GIVEN TREMENDOUS OVATION

Peace Congress
roused by speech
of Korean woman

WARSAW

“ When the roar of planes died down people started

to return home.
on her back.
Not one of her companions d
headless,

She came home, The house was in
flames, She decided to nurse the
child, and saw it was dead. She
left Pyongyang and went to a
guerrilla detachment to take
revenge for her beloved son. And
is there in Korea only one mother
who lost her children? There are
thousands of them and the number
of victims grows daily.”

With this and other illustrations
of the horror and anguish American
intervention in Korea has visited
upon her country, Pak Cheng Ai, a
member of the Korean delegation,
brought tears to the eyes of many
delegates attending the Second,
World Peace Congress concluded
here last month.

Reviewing the historic struggle of
her people for freedom, against the
Japanese who forbade them to pub_
blish newspapers and books in their
own language against the corrupt
Syngman Rhee regime established
by the U.S. in South Korea and
“kept in power only by terror and
violence,” and finally against the

American intervention she de-

clared:

“The Americans have seized al-
most all the main industrial enter-
prises and ruthlessly plundered the
country’s wealth.

“The Americans have turned
South Korea into a market for as
stale goods, This they. called “ec-
onomic aid”, The industry of South
Korea found itself on the brink of
complete breakdown.

“Americang looted the cultural
treasures belonging to our people.
American generals and officers
pillaged in broad daylight the
museum of the royal family in
Seoul. Hundreds of thousands of
ancient paintings, sculptures,
jewelry produced by the finest
masters of Korea, vanished in the
suitcases of Americans.

They were stubbornly converting
South Korea into their colony; they
sought to turn it into their military
strategic bridgehead in the Far
East.”

Turning to the present struggles
of the Korean people, Pak Cheng Ai
said;

Among them was young Kim with her child
But she did not know that the child was killed.
ared to tell her that her child was

“The population in the ‘districts
of South Korea now recaptured by
the interventionists and Syngman
Rhee’s forces does not want to be-
come slaves again. It leaves for the
mountains to join the guerillas, The
ranks; of the guerillas are swelling
daily. ;
“Not long before I left Korea,
2,700 young people, boys and girls,
from the town of Andon‘in South
Korea, came to the place where
the headquarters of high com-
mand of the People’s army is now
located. These young people cov-
ered about 600 miles over moun-
tains and gorges, hiding from the
enemy, and made their way across
the front lines, They came to Kim
Ir Sen with the request ‘to give
them arms to fight the American
invaders. These ‘are heroic child-
ren of an heroic people.

“We know that ‘there :are two
Americas—the America of Wall

Street, which sent American youths

to die for the interests of the rich,
and the American mothers of these
youths who have ‘already perished,
‘American mothers who wrote to
Truman: ‘Give us our sons.’

“There is the America of the
instigators of a new war, which we
all loath, and honest American
ordinary people who say, ‘together
with millions of honest ordinary
people the world over “Hands of
Korea!’

“Notwithstanding the grave ‘trials
and the immense sacrifices, the
Korean people are confident in the
triumph of their just cause. "They
are confident in victory because
truth and justice are on their side,
because all peace loving peoples, all
peace supporters are on their site.”

The most moving scene took place
after Pak Cheng Ai concluded ‘her
speech. She was immediately sur-
rounded by delegates and showereé
with flowers, gifts and badges. Fin,
ally she was lifted shoulder high
so that everyone could see her
smilng and waving back at the
audience.

As she was returning to her
sat on the platform, the entire
Chinese delegation lifted her up
and carried her to their delega-
tions seats where she was again
kissed and embraced. The ovation
lasted 15 minutes before she
could return to her seat with her

Soviet peace conference

The Soviet Peace Committee is headed by N. Tikhonov, the
noted author shown (top) addressing the recent Soviet Second Con-
ference for Peace in Moscow. Among those attending the conference
were (bottom, left) Nikolai Charkasov, the actor, and (right) mem-
bers of the Christian Orthodox Church.

Chinese volunteers
under command of
Korean People’s army

MOSCOW

The retreats of the Korean people’s forces were only
temporary, and the situation at the front is changing now in

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favor of the People’s army, Kim Ir Sen, chief of the Korean

People’s Democratic Republic,

reported in Moscow papers.

