ROBERT MENZIES

‘HERBERT EVATT

Gov’t margin closed in Australia election

SYDNEY

ne Sovernment of Prime’ Minister Obert Menzies was returned to of-

he in last week’s Australian gen- tal election, but with an even ‘atrower margin that it held in the St parliament over its Labor op-

Position, headed by Herbert Evatt. “fe final result was expected to AN the Liberal-Country party co- tion 65 seats to Labor’s 56, 2

The Liberal-Country party coali-|

gain of three seats for Labor. : Menzies could derive little satis- faction from the election outcome. The Labor party actually polled a larger popular vote, but the dis- tribution of ridings, favoring the government (in its rural strong- holds, swung the balance for the government, despite the over- whelming vote against the govern- ment rolled up in such cities as Sydney and Melbourne.

U.S. intrigue seen

Pakistan gov't ouster

BOMBAY

Last March the East Pakistan United Front, a loose alliance of Moslem groups outside the Moslem League, Hindu groups, Communist and other left-wing organizations, overwhelmingly defeated the Moslem

League government in the East Pakistan provincial elections.

The Moslem League, which is the part of

Premier Mohammed Ali and holds a majority in the Pakistan central government, entered the elections with

237 seats to 72 for the combined opposition groups.

had won 217 seats and the Moslem

_ This week, seizing on the pre- text of violent clashes provoked by employers in the jute mills, Premier Mohammed Ali ordered Major General Iskander Mirza, de- fense secretary,’ to oust the new United Front provincial ministry an dtake over the East Pakistan administration.

In a_ broadcast, Premier Ali charged that Abdul Kasem Faslul Hug, 81-year-old chief minister of the ousted United Front provincial government was “a traitor to Pak- istan, even to East Pakistan.”

(East Pakistan consists of East Bengal and part of Assam and holds 42 million of Pakistan’s 76 million people.)

Actually, since his government concluded a military aid pact with the U.S., Premier Ali has been under increasing fire for betraying the country’s inter- ests to the U.S., whose hand is

Dean of Canterbury

asks justice in Africa

‘aq, AN appeal to Christians to strive for reconcili es by the Dean of Canterbury, preaching in an a Sift to the altar and there rememberest that Ss

“We must heed the terrible ery of our

dare leave any gifts of worship on & altar of God.

enreat efforts have been made, ne nasised by the visit of our

Kes? '0 persuade the citizens of oe and Uganda that these Af ish Q peoples belong to the Brit-

Commonwealth, the British

b

“otherhood of nations.

ers In 4 word they are our broth-

the, De said. “How do we treat *se brothers?”

lagt Minding his hearers of the Joh of democracy in Kenya, Dr. “4son asked:

ae do the wages of black and ai compare? How are their t aren educated respectively and haw, Sick tended? How do they ae in government and in social : €Nities?” i

maten he gave facts to answer S€ questions.

Five and a half million Afri- bids With 50,000 square miles of with land, and 3,000 Buropeans

16,000 square miles of the

St land; E an Europeans éarning from. $150 a month, while unskilled é — “and African workers

Rot encouraged to get skill” @n $3 to $5 a month;

vee, The sum of $300 per child a

chila SPent on schools for white

On Ten; $6 per child per annum

bla Schools for small percentage of "ck children. . . .

OW do they share govern-

wee They don’t share it. The

Son: Man rules,” said Dr. John-

tha and he asked, “Is it surprising

of oe the stirring of the rest

Test € colored world there is un- In Kenya?”

Africans

there Dean went +on to recall how |

as oq te of emergency in Kenya Dress €clared, supposedly to sup- @ secret society, Mau Mau,

dreg With the real object of sup- Sing the Kenya African Union.

" € African Union, he pointed

consti demanding “a democratic Cimptttion, ending of racial dis- lands sion, restoration of stolen theta? full trade union rights, and

€nd of scandalous poverty and

ation, justice ae ‘erbury Cathedral. hy brother hath ought against thee, leave there thy

LONDON peace in Kenya was made last Taking as his text, “If thou bring

: ” ld a large congregation: aie Bees) Des rere ey ts Pets ae We must strive for reconciliation, ere we

appalling social conditions.

