§ LE VAN VIEN Warlords battle for power | | | | | i] | | | } } | | | | | NGO DINH DIEM | | } | Diem is U.S. puppet in Viet Nam struggle: Saigon to step up American inter- | By WILFRED ‘BURCHETT : HANOI If there had been any constitu- tional processes to get rid of Ngo Dinh Diem, the U.S. puppet dic- tator in South Viet Nam, he would have fallen long ago. He is uni- versally despised and hated, but he is still the chosen favorite of U.S. Secretary of State John Fos- ter Dulles. . In “Free South Viet Nam’ there is no parliament, not even the bogus type of National Assembly that was rigged up in South Korea. There is no free press, but there is a drastic censorship. This, however, does not prevent newspapers being suppressed even if they print only the heavily cen- sored news permitted by Diem. At least 20 newspapers have been closed down by Diem in the past seven months. One of the two daily French-language papers closed down voluntarily rather than submit to the rigid censor- ship. : Diem is prime minister of “Free Viet Nam” because the despotic play-boy emperor—Bao Dai—tem- porarily delegated his powers to this special nominee of the USS. State Department and Cardinal Spellman. Considerable publicity has been given in recent weeks to large- seale fighting between the ‘“Na- tional” army and breakaway groups of the same army and be- tween the army and the armed sects. In fact, this fighting has been going on for six months, ever since General Lawton Collins arrived in e U.S. Communist leader deported to Britain — ~NEW YORK John Williamson, British-born former national labor secretary of the US. Communist party, was escorted on board the “Queen Blizabeth” in New York last week for deportation to Britain. He had been 42 years in the United States. With his American wife and two children, they were the first pas- sengers to embark. One of the U.S. Communist lead- ers arrested under the thought control clauses of the notorious Smith Act, Williamson completed a five-year jail ‘sentence last March. : vention in Viet Nam affairs. be slightly dazed by the rapid results he achieved, especially as they were the opposite from those he had intended. Collins came briefed to support Diem and “stop the Communists.” He gave orders right and left. Diem’s authority must be rein- forced, he was the only prime minister the U.S. would support, the pro-French army must be purged and reduced in size, the armed sects must be liquidated the reduced army, the U.S. would take over the training and equip- ping of the streamlined army and a fascist-type National Guard which would be under Diem’s di- rect control. This looked fine on paper, but Collins soon discovered he had pushed his head deep into a hornets’ nest. “Before the Collins plan could even get started, army groups were breaking away, from company to battalion size and setting up their own warlord states, levying taxes and plundering the population. The three major. armed sects, the Hoa Hao, Cao Dai and Binh Xuyen, and more particularly the two former, began consolidating and expanding their positions and fought the “National” army for control of the areas being evacu- ated by the Resistance forces in accordance with the Geneva Agree- ments. : The three sects banded together to form a united front against Diem and demanded a “national front” government. They laid siege to Saigon. Then the Cao Dai sect broke with the others and Diem pushed his advantage, com- pelling the Binh Xuyen to retreat to their strongholds outside the city. The population, which has been mercilessly pillaged and massacred as “national” armies and warlord armies. push each other around, demands a government that will respect the Geneva Agreements, enter into normal relations with the Democratic Republic and pre- pare for the elections for a unified government of all Viet, Nam next year.<. ee Any government which carries out these aims will have the support of the overwhelming majority of the people. =~ icoming from the Communist party, ‘despite its limited number of can- ‘country. “Lightni ins’ ‘other countries and which allows ightning Joe Collins’ seems to Britain to trade with who she likes and their troops incorporated into | In the election battle to b ment party, and Labor, —a reflection of the overwhelming d : On the hustings, however, although the differences on domestic policy are o '{ lied for the FBI’ informer fells board The real challenge in policy is didates. Expressing confidence in a Labor victory, Harry Pollitt, Communist general secretary, is stumping the country urging the election of Com- munist MPs who would “set an ex- ample to all Labor MPs in the fight to improve the conditions of the working people and to end the pos- sibility of war.” Communist MPs, Pollitt is .tel- ling his audiences, would fight for a complete ban on the making of all atomic weapons: and for the abandonment of H-bomb tests. They would demand that Ameri- ean forces be cleared out of the In parliament they would. use their opportunities to bring to an end the shameful wars in Malaya and Kenya and to get