Secret- clauses in | treaty make : Japan war base for U.S. | The United States has now taken over Japan lock, stock and barrel, as.a war base. This be- _ Comes apparent after a study of the text of the “security treaty’’ between the two countries. This instrument, signed by ‘U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Premier Yoshida in San Francisco’s army headquarters, following conclusion of the Japanese treaty, gives the U.S. the sole right to station troops in Japan. It also gives U.S. troops in Japan the right to take action against any progressive or trade union movement in Japan under the pretext of putting down “‘large-scale internal riots and disturbances.” Signature of the pact was fol- lowed by an exchange of notes between Acheson and Premier Yo- Shida foreshadowing plans to use Japan’s resources more extensively in Korea. Acheson asked for - confirmation from Premier Yoshida that should the occasion for facilities and ser- Vices in Japan “in support of Un- ited Nations activities,” either Continue or recur, Japan will pro- _ Vide such facilities. In reply, Yoshida gave this as- Surance and added that “Japan| has been and now is rendering important assistance to the United Nations action” in Korea. The signature of the military Pact completely justified the state- Ment made by the Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, after the treaty had been signed that it was preparing the way for @ hew war and the revival of Jap- - anese militarism. = He said the Chinese People’s Re- Public would not forget and would know how to protect its interests. He also said the Soviet. Union ‘Would fail in its duty if it did not warn those who impose such ® peace treaty that they take upon emselves all the responsibility for the consequences.” Gromyko’s warning that the treaty would allow Japan to build Up her armed forces and would urn her into an American military ase was completely confirmed by the text of the so-called security Teaty. ‘Under the treaty: ARTICLE 1 Japan grants and the United States accepts the right, upon the com- ing into force of the treaty of Peace and of this treaty, to dis- Pose United’ States land, air and S€a forces in and about Japan. Such forces may be utilized to con- tribute to the maintenance of international peace and security in the Far East and to the secur- ‘British national — ‘Survival, peace, Plection issues inet’ real issue of the forthcom- a British general election, in the Bark of the British Communist hie Y which will run 25 candidates, bal the fight for peace and the “Vation of Britain.” abinins its confidence “in the be ty of the working class and the Suds to smash the Tory offen- ee and compel a new policy,” the thay munist statement points out On , & victory for the Tories mould be a triumph for big busi- «8 @ainst the peopdle.” The ie Policy of the right-wing hoy of the Labor party,” it of; 2Mly plays into the hands © Tories.” tire}, Statement calls for an en- - Pestorere” Policy based on peace, eno, ation of Britain’s independ- ~» trade with all countries, and er People, living standards for wan ity of Japan against armed at-4 tack from without, including as- sistance given at the express request of the Japanese govern- ment to put down large-scale’ internal riots and disturbances in Japan caused through instiga- tion or intervention by an out- side power or powers. ARTICLE It During the exercise of the right referred to in Article I, Japan will not grant, without the prior consent of the United States, any bases or any rights, powers or authority whatsoever, in or re- lating to bases or the right of garrison or of manoeuvre, or transit of ground, air or naval forces to any third power. ANDREI GROMYKO \ ARTICLE II The conditions which shall govern the disposition of armed forces ‘Japan’ _ Secret clauses of the American- Japanese security pact — the so- called “administration agreement confirm that the security pact is in fact a military agreement for turning Japan into a colony and military base for U.S. aggression in the Far East. j . Main points in this secret agree- ment, according to Tokyo reports are: ; = ‘@ In case of “Japan being in- vaded,” police reserve forces, and if necessary state police, are ‘to be placed under an American com- mander, upon the request of the Japanese government. } e@ American forces, if i is oe necessary, may freely use A ae or = area outside their bases. , @ General headquarters of Amer- ican land force in Japan will be in Yokohama, the naval