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New,.U. 5S. fire in Balkans to counteract Korean failure?

Greek puppets

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A direct warning that the im-

perialist powers are preparing to
launch an armed adventure against
the People’s Republic of Albania
on the Korean model through joint
action of the Yugoslav and Greek
monarcho-fascist forces is contain-
ed in a statement issued in Athens
by the political bureau of the Com-
munist party of Greece.

The statement, which was broad-
cast by Free Greece Radio, declares
that military circles in Athens “cer-
tify that America is exercising in-
sistent pressure on Greece for di-
rect military action in the Ballans,”
and that the “Americans are in-
sisting on the unconditional clearing
up of all differences with Tito to
ensure collaboration with him for
war.” ;

It is also pointed out that the
answer of Greek Premier Plastirgs
to United Nations Secretary-general
Trygve Lie that Greece’s contribu-
tion on Korea would be “limited”

because of the “serious situation in.

Greece” was “precisely because of
the preparations in, Athens for di-
rect action in the Balkans.”

The statement notes that in con-

nection with the Korean events a

state of “war alertness” was creat-
ed in Athens, wild declarations

U.S. aided
by ‘Japanese
top brass

NEW YORK

Many military heads of the fascist
regime of the American puppet
Syngman Rhee in South Korea are
former officers of the Japanese im-
Perialist army, reports from Amer-
iean newspaper correspondents in
South Korea reveal. The Chicago
Daily News correspondent, Keyes
Beech, reported that he found in
South Korea ‘29-year-dld Major-
General Yu Jae Heung, a graduate
of the Japanese Imperial Military
Academy and former captain in the
Japanese army.”

Another example of the United
States’ use of Japanese officers
Comes from American correspond-
ent Hanson Baldwin who reported
that the “South Korean command
Is under Lieut. General Chei Yung
Duk who was a major in the ord-
Nance branch of the Japanese army
five years ago.”

In sharp contrast to the United
States exploitation of the worst ele-
ments in Korea, is the appointment
y the Korean People’s Democratic
Republic of South Korean inde-
Pendence fighters to positions of
importance in Seoul: A _ people’s
Court set up in Seoul as soon as it
Was liberated was headed by Chung
Paik, leader of the National Guid-
ance Alliance.

He fled to North Korea in 1948.

ut returned to the south a year
ago. The mayor of Seoul is Lee
Joong, also a South Korean.

Japan arrests
anti-war workers

KOBE
American military police aided by
Japanese police units recently ar:
Tested over 200 Japanese workers
Who. distributed leaflets calling on
dockers not to load ammunition
bound for South Korea.
Great numbers of Koreans living
in Japan have also been jailed dur-
ing the last few days for opposition

to United states aggression in Ko-
rea,

Koreans in Japan will meet this
Week to discuss the establishment
Sf a “People’s Democratic United
Front” which will support the lib-
eration war in their fatherland.

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were made and conferences called.
A meeting of the war council was
summoned with the participation of
the Americans, and in parliament
the monarcho-fascist deputies call-
ec for an invasion of “Northern
Epirus” (Southern Albania).

The monarcho-fascists are en-
deavoring to create the myth that
Greece is threatened by Albania and
Bulgaria by organizing provocations
on the frontiers of both countries,
by spreading “information” that
tens of thousands of guerrillas are

call for

preparing to invade: Greece from
across the frontiers, etc. The aim
is to maintain war nerves and war
psychosis in the interests of the war
plans of the Americans.

The statement says-that Plastiras’
answer about the “serious situation
in Greece”—which means the im-
aginary threat from Albania—was
made “to prepare the atmosphere
for direct war action against the
People’s Democracy of Albania

which the Americans have chosen
as their first victim in Europe be-

a

war on Albania

cause it seems to be the most vul-
nerable.”

The statement also pointed out
that the Americans are. preparing
to touch off a second fire in the
Balkans “as a counter-balance for
the failure of their compradore ad-
venture in Korea.”

“Disputes between Athens and
Belgrade over the Macedonian prob-
lem and the Greek children delayed
a little and perhaps prevented ac-
tion in the Balkans simultaneous
with that in Korea,” it adds, warn-

Japanese victims of MacArthur persecutiens.

These four youthful Japanese Communists, shown talking with their attorney, were sentenced to
two years in prison for “circulating propaganda against General Douglas MacArthur.” The four. had
distributed leaflets protesting against MacArthur's anti-Communist measures. From left: Lawyer
Seikichi Ueda, Yasuo Sonobe, Kenji Ishikawa, Toshinori Kashiwabara, and Shiji Ohashi.

‘Schuman plan ‘step to war’
say European Communists

A joint declaration of the
land. Belgium

By GINO BARDI

ROME

Communist Parties of France, Germany, Italy, Britain, Hol-

and Luxembourg was published in Unita in which representatives of

these parties unanimously agreed, after examination of the so-called Schuman Plan, that

this plan “dictated by

ration of w

“The Schuman Plan is not a plan
for peace; it is a plan for war,” the

declaration states.

After affirming that the Schuman
Plan violates the United Nations
Charter and constitutes a new viol-
ation of the Potsdam agreement,
“siving American warmongers the
possibility of repeating ona vaster
scale the provocations already in
course in Korea,” the seven-party
declaration states that thee “Schu-
man Plan, which is a development
of the Marshall Plan, tends to
transform Germany, placed under
American control, into a political,
economic and military base essen-
tial in Europe for a third world
war. It aims to integrate completely
into the Atlantic bloc the German
monopolists who are considered by
the American promoters of war as
the most secure aggressive force
existing in Europe. It facilitates the
reconstitution of an army in West-
ern Germany under the leadership
of~the former Hitlerite generals.

