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— MacArthur

mnilitarists, ©

20,000 Londoners greet

world ‘peace spokesmen,
applaud Dean, Robeson

By PHYLLIS ROSNER

LONDON

Delegates to the World Peace
Committee; which met here at the
beginning of June, were greeted by
a crowd of over 20,000 Londoners
at an open-air demonstration called
to hear Paul Robeson, Soviet dra-
matist Alexander Korneichuk,
Czechoslovak deputy Madame Anez-
ka MHodinova-Spurna, Liu Ning-i
from New China, and Britain’s
Own Dean of Canterbury.

J. G. Crowther, chairman of the
British ,Peace Committee, described
the delegates as “the finest men
and women in character and genius.
With them as our guide, with so
many of us, the defenders of peace
are irresistible.’ Against a back-
ground of flags, with banners read-
ing: “Welcome to the International
Champions of Peace,” and “For
Peace and Understanding Between
the Nations,” these world-famous
leaders voiced their confidence in
the power of the people to secure
the peace.

Tremendous enthusiasm greeted
ame Hodinova-Spurna’s dis-
closure that three-quarters of the
Czechoslovak population had al
ready signed the petition to ban
the atom bomb. “If we secure the
abolition of the atom bomb, war
will not come,” she declared.

The Dean of Canterbury, just re-
turned from his Canadian and Aus-
tralian tours, was cheered as he
Said: “This peace movement is the
Most human and it is the most
Christian movement the world has
€ver seen.” +

The Dean told his audience:
“There is something stronger than
‘the warmongers, it is the common
People. It is they who have to make
the guns; they have to fire them;
and they have to receive their force;

Japanese -

unions fight

| TOKYO

Sixty-five Japanese unions have
decided on strike action to pro-
test General Douglas MacArthur’s
June 5 instruction to the Japan-
ese government to “purge” lead-
ing Communists from the coun-
_try’s political life and undertake
measures to ban the party itself. —

_MacArthur ordered the govern-

Ment to act on the basis of an

—°ccupation statute originally de-
Signed to eliminate fascists and

| The Communists were the on

Japanese group which fought 3.4

4n’s participation in the war. Many
of them enlisted in'the Chinese and
other allied armies to fight Japan-
se militarism. Of those in Japanpl
undreds were jailed.

The last time the Communists
Were outlawed in this country was
when the military fascists took
Power prior to the invasion of Man-
Churia in 1931. The Japanese labor
Movement was outlawed and re-
Placed by a “labor front” at the
Same time.

MacArthur's action against the
Communists took place soon after
he had declared an amnesty for
& number of fascist war criminals

“and rejected a Soviet demand for

the trial of Emperor Hirohito as

ne of those responsible for war-

time Japanese atrocities, dt was
taken in the course of a nation-
Wide election in which the Com-
Munists polled many more ‘votes
than in 1947, '

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the campaign

but the common people, once they
awaken, have a mighty power and
if they say “no” there will be no
war. In the name of all that is
righteous and just,” he ended, ‘“ex-
ercise this mighty power.” ,

The American warmongers, Kor-
neichuk declared, had tried to
frighten the people, but the people
had tightened their ranks. Their
slogan was “audacity, audacity and
more audacity.” There was no
greater cause than the struggle for
peace, he. added.

“Tt will not come by itself for
the imperialists are doing all they
can to destroy the world in a new
war. Let us unite our efforts in the
struggle for the sacred cause of
peace,” he stated.

As the massive figure of the
world-beloved Paul Robeson mount-
ed the rostrum, the crowd~ spon-
taneously broke into songs of wel-
come, They were profoundly moved
by his singing of the “Song of the
Warsaw Ghetto,” partly in Yiddish
and partly in English. He also sang
Chinese, Soviet and American songs.
He told his audience:

“We in England and America
have a grave responsibility. We
are in the core of what would
like to be—but will neyer be—
the revival of fascism. The Amer-
ican working class is beginning
to realize that it is they who are
suffering from the warmongers;
it is they who are losing their
civil liberties, being thrown into
prison; and it is not the people of
’ the Soviet Union, China and the
New Democracies who are suf-
fering. e

