Peace parley:
of Americas
sel for Rio

Support ‘to assure a_represent-
ative delegation to the Ameri-
‘can Intercontinental Peace Con-
‘ference, to be held from January
22-27, is being sought in an ap-
peal addressed to thousands of
individuals and organizations
throughout the United States by
the U.S. Sponsoring Committee.

(in Canada, the Canadian
Peace Congress National Coun-
‘cil has issued’ an appeal to all
organizations to study’ and, cir-
culate the call for the confer-
ence, urging‘ election of dele-
gates.)

view will be welcomed, Daniel
‘Groden, secretary of the U.S.
‘group, announced that thus far
19 countries. have promised to
send delegations. ;

_ Among the more than 100 dis-
‘tinguished signers of the confer-
‘ence call, outside the United
- States, are personalities such as
the Chilean poet and Nobel liter-
ature prize winner,’ Gabriela
Mistral; three members of the
Supreme Court of Ecuador, in-
cluding the presiding justice,
Benjamin Cevallos. Arizaga; Ro-
‘berta Alvarado Fuentes, presi-
dent of the National Congress
- of Guatemala; Dr. Alberto ‘Nav-
arro, mayor of Panama City;
Jose Calvez, former vice-presi-
dent of the Republic of Peru,

designed the United Nations
‘buildings in New York, Oscar
. Niemeyer.

_ “The threat-of a third world
‘war imposes on tthe peoples of
America, as on all others, the

s the call they signed. “De-
spite negotiations for settlement
ef the Korean conflict, hostilities

continue. The remilitarization
of Germany and: Japan, the man-
_ufiacture of more and more dead-
ly armaments, the growth of mil-
itary bases along with the ap-
_ pearance of new trouble spots
_ In the Middle East, dangerously
increase international tension.”

-Aim of the cenference, the
call points out, is for the peo-
ples of the Americas to “seek
their own ways of bringing an
end to existing wars. and of-
obtaining a guarantee of the
settlement ‘of international
problems.” Y Aas
“Groden announced that the
growing list of U.S. sponsors of
the conference includes the fol-
jJowing: Hugh’ Bryson, president
of the National Union of Marine
Cooks and Stewards; ‘Dr. W. E.
B. DuBois, Paul Robeson, How-
ard Fast, Rev. Prof. Joseph Flet-
cher, Cambridge, Mass.; Rev.
‘Kenneth Forbes,
Pa.; Albert E. Kahn; ~-Prof. Rob-
ert Morss Lovett, Chicago, IIL;
‘Pr. Clementina J.  Paolone,
chairman of American Women
‘for Peace; Mary Phillips, lay re-
ligious peace leader of ‘Lamont,
Ti; Dr. Lucius Porter, Beloit,
- Wisc., and Rev. Dr. Willard Uph-

aus, co-director of the American
Peace ‘Crusade.

~ Communist elected.

LONDON
The ange acist leader, C.
Achute Memon, was among those
elected to the state assembly in
first results from voting in Tra-
vancore-Cochin state, in India’s
General Elections. Memon, who
ran as a candidate of the United
Front was unable to participate
in the campaign because there
is a warrant for his arrest.

Emphasizing that all points of.

and the Brazilian architect who’

wi of defending the peace,” de-.

Philadelphia, |

Egyptians prepare for struggle

Here an instructor demonstrates arms for young Egyptians, members of the nationalist
resistance groups that have been formed in recent weeks as the struggle to compel Britain to
evacuate its troops from Egyptian territory grows in intensity.
number of Egyptians have already been killed in armed clashes in the Suez Canal zone.

Several British soldiers and a

Presidential candidate

Vicente Lombardo Toledano,
president of the Confederation
of Latin American Workers
-(CTAL) and vice-president of
the World Federation of Trade
Unions (WFTU), has’ been
nominated as candidate for
president of Mexico on a plat-
form of defense of peace and
national independence, full pro-
tection of workers’ rights, rais-
ing of the people’s living
standards and other progres-

‘ sive porposals. Lombardo was
unanimously chosen by the
national convention of the Pon-
ular party, of which he is
president.

U.S. aim

to cut

ties of Chinese

in U.S. with China

WASHINGTON

The U.S. government is plan- —

ning to take further measures
designed to cut all communica-
tion between Chinese living in
the U.S. and their relatives in
‘People’s China, it is reported
here. 44° F

The first step towards this
aim of isolating Chinese in the
U.S. and thus offsetting their
increasing sympathy for Peo-
ple’s China was the ‘extortion’
hoax, widely headlined in
American and Canadian daily
papers, which emanated from
the U.S. State Department.

Recently, President Truman_
conferred with FBI chief Edgar
J. Hoover and Attorney General

J. Howard McGrath at which

he reportedly expressed concern
over growing pressure for rec-
peniion of People’s China.

unrest. |

new taxes.

Six million dollars of the loan
went to the Altos Hornos de
Vizcaya steel mills, which were
founded by the British — in col-
laboration with some Spanish
bankers as
Iron Ore Company § Limited.
Twenty-five percent of the shares
of this concern are in the hands
tof American monopolies and
some belong to the Nazi war
criminal Krupp.

Seven hundred thousand dol-
lars went to the U.S.-owned So-
:ciedad Iberica del Nitrogeno S.A.
which produces explosives.
Minas del Rif Mining Company

U.S. - Spanish trusts
get U.S. dows millions

‘PARIS |
Hépbitn from Madrid indicate that Franco’s fascist press is

presenting the U.S. $65%-million loan as the solution to Spain’s
grave economic difficulties which are bringing widespread popular

a ‘branch of Orconera

The

In reality, the whole sum is to be. divided among the various
America owned enterprises in Spain,

The Spanish people will have to repay the loan in the form of

in Spanish Morocco “got $200,000.

