Star Chamber measure

perils British liberties

Sweeping new restrictions on British civil liberties and the stepping-up

LONDON
of the civil

service witch-hunt were foreshadowed by Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden in the British
House of Commons last week when he announced the setting up ofa modern Star Chamber.
He was announcing who is to take part in the private conference of Privy Councillors

to consider “security precautions,” and what the terms of referente of that conference will

be.

Two things emerged from

Now it’s Lady Astor’s boy

Eden’s statement:

@ That the conference is to
consider possible changes in
the law affecting the liberty
of the subject and

@ That the conference will LONDON

report to the prime minister A one-time member of the
alone; although it has power | Anglo-German Fellowship, the
to summon any persons and | notorious pro-Nazi organisation

of pre-war days, talked in the
House of Lords last week about

demand any papers, it is
under no obligation to make
public any part of its pro- | “fifth-columnists.” .
ceedings or findings. _ Viscount Astor, opened : yet
Its terms of reference are: “To another debate on Burgess’ eng
examine the security procedures! Maclean, British Foreign Office
now, applied in the public ser- | Officials who vanished front Eng-
vice and to consider whether any !and without trace despite re-

| .
. ‘peated but unsubstantiated. as-
further precautions are called eat Co they ‘had gone’ variously

and should be. taken.” ' |to the Soviet Union, the People’s

x |Democracies or China. He said
Beans. heteneed. Dy Feria: was “unfortunate” that the

Labor MPs, Emrys Hughes, F. To inase Pet yar. fod bean
Bellenger and Percy Daines, who yseq by the minister of state.
expressed their concern over the; He indicated that he favored

secrecy of the proposed pro-|a witch-hunt so long as it was
{not called by -that name:

ceedings. ea'G

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Strijidom railroads aparthied
A black flag bearing the skull and crossbones was _ hoisted
over. Pretoria’s Supreme Court building one day last week while
@remier Strijdom’s Nationalist government was railroading its
new senate proposals through the local electoral college. Strijdom
is seeking to pack the South African Senate with nominated
Nationalist members and so ensure passage of apartheid legislation
which will deprive Colored citizens (shown demonstrating in top
picture) of the franchise and perpetuate a system which denies
education to children of the country’s majority Negro population
_ for whom there is now only the “backyard school” (bottom picture).

Cliveden set heard
again--‘on security’

try to uncover treason is as much
a duty as it is to prevent burglary,
(and the honest attempt to clear
|these matters up should never
have been stigmatised by the
begging phrase of witch-hunt.”

He claimed there was a fifth
column in the country that had
“penetrated to the highest ranks
of the Civil Service, and apparent-
ly scientists and even the Church.”

Then he questioned “the un-
limited right to leave this coun-
try with or without a passport,”
apparently having in mind the
U.S. procedure of refusing pass-
ports to. persons of liberal or
left wing views.”

Lordy Astor’s reference to
“penetration” by a fifth column
was interesting. ‘

The Anglo-German Fellowship
conducted consistent pro-Nazi
propaganda right up to the out-
break of war, while Hitler was
preparing his attack on Britain.

Its monthly journal boasted
of...“‘the far-reaching charac-

ter of the Fellowship, with

membership spread all over

Great Britain.” It -had 27
Tory MPs and 28 members of

the House of Lords among its
members, including Tory’ ex-
ministers.

Leading banks and great in-
dustrial companies were corporate
members.

Lord Astor himself—then plain
Mister W. W. Astor—was parli-
amentary private secretary to

f} Sir Samuel Hoare, then British

home secretary.

He became third Viscount
Astor when his father died in
1952, leaving more than $2 mil-
lion. His mother, Lady Astor
(better known as “Nancy”), was
hostess of the “Cliveden Set,”
leaders of the movement. for
appeasing Hitler.

She said of him when he was
elected for East Fulham in 1953:

“They tried to get my son to
stand for parliament when he
was 21, but I refused to allow
it. Now...you have his mother
when he gets there.” ~

And today he talks of witch-
hunts. \

Scientists laud
Soviet education

Seven of Britain’s top atomic
scientists who have just visited
the Soviet Union reported last
week that they were greatly’
impressed by the high standard
of scientific education in the
USSR.

Leader of the delegation. was
Dr. B. F. J: Schonland, deputy
director of the Atomic Research
Establishment at Harwell. “Four
most interesting days” was his
verdict on the visit, which follow-
ed an invitation from the Soviet
Academy of Sciences.

“Higher scientific and engin-
eering education is receiving
much attention throughout the

for educating scientists and
engineers are being rapidly ex-

panded beyond an already high

‘level,’ he said.

fo reverse

WASHINGTON

Protests of Mid-Western seed
companies have forced the US.
‘State Department to grant visas
to prospective seed buyers from
the Soviet Union and Rumania.

