No sign of USSR

readying for war,

says ambassador

WASHINGTON

One of the highest official U. S. sources publicly admitted
last week that: in contrast to Washington there is:

@ No war

jitters or warmongering in Moscow.

\@ Nota single sign that the USSR.is mobilizing for war

against anyone. ,

The source, as reported in the Dec.
ember 15 issue of U.S. News and
World Report, semi-official organ
of the U.S. state department is
Admiral Kirk, U.S. ambassador to
Moscow, who returning
home on vacation.

is now

Reports the magazine: “Admiral
Kirk sees no sign in Moscow that
Russia expects war now.” It goes
©n to quote Admiral Kirk as de-
flaring that Soviet Army units are
Temaining at peacetime strength.

“No over-age classes are being
Called up,” the report continues.
“No extraordinary movements of
troops or supplies have been detect
ed. There is no drive in Russia to
byild (bomb shelters or restrict
Civilian consumption of critical
materials. There is no shifting of
labor away from peacetime to war-
time industries.”

Reporting on the situation in
East Germany, the report adds:
“There’s no sign of any build-up of
Spviet forces in Hast Germany.
Just normal replacements of con-
scripts is going on.

By way of unwitting contrast,
however, the same issue of U.S.
News and World Report, in another
report from Washington, says:

“War with China is a fact. A
deal could only involve a truce, a
means of gaining time while both
sides got set for later tests in
other fields.”

Thus is the whole cynical plan
of the U.S, for a “cease-fire” in
Korea exposed as a stop-gap device
for MacArthur to regroup and aug-
ment his badly defeated forces in
Korea.

(Canada’s Lester Pearson, pro-.

ponent of the U.S.-inspired plan
for a temporary cessation of fight-
ing in Korea, is serving on the UN
Special committee to study the
“cease-fire” proposal which was
opposed by the Soviet Union on
grounds no cease-fire could be ef-
fective until U.S. and all foreign
troops were withdrawn. Malik told
the UN that Chinese volunteers
would also be withdrawn in such an
event since they would no longer
be needed to stem the !U.S. aggres-
sion, Pearson is evidently assuming
a “front-man” position for the US.
in this new attempt to prepare for
all-out aggression against China.)

U.S. News and World Report, in
its report from Washington says
US. will not give up Formosa—
despite the fact that it has prev-
iously acknowledged it as Chinese
territory in the Cairo Declaration of
not be given a place in the United
1943, Chinese Communists will
Nations. U.S. will use its veto power
if necessary to block any honors
for China.” says the magazine.
“Bombing,” if judged expedient by
the military, will be used at some
point against Chinese bases.’

(L. B. Pearson is also a mem-
ber of the UN commission “study-
ing” the question of Chinese rep-
resentation in the Security Council.
A strong demand is being voiced

across Canada that the St. Laur-
ent government not only extend
recognition to the People’s Repub-
lic of China, but to press for the
seating of People’s China in the

UN.)

Living Buddha
murdered by
British agent

CHUNGKING

One side of British intrigues in
Tibet disclosed here is the murder
of the living Buddha, Geda, a Tib-
etan leader, Geda was poisoned by a
British agent named Ford and died
in Changtu on August 22. Geda’s
body was burned by Ford in an at-
tempt to destroy all evidence, but

the case has been completely veri-
fied after investigation, and Ford
has been arrested by Chinese auth-

orities,

Geda was a member of the South
west Military and Administrative
Committee and vice-chairman of
the Provincial People’s govern-
ment of Sikang. On July 10 this
year, he left Beri.Gomba for Tibet,
arriving in Changtu on July 24. To
the Lamas and Tibetan people in
Changtu, he explained the policy
of the Chinese People’s government
towards the Tibetan people, calling
for close unity between the Tibetan
people and the People’s Liberation

Army. \

Ford, a British special agent, and
his accomplices detained Geda in
Changtu and gave him poisoned
tea on August 13. It failed to kill
him and they held him in Ford’s
house, isolated from his colleagues.
Geda, however, was determined to
go to Lhasa, and this aroused even
greater fear on the part of the
special agents, They poisoned him
again on August 21, and Geda died
the next day.