The realization of the Schuman
Plan, the declaration continues,
would mean placing the “mining
and steel industries, and conse-
quently the. entire economy, of
France, of Britain, of Belgium, Lux-
embours, Italy and Holland under
the control of the big capitalists of
the Ruhr who are under the orders

of the financiers of Wall Street. The
industry and > agriculture of these

American imperialists, represents an important step ih the prepa-
‘ : dese ‘ ‘3
ar against the Soviet Union andcountries of popular democracy.

countries would thus become com-
plementary to the war industry of
western Germany and under the
control of the American imperial-
StS"

The objective of the Schuman
Plan, the declaration adds, is the
“formation of an arsenal of the
Atlantic bloc, that is, the most for-
midable war machine Europe has
ever known. It is the alliance of
the merchants of death that unites
under the leadership of the poten-
tates of the: dollar, the big Nazi
industrialists of the Ruhr, the Co-
mite des Forges, which for decades
has betrayed the interests of
France, several tycoons of the Brit-
ish war industry and the big in-
dustrialists of Belgium and Luxem-
bourg.” '

Commenting on the French, West
German and British positions on
the Schuman Plan, the declaration
states: “In accepting to become
spokesmen in Europe of American
imperialism, the French govern-
ment is attempting to come forward
as the most servile intermediary
between the United States and Mar-
shallized Europe.” :

The reservations formulated by the
British government, it adds, “are
those of an imperialist government
which wishes to defend its own in-

terests in Europe and at the same
time conserve its function as chief
American salesman, a function now

promised to the reactionary govern-
ment of West Germany.”

“It is the task of the working
class, active interpreters of the na-
tional interest of every country, to
take into its own hands the strug-
gle for national independence and
to support the struggle of the op-
pressed countries for their national
liberation.”

In these conditions the Commun-
ist. parties of the seven countries
“consider it their duty to call on
the people of their countries, and
above all the working class, to
struggle to defeat the Schuman
Plan of slavery and war.” ~

The declaration greets the joint
manifesto of the French General
Confederation of Labor and the Ger-
man Free Trade Unions, calling
workers in both countries to com-
mon action against the Schuman
Plan. This initiative is advanced as
an example to all workers in the

“Marshallized countries.

As part of: the peace struggle the
seven parties pledged to place
themselves in the vanguard of the
Partisans of Peace to collect mil-
lions of signatures to the Stockholm
appeal against atomic weapons.

“To defeat the war alliance of the
merchants of death the Communist
parties of France, Germany, Brit-
ain, Italy, Holland, Belgium and
Luxembourg will work to organize
the peaceful alliance of peoples, of
Millions of simple men and women
who do not want war.”

more stockpiling

ing, however, that the Americans
are “now in a hurry.”

Despite the end of the armed
struggle in Greece, the Americans
and monarcho-fascists are keeping
the country in a state of war. While
the prices of goods last week rose
by 35 percent, the war budget still
gobbles up 40 percent of the state
income. The monarcho-fascist com-
mander-in-chief has now an army
of 300,000 men and wants to in-
crease it to 500,000.

The monarcho-fascists and Amer-
icans, Plastiras, Papandreou ,and
Tsaldaris, the “arch-butchers” King
Paul, Papagos and General Vendi-
ris, “all the monarcho-fascist dog-
pack, are now preparing together
with the Tito gang a new massacte
in the Balkans against the People’s
Democracies, against the Soviet
Union,” the statement declares.

“But they are miserably deceiv-
ing themselves if they think the
Greeks are sheep for slaughter.” If
they dare to proceed with thet
plans, “they will dig their own
grave.”

“The Greeks will never make war
against the People’s Democracy of
Bulgaria, will never raise a hand
against the Soviet Union.”

Korean war
boosts profits
in Britain

The satisfactory financial effect
of the United States-inspired ag-
gression in Korea, which has been
marked by upward movements in
the London and New York stock
markets, is commented on in two
British papers.

The London’ Financial Times
comments that the current view is
that the likely results of the Ko-
rean war “will be a stimulus to
business activity, and possibly some
inflation.”

The Manchester Guardian refers
to the “optimism” in‘ the stock
market, and states that “any extra
armament work will plainly raise
the pressure of demand, and, even
with dividend limitation, will en-
courage investment in industrial
equities.” é

The same paper also happily re-
marks that the crisis will encourage
in the United
States and more armament work
there. This, it states, “will help to
maintain the sterling area’s dollar
earnings the fears for next
year may be put off.”

British economy fears a return
to competitive conditions, the paper
continues. “In anything but world
boom the British economy will
prove unable to maintain sufficient
exports. A heightening of tension
in the cold war may well put off
this test. It will delay the return
to more normal conditions of trade

. . in the short run inflation would
continue to have its pleasant side.”

By “inflation” the newspaper un-
doubtedly means “war”.

U.S. militarizes
Faroe Islands —

COPENHAGEN

Secret negotiations for the mili-
tarization of the Faroe Islands are
being conducted and a garrison of
2,000 Danish troops will take over
Thorshaven and other places on
these Atlantic islands this autumn,
the Faroe paper Fourteenth Sep-
‘tember reveals.

The semi-official Faroe paper
Dimmalaeting, unable to deny this
report, comments only that the
“United States has already made
its plans for the protection of

Greenland, Iceland and the Faroes.”

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