“T am going back to America to
struggle for peace. It has never
been simple there; the battle of the
people against the privileged few
is one that has lasted for centuries
and centuries, We live in a world

State assembly |
calls for baa

; RIO DE JANIERO
The struggle of the Brazilian
people in defence of peace and for
the banning of the atom bomb on
the basis of the Stockholm peace
appeal, is intensifying in every sec-
tion of the population. Prominent
personalities, working class, student
and cultural organizations, and
state and municipal authorities are
adding their voices to the demand
for outlawing of atomic weapons.
_ The state legislative assembly
of Pernambuco by a vote of 32 to
‘3 has approved a resoluticn ad--
‘dressed to the Minister of Foreign
affairs calling for official support
for the campaign for peste and-
banning of atomic weapons. |
The municipal council of Olinda
in Pernambuco state has unani-
mously approved a resolution _con-
demning war and atomic arms
which was forwarded to the federal
senate with the demand that it
should act through the United Na-
tions for the, prohibition of atomic
weapons. Other municipal councils
have passed similar resolutions—
Scientists, including the greatest
Brazilian authority on nuclear en-
ergy, Cesar Lates, artists, writers,
labor’ leaders and political figures
here have stated their support for
against the atom

China conducting
four for peace —

PEKING

A distinguished group is touring |,

e of China in a great peace
eae to publicize the signifi-
cance of the Stockholm appeal.
Nanking is the first of the major
cities ‘to be visited. : s :

The group is headed by the poet
Emi Siao who was the Chinese dele-
gate to the world peace meeting in.
Stockholm. Sie

of change. Let us be proud to bring
about change in that world, into the
world of the future.”

Over $2800 was collected by the
rally and it was announced that
more than 150,000 signatures to the
peace petition had already been col-
lected in Britain,

Sicilian House
adopts appeal

; ROME
« The regional assembly of Sicily
—local legislature which repre-
sents the island’s four million. in-
habitants—has unanimously ap-
proved the Stockholm appeal for
outlawing the atom bomb and
_branding as criminal the first
government to use it.

The resolution was presented to
the Sicilian assembly by 44 deputies
belonging to all political parties on
the initiative: of Communist deputy
Pompeo Colaianni, heroic command-
er in the war of liberation and
member of the Italian National
Commitee of the Partisans of
Peace. :

Action of the Sicilian assembly
follows by only a few days the con-
ference held in Rome under the
chairmanship of Italy’s elder states-
man, Vittorio Emanuelle Orlando,
which launched an anti-atom bomb
declaration signed by 100 leading
Italian personalities in the world
of politics, art, science and religion.
An honorary committee of the con-
ference was set up which includes
Orlando, former President of the
Italian Republic de Nicola, Presi-
dent Bonomi of the Italian senate
and president Gronchi of the
House of Deputies.

PAUL ROBESON

“We live in a world of change.
Let us be proud to bring about
change in that world, into the
wotrld of the future.” a

Anti-labor
bill blocked

COPENHAGEN

Danish Justice Minister Steincke,
who during the Nazi occupation be-
came notorious for defending the
unconstitutional law banning the
Communist party, introduced the
so-called “Fifth Column Bill” in
parliament. Aim of this bill is to
outlaw every opposition to the war
and rearmament policies.

The bill, which is more far-reach-
ing than legislation introduced even
under the Nazi occupation, was de-
nounced by Communist Deputy Fog,
a famous resistance leader. Profes-
sor Fog’s fighting stand blocked im-
mediate action on the bill, and dis-
cussion of its measures has been

postponed.

Afgan, Iran
armies get
nazi training

Former Nazi officers will head
the training and instruction of the
Iranian and Afghanistan armies
and police forces on the orders of
the American secret service in Wes-
tern Germany. The first groups of
officers left Germany early this
month.

The first group to leave consisted
of 23 Nazi officers, including five for-
mer colonels and 12 former majors.
The German department of the Am-
erican espionage center in Munich,
which is headed by Nazi specialist
for colonial problems, Heinz Bert-
hold, and which organizes the in-
struction of Nazi officers in the
Middle and Near Eastern armies, is
preparing for Iran alone,-100 well-
schooled instructors.

