Big business jaurnal sees world opinion against U.S. as warmonger

Admits U.S. ‘cold war’ policy unpopular

American imperialism is becom-
ing increasingly unpopular through-
Out the world, That is the frank
admission’ forced from U.S. News
and World Report in its June 9
issue. ;

“Underneath the surface, tide of
Opinion is running against the U.S.
in both Europe and Asia,” the
authoritative big business weekly
Concedes. ‘Resistance to U.S. ideas
is growing. Irritation with U.S.
Power and behavior is mounting.
U.S. popularity overseas is fading.”

Attempting to explain the diffi-
culties now confronting Washington
“cold war” policy makers, and in-
directly admitting the overwhelm-
ing desire for peace in every coun-
try, U.S. News and World Report
continues: .

_ “New U.S. idea, all-out “cold war”,
is unpopular even with people who
have most to fear from Russia.
Reason is most people think an all-
Out cold war can only end in a
Shooting war, Average person on
the Continent, or around the rim
of Asia, is backing away from war.

Profits in'
Britain at
record high

LONDON

Despite their propaganda - wise
Complaints against the Labor gov-
ernment and its “socialistic” meth-
ods, British big business men have
Never made more money than they
are making now.

The profits of 1188 British indus-
trial companies which published
their balance sheets in the first five
Months of this year show that prof-
its have risen by £26 million ($104
Million) or five percent, over the
Previous year.

An analysis by the Financial

imes shows that for every pound
Paid out in dividends to sharehold-
ers, two pounds were hidden in
reserves,

Taxation was the same this year
as last, and of the increased profit
the government took only £1,000,000
($4,000,000).

Rubber profits for 113 firms,
which are the key to the murderous
Colonial war in Malaya, are up by
£316,000, or 16 percent. Similarly,
80ld mining profits are up 44 per-
cent and tin and copper profits 12
Percent, ‘

Amongst other things, the figures

Tow a new light on the govern-
Ment’s “wage-freeze” policy, which
©ondemns millions of British work-
ts to inadequate standards of liv-
ing under the guise of austerity, at

€ same time as it allows big
business to amass new wealth.

British jail
‘town concil

NICOSIA, Cyprus
Workers: and all municipal em-
Ployees of Limassol recently staged
& 24-hour strike to protest against
Mprisonment of the town’s mayor
&nd municipal council by British
Colonial authorities.
he mayor and councillors were
Sent to jail for an indefinite period
°r refusing to place the name
Plate of the former tyrannical Cyp-
Tus governor Richard Palmer “in
& Conspicuous place’ on Limassol's
Main street. There were to remain
'n jail until they carried out the
Tder of the Supreme Court.
_Strikers marched to the Commis-
Sloner’s office and handed him a
memorandum demanding release of
the municipal council. A clash be-
tween strikers and police took place
Sutside, when police tried to pre-
Vent strikers from seeing the com-
Missioner, There were some wound-
€d on both sides, and police made
Several arrests,
t ass meetings were held in all
Owns of Cyprus to demand release
the mayor and councillors.

He wants no part of it. And he’s
beginning to blame the U.S., rightly
or wrongly, for pushing the world
toward World War III.

“Official communiques, as after
the London conference, may not re-
flect what voters in England,
France, Western Europe, actually
propose to do. They’ll have their
say later, when bigger budgets for
defense are submitted. Way people
in Europe are thinking now, they'll
vote ‘No’ against what they see as

an arms race.”

After reviewing the growing anti-
war sentiment in a number of
countries, U.S. News and World
Report concludes:

“Moscow’s propagandists,
clear,

it is
have outshouted Washing-

ton’s. Moscow keeps saying Russia
is for peace, keeps pinning the war-
monger label on the U.S. Bystand-
ers don’t believe Moscow at first,
but do tend to when Washington
puts most of its emphasis on cold

Japanese labor fights U.S. repression

war, not on peace. And when a U.S,
general or congressman hints war
may be inevitable in 2 or 5 years,
the bystanders naturally run for
cover.

Allowing for distortions, such as
the reference to “Russia’s postwar
record of aggression,” when it is
U.S. arms, U.S. dollars, U.S. threats
to use the atom-bomb which have
clearly defined the United States as
the aggressor, with which U.S. News
sand World Report attempts to con-

The All-Japan Council of Labor, representing more than 3,000,000 trade unionists, has declared that it
will appeal to the World Federation of Trade Unions and other international democratic bodies in its
fight to obtain release of eight men (above) on whom. an American court in Japan recently imposed the
heaviest sentences since the beginning of the occupation. General MacArthur’s order to the Japanese
government banning 24 members of the Communist party, including Kyuichi Tokuda, general secretary,
from all political activities, is seen as part of a developing pattern of anti-democratic repression.

Assert MacArthur clique
making fortunes in Japan

The American occupation of Japan has resulted in immense’ personal profits for
ss . \ . . c z . S oxi.
General. Douglas MacArthur and his entourage, according to information received from

| sources close to MacArthur’s economic advisers.

