hieve a high and ever- *jevel of economic well- poverty and mote the spread of de- oy ‘and political freedom out the world. mg that “we must take Sle steps to prevent any ; of German aggression,’ md calls for piain talkins rman wer guilt, and sup- / Soviet plan for trial of anals In the areas where mitted their crimes. ort calls for a similar fitude towards Japan |/no Wore risks —will *be the Japanese.” : jan of enemy territory ‘armed forces after the eged, together with com- Sarmament of Germany ‘in and the strict control iseonoemice and financial SVE UPlyen : SEE 7, the report adds, must , reparations, including - of all loot, payment of costs of allied armies Sion, and provision of the devastated areas of *he report recommends gestapo agents, Storm and other Nazi party for reparation work in % Union and / occupied but not in Britain. ‘ment its post-war plan, Party executive pro- | 3 up of an internaticnal : organization, the “nuc- which will be Britain, ‘| and the USSR,’ but 4 not be exclusive. - iment of new inter- )_ organizations for re- td, trade, currency, air 1 transport, the policies i must be “for expan- d not restriction.” @d cooperation among ied armed forces, with extending its leases of n the western hemi- ‘to the U.S., while the and Britain hold bases Spe on behalf of the Nations. that “pacifism is un- (the report calls for the Jevelopment of a single ations armed foree. It Bmends transference of Minorities in the re- if European frontiers, ag of all’ Germans back ay. ation of armament in- a Britain is urged, to- th control of private t€ of arms in other LATIN MERICA tas ING President Getulio fecent deciaration that var full political democ- _ Integralistas zil, remnants of the pro-fascist or “Green Shirts” and other fifth column groups are intensifying their activities against his government and Brazil’s par- ticipation in the war. -The president's statement came shortly after the visit to Rio de of Vincente ITombardo president of the Con- federation of --Latin——*merican Workers (CTAIL). President Vargas is believed to have been prompted to make his statement by the conspira- torial activities of the fifth column which, disguising its real purposes, is demanding im- mediate democratic reforms in order to place serious obstacles in the way of Brazil’s war effort. While President Vargas’ state- ment is considered a setback to the fifth column, it is stated that his position would be further strensthened if he were to extend greater freedom of association to labor, purge his administration of remaining pro-Axis ‘personalities and release political prisoners. HMarlier ~this month Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha, speak- ing at Sao Paulo, called attention to the efforts of the fifth column to hinder the war effort, declaring that this activity was preventing a fuller rapprochement between the government and the people. The main activity of the Inte- gralistas is now centered on op- position to Brazil sending an ex- peditionary force to aid the Ailies Janeiro Toledano, ‘in the European invasion. They argue that- @ A second front is not necessary because the war is already won. : @ Germany is defeated and now the main enemy is the United States: ; @ Brazilians are not interested in the war, but desire only in- ternal reforms. @ Argentina is {preparing for War against Brazil and there- fore the armed forces are necessary for home defense. ~ U.S. MILITARY PLANE’ ~ =” SDUCTION 85,900. a ” REPRESENTS ~ 30,000 PLANES (Au. TYPES) ra cbebob bob ~ HHH HEH, 23,200. Hh SULY. 1940 THROUGH DEC 1941) 1942 1943 This argument is regarded as most dangerous since it not only tends to divert Brazil’s war effort, but also helps fascist propaganda among the Argentine people on the pretext that their fatherland is endangered. ~ BULGARIA Guerrillas FASE REP by the Red Army’s _ victories and encouraged by the successes of the Yugoslav and Greek liberation front forces, a guerrilla army is growing within Bulgaria which may become an important factor in the fighting in the Balkans. 5 Recruits drawn from city work- ers, peasants and deserters from the Bulgarian regular army are il be established in Bra-organizing in the mountains, pre- paring to strike against the Nazi occupation forces’ as the Red Army advances through Rumania or in the event of an Allied thrust into the Balkans from italy or North Africa. Reports indicate the existence of two main suerrilla groups, both of which are in contact with Yugo- slay and Greek liberation front organizations. The two _ groups are: : @ The Otechestven, which has strong Communist support and publishes a widely read under- ground newspaper, Workers’ Action. The Otchestven calls for a complete break with Nazi Germany, for Bulgarian adher- enee to the Atlantic Charter - and for accord with Yugo- Slavia, the Soviet Union, Bri- tain and the United States. Last September it issued a 12-point Manifesto demanding a new government based on a demo- cratic constitution. @ The Shumatsi, which is report- ed to have between 15,000 and 20,000 adherents, principally in the Plovdiv, Doupnitsa, Sey- linko and Kotel regions of Bul- aria, including a large num- ber of army deserters. A third so-called Opposition organization, the Fatherland Front. recently announced its sup- Port of the government in efforts to retain Macedonia and Thrace and denounced Britain and the United States for the bombing of Sofia. Another group, the Zvedo, Is reported to be pro-Allied and to favor union with Yugoslavia. FREE POLAND Anti-Semitism (Les month a Polish court mar- tial in Seotland sentenced 24 Jewish soldiers to terms of im. prisonment ranging from one to Six years. The Jewish soldiers claimed they had suffered continual indig- nities at the hand of the anti- - Semites in the Polish army. Un- able to bear such indignities any longer they went to London to re- quest a ‘transfer to the British armed forces. And for this “crime” they were arrested as deserters, tried by court martial and sent to prison. About 200 Jews serving in the Polish» army in Britain were ac- cepted by British units after it had been established that life was being made unbearable for them - by their Polish officers. Approxi- mately another 600 Jewish soldiers are now seeking to transfer from the Polish to