‘cided to allow five Soviet farm
: \leaders and three Rumanians to
The Marquess of Salisbury enter the United States to buy

b i ber of Brit- ; ae
brie Shoah Stax Chin: about one million dollars worth
ber committee. Other members ,of hybrid corn seed, it is 1fe
are Lord Chancellor Viscount ported here. 5
Kilmour, Home Secretary G. : ice ce
Lloyd George, Lord JoWitt, and | ‘The action followed scathing
two Labor MPs Herbert Mor- | CViticism of the state department's
rison and: GOR. Strauss earier denial of visas to the

Z : farm experts. soy

IWA sets wage
demand for ] 956 distortion” in denying visas

PORTLAND | the socialist. countries’ seed e%-

and Thomas Hybrid Corn Com-
pany accused the. state depart

other demands were drafted by sales of U.S. agricultural pro-
a delegate conference here as ducts and farm machinery.

the CIO International Wood-!-
workers’ bargaining program

west.

Delegates from seven IWA
districts also rejected a 5 to 15
cents an hour wage scale pat-
tern announced by the AFL
Lumber and Sawmill Workers.

_ Among other demands the IWA
is asking for vacation eligibility

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y-

sider the Algerian question fur
ther.

U.S. forced i |

visa stand

| The state department has de- —

Dr. Geza Schutz of the Garst
ment of ‘deliberate, misleading

A 12% cents an hour across the perts, and declared it was Eons
board wage increase and five ardizing “millions of dollars”

for 1956 in the U.S. Pacific North- | Algerian issue dropped Pe

The UN Assembly last week
decided unanimously not to cOoB- —

_ Later in Paris, French Foreig® —

LONDON.

Soviet Union and the facilities |

based on seniority, with liberal-
ized vacation benefits ranging
from three days for six to nine

for five years seniority.

months seniority, to three weeks’

Minister Pinay, announced that
France would return, to the 45"

ago because the Algerian ques~
|tion was put on, the agenda.

in the Western Hemisphere to

of its editor.

editor, and two of its stockhold

1954 for publishing advertise- |

Banks offering to ‘transmit |
money from overseas Chinese
to their families in China. The
government prosecuted under
the Trading with the Enemy
Act.

Moy was sentenced to two
years imprisonment, and the paper
was fined $255,000.

Following his sentence, Moy

“It is only because our news-
paper’s. policy differs from the |
policy of certain other Chinese-
language newspapers, and be-
cause we sometimes disagree °
with the present foreign policy
of the administration, that, the
government agencies began to
prosecute us in: 1951.
“...I made no profit out of the
advertisement; we handled no |
remittances; we merely performed
the customary function of a news-.
paper; we published ads...”
Moy’s statement of govern-
ment prosecution referred to the
complicity of U.S. federal agen-
cies with Chiang Kai-shek ele-
ments in a sustained campaign to
put the paper out of business.
Chiang’s « organization in the
New York Chinese community,
working through Kuomintang |
groups as well as Kuomintang- |
| dominated traditional Chinese

|
‘

The three were convicted in ‘family associations, launched thé  —

ments from two Hong Kong Paka against the Chin

Editor jailed, —
paper continues"

. NEW YORK |
The China Daily News, only Chinese language newspaper”

support the People’s Republic x
of China, will continue publication despite the imprisonment

China Daily News spokesmen made the announcement
following the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal November 4 t? —
review the conviction in New York of Moy, the papers ‘

ers.

oe,

News.

Advertisers were threatened, _

newsboys beaten, and a lyne :
atmosphere incited agais'

editorial workers. The three
other New York Chinese
language papers, all Chians-
controlled, called for gOver
ment action against Moy 4!

his co-workers. uh
‘Finally, agents of the FBI 2”

declared: the U.S. treasury and immigta

tion departments, who’ mainta?
continuous surveillance in

Chinese communities and ©

operate with Chiang’s strong-at™
organizations, moved into “¥
campaign against the China DailY
News. . { :
Arrest of Moy and his assocl@
tes on the charge of “trading wit
the enemy” followed.
Attorney Paul Ross, 1
for Moy, argued during the tt4
that the U.S. was not at war wit?
China. But the court ruled See
Moy’s  anti-Chiang Kai-she
editorial policy established *h®
presumption of guilt.

Friends of Moy and his 45° —

sociates have pointed out that
though the issue of freedom
of the press was clearly i0-
volved in the case, none of

U. S. publishers’ associations n0T
commercial newspapers have

sembly, which she left some wee#$ ©

spsigiee

counsel

spoken out in support of Moy:
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