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1959 MAY DAY ARO

MOSCOW

By SAM RUSSELL

MOSCOW —Preservation of peace and construction of
Communism were the keynotes of Friday's May Day parade
in Red Square in which a 20-minute military march-past was
over-shadowed by the three-hour demonstration of the working

people of Moscow.

Brilliant sunshine broke
through to flood Red Square
as just before 10 a.m. President
Voroshilov and Premier Khru-
shchev led the leaders of the
Soviet government and Com-
munist Party up the stairs to
the top of the Lenin-Stalin
mausoleum.

And as the bells of the
Kremlin’s Spassky tower
struck the hour, Defence Min-

_ ister Marshal Malinovsky came

; Out of the Kremlin in an open
ear to review the military par-
ade and convey May Day
greetings to the armed forces.

After inspecting the troops
Marshal Malinovsky mounted
the steps of the mausoleum to
deliver the traditional _May
Day message to the Soviet peo-
ple on behalf of the Soviet
government and the central
committee of the Soviet Com-
munist Party.

The Soviet people, he de-
clared, are eager and deter-
mined to preserve and consolo-
date world peace.

It was to further these aims
that the Soviet government
had recently submitted a series
of important proposals design-
ed to help relax international
tension and settle the most
acute international problems.

He pointed out that the re-
_cent military agreements con-
cluded by the U.S. government
with Persia, Pakistan and Tur-
key, the intensification of the
rearmament of Western Ger-
many, and the establishment
of new military bases and
rocket launching sites round
the Soviet Union were all de-
signed to worsen international
relations and fan the flames
of war hysteria.

But the Soviet peoplé could

rest assured that there were ~

no forces in the world capable
of defeating the Socialist camp.
The Soviet armed forces

VIET NAM

_ President Ho Chi

“speaking at a parade in
Hanoi attended by more than
100,000 people, called on the
working people of the world
to. support the Soviet pro-
posals for solving the Berlin
crisis.

HUNGARY

A parade 500,000 - strong
took three hours to pass the
review stand~in Budapest.

Minh, :

were ready to deliver a shat-
tering blok to any aggressor
who dared violate the peace-
ful labors of the Soviet people.

“The Soviet people.” said
Marshal Malinovsky, “are cele-
brating May Day at a time
when the whole country has
embarked on the comprehen-
Sive building of a Communist
society.

“The building of Commun-
ism has become a_ practical
task for millions of Soviet peo-
ple, while the successful ful-
filment of the plan for the first
quarter of the current year
has shown that the Seven-Year
Plan will not only be auisilied,
but over-fulfilled.

The military march past be-
gan at 10:23 a.m. with troops
from the army, air force and
naval academies, ending up
with the military and naval
cadets of the Suvorov and Na-
khimovy schools.

They were followed by de-

tachments of armed troops, .

parachutists and artillery, and
at 10:43 the military parade
was over. :

A two-minute interval, and
then came a 20-minute parade
of the leading sports clubs of
Moscow in which ovey 11,000
youngsters participated, led by
lorries carrying the slogan in
giant letters, “Communism will
be victorious.”

Behind great portraits of
Lenin and Marx came massed
peace pennants bearing Picas-
so’s white dove of peace on a
blue background, and then the
flags of the 15 Republics of
the Soviet Union followed by
the flags of the 11 Peoples’
Democracies of Europe and
Asia.

Youngsters of the Dynamo
Sports Club in blue followed
by Spartak in red traditionally
opened the sports section of
the parade, the girls in at-
tractive two-piece costumes
with almost a sack line and
the boys in smart shirts and
slacks.

At 11:5 a.m. the march of
the Moscow workers began,
headed by the banner of the
Moscow city committee of the
Soviet Communist Party. It
lasted till past 2 p.m.

Rank upon rank they came
carrying branches of . fresh
green foliage and _ flowers,
which stood out sharply
-against the red banners of the
workings people, banners which
bore the proud decorations
won in 41 years of successful
struggle for Socialism.

MARSHAL MALINOVSKY

GERMANY

Everybody seemed to be on
the streets in East Berlin tak-
ing part in Friday’s colorful
May. Day demonstration, in
which many thousands of
West Berliners participated.

The demonstration started
at 9 a.m. with a military par-
ade. This was followed by
several hundred young girls
doing gymnastics, and then
for a couple of hours the
Marx-Engels square was fill-
ed with the young and the
old from schools, factories,
country and universities.

