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Cheddi Jagan, former premier

British Guiana, believes Kash-

"became a problem because

teligion, ideology and the
War.

Jagan, a participant in the
‘versity of Toronto teach-in
ft { 8-10, gave his views in his
| Sular column of political com-
tin the BG Mirror.

The Creation of India and
feean was the. beginning of
tne” he said. “It was the
tle ation of the ‘divide-and-
© Policy of the British colo-
alists,

a; keeping with the contain-
qlt of communism policy of
* West, Pakistan was armed
the teeth. “She became a pi-
prof the string of military
AT and military alliances —
0, SEATO and Baghdad
“t—which were meant to pro-
tla iron ring around the
» Said Jagan.

fcause of her policy of non-

CHEDDI JAGAN

alignment, India stayed clear of
these alliances, but diverted a
large part of her revenues to de-
fense, which would otherwise
have gone to development. This
was “one of the contributing
causes for the pauperization of
the Indian masses.”

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@y and. unions. cannot avoid them, Albert Fitzgerald, president
the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, told the
S recent convention in New York . . . There are 4,000 sana-
holiday homes and resort hotels operating in the Soviet
nN. Every year about eight million people are entertained and
sed for, More than half these health centres are the property of
e . . West German observer at the United Nations
bbreuto a rage when he spotted the initials “DDR” (the German
x "eviation of German Democratic Republic) inscribed on a door.
nly calmed down when U.N. officials explained the ominous
tS stood for “Delegation Dining Room.” |

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“iy HIRTEENTH ‘Congress of the Communist Party of Czecho-

| & akia has been called for May 31, 1966. Delegates will discuss
j Steg Mic goals for the period of the fourth five-year plan (1966-70).

Wag tattention will be given to agriculture . . . Population explosion

n € main subject discussed at a world conference on popula-
Problems held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia last month.

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BULGARIA has 10,610 libraries, a book fund of 33,413,000
4 and 4,496 reading clubs with a membership of 895,000
inetench Communist Party will support M. Francois Mitterrand
hag © Presidential election on Dec. 5. As the French Socialist Party
Ver Previously agreed to back M. Metterrand, the 48-year-old law-
"Us has the backing of France’s two largest Left Wing parties.

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the GREETINGS to the Communist Party and people of China on
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p ioasion of the 16th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese
a aes Republic included one from the Communist Party of Cana-
sm hich Said: “Wish your continued successes 1n building social-
your great country in conditions of peace. The present inter-
situation is a threat to peace and calls for firm united
i Of all Communist and Workers parties in common struggle
U.S. imperialist aggression and for strengthening
y and support for the heroic Vietnam peoples.

world

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ky oe MAURICE Couve de Murville, the French foreign rs
Singa make an* official visit to the Soviet Union on Oct. 28 - . . =
Pore schoolgirl of 10 walking through thick undergrowth only
Miles from the centre of the city suddenly found her right
ankle-deep in a python’s mouth. She shouted for help as the
eptile coiled around her. A gardener rushed up and hacked
Snake with a long knife until it released its hold.

HOPES FOR SPEEDY SETTLEMENT
agan says Kashmir
ictim of cold war

border conflict the U.S. rushed
to the aid of India with arms,
equipment and food. “Economic
aid denied before was now
granted,’ Jagan noted. “As In-
dia began to receive military
and economic aid, Pakistan, the
former recipient, began looking
more and more to China.

“The resultant tragedy is that
having thus been caught in the
Cold War, these two countries
have spend vast amounts of
their annual revenues for de-
fense. And now they are facing
each other with the most lethal
weapons of mass destruction.

“The consequences of this
struggle are clear. Only the
poor, poverty-ridden millions

will suffer. The old: reactionary
cliques, the landlords and capi-
talists, who were being under-
mined by social unrest will now
strengthen their positions with
emotional hysteria and national
jingoism. ;

“This is a great tragedy for
the Indian and Pakistani people.
It poses a grave danger also to
world peace.

“Let’s all hope that a speedy
settlement will be achieved to
stop this internecine undeclared
war.”

Noting that “the same fate

‘must not befall British Guiana,”

Jagan warned those who advo-
‘cate partition of his country.
“Partition has only aggravated
the problems on the Indian con-
tinent. And it will be no solu-
tion to the problems of our peo-
ple. The solution is national

unity and racial harmony. This
must be forged by a_ united
working class _ struggle.”

Despite U.N. calls for both India and Pakistan to honor the
cease-fire agreement, sporadic fighting continues. This photo shows

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Photo shows anti-aircraft gunners of Nam Dinh, North Viet-

nam, at their combat positions. The defense detachment is made up

of factory workers.

Kim Il Sung tells U.S.
‘get out of S.Korea!’

PYONGYANG

Premier Kim Il Sung of North
Korea told a group of Arab
journalists that the main. ob-
stacle to the unification of Korea
is the U.S. troops’ occupation of
South Korea.

“Prerequisite to the unifica-

tion of Korea is the withdrawal
of U.S. troops,” he said bluntly.

“We hold that the unification
of Korea should be achieved
peacefully. on an_ independent,

democratic principle by the Ko- .

rean people themselves, free
from any foreign interference.

“Inasmuch as the U.S. imper-
jalists and the rulers of South
Korea are opposed to the estab-
lishment of a unified govern-
ment of Korea through a free,
democratic election, we pro-
posed to enforce a confedera-
tion as a transitional measure for
settling pressing, immediate
questions of common concern

Pakistani troops in defense positions. :

KIM IL SUNG

for the nation and going over to
unification step by step.

“To lighten, if only a little,
the misfortunes and hardships
of the nation caused by the par-
tition of the territory, we pro-
posed to conduct economic and
cultural interflow and corres-
pondence between North and
South.

“We also offered material and
provisions needed for the re-
habilitation of the ruined eco-
nomy and the stabilization of
the people’s living in South Ko-
rea and proposed to take the
South’s unemployed into the
North and provide them with
jobs, and to take in and bring
up orphans wandering about the
streets in South Korea.

“But the U.S. imperialists oc-
cupying South Korea and. their
lackeys are hampering the rea-
lization of these just proposals.”

Asked where he stood on the
ideological disputes in the so-
cialist bloc, Premier Kim Il
Sung replied:

“Though differences exist to-
day within the socialist camp,
the socialist countries will fight
together against imperialism and
for the victory of socialism and
communism.

“As for us, we will firmly
unite with all the socialist coun-
tries and intensify the common
struggle against imperialism for
the revolutionary cause of peo-
ples.”

October 15, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5