Pe athe story that a small terror- ist gang was threatening the country and the government is

Opposi Kenya to U

exploded,” Dr. Johnson went on. “The whole country is in fer- ment. A whole people is involv- ed.”

tion to British colonial rule in Africa has spread from ganda since the British government ousted the Kabaka of

Buganda, shown above with his wife in exile in London.

League had been reduced to nine.

When the la stballots were counted the United Front

seen in the ousting of the East Pakistan government.

The outcome of the East Pakis- tan election, in which the U.S. mili- tary pact was a central issue, was itself a reflection of the over- whelming popular opposition to the central government’s “ultra pro- U.S. policies,’ as the Pakistan

In a recent forthright statement

Times described them. |

calling on the people of East and West Pakistan to unite for “the re- moval of Mohammed Ali and his friends fro mpower,” Maulana Bahsani, leader of the East Pakis- tan Awami Muslim League, remind- ed Premier Ali “that if bayonets could help rule the country with- out the backing of the people, the British would not have had to

travesty

By LI

“J have myself seen.”

of the UN,” as South Korean dele- gate Pyun Yung Tae stated at the Geneva Conference, contending that if the same pattern were re- peated’ in North Korea, “the prob- lem of reunification is solved.”

But, according to a United Press dispatch from Seoul, “some Ameri- can officials here are concerned seriously lest ‘war type’ political misbehavior and downright dis- honesty blacken the elections for the National Assembly and leave the Communists laughing at West- ern style ‘free elections.’ ”

On the eve of the elections Reuter’s press agency reported that “police intimidation, threats and actual violence have cast an ugly shadow over the election cam- paign.”

To control the elections Rhee ex- panded his police force by 14,000 men. And some 680 people were arrested or murdered before the

own Public Security Bureau.

Reuter quoted a “Western of- ficial” who had travelled through the rural areas: of South Korea as saying:

“Campaigners have been bullied, beaten and arrested. Electors have been warned to keep away from meetings and village chiefs have been ordered to support the Lib- eral party (Rhee) candidates.”

This is not the first travesry of a free election carried out in South Korea. :

In the 1948 election the number of arrests made during the cam- paign totalled more than 30,000. Commission on Korea, which ob-

elections by the count of Rhee’s)}.

leave this sub-continent.”

South Korean election of freedom

KAO PEKING

The UN-observed “free elections” in South Korea on May 20 were a good example’of the “freedom” which U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said “the people of the Republic of Korea know” and

The elections were held under the “close and direct observation

SYNGMAN RHEE

In its report, the UN Temporary it had received “numerous com- plaints” of violent interference

‘with the election by Rhee’s troops

and police — one reason that less than 30 percent of the voters turn- ed out to the polls.

Even then the legislature was not sufficiently compliant for Rhee. On May 24 1952, in order to force through the assembly a bill per- manently installing himself as president, Rhee arrested 50 as- sembly members in one night. The remaining members were afraid to attend meetings, so Rhee sent police to round them up, confining them to the assembly building for three days until they agreed to

served the election, acknowledged

adopt his bill.

many Africans attending the rally, which, was called by the Kenya Committee.

David Lardner was court-martial-

from a Kenya forest without ord- ers. “Our boys in the forces there are sickened by what they see and do,” he said. “They know it is the white settlers who are at fault.”

Describing European atrocities, he said he had seen an African’s “ear cut off, had seen women and

children kept without food, had

led after bringing back his patrol.

End Kenya slaughter icall of London rally

LONDON

Hundreds of people rallying in Hyde Park, London, last weekend to demand an end to the slaughter in Kenya, burst into applause as David Lardner, a young ex-officer, told them: “These people are strug- gling for ordinary democratic rights.”

“ft used to be your enemy. Now I am your friend,” he told the

seen whole villages bulldozed to the ground.

“T have seen so-called suspects paraded through the streets nak- ed,” he went on.

Twenty-three Europeans were said to have been killed by Mau Mau.

“I would not attempt to condone excesses by Africans, but look at the figures,” he said. “Four thous- and is the official figure of Afri- cans killed. I can tell you it is

more likely to be four times 4,000.”

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