U.S. and Israeli leaders

still keeping up tension

Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of the
United Arab Republic, and the most
outstanding leader of the Arab people
In their long struggle against imperial-
ism was stricken down at the moment
of one of his greatest triumphs of

Statesmanship.

This was the difficult negotiation of
a ceasefire in Jordan between the forces

lar units of the army of the

alestine Liberation Front from

Amman to positions to be fixed
later,

Essential to the agreement
Was the establishment of a com-
Mission of representatives of the
Arab states, King Hussein and
the Palestinian guerilla move-
Ment, commanding a team of of-
ficers from other Arab states, to
Implement and control the
Ceasefire.

It was a tribute to President
Nasser’s firm and patient asser-
tion of the imperative necessity
Of Arab unity, that such an
agreement could be reached —
Mcluding as it did Yasser Ara-
fat, the leader of the Palestin-
Jans, and the King of Jordan.

_ Arafat had quite rightly point-
€d out that an “ocean of blood”
Now separated his people from
the king. But the frightful mas-
Sacre of defenseless Palestinian
Tefugees carried through by the

Ing and his generals had not

roken the commandos’ resis-
tance. The king had badly mis-

Calculated when he thought his
army could deal with the Pales-
tinians in 48 hours. In this he
-failed, thanks to the heroic resis-
tance of the commandos, and
the peaceful initiatives led by
Nasser and backed by the Soviet

nion.

But the Middle East is far
from peace, and the imperialists
are still at work to disrupt not
Only the ceasefire in Jordan, but
the far more difficult task of re-
Storing peace to the area as a
Whole. The spirit in which
‘President Nasser sought these
Objectives will need to be fought

ard for by his successors.

The underlying issues behind

. the Jordan civil war were dealt

With by Oleg Orestov, writing in
Pravda, the organ of the Com-
Munist Party of the Soviet

Nion, last week. gi

As events were to bear out,
Orestov said that “given a sin-
Cere interest in peace in the
Middle East the tragic conflict
In Jordan.can be stopped.”

_“In this respect,” he con-
tinued, “the energetic steps
taken by the Soviet Union for
€nsuring a stable peace in the
area of the present conflict play
80 important role. The USSR
has directly appealed to Arab
States — to Jordan, Syria and
Iraq — to facilitate the speedi-
€st ending of the fratricidal
Struggle, and maintains constant
Contact with the United Arab

€public. The Soviet Union is

Not giving up its efforts to con-
Vince the western powers, and

specially the United States, .

that any external interference in
the events in Jordan could only
aggravate the situation.”
Despite the ceasefire talks
then under way in Cairo, Ores-
tov charged: ‘Nevertheless, at-
tempts are being made, both
Openly and behind the scenes, to
torpedo these measures for re-
Storing peace in Jordan. They
are being made by the forces
Who are obviously interested in
further spreading the conflict.

of. the Palestine Liberation Organiza-
tion, and those of King Hussein.

The accord reached in Cairo by the
Arab heads of state, under Nasser’s
leadership, provided for the withdraw-
al of all Jordanian armed forces to

their barracks and the positions they

“The Israeli leaders made no
secret of their malicious joy for
the armed clashes in Jordan.
Morevover, they are striving to
use them for blackmail and mili-
tary threats against the Arab
peoples.” Citing _ statements
openly raising the possibility of
Israeli intervention from both
Gen. Allon and Prime Minister
Meir, Orestov declared these to
be “interference in the internal
affairs of a neighboring indepen-
dent state and an attempt to fan
the flames of strife in Jordan.

“U.S. ruling quarters under
whose patronage Israel is nur-
turing her aggressive plans have
taken a most dangerous stand.
U.S. armed forces continue their
build-up in the Middle East area
and this is no way can facilitate
a relaxation of tension. More so,

occupied before the fighting. It also
provided for the withdrawal of regu-

the United States unexpectedly
offered Jordan its ‘aid’ in muni-
tions and materiel, including
planes and tanks. This action, at
the height of the armed conflict,

“may be received by the world

as evidence of the obvious inter-
est of aggressive U.S. quarters
in having Arabs fight Arabs.”

The aggressive circles of
which Orestov speaks have not
given up because of the Jordan
ceasefire.

This is amply shown by
Nixon’s bellicose speech in
Rome in which he came as close
as diplomatic niceties would
permit to proclaiming the Medi-
terranean to be a United States
lake.

It is indeed a time of danger,
a time for the utmost vigilance
and the widest actions by all
the peace forces of the world.

