In a speech to the United Nations Assembly last week, V. K. Khrishna Menon of
India called for reconciliation between China and the United States.
Making the final speech in the general debate on international affairs, he also de-

. Here V. R. Krishna Menon, Indian delegate to the UN, is see in three typical poses.

Indian delegate calls in UN for
reconciliation of U.S., China

manded that the great powers ban all atomic weapons.

He spoke hopefully of various international questions, wishing the Big Four foreign
in’

ministers’ “every success”
dealing with the German prob-
lem at the coming Geneva talks.

Better Sino- American rela-
tions could be developed, he said,
by relaxing tensions, ending
trade embargoes, and solving
“the grave problem of China’s
coastal areas.”

China, he pointed out, had
already asked that the problem
of Formosa be solved by peace-
ful methods.

No schools for
50,000 in BWI

LONDON

In the West Indies the infant
mortality rate is three times
higher than in Britain, and in
Jamaica each year the educa-
tional system has to reject 50,000
children who are “thrown on the
human dump of illiteracy,” Lord
Balfour said here last week.

There still remains much in
the Colonies which is a “visible
disgrace to modern society,” he
said, addressing a meeting org-
anized by the Empire Industries
Association and the British Em-
pire League.

Jamaica’s Chief Minister Nor-
man Manley told the meeting
that if the British government
pursued a policy of buying as
cheaply as possible various goods
from abroad, it might mean
death to the Caribbean.

Manley said that sugar agree-
ments made by the Labor gov-
ernment after the war had been
a help to the islands.

It became obvious after a
change of government that the
tendency toward complete free
trade was threatening Caribbean
existence. “Ninety percent of
our market is geared\to the
British market,” said Manley.

Packistan releases

political prisoners

CALCUTTA
Release of the last 125 politi-
cal prisoners in East Pakistan,
including many Communists, was
ordered last week by Chief Min-
ister Abu Hussain Sarker, end-
ing the campaign of repression
against democrats in East Pakis-
tan which began in May 1954
when reactionary forces staged
riots to bring down the prov-
ince’s first elected government.
East Pakistan was put under
the military dictatorishp of Gen-
eral Mirza and 1,600 people,
chiefly democrats and Commun-
ists, were arrested, blamed for
the disturbances and imprison-
ed.

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.

When he was in Peking earlier

this year, he went on, Chinese
leaders had told him of their
desire to “embark on negotia-
tions for this purpose.”

There was not what could be
called an anti-American feeling
in*China, but rather a desire to
belong to the world community.

At the Bandung Asian-Afri-
can conference in April China
had expressed its adherence to
the UN Charter.

“Whether you like it or not,”
said Menon, “there are 600 mil-
lion people in China and our
world organization is not com-
plete without them. It is our
.duty to find solutions.”

Of disarmament he said the
great powers should give a lead.
But even if the Soviet Union
and the U.S. agreed they should
have atomic weapons India did

not think this was
the world.”

The great problems of the
world today centred on its divi-

“sood for

sions, principally in’ Germany
and the Far East, Menon de-
clared.

But he affirmed India’s belief
at least regarding the Far East,
that this division was being
overcome.

In Korea, he said, it was In-
dia’s “informed judgment’ that
there would now be no insur-
mountable objection in principle
to holding a nation-wide elec-
tion under international control.

As for the Soviet Union and
Japan, India had “every reason”
to think that talks between those
two countries would come to
an early and satisfactory conclu-
sion.

As for Cyprus, he declared it
was “entitled to independence.”

Cease-fire finds favor

Malaya’s Chief Minister Tengku Rahman said in Perak
last week that he would ask the government for a cease-fire
if Malayan Communist leader Chin Peng would guarantee a

cease-fire on his side.

In a letter sent to Tengku Rahman a week ago, the Malayan
Communist party asked for immediate discussions on peace
-and declared that a Communist representative would shortly
be sent to Kuala Lumpur to meet representatives of the Alliance

party government.

KUALA LUMPUR

third, closely followed by the

These four major parties be-
tween them have taken. more
than 24 million of the 25 million
votes counted up to last weekend.
Another five million votes, it is
estimated, have still to be cast
or counted and the final election

results may not be known for
three months.

Last reported standing of the!
four major parties this week
was:

Nationalists, 6,970,348; Nahda-
tul Ulama, 6,959,745; Masjumi,
5,726,642; Communists, 5,550,426.

British, Dutch and American
interests have all been supporting |
the Masjumi_ party, whose}
reactionary leaders, by splitting
the national unity built around |
the central question of indepen- :
dence, jeopardise the future of
the young republic as a strong

sovereign power.