Their tasks, apart from military
training, will include the setting up
in Teheran of an intelligence center
of American espionage in the Mid-
dle East.

Another group of former Nazi
officers has left Cairo for Afghanis-
tan. These are also in the service
of the German department of the
American CIC (Counter-Intelligence
Corps) in Munich, Their “instruc-
tion course” at Kabul has been pre-
pared by Heinz Berthold with the
assistance of the Afghanistan lega-
tion in Egypt.

The Nazi instructors for the Af-
ghanistan army are all former of-
ficers of the Wehrmacht and “Waf-
fen S” who have been in Egypt for
some time.

Boycott war cargoes

AUCKLAND

New Zealand dockers have decid-

ed to boycott shops handling war

materials slated for wse against

the people of Malaya, chairman

Harold Barnes of the Waterside
Workers Union has announced.

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U.S, ROLE IN. CONSPIRACY “BARED

eS ee eee

‘Czech traitors gambled
Bi West launching war

'. PRAGUE

While millions of the Czechoslovakian people were signing the Stockhalm peace

appeal for banning of the atomic weapon and branding of the first government to use it

as a war criminal, J3 traitors recently stood before a court here and revealed

had gambled on war. ;
Among the foreign’ nationals
named in the indictment has hav-
ing been active in the conspiracy

U.S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia
and ambassador to Canada at the
time of his death; Harold-C. L. Gib-
son, former first secretary at the
British embassy;. Maurice Deje&n,
former French ambassador; and
Dr, Ivo Murko, former Yugoslav
chagge d’affaires. < ‘
Apart from these “diplomats”, the
conspirators were aided by other
foreign nationals posing under var-
ious “peaceful” occupations, among
them: United Press editor Helen
Fisher; New York Times corres-
pondent Dana Schmidt; Swede
Posse-Brazdova, deputy of the Nor-
wegian Social Democrat Party Kin-
dingsland; an Anglo-American sec-
ret service agent named Anderson,
who posed as secretary of the Nor-
wegian Union of Former Political
Prisoners; and the chief of the
Prague Bureau of the American “re-
lief agency” CARE (Cooperative for®)
American Remittances to Europe),
named Benedikt. .
Benedikt, it was revealed, acted as
the direct representative of the so-
called “fourth international” with
the task of organizing Trotskyism
among Czechoslovak ,workers. In
this function he made use of one
of the, defendants, a former Trot-
skyite who contrived to join the

Social Democrat party after Czecho-

slovakia’s liberation.

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how they

2% ; : "
The main group of the conspir- |

ators, led by Milada Horakova,

former National Socialist woman:

deputy, was financed from funds
embezzled from the National So-
cialist party’s treasury by former
Foreign -Trade Minister Hubert
Ripka and former Deputy Premier
Petr Zenkl. Both have fled to the
West where they are organizing
reactionary emigre groups abroad
and star in BBC and “Voice of
America” broadcasts.

The , role being played by
Ripka, who still poses at a “pa-_
triot” in his hysterical BBC
broadcasts, was revealed when
the prosecution read his wartime
letter to Otto Strasser, former
Nazi leader living in Canada.
Ripka assured Strasser that he
was “doing everything to clear
your name,” and Strasser ad-
dressed him in his reply: “My
dear friend Ripka.” ;

Cross-examination of Milada Hor-
akova showed that she and her
accomplices had started out in their
treacherous activities from the di-
rect assumption that the Western
powers were preparing war against
the Soviet Union and the People’s
Democracies. What is more, they
were being constantly assured of
this by representatives of the West-
ern powers in Prague. :

Ripka informed Horakova, in a

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_ Josef Nestaval, former secretary _
of the presidium of the National —
Socialist party, made it quite clear
that the group
‘possibilities. —

Main features of the conspira-—
tors’ program were: banning of all
Marxist parties, political “dictator-
skip and return of nationalized en-
terprises to their. former capitalist
owners. Czechoslovakia was to lose
its sovereignty and become
of a nebulous “federation”
cated by Ripka, — i
_ The picture of the moral decay _
of the conspirators was completed _
by Nestaval himself. when he re- _

part
advo- —

vealed the fight for positions that
raged among them. ‘

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