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KOREAN PARTISANS FOILED 1949 PLOT

Former aide confesses
how Rhee started war

PYONGYANG The statement went on to re-

A devastating exposure of the veal that, after a bitter defeat
U.S. puppet Syngman Rhee and when the North Korean troops
how he started the civil war in counter-attacked, Syngman Rhee
Korea. was made by Kim Hyo fled to Tokyo on June 27, taking
Suk, until last month minister of With him $100,000,000. The speech
the interior of the southern pup- which was given out as having
pet government, in a statement been broadcast by him from
issued on July 5 in Seoul. Seoul on the same day was in

This is Kim Hyo Suk’s state- fact a recorded one.
ment: Another of the puppet chiefs,

“Syngman Rhee succeeded in Chai Bying Duk, also hurried off
assuming the presidency because when the Korean People’s Army
he kept shouting for a northern was pressing near Seoul. He
expedition from the outset. I lew up the steel bridge over
myself participated in his plot the Han River, together with
to start such an ‘expedition’ ‘on thousands of his own troops.
July 15, 1949. I ordered Kim Suk Kim Hyo Suk expressed
Wun (then commandér of the thanks at the conclusion of his
first division of the ‘Army of statement for the magnanimity
National Defence’). to attack of the people’s authorities, He
northward and seize Pyongyang, called on all Korean who were
and Chai Byung Duk to assume still working against their father-
the post of commander-in-chief, land to change over and take a
The plot failed owing to the new path in life,

growing activity of the people’s
partisans in the south.

“Last spring, MacArthur call-
ed Syngman Rhee to Tokyo and
told him that once the ‘expedi-
tion’ began he must place every-
thing under MacArthur’s com-
mand, and that the top cadres of
the ‘Army of National Defence’
would undergo: training together
with high-ranking Japanese of-
ficers,

“Returning to Seoul, Syngman
Rhee declared that the further
attempt at a northern expedi-
tion’ would be closely followed
by large-scale assistance from
U.S. planes and naval vessels.
He said further that Japanese
volunteers would come to fight °
and the ‘expedition’ was sure to
succeed. With such self-import-
ant calculations, Syngman Rhee
launched the ‘expedition’ at
dawn on June 25.”

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Nation in arms

Indirect admission

that U.S. troops in Korea are in
an entire nation in arms was contained in William Stevenson’s des.

Work for end of war in Korea,
Labor MP's urging British gov't

LONDON

Several moves are: afoot within Britain’s labor movement to pressure the government
into separating itself from U.S. policy in Korea and the Far East and to work energetically
for peace, chief among them the action of 23 Labor MP's including Labor party executive

members Tom Driberg and J. Reeves, in offering a resolution urging the government to do
Save av a awoamsaniacriayanimigiiesimaniaten everything in its power to end the

I war in Korea.
Nehru gov't releases

Jailed union leader

BOMBAY

President S. A. Dange of the
All-India Trade Union Congress

S been released from prison
after two years imprisonment
Without trial. Dange, who is also
{n elected member of the Bombay
Province legislative assembly, was
Jailed by the Nehru government
With more than 20,000 other labor
4nd peasant union members un-
der g British police ordinance
Which the Indian government has
Still failed to repeal. He was set
free. after world-wide protests}
Sparked by the World Federation
vf Trade Unions and after a Bom-
bay high court had finally agreed
‘hag §rant a habeus corpus hearing.

my constituency being drawn into
The resolution urges British ac-| this war.”

tion to secure withdrawal of U.S. He demanded that American
forces from Formosa, admission of bomber squadrons be cleared off
the Chinese People’s SOvernment to British soil, “The United Nations,”
the UN Security Council and to he said, “has been reduced to
“end the cold war which is fraught something like a tragic farce by

with such dire perils to the survival the United States more than amy-
of civilization and of mankind.” one else”

Labor MP S. O. Davies who, in
a recent speech in parliament, de-
nounced American intervention in
Korea, has been overwhelmed with
letters of support. He-has received
over 700 letters already and more
are coming in every day by the doz-
ens. Davies was cheered when he
told a crowded meeting at Merthyr,
Wales: “I will do everything I can
to prevent any man or woman from

Meanwhile, the 650,000-strong
London Trades Council voted 588
to 136 to endorse a letter from its
executive to the national Trades
Union Congress pressing for a full
meeting of the Security Council, in-
cluding the USSR and the Chinese
People’s government, “so that this
threat to world peace may be avert-
ed.”

