Urges armed force
LAKE SUCCESS—The UN Pales-

tine Commission agreed to ask
the UN Security Council for “arm-
ed forces” to enforce the partition
of Palestine. :

The commission wrote the forth-
right request into a special report
On security problems in the Holy

The commission asks “armed
forces” to combat Arabs who have
threatened war to prevent parti-
tion of Palestine.

The agreement considerably
strengthened the Palestine Com-
mision’s report, but final decision
on action still will be up to the
‘Security Council, the 1l-member
agency which has power to order
economic or military sanctions.

Will not cross border

PARIS — French railwaymen,
abiding by world labor’s stand
against cooperation with the Fran-
co regime in Spain, have an-
nounced they will not run ‘trains
across the French-Spanish frontier.
The frontier was reopened Feb-
ruary 7 after a 2-year French boy-
cott of trade with the Spanish
dictatorship.

Reopening of the border brought
a sharp protest from the French
General Confederation of Labor,
which has been cooperating in
the World Federation of Trade
Unions’ campaign to boycott the
Franco government. Longshore-
men in a number of countries
maintain a ban against loading
cargoes destined for Spain.

“Hitler technique

that prominence,

Aerie Jan. 30, (Reuter).
—A_ Jewish placed person died
yesterday as a result of being
bayonetted by
when

That used to be a stock Hitlerite
explanation for the murder of in-
‘Rocent people. Now it serves the
‘supermen’ of: U.S. imperialism.

Aussies invite Lewis

a MELBOURNE, Australia—Pres.
John L. Lewis of the US. United
Mine Workers (unaffiliated) and

aoe Pres. Will Lawther of the British
| National Union of Mineworkers

_ have been invited to ati the

_ hational convention of nem

_ ian Miners. Federation in August.
The convention will be asked to
approve a 35-hour week ‘and long

service vacation demands for
tralian miners. ae”

_ Protest Greece aid.

No Marshall Plan talks by WFTU

PARIS—The World Federation of Trade Unions has decided against a British labor proposal that its executive
bureau meet before mid-February to discuss the Marshall plan. The CIO and Dutch unions were alone in supporting
the proposal, according to an announcement from WFTU headquarters here, while French, Italian, Chinese, Russian and
Latin American bureau members opposed it. The announcement, made by WFTU General Secretary Louis Saillant, drew
London, who accused his opponents of yielding to Soviet
WFTU last November when CIO Secretary-Treasurer James

a sharp retort from WFTU

President Arthur Deakin in

pressure. The Marshall plan first became an issue in the

B. Carey urged WFTU endorse-
ment of the plan as the realiza-
tion of world labor’s pleas for
international economic coopera-
tion.

French unions, along with
those of several other countries,

‘| to the

LOUIS SAILLANT

General Secretary, World,
Federation of Trade Unions

oppose the plan on grounds that
it would subordinate the econ-
omies of their nations to the
interests of American big pbusi-
ness. These groups opposed a

WETU debate on the plan, ar-
guing it would serve only to
split union groups which have
been working together success-
fully on a lomg list of other is-
sues. :

Before the WFTU announce-
ment rejecting an immediate de-
bate, the British Trades Union
Congress had stated that unless
the WFTU sponsored a Marshall
plan meeting, the TUC would feel
free to summon or attend a sep-
arate meeting of the union move-
ments of the countries involved
in the plan.

Such a meeting is reportedly
being arramged for mid-March by
the Belgian trade union federa-
tion, Besides the union move-
ments of the 16 Marshall plan
countries, both the AFL and CIO
aré reportedly being invited.
While the CIO is a WFTU af-
fiiate, the AFL has refused to
join the world labor group be-
cause Russian unions are part
of it.

The AFL made the original pro-
posal for the kind of meeting that
Belgian labor is now sponsoring.
Several AFL spokesmen have
voiced hope that this get-together
will lay the groundwork for a.
new world labor group to rival
the WFTU. ?

The labor movements of only
three of the 16 European coun-
tries involved in the Marshall plan
—Belgium, England and Holland
—are-on record backing the plan.
A.small breakaway labor group
in. France is also supporting it
but the main, body of French la-
bor is on record against the plan.

Minimum peace terms
discussed in US talks

NEW YORK—*“Moderate opinion” within the Truman
administration sets the following minimum conditions for
peace with the USSR, according to I. F. Stone, Washing-
ton correspondent for the newspaper PM, revealing recent

“confidential conversations held
On -& high” level:”:< ”

(1) Unification of Germany,
meaning the evacuation of the
Red army from the east and
withdrawal of Soviet demands for
reparations and 4-power control
of the Ruhr,

(2) No recognition of or help
Markos government in
Greece.

(3) “Toning down” the Com-
Munist parties in France and
Italy.

Stone, who has extremely re-
liable and high level sources in
Washington, says the conversa-
tions were held after France ex-
pressed official concern over Win-
ston Churchill’s demand that wes-
tern. powers “bring matters to a
head” with the USSR, with the
French wanting to know pre-
cisely what this means.

“In the conversations here,” says
Stone, “the question was raised
whether the U.S. would be satis-
fied if the USSR complied with
these conditions and whether they
would be sufficient basis for a
durable peace.

“The answer was not entirely
clear, There was talk that the
USA does not wish to overthrow
the Soviet regime, that the U.S.
would in fact be puzzled as to
what to with the political vacuum
thus created.

More extreme elements with-
in the administration, © says
Stone, would consider these only
preli y concessions. If the
Russians. fail to accept them,
however, he adds, even the
“moderate” administration lead-
“ers feel the “very distinct im-
Pression”. that they “were fully
Prepared for measures and_poli-
cies ‘which might commit the
USA: inescapably to war.” . ~~

Stone points out the fallacy in
believing that unrest in France,
Greece or Italy, can “be turned
on and off like a faucet” even
if the USSR were to agree to
U.S. terms, U.S. officials are not
unaware of the basic causes of
unrest in these countries, he says,
“but there is a constant tend-
ency to forget about them in
the general red hysteria of the
capital.”