head- quarters in Yokosuku, air com- mand in ees ow cas anding headquarters 0 ae will be in Sappro, Sendai, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka and a. earner Sh et headquarters will be in Yokosuka, together with barracks, docks and’ a naval arsenal; naval bases will be established at Otaru, Maizuru and Sasobo. A naval re- pair yard will be set up at Kuro. \In addition to these bases, submar- ine bases will be created in Tsu- shima, Iki and Sado Islands and t Hakodate. ‘© An air force supply depot will ‘ese have already got the nucleus of the United States in and about Japan shall be determined, by administration agreement be- tween the two governments. ARTICLE IV 'This treaty shall expire whenever in the opinion of the Govern- ments of the United States and of Japan there shall have come | into force such United Nations arrangements or such alternative individual or collective security ' dispositions as will satisfactorily provide for the maintenance of the United Nations or otherwise of international peace and secur- ity in the Japan area. ARTICLE V This treaty shall be ratified by the _ United States and Japan and will} come -into. force , when’ instru- ments of ratification thereof have been exchanged by them at Washington. : 1 Hanson Baldwin, military cor-. respondent of the New York Times has now openly declared that re- vival of Japanese military strength is to- be used as a “counterpoise” to the Soviet Union and China. “It is believed,’ says Hanson Baldwin, “that the Japanese are working towards increasing the size of this force to 150,000 which could form a cadre for a new Japanese army.” Pet aciatarr ts He also discloses that the Japan- ‘vf a new navy, and that “plans contemplate the possible re-estab- lishment of a Japanese military academy and perhaps 4 naval academy. ee q These plans, it is clear are but the beginnings. In San Francisco Japan is starting again on the come-back trail to great power status and this means military ~ U.S. as well as political power.” colony’ air bases will be built throughout ‘Japan including bases in Kyokoto, Atsugi, Kisarazu. Air meteorologi- cal observation posts will be set up at Hakone, Suzuka, Itazuke and other places. : ‘ @ Large tracts around Gotomba at foot of Mount Fuji will continue to be used as Mmanoeuvering grounds by American forces in Japan and Tachikawa farming areas will continue to be used by Americans. @ Manufacture in Japan of var- ious. military supplies used - by American forces in Japan will be permitted. : : -@ American forces in Rhyukyu Island and Ogasawara will co- operate with the American forces in Japan, and commander at Ryukyu will be placed under the commander of American forces in Japan. , ; soe @ “The American-Japanese Joint Commission” will build an efficient intelligence organ. Existing Amer- ican intelligence corps will be re- inforced and supplied with Japan- ese personnel. Intelligence activi- ties will be directed against the /Soviet 'Union and other Asian countries. : @ Powerful radar stations will be set up at two places in Hokkaido; and at one place each in Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka. | @ Expenses for building of new installations will be borne by the ' United States and half of the main- tenance costs by Japan. Materials needed for repair of installations and facilities will be obtained in be set up at Tachikawa and 18 ny Japan as much as possible. USSR self-sufficient MOSCOW The Soviet Union has no need to look outside its frontier for any raw material; it has every kind.. This was stated by Presi- dent of the Academy of Sciences A. N. Nesmeyanov in the news- -paper Pravda recently. He was praising Soviet geologists for finding new oil-bearing areas, rich coal deposits, ferrous and non-ferrous ores and rare ele- ments, — President Nesmeyanov extend- ed a welcome to all foreign scien- tists who are actuated by a desire to further the development of science. Some 200 foreign scien- tific workers visited Moscow last year from Britain, France, Italy, India, China, Poland and many other countries. This fact dis- > proves the ‘alse allegations as to the academy’s unwillingness to cooperate with foreign: scientists, Nesmeyanoyv wrote. . Soviet, Alaska — Eskimos’ life sharp contrast By RALPH PARKER MOSCOW A third-year student at Lenin- grad University has added the voice of the Eskimo people to those of peoples throughout the world calling on the five great powers to sign a peace pact. In a letter to Pravda, Vera Analk- vasak