Be After the Second World War in-
Tae Cluding the treaty with Italy, it
Be We SPecifically stated “that ‘the: oc-
___-‘“Upation shall be terminated as
_ 800n as possible and, in any case
_ ‘Rot later than 90 days from the
_ Gate of the coming into force
sige the peace treaty. The Amer-
fan-British draft (Article 6)
®rmally contains such a pro-
‘Vision. However, the same article
 SPeaks of the possibility of re-

_ ining armed forces on Japanese

; territory “under or in conse-

_ Wence of any bilateral or multi-
lateral agreements which have
been or May be made’ between

ne or more of the Allied powers,”

es gon the one hand, and Japan on
ioe other."

oy a

Prolonged period of time the
_ JS. government and the present
Japanese government have been
_ -Regotiating the retention of U.S.
°ccupation forces on Japanese
_ territory, and of US. military
ases in Japan even after the
 £0nclusion of (a' peace tredty?
_ "0 is not aware that in the
Surse of these negotiations the
Severnment of Japan is being
Subjected to flagrant pressure on
Bhe Part of the United States,
_ Which actually controls the. poli-
 Hcal.ond economic life of. the
Spi ntry, 22), : cea
AS regards the treatment of
a ‘erritorial question§, the Soviet
_ delegation considers it necessary
‘ in State the draft grossly violates
-china’s indisputable rights to the
_ Teturn of integral parts of Chin-—
*se territory—Taiwan, the Pes-
Cadores, the Paracel and other
polands severed from it by the.
-“8Panese militarists. .  _
ithe draft contains only a refer-
“nee to Japan’s renunciation of
Tights to these territories; it in-
i tentionally omits any mention of
,eir further fate. In reality,
‘f ze Wan ‘and the ‘other islands ©
“ave been captured by the US.,
and the U.S. wants to legalize
.€8e aggressive actions in the
dratt treaty under discussion,
The fate of these territories
Should be absolutety clear. They
a pay '
_ “ust be returned to the Chinese
ae People, the master of its land. -
h ga nillatty, the draft confines it-_
_ “tit to a mere mehtion of Japan’s
Tenunciation of rights, title and

c

_ Wslands adjacent to it, as well as
_ the Kurile Islands. It makes no
f Gatton; of the historic appurte- x
aay of these territories and
 Pe2n’s indisputable obligation to
_ , S0Bnize Soviet sovereignty over
b i. €se parts of Soviet territory.
ae at is in vain to look in the
_ ~S-British draft for any. pro-
et Sion Pertaining to the democra-
_ tation of Japan. And this in
Spite f the fact that the Pots-
“am Declaration expressly states —

“Who is not aware that during 3

‘Claims to Southern Sakhalin and

x

the-USSR didn’t os

it is necessary to democratize
Japan.

As regards the present situation
“in Japan, during the entire per-
iod. of occupation repressions
‘ against > Japanese trade unions,
against democratic parties and
leaders, against progressive press
organs, have been carried ou§ with
the approval and direct encour-
agement of U.S. occupation
authorities. °

The draft likewise contains no-
mention of the need to prevent
‘creation in Japan of various types
of militarist and fascist organiza-
tions, the dangers of the rebirth
of which is the more real since
y many of them already are openly _
functioning. And this in spite
of the fact the decision of the
Far Eastern Commission express-
ly states that “all organizations
inspired by the spirit of militar-
ism and aggression shall be rigid-—
ly suppressed.” ‘

- It becomes quite clear that this

draft is intended not only for the
rebirth of Japanese militarism—
which makes real the danger of
new Japanese aggression — but

“that it is also intended to place

once again at the country’s steer-

‘ing wheel militarists and reac-
-tionaries who only recently
brought Japan to national ‘catas-
trophe. Ua

- Finally, those draft provisions
devoted to economic questions
merit serious attention. The prin-
cipal attention is devoted to safe-.
guarding economic privileges ob-
tained in Japan by certain states,
and first of all by the United
States, after the war and during
the occupation. j
The draft contains clauses pro-
viding for maintenance by for-.
eign monopolies of a commanding ~
position in Japanese economy. At
the same time the draft does not
speak of the necessity to secure
for Japan unhampered develop-

“ment of its peaceful industries,
its foreign trade, the development ~

of its navigation and commercial
shipbuilding. _

This cannot be considered acci-
dental. It is no secret as to who
is interested in getting an iron
grip on Japanese industry and
flooding Japanese markets with
foreign manufactured goods.

