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recent Soviet note on Trieste charged that the Anglo-U.S.
inevitably leads to a heightening of friction in relations
Bates first of all between the countries bordering on the
ritory of Trieste, and creates a threat to the peace and

Pletg Y of this region.” The USSR called for establishing the com-

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lence of a free territory of Trieste. Friction be-
d Yugoslavia and Britain and rioting in the city of

bear out the Soviet warning.

Washington obstacle
to Big-Power talk

By MALCOLM MacEWEN

LONDON

The obstacle to.a meeting between Churchill, Kisenhower and Malenkoy lies in Washington, Hugh
McNeil, Scottish Labor MP, told the British House ef Commons last week.

McNeil was replying to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who had declared the latest Soviet note
on Germany “completely unacceptable” because it insisted on* abandonment of West German rearm-
ament. Although the Soviet note had said that talks on German reunification would be futile if West

German rearmament was proceed-
ed with, Eden asked the House to
believe that “talks at any level re-
main our objective.”

McNeil retorted that it was “a
little facile’ for the government
to say it was prepared to work now
for a meeting at any level.

“The first impediment to such
a meeting will have to be re-
moved, | suspect, in Washington
and not in Moscow.

“We have had statements both
from the president and the secre-
tary of state of the United States
of America which could not be said
to be warm approvals of the idea
of a heads-of-states meeting.”

Eden threw the entire responsi-
bility for world tension on to the
Soviet Union and China, and did
not suggest that Britain or the U.S.
was prepared to make a single
concession for peace.

He did not even mention the
Soviet proposal that a five-power
conference, including China, should
be called to relax tension.

On the contrary, he appeared to
make such a conference condition-
al upon acceptance by China of the
Anglo-American proposals for Ko-

rea.

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Tecent eed Gold Coast Prime Minister Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, in his
serve as a warning to Dr. Malan.” Dr. Nkru-
annual delegate conference of the Convention
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change his heart or we will
change it for him.

‘We‘ are planning now to con-
vene a meeting of all African na-
tionalists to discuss African prob-
lems, social, economic and politi-
cal; and there is every reason to
believe that the plans which will
be formulated and the decisions
which will be taken, by the confer-
ence will all be in the interests
of Africa and international peace.

Dr. Nkrumah called for the tight-
ening up of discipline and educa-
tion in the party which he called
the “fighting weapon of the
masses.”

“It is therefore necessary that
the party, particularly its leading
elements, should combine theory
and practice, so that every incident
may be interpreted in its true con
text and adapt our strategy accord-
ingly.”

By this means, he said, the party
would avoid being shaken as in the
inconclusive political victory of the
1951 elections. “The present period
was critical and there was every
need for vigilance and iron dis-
cipline in the party.

Dr. Nkrumah repeated his de-
mand, made in the House of As-
sembly, for full independence.

“We of the Convention Peo-
ple‘s party are unalterably OP-
posed to colonialism and imper-
ialism. We believe in a world of
free and independent partners.
We believe that the very eX!S
tence of colonialism refutes the
claim of the colonial powers to
regard such territories as part
of the free world and we are de- -
termined to see to it that the
world enjoys peace and free-
dom.”

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NEW YORK

Jacob Malik, Soviet delegate, told

the UN last week that the peace-

loving peoples of the world had

noted with relief the easing of in-

ternational tension, but this did
not suit U.S. reactionary circles.

Malik charged that the U.S. press
had played up unfounded stories of
atrocities in Korea in order to
speed up the arms race.

viet delegate was speak-
a = ‘5 Soviet. resolution calling
upon all states which had not yet
ratified the ,Geneva protocol ban-
ning bacterial weapons to do so.
The U.S., supported by Britain,
proposed that the resolution be re-
ferred to the Disarmament Commis-

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chemical trusts, © sal
pies were interested in bac-
teriological warfare. That was
why the U.S. opposed ratification
and prevented UN bodies from
discussing the question.

For he said that if a Korean
settlement was achieved “we can
move on to a wider relaxation of
tension.”

Far from seeing any danger in
U.S. policy in the Far East, Eden
praised the U.S. for its “self-con-
trol” in confining the war within
Korea.

Eden discerned two favorable

Soviet note
on Germany
warns powers

MOSCOW

The Soviet government has warn-
ed the Western powers that ratifi-
eation of the European Army
Treaty would make a Big Four
foreign ministers’ meeting on Ger-
many completely futile.

