombia. .El Tiempo (the leading
Liberal newspaper) was closed for
24 hours last year for having

ment which said: ‘Silence! Do not
cough’.”

Guatemala’ will

In_a statement supported by or-
labor, President Jacobo

Guatemala’s new presi-

“He said it would “violate the

Secondly, he said, it

“The peaceful coexistence of ma-

hroughout Greece,
Greece Radio.
on of ‘the Greece-Turkish. agree-
nent on military collaboration, im-

U.S. gives the word.

‘When Admiral Robert (Carney,

commander --in - chief of the U.S.
Eastern Atlantic and Mediterran-

an Naval Forces, arrived sudden-

ly in Athens last month, many high-
ranking officers thought he had
published a cough-drop advertise- |come to give the signal
vasion.

for in-

For this purpose, special military

units have been formed in Greece

omposed of commandos and para-
hutists from among Greeks from

South Albania, and Albanian mon-

rchist and Ballist (members of
ascist organization Balli_ Kombe-
ar) emgires.

A special school to train sabot-

eurs and spies for use in Albania
GUATAMALA CITY |has been opened in Salonika.
- seh Athens-Belgrade Axis is rapidly be-
ng broadened into a Mediterranean
bloc as an appendix of the Atlantic
Pact é

The

Under American supervision, war
going ahead
says Free
Following conclus-

ortant Greek-Turkish installations

are being set up in the area of-
Evros.
work with Yukoslavia and Greece
Ss being extended.

The Turkish highway net-

Greek foreign minister sources

boast that the U.S. has promised
he monarcho-fascists that if, dur-
ng the invasion, the Soviet Union

r any democratic country should
aise the question before the United

Nations, the U.S. delegation will ob-

truct its discussion so that it will
e possible to present the Security

Council with a fait accompli, as

hey believe that the operation will

»e of blitzkrieg nature.

In this connection, it is pointed
ut in Athens, ther visit of UN Sec-
etary General Trygve Lie to the
talkans is highly significant,

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