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Stockholm Conference

Plan global peace action

STOCKHOLM — Representa:

tives of 37 European trade union.

Organizations joined 400 peace
€legates from more than 70
Countries to condemn the U.S.
2ombings of North Vietnam as a
Provocation clearly aimed at
Creating new tensions” and pre-
Paring new aggression.

pane trade unionists, who
Ormed a special sub-commis-
Sion of the World Conference of
Peace Movements (Stockholm,
Sweden, Nov. 28-30) on Viet-
Nam, Laos and Cambodia, sub-

-Mitted a plan of action to op-

Pose the U.S. aggression and to

| Tally workers to the defense of

€ Indochinese peoples.
l¢ subcommittee report em-
Phasized that the trade unions
Of the world can and must play
&@ leading role in the struggle

| for ending the war and for the

‘Omplete and unconditional
Withdrawal of U.S. troops from
4Ndochina.

The Stockholm Conference,
held in a period of mounting

- World-wide opposition to the ag-

fession against Indochina

adopted the following appeal to |

€ peoples of the world:
The war of aggression against
People of Vietnam has now
extended to a point of extreme
Stavity because of the renewed
ings of North Vietnam.
The aggression against the peo-
Ples of South Vietnam, Laos
fieg, cambodia has been intensi-
The Nixon administration is
itted to a military victory
ne the peoples of Indochina.
ts so-called “peace proposals”

Chiee BYR, RUDENKO
hief Soviet Prosecutor at the
Nuremberg trial) :

Twenty five years have elap- -

Sed since the memorable day
of €n, in the old German town
Nuremberg, ‘a historical trial
“Ban of the main nazi war cri-
Minals, who had involved the
World in the blood bath of the
€cond World War.
4 Nder the Potsdam Resolu-
‘Ons of Aug. 8, 1945, the powers
the anti-Hitlerite coalition
*oncluded a treaty on the estab-
‘Shment. of an International
llitary Tribunal to try the
Main nazi war criminals, and
napPted the Rules of the Tribu-

: For the first time in history
0 international court — a trial
Nations — confronted the

\ leaders of the criminal Third

Reich, Hitler’s accomplices, the
Zanizers and tools of his

Sloodthirsty plans of ‘“conquer-

‘0g the world.” The rulers of the
itd Reich had elevated to the
tus of state policy the grav-

‘ Crimes against humanity,

pdiling dozens of millions of

Uman lives lost, immeasurable
ferings and grief of hundreds

d Thillions of people, immense,

“structions, tremendous mate-

losses.

th e Nuremberg trial showed

the Vicious, criminal. nature of

the totalitarian nazi regime, and
© nazi crimes with nothing to
atch them as to atrocities and

Scope

led” 1946 and 1947, the princip-
; 8 of the sentence passed by the
ternational Military Tribunal

‘hd its Rules acquired the recog-

are intended only to deceive the
people and to prolong the war.

We demand from the U.S.
government:

The immediate end of the
U.S. war of aggression against
the peoples of Vietnam, Laos
and Cambodia and respect of
their right to self-determination.

The complete and uncondi-
tional withdrawal from South
Vietnam of U.S. and satellite
troops before June 30, 1971, and
immediate complete and uncon-
ditional withdrawal of U.S. and
satellite troops from Laos and
Cambodia.-. —.- Se

The cessation of
and other war crimes against
the three peoples.

Stop U.S. support for the Thieu-
Ky-Kheim and the Lon Nol-
Sirik Matak administration.

This is the road to peace in
Indochina.

We demand that the U.S.
government respond seriously
to the fair and reasonable pro-
posals of the peoples of Viet-
nam, Laos and Cambodia.

We appeal to all the peoples

of the world to intensify their

actions in solidarity with the
just cause of the peoples of
Indochina.