This warning was the main point
in the latest Soviet note delivered
to the U.S., British and French
ambassadors in Moscow.

The note declared that creation
of Western military bases mainly
bordering on the Soviet Union and
the Peoples’ Democracies clearly
showed they were to be used for
aggressive ends.

Pressure was being exerted on
certain countries in Europe and
the Near East and Middle East, in-
cluding Iran, to force them to give
up their territory for establishment
of foreign military bases.

Such a situation created a men-
ace to the security of the Soviet

Union as well as to a number of

other states, leading to a new ©

aggravation of international ten-
sion and increasing the danger of
a new world war.

“The Soviet government,” said
the note, “would like to receive
clarifications from the French,
American and British governments
whether their declaration that they
are ready to examine the German
problem at a conference of the
ministers of the foreign powers,
and the fact that they recognize the
importance of assuring European
security, mean that they will not
place themselves in a situation
whereby on one hand the German
question will be submitted to the
examination of such a conference
while on the other hand measures
will be taken at the same time for
ratification of the Bonn and Paris
agreements by the states which
have not yet ratified them.

“Such a clarification is essential
since ratification of the said agree-
ments and their entry. into force
would render impossible the re-
establishment of Germany as a
united state and by the same token
render futile the examination of the
German question at a foreign min-
isters’ conference of the Four
Powers, as this conference would
have its hands tied by the separate
engagements concluded in advance
py the three powers with. the
Adenauer government to bring
Western Germany into the North
Atlantic bloc and to create a venge-
ful West German army.”

The Soviet note also recalled
the existence of the Franco-
Soviet Treaty which provided for
France and the Soviet Union to
take joint measures against the
rebirth of German militarism.

The Soviet Union was always
willing to respect the obligations

of the treaty.

signs in relations with the Soviet
Union: the first was the new So-
viet program to develop agricul-
ture and consumer goods, with its
promise of better conditions for
the people. -

The second was settlement of
five of seven questions raised by
the new British ambassador in
Moscow with Foreign Minister Mol-
otov.

As an example of “Soviet propa-
ganda” he mentioned the Vienna
conference of the World Federa-
tion of Trade Unions, which he
accused of fomenting strikes, anti-
U.S. feeling and colonial unrest.

He also professed “abhorrence”
at the alleged persecution of re-
ligion and denial of human rights
in Poland, and in the light of all
this declared: ;

“We have no option but to per-
severe with our defensive arrange-
ments”. — particularly German re-
armament through the European
Army.

Ellis Smith, Labor MP, interrupt-
ed to point out that the big Nazi
industrialists who put Hitler in
power were now wielding great in-
fluence behind the scene again in
Germany.

Eden did not deny this fact, but
merely retorted that it was better
for Germany to be joined with the
NATO powers rather than to stay
out and have no contact with the
West.

Another, Labor MP, Turner
Samuels, charged that the Church-
ill government was tied to Ameri-
can apron strings.

“The U.S.~ government's afti-
tude ‘I won’t talk’. is absolute
international dynamite,” he said.
“The U.S. reaction to Russia and
its anti-Communism is an abso-
lute obsession.

“Today the crucial fact is not
what help we are going to get
against the Russians from German
divisions. The danger is a possi-
bility of German domination in
Europe.”

Unionists report
on China trade

LONDON

The Chinese people are anxious-
ly waiting to buy all sorts of equip-
ment and materials. from Britain,
an eight-man team of electricians
said in London last week.

The delegation has just returned
from China after a five-week tour.
Walter Stevens, Electrical Trades
Union general secretary and leader
of this ETU delegation, said his
colleagues were surprised to see
so many American cars on the
roads in the main Chinese cities.

In Peking, he said, it was four
days before the delegation came
across a British car; the rest were
Chevrolets, Fords, and others man-
ufactured in the United States.

While U.S. goods, including
those on the strategic list, were
supplied to China through Jap-
anese agents, some British busi-
‘nessmen were trying hard to
break down the stranglehold on
British goods imposed by the
U.S. government.

The delegation said that while
in China, they had heard that a
representative of Austin Motors
was there on a business mission.
But time was not on Britain’s side.
West Germany, in addition to Jap-
an, was already in the market, Stey-
ens pointed out. :

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 13, 1953 — PAGE 3