i

1 “Absolute sovereignty” for
_ Western Germany. (This de-
mand was made by Senator
Wiley after a three-and-a-
half hour talk with Dr. Aden-
aver at the latter’s holiday
hotel in the Black Forest.)
_ West German admossion into
the North Atlantic Treaty.
(Under this ‘treaty there
Would be no limit to German
‘rearmament, just as there is-
no limit to U.S. or British re-
Rg armament.)

3 Building up Germany at the

: expense of France.

Dr. Adenauer is demanding
a8reement of Britain and other
Powers, including Canada, to these
Plans before he consents to come
% London for the proposed nine-
Power talks.

West German sources said last
Week that the states invited to the

Mdon conference must have a
fairly clear idea in advance’ of
What pattern West German rearm-

nt is to take—in other words,
€y must agree beforehand to
€nauer’s demands.

British Foreign Office spokesmen
_ Who initially reported that the
 “Onference would be called to ex-
_ Sore a solution, changed their
Attitude to state definitely: “We
favor a solution on NATO lines.”
In the 14 articles of the North
Atlantic Treaty there is no word
’dout limiting armaments. There
‘S only the commitment for joint
action against attack and for a

€nse committee.

Under the joint action articles

U.S. hustles
German army

Plans to stampede Britain into agreeing to the unlimtied
fearmament of Western Germany were put to Prime Minister
ic Winston Churchill last week by Senator Wiley, chairman
Of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
: Here is what Britain is being asked to agree to:

LONDON |

Germany, so staging the attack as
to lend color to the propaganda
pretense that Hast Germany was
the “aggressor.” ;

Under the defense committce,
which is in U.S. hands, the U.S.
could rush the formation of the
48 German divisions which U.S.|
and German generals have alreacy

planned.
These new plans have created

Jagan released

! widespread alarm among West
German Socialists.

Their leader, Erich Ollenhauer,
declaring that the Federal West
German Republic faces “its most
serious’ crisis since its founding
in 1949,” has launched a neW at-
tack on Adenauer and his sneers
at Frances. :

“There can be no new Europe
without friendship between Ger-
many and France,” declared Ollen-

hauer. ae
; Repeating his call for new

Four-Power negotiations, he de-
manded “absolute priorify be
given to the policy of the unity

and security of Germany and

Europe.” : oo :

The policy of the German sri
U.S. militarists at the moment is
to attack France and soften Up
Britain but, in the traditional Ger-
man manner, the attack can 12
switched against Britain at any
moment.

Senator Wiley, the man who ouly
last year demanded that Britain
should adopt McCarthyism, and
who did so much while in Ger-
many to inflame West German
opinion against France, has cer-
tainly come to Britain ready to
try bullying if other methods fail

Pritain could be committed to war
_ West Germany attacked East

to get what he wants.-

Strong

"8m of economic demands.

They did so despite the fact
Aat during the debate in the
*ourse of one of his most violent
§nti-Soviet tirades, Arthur Deakin
_ ‘Mdely brushed aside the telegram

et by Nicolai Shvernik, presi-
“nt of the Soviet trade unions, in-
Niting the TUC to send a delega-

Talks with |
TUC support

By FLORENCE KEYWORTH

Delegates representing nearly two
_ ‘Ne British Trades Union Congress in
International Confederation of Free Trade U.

eration -of Trade Unions to reach agreemen

WFTU get

Dr. Cheddi Jagan (above), de-

: mocratically elected prime min-.

ister of British Guiana until the
British government suspended
the colony’s constitution and
ousted his People’s Progressive
government from office, was re-

‘leased from jail this week. He

was sentenced to six months last
April for defying Governor Sir
Alfred Savage’s order confining
him to Georgetown, the capital.

Exile for Kenyatta

LONDON

i k
illion workers voted last wee.
meee ts for talks between the
nions and the World
t on a common pro-

om and mis-representation” ae
incided with the Soviet invita-
tion. : ane

Voting on the resolution, syaich
was lost, was: 1,886,000 for; 5,986,-
000 against; majority against, 4,-

Jomo Kenyatta (above) and

four other leaders of the Kenya
African Union are to be confin-
‘ed indefinitely
Northern Frontier province after
expiry of their seven-year prison
sentences, Governor Sir Evelyn
Baring of Kenya has announced.

in the remote

Baring said that. when they

had served their sentences they
would be “required to live in a
remote place specified by the
government
Province.”

in the Northern

y TU

The result was a moral
new Nazi army.
faces almost certain defeat. at the
Scarborough conference of the
Labor party at the -end of this
MON gees .

It was a defeat for the right
wing leaders, who argued that
West German arms were neces-
sary to preserve peace and free-
dom, and not 9ne of whom was
prepared to accept the offer of the
Soviet Union to negotiate a way
out of the crisis.

Moved by the National Union
of Railwaymen, and supported by
many other key workers, a motion
opposing arms in East and West
Germany, and calling for peaceful
reunification of the country, was
defeated by 4,090,000 votes to
3,622,000—a majority of 468,000.

The general council’s emergency
motion supported the restoration
of -an armed Germany, within
NATO, was carried by 4,077,000
votes to 3,622,000—a majority of
455,000,

Thus fewer delegates backed the
council’s proposal than voted
against the railwaymen’s resolu-

: | tion.

General council members, who
expected a majority decision of
about two million, sat glum
when the result was announced.

