_ Adenauer ‘West _ German e’ LONDON Rhe Psoof of U.S. plans to use Chancellor Konrad Adenauer as the “Syngman Rhee of Western Germany” in order to “liber- ate” the peoples of Eastern Europe was given by John Baird, Labor MP for Wolverhampton Northeast, at a “No Arms for Germany” conference at Edmonton (Middlesex) Town Hall last week, ° Baird recalled his visit to NATO headquarters in Paris When he asked Field-Marshal Bernard Montgomery: “What is the aim of the North Atlantic Treaty?” The reply was: “To’ detend the West.” “But after war has started, what are your plans?” Baird insisted. At this point General Eisenhower himself — at that time supreme commander in Europe—answered: . “It is to liberate Eastern Ger- Many and then the subject peoples of Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Czechoslovakia.” had been allowed 12 divisions un- der the Paris agreements, there would be no end to his demands ‘for further divisions. oe “Like Syngman Rhee, he would create trouble on the borders of Eastern Germany in which we would all be embroiled,” he de- Baird added that after Adenauer! clared. Never again . “Never again — therefore negotiate,” says this poster is- sued by the West German Social Democratic party which is con- ducting a mass campaign against ratification of the Paris agree- “ments to rearm West Germany. Huge rallies -are being held throughout the country. U.S. oil interests extending domination of British Guiana United States oil interests are extending their activities in British Guiana. GEORGETOWN A group of Texas Oilmen have ibeen granted a license to explore for oil under the sea in the 4,000 square miles of the colony’s continental shelf. | This is in addition to the concession to explore for oil over 4,275 square miles of land held by an- other Texas-financed oil company. This increasing U.S. domination of the colony is bitterly opposed “by the Guianese people who be- lieve that U.S. threats.to take di- fect action in 1952 impelled the British government to suspend the hew constitution and remove the legally elected People’s Progres- Sive government, headed by Dr. Cheddi Jagan, from office. After two years of a studied cam- Paign to destroy the influence of the People’s Progressive party even British colonial officials concede that it commands the overwhelm- ing support of the people. _A struggle between the ma- iority of the PPP leadership and @ small right wing group headed by Forbes Burnham, the party’s chairman, came to a climax last week when: the PPP executive committee expelled Burnham and two supporters, Dr. Lachman- . Singh and Jai Naraine, for vio- lating party decisions and dis- _ tupting party unity. _ Following issuance of the Brit- Ash.appointed Robertson Constitu- tion Commission’s report last year that there should be no restoration Of self:government “so long as the Present leadership and policies of the People’s Progressive party con- ' tinue,” Burnham and a group of So-called moderates called a con- ference in Georgetown where the right wing is strongest. The conference named Burnham - 8S party leader in the legislature in place of Dr. Cheddi Jagan, who ‘Was nominated only as vice-chair- ‘Man, and proposed Mrs. Janet Jagan as treasurer instead of gen- eral secretary. Mrs. Jagan denounced the con- ference as unconstitutional and demanded that a fully_representa- tive party congress be held at Berbice, as called for by the de- Cisions of the last congress. Her statement was followed by & decision of the PPP executive Committee to expel Burnham, Mansingh and Naraine. = Rebukes MRA yo Supporters of Moral Rearma- ment have been subjecting the Archbishop of York, Dr. Cyril Garbett (above) to “concentrated pressure” in order to influence his views on their organization. Revealing this to the Church -As- sembly in London last week, Dr. Garbett said: “I have been in- undated with papers which could only have been produced by a movement with great sums of money behind it.” TUC against German army : DUESSELDORF The West German TUC execu- tive has officially placed the six- million-strong trade union move- ment behind the campaign against the German rearmament treaties. The Trade Union Congress ex- ecutive said in a statement that ratification of the Paris agree- ments should be delayed until Four-Power talks had shown Rus- sia’s tefms for German unification. The executive said it was ani- mated by serious concern that ac- cepting the Paris treaties would make more difficult or delay a re- union of West with East Germany. The TUC appealed to Britain, the U.S., the Soviet Union, France, and the West German government ¥ Troops kill — 19 Africans Five schoolchildren were among ‘}19 Africans killed when police and troops turned machineguns on de- monstrators in this British’ West African colony-on February 11. The massacre occurred on the third day of a peaceful strike call- ed by the Artisan and General Workers Union. Following issu- ance of a government warning ‘}against public meetings and as- semblies, police used teargas to disperse demonstrators. Shortly afterwards a white police officer shot a schoolboy returning home from school. Angry Afri- cans attack the