Canadian POW’s released

Ntiving ”” Photo above shows a
Ng at Panmunjom.

the BY Tuesday this week 24 Canadians had been repatriated under
lis aittice agreement in Korea, reducing the official army missing

group of 13 Canadian prisoners

By C. ALLEN

ant ight of the Shah of Persia
tion Wha sequent counter-revolu-
lly to ich restored him tempor-
of Breprerer following the arrest
4 Wor €r Mossadegh have focus-
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their the Iranians nationalised

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anion ., © restore the Anglo-
Sition Company to its former
Attle E Master of the country.
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Churehiy TOPS in Abadan. The
a Vint 80vernment proclaimed
ual embargo.

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lati, however, was challenged by

the explanation of

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es, whieh Japanese oil compan-
“bsidiaries aN _Teally American

Th
ion, So-called Anglo-American
ute i Was thus revealed as an
Subse view ®-American rivalry. The
SOVermmenc® ‘of the British Tory
tion ‘Ste to the U.S. prevented
ltalian “ee taken to stop the
Carpys a Japanese tankers from
hoy, ke, oil. _ This, ironically
lan People. 4 victory for the Iran-

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feat at Teetialists suffered a de-

National’ Hague, where the In-
Court decided it had no

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an and Britain.

eplomatic failures and

tay Sorted” threats the imperial-

: : to plotting inside
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te eSentatin British imperialist

. dismiss *S Persuaded the Shah
Dae? Minister Mossadegh, the
Rian and appoint in his

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: Which nediately demonstrations,
thetlcipated *e than 200,000 people
row eheran, demanded
f Qaua of the Shah and the
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the meal law . ve proelamation
; > Urt, the Shah and

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sents conte eeeh was recalled, but
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late of Politicians hinas od the
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and

The struggle for

Tran’s oil wells

Then there was a plot in the Na-
tional Front, the party led by Mos-
sadegh. The religious leader Ayat-
olllah Kashani, speaker of the Iran-
ian parliament, went over to the
court party.

Mossadegh demanded the disso-
lution of the Majlis (parliament)
and, to achieve this asked for a re-
ferendum.

The Tudeh party, the influential
progressive party, while strongly
critical of Mossadegh’s internal and
foreign policies, rallied to his sup-
port.

Tudeh demonstrations demand-
ed an end to:the Shah’s influence,
and expulsion of the American
agents, technicians and military
and business advisers.

In Teheran on June 19, 20,000
people marched carrying anti-Am-
erican slogans. A notable feature
in these demonstrations was that
they were joined by thousands of
peasants.

Since then more than a dozen
great demonstrations have taken
place in various cities of Iran.

Iran has relations also with the
Soviet Union. For many years the
Soviet: government had _ special
fishing rights in the Caspian Sea.

Last year the Iranians wished to
nationalise their fishing industry.
Within a few weeks the Soviet
Union and Iran reached agreement
on the end of the concessions.

Two months ago a trade agree-
ment was signed between the Sov-
iet Union and Iran—much to the
advantage of the Iranians for whom
it means the alleviation of a serious
trade slump.

‘After many years of illegality a
Soviet-Iranian Friendship Society
is now functioning openly.

The Tudeh Party has become
the leading force in the country.

- It supports the measures under-
taken by Mossadegh against pro-
imperialist factions. At the same
time it demands an end of martial
law, in force since July 1952, free
elections, land reform, the right
to form trade unions, the elimina-
tion of American “advisers” and
spies.

The Iranian people themselves
have given every proof that they
are determined to win their na-
tional freedom.

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New Soviet note to British,
French, Americans proposes
plan for unity of Germany

MOSCOW

The Soviet Union has once again come forward with proposals to solve the problem of re-uniting
divided Germany. In a 14-page note delivered August 16 to British, U.S. and French embassies here, the
Soviet government proposed that a peace conference of all interested states be called within six months
and that in the meantime, a temporary German federal government be established primarily to arrange

for a free all-Germany election for unified national government.
posals for the peace treaty which were put forward previously by

The note said it was “an anoma-
lous situation that Germany, eight
years after the war, has no peace
treaty, is still split into Eastern
and Western parts and holds no
equal rights in her relationships to
other countries. This situation is
contrary to the efforts of the peace-
loving people to secure peace in
Europe and also represents a con-
travention of the rightful national
interests of the German people.”

