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Koreans, Chinese driven mad by torture

By ALAN WINNINGTON

KAESONG
U have just visited the hospital
ms where Koreans and Chinese
whe mad by torture and by
i at they witnessed as prisoners
“nee Ny American hands are
ain oY nursed back to
gate Americans sent back 168
Sychoneurotic cases, of whom
are in hospital here.
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. ces, staring unknowing.
terine necking shrieks and hys-
cal laughter break the sil-
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aE American hands,
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Why. devils stopped beating us?

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POWs Strip off U.S. clothes
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Now home,-EOWs cry to go home

‘Penicillin saved POW’s eye —

Labor attacks Churchill bar
°n sale of drugs to China

By MALCOLM MacEWEN

LONDON

to es 8overnment has been asked to make a humanitarian gesture by allowing a gees joe
disease, © Ptomycil and anti-biotic drugs, badly needed in their fight against tuberculosis and other

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drugs Brigadier Mackeson, minister for overseas - trade, refused to do so on the ground that these
Completely "used to cure Chinese soldiers in Korea of trench diseases. ;

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that if ignoring the f
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that ;. 8 the United States alone

fereg toe eventing peace, he of-
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Only ie 1 exports for civilian use
War» the Chinese “stopped the
To :
eq thay tiberg, Labor MP, recall-
Churehin May 11 Sir Winston
Sidey an had promised to con-
tion Suggestions for specific
Peaceful” Titain to match the

Viet co made by the

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Rory ofting the ban on the ex-
China, oT tain drugs to People’s

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oF its onstrate the sincerity
Ntentions,”

id $1500, People’s China order-
e % 0 worth of anti-biotics,
‘ilion, oh of an order of $6
$1,500.94 er, a further order
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OW; een government, fol-
Yernmen, PClicy of the Attlee
Rua Pretends that it al-
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a "Dose Tugs for normal civil-
the S by restricting exports

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of 1950, Vel of the first six months

Period, Driberg
Ple’s China was
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into operation,
Britain Vere Shortages of drugs

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uses of this drug are negligible
and estimated that the quantity
ordered was only 1/350th of the
minimum amount required by
People’s China for treatment of
tuberculosis.

Another Labor MP, Emrys
Hughes, said he understood there
were 40 million people in People’s
China affected by TB.

Driberg also recalled that one
of the returned British POW’s,

Fusilier Hodgkinson, had said that
the Chinese saved the sight of his
eye by giving him penicillin.

“Tt seems to reflect rather well
on the Chinese,” said Driberg.

“Of course, if Senator Mc-
Carthy had his way, and the
Board of Trade helped him to
have his way, the fusilier would
not have had penicillin and he
might have lost his other eye as
well.”

U.S. foreed to admit
‘spy school’ in Germany
after four spies shot

After first declaring that it had “no comment to make” on Soviet

charges that it was training a
the U.S. Army in Europe was

nti-Soviet spies in Western Germany,
later compelled to admit that it had

organized an “intelligence school.”
A statement issued by the U.S.

Army headquarters in Munich

declared that it had an “intelligence school” at Oberammergau, in

Bavaria, though it denied that the
school was used to train spies and
agents.

The Soviet charge was made in
an earlier announcement that four
U.S. spies and saboteurs had been
rounded up in the Ukraine at the

d of April and had been shot
after trial and sentence by the
Military Collegium of the Soviet
Supreme Court.

The names of the arrested spies
were Lakhno, Makov, Gorbunov
and Remiga. They had _ been
trained in Western Germany, tak-

en to Athens and then dropped
by an American plane in the
kraine.
= Investigation estaglished that
three of them had worked for
the Nazi occupation regime in
the Ukraine and had betrayed
Soviet patriots to the Gestapo. —
Last October U.S. authorities in
West Germany admitted they had
trained a group of Germans, most-
ly former Nazis, for use in guer-
jlla warfare in case of war with
the Soviet Union, but claimed that
the group ,jhad been disbanded.

mame oS

ELL, C-Day at the races turned

out to be quite a profitable
day’ for the British Empire
Games, and an expensive one for
the customers. The thousands of
casual visitors who bought tick-
ets downtown (and turned up at
the track to see if they’d won a
trip to: Honolulu) probably didn’t
mind the 50-cent tab for a pro-
gram, but the regular punters
took it hard. After all, they’d
just survived another minor jolt
when buying a Green Sheet the
day before: “The tax is now in-
cluded in the price — but the
price is 30 cents instead of two
bits!”