This huge vote against German

| |rearmament came in spite of

By GEORGE SINFIELD

It means that

ight wing hit

C vote

LONDON

Support for the rearmament of Western Germany was en-
dorsed only by the barest majority at, the British Trades Union
Congress in Brighton last week.

victory for the opponents of a
the proposal to rearm Germany

specious arguments that Western
arms must be piled up to resist
mythical ,aggression from the East. —

It came in spite of pleas that it
was impossible to keep Germany -
disarmed until the great powers, —
in consultation with the German
people, had settled the problem on
negotiated Peaceful lines. oe

Three supporters sf German
rearmament from the general
council were allowed into the _
rostrum, but permission to state
the minority view on the coun
cil was turned down.

Alan Birch, general secretary of
the Union of Shop, Distributive and
Allied Workers, asked if such a
statement could be made, but the
chairman, Jack Tanner, refused.
He said: “Not now.”

Several times during the debate
Ted Hill, general secretary of the
United Society of Boilermakers,
also tried to tell the conference
why his union opposed an armed
Germany.

Had the coal miners’ leaders
accurately represented the feel-
ings of the overwhelming mass
of the men in the pits, result
would have recorded the decis-
ive opposition of the TUC to a

rearmed and aggressive Ger-
many. ;

CAPETOWN

_ South African. police recently
swoooped on the editorial offices
of Advance, progressive weekly
paper published in Capetown, in
a series of raids throughout the
country under the suppression of
Communism Act.

Other cities in which raids took
place were Johannesburg, Durban,
and Springs, on the East Rand,
near Johannesburg.

In Capetown, detectives of the
Criminal Investigation Department
raided the offices of Advance, the
homes of its editor, Brian Bunting,
and ten other persons associated
with the paper.

Bunting, former member of par-
liament representing Africans in

South African police es
raid prog se

eo: :
ressives
seated in September last year un-
der the Suppression Act.

He was arrested on July 10 this
year while attending a party at
his own home. Under the act he
is prohibited from attending any
public gatherings. oe ae

In Johannesburg, police searched —
the homes of Arnold Selby, form-
er secretary of the African Textile
Workers’ Union, and Dr. Y. M.
Dadoo, former president of the
South African Indian Congress.

In Springs, police raided the
home of Rev. D. C. Thompson, a
Methodist minister who is chair-
man of the South African Society
for Peace and Friendship with the
Soviet Union and a member of the
South African Peace Council. Files -

Western Cape Province, was un-

of the two organizations were sciz-

t

100,000.

Evatt links MI5 deputy to Tory election plot

on to the USSR.
Deakin, TUC general council
W: ™Mber, declared it was an “un-
tated interference with the
peace of business of the congress
"t such a telegram to be sent at
ch a time for the purpose of in-
«ing the decision,” and Be
, 92 delegates to “give it the
‘Teht a g
_ But delegates from the floor
‘; ©Omed the Soviet invitation.
2B * us test its sincerity,” urged
a Roberts of the National
(200. of Fublic Employees.
wi ciect this proposal and you
destroy any good will that
Attlee may have created on
bag Yery courageous venture even
y% te he returns to these shores.
Ayn be a vote of censure on
lee.» ‘ Fi

flem

cig iMlay Hart of the United So-
tha” oF Boilermakers declared
a Deakin’s “outrageous be-

"ior, his anti-Communist ven-

Judges

mission judges sai ]
that they ;
an “interim report” on the
notorious
Petrov 1S
the Soviet embassy.

to rehabilitate t
reputation
not been’ en
i uestions 0
ppot Opposition leader
mer high court. judge.

rther unhindered McCarthyism,
Ae the gagging of Dr. Evatt means
that neither Petrov nor George
Richards, deputy chief of Austral-

ja
se

SYDNEY

Petrov spy-scare com-
Neen d here last week
; onsidering issuing
were CO va
“Document J,” which
said to have stolen from

b { be hoping in this way
ene he Petrovs, whose.
for truthfulness has
hanced by the search-
‘of Dr. Herbert Evatt,
and for-

it could also open the way to 4

Ta

Col,

’s M.L5, now have to face his
arching cross-examination.
In return for £5,000 (Australian)

Petrov is alleged to have handed
over documents, said to include
“J,” to Richards.”

Whilst appearing before the

commission on behalf of his two
assistants mentioned as sources
of
“j," Dr. Evatt named Richards,
in’ whose possession the docu-
ments were, as a co-conspirator
with Petrov in a smear plot to

information in Document

ecure a Tory election victory.

The payment of £5,000 (Aust-

lian) to Petrov was authorised by
Spry,

chief of Australia’s

M.L5, on February 28, said Rich-
ards. He then met Petrov on
March 19 and showed him a canves
bag containing the cash, telling
him “all arrangements” had been
made. En Saree toe

Petrov became firm in his deci-
sion to remain in Australia on
April 1} said Richards. ©

During earlier hearings, Petrov
admitted that it was on that day
that he had been found in un-
authorised possession of confiden-
tial embassy documents — an of-
fence which, in the Soviet Union
as elsewhere, made him liable to
imprisonment.

The day after Petrov quit, Rich-
ards and Col. Spry kept an appoint-
ment with Tory Premier Robert

PACIFIC TRIBUNE —

try to save Petrov case

Menzies and showed him the docu-
ments alleged to have been hand
ed over by Petrov. ;
Earlier, the commission reject-
ed an application iby Dr. Evatt for
an independent check on the valid-
ity of documents submitted to the
commission. - : ;
Rejection of the application in-
dicated that the commissioners
were not properly inquiring into
the genuineness of documents and
was closing down on his case in a
manner, opposed to elementary
justice, declared Dr. Evatt. :
He wanted to prove that “Docu-.
ment J,” alleged to have been writ-
ten by left wing journalist Rupert
Lockwood, did not bear Lock-
wood’s handwriting and had been
forged.

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