Li it tele 4 Nan PUTT do not comply. Fascist paper hit Roundup of world news. Writer warns US MOSCOW—llya.. Ehrenburg, dean of Soviet writers, charged in Pravda. this week that fascism ,was at work in the U.S. and “warned Americans to take note of what happened to the Nazis, before following new Fascist ‘crusaders.’ He declared the U.S. was “talk- ing about peace with a revolver on the table.” The U.S., he said, while talking of peace, was preparing for a new war, this time against the Soviet Union. Stated Ehrenburg: “Let the average American, viewing the half baked ‘crusad- ers, think about the crosses of the German cemeteries. The peo- ple of Stalingrad cannot b e frightened. “These new crusaders speak much about ‘transferred persons.’ Would it not be better if they spoke about ‘transferred fascism?’ “Fascism knows how to re- clothe itself, to repaint itself. It moves easily from one country to another, from one continent to another.” He dismissed U.S. newspaper charges thaat the Soviet Union was “imperialistic and expansion- ist’ with an old Russian saying— “A thief running away cries, ‘Hold the thief.” Iran attacks unions “'TEHERAN — The Iranian gov- ernment; after arresting Genral Secretary Reza Rousta of the Council of Unified Trade Unions, | is now forcing workers to sign pledges to resign from the coun- cil and join a state-controlled la- bor front. Workers are threatened with dismissal and arrest if they Rousta’s arrest, which came when he protested government re on unionists, coincided with the visit here of a World Federation of Trade Unions mis- sion to investigate suppression of the labor movement. The WFTU has demanded a meeting with the prime minister to protest jailing of the labor leader, _ In an apparent attempt to head’ off the effect of the WFTU group’s findings, the Iranian prop- aganda minister has sent a cable to WFTU President Arthur Dea- kin in London saying that Rousta was arrested “on a charge of be- ing involved in incidents on the coast of the Caspian sea, attempt- ing to separate the northern areas from other Iranian territories, and embezzling union funds.” Liberals arrested HONG KONG — China’s liberal movement may soon be driven underground by a wave of Kuo- mintang-directed arrests, | news- paper bans, kidnappings . and mur- ders. Osténsibly part of the drive against communists, the cam- paign has been directed mainly against the liberal Democratic League. Over 10,000 have been arrested and league newspapers in Kweilin and Chungking have been banned. The uth China branch of the Democratic League now operates, from British-con- trolled Hong Kong. BUDAPEST — The first post- war political strike in this coun- try has been called by the Hun- garian Printers Union, whose members have refused’ to print the newspaper A Holnap on the grounds that its sponsors are fas- cist. The paper was to be pub- ' lished by the misnamed Party of eedom. The publisher has charged that the printers are violating ‘free- dom’ of the press, the printers, with support of newspapermen, have answered that “freedom of the press does not mean that the workers will allow the printing of papers whose real aim is the destruction of precisely this free- dom of the press.” ; FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1947 _ hint wo bn sun bht ALA MENT WU HU Tl i | Nl a Oil British-US concern in Palestine By ISRAEL EPSTEIN LAKE SUCCESS, * N:Y.—(ALN— Palestine is in the international hopper. But even as the United Nations general assembly con- siders the question, the British Say flatly that they will not ac- cept any. decision that is not to their taste. So it is fairly certain that the most that will come out of this assembly session on Pales- tine will be another inquiry com- mission. It might seem from the tragic plight of European concentration camp Jews, from ‘the spectacular activities of the Palestine under- ground and from the Zionist cry for a Jewish state that Palestine is a purely Jewish problem. That this view is wrong is proved, by the calling of a special assembly session on the subject. Actually, the world’s chancel- leries are not so much concerned with whether Arabs or Jews get justice as with who will get the middle east oil and bases... Britain wants to keep its em- pire together and to halt both. Protest rally Thousands oe New otic gather to protest British rule in Palestine as the UN General Assembly holds its first special session. Millions march in May Day parades Millions of workers throughout the world, Communists, Socialists and trade unionists, celebrated May Day, labor’s biggest holiday, last week. ¢ Vast demonstrations were held in Rome, Paris and New York. The biggest of all was the parade in Moscow. | Of all the great European capi- tals, only Athens joined Madrid to forbid all strikes and demon- strations. In the Soviet Union, France, ‘Italy and Norway, May Day was a national holiday. In _ Britain, celebrations were held on Sunday. _ Keynote of the demonstrations everywhere was the plete elimination of fascism. A summary of worldwide dem- onstrations follows: SOVIET UNION—Premier . Jo- seph Stalin reviewed a _ six-hour parade of soldiers, sailors and workers. Marshal Semyon Budenny, fam- ous hero of the revolution, the civil war and World War Two, delivered the main May Day ad- dress declaring that the “armed forces of the Soviet Union stand guard over our frontiers and over the states’ interests of our coun- try.” “ \ “The armed forces of our coun- try celebrate the May Day holi- day in conditions of persistent struggle for raising the quality of their fighting and political pre- paredness for the successful ful- filment of the tasks set by Com- rade Stalin to the army, air force and fieet,’. Budenny said, assert- ing that fascism was not dead and that the peace must still be won. FRANCE — Thousands of So- cialists and Communists