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“We had orders to blow up or burn, everything as we retreated”

— and in this
the orders,

‘TO REBUILD WHAT WE'VE DESTROYED’

American POW asks

to remain in Korea

BY SPECIAL gifls. After they got drunk, the
CORRESPONDENT first thing they’d do is grab
NEW CHINA NEWS AGENCY hold of a rifle and go out look-
NORTH KOREA ing for women., The men would
A young American POW has come home boasting of the
€xpressed his desire to be al- women they had raped,
lowed to stay in Korea after “The officers knew what :was
the war and help build up what going on, but they did not mind.
American imperialism has des- They’d get South Koreans to
troyed. bring the girls to their head-
He is a 19-year-old private quarters.”
first Class, whose father is a “When we were in Kaeson,”
Massachusetts fisherman, he recounted, “we ran short of
‘I have been right through rations. What they did was
Korea,” he told me. “My brother sent out armed details and took
Was killed at Taejon. Since I rice, cows, pigs, all they could
was captured, I’ve been think- lay hands ,on, for the whole
mk things over.” ‘ division.” With typical Ameri-
“My own life has not been can cynicism, this was named

picture American soldiers are shown carrying out

€xactly a bed of roses. My “Operation Liberation” —- “lib-
father, too, had a-hard life. erating’ food from the Korean
S20) here we've: come and people.

“If we needed work done, the
commanding officer told the
chief of ‘police. he wanted so
many laborers at a certain place
at a certain time. South of
the 38th parallel, the army paid
600 won, equal to 24 cents, and
one meal a day. It was hard
work, too, such as rolling drums
of gasoline on to trucks. And
they were worked long hours.

knocked the Koreans around in
heir own country. I’ve been
meeting and talking with them.
€y are good, hard-working
People. All the things we've
done to them have just about
Sot me,” j
‘I hate the whole business,”
© Went on. “I want to help
buila What the people. I fought
for have destroyed. I can drive

& truck or -wield a pick or do “North of the 38th, the army
PE padig Operating. I don’t mind paid them nothing. No food
how hard I work. I want my _ either. How do I know all this?
Poy. to grow up where there’s’ I saw it. I was in the quarter-
peace, I appreciate + the good master’s company with the
things you can buy in the headquarters of the First Bat-
States, but it’s too big a price talion of the 24th Infantry Di-
° Pay for war hysteria.” vision. Lieutenant-Colonel Co-
is Wife and newly-born son, chu in charge of the company
I learned from him — he has_ gave the orders.
Rot: vet Seen his son—are in “There was a case in Waeg-
Japan. He had joined the army won when I myself was one of
2 travel, caught up by the lure’ the guards over the POWs. It

was bitterly cold and I felt jit
badly though I had good clothes
on and walked about® Our or-
ders were not to allow any
prisoners to stand up or move
around. They were kept in the
open all night. They were given
no food. It was impossible to
say which were soldiers. There
were young girls there, too, of
14 and 15, nurses or something.
They were all later shipped on

Wh recruiting advertisements.
ries he went to enquire, he
the told “Europe is full” and
Boing EYE him the choice of
& to Japan. And now, sit-
; § in &@ Korean hut, he quiet-
Deno ee from his own ex-

nce how the American

h.

@ vin our fellows went into
thin 88e, it was the commonest
fa.© 2 the world to clear the

muily out i to Pusan.”
of their home, bust box cars to
; whee SRY, Chests, take whatever “We had orders to blow a
e Soldiers fancied and then or burn everything as we ©

thr,
lett the rest out. When they

Not ®Y would ag often as
robhs uta match to the straw
ing, a leave the village blaz-
38 ber fre was no such thing
Koreans property for the

treated—food, warehouses and
ing.”
pet co like to bring my”
wife and boy to Korea when
the war is over. I truly believe
from what I’ve seen that Kor-
eans and Chinese today stand
for what I think is really de-
mocracy and peace. You can-
not win against the right, and

they are right.”

‘ Wag jest Periods every man’
beep sued with five cans of
Went P°? Meal. AN the fellows

ut hunting for drink and

Guatemalan president
appeals to powers to
maintain world peace

In an impressive ceremony before 50,000 citizens, Colonel

inaugural address as the new

powers to maintain world peace.
transfer of power in Guatemala in

The outgoing president, Juan
Jose Arevalo, attacked imperialist
governments as the heirs of Hit-
lerism, fomentors of a new war
and exploiters of millions.

“After outlining his economiic:
and political program, Arbenz, 37-
year-old “soldier of the people”
who was one of the three leaders
of the 1944 revolution that over-
threw the U.S. puppet Ubico-Ponce
dictatorship which -together with
its precursors had oppressed Gua-
temala for nearly half a century,
declared: “An indispensable con-
dition for realising our aims is
that the world should not again
suffer the bitterness and grief of
anew war. War would signify for
Guatemala the end iof all our ef-
forts for the people’s wellbeing and
national development.

“In this sense we will applaud
whatever effort is made by the lead-
ers of the great powers to main-
tain international cordiality and
co-existence in a peaceful world.
We continue to believe it is pos-
sible to settle differences among
nations by peaceful means and that
it is not necessary to resort to arm-
ed struggle.” :

Arbenz also stated that Guate-
mala’s foreign policy will be govern-
ed by the principte of non-inter-
vention in other nations affairs
and “diplomatic and commercial
friendship with all countries.” Ar-
benz. failed. to, give..any -support

Twelve Indian

peasant leaders
facing death

: BOMBAY
Unless saved by world-wide pop-
ular protest, 12 peasant leaders of
Telengana, Hyderabad, are soon to
die for crimes which no one has
ever proved they committed.

