CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE should occupy China’s seat in the United Nations. The United States has opposed and continues to oppose the seating of the Chi- nese Communist representatives in the United Nations.” The difference stated in that quotation is not academic and it is every bit as important to the United Kingdom as it is to Peo- ple’s China. If General MacArthur had succeeded in extending Unit- ed States aggression to open war against China, the interest of British imperialism in China, per- haps throughout Asia, would have been the first major casualty. Att- lee flew to Washington to explain that complicaticn to President Truman, to persuade him to mod- ify the Truman-MacArthur plan so as to enable Britain to con- tinue diplomatic and commercial intercourse with People’s China. Newspaper reporters, radio commentators and members of governments may or may not have believed that Attlee’s pur- pose was to seek a settlement by negotiation, cerainly the var- ious official and semi-official statements suggested that. The outcome of the discussions, how- ever, was .otherwise. In sharp and disillusioning con- trast to the soothing statements -made before Attlee arrived in Washingon, the joint statement reveals that his discussions with President Truman were not pri- marily in search of a negotiated settlement with China on the bas- is of “live and let live” but upon the best mean's by which the im- perialist powers can - prosecute their drive to defeat and destroy People’s democracy throughout Asia. That the discussions between the two men were of the nature of a war conference is evident from their joint statement. It emphasizes the difference between their two attitudes towards Peo- ple’s China but that difference which is the decisive question, is set aside and the rest of the doc- ument announces a_e series of agreements by which Attlee com- mits Britain to support United States aims and policies. On the question of Korea they join in declaring “the forces of our two, countries will continue to discharge their responsibilities.” They declare that they “are ready to seek an end to the hostilities by negotiation” but their next sentence ‘shows that they are only paying lip service to the idea of a peaceful settlement. It places all the onus on People’s China, which the U.S. refuses to recognize or to treat with as a great power. They follow that with a declaration in which the meaning of the doubletalk is definitely that, if People’s China refuses to adopt an attitude sat- isfactory to them it will be too ‘bad for China. Newspaper re- porters describe the whole ap- proach as the tactic of “limited negotiations.” On the question of Taiwan (For- mosa) which the British govern- ment is supposed to believe should be restored to China, Att- lee pledged to support the UN position. Concerning essential _raw materials of which there has be a threat of scarcity in Britain recently because of United State's stockpiling for war, Attlee ac- cepted the rebukes to Bnitish poli- * ey which is implied in the docu- ment’s sharp emphasis upon the importance of preventing: “Ma- from going to portance” any involved doubletalk utilized ‘is the terials“and items of stategic im-_ countries not approved of by the United States. Concerning the use of the atomic bomb, of which it was earlier reported that Att- lee would insist upon consulta- tion before its use, the President of the United States agreed, mag- namimously “to keep the Prime Minister at all times informed of developments which might bring about a change in the sit- uation.” : Such were the results of the discussions which Attlee told Can- adian néwspapermen “had been thoroughly harmonious.” No won- der Winston Churchill - declared himself completely in accord with Attlee’s trip and its purpose. Why did Clement Attlee com- mit Britain to support aims and policies which, in addition to being directed against the demo- eratic national rights of the peo- ple or Asia, are contrary to the interests of Britain? The reason for that is the source of the pre- sent world crisis and the persist- ing danger of a third world war. The truth is, as pointed out above, Attlee didn’t fly to Wash- ington to end the world crisis, he went to clarify the under- standing between himself and President Truman. As a radio commentator hinted in a broad- cast from Washington on Sun- day, December 10, Attlee’s pur- pose was to work out with the President detailed agreement up- on how U.S. imperialism can pur- sue its objective in Asia without breaking the imperialist coali- tions= "= The aims of the imperialist co- alition were only mirrored in the Truman-Attlee statement and the in that document distorts the re- flection. But a much franker statement of the aims of the im- perialists was given by Lester B. Pearson on December 4 to the premiers and cabinet members assémbled in Ottawa at the Fed- eral-Provineial Conference. tt- lee himself has emphasized the very close- agreement between the attitudes of his government and the attitude of the St. Laur- - ent government towards their aims and problems in Asia and Pearson’s. speech to the Federal- Provincial Conference was a care- _ fully