The conference proposed the
following:

e Actions on Dec. 20, the 10th
anniversary of the founding of
the National Liberation Front of
South Vietnam.

e Actions on March 6, 1971,
on the first anniversary of the
statement by the Central Com-
mittee of the Patriotic Front of

nition of international law, in

the resolutions of the UN Gene-

ral Assembly.
* * *

However, from the very be-
ginning the work of the Inter-
national Military Tribunal was
subject’ to the attacks of reac-
tionary bourgeois politicians
and lawyers, who alleged that
the international trial of the
chief sponsors of the aggressive
wars was a “trial of the van-
quished by the victors”, that it
did not have the legal right to
mete out justice to those, who
were at the head of the nazi
state because they were respon-
sible only to “God and history.”

These groundless attacks were
resolutely rejected, and on be-
half of the four Allied powers
the chief prosecutors, in their
opening speeches, properly re-
buffed these sallies.

: * * *

The indictment signed by the
chief prosecutors from the
USSR, Great Britain, the United
States and the French Republic
condemned Goering, Hess, Rib-
bentrop, Keitel, Rosenberg,
Frank and others, almost the en-
tire ruling clique of nazi Ger-
many (it is generally known that
Hitler, Goebbels, and Himmler
Had committed suicide), and put
them on trial by the Interna-
tional Military Tribunal for
crimes against peace, military
crimes, crimes against humanity
and for drawing up a general
plan or conspiracy to perpetrate
these crimes.

Along with the individual re-
sponsibility of the defendants,

‘the Intérnational Military ‘Tri

bombings

Laos on a political settlement
of the Laotian problem.

e A day of solidarity, on
April 3 or 4, 1971, with the
struggle of the American people
against the U.S. imperialist ag-
gression in Indochina, and in
observance of the anniversary
of the assassination of the peace
and civil rights champion, Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.

e A day of solidarity on April
30, 1971, with the people of
Cambodia on the anniversary of
the U.S. imperialist invasion of
that country. :

The Conference issued a call
for: material and medical aid to
the Vietnamese to be increased
to the maximum, stressing that
the need for health services for
the peoples of Indochina was
urgent.

The Stockholm Conference

emphasized its call for a world-

wide campaign for American
withdrawal, using al’ forms and
methods suitable to national

conditions, but all fcllowing the -
main theme for the withdrawal® :

of American forces from Viet-

‘nam.

Following adjournment, dele-
gates joined members of the
World Council of Peace to con-
sider the invasion of Guinea by
mercenary troops. The Stock-
holm Conference supported a
statement by African states de-
nouncing the invasion and ac-
cusing Portugual of responsibil-
ity. It considers the attempt to
invade Guinea as one part of
an imperialist offensive against
all African countries.

bunal also considered the matter

of declaring as criminal the fol-

lowing institutions and organiz-
ations of the nazi Reich: the
governmment cabinet, the lead-
ing personnel of the nazi party,
of the security detachments (SS)
including the SD security ser-
vice, the Gestapo, the SA storm
detachments, the general head-
quarters and the supreme com-
mand of the German Armed
Forces.
* * *

Nov. :20, 1945, saw the start
of the work of the International
Military Tribunal which includ-
ed one tribunal member and one
deputy from each allied power.

In his opening address to the
tribunal, the main French ‘prose-
cutor said: “Your judgement
must be written into internation-
al law history as a decisive
document in preparing a gen-
uinely international cooperation,
excluding recourse to war for all
times and putting power in the

_service of the justice of all the

nations. This judgement will be
one of the cornerstones of peace-
time order for which the nations
are striving after the suffering
they have sustained.”

The Soviet prosecutor point-

ed out in his speech: “Today, .

when nazi Germany is crushed

and suppressed as a result of the

heroic struggle of the Red Army
and the allied forces, we have
no right to forget the sustained

’ losses, have no right to allow the

culprits and organizers of mion-
strous crimes go unpunished.
“In the name of sacred mem-
ory of millions of innocent vic-
tims of ‘nazi terror,’in the name

South Vietnamese thank

Canadians for support

The. Provisional. Revolution-
ary Government of South
Vietnam sent a letter to the
Communist Party of Canada ex-
pressing pleasure at the party’s
manifestation of “solidarity
with the people of South Viet-
nam and Indochina as a whole
in their struggle against U.S.

aggression for national salva-.

tion.”

