West warned by USSR

on German army plan

“Faced with the rebirth of German militarism, the peace-loving States of

take steps to guarantee their security.” F ‘ :
This warning given last week by Pravda, Soviet Communist party newspaper, is the
latest in a series of appeals to the Western Powers to stop their plans ta rearm Western

Germany.

North Korea aided by
Peoples’ Democracies

1
BUDAPESTNorth Korea well up to the Euro-

Substantial aid from the Soviet
Union, People’s China and the Peo-
ples’ Democracies is helping the
rehabilitation of war -damaged
North Korea. This is the report
made by two Hungarian architects,
Istvan Vellay and Sandor Mandel,
who have just returned from a
visit to the Korean Democratic Re-
public.

They stated that Pyongyang, the
capital, is being completely re-
planned with avenues 150 feet
wide. In 20 years it is expected
to have a population of 800,000.

Soviet assistance to North Korea
consists of supplying equipment
for construction or restoration of
metallurgical, cement, chemical,
engineering and power plants. Con-
sumer goods and transport equip-
ment are also coming from the
USSR. Soviet engineers are:help-
ing in the work.

China is sending foodstuffs, con-
sumer goods, and textiles, and
Chinese engineers are working on

the restoration of roads, bridges

and railways.

Czechoslovak experts ‘are help-

ing to plan power stations, electri-
cal engineering factories and an
_automobile plant.

Poland is helping in the recon-
struction of a locomotive plant ‘and
in the mining industry.

Hungary has exported a> com-
plete machine-tool plant, a chemi-
cal plant and a precision instru-

~ ment plant to North Korea.

After visiting engineering, tex-
tile, chemical and _ brick ‘plants,
power stations and oil refineries,
Vellay and Mandel stated that they
had found industrial standards in

| pean leyel.

There was, however, a serious
lack of skilled personnel.

Several hundred young Koreans
are studying in Hungarian secon-
dary schools and universities, and
many hundreds more are studying

People’s Democracies.

Buganda wants
Kabaka’s return -

KAMPALA

Governor St. Andrew C@hen of
Uganda was howled down in the
Buganda parliament (Lukiko) last
week.

The uproar was provoked by
Cohén’s_ presentation
British proposals which allow the
deposted Kabaka, King Mutesa II,
to return only on conditions and
after delay, and which give Bu-
ganda less independence than
ever.

The Lukiko passed a resolution
declaring that it would have no

tesa II. It demanded that he be

sible.

gress, meeting in Kampala. capital
of both Uganda and Buganda, Ge-
manded the Kabaka’s immediate
and unconditional restoration.

wa declared that the Buganda par-
liament would never accept the
present British Colonial Office pro-
posals.

in the USSR and others of the

of tricky,

other Kabaka ‘than the exiled Mu-

allowed to return as soon as pos-)

And the Uganda National Con-

Ex-Prime Minister Lawalya Kag-

MOSCOW
Europe will

“The Soviet Union,” -said Pravda,
“which paid for the defeat of Ger-
man militarism in the last world
war with the lives of millions of
its people, will not reconcile itself
to the organization of an aggres-
sive bloc whose driving force will
be the divisions of ,the reborn
Wehrmacht.” :

Together with all other Soviet
newspapers, Pravda gave great
prominence to the acceptance
by Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hun-
gary, Bulgaria and Rumania of
the Soviet proposal for a confer-
ence on European collective
security to be held on Novem-
‘ber 29. :

And Pravda warns that by their
replies to the Soviet proposal, the
Western Powers will either open
the way to genuine peaceful co-
operation in Europe, or cause “an
aggravation of tension and an in-
evitable deterioration in relations
between individual
countries and groups of countries.’

It dismisses as quite hypocriti-
cal all the “promises of negotia-
tions after the completion of the
alliance between the American
aggressors and the German re-
venge-seekers.”

Both Pravda and Izvestia con-
tinue to lay great stress on the
fallacy of the view that Moscow
will be found amenable to talk
with the West after the decision
to revive German militarism has
been taken once and for all.

Izvestia tartly reminds those who
advocate this view that the policy
of negotiating “from a position of
strength” does not work with the
Soviet Union, ‘

Attempts to justify the creation
of opposing military blocs have
been heard before, writes Izvestia.
The makers of the Locarno and
Munich agreements used these ar:
guments to conceal their aggres-
sive plans. f

Since then the people of many
European lands have paid in blood
for their government’s pernicious
policy of encouraging German

militarism.

Andrei Vishinsky dead

European |"

‘Andrei

Vishinsky, chief Soviet delegate to the United —

Nations, died of a heart attack on Monday this week at the
age of 70. All United Nations sessions were cancelled for the
day in respect to his memory. David M. Johnson, ‘Canadian dele-
gate to the UN, paid tribute to Vishinsky as one of “the best
known and ablest representatives in the United Nations.”

Six Labor MPs vote
against Nazi army

By PETER FRYER
LONDON

Six MPs saved the honor of the.

Labor party in the British House
of Commons last week. Defying
all threats of expulsion, they had
the courage to vote against a new
Nazi army. ‘ <

Since two of them — Sydney
Silverman and Emrys Hughes —
acted as tellers, only four votes
were registered against giving
guns to the Germans. :

(On Tuesday this week Labor
MPs voted 131 to 93 to bar the
six from their parliamentary or-
ganization).