British posifion
in Malaya worse,
official admits

After two and a half years’ mil-
itary operations against the Malay-
an People’s Army the British gov-
ernment is jin a worse position than
ever. It is for this reason that
General Sir Harold Briggs, com-
mander of British troops in Malaya,
has come post haste to London for
discussions with the British Colon-
jal secretary, and to press for more
men and arms to be sent to Malaya.

Meanwhile, in Kuala Lumpur, A.
P. Foster Sutton, officer adminis-
tering the federal government,
told the legislative council that cas-
ualties inflicted on the guerrillas

LONDON |

“shad no decisive effect. They are un_-

fortunately generally made good by
recruitments.’”’ He added that there
were no signs of an imminent break
in the morale of the Malayan
People’s Army.

Sutton also announced further
measures calculated to stem the
victories of the Malayan people.
They include power to conscript,
curtailment of leave and increasing
“security” forces, :

declared in a speech, recently

Addressing the central’ committee
of the United Democratic Father-

_|land Front of Korea, Kim said that,

together with the Chinese volun-
teers under the Korean supreme
command, they have already achiev_
ed their first big successes.

Kim stated that armed Korean
partisan detachments were rising
up all over the country. The Korean
leader, who acquired fame in guer-
rilla actions against the Japanese,
declared, In this great struggle,
our people are not alone. We have
the sympathy and support of people
from all countries of the world.”

Kim said that when it became
clear to ali that American imperil-
ists sought to use Korea as a base
against the Chinese People’s Re-
public, Chinese voluntary detach-
ments joined the fight on Korea
soil, together with the Korean
People’s army under its supreme
command, against the invaders.”

He declared that hundreds of
thousands of Koreans, both men and
women workers, farmers, students,
and small businessmen were fight-
.ing as partisans throughout Korea
and inflicting heavy casualties on
the invaders. He called upon the
people to rally still further for vic-

Court ruling
denies British
right fo strike

LONDON

By a recent court decision the right
to strike in Britain was abolished
and strikes made a criminal offence.
The decision was made by a London
court considering the appeal of 10
London gas workers against the
sentence of one month’s imprison-
ment imposed on them some weeks
ago because they went on strike to-
gether with several thousand other
gasworkers. -

The court of appeal changed the
prison sentence to a fine of £50
($150 for each of the accused. But
at the same time it made it clear

‘| that from now on all workers who

contravene the anti-strike law 1305
will be regarded as criminals and
will be punished accordingly.

The London Daily Worker points
out ‘that by this court decision
“strikes have been declared illegal.
Thus the right to strike, one of the
most cherished rights of the British
workers, is being taken away from
them by the Labour Government.”

The Daily Worker concludes with

‘}an appeal to the British working

class to start immediately a nation
wide campaign for withdrawal of
the anti-strike law 1305.

U.S. eyes Africa, -
opens institute
for ‘specialists’

NEW YORK

Simultaneously with opening of
a two-day conference on Africa,
Lincoln University, Oxford, Penn-
sylvania, recently announced formal
establishment of America’s first
Institute for the Study of African
Affairs.

The “New York Times” intimates
that the institute is to serve the
double purpose of educating in the

United States future American
agents among the African people,
and to investigate all possibilities
of American penetration of Africa.

The paper says bluntly that the
institute will exist first, “to provide
African students in the [United
States opportunities for seeing the
problems of their continent in uni_
fied perspective and to assist them
in planning for careers of service
in Africa,’ and second, “to en-
lighten Americans who will increas_
ingly play important roles in Afri-
can affairs.

Yellow infernational
maps drive in Asia

LONDON

An extensive campaign by yellow
trade union international (ICFTU)
to infiltrate and split workers’
movements in Asia and the Pacific
is being prepared following return
of its delegation from that area.

The ICFTU, which draws its
funds from the British and Ameri.
can governments through the Brit-
ish TUC and American CIO and
AFL and which acts as an American
scab and espionage center in Eur-
Ope, will establish its central infor-
mation office at Singapore and
branches in three other Asian cen_
ters.

A regional conference is to take
place at Karachi next year to dis-
cuss setting up of yellow trade un_

tory ‘‘in the great fatherland war.’’|; ions where they do not now exist.

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