3m, ae Mombassa, the port of Kenya and the greatest in the whole of East Africa, was paralysed last week by a strike of African workers, Troops moved into the docks after 10,000 had come out. : The strike began in the morning when 1,700 workers on Monthly contracts and 4,000 casual’ dock workers did not report for work, Then it spread to oil companies, a brewery, a transport firm, an aluminum company and part of the East African Lighting and Power Company’s operations. ; In present conditions of the war in Kenya, the strike, to protest against increased living costs, is a most heroic action. : One of the chief purposes of the British authorities in de- claring the emergency two years ago was to smash the slowly Srowing trade unions in Kenya. Last April a further 39 African trade union officials were srrested there and only 17 of them have so far been released. The others are hald, without trial or charges, either in prison of ‘concentration camp. ‘cs; _ Kenya port paralysed NAIROBI Of d of Japan returned from a trip to ashington to find he no longer eld his country’s top office. Now King Norodom Sihanouk otf ambodia joins the list of those ae had destroyed themselves hrough trying to Serve the al- mighty dollar. He blamed “cer- fall Political parties” for his down- Cambodia is, by area, the small- ®st of the three countries of Indo- China ig notodom, who was appointed NG, in 1941 by his grandfather ene the head of his father, abol- os ed his parliament in 1952 be- fo ne Some of its members dared criticise his servile policies to © United States and France. ee Geneva last year his repre- ntatives were forced to agree at this year they would hold a “e election for a new parliament, moist to meet for three years. my King Norodom boasted to ac that he had arranged to elect c* all candidates in the Ctions, fixed for April. tin, ah announced a new elec- vot aw whereby no one could 1, — Unless he had. been: resident Sne place for three years. 's meant that all the mem- ine of the Resistance movement as ambodia who had been fight- 39 for their country’s inde- €nce from 1948 until the he neva conference brought an Mistice Would be barred from Sting, fr Sie the ‘Same time King Norodom € an agreement whereby the Dulles’ kiss is fatal for sax-playing king ' By ARTHUR CLEGG : The rumba-writing, saxophone-playing King of Cambodia abdicat- ed last week, two days after he had received John Foster Dulles, LS. Secretary of State, and promised him control of his army. A visit to or from Dulles is rapidly becoming known as a kiss eath in Asia, for only three months ago Prime Minister Yoshida “KING NORODOM number of U.S. instructors in his 30,000 army should be increased from two to 200 and the army rais- ed to over 50,000. Just for show Norodom staged a “vote of confidence” in himself throughout his kingdom last month and claimed a most successful re- sult. But now he is out of a job and his father Prince Suraramit takes Rearmament against and reunification. and NATO; and the Saar agree- ment) all received third reading. The 195 Social Democratic depu- ties voted solidly in opposition. On the Saar agreement the goy- ernment majority sank to 61 (263 voting for the agreement, 202 against and nine abstaining). One cabinet minister voted against and two abstained. Six MPs from Adenauer govern- ment parties voted with the Social Democrats against the Brussels and NATO treaties. The agreements now go to the Bundesrat (Upper House) for ap- proval before being submitted for final signature to West German President Theodore Heuss. An eleventh-hour warning to the West German parliament not to ratify the Paris agreements was made earlier by Erich Ollenhauer, chairman of the Social Democratic party. Addressing the government benches, Ollenhauer, obviously greatly moved, declared: “I ask you to think it over once again before you take this step. “Ratification will not solve a single problem facing us, neith- er that of reunification, nor se- curity, nor the Saar. But it will increase the danger to European and world peace and to the unity of our people. : “We do not want a situation where armed Germans are facing each other,’ he declared. He said the fight against Ger- man rearmament would continue. In East Germany, Premier Otto Grotewohl proposed that a refer- endum be held in both East and West Germany based on the Frank- furt Manifesto, which calls for fication of the country and op- poses rearmament. Grotewohl told the East German parliament: “Let us ask the people in both parts of Germany: ‘Are you in favor of Germany’s peaceful re- crowded over, Will it mean any benefit for the five million Cambodians? King Suraramit can hardly be worse than his son. ; | Well, | unification through all-German free elections, in 1955 and in favor of the manifesto, or do. you support the Paris war, agree- ments?” By PHYLLIS ROSNER German people’s will BONN The Adenauer-dominated majority of the West German Lower House approved the Paris agreements last week, thus flouting the desire of the German people for peace The four treaties (over the ending of the occupation in West Gérmany: the main- tenance of foreign troops there; the réarmingof West Germany under the Brussels Treaty four-power negotiations on reuni-|~° Five U.S. Communists released, rearrested NEW YORK Five U.S. Communist leaders, among them Eugene Dennis, general secretary of the U.S. Communist party, were released from Atlanta Penitentiary last week and immediately re-arrested under a mem- bership clause of the Smith Act for the same “crime” that brought them five-year jail sentences in 1951. Opposition wins seats in Japan TOKYO Conservative Premier Ichiro Hatoyama, was returned to power last week in elections to the Ja- panese Diet. His party obtained 185 seats — 64 more than at the last election — but failed to get an absolute majority. Hatoyama’s party was formed by dissidents from the once ruling Liberal party, also