“On behalf of the people and
the Provisional Revolutionary
Government of the Republic of
South Vietnam, we sincerely
thank the Communist Party and
the people of Canada for their
support to our just cause,” the
letter reads.

“We highly appreciate the
Canadian people’s movement
against the U.S. war of aggres-
sion in Vietnam and Indochina,
to which your Party has made

of the strengthening of peace
all over the world, in the name
of security of nations in the fu-
ture, we call the accused to full
and just account. They should
answer to the whole of man-
kind, to the will and conscious-
ness of freedom-loving peoples.

“May justice be done!”

The main nazi war criminals
bore deserved punishment.

% * *

The historic importance of the
Nuremberg trial will last long.
The trial, however, is not only
part of history, it is of great im-
portance for the present time
too. It is and will be a warning
to all dark forces of imperialist
reaction and aggression which
are trying to forget the lessons
of the past and are again step-
ping up military hysteria, threat-
ening peace and security of na-
tions.

* * *

On Nov. 26, 1968 the UN Gen-
eral Assembly adopted an Inter-
national Convention Concerning
the Non-Application of Statutory
Limitations to War Crimes and
Crimes Against Humanity. The
Convention entered into force
on Nov. 11, 1970. It confirms
the fact that wherever nazi war
criminals hide themselves, they
cannot and must not evade just
punishment of nations.

This Convention concerns not
only the crimes of the past, the
crimes of the nazi regime. Just

‘ as the Nuremberg trial, the UN

Convention is a warning about
stern responsibility which any
imperialist aggressor will have

to bear. oy Ei
(Pravda)

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1970—

a great contribution. We firmly
believe that, as. the U.S. imper-
ialists stubbornly intensify and
expand the war
Indochina to carry out neéo-
colonialism here, the Commun-
ist Party and the people of
/Canada will do their best to

increase moral and material sup- ~

port for our people’s struggle.

“Having waged a war of ag-
gression and committed mon-
strous crimes in South Vietnam,
Cambodia and Laos, the U.S.
imperialists must naturally
withdraw from South Vietnam
all U.S. troops and troops of the
other foreign countries of the
U.S. camp without posing any
condition whatsoever, respect
the South Vietnamese people’s
right to self-determination, re-
nounce the’ puppet administra-
tion they have rigged up in Sai-
gon and let our people settle
themselves their internal affairs
without foreign interference.

“For their part, the South
Vietnamese people, enjoying
sympathy and support from
peace-loving and justice-minded
people the world over, are de-
termined to close their ranks
with the brother people of Cam-
bodia. and Laos, overcome all
difficulties and hardships, and
carry their fight against U.S.
aggression through to complete
victory.”

Quick response
to peace appeal

There has been a quick and
wide response around the world
to the increased aggression of
U.S. imperialism in Indochina.

e The Organization of Solidar-
ity of African, Asian and Latin
American peoples cabled greet-

ings to the Democratic Republic .

of Vietnam.

e 125 deputies of the Indian
Parliament have demanded that
the U.S. government immedia-
tely end the war.-

e The Congress of the French
Peace Movement has’ mapped a
program of solidarity,

e The trade union centre of
Sydney, Australia, sent frater-
nal greetings to the workers of
Indochina.

e The government of the Ger-
man Democratic Republic, the
Democratic Union of Women of
the GDR, the International Or-

- ganization of Journalists, the

International Union of Students,
The Australian Women’s Union
have all denounced the bomb-
ings of North Vietnam.

@ The Dutch Committee for

Assistance to Vietnam plans to

-hold demonstrations...’

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