The Indian Supreme Court has
refused their petition against the
death sentence passed on them by
special tribunal in Hyderabad.

The 12 were sentenced to death
for taking part in the. peasant
movement which liberated large
areas and initiated land reforms
in 1946 before Hyderabad was a
part of the Republic of India and
was still under the absolute rule of
the Nizam. "

In the reprisals which followed,
the 12 peasant leaders were seized
and after long imprisonment
charged with murder.

Their case was argued before
the Supreme Court in February by
the famous British lawyer, D. N.
Pritt, but the Supreme Court has
refused to reverse the verdict.

Mercy petitions have been pre-
sented to the Nizam of Hyderabad,
which if refused will’ be referred
to the president of India,

In a recent statement to the
Hyderabad High Oburt, the Hy-
derabad advocate general ad-
mitted that there are over 5,000
persons held in jail there. Most
of the imprisOned are political
detainees held under “protec\ive
detention” for fighting against °
landlord persecution and terror-
ism, This is also the sole crime
of the 12 innocent peasant lead-
ers now facing execution.

BY A. B. MAGIL 2

president of Guatemala,
The ceremony marked
the present, century.

MEXICO CITY
Jacobo Arbenz, making his

urged agreement among the great

the first peaceful democratic

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All those figures of |

\Chinese killed--just

MacArthur's guesses

People who have been wonder-
ing just where General MacAr-
thur dug up those astronomical
figures of Chinese casualties in
Korea now have an explanation.

It “is a matter of guesswork,”
U.S. Major General Hobart R.
Gay is quoted as Saying in an
Associated Press dispatch.

Gay was commander of the
First Cavalry Division in Korea.

“The Chinese are very punc-
tilious in burying or getting back
their dead,” General Gay said,
explaining why there were no
bodies left around for MacAr-
thur’s statisticians to count, and
why they just had to guess.

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to the U.S. State Department’s
thesis that Latin American coun-
tries must line up behind American
war plans against the Soviet Union,
People’s Democratic China and all
peoples fighting for liberation.
Arbenz placed the main empha-
sis on the economic program pledg-
ing to carry through agrairian re-
form and stimulate industrialisa-

‘ion to achieve three objectives:
“Convert our country from a de-
sendent nation with a semi-colon-
al economy into an economically
independent country; convert Gua-
temala from a ‘backward country
with a predominantly feudal econ-
omy, into a modern capitalist coun-
try; and carry through this trans-
formation in a form that would
bring the ‘highest possible increase
in the living standards of the great
masses of the people.” :

The new president pledged to
guard the independence of the la-
bor movement, preserve the fullest
civil liberties and to continue a
policy. of asylum for political re-
fugees. However, hé warned, ci-
vil liberties did not mean freedom
to organised armed conspiracies
against the government. (During
Arevalo’s six-year term there were
some 26 .attempted coups by re-
actionary forces organised and fin-
anced by the U.S.)

In a final address to the nation,
Arevalo declared ‘that “contemp-
orary Western democraty!’ was,
like Hitler, a producer of wars.

He spoke of the “frenzied at-
tempts to corrupt thé'great popular
nationalist movement of 1944,”
and thanked tj: workers, peasants
and armed forces for saving the
revolution and lauded Arbenz, his
defence minister, as symbolising

the unity of civilians and soldiers,

Appeals

to. the world’s attention by

Although Franco has been forced
to appoint a commission to inves-
tigate living costs, he has react-
ed to the Barcelona strike by dis-
missing Eduardo Baeza Alegria,
civil governor of Barcelona, for his
failure to “handle the strike move-
ment more efficiently.”

Alegria has been replaced by Air
Force General Felipe Acedo Co-
lunga,’ notorious® for his savage
repression of the 1934 uprising of
the Asturian miners which paved
the way for the People’s Front vic-
tory of 1936.

Franco has also created a new
post of inspector general of arm-
ed police and appointed Rafael
Hierro Martinez, former provincial
sovernor of Coruna, to fill it. Mar-
tinez has been charged wh “pre-
venting a repetition of the Barce-

lona events.”

made for

united front to
end Franco rule

PARIS

Indicative of the rising struggle of the Spanish people
against the hated Franco fascist regime, dramatically brought

the recent Barcelona strike,

hundreds of students this week paraded through the streets
of Madrid to protest against living costs.

Meantime, the’ central commit-
tee of the Communist Party of
Spain and the secretariat of the
United Socialist Party of Catalonia
have issued a statement greeting
the Barcelona strike as evidence
that the Spanish People will soon
be able to end Franco's tyranny
and re-establish the democratic re-
Public which Franco, with the aid
of Hitler and Mussolini, overthrew.

The statement Kelterates the
appeal made last December to
all working class and republican
parties and brganizations, to
all democratic and patriotic
forces, to establish a national re-
publican and democratic! front
which will speed the triumph of
the Spanish péople in their strug-
gle against Franco and war.”

LONDON
The bankruptcy of British policy
in Malaya is admitted by the Lon-
don Daily Mail correspondent in
Singapore who writes that “there
is not enough barbed wire in the
world” to carry out the Briggs re-
settlement plan. - This is the plan
of British military commander in

Malaya, Sir Harold Briggs, of up-
PACIFIC TRIBUNE

‘Not enough'Ibarbed wire
in world’ to hold Malaya

rooting hundreds of thousands of
people from their homes and “re
settling” them in concentration
camps.

The Malayan patriots, says the
correspondent, “hav trickled back
to the ‘swept’ areas where,” as re-
cently in South Jahore within a
few miles of Singapore Island,”

they attack in large numbers.
— APRIL 6, 1951 — PAGE 3

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