As the first election ects
from Java reflected the strength |
of the Nationalist and Com-!
munist parties in the republic’s'
most populous island, shares at
Dutch companies with large In-
donesian holdings tumbled on the
Amsterdam stock exchange. Royal
Dutch Shell fell 18 points, Un-.
ilevers 16 points. ‘

|

Returns now coming in from
the outlying islands, where the
Nationalists and Communists are
at a disadvantage, favor the two
religious parties, the Nahdatul
and the Masjumi.

‘This week, in what is apparent- |

ly a desperate attempt to tip
.the balance in favor of the re-
ligious parties, the district
elections committee in central
Jaya, where the Nationalists
and Communists registered their
greatest gains, ordered new
elections to be held. The new
elections were ordered because
of unspecified “irregularities and
illegal activities.”

A feature of the election has
been the surprising strength
shown by the Nahdatul Ulama.

The. Masjumi had been expected

Robeson passport issue haunts
Powell on tour across Europe |

: Representative A. Clayton Powell (Dem. New York) said here that everywhere he went
in Europe he was asked about the U.S. government’s denial of a passport to Paul Robeson, world

famous Negro concert and stage artist.

“I believe everyone should be free to travel,” the Negro congressman told a press con-

ference at the U.S. embassy.

“In every country I was asked
the same question about Paul
Robeson,” he said.

He told reporters that he re-
cently recorded several , broad-
casts for the Voice of America
to beam to “countries behind
the iron curtain.”

In them he had urged that
people in those countries should:
be allowed to travel freely
abroad.

“Tf the Voice of America is
using this for propaganda,” he
declared, “surely we on this side
can do no less than we are ask-
ing them to do.”

(Robeson will give his first
concert in Canada since he was
denied the right to leave the
U.S. in 1952, at Toronto’s Mas-
sey Hall on October 22.)

LONDON

PAUL ROBESON

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — OCTOBER 14, 1955 — PAGE ”

has a slim lead over the Nahdatul Ulama in Indonesi
general election. The Masjumi party, which ‘headed
gowernment coalition at the time of the election, was running

Nationalists top
Indonesian poll

DJAKARTA

.With 85 percent of the votes counted, the Indonesia#
National patty (PNI) of former Premier Ali Sastroamidjoj?

ja's first
the

Communist party (PKI). =

to poll a big vote, but the Nab-
datul Ulama, until now 2 small
Moslem party, had not been 7
garded as a major contendel

Until this summer Indopes?

. + t,
was governed by the Nationalis

government under Ali Sastroa™
idjojo. :

The Sastroamidjojo seth
ment was brought down by 5-
intrigues of a group of ee
backed army danse ere
fused to accept parla *
control over the armed fore¢
which Sastroamidjojo de

The present coalition, led bY
the Masjumi, then took ove:

This general election,
in which began Thursday
week, was the first in Indones 0
history. There was none 1?
years of Dutch colonial rule.

Not until the Sastroamidiol”
government assumed office
the country sufficiently ve
of Dutch intrigues and pe
financed bandits for an elee
to be held.

Last minute attempts bY bee ‘
tionaries to delay the ele
were defeated’ by a country-W7
demand that it be hel
scheduled.

Indonesian army officers Kk
warned this week by ghar) <7
Soekarno to stay out of pone
and accept the results of
election.

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Soekarno told-army officets ip

Djakarta that the three #7).
forces were “subordinate 1?

government.” ~ :

His warning was taken oe
caution to the officers not to at
repeating their tactics 6.

. . otf a
July, when intrigues oficers

government and replaced pUnae i.
spur

one dominated by the Masi

e
Meanwhile other intrigues ies
afoot with the intention of > pe i
ing any Nationalist-CommU
coalition.

It was reported that repiert
tatives of the Nahdatul Ul@
had met Nationalist leadet® (+
suggest a “triple alliance
those two parties plus the
jumi to keep the Comm
out.

Dr.
tionalist party leader,
his party would have SOME er
seats in the new 260-me™
parliament and would for y
coalition, but he would not
with whom.

Three-year war toll
in Kenya now 11,000

NAIROBI

Since the beginning of
year British troops an
in Kenya have killed 4,379
cans. :

The official figures, wh}
not include all killings °
cans, now show that some
Africans have been killed ke
three years of war.

Last year the Keny@
and Freedom Army calle
negotiations to end the W@?: Jey
when units moved in to P#
they were fired on by
forces. The call, repeated
year, has been ignored
British government.

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