The Sierra de tne ters got
$1,600,000.

- The Union Electrica Marniens
got $2,400,000. Capital of this
company belongs to U.S. Gen-
eral Electric trust.and to the
Spanish Urquijo Bank, a com-
mon property of the Jesuit Order,
the Vatican, the Spanish Mar-
quis of Uruijo and “merican
shareholders.

Rio Tinto Copper Mines, half
the shares of which were bought
by the Americans from the Nazi-
owned Metall Gesellschaft
1950, received $1,200,000.

youre.

LONDON

Chinese. residents of London’s
Poplar district had a good long
laugh when they read in the
London Daily Mail that they had
b®en subjected to blackmail de-
mands by Chinese Communists.

_A ‘fourpenny bus. trip to the
four streets off West India Dock
Road that have been dubbed
“Chinatown” convinced a Lon-
don Daily Worker reporter that
the Daily Mail story was no more
than a propaganda yarn.

Chinese cafe and laundry pro-
prietors, waiters and seamen all
scoffed at the idea that any mem-
ber of their tiny community has
been “forced to send money un-
der threat of violence or torture
to families left ‘behind in their
homeland.” \

A detective who knows the area
and its people ees told
him:

“Chinese seamen Have been
sending money home to their
families from time immemorial
—just as seamen of all magnet:

| ties: do.

“They were looking after their

families in the thirties just the
|same as they do today.
couldn’t during the war, because
| Hongkong was” occupied by the

They

Japanese.
“There is no Communist black-
mail or Communist threats.”
At another cafe the proprietor
said: “I don’t think blackmail-

‘ers—Communist or otherwise—

would be very successful down
here. We don’t have enguen,
money. i

The fact is that there is hardly
any “Chinatown” JED

The area was heavily bombed
in the war, and something like
a quarter of the prewar Chinese
population is left — perhaps 50
families in all. Hardly a prom:
ising field for a would-be black-
mailer!

A Scotland Yard spokesman
could not confirm the report
that an investigation into the
“blackmail” allegations had
been started.

“But it’s extremely unlikely
that there is any such investi-
gation,” he said. “It looks to
me as if this story has been

picked up from the American
press.”

France stirred
by Catholic’s
anti-war call

By - OSEPH STAROBIN

PARIS

A strong condemnation of pre-
ventive war by Monsignor Ancel,
the assistant bishop of Lyons,
has made a strong impression
throughout France and thas re-
ceived a warm response from
Communist Leader Jacques Du-
clos, and the secretary of the

French peace movement, ° Yves —
.|-Farge.

Msgr. Ancel echoed the pre-
vailing peace sentiments in
France, with a flat declaration in
mid- December that “if the United
‘States unleashes a war to lib-

erate the nations of central Eur- —

ope from tthe Soviet yoke, it
‘would be a war criminal.”

_|. The Lyons dignitary added that —
if France is involved even by mili-

tary treaty in a preventive war
unleashed by the United States,

it is the duty of all Frenchmen ~

‘to ignore the treaty and not to

march alongside of the United

States.

In a second article, one week

later, Msgr. Ancel felt obliged
‘to add to his thought by declar-
ing that if the ‘Soviet Union
opened a “war of liberation” sup-

posedly to deliver a people from

injustice, this too would signify

the act of a war criminal and —

should be condemned by all
Frenchmen.

The first article appeared in

the diocesan weekly of Lyons
in mid-December. It was follow-

ed a week later by ‘the “clarifi- —
cations,” which Msgr. Ancel con-

sidered necessary. He is the as-
sistant to Cardinal Gerlier, one
of the highest Vatican authori-
ties in France. ,

At a mass meeting on Decem-

ber 20—when the second Ancel |

article had already appeared —
Jacques Duclos, the Communist

‘general secretary, took note of

these declarations and called
them a sign “of the profound
echo which our will ‘for peace
finds in the conscience of many
Catholics who ‘understand that —
‘war would toll the knell for
France and who do not want to

let the imperialists from across

the Atlantic throw our country
into the flames of another war.”

The next day, L’Humanite sum: |

marzied Ancel’s second article in-
veighing against ‘the so-called
possibility of a Soviet “war of |
liberation” and notes that his
anxiety on this score is complete
ly without foundation. . ;

The Soviet Union, says Hu |

manite, (quoting Stalin), does

not believe in exporting revolu-

tion, and ‘hence the supposition
of Soviet aggression is unwar-
ranted. But the Communist
newspaper takes very seriously
the Catholic strictures against
preventive war threatened by the
United States and says: “Thus
every Catholic is in a position
to take the friendly hand of
every Communist for struggle
against any war of aggression
whether its pretext be ‘prevent:

ive’ or ‘ideological.’ ” «%

At the national congress of the
French peace movement just be

fore Christmas, the former min-

ister, ‘Yves Farge, also not

*

and welcomed Msgr. Ancel’s dec

larations.

“In spite of the unjust crit:
icism which Msgr. Ancel eX
presses against our movement,” —
says Farge, “all our friends
must acknowledge his ges
ture,” which Farge calls 2
“postulate of wisdom and 2
proposal of honor.” i

_ PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JANUARY 17, 1952 — PAGE

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