We look in vain in this draft
for any mention of the fact

Japan shall receive, on equal

terms with other states, access —

of the fact this is expressly pro-
vided. for by the Potsdam De-
claration. Such a provision is
‘absent because it is unprofitable

for the U.S, and Britain, which

are attempting to get hold of all

‘the world’s principal raw mater-

jal sources. BBN
To sum up, the following con-
a7 5 * 7

j RINGS

clusions regarding the U.S.-Brit-
ish draft peace treaty can be
drawn: i
@ It contains no guarantees
against the re-establishment of
Japanese imperialism, the trans-
formation of Japan into an ag-
gressive state. It contains no
guarantees insuring the security
of countries which suffered from

aggression by militarist Japan. It.

creates conditions for the. re-
establishment of Japanese mili-
tarism, creates a danger of new
Japanese aggression.

@ It does not provide for the
withdrawal of foreign occupation
forces. On the contrary, it, in-
sures the maintenance of foreign

military bases in Japan even after
the signing of a treaty. It pro-

vides for Japan’s participation in
an aggressive military alliance

with the United States.

@ It not only fails to provide

’ for obligations that Japan should

not join any coalitions directed
against any of the states which
participated in the war against
militarist Japan, but on the con-
trary is clearing the path for
Japan’s participation in aggres-
sive blocs in the Far East created

‘under the aegis of the United.

States. oy

@ The draft treaty does. not
contain any provisions on the de-
mocratization of Japan, on the
insurance of democratic rights to
the Japanese people, which
creates a direct threat of a re-
birth in Japan of the pre-war
fascist order. : cp

@ The draft treaty is flagrant-
ly violating the legitimate rights
of the Chinese people to the in-
tegral part of China — Taiwan
(Formosa), the Pescadores and
Paracel Islands and other terri-
tories severed from China as a
result of Japanese aggression. *

@ The draft treaty is a con-
tradiction to the obligations un-

‘dertaken by the United States —
and Britain under the Yalta ~
Agreement regarding the return ~

of Sakhalin and the transfer of
the Kurile Islands to the Soviet

_ Union.

@ The numerous economic
clauses are designed to insure for
foreign, in the first place Amer-
ican, monopolies the privilege

which they have obtained dur-

ing the period of occupation.
Japanese economy is being placed
in a slavery-like dependence on
these foreign monopolies. -

Rae a MSY reco de epliay @ The draft actually ignores

the legitimate claims of states

that have suffered from Japanese

occupation regarding the redemp-
tion of losses directly by the
labor of the Japanese population,

it imposes on Japan a slavery-

like form of reparations. —
@ The U.S.British draft is not
a ‘peace treaty, but a treaty for

_the preparation of an new war

in the Far East.

CIENTISTS could make. a
return flight through space
» to the moon. within about 20
years—if all the resources now
used to make the atom bomb
were given to this project.
| _ This was declared by the
| British Inter-Planetary Society
_ Tecently when it~ prophesied
_ that flights to the moon would
take place before the end of
_ this century — about as far
_ ahead in time as Bleriot’s
_ Gross-Channel- flight of 1909
Pig: behind us. Relay
_ But, said the scientists, the
_ flight could probably be made
_ 4n half the time if an concert-

_ Problem, using facilities on
‘the same grand scale as those

_ €d attack were made on the

| Space flight possible in 20 years
| Sotmwmisns coud make. © employe to make te Acbon frat Dy sob rotten cn

Plans for achieving this

“flight to the moon were dis- piloted craft; ©

cussed by the world’s leading
‘space flight scientists in Lon-
don earlier this month at the
Second International Congress
on Astronautics. ee
Establishment of a “space
station” in a stable close orbit
around the earth will be pos- —
sible within the next decade
or so, says the society. —
After this “great milestone,”
this is how it forsees develop-
- ment within the next century:
4 —Flights by piloted rockets
-“> several thousand miles in-
to; spaces. «| Pe
—Flights circumnavigating
the moon without landing,

tail-first, using rocket jets as

brakes, then taking off again
and landing on the earth us-
in| wings; — 7

Venus, the nearest to the
1 eanthic 4g aowes Cae ‘
_ About 50 foreign delegates
attended the congress from
Germany, France, Austria, the —
United States, Canada, Den-
} mark, Spain, Argentina, Swed-
en, Switzerland, Holland and

Italy. is

—Flight to the moon by
piloted spaceships landing

—Similar flights to other
planets — first Mars and

iy

THE

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ILLY MEISL,.one of the editors of the English magazine, World
*¥ Sports, sticks his neck way out in the current issue by predicting
how athletes from the Soviet Union will perform-in the 1952 Olympic
Games. Yours truly being tied up at the CCL convention this week,
I willingly turn over this eolumn to brave Willy, knowing that his
predictions will arouse considerable comment:

“Russia will probably be represented by about 300 athletes of
both sexes in the 15th Olympic Games in Helsinki next summer, and
before that in the Winter Olympic Games in Oslo in February. ;

“In 1914 Russia had about 30,000 athletes organized in 250 clubs.