Mosley, British fascist leader,

nounced in Pretoria recently.
tempts now being made to -re-
create the “Fascist International”
Pbuilt up by the Nazis before the
war.

Just how fac the “friendly re-
lations” between Mosley and Pirow
have gone so far, Pirow did not
reveal.

But it is known that both are
eager to establish contact with
similar movements now re-emerg-
ing in all. parts of the world.

Writing in the latest issue of
his publication The New Order,
Pirow describes Mosley’s recently
published book The Alternative as
one of the most important products
of one of the clearest political
thinkers today.” .

The paper says that the New
Order movement is in contact
with kindred organizations
throughout the world. In some
cases, it says, there is already co-
operation between it and other
movements, in others, merely
iriendly contact.

Whether contact with the Mosley-
ites would develop depended, the
paper said, on a number of fac-
tors, the most important being

{whether they could subscribe to

each other’s principles.

To acquaint the members of his
New Order with Sir Oswald Mos-

ley’s principles, Pirow, it was
stated, intends to publish extracts
from Sir Oswald’s book.

There would appear to be no
ideological reason for anything
but the closest eo-operation be-
tween these two would-be dicta-
tors.

Pirow is the leader of the pro-
Nazi New Order movement, and,
true to type, is one of South
Africa’s most active purveyors of

race hatred.

Mosley starts move to
link up world facists

By DOUGLAS HYDE
LONDON—“Friendly relations” between Sir Oswaki

and Oswald Pirow, notorious

South African pro-Nazi, have been established, it was an-

This is the latest move in at-

He was South African defense
minister from 1933 to 1939, but
resigned his position when the
war against Nazi Germany began
and later led the opposition with
his group in the Union Parliament.

In 1945 he declared that “war
between the western powers and
Russia is an urgent necessity.”

A Senior Advocate in the Sup-
reme Court, he was convicted in
September of this year of incite-
ment to commit public violence,
but got away with a trifling fine
of £40.

In an article entitled “Take the
law into your own hands,” he
wrote: “Where non-Europeans in-
trude among Europeans, throw
them out on their necks.”

Mosley’s link-up with this un--

‘savory character is his first puh-

lic success to date in the attempt
to revive the old “Erfurt” organ-
ization, which the Nazis used to
build up Fascist and anti-Semitic
movements in the hearts of al}

those countries with which they
were likely to be involved in war.

Negotiations with similar or-
ganizations in America’ are

known to be. far advanced.

‘Seward Collins, wealthy backer
of American Fascist organize-
tions, is said to be interested in
the publication of Mosley’s The
Alternative which was particular-
ly written with an eye to both the
South African and U.S. public.

5

The Mosley - backed British
League of Ex-Servicemen claims
already to be exporting its month-
ly journal for sale in the US.
British” Fascists also have clase
Hinks with Swedish organizationa
from whom they import quantities -
of anti-Semitic leaflets.

_|tion of captured German documents

Chiang sympathetic’ to Tokyo during war
i By ISRAEL EPSTEIN

NEW YORK—Devastating substantiation of widespread wartime suspicions that Chi- |
nese dictator Chiang Kai-shek was in sympathetic touch with Japan when he was sup-—
posed to be fighting her comes on page 305 of “Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939-41,” a collec-

1941, Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuo told
Nazi Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop the views
of Chiang, “with whom he was in personal toucn,
who knew and trusted him.

The statement was made in German Japanese
conversations centering on probable forthcoming
war by Tokyo against the U.S. and Britain, and
by the Nazis against Russia. It is clearly implied
that Matsuoka’s understanding with Chiang was
a factor tht helped embolden Japan for her attack
on Pearl Harbor. en
__ Although U.S. newspapers played up all State
Department references to conversations between
Germany and Russia at a time when those coun-
tries were openly tied in a neutrality pact, they
ignored the much more sensational revelation of
Chiang’s treason while the Chinese people resist-
ed Japan with arms, -.

On March 27, 1941, Hitler himself urged Matsu-
oka to attack because “Russia and England were
eliminated and America was not yet ready.” Rus-
Sia was taken care of, Hitler said, not because
she was at peace with Germny but because “she
could not intervene since on her border’ stood
150 German divisions.”

Matsuoka 6) that
Japanese nae Ribbentrop (page 306) that “the

published by the U.S. State Department. On March 29,
ka

considered the danger from: the: | owes him for it.

English navy as very slight and was also of the
opinion that in case of a clash with the Ameri-
can navy it could destroy the latter without trou-
ble.” His chief fear was that the U.S. navy might
refuse to give battle and war with the U.S. might
last five years. Ribbentrop then suggested that if
Japan grabbed the Philippines, there would be «
great loss of prestige to President Roosevelt. The
subsequent Pearl Harbor attack was of course
en to eliminate the U.S. navy from the
: " : F

In another interesting sidelight on the Matsu-
oka-Chiang contacts, Chiang Kai-shek told Tokyo
he was “greatly alarmed as to the further in-
crease of influence” of Chinese Communist-led
guerrillas who were really fighting Japan. He was |
apparently less worried about Japanese armies —
then in the heart of China,

This is significant ‘today, because the U.S. Con-
gress is being asked to authorize a further $570
eae rae 4 fo ene Kai-shek in his civil war,
on. top o' on in American mo supplies
and services which have already ran to prop

“him up, One of the chief arguments of those pusb-

ing the aid is Chiang’s “anwavering 8-year resik-
tance to Japan” and the debt of gratitude: Ameriea.

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