Sco scooted in to a five-length
victory over Jack Diamond’s
class gelding Copy H. in the
featured seventh, and came with-
in one-fifth of a second of the
track record (1.10:4) held jointly
by: Pacific Pearl (July 4, 1950)
and Eddie’s Boy (July 26, 1952).

Copie H. looked like a sure
thing on paper. His record show-
ed that he won $15,680 last year,
compared to Sco’s $6,692. It was
Sco’s first time out this season,
but Copie H. had run six times
(three wins, one place) in $10,000
races, and had picked up $8,450.
He is a sprinter, and Diamond
certainly sent him out to win.

Well, and what happened?
What often happens in a horse
race. Sco had his running shoes
on and there was no holding him.
He took the lead at the far turn,
was three lengths in front enter-
ing the stretch and won by five
lengths. Had Jockey Arthur
Anderson felt the need to press
him, Sco would undoubtedly
have equalled the track record.

Not only the horses were run-
ning at Lansdowne; the politi-
cians were out in full force, too.
Most conspicuous was Attorney-
General Robert Bonner, who
threw a new blanket over Sco
in the winner’s circle. The crowd
applauded Sco but Bonner got
only a few scattered handciaps
(looks like he won’t be the favor-
ite on June 9).

*

Two pages of the souvenir
racing program were devoted to
royalty and racing. Kings and
Queens apparently like to bet
their aces and deuces, even as
you and I.

“Queen Elizabeth, like the vast
majority of the Royal Family, is
devotedly attached to horse rae-
ing,” wrote Ken McConnell. The
program is full of other fascinat-
ing bits of information, such as:

“George III maintained a keen
interest in the horse but was
even more interested in riding to
the hounds. However, during
his reign the St. Leger (1776),
the Oaks (1779), the Derby (1780),
and the Ascot Gold Cup (1807), as
well as the’ Two Thousand
Guineas (1809) and the One
Thousand Guineas (1814) had
their inaugurals.”

Let’s see now, that date (1776)
rings a bell. Oh yes, that’s the
year George HI had a little
trouble with the American col-

onies.
*

London’s Harringay arena feat-
ured a girls’ Roller Derby as a
Coronation highlight, but the

SPORTLIGHT ©

By BERT WHYTE

British didn’t take to this Am-
erican sport. Peter Fryer writes
in the London Daily Worker:

“Those who like to see women
fighting each other—pummelling,
jabbing, wrestling, clawing, kick-
ing and throwing each other hodi-
ly over the rails — will derive
enjoyment from the Roller Der-
by.

“Buf the ordinary decent per-

son will regard this nightly ex- ‘

hibition of American culture as
a revolting and degrading spec-
tacle that should be sent back
forthwith to the Chicago Coli-
seum, that first spawned it.

_ “How far the advertised ‘thrills
and spills’ on the banked track,
round which the players race at
30 m.p.h., are carefully reheased
it is difficult to say.

“Certainly the gum-chewing
specimens of American maiden-
hood who scream insults at each
other (‘You musclehead!’) before
getting to grips come out of the
fray remarkably unscratched
and unbruised. ...

“The two teams are styled Am-
ericans and Europeans. The pro-
gram admits that the ‘European’
team — who wear Union Jacks
across the front of their jerseys
—are all American citizens. .. .

“The commentator, who shouts
continuously and excitedly over
the loudspeaker, is an American
gentleman called Ed Silver. He
pronounces ‘Derby’ to rhyme
with ‘thereby.’

“The contestants wear cost-
. umes that seem oddly and dis-
turbingly familiar — until you
realize that they are very like
the dress affected by the comie
strip hero Superman.

“The night I went I sat in
front of two French couples, who
were quite mystified by the pro-
ceedings. At first it was ‘for-
midable, then ‘savage,’ finally
‘barbaric.’ as

“Then they started arguing
about the amount of intelligence
needed to play Roller Derby suc-
cessfully. One clinched the arg-
ument with the words: ‘How can
it be intelligent? It is American!’

“Agreed.”

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June 5 —_ 9.15 p.m
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June 6 _ 7.45 p.m,
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June 6 —_— 9.10 p.m
CKDA
June 6 — 5.50 p.m

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