police officer and he died later of multiple injuries. Troops called out by the gover- nor fired into the crowd of Africans with machineguns. Nineteen Afri- cans, including the five school- children and one woman, were killed and 150 more were treated for wounds at. Freetown’s Con- naught Hospital. F _ The death toll in the Freetown massacre is the greatest since 1949 when 81 striking African miners were killed at Enugu, Nigeria. Strikers were demanding a wage increase of 10 pence (approximate- ly 10 cents) a day, but employers refused to offer. more than six- pence (six cents). A British Colonial Office report published last year showed that wages in Sierra Leone, smallest of British West African colonies, were four shillings a day, barely suffi- cient to buy rice and sweet pota- toes but not fresh meat or fish. Four years ago 2,000 African women marched through the streets of Freetown with banners to undertake immediate steps to- ward reunification. ‘proclaiming, “We are hungry.” FREETOWN, Sierra Leone Bishop scores apartheid plan The Bishop of Johannesburg has denounced the Strijdom JOHANNESBURG government’s forced evacuation of Africans from Sophiatown, Johannesburg, as “a plan which stands condemned in the sight of all civilized men. , “If this was a piece of slum clearance it would be very hard on those concerned, but that it is not,” the Bishop, Dr. Yarmouth last week. Preaching at St. Peter’s Church on “Christian Internationalism,” he said the evictions were being un- dertaken for three reasons. “First, as a sop to those white voters who in recent years have built houses nearer and nearer to these townships and who object violently to their proximity. “Secondly, because the authori- ties are determined that no Afri- cans shall own land in urban areas. “Thirdly, because however cost- ly it may be in terms of property and human beings, the policy of compulsory segregation must be put into effect. “Even if, as this last week, it re- quires the presence of 3,000 armed police in order to secure the evic- tion of only 150 of these families —40 of which even then evaded the net—it must be done. “In the name of God we are bound to protest against this shameful thing.” The alternative to the forcible clearance of the western areas of Johannesburg, said the bishop, was a genuine plan of slum clearance and to build sufficient houses for Africans. At present there was estimated to be a shortage of 50,000 houses for Africans in the city. He described the genuine slums, such as Orlando, in which people have “‘spilled over into temporary shelters provided in the city, each one ten foot square, without doors, windows or floors.” : “There are only, some 580 foul and disgusting latrines to meet the needs of 34,000 people,” said Dr. Reeves, and this area had been listed in 1950 as priority number one for slum clearance. The evacuation plan, said the bishop, was being “carried out in obedience to a racialist ideology which is seeking to re-erect those very barriers between men that Christ has thrown down and is an affront to the Christian con- science.” I have no hesitation in saying Ambrose Reeves, said at Great U.S. accused in seizure of legation © Pravda, Soviet Communist party newspaper, has accused the USS. Central Intelligence Agency of having organised the seizure of the Rumanian Legation in Berne. Pravda said it was no accident that Allan Dulles, head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, had his wartime headquarters in Switz- erland. “Nobody else but Allan Dulles maintains numbers of fugitive fascist criminals who managed to flee from the people’s judgment in the Peoples’ Democracies,” it said. - At Berne, the Swiss govern- ment announced that it would not extradite the Rumanian fascists who shot their way into the Ru- manian legation in the Swiss cap- ital and seized the building. The gang shot and stabbed the legation -chauffeur, Aurel Setu, when he tried to save his wife. He died after lying in the legation yard for seven hours. wey Emeric Stoffel, Rumanian charge d'affaires, escaped with his family after being threatened by the gun- men. Swiss authorities sent armed police to surround the building when Stoffel sought their help, but Police Chief Bauder said he would “not risk the lives of any Swiss policeman to get the men out.” 5 Three of the fascists eventually surrendered to police and at least two others escaped. A sixth fascist, seized earlier by police, said that similar attacks on the Rumanian legations in Stockholm and Copenhagen had been planned. + Mao warns warmongers Stern warning that “there are no aggressive plans of imperial- ism which cannot be smashed” was given by Chairman Mao Tse-tung of the People’s Republic of China last week. Spaking at a Peking reception to honor the fifth anniversary of the Sino-Soviet Treaty, Mao said: “To achieve peace and internaticnal cooperation is China’s unswerving foreign policy. But to carve up any country’s territory, to intervene in any country’s internal affairs and to infringe on any country’s sovereignty will also abet aggression and lead to war, and will not bring about peace.” ‘! Lidtivticis. lth) lhl erin ties Oh ae one eae