Commission says U.S. wrecked POW talks By ALAN WINNINGTON PANMUNJOM In a blistering report, the majority of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission has pinned squarely on the United States guilt for wrecking the explanations to prisoners here. The majority report charges: @ Korean and Chinese prisoners could only attempt to return home secretly and in fear of their lives; @ Secret agents had preserved their organizations which were directed from headquarters in South Men who lost deposit Korea; ‘ ® Prisoners were beaten and murdered to prevent them going home; that even during indivi- dual explanations “United Na- tions’ gangs had maintained their influence over prisoners by force and threat of force. In North Korean and Chinese camps the commission had no evt- dence of any similar activities. In a covering letter the commis- sion’s Indian chairman General Thimayya appealed to both sides to give “earnest consideration to the problem of disposing of POWs in qa manner consistent with the fundamental objective in the com-}. mission’s terms of reference.” This, in effect, was a demand to the U.S. government to reconsider its position, since the Koreans and Chinese do not regard the explana- tion period as ended. Earlier, General Thimayya had declared his view that the time for explanations to war prisoners should be extended. “Certainly I am in favér that the whole period should be made} - up,” he said. . It would “not be just,” he declar- ed, to dispose of 20,000 prisoners who had. been unable to hear the explanations, when the political conference had not even met. But even if the extension were granted, all “hinges on the ques- tion of the segregation of agents. That’s my chief headache,” he added. The armistice agreement allow- ed for 90 days of explanations to POWs, but they have actually been held on only ten days. The U:S. has rejected the majori- ty report and announced that it will hand its prisoners over to Syngman-Rhee, South Korean dic- tator, and Chiang Kai-shek, on January 22. The heavily-documented majority .. report is backed by Indians, Poles and Czechs. The Swiss and Swedes -have submitted an undocumented minority report whitewashing the Americans. : appointed in Guiana LONDON Men who lost their deposits last April in the election which swept the People’s Progressive party to power in British Guiana have been appointed to the colony’s new interim legislature by Governor Sir Alfred Savage. The former legislature, first ever to be elected by popular vote, was dissolved last September by the British government’s order suspending the new British Guiana constitution and removing the People’s Progressive ministers from office on the pretext they were promoting “communism.” COLONIAz SECRETARY LYTTLETON Supersonic washing e machines for Hungary BUDAPEST The supersonic washday is just round the corner in Hungary, that land of fertile invention. An electric washing machine which uses high-speed sound vibra- tions to ‘shake the dirt out,” in- stead of the usual rotary beater, is going into mass production. The machine does a wash in 15 minutes and uses no more power than qa small light bulb. Of 27 members of the interim legislature appointed by Savage, five are men who were defeated by People’s Progressive candidates in the election last April. Another is W. O. R. Kendall, who was elect- ed to the last legislature but whose so-called United Demotratic party polled only 5,000 votes as compar- ed to the People’s Progressive party’s 77,000 votes. Ten members of the appointed legislature are wealthy business- men whose chief concern is to pro- tect the profits of the British, U.S. and Canadian interests dominat- ing the colony’s economic life. “Labor” is represented in the new legislature by two.officials of the Manpower Citizens Association, a company union. Appointment of the interim legislature is seen here as an at- tempt by the British government to mislead public opinion into be- lieving that representative govern- ment is being restored in British Guiana. The government is being hard-pressed by world protest but it fears that the People’s Progres- sive party would again sweep the polls if it allowed another - elec- tion. Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttleton admitted as much to the British House of Commons recent- ly when he stated:: “I think there is little doubt that only five months after their previous electoral vic- tory the PPP would have been elected again.” Nehru nails U.S. lie on China; U.S.’.war bases in Pakistan hit NEW DELHI Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has nailed the U.S.-inspired lie that China is demanding terri- torial expansion by means of a re- vision of the India-China frontier. Winding up the foreign affairs debate in the Indian parliament, Nehru emphatically denied that Chinese troops were massing in Tibet in readiness for an attack on India. Nehru declared that in fact China had never raised the fron- tier issue in any discussion and that the number of troops in Tibet had been reduced. In answer to Socialist critics, he reiterated that China was perfect- ly entitled to the ‘sovereignty of Tibet. Since India and China propos- ed a conference on Tibet, and discussions on pilgrimage and trade, and especially since Nehru began to oppose a U.S.-Pakisan military alliance, sections of the Indian press have been engaged in U.S.