describes herself as a daugh- ter of a people to whom Soviet power has brought benefits. The Eskimo people live in the far Northeast of the Soviet Union —-Chukotia—and -are of the same origin as those of Alaska. = This student’s mother, like all her people before the revolution, was illiterate, for there was then no written Eskimo language. Today, with elemen: tion in school for adults, she man- ages a sewing workshop on a col- lective farm. ; Describing the changes that have occurred in her family as charac- teristic for all of Chukotia’s popu- lation, she says that the Eskimo educa- people .now' have hospitals, clubs, libraries and schools and are ac- quainted with the poetry of Push- ‘kin and Mayakovsky and the books of Tolstoy and Gorky. The student wrote that her peo- ple are wel! aware of the misery and degradation in which Alaska’s Eskimos live since one ef them, the captain of a schoon- er, visited Alaska and saw the conditions there. U.S. trade plans for Japan will ruin competitors | WELLINGTON The United States intends to force New Zealand to sell its wool at low prices to Japan so that American-controlled Japanese industries C can flood the markets of New Zealand, Australia and other countries with cheap goods and: so ruin local This warning has been made in in score of meetings throughout New Zealand by one of .its most distinguished native sons, John Platts-Mills, New Zealand Rhodes scholar and a former Labor mem- ber of the British House of Com- mons. In the course of ae recent tour, notable for the wide public in- ‘terest it aroused and the fact that the New Zealand daily press gave it no publicity, Platts-Mills bitter- ly denounced American policies, the aim of which, he said, was to ‘loot and ruin England, America’s greatest imperialist rival.” The result was that more work- ers in Britain were engaged in constructing atom bomber sites than in building houses. , Other points made by Platts- Mills ‘were: * a The Baltic trade has always been a foundation of Britain’s trade. Now the U.S. forbids trade with Russia in hundreds of items. Des- perately-needed wheat, timber and paper are denied to Britain, though Russia did not ask for guns but machinery, tractors and similar goods in return. On his recent tour of the South Pacific, Governor Thomas Dewey of New York, told the people of New Zealand: “Look out, China will take you, .the land-hungry Chinese peasants ‘menace’ you.” But China has no ships, and the peasants’ are no longer land-hun- gry—and China sent food to India, not the U.S. _ eae New Zealand “is not menaced by China, but by Japan. The U.S. has refurnished Japanese busi- nessmen with the battleships to go and get their markets.” 5 The U.S. intends to force New Zealand to sell wool at low prices to Japan. It will return as cheap goods and cause ruin to local industries — yet there is not a leader who says “Tell the Yanks to go to hell and we'll sell our PACIFIC TRIBUNE industries. : wool to the highest bidder.” ‘ Menzies agreed to cut the Aus- tralian wool cheque by £200 ($600) million as the price of surrender to the U.S., and butter is rationed in Australia through American in- | terference. “But our lads will not be unemployed when New Zealand slows down. They will be ‘defend- — ing America’ all over the world.” Platts-Mills. charged that the British government had complete- ly capitulated. “If you hand over your de- fense. you are under domination of a foreign power. Never before in our history has a foreign power controlled our navy. Attlee was not even consulted when a U.S. admiral of our fleet was appoint- ed.” ; Similarly Eisenhower: controlled the army. But in West Germany the people were refusing to fight for the Americans. “The Italians won't fight for them, nor the French, even Nehru stands up. to them. But Britain, Australia and e The Am- | jericans are desperate—and have hated Franco their — New Zealand surrender. made _ the hero.” - Platts-Mills urged the utmost support of the World Peace Peti- tion\as the means of stopping a third world war. The people were mobilizing everywhere against American-in- spired war preparations, he declar- ed ’ “Events are rushing ahead so quickly that the most backward sections of the people will be moving so fast we will have to run to keep up. The leaders of the three great powers dare not start another war. : “If they do we will hang them. like the Nazi leaders. Everybody is bound up in the struggle for peace. Get them organized and working.” — OCTOBER 5, 1951 — PAGE 3