EVENING WEATHER FORECAST

Saxenhausen

Epoch of capitalism

By ALAIN PATRIE
We entered the concentration
camp Saxenhausen in the morn-
ing. The sky was bright blue, the
day hot and clear. The road
leading to the camp was border-

ed with oak trees rich in leaf

and cool to the sight. Nothing

disturbed our mood of .expec- .

tancy; except for a humming
silence,. almost odd and unnatur-
al for the time of day. Other
than a bare-chested man tending
roses outside the gate, no one
was about. I wondered how fer-
tile the ground was where the
roses grew.

The German Democratic Re-
public converted all of Hitler’s
infamous death camps into mem-
orials. A testament to history’s
darkest pages, the camps were
the final expression of imperial-
ist and fascist logic. There was
no other way to exercise total

and absolute power. If “law and

order” were to be maintained
and the slightest threat to their
rule eliminated, then death was
was the answer. Each new crisis
in the class struggle between the
appropriator and the producer
brings out the ruler’s savagery.
The ultimate savagery is fascism! _
Just inside the gates, where
the nazis kept their garages and
the trucks in which prisoners
arrived, a small museum had

‘been built. ‘This outside com-

pound led to the main gates,

‘high and ominous bars that

seemed to frame the very sky. .
Between the bars a legend pro-
claimed in wrought iron:
“ARBEIT. MACHT FREI.”
The words scalded me with
their dialectical ferocity. Such
clever demagoguery the hitler-
ites used. Yes, labor does liber-
ate. It is that necessity which
contrived to makes beasts men.
But the labor the nazis meant
was the: incredible travail of
slavery. Work under clout and
whip. This forced labor helped
to create millions for the Krupps
and Thyssens. It erected cha-
teaus, paid for legendary art
works and supplied every amen-
ity for the nazi imperialist.
How could the earth and time
prevail and hide these historic
crimes? As my feet crossed the
path where mankind stood under

Cambodia

“The GDR had converted olf

of Hitler’s
memorials . .

death camps into

the lash of fascism, I refused to
allow my mind to desert reason.
It was not phantoms of a dis-
eased mind that had created all
this. It was an epoch of capital-
ism. An act of insane despera-
tion.

The path led to a small bar-
racks converted into a cinema.
We watched the film reconstruct
te camp’s horror. A deadly, un-
believable, day-to-day monotony
of murder, torture, insane experi-
ments, hangings, shootings, beat-
ings, agony, starvation, fantastic
indignities, indescribable condi-
tions and incomprehensible sta-
tistics of dead, starved, broken,
poisoned, infected, gassed,
strangled and burned.

After the film we stood in the
shadow of the doorway, the
bright sun almost unbearable,

‘watching a group of forty police-
men file out of the cinema. Their
‘youth made them one with the

sun except for their eyes. Their
troubled eyes betrayed their
troubled spirit. They had come
here as part of their training in
police duty. It is good, I thought,
that this state exposes their po-
lice to this brutality and in a
proper setting of condemnation.
Would. that all policemen see
that film again and again.

letter to

Canadian communists

The Communist Party of Can-
ada has received a letter of
thanks for its expression of soli-
darity with the Cambodian
people’s struggle against Ameri-
can imperialism.

The letter, signed by Penn
Nouth, Prime Minister of the
Royal Government of National
Union of Cambodia, President of
the Political Bureau of the Cen-
tral Committee of the National
United Front of Kampuchea,
says in part: .

“The Khmer people and its
Army of Liberation are greatly
encouraged by the courageous
struggle carried on by the Can-
adian people and your esteemed
Party against the war of aggres-
sion waged by the American im-
perialists in Indochina. The
active solidarity and the con-
stant support of the Canadian
people and of your esteemed
Party can only hasten the final

victory of the peoples of Indo-
china over the aggressors.

“The Royal Government of

National Union under the aegis

of the National United Front of
Kampuchea at this time controls
already two-thirds of Cambodia.
People’s power is installed there
at all administrative levels. In
the zones occupied by the Ame-
rican imperialists, by their Sai-
gon and Bangkok puppets and
by the Lon Nol-Sirik Matak fas-
cist clique, the armed forces of
national liberation are engaged
in dealing them crushing blows,
leaving them no respite.
“Firmly united in - solidarity
with the Vietnam and Lao peo-
ples, the Khmer people, its Na-
tional United Front of Kampu-
chea and its Army of National

Liberation will battle until final
victory over the American im-
erialists and their toadies.

* ISBACIFIC Feb OFRIBAYS OCTOBER'2;'1970-PAGE 5