conservatives, which has secured only 112 seats — 72 fewer than in the last Diet. Left Socialists won 89 seats, a gain of 17, and the Right Social- ists 67, a loss of one. Together they now hold more than one-third of the 467 seats, enabling them to block any re- armament moves ‘by the new gov- ernment. Australian dockers defeat Menzies law _ SYDNEY Australian longshoremen have resoundingly defeated a govern- ment move to abolish union reg- ulations of waterfront hiring. After passing a law last Novem- ber to give shipowners exclusive control over hiring of new dock labor, the Menzies government has now concluded an agreement un- der which the Waterside Workers Federation retains its exclusive right to nominate new dock work- ers... Scientist's appeal to colleagues from Moscow » * Pontecorvo calls for ban on atomic weapons i MOSCOW : ie 1 appeal to atomic scientists A Apidae France, Italy, Canada ‘ the U.S. to protest. against the m of atomic energy for military eee Was issued last week by Sag Bruno Pontecorvo. Ntecoryo h jousl W vo, who previously ae at the British atomic cen- 1959. #arwell, disappeared in he yautile on holiday, just before ment IS due to take up an appoint- is at Liverpool University. article appeal was made in an Prayg, ~ the Soviet newspapers Closeg ¢274 Izvestia, which dis- ha b Or the first time that he Union “" Working in the Soviet been A then, after having authorities = asylum by the Soviet ; leagues FV asks his former col- Which pot the five countries in tite whol Worked, and scientists of Voi ae € world, “to raise their atomic Protest against the use of energy for military pur- ses and t \ i © step forward resolute- | ly for the prohibition of atomic weapons.” Pontecorvo said he was work- ing with the Institute of Physical Problems of the Soviet Academy of Science. He was “carrying On, together with other scientists, scientific re- search work in the sphere of using atomic energy for peaceful pur- poses.” “I have become convinced also of the fact that the main attention of scientific thought in the Soviet Union is directed to using this greatest discovery for the wellbe- ing of humanity, in the interests of peace, progress and bettering the material wellbeing of the peo- ple. “The conditions under which I work are splendid. The technical equipment is most excellent and the research work is being carried on on a large scale and at a high level. “All this has permitted me, to- gether with a group of scientists, to carry on a number of research- es, the results of which we are preparing for publication.” Pontecorvo said that since be- coming an anti-fascist in 1936, “I learned from undeniable facts of the leading role’ of the Soviet Union in the struggle against war. “Tn connection with this, in 1950 I emigrated from Britain, where I worked at a laboratory in Harwell and asked for asylum in the Soviet Union. - ; ; “The right of asylum was grant- ed to me and my family, and since that time we have been surround- ed with concern and attention, for which I consider it my duty to thank the Soviet people and their government.” . The article was signed. “Bruno Pontecorvo, ‘professor, Stalin Prize Laureate.” This was the first disclosure that Pontecorvo had been awarded a Stalin Prize, an award given by the Soviet government for out- standing work in the field of sci- ence. Seer (The U.S. government recently invoked the hitherto not used membership clause of the Smith Act against Claude Lightfoot, Com- munist leader in Illinois, and ob- tained a conviction in what was ap- parently a move to prepare new actions against national leaders released last week). The five ledders freed from jail, re-arrested and released on $5,000 bail each were: Eugene Dennis; John Gates, editor of the New York Daily Worker; Carl Winter, John Williamson and Jacob Stach- el. The last two face deportation proceedings. Irving Potash, a leader of the Fur and Leather Workers Union ‘and a member of the US. Com- munist party’s national commit- tee, who was sentenced at the same time as the other national leaders, was released earlier and left for Poland last weekend after he had requested and received permission to leave the country voluntarily. Another Communist leader, former New York councilman Benjamin Davis also completed his jail term last week but must serve an additional 60 days for contempt because he refused to be an in- former when he appeared as a wit- ness in another Smith Act case. Davis has filed suit charging , that his continued imprisonment is an act of anti-Negro discrim- ination and pointed to the fact that others were allowed to serve contempt sentences con- currently with their sentences under the Smith Act. Of the 11 Communist leaders who were the first to be tried and sentenced under the Smith Act, Robert Thompson and Gus Hall remain in jail serving seven and eight-year terms, having been given additional sentences for con- tempt as political refugees. All the Communist party lead- ers face double jeopardy as a re- sult of their indictment under the membership clause of the thought- control Smith Act. Telegrams and greetings were reported to be pouring into Com- munist party offices congratulat- ing the Communist leaders on their release and pledged to fight against the new persecution, Among the messages was one from Tim Buck, LPP national leader, declaring: é “We pledge to do all that we can to prevent the witchhunters from taking any further meas- ures against the five ... and to increase our efforts to win freedom for all those who are in Prison for fighting for peace and democracy.” Buck, who wrote “in the name of the LPP membership and sup- — Porters,” also said: “We know that a victory for the forces of war and fascism in the U.S. is an- other blow at Canadian independ- ence and for the increased domin- ation of our country by Wall BRUNO PONTECORVO Street.” PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MARCH 11, 1955 — PAGE 3