The best business deal ever made by MacArthur and _ his collaborators, these sources
state, was the transfer of a great number of shares of three big cotton: firms to the

hands of the present American ru-
lers of Japan and their relatives.
These firms, Anderson, Clayton and
United Merchants and

Company, 3
Manufacturers, and Consolidated
Textile Company, were granted

oly rights for cotton imports
lg test te and “rewarded” the of-
ficials concerned with shares, The
American staff.also arbitrarily set
import and export prices.
Under the regulations, American
firms are selling cotton to Japan
for double the world market price
and they receive a 70 percent pro-
fit on goods produced from this
n.
a ehe sources of profit for Am-
erican business men in uniform are
their holdings in the biggest Japa-
nese shipping, oil and aluminum
companies. ~ i Fes.
al MacArthur has
ae sone huge blocks _of
shares of the shipping companies,
Nihon Yusen Kaisha and Yama-
shita which were originally to be
withdrawn according to inter-
national decision on dissolution
of Japanese monopolies. These
companies are receiving regular-
ly great amounts of money as
loans for the building of new
ships from the American “aid

es American mili

bers of the American mili-
fae athorities and their relatives
own 40 percent of the shares of
the Japanese Nihon Sekyiu and
Nippon Yinseki (oil refineries. and
synthetic fuel production). Motor
fuel produced by these companies

Mothers whose
children killed
sign petition

ROME

Over 100,000 signatures to the
Stockholm peace appeal were col-
lected in Milan in 1 day at opening
of the signature campaign which is
expected to obtain one and a half
million signatures in Milan prov-
ince.

The campaign was launched with
a .peace demonstration in the
working-class quarter of Gorla. It
was here that 30@ children were
killed during the war by indiscrim-
inate Allied air bombardment. A
monument commemorating the
death of these children in the cen-
tral square of Gorla shows a woman
with a dead child in her arms, with
the inscription underneath: “This
is war.” The first signers of the
petition against the atomic bomb

.| were mothers of the children who

died under the bombardment.

is being supplied to the American
forces in Japan and paid for by
the Japanese government.

The same people named in the
former two cases own shares as-
suring them control of the Sumi-
tomo Aluminum.

May go to India

D LN. Pritt, K.C., distinguished

in September to conduct appeals
‘of Hyderbad peasant leaders un-
der sentence of death for head-
ing the peasant land reform

movement.

British lawyer, may go to India |

fuse the issue, this constitutes an
admission that Washington’s “cold
war” policies are losing even what
little popular support they once had.

On another page, the magazine
reports what may be the propagan-
da device adopted by Washington
in an endeavor to continue an in-
creasingly unpopular policy under
another guise, as some years ago
American big business first began
using the term “free enterprise” in
Place of “capitalism.” ;

U.S. News and World Report says:

“Dean Acheson, Secretary of state,
is being told that he should find a
substitute for the term ‘cold war.’
While U.S. keeps up a drumfire em-
phasis on ‘war,’ cold or hot, the
Russians are pictured as making
immense propaganda by talking
‘peace’. The world is Supposed to
be getting the idea that U.S. wants
war while Russian leaders want
peace—-and peace is easier to sell
than war.”

Charge U.S.

taking over
in Africa

MOSCOW

Charge that American imperia-
lists are assuming the role of part-
ners in the African colonial terri-
tories of the Marshallized coun-
tries and are trying to gain a lead-
ing position on the African con-
tinent was made here by the Soviet
paper, Izvestia in commenting on a
communique published following
the London conference of the three
foreign ministers.

The communique stated that Bri-
tain, France and other countries
which have colonial possessions in
Africa are obliged to “work out a
system of closest collaboration”
with the United States.

Americans are practically tak-
ing over French colonies in Africa.
In November, 1949, a special coun—
cil, which includes representatives:
of big American banking trusts
was founded. Aim of the counciF
is “to support and improve the
development of French territory
abroad,“ and representatives of
American finance capital are estab-
lishing branches of their firms in
the French colonies.

In France, the American Mar-
shall Plan mission has worked out
a special plan which aims at con-
trol of all colonial raw materials,
Morgan banking interests already
control the lead mines in Morocco,
and American and Dutch firms are
prospecting for oil in Tunis.

American monopolies are also
penetrating into Algiers. The Coca
Cola Company is already establish-
ed there, and American interests
are organising huge expeditions of
scientific research workers into
districts of the Sahara’and Atlas
Mountains in search of new man-
ganese, lead and tin resources.

The American-Canadian alum-
inum trust is extracting bauxite
from mines in Lagos and Guinea,
and iron from the Jombolji and
Guinea minés is smelted in the
French-American steel-works.

Forty airfields are to be built in
Algiers and 14 in Tunis. The U.S.
is also taking over Dakar, the im-
portant Atlantic coast seaport of
French West Africa, and strategic
roads are being hurriedly built.

In keeping with these war -pre-
parations in Africa, the U.S,
through French colonial forces, is
suppressing colonial national liber-
ation movements and all progres-
sive organisations in Africa. How-
ever, this suppression is meeting
with decisive resistance not only
from the French population of
colonial Africa, but also from the
native peoples. :

An -indication of the strength
of the liberation and peace move-
ments in the French Ivory Coast
colony, for example, is that out
of a total of 2,300,000 inhabitants,
800,000 are members of the Afri-
can Democratic Rally (RDA),
the liberation movement in
French Africa.

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