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K ae age
Srean military achievement
of the Korean People’’ Democratic Republic is
Di An indication of the military accomplishments Bhat spliced boapratieg scene
regited by this picture of a U.S. bomber plac eign Pes “s sino “type he
the, Part of the country. Through country rean forces maintain :

“ armored columns, despite constant air attack.

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against the Malayan patriots.

Prime Minister Robert Menzies’
announcement that his government
had decided, in agreement with the
British government, to send a
Squadron of heavy bombers to Ma-
laya followed on a report the goy-
ernment was planning to send three
infantry divisions comprising 17,000
men in addition to severa] squad-
rons of Dakota bombers.

Like the British government, the
Australians are making use of col-
ored troops and are including
Papuans from New Guinea in their
forces.

Official Australian interest in
Malaya can he traced, party at
least, to the personal financial in-
terests of certain leading Austral-
ians. Not only are Australian in-
vestments in Malaya amd Siam
valued at 25 million pounds (Aus.
tralian currency), but many mem-
bers of the government, including
Menzies, have recently acquired
shares remarkably cheaply in
British companies in Malaya.

Menzies owns shares in the Guitry
Company. Foreign Minister Spend-
er, a director of the Australian sub-
Sidiary of the American Goodyear
Tire Company, holds shares in the
U.S. firm as well as in the British
rubber company, Harrison and
Crossfield. Defence Minister Mc-
Bride and War Minister Francis
hold shares in the Straits Trading
Company, Singapore, owners of the
largest lead smelting plant in Ma-
laya.

The Australian government holds
the former Japanese concessions in
Malaya, consisting mainly or iron
and manganese mines,

Australia’s increasing interven-
tion in the Malayan war points up
the role it is assuming as a major
Pacific war base. A procession of
illustrious military figures have
visited the coumtry recently. There
have been military conferences, set-
ting up of the Defence Supply Plan-
ning Branch, projected expenditure
of 50 million Australian pounds by
1952 on the Woomera rocket range,
stepping up of British and Amer-
ican investments in Australian in-
dustry, and stockpiling of strategic
raw materials.

Australian govt
heads hold shares

in Malayan firms

SYDNEY

Australian intervention in the Malayan war, which origin-
limited to air transport. work, is
being stepped up as the government plans more drastic action

Wall Street
banks on long

war in Korea

NEW YORK

Wall Street Speculators, elated
that American aggression in Korea
had created a “temporary halt in
the recent downward trend of com-
modity prices,” are counting on
continuation of the United States
military adventure against the
Korean People to postpone the im-
pending collapse of prices, although
the slump has continued this week.

Leading financia] journals admit
that the surplus of farm produce in
the U.S. this’ year wil] be the great-
est in history.

Congress has just added another
200 million dollars to its appropria-
tion of $4,750 million which the gov-
ernment (through the Commodity
Credit Corporation) may borrow to
buy up unwanted grain, butter,
eggs and potatoes.

Stock market “advisers” are con-
fident that the fighting in Korea
will last a long time but they admit
it will only postpone and not pre-
vent the crisis in commodity mar-
kets.

In addition to the 76 million
pounds of inedible dried eggs which
Washington still has on hand after
forcing the Marshall Plan satellites
to purchase unwanted tons of this
deteriorated stock, and to millions
of tons of potatoes (dyed to pre-
vent human consumption) which
are now used as hog feed or lying
rotting in the fields, Ernest Have-
mann discloses in Life magazine
and Reader’s Digest that the U.S,
government has enough:

@ Wheat to bake 12 loaves of

bread for every man, woman and

child in the world;

6 Corn to make all the corn-

starch, corn Sugar, corn syrup

and corn Oil that the U.S. will
use in the next five years;

e Butter to bake a birthday cake

for every child under 15 in the

U.S. for the next 10 years;

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