Page 6 — Saturday, November 4, 1944 The people of Patras acclaim their mayor, Vasiliso Roufos after British forces routed the Nazis. Roufos hid in the hills during the German occupation. razi lians Press For lational El ection By ANDREW GORDON MONTE VIDEO— (ALN) — Brazil appears to be awakening from its political slumber, reports reaching here through tight censorship indicate. Elections are being widely debated, political party leaders are reemerging and even the newspapers havé joined in the discussion of electoral details. The repeated statements by President Getulio Vargas on elections are said to reflect popu- lar feelings for democracy. President Vargas, however, has said that elections will take place only at the end of the war. Braxil’s last national elections were held in 1934. Writing in Diario de Sao Paulo, conservative Assis Cha- teaubriand, Brazil’s biggest newspaper owner, declared last week: “Consultation of the peo- ple must not be delayed. The people should be called to the polls while the war lasts.” His statement is believed to inter- pret general opinion in Sao Paulo, where demands for elec- tions. have always’ been strong as has deep-rooted opposition to President Vargas. “JT do not see any reasons for postponing elections,” Dr. Raul Pilla, former leader of the Par- ~ tido Libertador of Rio Grande do Sul, a regional party of liberal tendencies, stated in an inter- view with Correio do Povo of Porto Alegre on October 10. “If countries with many millions of soldiers on the battlefields do not wait until the end of the con- flict, why should not Brazil pro- ceed in the same way,’ he con- tinued. “Immediate preparation of electoral registers is neces- sary. Direct elections are indis- pensable for popular representa- tion and indirect elections must be condemned.” That publica- tion of this interview was not followed by action against the newspaper is considered signi- ficant. Pro-fascist military and civil groups are also active in Brazil, however. One report states that they were planning a coup d’etat en September 7, Brazil’s inde- pendence day, and that the inter- ruption of communications with the exterior as well as between the Brazilian states themselves from September 14 to September 21 is related to government ac- tion to suppress the coup. The situation is, howeyer, still un- clear. Efforts by the Argentine Colo-| nels’ Lodge regime to win over Brazil continue to be indicated by the boasts of friendship in the fascist press of Argentine. Similarly, inseriptions are re- ported on the walls of Rio de Janeiro which, dealing with the strong stand of the United States toward Argentina, de- clare: “Argentine is right.” At the same time: the daily news- paper Brasil-Portugal,. edited by Viriato Vargas; brother of the President, continues its cam- paign against the United Na- tions. Im the latest copies avail- able here, covering September, this correspondent counted 18 articles attacking Soviet Russia and a special series attacking liberalism. Decomposition of Brazil’s cor- porate Estado Novo is seen to be progressing rapidly, furthered by divisions im the anti-demo- eratic bloc itself. Democratic groups favoring the United Na- tions are trying to prevent the crisis from -being resolved by the replacement of one anti-demo- eratic team by another. Anglo-Soviet Trade Union Repc Endorsed At British T. U. Congre BLACKPOOL— (ALN) German with people their” By Anne Kelly — Overwhelming endorsement of the Anglo-Soviet ” Union Committee report calling for a world labor conference on Jan. 8 and linkin Nazi leaders in responsibility for voted by the annual conference of the British Trades Union Congress. wat crimes Unanimous port was given to the recommendation that a preparatory world labor committee, ; senting the TUC, the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions of the USSR, ane labor on the basis of two representatives each from the AFL and CIO and one fro: Railroad Brotherhoods, meet no later than December 4. Deploring the AFL’s refusal to participate in a conference of world labor, Vasili Kuznetzov, chairman of the AUCCTU who was in London for the meeting of the Anglo-Soyviet Trade Union Committee which took place last week, expressed the hope that “the AFL will consider the ques- tion once more and accept the invitation.” It is generally felt by the delegates that if the AFL continues to refuse, it will re- sult in a crisis in its hitherto friendly relations with the TUC. Endorsing the proposals of the TUG general council for imme- diate public ownership of fuel, power and transport and public control of all essential industries, the delegates adopted a resolu- tion declaring that “the continu- ation in the postwar period of government controls, especially in regard to finance, raw ma- terials, prices and the safe- guarding of labor conditions, is imperatively needed.” Y a vote of five to one, the delegates: adopted a resolu- tion stating that the German people share responsibility for war crimes and demanding the rebuilding of devastated terri- tory: by German labor and ma- terials. .Commenting on a por- tion of the resolution which eall- ed upon world labor to block any attempt to “mitigate. the punish- ment of the Hitlerite criminals,” TUC general secretary Sir Wal- ter Citrine warned that when the Allies enter Berlin “we shall find so many anti-Nazis full of as- surances that they have always been against the Nazis that it will be difficult to know who had been carrying on the war in Germany.” Louis Saillant, general secre- tary of the French General Con- federation. of - Labor and dent of the National Resi Council, a fraternal deli was enthusiastically sup in his declaration tha French workers would ref have any relations wit workers of Germany unt latter showed that they cleansed from every. vest Nazism. 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