In an attempt to destroy the evi-
dence of their crime, they burned
Geda’s body and sent his retinue
on to Liftasa in custody.

The 47 year old Geda was one of
the most venerated living Buddhas
among the Tibetan people. He was
an old friend of the People’s Army,
winning popular support and as-
sistance for it on its famous Long
March In 1935, for example, he
organized support for the Chinese
Red Army on its way north through
the Kantse area to resist the Jap-
anese aggression and he organized
the local Tibetan People’s govern-
ment.

Monks of Beri Gomba have sent
a cable to President Mao-Tse-tung
and Commander-in-Chief Chu Teh
expressing their deep sorrow at the
death of Geda, “who has sacrificed
his life to rid the Tibetan people of
the yoke of imperialism,” and their
determination to carry out his
desire to bring about the peaceful
liberation of Tibet. :

Ford was arrested after the lib-
eration of Chengtu,

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By Special Correspondent
WITH THE KOREAN
PEOPLE’S ARMY ~

Fleeing American troops left
Wunsan in flames, As I marched

we found the city burning.
Most of the houses in the town
were in ashes and ruins. The
nearby forests were also aflame.
Before taking to their heels the
Americans had put the torch to
everything that could burn,
There were dead Americans

in with the Chinese volunteers’

Wunsan left in flames

Long lines of prisoners also wound north

everywhere, and abandoned
tanks and overturned trucks lit-
tered the town and roads leading
from it.

One of the Chinese volunteers
told me: “The Americans seemed
to be seized with incredible fear
as we closed in on them. Some
ran about wildly, clambering
over trucks or crawling under
them, Others grouped together
and laid down their arms.”

On leaving Wunsan, I saw line

J

' tured military supplies. Many of

after line of American prisoners
of war moving out of town under
escort. Captured American army
trucks rolled past, groaning
under the heavy loads of cap-

the American troops were shiv-
ering in their summer uniforms.
Some lucky ones had blankets
wrapped around them. But warm
clothing and warm food were
awaiting them in POW camps
in the rear.

Eisenhower in Europe
will be counterpart

of MacArthur in Asia

WASHINGTON

Appointment of General Dwight
Eisenhower as Supreme Command-
er of Atlantic Pagt forces in Eur-
ope, which -are to be raised to 55
divisions, is one of the immediate
results of the meeting of 12 Atlan-
tic Pact countries.

Having established his political

reliability in numerous warmonger-
ing speeches and statements, Eisen-
hower is eminently acceptable to
Atnerican rulers, particularly jto
President \|Truman himself, who
would like to have Eisenhower out
of the way as a possible competitor
in the presidential election of 1952.
He has also been boosted as “a vic-
tor over the Nazis” by the entire
Marshallite press.

In his relative seclusion as presi-
dent of Columbia 'University, he has
had little opportunity to get him-
self involved in personal squabbles
and corruption affairs character-
istic of the American military, of
whom none would probably be ac-
ceptable even to the satellite gov-
ernments of Western ‘Europe.

Besides, the British would vio-
lently oppose any idea of a French
general getting the post and Mar-
shall Montgomery’s political illit-
eracy, manifested in his recent pub
lic speeches, has made him little
more than a figurehead,

As to Eisenhower’s job, he is to
be the European counterpart of
General “Mikado” MacArthur in

Ahe Pacific.

“Bisenhower’s boys” will be a
motely army of mercenaries based
for the most part on what is re-
maining of Hitler’s Wehrmacht and
SS divisions. This point is clear,

and the “attempts at compromise”
currently being discussed in Wash-
ington are merely attempts to de-
ceive the West European—and in
particular French and German—
public.

Before the minister’s meeting,
General George C. Marshall told a
Washington meeting that out of it
“should come definite recommenda-
tions that not only will make us

stronger to meet the _ present
threat but to do so more quickly
than past procedure would indi-
cate.”

This hint to the French was sup-
plemented by reports assiduously
being spread from “informed quar-
ters here’ that Acheson was still
“resisting influential circles” de-
manding that the Atlantic Pact
countries be threatened with stop-
page of economic and military as-
sistance. should they not proceed
quickly enough with the militariza-
tion of’ their countries and with
‘Suppressing public oppositioh to

West German rearmament,

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