POLAND

Opening Warsaw’s May
Day parade, Premier Gomul-
ka said: “We demonstrate the
will to fight for peace and
establish peaceful co-exist-
ence.”

The German militarists were
the main danger in Europe,
he declared.

AUSTRIA

Thousands of workers with

~ red carnations and carrying

election banners celebrated
May Day in Vienna, Many
banners demanded an atom-
free Europe and a 40-hour
week for workers.

ARGENTINA

On the eve of May Day, an
open air meeting in central
Buenos Aires, organized by a
number of trade unions, was
dispersed by strong police
forces who made 100 arrests.

YUGOSLAVIA

May Day was celebrated

_quietly throughout the country

folk dancing
but with-

with concerts,
and sports events,
out demonstrations.

PEKING

By ALAN WINNINGTON

PEKING—Tibetan men and women in bright silks
Tibetan monks and nuns got the biggest ovation as th
marched with 500,000 others in a May Day parade that w
brisker and brighter than ever before.

One contingent of Tibetans
danced through Tien An Men
Square—men in gold hats and
leopard-trimmed dress, women
in flowing brocade and multi-
colored aprons — while their
own silver band played the
song “Socialism is Good.”

Among the national minori-
ties on parade were liberated
slaves and serfs from Yunnan,
Szechaun and Chinghai, many
carrying banners saying, “Ti-
bet is an inseparable part of
China.”

Friday’s enormous and swift-
ly moving parade of the cap-
ital’s working-class strength
was reviewed by two, chairmen
Mac Tse-tung and Liu Shao-
chi, and many guests from
overseas. -

It moved through the great
Square of Heavenly Repose
under many colored silken
banners, and_as the marchers
waved flowers it looked like
an enormous kaleidoscopic gar-
den.

Workers marched with the
staffs of factories proudly dis-
nlovi+~ charts and models of
their latest products and pro-
duction successes.

There were more women
workers than ever. Clothes
were better and brighter, hea-
Ith and spirits the best ever
seen on parade.

As the marchers passed they

TIBET

released balloons carrying 4
gons, phoenixes, flower
kets, peace doves and co
less smaller balloons. :

The sky was a weaving mass
of colored balloons and doves,
with Peking’s swifts swooping
among them.

A hush fell when thousar
of willowy girls dressed
lotuses floated slowly thro:
the square. Behind them
rows of stately actre
masses ef trim athletes, j
glers and gymnasts perforn
difien't feats made doubly
by being done on moving fl

Huge pantomine dragons
liens fought and toward
end the entire parade be
a magnificently organi
chaos of moving silk, b
metal and gorgeous Ch
robes.

The theme of the parade
set by Mayor Peng Chen who
called for an all-out effort
make still higher leap
year and to smash all the
of the interventionists in

At night the great cen
boulevard east and west
Tien An Men Square was fill
with what seemed like all #
citizens of Peking and m
commune members from
outskirts, dancing and wa
ing the fireworks display
they held parties on the st

PEKING — Reports from
Lhasa say that 30,000 Tibet-
ans took part Friday in the
biggest May Day parade ever
held in Lhasa. a

Demonstrators who greeted

the suppression of the rebel-
lion in the Loka area includ-
ed many serfs and other peo-
ple formerly subject to dis-
crimination.
. Members of Tibet’s em-
bryonic working class carried
iron farm tools produced by
themselves. Iron was in the
past mostly a precious metal
in Tibet and even ploughs
were tipped with yak horn.

Dressed in their finery,
Lhasa’s citizens danced
through the parkhor — main
street — waving ceremonial

scarves and toasting Mao Tse-
tung in barley beer and yak
milk. :

The Peking newspaper Ta-
kungpao carried a long edi-
torial on May Day criticizing

May 8, 1959 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PA

Nehru’s recent statement —
Tibet as an interference —
Chinese internal affairs and
misrepresentation of the situ-
ation in Tibet.

JAPAN

About 1,350,000 people turn
ed out in some 700 May
rallies. Slogans demand
“Down with Kishi Cabi
“Restoration of Japan - Chi
ties” and “Revision of
U.S.-Japan Security Trea

FRANCE

As, last year, demon
tions were banned by
police in Paris. Thro
France the day was a publi
holiday with most busine:
closed and only skeleton
derground train and bus
ices in Paris.

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