y IThomas- Dewey? He filled the headlines late in 1948 when_he was thought to be the “favorfie’” ifor election as U.S. president. Well, he didn’t get away with that. Now he’s trying to get away with something else. he’s been given the job by Presi- dent Truman; his “‘foe” of nearly three years ago. He’s trying to bring off. one of the biggest “‘steals’’ in history. His job is to take over a sizeable ~ chunk of the British Se. = Malaya. _ That is why Dewey has been touring Southeast Asia. Malcolm MacDonald, the Bri- tish commissioner, has taken him on hunting eypeditions _ against Malayan patriots. He has shown him that British colonial government can do in Malaya what the Americans a been doing in Korea. _ Dewey has encouraged him to. go on with the slaughter. He has also been planning to transfer Malayan rubber and tin profits to American pockets. “The Pacific is our ocean,” claimed the chairman of the _American House of Representa- tives Military Affairs Committee at the end of the war. It isn’t, and never will be. But ever since then American big - business has been intent on mak- ing it so. And to them “our ocean” land as well as sea. ~ a chosen instrument of this expansionist policy ig the Pacific Pact. It is judged in Washing- ton to be getting ripe es com- . pletion. Early this year iderense agree- ments” were entered into with Australia and New Zealand, This month it is Japan’s turn. She will be delivered, neatly bound by puppet Premier Yosh- ida, into the toils of. Washington, and the Japanese militarists. © “Then it will be the turn of Malaya and Southeast Asia. — Ay The American agreements with ; “Australia, New Zealand and Jab- © ‘an are to inaugurate What the New York Times calls a “new era in the Pacific.” Such plans have long been Hgetetly Paid and discussed, And. covers an awful lot of. ene ETE EBERT Le) BCE R RBBB BBB | advance agen UL TT aT Hb t nt U z Now aie, are openly ousted of. Searcely a country in Asia is untouched by their sweep. Read the New York Times on the treaty with Japan: _ “A Pacific Security structure ; - should” include, first of all, the : _ Republic of © Korea, the first object. of attack... It. should include Vietnam, — eaer” “grave threat, Thailand (Siam), and Indonesia. eames also needs’ protection, gee faneer to. India, Burma ‘of Asia, proceeds to devour them. Px and Pakistan. cannot ae ignor- “ed. “If the Japanese treaty is to serve its purpose it must open the way to other instruments of protection for the Seige ep ‘people,”’ So, eganae tears ae the people the American crocodile ® 4 Dewey is being groomed to be 'U.S. Secretary of State to ‘suc- ceed Dean Acheson. oe has ini hon been sent by Mr. Truman on a tour of most of these countries to spy out the land. “When his fellow Republican, John. Foster. Dulles, was sent by Truman to Japan and Korea a _ year ago the visit preceded the | - American — grab ‘that began so- terrible a! “war, Dewey's visit “ire ane to the grab at Southeast Asia. For this purpose Dewey must Keep going the wars Started ‘there by France mad ‘Britain. rks In Indochina, Dewey French rulers: “No with a Communist 80 is worth the paper it’ on.” th ' They had timialy. ‘hi ted th might, after all, be worth _.talking over with Ho do ways in which the I ; war, which is draining uid dry of men and! money, “00 ended. . He promised then’ and ents planes. They ' wer course, to be secu and other resources of th tr ne Malaya his procedure one “similar. Peaceful action are not to Dewey’s liking: — .For him war is the. ee empire. War must go oF the all the peoples of Asia até idee j ered into the iron grip iad can rotection.” ‘ tee be fought va i" United States has rounde? its control of the raw mate? ani the “free world” by establi a rubber and tin and oils % lies. ( : In this new Ameri empire the lords ‘of, We will be overlords. ‘ The’ Japanese militarists © be their underlings. The British governmen! ' agreement to the Japanes® ra has opened the way ; would be outside the door: Already Dewey ‘and his have earmarked the iron » Malaya for Japan's revived industries, chin more 4 ans e, of But sharp, protests agin treaty with Japan come 20° ~ many parts of Asia, These ples see the dreadful future™! Dulles and Dewey would Pr re for them. - 9 ‘They believe that if the P the of. Asia stand together vo on Soviet Union and People’s they can establish peace wut Cape American plots. — in Britain’s — future also ies peace in Asia. i is now. oe Korea ana the american | ference at San Francisco | on treaty with Japan. The. tunity—the truce talks — and Asian opposition to, oe ee reports that 300 young Britons, travelling through Austria to ai- “tend the recent World Youth — - Festival at Berlin, were brutally ‘maltreated by American troops. - So great has been public protest against this outrage of the rights _ of British citizens that - Labor foreign secretary, | “Morrison, has been forced to make a statement. His state- ment: were responsible “‘since, from their