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2 LONDON
a forest of beautiful build-
38s,” already rising from the rub-

© of North Korea’s war-shattercd
es, was described last week by
% British pacifist, Mrs. Betty

4tsh, of Colchester, who has just
srned from Pyongyang where

© Spent 10 days at the congress

the Korean Women’s Union.
io Went filled with pity, but I
ad € come back overwhelmed with

Turation,” she said.
an treets, newly cleared of rubble,

® brilliantly lit up all night, Mrs.

Marsh said, “and every new build-
ing is illuminated, for they are
building night and day.’’ The Kor-
eans have launched a three-year
plan for rebuilding the blitzed
towns.

Staying at a hotel which was fin-
ished two days béfore the congress
‘opened, Mrs. Marsh was amazed
to find a magnificent . theatre al-
ready built; with a marble foun-
tain playing in the courtyard, and
a new university being opened this

month. oe :
“The university building is

British pacifist impressed by visit to Pyongyang .

still a perfect nest of scaffold-
ing,’ she said, “and ringing with
hammers,” but the students were
inside, taking their entrance ex-
aminations, and will start their
term in a couple of weeks time.

“Riverywhere the Koreans have
the idea; get it up; get it open; use
it to the full. Their whole minds
and fixed on the future.”

Many people are still living in
little shacks made of matting
among the ruins — “so low that
they are nearly buried in the maize

they all grow in little gardens

round their homes’ — but there
will be a place for every child in
school this fall.

Mrs. Marsh visited many: of the
orphans left by the war. ‘

She described one orphanage as
“a garden village, with a’ stream
wandering through it.”

At a military academy for oider
boy orphans, she found the same
passionate concern for peace in the
future as she met with at the wo-} -
men’s congress.

A 17-year-old boy, who approach-
ed her and said, “Mother, help us

and

Federation.

could not go on.

Forest of beautiful buildings’ rising in North Korea

to keep the peace,” was overcome
with emotion as he spoke to her

“What hor-

rors they have all seen,” commenit-

|ed Mrs. Marsh.
Mrs. Marsh, who is a pacifist,
went to Korea representing the
Women’s International Democratic
> “T was amazed,” she
said, “at the utter lack of feelings
tor revenge.
“I found a charming, cultured

Returning to Brita

him at London airport that 1
faliate when they had suffere

ltish fight
flag ban

By P. J. DUGGAN

‘ BELFAST
tis this corner of Ireland the
a h people are prohibited from
in aving “any emblem” which,
” the opinion of any policeman,
‘ight cause a breach of the peace.
_thé Tory Unionists who rule the
ey, founties of Northern Ireland
. 4ve passed a Flags Act which
“ads like a piece of legislation in
Cupied Europe under Hitler or
oa U.S. under the goad of Me-
Pe thy.
raat emblem” could be the Red
8, or the flag of a football club.
‘qu, the flag to which the Ulster
Byes take objection is the green,
hite and orange flag of the Irish

“public, :

in

w

‘aa Who displays the national
a and fails to take it down
a €n a policeman tells him to do
ee fan be fined up to $1,500 and
Qt to jail for five years.
OWever, it is one thing to pass
aw giving the police the power
‘ do such a thing, but another
Enforce it.
an the Ulster Tories are now
Stovering that not even large
th ce concentrations, ‘baton
; Drees) arrests, casualties and
: liga, Cutions can keep the Repub-
_ Sn flag down.
: is they persist in their attempts
se €nforcement they will provoke
5, lous strife, and fill the jails to
Yerflowing.
q And in the process. they will
labor against themselves not only
th rr, but also liberal opinion, a
is Irish Nationalists, and Irish
‘th, a section of the Tory party,
““ €ven many of the police.
.For the act strikes at the liber-
the of all—and is unpopular with
a Police, who dislike being given
Impossible job.
At Pomeroy, a small town that
bed percent Republican, ‘an
‘Normous show of force, and the
Use of such violence that 50
lice and civilians were hurt,
bbe Not prevent the flag being
i med in a demonstration, held
... Selebration of the release from
'3il of Liam Kelly, the Republi-
San MP,
try tere would have been no
Uble had the police not attempt-
to seize the flag. - “ae
tas”? ‘days later the Unionists
tio ®€d a provocative demonstra-
Protected by 200 police, and
‘rched a Union Jack through
Publican Pomeroy. , .

=

to blame,

in’ last week from his visit to People’s China as a member of

BeeBritish Labor party delegation, Aneurin Bevan told newspapermen who interviewed

t was a

Any Irishman, in Northern Ire-|—

little too much not

eople’s China not
says Bevan

LONDON

to expect the Chinese to re-

d attacks from Formosa for months.

Bevan’s return coincided with the announcement

United States had assembled an
immense fleet in the Pacific, spear-
headed by 15 aircraft carriers, in
order to “deal with any sudden
emergency” and to “support the
US. Seventh Fleet,” which is un-
der new instructions to supply and
aid the Chiang forces now attack-
ing China from Quemoy island.

When U.S. newspapermen tried
to get Bevan to critize the Chinese
attitude to Formosa, he replied:

“1 was told that the Chinese
are deeply resentful of the fact
that for months past their main-
land has been attacked by the
forces of General Chiang Kai-
shek, based upon Formosa, and
it is asking a little too much of
human nature that they should
desist from retaliation.”

