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By JOHN PITTMAN

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. Guatemala has charged that U.S. Official and press circles are pre-

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Small Central American republic %f three million people. Dr. Guillermo Toriello Garrido, Guatemala’s representative, declar- ed that some members of the U.S. State Department have personal interests in United Fruit Company

and are responsible for the propa-},

Sanda campaign inciting hatred and enmity against his nation.

. Speaking in the Assembly plen- aty debate on the Soviet draft re- ‘Solution, Dr. Thoriello Garrido Warned against preparations for Autervention against his country.

He said he would have voted in favor of the paragraph of the So- Met resolution calling for a ban oN propaganda had it not specified that such propaganda was prepar-

or a new world war.

The U.S., he said, was not car- "ying on propaganda to prepare & war against Guatemala but

as inciting hatred and enmity 8s the preparation for a type of intervention. He then charged © U.S. was carrying out “econ-

Mic aggression” against Guate- Mala,

Guatemala, he continued, was Co Ng only to have United Fruit Mpany comply with its laws. His had a small army of 3,000 = It had no navy, or air force, pn ads. And United Fruit Com- th Controlled its railroads. How *n, could it be a threat to the Peace? aay the contrary, he continued, his Rett was acting in accord- hat; With the principles of inter- tonal law and the UN charter.

Dr. Toriello Garrido’s statement inte Sharp contrast to the pro- ‘An US Of friendship for the Latin ‘rican peoples voiced by U.S.

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SAUDI ARABIA

ITALIAN EAST AFRICA

° F] ‘Buganda in tears Paulo Kavuma, Kat ikkiro (prime minister) of Buganda, told the Lukkiko (parliament) last week, “The whole of Bu- ganda is in tears,” over the Brit- ish government's action in depos- ing and exiling King Mutse II, Kabaka of Buganda.

Canadian corporation behind Buganda action

LONDON

- Big foreign investors, including Canadian interests, are behind the action of British Colonial Secre-

tary Oliver Lyttleton in kidnappin

protectorate treaties.

g Mutesa, the Kabaka (King) of Buganda and tearing up the province’s (Buganda is the main province of Uganda, which borders on Kenya.)

: These investors are pushing ahead with mining and industrial projects in East Africa. Their interests lie in an East African federation and in low taxation.

They are opposed to any political developments which would bring them under the control of an Afri- can government.

This would happen in Buganda if the king and his people won self-government or if all Uganda was converted into a federation of African states.

Last month the Uganda De- velopment Corporation Ltd. an- nounced that it had reached agreement with Frobisher Ltd. (the Canadian mining company and subsidiary of Ventures Ltd.) for the completion of Kilembe copper mine in western Uganda.

Frobishers would contribute about two-thirds of the $19 million capital.

The ore would be brought for smelting via a new rail extension right across Buganda to Jinja on its eastern border.

The new smelting works at Jinja would also treat copper ore from the Macalder-Nyanza copper mine in Kenya.

In an article on these industrial

Nixon boycotted by bloc of Indian MPs

NEW DELHI

Vice President Richard Nixon of the United States spoke to Indian

members of parliament last week

India’s own affairs. He attacked India’s new trade

— and deliberately interfered in

agreement with the Soviet Union,

saying that many people in the U.S. would view “with alarm” the con-

clusion of such agreements as a sign of an inclination to “totali- tarianism.” :

Unfortunately for Nixon he is visiting India at a time when the public’s attention is mainly focus- ed on the new trade treaty and the Soviet note to Pakistan warn- ing against U.S. bases there. .

Nixon informally addressed a poorly attended meeting of mem- bers of both houses of the Indian parliament.

The Communists, Revolution- ary Socialists, members of the Forward bloc, and the Peasants and Workers’ party ‘boycotted the meeting.

The bulk of Praja Socialist par- ty MPs did not attend either. In- dia’s vice-president, Doctor Radha- krishnan, also made Nixon’s job pretty difficult. : :

He asked him to tell President Eisenhower that Asia was pulsat- ing with a new life and demand-

ing racial equality; political free- dom, economic progress and inter- national peace as the only way to save democracy in the world.

Kenya congress hits federation

NAIROBI

The Kenya Indian Congress de-

clared in a statement here last

week that East and Central Afri-

can Federation was out of the ques- tion.

