Newsman- says

wase-fire. talks at Kaesong, according to
Obert S$. Allen, New York Post corres-
Pondent, is that Wall Street imperialism is
determined to hold on to the North Korean
lettitory it now holds, and is already ex-
Ploiting its tungsten deposits.

~

Allen declared: ‘“Tungsten deposits now
in U.S. hands in North Korea are the rich-
est in the world outside China.
of the North Korean deposits is the fact
that within five days after their capture,
ore was being taken away from! them for
‘shipment to the U.S.”

Indicative

abound there.”’

U.S. trying to hold onto
area of North Korean tungsten mines

NEW YORK

The story behind thesstalemate in the

He quoted Munitions Board: Chairman
John Small as telling a ‘‘ptivate meeting’
of U.S. Congressional leaders that ‘‘it is of
utmost importance that we retain control
of this sector captured by our men, in order
to obtain the rich tungsten supplies that

As world leaders might appear at peace conference

This photomontage, prepared by the London Daily Worker,
Shows, from left to right.: President Truman, Premier Stalin, Robert

Cle
en,

uman of France, Mao Tse-tung of China and Prime Minister
ment Attlee of Great Britain, as they might appear at a confer-
fe to sign a pact of peace between the five great powers. The

petition for a five-nower peace pact has already been signed by. 444
million people in 44 countries and the World Peace Council -con-
fidently exgects that final tabulations from all the more than 60
eountries in which the petition is circulating will far surpass the
500 million signatures collected for the Stockholm Appeal.

Abdullah was
fo have been
lran mediator

PARIS

Well-informed circles here reject
assertion that King Abdullah of
Jordan, assassinated in Jerusalem
on July 20, was the victim of a
dynastical feud murder. The ter-
rorist act against Abdullah, they
point out, was committed at a
moment when Abdullah, on British
initiative, was preparing to come
forward as mediator in the British-
Tranian oil conflict on behalf of
the Arab states.

Preliminary talks on the offer
of the late king’s services to the
Iranian government, which Abdul-
lah held with the Iranian envoy to
Amman, had provided the British
with good hopes that Iran would
devote careful consideration to the
Arab proposals, it is reported here.

At the same time, David Fritz-
lain, U.S. charge d’affaires in Jor-
dan, was consistently making it
clear to Abdullah through court
advisors that the U.S. disapproved
of Abdullah’s intentions and that
it regarded the mission of Preési-
dent Truman’s special assistant,
W. Averell Harriman, as sufficient

to fulfil the role of mediator in
Tran.

FBI will help —

Franco tighten

Strip on Spain.

WASHINGTON

A large group—about 300 strong—of U.S, Federal Bureau of
“Vestigation agents will leave very soon for Madrid, FBI chief J.
“gar Hoover recently disclosed in an ‘unofficial statement. The death
3 Admiral Forrest Sherman, who discussed American-Spanish co-

Baton with «the Franco regime, “Hoover said, would present no

‘tacle in putting into practice
< a8reement on the exchange of
*SOnnel between the Spanish and
Merican secret police.

The

ded,
Will FBI group, Hoover adde

be charged with assisting
rae in reorganizing and i
ated the work of special police
atid and the U.S. embassy in
in Will assist the FBI in Bele
eke a group of Spanish police-

‘Who will continue their train-
Sin the united States.

ta, tetsthening of the Spanish
ing Cist secret police has been made
“essary by an increase of anti-

in

‘fascist sentiment in Spain, Hoover

explained. This increase has be-
come particularly marked, he
added, since official disclosure of
American-Spanish talks on Spain’s
participation in ;Western military
preparations.

In Hoover’s opinion, an increase
in anti-fascist sentiment even
among generals and officers of the
Spanish Army is the cause for
special apprehension, This, Hoover
believes, might result in a conspir-

acy of the military against Franco.

f
“LL chuolezo" ar"

Franco’s fascists will learn... .

(\

. . . from Hoover’s FBI

Hint Kuomintang
lroops to be used
against Viet Nam

’ RANGOON

The newspaper Wational Salya-
tion, organ of the Viet Nam
National United Front, regards
Thomas Dewey’s’ recent visit to
Saigon as presaging,greater, Ameri-
can intervention. in Viet Nam,

e The paper noted that although
Dewey asserted his visit to Saigon
was merely part of his Far East-
ern tour he nevertheless conferred
With the French commander, Gen-
eral de ‘Tassigny, with the U.S.
commander in Taiwan and the
Australian external affairs minis-
ter, who was in Saigon at the
time.

This, declared the paper gave
substance to the French-inspired
rumor that an estimated 30,000 ex-
Kuomintang troops are to be
thrown into the war against the
Vietnamese people.

It is also noted here that a new
British control order requiring all
publications in Singapore to ob-
tain permits followed immediately
on Dewey’s visit and his claim to
be “shocked” by Singapore papers
giving front-page prominence to
news of racial violence in the

US.

Abdullah was known to be one
of the most determined supporters
of the British “Greater Syria” plan
for merging Jordan, Iraq, Syria
and Lebanon into one state under
British control—a plan that con-
flicts with American political. am-
bitions in the Near East:

LONDON

British Foreign Minister Herbert
Morrison had talks with Emir
Feisal, foreign minister of Saudi
Arabia, here on August 8 and it
is understood that Morrison sug-
gested to the Emir a military pact
to include’ Iran, the other Arab
countries and Pakistan.

Emir Feizal’s visit comes shortly
after the assassination of Jordan’s
King Abdullah, the main pillar of
British power in the Middle East,
who was also to assist the British
interests by “mediating” in the
British-Iranian oil conflicts “on be-
half” of the Arab countries. Saudi
Arabia’s oil concessions are ex-
ploited exclusively by the Ameri-
cans and it is believed here that
Saudi Arabia’s rapproachment with
Britain may assist that country in
its desire to increase the oil royal-
ties which it receives from the
Arabian-American Qil Company.

The so-called Arab Defense Pact
is one of the British countermovés
against the American plan of
bringing about a military alliance
between Turkey and Iran

Skilled workers seek
jobs in East Germany

While newspapers in Western
countries fill their columns with
extravagant accounts of refugees
from the German Democratic Re-

.public. seeking asylum in Western

Germany, the West German Rhein-
ische Zeitung reports that some
150,000 unemployed skilled’ work-
ers left Western Germany and
found work in Eastern Germany
between the fall of 1949 and the

end of .1950.

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