Most of the Labor members sat
tight on their benches and abstain-
ed while 264 Tories voted in
favor. The abstainers. included
Aneurin Bevan and Richard Cross-

man, despite the powerful speeches
they had made against the Paris
agreements.

Silverman had told the House
an hour earlier that he had been
a member of the Labor party for
40 years but would rather be
expelled than shirk this decision.

Defense Minister Harold Mac-
millan admitted to the House that
nothing stands in the way of a
rearmed Western Germany being
supplied with atom and hydrogen
weapons.

Aneurin Bevan replied;

“It seems to me a piece of wan-
ton frivolity to bring forward a
proposal of this kind and describe
it as a great diplomatic triumph.”

Far from being a triumph, it
was “the most ignominious surren-
der in modern diplomacy.”

Assembly president greets wife after 26 years’ sepa

ration

Joyful scenes in North Viet Nam as families reunited

By WILFRED BURCHETT |

SAMSON, Viet Nam

Over the past few weeks these
have been moving scenes in this
little Viet Nam port as People’s
Army men and government work-
ers evacuated from the South ar-
rived in the Democratic Republic.

Villagers from miles around
have poured into the port to look

’ for long-separated sons, husbands,
or brothers. I witnessed one mem-
orable incident on my very first
‘day here. ;

The wife of the president of the
National Assembly stepped ashore
into the arms of her daughters
whom she had not seen for eight
years.

The president, Ton Duc ‘Hang,
had not seen his wife for 26 years.
He was a prisoner for 17 years be-
fore being released by the revolu-
tion in 1945.

’ From the jungle in the North he
helped to direct the revolutionary
war, while his wife worked in the
liberated areas of the South.
As distinct from the policy of
the French and Bao Daists in the
North who have used terror,
armed force, and psychological
warfare methods to transfer the
population to the South, the poli-

cy of the Democratic Republic is
to persuade the population to
stay and take an active part in
the struggle for unification.

It is an amazing sight to see dis-
ciplined veterans marching out of
French landing craft on to the
white beaches carrying artillery,
mortars, machineguns, and a great
quantity of equipment — almost
every piece of it of American or
French manufacture.

At first the French refused to

| transport troops when they found

they were bringing with them their
captured American and |French
equipment. But this was a viola-
tion of the agreement and so the
transport continues.

The government has had to place
restrictions on visitors, so great
was the number flocking here, and
now only one village at a time is
allowed to come to’ this former
luxury seaside resort town. The
government provides trucks for

South Viet Nam gov’t

arrests peace

: SAIGON

The sort of government to which
South Viet Nam is being steered
by U.S. dollars and arms has been
dramatically shown by recent. ar-
rests here.

On the eve of the drrival of
President Hisenhower’s special
envoy, General Lawton Collins,
four Viet Nam newspapers were
banned. Three members of the
highly respected peace movement,
which was supported by the over-

leaders

whelming majority of Saigon’s in-
tellectuals, were arrested.

Later it became known that the
president, vice-president and sec-
retary-general of the movement, a
chemist, lawyer and professor, re-
spectively, had been arrested and
confined in the notorious Gia Dinh
concentration camp.

‘The arrests make a mockery of
Article 14 of the Armistice: Agree-
ment, which guarantees democratic
liberties for the population.

them, the villagers bring presents
of fruit and tobacco, entertainment
teams provide evening concerts.

On every side here one is con-
scious of the terrible sacrifices
made by this heroic people.

This was an early liberated area,
but when the French sea-borne in-
vasion threatened, each Samson
inhabitant destroyed his house,
razed it completely to the ground
so that the invaders would not
have barracks or shelters.

They dispersed surrounding vil-
lagers and prepared for armed re-
sistance. The houses are being put
back now, but for the time being
they are modest bamboo and reed-
thatched cottages.

On the transport the evacuees
with whom I have spoken are
unanimous in their praise for the
friendly and comradely attitude of

‘the French sailors when no officers

are present.

The People’s Army troops and
workers have a strong interna-
tional outlook. Among them are
African, European and former
members of the French Colonial
Army and Foreign Legion, wh
deserted with their arms and

fought shoulder to shoulder with
their Viet Nam comrades.

The arrival of one Polish and
two Soviet transports contributed
to the international spirit. They
got a tremendoulsy moving recep-
tion from the Samson residents and
villagers. :

Come to welcome the troops were
groups of young pioneers who
themselves have just been evacu-
ated from the South, who put on
song and dance programs, and the
officers and men who came ashore
became the centre of crowds of
children and grown-up who one
and all wanted to touch hands
with the foreign comrades.

With the arrival of these rein-
forcements, the work of evacuation .
could be speeded up.

The people of the South weep
to see their protectors and com-
rades leave. But as the troops
march out through the - silent
streets, along the jungle trails
which lead to the regroupment
areas, they hold up two fingers in
a sign which everyone under-
stands. — :

Two fingers for two years which
will pass before they return—
after the national elections prom-

ised for July 1956.

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