prepared and only thinly veiled exposition of the St. Laur- ent government’s position. Pearson’s address showed clear- ly that to the St. Laurent gov- ernment the crisis touched off by President Truman’s cynical threat was only a phase of im- perialist war preparations. Hiis address was delivered before the Attlee‘Truman ‘discussions ‘took place but it intimated quite clear- ly that those discussions, and the Truman-Attlee statement would also be another stage of the im- perialist preparations. The cynical central thesis with which Pearson keynoted his ad- dress was in his opening sentence as follows: ‘of the present time, transcending immeasurably all other questions, is how great is the risk of a major war.” Not the solemn obligation emphasized in the UN Charter, not the need for agree- ment upon peaceful co-existence, but “how great is the risk.” That imperialist approach to the crisis in Asia. In .carefully formulated diplo- matic double-talk Pearson ex- plained to his audience of pre- miers and cabinet members and their advisers that war against People’s China would bring into operation the Soviet-Chinese Mutual Assistance Treaty: and “The vital question ~ British-U.S. differences © obstacle to scheme for open war on China that the combined strength of the Soviet Union and People’s China is extremely: formidable. Because of the present relation- ship of forces Pearson indicated a very strong preference. for the ‘line of No Declared War Against ‘have now made People’s China at the Present Time. Pearson advocated a cun- ning pclicy which he estimated “will attract and hold the support of the wavering powers, especi- ally in Asia.” While the prelim- inary part of plan is being put into operation in Asia, it will be necessary, he opined, that arma- ments be given priority over other objectives (presumably of domestic poilcy). Pearson’s attitude towards the rights and interests of People’s China in the situation created by the imperialist invasion of Korea was one of outright white supremacy in Asia. He admitted that: “The Chinese Communists it abundantly clear that they regard the United Nations actions in Korea as something that menaces their in- terests so greatly that they are willing to risk a general war in challenging it.” But, even after admitting that basic fact, he did not suggest that the imperialist armies, air power and naval forces be with- drawn, or even that the inter- vention initiated by President Truman without even consulting the other imperialist powers should be reconsidered. Sneering at the leaders of the governmer™ of People’s China, “Many of them. completely ignorant of the west- ern world,” Pearson proposed to his audience that consideration should be given to “whatever legitimate interests the Chinese may have in the future of Korea and the adjacent area,” Consider how the average Am- erican would feel if an Asian power invaded the peninsula of Southern California, or if the So- viet Unicon landed an army in the State of Florida, and an- nounced its readiness to consider ‘whatever legitimate interest” the ‘American people might have in the matter. The striking coincidence be- tween the cynical but frank ex- position given by Pearson to the conference of Canadian provin- cial and federal cabinet ministers on December 4 and the carefully disguised statement of agree- ments between the heads of the British and U.S. governments on December 8 was not accidental. It derives from the fact that the Attlee government and the St. Laurent government both subord- imate the interests of their own country to the aims ‘of United States imperialism. The fundamental lesson of the eoincidence, or of the outcome of Attlee’s visit to Washington, is that the only assurance of se- cure peace is in the strength and activity of the anti-war forces. If by the grace of the pressure of democratic public. opinion and the acute contradictions between the immediate aims of U.S. im- perialism and British imperial- ism a declared world war is averted now, the cause of the crisis and the danger of war will remain. There is urgent need to strengthen the struggle to bring’. about the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Korea, to seat People's China in the Se- curity Council, for a meeting of the Five Great Powers, to outlaw the atomic bomb. A most important and infiuential action that could be taken in that direction is recognition of ithe Chinese People’s govern- ‘ment by Canada. Every sup- porter of world peace should press for that action now. * rN) MS el Pad ny Th F i y asia INE i FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1950 U.S. given free rein to spy on Canadians WASHINGTON A secret agreement has been signed between the U.S. and Ca- nada under which the FBI will exert overall control over acti- vities of the Canadian anti-espio- nage service, it is learned from authoritative sources in Wash- ington. In connection with this agree- ment, the FBI has set up a spe- cial department to co-ordinate activities of U.S. espionage ser- & vices in Canada. Hugh Clegg, close associate of FBI chief Ed- gar J. Hoover, has. been appoint- ed head of the department. 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