freedom and democracy granted to all colonial eoples. ‘ They would battle for an econ- mic policy which frees Britain from the bans on its trade with and with what she likes. They would demand an economic as the main challenger, are presen esire of ‘the British people for a real peace p scern essential differences on \iPeace biggest issue in British elections e decided on May 26 both the it is difficult to di ften sharp and ting their leaders as “men. of peace LONDON Conservatives, as the govern, - olicy. ; foreign policy, — pronounced. St while acting as an undercover agent organizations. chairman of the Civil R front organization.” Brown. made his declaration when he appeared as a witness for the Civil Rights Congress béfore the U.S. Subversive Activities Con- trol Board, which is hearing the case. Brown told how he had been encouraged by the FBI to join progressive organizations and was given increases in salary until he was getting $250 a month from the FBI for false reports. He became executive secretary of the Los Angeles Committee to Secure Justice for the Rosenbergs and later became secretary of the Civil Rights Congress in Los Angeles. ‘Mid you ever put in names of persons you didn’t see?” Brown was asked by the Civil Rights Con- gress lawyer, Miss Rhoda Laks. “Oh, very often,” he replied. ‘policy which lays the foundations of socialism in Britain. ; Another FBI informer has admitted that for four years he He is 49-year-old David Brown, former Los ights Congress, an organization W US. Justice Department is trying to have declared as a ~ vo ied — ve NEW Y for the FBI inside U.S. progres nich the Commumist versive Activities Control Board who is hearing the case, David CR: 7 daire, asked Brown if he Si) these reports, Brown replied that : he did. : oe .“And now you are admittins you lied to the FBI?’ asked CO” daire. “That’s. what I was P to do by the FBI,” Brown replied. He said the did this ‘all ; my association with the FBI. Fro 1950 to January 1955.” eh Brown said he was told by thes FBI that “we want the names of people you suspect of being © munists. It is not necessary that you establish that they are mem bers of the Communist party, if you can name people you : are Communists.” In March, 1954, Brown Stewart that he had joined Communist party in order to an increase to $250. But he told the. ‘get jied When the member of the Su POSTWAR POLITICIAN" WE AUST HAVE A STRONG . GERMANY AS ABULWARK AGAINST COMMUNISM 004" | . PRE-WAE FOL/TIC/AAN STRAT'S WHAT Y, TOLD THEM TOO , OLD BOY .+ oe Mey Miestern Re ormorns Ne =r b-for he had not joined the party. \ Con centration camps back in West Ge rmany By PHYLLIS ROSNER BERLIN Concentration camps are back in West Germany, complete with armed guards, barbed wire and in- human conditions. - One such camp: has been built in the peat bogs on the River Ems, about 10°miles from the Nether- lands frontier at Gross Hesepe. It is only 15 miles south of Boer- germoor, site of a notorious Nazi concentration camp in which thou- sands of political prisoners were murdered by Hitler’s SS guards. Now the Adenauer government is sending a new generation of pol: itical prisoners to Gross Hesepe. They are young people sentenced to imprisonment for opposing the plans for a new German army, Guards at Gross _Hesepe are armed with U.S. carbines and they jJare under orders to shoot anyone informed of this when they arrive at the camp. Over the entrance to Gros ad é who tries to escape. Prisoners are Opponents of militarisim jaile Hesepe is this cynical inscription: “Worthy of a cultured people.” _ A letter from a young German, Werner F—, which has been smug- gled out of the camp, discloses the Concentration camps 6 e e e still claiming victims PARIS French Resistance fighters seiz- ed by the Nazis are still dying as a result of their treatment in Nazi camps. d This has been disclosed by Pro- fessors Gilbert Dreyfus, of the Medical Faculty of Paris Univer- sity, who was himself arrested and tortured by the Nazis. Of the 240,000 French men and women who were deported from France by the Nazis only 38,000 returned at the end of the war. Yet about 12,000 of these 38,000 have already died in the past 10 years. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MAY 13, 1955 — PAGE Nazi-like conditions that prevail at Gross Hesepe. — eee Werner’s father was ar ant Nazi who was mur ae Boergermoor — not far from 4 where his son is now held. Werner writes that when Pi soners complained about the 4?” the guard in charge said: phe “Don’t grumble so much. up Russians who used to be shut " here would have been happy ~ they had got as much as that. The guard then pointed oUt 5. birch wood not far away al is a “There are about 45,000 Russia Op lying buried there. They @ ey the camp (during the war) mere from hunger-typhus.” é ass “In our work in the bogs: eer Werner, “we have. to stand 0 { + q ne water up to the knees. Any 5 -08Y gets sick is sent to the Si and put on half rations. “The doctor visits week. He is the same doers who ‘treated’ prisoners im 77 camp during the Nazi perie twice A