The oil these tankers carry from Abadan is swelling the profits of the British and U.S. oil
monopolies, but the Iranian patriots who believed it should be developed for the wellbeing of the

people are dying before firing squads.

Terror in Iran upholds
_ oil monopolies’ profits"

‘The leader of Iran’s fight to nationalise its oil industry, Dr. Hussien Fatemi, foreign
minister in the deposed Mossadeq government, was murdered last week at the order of General

Zahedi, the Iranian dictator. |

At a moment’s notice, he was ta
stake, and shot by a firing squad.

He died shouting “Long live
Mossadeq.” Ex-Prime Minister
Mossadeq, who nationalized Iran’s
oil and was overthrown by U.S.-
backed General Zahedi, is serving
a three-year imprisonment in the
same barracks.

Dr.‘Fatemi was sentenced to
death after going through the farce
of a trial before an army court. His
appeal against his sentence was re-
jected by the Shah.

His is the latest of a mounting
number of judicial murders of
leading Iranian democrats by Gen-
eral Zahedi, behind whom stand
the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
and other U.S. concerns.

Recently, General Zahedi, hav-

ing arrested or killled his leading
opponents, was able to.force the
remnants of the Iranian parlia-
ment to agree to hand back con-
trol of Iran’s enormous oil re-
sources to these companies. :
As part of the deal Anglo-
Iranian — now to be called the
British Petroleum Company —
gets nearly $750 million down
and big profits from handling
Iranian oil. my
Its shareholders receive $12 in
free shares for every $3 they held
in the past — shares which are
‘expected to yield a profit of from
20 ta 40 percent a year.

But Iranian patriots get death|

sentences after farcial trials.

In the past few weeks 22 are
known to have been shot.. Some
600 more are under arrest. :

Army officers, oil engineers,

ken out on the parade ground at Gasr barracks, tied to a
His wife was left to hear the news over Teheran radio.

TEHERAN

4

leaders of the oil workers, are be-
ing shot because they believe that
Iranian oil should be developed for
the Iranian people and not foreign

monopolies. , ee

Some are members of the Tudeh
(Working People’s party) and some
are not. The procedure against
them is routine. They are arrest-
ed, charges of treason are trumped
up, they are found guilty, they are
shot. Rhee ‘

Earlier this month, when the rep-

ress

HUSSIEN FATEMI

| ‘Reminds me of 1933’
says Social Democrat

ER
BERLIN
The protests in West Germany
against the trial to ban the Com-
munist party — due to start with-
in the next week — are becoming
a flood. Ea
The Federal Constitutional Court
at Karlsruhe is to determine
whether the Communist party 1s
“constitutional,” an action Chan-
cellor Konrad Adenauer has threat-
ened since 1951. oe
Protest’ petitions are circulating
all over West Germany.
' Saxony 4,000 signed in a few days.
A Cologne Social Democrat col-
lected 100 signatures in two hours.
Meetings at Kaiserslautern, Sol-
ingen, Dortmund, Bremen, Stutt-
gart and Duesseldorf have protest-
ed,. In Karlsruhe itself 1,000 peo-

\

By PHYLLIS ROSN

; 7

In Lower |.

ple attended a Communist party
protest meeting. :
Typical of the stand made by
many Social Democrats is the
urgent appeal by Ernst ‘Hecht,
chairman of the Social Democratic
party in Spoeck near Karlsruhe.
Hecht, for many years a local
Social Democratic councillor, de-
clared: “I spent 12 years in one of
Hitler’s concentration camps be-
cause I was a Social Democrat.
There, together with my Commun-
ist comrades, I suffered greatly.
“What is happening today re-
minds. me very strongly of 1933.
lf the Communist ‘party were
banned then | believe it would
not be long before the Social
Democratic party and the trade

| resentatives

‘British oil trusts.

unions would also be persecut-
ed.” : :

of Anglo - Iranian,
Standard Oil, Shell Oil, Texas Oil,
Socony-Vacuum, and Gulf Oil com-
panies gathered at Abadan to cele-
brate the first flow of oil to the
profit of their new consortium, six
democrats were shot in Teheran.
Declaring that there “can be no
evading the responsibility of the
rulers of Britain for what is now
happening in Iran,” the British
Communist party said in a state-
ment issued last week in London:
“Terror is raging against the
people of Iran. Their rulers have
betrayed the interests of their
country to the big American and

“The price of this betrayal is
the suppression of all democratic
rights in Iran, wholesale murder
and horrible torture in concen-
tration camps.”

Soviets urge
peace atom

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.

An appeal for the tremendous potentialities of atomic
fission to be put to peaceful uses instead of a war of annihila-
tion was made by Andrei Vishinsky, Soviet delegate to the
United Nations, at the UN Political Committee in New York

on Friday last week.

He instanced development of
atomic energy for industries and
curing of cancer.

“Every kind of atomic material
that is earmarked for production
of atomic weapons goes to the detri-
ment of atomic energy for peace-
ful purposes,” Vishinsky said.

The Soviet delegate said the rep.
resentatives of the Western coun-
tries had spoken of the difficulties
in using atomic energy for electric
power. :

It should be clear, he added, that
the major difficulty was the basic
trend of the policy of those coun-
tries, especially the United: States
and Britain.