in Paris paraded’ through the boulevards from the Place de la Republic to the Place de la Concorde. The Paris parade was led by Maurice Thorez, secretary general of the Communist Party, and Jacques continued | fight for peace and for the com-’ Duclos, secretary of the Commun- ist central committee. Banners earried such slogans as ‘Increase production, raise wages and unite against reaction’ and ‘Negotiate with Viet Nam. End the Indo- China war! ITALY—The entire country took a holiday. Most sections of Rome were decorated with Communist and Socialist flags, but there were almost as many white banners of Premier Alcide de Gasperi’s con- servative Christian Democrats. The seven-million strong General Confederation of Labor conducted a mass meeting in the Piazza del Popola. GERMANY—Herman Schlimme, mass © ing class and a strong, united trade urion movement can pre- vent a new war and solve the present misery of ‘the German people.” UNITED STATES — HBighty New York, with an _ estimated quarter of a million spectators lining the two-mile parade route. The Communist Party contingent ‘was headed by 4,500 war veterans demonstration was defeat of anti- labor legislation and man Doctrine. “LATIN AMERICA—Fifty thous- formed the biggest parade ever held in the Mexican capital. In Cuba, thousands of workers par- aded in support of a demand for federation of Labor. - chairman of Berlin unions, told a’ meeting of an estimated |"@ 250,000 that “only a united work- | thousand people demonstrated in | { in full uniform. Keynote of the the Tru- | and demonstrators in Mexico City | unity in the divided General Con- | local popular movements and ‘Soviet influence.’ Linked with both strategy and profits is the problem of oil. Palestine is im- portant not only ‘because of the oil pipeline with its outlet at Haifa, but because the national- ism of Arab populations is mak- ing it hard for British troops to Stay in Egypt, Iraq and other key middle east countries. The two peoples inhabiting Pal- estine can be stimulated to disa- gree, so Britain hopes always to have the less militant group on its side—today the Arabs, tomor- row the Jews. Having promised through General MacMahon to make’ Palestine an Arab state and in the Balfour declaration to make it a Jewish -national home, the British can say when they break one promise that they are faith- ful to the other. The US., Britain’s rival in oil but senior partner in strategy, is backing Britain in essentials while haggling over the price paid for such backing. Admiral Leahy and Standard Qil strike bargains with the Arab states while leading Democrats and Republicans, in- terested in Jewish votes at home, send sympathetic messages to the Zionists. If these people were seri- ous ‘about Jewish misery, they could open America’s doors to Axis victims as an example to other lands. If they cared about Arab freedom, they would fight colonialism instead of financing it. “ kook & The Arabs are divided into the Arab peoples and the feudal lords who dominate the Arab states and are largely financed by oil royal- ties. The Arab peoples want free- dom from foreign rulers and feu- dal backwardness. They fear Jewish immigration based on the Zionist state ambitions and will continue to fear it so long as Zionists look to any giant pow- aid like the U.S. or Britain, for aid The Arab feudal lords black- mail everyone in sight. They used to work with Hitler and, like the Mufti of Jerusalem, helped him kill Jews, They are just as will- ing to shoot down striking Arab workers for British and American oil firms. The Jewish picture is also complex, The immigration pres- sure on Palestine is partly a result of no other gates being open. In Palestine, Jewish capi- talists try to split Jewish and Arab labor to keep wages down. Jewish settlers, however, live at peace with Arabs, and Jewish and Arab workers often strike side by side. : ‘Hating the British ~sekea forces, both Arabs and Jews Probe ably cannot help feeling g00d when Irgun and Stern group ee rorists pay them off in their ow? coin of. blood. But neither can ignore the fact that the Jewish Revisionist party, to which the terrorists belong, is fascist ™ character. It frankly regards Arabs as inferior and has not been above beating up Jewish unionists. * * * Neither Arabs nor Jews have — a voice in the government. is Tun‘by the British colonial office, there is no parliament no one votes. In short, tine is a colonial problem. : solution is to get rid of tbe” troops and administrators | whe have. no link with the pop tion. A second choice would be . UN trusteeship, with a fixed termination date and immediate election of national and } governments based on_ unive' suffrage of both Arab and Jew: ~ There is no third best choice. — Continued British occupatio™ — and intrigue in a_ Palestine united in slavery can only bring more bloodshed. Partition of titY. Palestine into three even : units run by Arabs, Jews and British, as Lomdon has propos ° ed, would also lead to and intrigue by outside inter ests. As-for the Jewish problecas as @ . whole, which does not coincide with the problem of Palestine all, it can only be solved i Palestine, as elsewhere, by an racy, with equal rights for 2! and no special privileges to~ahY race or group. ~ On behalf of our family I cs tend the gratitude of all of us Me for the tribute to our beloved 4. E. Smith, which came in form of flowers, letters, telegrams and personal messages from all the provinces of our country, 2° well as from abroad. These © pressions of sorrow at his pas? ing, all of which transcended a sonal bereavement yet were full of warm friendship and sympathy — to my family, helped us to Sus tain our great loss. I should like this announcement, to be an 4 knowledgment to all those WHO — communicated their messages us. 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