the British ferces as a result of anti-Jewish mani- festations in the Polish units. The case has aroused the Brit- ish public and brought a storm of protest. In the House of Commons, Tom Dreberg, independent, disclosed that he had received from Jewish soldiers in the Polish Army nu- merous written complaints of mis- treatment. “I have a whole drawerful of personal testimonies ‘to the Kind of thing they are experiencing, written out Jaboriously in Polish, or pathetically in broken Ienglish,” he said. He expressed the belief that the- orders-oi-the-day of the Polish military command directed against anti-Semitism “have not only not had the desired effect, but they even haye aggravated the situa- tion.” Other members, including Wéul- liam Gallacher, Communist. point- ed out that the court martial of the Jewish soldiers on charges oi “desertion” was. not justified since the reactionary Polish gov- ernment-in-exile itself permitted 200 Jewish soldiers to Jeayve the Polish Army because of anti- Semitism and to join the British forces. Why was the situation of the accused men not precisely the Same as that of the 200, they asked. Drieberg stressed that “this act of ‘desertion’ was endorsed or con- doned by the action of the British War Office and of the Foreign Office in accepting these men.” London newspapers are demand- ing that Foreign Minister Anthony Eden ask the Polish Government for full details of the sentences the Polish court martial intends te impose, or has already i«nposed, on Jews who left the Polish Army to join the British forces. Discrimination against Jews in the Polish Army has been subject of editorial comment in provincial newspapers, including the York- shire Post, generally regarded as refiecting the views of Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, and the Widely-read Birmingham Gazette. “It is clear,” the Gazette writes, “that not only Germany will have to be reeducated after the war, but we may be faced with an anti-Semitic Poland almost as urgently in need of reeducation as Germany itself. If after four years of fighting side by Side with our own people, a considerable 3ec- “tion of the Polish Army learned nothing and is still fighting not for freedom, but for a conception of nationalism as,narrow and as arrogant as the German, then the process- of reeducating Poland is evidently likely to be long and dif- fieult.”” ; In London, the Board of Jewish Deputies, highest body of British Jewry, held a special session, at which it adopted a resolution con- demning the action of the Polish anti-Semites and asking the Brit- ish government to intervene on behalf of the Polish-Jewish sol- diers. The resolution asked the British government to find a way of mak- ing it possible for the Jewish soldiers to join the British Army. __ Before the sentence against the Jewish soldiers became known, a delegation of 3,000 Jewish tailors protested against the mistreat- ment of Jews in the Polish Army. When the mass delegation was unable to see Prime Minister Win- ston Churchill at 10 Downing Street, its leaders: delivered aet- ter of protest outlining their pro- posals. : HUNGARY, S BRASOVSE =. a BELGRADE 2 SOFIA p< ROMANIA | YUGOSLAVIA > ae BUCHAREST BULGARIA A nN CONSTANTA Long range bombers of the Red Air Force hee joined the devastating Allied bombing offensive of Rumania. Key points hit are shown by bomb bursts. _ death of Short. Jabs ___-by OV Bill. Sport C= BORGIA was the son of a pope. He lived in the days When war was in its infancy. The bow and arrow was the deadliest Weapon used for “mowing “em down’ Borgia used to indulge in target practice in the courtyard of the Vatican. But he did not shoot at bull’s eyes on wooden butts or even at running iron deer or clay pipes as would-be marksmen doe in carnival shoot- ing galleries today. He had more thrilling targets to test the strength of his muscles and keeness of his eyes. He used prisoners of war, men who had fallen inte the hands of the iL literate and bestial soldiery. Lhe unfortunate prisoners were made to run around in the yard while the noble Caesar took pot shots at them. This sadistic scoundrel had revived in the 15th century the custom of young boys belong- ing to the ruling class in ancient Greece centuries before—shooting slaves for fun. Hundreds of years have passed Since Caesar Borgia enjoyed that anhely sport, but today there are — pebple of the same bestial stripe, exercising their bestial character- istics and inflicting further suffer- ing on a long-suffering race, The Belgian government-in-exile has recently placed one of them on the list of “war criminals” to be tried for their atrocious crimes after the German armies are dis- posed of The well-authentieated charge against him is ‘that he shot prisoners in the Mechlin con- centration camp, “for sport.” The block and the headsman’s axe have been dug up out of the Middle Ages by the Nazis, al- though they have modernized the barbarie practice by dressing the headsman in a plug hat. The tor- ture chambers of the days, when the borderline between barbarism and civilization was a flimsy one, they have also established in the 20 century. Piracy, the taking of murder hostages, these also they. have brought out of the past. They have been inspired by the superstitions of the past. They imi- tate the vampire, by draining, sci- entifically, the life-blood of chil- dren to revive their jaded free- booters and ravishers. It is quite natural then that they should find inspiration for their sport in monsters like Gaesar Borgia! If our race is to survive, fas- cism must-be wiped out along with syphilis and all plagues. ai Obttuary MAN® workers in this province will hear with regret of the “Old Val.” He died in Vancouver a few days ago at the age of 91. I met him about 40 years ago when I was only a kid and he was “Old Val” then. He was a logger with an intel- leet such as is seldom found among college professors. Qne of our favorite oceupations was to listen to “Old Val”? tying eco- nomics professors from the UBG into knots. He knew Marx as few. men did. His years prevented him from taking much part in our move- ment latterly but he was always ready with an argument to prove the Marxism of Stalin’s policies, and the stature of Stalin as the greatest man of this age. other.