-inspired campaign against the bogy of “Chinese expansion.” The U.S. is hoping in this way ace to sidetrack the mounting anti- American feeling in India. According to reports from Kar- achi, the U.S. is to spend more than $9 million on “moderniza- tion” of airfields in North Pakis- tan, and will supply Pakistan with 3,000 aircraft and some 20 war- ships. In addition, military equipment —enough to fit out a division— sent by the U.S. to Turkey, but which the Turks could not use, is to be forwarded to Pakistan. The U.S. hopes to incorporate Pakistan into a Middle East bloc, including Turkey, Iran and Iraq, directed against the Soviet Union. But the British Foreign Office is alarmed at attempts to build up the armed forces of Pakistan, which it believes will harm rela- tions with India, which has re- peatedly opposed any U.S.-Paki- stan military alliance. At Madura, Madras, two weeks an address to the third national ago, Harry Pollitt, general secre- tary of the British Communist party, condemned the U.S. attempt to turn Pakistan into a war base, in congress of the Indian Communist party. He was garlanded by thousands of people at every railway station on his journey from Madras. “In vain the imperialists have sought to counterpose India to the victorious peoples’ revolution in China and to transform India into their main‘ base for their aims of aggression and domination in Asia. The people of India are defeating the plans,” said Pollitt. “The cooperation and friend- ship of the peoples of India and China—the two most numerous nations in Asia and in the world —this is the strongest guarantee for peace in Asia and for the liberation of all the peoples of Asia. “Thirty years ago Lenin wrote: ‘In the last analysis the upshot of the struggle will be determined by the fact that Russia, India, China, ete., account for the overwhelming majority of the population of the globe.’ “The truth of this far-sighted prediction is being proved in ac- tion today.” ¢ ES Luang prabang & t AS Vientiane gS > \ wf ~. —_ y \ ~ Ud. yn Thani oS ; NAKHON § < ° ef j NGKOK : Pursa 3 A Concealment of the worsening % ays oo Xienokhouang = Ry ee A aaa S ee e NS a “ag N aS Ubor \- a es a) ODIA ye" To Ld * Phatdiem y > S t French military position in Indo- china has angered the French people and increased the, demand for an end to the “dirty war.” In the last week of December the Laotian Liberation Army slashed across central Laos from the coas{ to the border of Thailand, munication. northern Laos made earlier last Herriott severing French lines of com- The new offensive was to the south of the drive in - year. ‘> urges Indochina truce é PARIS A veteran French statesman, Edouard Herriott, president of the National Assembly and mayor of Lyons, has added his voice to the popular demand that France negotiate with the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam for an end to the costly war in Indochina. Speaking to a delegation of Lyons trade unionists, Herriott said that France “had suffered a military defeat and it was high time to negotiate.” French public opinion has been aroused by concealment of the true military situation in Indochina. For months French military com- muniques have been claiming suc- cesses, conveying the impression that the Vietnamese People’s army and its allied Laotian and Cam- bodian forces had been crippled and rendered incapable of mount- ing any major offensive. The news that the Laotian Liberation Army had swept across Laos to the bor- der of Thailand demolished these pretenses and disclosed that the French military position was wors- ened, despite impressive U.S. aid. In Laos, one of the three states of Indochina, Nhouy Abbay, for- eign minister in the French pup- pet government, resigned in pro- test against concealment of the military situation by French auth- orities. The threatening statement dir- ected against China made by U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dul- les and his insistence that France continue the war by carrying out the “plan for victory,” has little appeal for the French people. Their pressure is directed against their own government for accept- ance of repeated offers to negoti- ate an end to the war made by Vietnamése President Ho Chi inh. . In a speech to the elected par- liament of the Democratic Re- public of Viet Nam last week, Ho Chi Minh said his govern- ment’s “principal objective at the present moment is to lessen international tension and to set- observing, “The international situation is favorable to us.” Extent of the people’s victory in Indochina was revealed by the Laotian Liberation Army’s com- munique announcing that its forces had entered Thakkek on December 25 “and the flag of independence and peace now jubilantly flutters over this historic town.” : The communique stated that 2,- 200 French and African troops had been killed, wounded or captured. “The resounding victory has created favorable conditions for the Laotian people to push forward their heroic war of resistance in close coordination with the armed struggle of the Vietnamese and Cambodian people,” said the com- munique. Soviet has oil to sell sre, MOSCOW Foreign businessmen here have been informed by officials of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Trade that the Soviet Union has large supplies of crude oil, petrol and oil products to sell in the world market. The decision to sell oil was not an emergency one, they were told. The Soviet Union was in a posi- tion to maintain supplies steadily. A tanker chartered by the Israeli government is already on its way to collect the first of several shipments of gasoline tle differences by negotiation,” bought in exchange for oranges and bananas. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JANUARY 8, 1954 — PAGE 3 <