papers not being in order, they deliberately defied and provoked the legitimate auth- orilies in the country.” The majority of British news- papers (and all Canadian papers), always ready to print unsupported charges against the Soviet: or Chinese ‘authorities, — were silent on the incident. But the London Daily . Worker sent a reporter, Frank Gullett, to Innsbruck, to investigate and this os the story he filed on the spot. By FRANK GULLETT y eine INNSBRUCK, Austria I HAVE heard here today amaz- Jing stories of how the Ameri- ritain’s erbert second attempt to get through The Britons themselves — apart. can * occupation - troops ‘int ' Austria behaved toward the 300 young Britons who tried to : neneh the Berlin. Youth Festival. With 300. eye-witnesses there cannot be the slightest shadow ‘of doubt of authenticity, ‘This is the story they tell. bruck, in the French zone, in a to Eastern Germany. _ On arrival at Saarfelden (on the ‘French-U.s, zonal boundary) at eight in the evening, they found U.S. troops lining the platform at 5-yard intervals. Others. boarded the train and ordered all the Britishers out. Those who protested were drag- ged on to the platform and their luggage thrown after them. _ Some of them were forced to enter another train already in _ fused to enter the second train and stood about on the platform. | , These were not allowed water or food. and were refused as mission to go to the toilet. At .6. next. -morning more U.S. ‘troops + arrived wearing steel helmets” and heavily arm- ed. They ostentatiously fixed bayonets and ammunition was handed out. : It is a story of the Spread of the “gook” mentality to Europe. . On August 5 a group left Inns- ; a siding, While other groups re-. Youth Festival story the. RI TISH working. oe op- inion has been aroused by. These troops mavanned on the groups standing around platform, bayonets and striking them with 4 rifle butts. \ One. group: standing on the track was bumped by a railway engine brought up on American orders. Here, a woman was knocked down by the train and became unconscious. A London doctor who asked permission to attend to her was the refused and made ‘to stand at . the far end of the platform for several hours as punishment. Despite the fact that the wo- man was suffering from con- cussion she was pushed back on to the traingafter being given summary treatment in a station building. A party of Scottish, lads put. - up a stern battle but were final- ly overpowered » and. locked in a guards van. Austrian rail workers, at risk to- themselves, made their way along the sid- ing and let the Scots out. . Finally, two engines were brought up to take the 18-coach trains carrying the French and. British delegates back to a DP camp in the French zone. - : Rail workers warned youth of their destination and as the train steamed back prodding them with the’ enone Innsbruck ation: the alarm signals were paca _in évery carriage, - hee ‘The train ‘came to a Bend still, and the delegates clamber- RG ‘ed out. of every window and door, completely, emptying” the train in less than two minutes. A deputation went next morn-_ ing to the British consul to com-— plain about the attitude of the Americans. The consul himself expressed horror at this treat- ment and promised to convey their protests both to the US. military. commander and to tae British government. I spoke to one ‘young lad, Colin Sweet, 24, a student at _ the London School of Econom- ics, whose head was swathed in = Dantas ee: \ Here, in his’ own words, is an. - account — of what : Rep eea to- him: “With/a group of other: “peo- ple I got off the train at the station before Saarfelden, ; “After walking” about a mile up the road, a jeep full of U.S. ‘soldiers drove up. They fixed | their bayonets; and iaehet us ‘to. line up,’ - “We refused, Sat said we .were going on as we were not break- ‘ing any laws and no one had any authority to stop Tsp Baio “The Sergeant in charge pull- We took no more notice % . onets &nd surrounded Us: anybody was hurt it wou - his responsibility... ; ed “ont a! revolver ae said ? oe : would shoot anyone who e and) continued to ‘walk on ‘We had travelled a furt! one and a half miles. when Americans in four trucks. up. Headlights were Lage us and an officer shouted ‘ “The soldiers fixed theif ie we. ed again protested and said we tended to go on: j aa “The troops then ay Be 1d ding us with their bayonets © cursing and swearing abe pee? | “Some of the troops had P werd drinking and were getting if vicious. I told the woul be “He then raised a ri struck me in the face will I fell to the ground with ; pouring from me and one ® friends demanded that A Bene en to hospital. | ae “I was taken off and ica over to an American meee _ orderly who put eight | sue in my eye. hee “The Yanks were in 2B, state of nervous tensio®: — dering on hysteria. « + “One sergeant kept cool, . ever, and ‘I think it was ta prevented ‘more | serious * é iy PACIFIC ie dane SEPTEMBER 7, 1951 — P47" % cy