USSR deieuntes embargo against China

The United Nations decision to impose an embargo on shipments of war materials to People’s
China—actually an embargo on materials which could be construed as useful to China’s defense—
Was denounced by Soviet delegate Jacob Malik as a “shameiul and illegal action” instigated by the
U.S. Left to right: Ernest Gross, U.S.; Sir Gladwyn Jebb, Britain; Jacob Malik, USSR.

New Nazis win seats in
West German elections

The “Socialist” Reichs party, modelled on Hitler's Nazis, will have 16 seats out
Of ‘the 158 in the new Lower Saxony provincial parliament as the result of the elections

Carlier this month.

The party gained over 366,000 votes, and is allotted four seats by direct ballot,

the other 12 coming by proportional representation.
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British launch
big drive for
five-power pact

LONDON
Launching of Britain’s campaign
for a five-power. peace pact was
described here at a press confer-
€nce held by the British Peace
Committee. Participating in the
Conference were D. N. Pritt, KC,
Ivor Montagu, Prof. J. D. Bernal
8nd Vincent Duncan Jones, secre-
tary ‘of the British Peace Commit-
ee,

: Already some 90 prominent Brit-
sh -personalities have signed. the
8ppeal, Jones said, and organiza-
tons such as the National Peace
Ouncil, the Peace Pledge Union,
he Conference of Unitarian and

€e Christian Churches ‘and the
Electrical Trades Union have gone
°n record in favor of five-power

agreement as thé alternative to
War,

Peace committees all over Brit-
§ln have adopted targets for the
Collection of signatures. The Lon-
©n Peace Council opened its cam-
Paign for one million signatures
With an open air rally in central
-ndon. The Scottish Peace Com-
Mitee has set a target of 250,000

Signatures, as has the Yorkshire
face Committee.
By June 9, when a National

~onference on Peace will be held
3 ndon, it is hoped the first
00,000 signatures will have been
Sllected. Explaining that the
Signature gathering will go on for
tpConsiderable time, Bernal said:
awe want to get people thinking
arent the problems involved. The
°ckholm appeal had the result

Preventing the dropping of atom
°mbs in Korea, but now we want
sult ahead to a more positive re-

The American generals in the
. Arthur controversy, he said,
me all disoussing “whether there
henwa be war now or two years

ce, but not whether there
enol be war or peace. “We are
of ident that the vast majority
tio, oPle_ would prefer a solu-
ise based on the agreed coex-

nce ot the two social sys-
ms.”

Its military organizations, chief-
ly the black-booted, black-shirted
“Reichsfront,” were banned by the
West German government only two
days before the elections.

Although the Nazi characteris-
ties of the Socialist Reichs party
|have been quite openly paraded for
months, the West German Govern-
ment;under Drm Adenauer has re-
fused to ban the whole organjza-

BERLIN

Political strings
attached to U.S.
‘aid’ to India bill

WASHINGTON

The Food Aid Bill for India which was passed May 16

by .the Senate, contains

several

provisions infringing on
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Indian sovereignty. The two billion tons of grain to be
made available is on a loan or barter basis and is not a

“gift” as American publicists

Under terms of the bill, ECA
(Marshall Aid administration) and
the Indian government. will negoti-
ate regarding provision by India
of materials wanted by the U.S.
for stockpiling, in return for the
grain. In a last-minute action, the
U.S. Senate voted that India must
include among the materials the
atomic ore monazite, and strategic
manganese, used in steel harden-
ing.

The bill also provides that U.S.
personnel shall “supervise” food
distribution, not only of American
supplies but also of “other supplies
obtained locally or imported from
outside sources by the government
of India.” This means the U.S..
would assume entire control of
food distribution with all opport-
unities f@r political balckmail that
would go along with it. In this it
would have the cooperation of
Food Minister K. M. Munshi, who
is chief American supporter in the
Indian cabinet.

In striking contrast to the Am-
erican blackmail, both People’s
China and the Soviet Union have
offered food aid to India without
any strings attached. The Indian
mission in Peking is negotiating

tion.

As a result, the Hitler salute is
again being seen in Lower Sax
ony. In Schleswig-Holstein, sim-
ilar Right-wing groups have par-
aded in jack-booted uniforms
with armbands from which only
the swastika is missing.

The reason for Dr. Adenauer’s
tenderness towards Germany’s new
Nazi is that in many areas his
Christian Democrat party has al-
lied itself with General Remer's
Socialist Reichs party and with
another neo-Nazi group, the Ger-
man Right party.