British press comment is. sharp-
ly critical’ of the United States. _
The English - language South
China ‘Morning Post observed that
the “astonishing number of
alarms” produced by the U.S. arose
from “the extraordinary conven-
tion in the United States whereby
every congressman, every admiral
and every general considers him-

self qualified and authorised to
commit a nation to his own fav-
ored course.” ;

“In these conditions, Americans
can hardly expect humanity to rely
upon the United States with any
confidence.” ;

The London Times warned edit-
orially that the Quemoy Islands
situation was the main danger to
peace in Asia, -and attacking US.
policy over the islands as “dis-

ous.” /
yaa members of the British
Labor delegation who returned
with Bevan included Morgan Phil-

{lips, Labor party secretary, and

Dr. Edith Summerskill.

Clement Attlee, Labor party
leader, who passed through Van-
couver on his way home this week
and talked briefly with CCF lead-
ers, stated earlier at a press con-
ference in Wellington, New Zea-
land, that East and West could
get together to find a common
meeting ground for peaceful co-
existence, and that he believed the
Soviet Union and China were pre-
pared to find a common basis for
such co-existence. .

“Tt think we have opened doors
that were closed and that we have
made it possible for understanding
to be reached where a great deal
of dangerous misunderstanding ex-
ists,” Bevan said.

“The general conclusion we have
reached is that the peoples we

from “Washington that the

have seen are convinced that
there is nothing that separates the
nations of the world that cannot
be resolved by discussions and
peaceful negotiations.” c

Dr. Edith Summerskill spoke
enthusiastieally of the progress
made by the People’s government
of China since 1949.

“It is quite remarkable what
they have done in the interval,”
she said. “They have attacked all
the diseases which were prevalent
and in five years have stamped out
cholera. ‘Their. achievements in
this field are not denied by any-
one. -They have inoculated for
smallpox nearly all the popula-
tion.” : :
Shanghai was formerly notorious
for its crime. But a European
woman there, not particularly
friendly toward the’ new regime,
had told her that since the “lib-
eration” she could now walk down
any street in Shanghai at night
without fear of molestation, where
she could never have done so be-
fore. ah ba Dia

Morgan Phillips said the Peo-
ple’s government had _ provided
every facility for the Labor party
delegation to see whatever they

U.S. espionage ‘in China.

U.S. spy activities
against China bared

By ALAN WINNINGTON

Hugh Francis Redmond, 35, of
New York, has been sentenced to
life imprisonment and seven Chin-
ese members of this gang have re-
ceived sentences ranging from
death to seven years.

‘Jagan continues
Guiana struggle

5 GEORGETOWN
Dr.’ Jagan, deposed prime min-
ister of British Guiana, said here
last week no “amount of jailing or
terror will dissuade me from the
path of the struggle for freedom
for British Guiana.” _

Dr. Jagan was released from|
prison recently after serving a‘ six
months sentence for violating an
order restricting his movements
to Georgetown. |

He will still be confined to
Georgetown as the order restrict-
ing his movements is still in force.
It obliges: him to report to the
police twice weekly.

In October last year Dr. Jagan
and his People’s Progressive gov-
ernment were removed from office
by the British government, report-
edly after representations had
been made to London by the U.S.
State Department with a threat
that the U.S. would aet unless Brit-

ain did.

intelligence

people, who are putting their
whole heart in building for a
peaceful future.”

PEKING

Publication of. the indictment and confessions of an, American-
directed spy gang in Shanghai has lifted a corner of the curtain on

The Chinese press carried photos and facsimiles of the American
j ringleader’s testimony, radio sets and other equipment seized. .

Redmond, alias Jerome Strother,
and with the code name of “Euc-
lid,” was trained in Washington by
the U.S. War Department Strategic ©
Services Unit and began work as
_|a code man in Peking in 1946.
He cabled daily bulletins about
_| the People’s Liberation Army, then
advancing in Northeast China.

He moved up to editing military
information in Shanghai and when
liberation of the city seemed like-
ly was appointed leader of the
“positive
there. :

In the spring of 1949, Lloyd Geo-
rge, chief of the U.S. espionage net-
work in the Far East, went to
Shanghai to prepare for the chang-
ed situation if the city fell.

Redmond at that time was sched-
uled to go to Japan to organize
sending of spies into the Soviet
Union, but instructions were chang-
ed and he was ordered to remain
in Shanghai.

Before the city was liberated he
had established three radio re-
ceiver senders and codes and had
ordered a Chinese conspirator to
establish communications between
Shanghai and Formosa. :
f Operations of the group ranged
into Manchuria, where they col-
lected military information for
transmission to Hongkong.

American Catholic missionaries
also assisted this work. They in-
clude Thomas Leonard Phillips

section”

wanted to see.

Ne

iran suppresses Tu

deh party

and John Alexander Houle, Jesuit
| fathers, and Father Joseph Patrick,
McCormack, of Missions Etrangeres
de Maryknoll.

These three were also arrested
in Shanghai. . :

Redmond was caught red-handed
with 24 reports of activities in
Peking, a payroll of the gang,
chemical developers, copies of in-
structions, addresses for secret
communications and 31 messages
containing information.

- The Peking People’s Daily states

that the U.S. has intensified es-
pionage as part of her efforts to
prevent the liberation of Formosa

“| and urged the population to exer-
cise vigilance.
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