Political union of Kenya with other East African territories should not be considered until Kenya “gets away from the racial basis of politics,” and until such a union was freely accepted by the people of the other territories, it

said.

developments on November 21 a;

special correspondent of the Lon-| are not so intended.”

don Times declared that: | This resolution opposed federa- “In these circumstances actions | tion with Kenya and demanded a

such as that of the Great Lukkiko | fixed date for the independence of

(the Buganda Council) in passing|Buganda within the Common-

the October resolution are a grave | wealth.

Labor leaders save Tories by withdrawal

LONDON

Seldom has the weakness of the right-wing Labor party leadership

been more obvious than in last week’s debate in the British House of

Commons precipitated by the Conservative government’s action in deposing and exiling the Kabaka of Buganda.

The Labor party submitted a} motion censuring Colonial Secre-| tary Oliver Lyttleton for his con-| duct of “African affairs.” James Griffiths, colonial secretary in the) former Labor government, with- | drew the motion at the close of the) emergency debate on Buganda on} Wednesday night last week. Then, while Labor back benchers anxious- ly tried to find out what their lead- ers intended to do with the motion, | the right-wing leaders decided not} to proceed with it at all, announc- ing their decision only on Thurs- day night last week.

The Conservative -party, hard- pressed to defend its repressive African policies, immediately seiz- ed the opportunity to ridicule the Labor party’s amazing stand and divert the issue from one of policy to one of procedure.

embarrassment, even though they

The Conservative statement said there were few precedents for a motion of censure to be published at home and abroad without those responsible placing it for debate.

The statement issued by the right-wing Labor leaders, explain- ing withdrawal of the motion, claimed that it Was not their inten- tion to embarrass Lyttleton. They contended that a mistake had been French released made in issuing the motion of censure and informing government) whips about it.

Rot for years has the Labor party made itself look so-ridiculous as in these attempts to help the govern- ment to maintain its hold in Bu- ganda.

Benoit Frachon, general secre- taryof the General Confederation of Labor, largest and most in- fluential labor oganization in France, was reported this week to have been released from jail.

An almost unanimous call of “Re-| He was said to have been given sign” went up Sairinaae aoe a “provisional release’ by a benchers when Lyttleton to: S| grand jury — a phrase that in- on Monday last week that he had dicated Iueiilily of dks French seized the king and was bringing = sitcom naa chengde

him to London. ; : But feeling of indignation found| °f “endangering the internal no expression in the right-wing) security of the state” against Frachon stick.

leadership’s statements.

West Indian leader appeals to Privy Council

St. Vincent fears fate of British Guiana |

LONDON

After surviving an attempt at

assassination a man who may be

the future prime minister of the

West Indies island of St. Vincent

has arrived in London with an ap- peal to the Privy Council.

Nearly a year ago Ebenezer Icahn, 8 is president of the People’s Political party, was ar- rested after making a speech in which he attacked the police. A charge of sedition was dismissed, but he was found guilty of public “mischief.” oe

In London he is petition! leave to appeal to the Privy Coun-

i ainst the court’s decision. oath his counsel, Ralph Mill- ner, he is declaring that in criticiz- ing the police he was only assert- ing the right of free speech. :

Last July an unknown assassin fired into his room at 4 o’clock one

morning, and then escaped.

Aware that an attempt might

made on his life, Joshua had etited on friends to guard him, but five were arrested by the police before the attempt.

The People’s Political party is supported by thousands of under- paid people working in the arrow- root, cotton and sugar industries

of the West Indian island. “When I go back I want to make

“There is a state of serfdom among many of the workers,” says Joshua. .

“The minimum wage is about 3 shillings and 10 pence (about 40 cents) a day, and housing condi- tions are deplorable.

“We want a united party repre- senting the people, and we seek to improve conditions by constitution- al means. :

“But we are very conscious that if we are returned to power the British government may try to smash the constitution as it has done in British Guiana.

people alive to the crime that has been committed in British Guiana.”

If the People’s Political party wins the elections next year, Joshua will be in approximately the same position as Dr. Cheddi Jagan was after the election in British Guiana.

“What happened in British Guiana might have happened in St. Vincent,” says Joshua.

(St. Vincent, which has a popu- lation of 70,000, is in the Wind- ward Islands. The capital city is Kingstown.)

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