It was no accident, he said, that
the chairman of the U.S. Atomic
Energy Commission, in a report
to the U.S. Congress, had said two
decades would pass before fission-
able material could compete with
conventional fuels.

Vishinsky quoted Business Week
‘as saying that as long as the cold
war continued it would be difficult
to persuade the U.S. Congress to
agree to wide dissemination of in-
formation on atomic energy, let
alone to persuade it to appropriate
funds for financing any extensive
application of atomic energy
abroad. '

“This leads to the following con-
clusions,” he said.

“The policy calling for stock-
piling of atomic weapons, and con-
siderations of commercial inter-
ests, are the major difficulties en-
countered by.the Western coun-
tries in translating into reality any
more or less extensive program for
utilization of atomic energy.” ‘

There was no obstacle in the
Soviet. Union to “further rapid pro-
gress along the path of developing
atomic energy for peaceful pur.
poses.” - - ‘

He said the Soviet Union took

the. major step on June 27 this
year of introducing the first
atomic electric power station with
a usable power output of 5,000
kilowatts.

At the present time work was
proceeding for the erection of
plants with a power output of
from 50,000 to 100,000 kilowatts.

The Soviet Union was extensive-
ly using the method of tracer atoms
for investigation into various
chemical and biological processes.

Radioactive radiation and radio-
active isotopes had been used ex-
tensively in testing materials and
products to find out any possible
defects inside metals, in geological
prospecting, in conserving foods
and for healing cancer, he said.

In its negotiations with the

U.S., Vishinsky said, the Soviet
Union had pointed out that the
carrying out of U.S. proposals
for creation of an international
agency for atomic energy would
not remove the threat of atomic
warfare, since the main bulk of
atomic materials would still be
used for military purposes.

No atomic reactors were being
used for generating power in the
U.S., he said, and the only power
facilities would begin to be built
next year.

In the Western world, stress was
being placed on the slow strides
being made. Insistent warnings
were given against unfounded en-
thusiasm and the danger of undue
optimism.

He criticized certain features of
the Western plan for setting up an
international agency.

But he told the political commit-
tee: “I am confident the resolution
(to set up the agency) may be modi-
fied in such a manner as to clear
the way for an agreed positive at-
titude on the part of all of us.”

Coventry, Stalingrad in
joint ban bomb appeal

An appeal to the United Nations to.ban atom and hydrogen weapons has

MOSCOW
been signed

by the Coventry City Council delegation to Stalingrad, and the Stalingrad Municipal Coun-

cil of Workers’ Deputies.

John Fennell, Lord Mayor of Coventry, and Sergei Shapurov, chairman of Stalingrad

Council, also signed a covering letter to the general secretary
‘|him to circulate the appeal as soon as possible,

Fennell, with other members of
the Labor-controlled Coventry City
Council, arrived in Stalingrad at
the beginning of this month and
agreed with their Stalingrad col-
leagues to make the appeal.

For Coventry the joint appeal
was also signed by Alderman Sid-
ney Stringer, and Councillors
Arthur Waugh, Eric Williams, Mrs.
Elsie Jones and Edward McGarry,
and by five Stalingrad leaders be-
sides the chairman.

Text of the: joint appeal reads:

We call the attention of the Unit-
ed Nations Organization to the fact
that the cities of Coventry and
Stalingrad, having suffered tremen-
dous losses in human lives and in
material destruction during the
Second World War from the hands
of the common enemy, German
fascism, note now with deep. con-
cern that peace and security of
the nations are once again being
threatened.

'We are convinced that the

banning of the atomic and hydro-
gen weapons would contribute

to peace throughout the world

of the United Nations asking

and result in the easing of ten-
sion in international relations.

The citizens of the cities of Cov-
entry and Stalingrad express their
hope that this appeal will receive
support of the United Nations Or-
anization, whose duty it is to heed
the voice of the common men who
express their anxiety for the fate
of the world. ~ <

France, Soviet Union

sign new trade pact

PARIS

France and the Soviet Union
have signed an agreement which
will bost trade between them by
more than 50 percent — to 58,000
million frances (about $170 million)
during the next 18 months.

France will sell the Soviet Union
iron, steel, meat, textiles, rolling
stock, cocoa, citrus fruits and
freighters, in return for crude oil,
coal, chrome and manganese ore,
asbestos, corn, cotton, furs and
paper pulp.

As to Stalingrad and Coventry,
which have always stood for peace,
they will carry on the struggle for
peace. and friendship among na-
tions until the forces of peace have

won a complete victory.

The possibility of using atomic
and hydrogen weapons which pos-
sess tremendous destructive power,
is causing particular concern.

We regard it as our right and
moral obligation to appeal to the
United Nations Organization and
request them to take the necessary
measures for banning atomic and
hydrogen weapons and prohibiting
the production of these weapons,
and: for their complete exclusion
from the national armouries.

The sacred duty of the United
Nations Organization, which is call-
ed upon to protect the peace and
security of nations, is to provide
means for saving the human race
from the dangers of an atomic war
so the greatest discovery of man’s
genius be used not for the pur-
poses of destruction but for peace-
ful aims—for the benefit of man.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 19, 1954 — PAGE 3