Included among the new propo-
sals is one that would end all re-
parations payments by both the
German Democratic Republic and
West German governments after
January’ 1, 1954, cancel all debts,
and would limit payments for occu-
pation forces of the four powers. to
five percent of the state budgets.

At present, West Germany, with
more than 2,000,000 unemployed,
is saddled with heavy costs of
maintaining NATO forces (includ-
ing Canadian) stationed on its ter-
ritory. The population of West
Germany is 48 million; of the
GDR, 18 million.

The new note sugggests that pre-
paratory work on the peace con-
ference be started now for the next
six months before the conference.
German’ representatives should
take part in such meetings.

Attached to the note was a series of pro-
the USSR in March 1952.

It proposes that representatives
of the government of the German
Democratic Republic and the Bonn
government meet for the purpose
of settting up a temporary unified
government, but the note proposes
also that it be responsible for
transport, mail and telegraph, citi-
zenship, the movement of people
and goods into and out of the va-
rious sectors, and for economic and
cultural relations between the
GDR and the Bonn regime.

On the question of the election
the Soviet note emphasized that
none of the four powers now occu-
pying Germany should seek to in-
fluence or interfere in any way
with the right of the German peo-
ple to choose the government of
their choice. It urged that the
new all-Germany government en-
sure that all democratic organiza-
tions and parties had full freedom
to participate in the election and
in the setting up of the temporary
unified government.

Among certain stipulations in
the Soviet note was one that
said the unified government
must not be allowed to sign any
agreement that would enter Ger-
many into any alliance or coali-
tion directed against any power

that took part in the war against
the Hitler regime.

It declared that the three west-
ern powers must bear the “prime
responsibility” for the solution of
certain matters over all Germany.
Its main function would be to or-
ganize free elections for a national
government with jurisdiction in
the German question and “no ex-
cuses can justify any further de-
lay.” ,

It criticized the Western powers
policy of maintaining a divided
Germany and the remilitarization
of the Western sector. It declared
that the principle laid down in the
Potsdam agreement of 1945 were
still valid.

“The road on which the gov-
ernments of France, Great Britain
and the U.S. have embarked with
regard to the German question,”
said the note, leads to the resur-
rection of Germany militarism, to
the creation of a dangerous hotbed
of aggresssion, to an ever-growing
sharpening of the danger of a new
war in Europe...

. “The other way out is in har-
mony with the aims dictated by the
love of peace and with the obliga-

tions that were undertaken by the.

four powers immediately after the
end of the war. It also serves the
interests of peace in Europe.”

WS

The huge oil refinery of Anglo-lranian Oil at Abadan, taken over by the Iranian people last year,

is one of the causes of the counter-revolution in Iran t oday. British and American interests have been

scheming for some time to overthrow Premier Mossadegh and regain control of Iran’s oil wealth.

Fighting goes on in Teheran

Several hundred workers were
killed in battles in the Iranian cap-
ital, Teheran, last week as troops
supporting the Shah attacked gov-
ernment buildings and other key
points. ;

Teheran Radio, seized early in
the fighting by the Shah troops,
was almost the only source of in-
formation about the situation. It
claims that General Zahedi, ap-
pointed prime minister by the
Shah, is “firmly in control” of the
situation,

American state department of-
ficials have been quick to comment
on the reports, They had felt for

a long time, they said, that it was
impogsible to do business “‘in a ra-
tional manner” with Dr. Mossa-
degh’s government. :

An air traveller who arrived in
Holland from Teheran on Thurs-
day last week said: “The only
thing I noticed was that there was
an unusual number of American
military planes standing by at the
airfield.” .

Pro-Shah| forces captured the
central cable office, the foreign
and other ministries and the cen-
tral police station. Fighting is ap-
parently still going on in some
parts of the city.

The Americans have for some
time been intriguing against Mos-
sadegh. Last September the Iranian
newspaper Besouvie Ayandeh warn-
ed Mossadegh that both the U.S.
and British governments were en-
ne a army plots to overthrow

im.

Mossadegh was reported Monday
night this week to have been mov-
ed into a city jail.

In Washington government of-
ficials said the Shah’s urgent ap-
peal for financial help was receiv-
ing ‘‘sympathetic study” by the Un-
ited States.

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