_Twenty years later, after a terrible civil war and widespread famine

(you overlook the intervention, Willy—B.W.) there were exactly as
many clubs as-there had been individual athletes in 1914, and their
membership totalled well over 5,000,000. By now these figures have
been more than doubled. 3

The Russian government, setting high store upon the value of
sport and physical culture to a nation, seems to have set about
exploiting it to the full . . . By 1935 five specialized sports colleges
had been created—in Moscow, Leningrad, Tiflis, Kiev and Minsk.

' Today there are 14, some as far afield at Stalingrad, Alma Atain in

Kazakh, and Erivan in Armenia . . . :

“Russian sports clubs are organized mainly on a trade union
basis; membership is by trade, or in some cases the qualification is
by district of residence. The entrance fee is small and the member-

In the huge water sports Stadium at Sevastopol. In |
_ the foreground is Shakhgedanova, one of the best
“sports wumen in water sports in the Soviet Ukraine.

ship fee about 25 cents a month. Low fees are made possible partly
by large membership and partly because the. state takes such a great
interest in the furtherance of sport. :

_ “The terms ‘amateur’ and ‘professional’ do not exist in Russian
sport. The Russians give: big money rewards to outstanding sports-
men as a matter of course, just as they reward outstanding scientists,

artists or engineers.:

.In the Winter Olympics in Oslo next February the USSR ‘yepre- .

sentatives will probably win a few laurels. Some of their men

speed-skaters are in world class, but their girl speed-skaters (almost |

certainly the best in the world) cannot compete in Oslo as the only

women’s events in the Winter Games are figure-skating and Alpine —

skiing.

“The Summer Games in Helsinki could well provide a different
story. Current top performances in Soviet athletics are very good
all-round, but apart from a clear Supremacy in some women’s events
Russia has only one or two Olympic “prospects” proper, The hammer-

thrower, Kanaki (192 ft., 2% in.) is One; others are Zambrimbortz in

the hop, step and jump, and the Estonian, Lipp, in the decathlon

(7,845 points). » i

“With so many first-class athletes from whom to choose, Rissia
should be well represented in most 1952 Olympic finals. Her Sprinters,
Suchariev and Sanadze,with 10.4 and 10.5 seconds to their credit
for the 100 m., could form a fine relay team with Kaliaiev and

Golubiev, who both have clocked 10.6. There are good runners, |

too, over the 5,000 and 10,000 m. distances who have trained regu-

larly with Zatopek in the Crimean. training centre where most Soviet
athletes (including their socaer players) gather during the late wirter.

. “In the field events the USSR girls lead the in all three ‘throws’
with the discus star Nina Dumbadze (174 ft. 8% in.), Seucitn cout

N. V. Smirnitska (175 ft. 2% in.) and Andrejeva in the weight - 5 a

(49 ft. 3% in.)

“In swimming, the Soviet women are not up to world stand. 1
, ; ard,
and I doubt whether the men will produce a winner in Helsinki, ng :

spite of continuous progress, particularly in the butterfly stroke.
Russia’s wrestlers have always been famous. I do not think,

however, that they can outdo the Swedes in the Greco-Roman style, _

while in free-style wrestling they are little more than beginners.

Here the Turks should once more remain unrivalled. Still, the -

Russians should do well in wrestling and weight-lifting. :
“If Soviet boxers compete in Helsinki, their representatives ?

*

must have a better chance than those of any other nation. The
same may be the case with gymnastics, In the sport 20-year-old

’ Viktor Shukarin might well become an Olympic sensation.

. “T doubt whether the USSR will send any oarsmen to Picci |

but if so, they should not get far and the same applie
: 2 : : : ; Ss their
hockey and water-polo teams. In basketball they ene ct th BY ae

though their reserve strength is not quite up to American and Argen-_

tine standards.

“In soccer, of course, Russia must be among the first fay
Mungary ought to be the USSR’s most dangerous rival. pigta:

“Altogether, it looks as if the USSR could well achieve—in an

unofficial over-all points table—second place behind the U.S.A. in

the 1952 Olympics. That would be a great achievement by so young —

@ sports nation.”
So says. Willy Meisl. Well, we shall see what we shall see,

PACIFIC Rene — SEPTEMBER 21, 1951 — PAGE li

SPORTLIGHT |

By BERT WHYT