At the same time Dr. Adenauer
has facilitated the re-emergence of
the Nazis by his measures to try to
suppress democratic organisation
in West Germany. ,

A few weeks ago he issued a
blacklist of 13 organisations

Which oppose  remilitarisation.
These included the German Peace
Committee, the Victims of Naz-
ism and the Free German
Youth. Also on the list were
the Social Democratic Action, the
Communist. party, the Society for
German-Soviet Friendship, the
League of ‘Culture and all so-
cieties with members in both
East and West Germany.

Final voting figures in the Low-
er Saxony elections show that the

Social Democrats who had 65 depu-
ties of the old parliament’s total
149, are again the largest party
with 64 seats. : .
The Lower Saxon Union, which
includes the Christian Democrats
and the Right-wing German party,
gets 34 seats compared with 57 in
the old House. : :
The Communists lost six of their
eight previous seats.

This is the first time that the
“Socialist” Reichs party which ad-
mits its admiration for Nazism,
has competed in @ postwar elec-
tion. ?
The party is led by Dr. Fritz
Dorls and former General Otto,
Ernest Remer, who helped to break
the German officers’ plot against

Hitler in 1944.

Here Muminade Calonge

tenced to death.

Communist salute as she leaves for prison after being sen-

SECRET TRIAL IN PHILIPPINES

(right) raises her fist in the

NEW YORK

Six top leaders of the Philip-
pine agrarian resistance move-
ment were sentenced to death
in Manila following a six-month
secret trial, according to reports
published here. Nine others re-
ceived life imprisonment and
eleven received sentences rang-
ing from four months to seven-
teen years. Two women and
one man were acquitted.

The reports stated that the
defendants took the sentences
calmly.” Feavily armed guards

Resistance leaders
sentenced to death

to prevent a rescue attempt by
the HFuks.

Those reported sentenced to
death were Federico Maclang,
37, alleged chief of the Com-
munist {organization bureau;
Ramon Espirutu, 45, labor lead-
er and member of the Commun-
ist secretariat; Miss Tuminada
Calonje, 24, alleged Communist;
Cenon Bungay, ranking Huk
commander; Onofre Mangila,
alleged member of Communist
central committee, and Magno
Bueno, reported “military in-
structor at Huks Stalin Uni-

surrounded the court allegedly

versity.”

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have shouted for months.

on the Chinese offer of up to one
and one-half million tons of
grains either on a barter basis
at current world prices or for
cash in dollars, sterling or ru-
pees,

The Soviet Union has offered half
a million tons of grain and has al-
ready dispatched an initial ship-
ment of 50,000 tons. Thousands of
tons of rice have already been sup-
plied to India by China.

The U.S. Senate-approved bill
also demands that there should
be “full and continuous publicity
in India” about American assist-
ance.

The possibility also exists that if
India accepts the American “aid”,
Washington will insist on cancel-
lation of barter agreements with
China and the Soviet Union. Under
terms of the U.S. Senate resolu-
tion, recipients of U.S. economie
aid are forbidden to ship “strat-
egic” materials to countries of
the peace camp. ;

Despite Premier Pandit Nehru’s
recent declaration that India would
not accept foreign aid that had
“political strings attached to it,”
the New York Times and New
York Herald Tribune stated last
March that India was already sup-
plying atomic ores to America and
is prepared to sell processed
atomic materials exclusively to the
U.S. as soon as India’s new atomic
energy plant starts functioning.

Against the opposition of the
entire indian press and demo-
cratic opinion, Nehru is sponsor-
ing an amendment to the Indian
Constitution for the specific pur-
pose of outlawing criticism of
American and American policy
in’ Indian papers.

Election gains
made by united
front in India

BOMBAY
The growing ‘unity of the peo-
ple’s forces in India is indicated
by the recent successes of the
united front of the left parties in
the municipal elections and by the
split in the right-wing Socialist
party. An outstanding contribu-
tion to this growing unity has
been made by the draft program
of the Indian Communist party,
published at the end of April,
which called for “coalition of al}
democratic anti-feudal and anti-
imperialist forces.”

Commenting on_ this develop-
ment, the New York Times Delhi
correspondent says that all left-
wing groups except the Socialist
party “have made common cause.”

One of the leading figures of the
Socialist party, Mrs. Aruna Asaf
Ali, wife of the governor of Orissa,
a former ambassador to the United
States, has led the breakaway of a
large group from the Socialist
party on the issue of the Socialist
party’s subservience to American
war policies. Mrs. Aruna Asaf -Ali
is now engaged in a vigorous cam-
paign to strengthen the unity on
the left.

In the recent municipal elec-
tions, the forward bloc (united
front of all left parties including
Communists) have won victories
over the Congress party in the
provinces of Bihar and West Ben-
gal.

The left wing parties are now
formulating plans to participate in
India’s general elections which are

to be held in December.

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