‘f return to Hungarian ‘refugees’ homeland BUDAPEST—According to official figures released by the Hungarian government, some 42,000 Hungarian emigres have returned to their homeland from abroad since the 1956 insurrection. Hungarian News Agency ' (ITI) states this figure would yardage, be much higher if attempts were not made in the Western - Newspapers to scare others de- Siring to return home with A strong resolution in oppo- Sition to the proposed amal- gamation of the B.C. Farmers Union with the B.C. Federa- tion of Agriculture was adopt- ed unanimously by the dele- gates at the District 4 Conven- tion of the B.C. . Farmers Union, held in West Langley, August 20. . A working committee of five was elected to draft a new con- “stitution based on the original -._ BCFU constitution, and along the lines of constitutional amendments and deletions as adopted by the last three -pro- vincial conventions. -BCFU convention gave ap- proval to a resolution favoring joint labor-farmer political ac- tion in preparation for coming elections. «Mr. Verne Stewart was elec- ' ted district director, replacing Les Kneeland, while Mrs. Mac- Farlane was elected womens’ director to replace Mrs. E. Bolton. Both Mr. Kneeland and Mrs. Bolton were elected as “alternates” to provide con- tinuity, guidance and direction in the activities of the BCFU. * * * According to the September- October edition of. Farming Today the problems of the far- mers are over. Here is the rosy future as seen by Sociol- ogist P. F. Ayer of Ohio State University: * “By 1975 the farmer will be a big businessman. among other big. businessmen. The farmer will live on or near his farm, depending on family interests and conveniences, gracious and picturesque location, and prox- imity to great centres of trade and culture. ’ “His wife will be a member of the leading social and civic groups. She will be free to take trips with her husband. The, children’s ‘major associa- tion with the farm will be Occasional afternoons riding favorite horses.” Farming Today gave the worthy professor a lot more but the above is enough to keep Bossie chewing her cud until the next milk . ~theque comes in. stories of tion.’’. “Siberian deporta- “Some emigre organizations spy on those intending to re- turn” states the-MTI report, “and a visit to a Hungarian Consulate, even to make © in- quiries, often results in ostra- cism. Even violence is used by |;these emigre fascist circles to deter people from returning.” The Hungarian Consulate in London, England reports that 2,300 Hungarians have left Britain for home, with hund- reds of other applications be- ing processed. (In reply to a provocative question on Hungary during his Washington press confer- ence,- Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev stated: ‘“‘The ques- tion of Hungary has stuck in some people’s throats like a dead rat. They feel it unpleas- ant, but can’t spit it out. If there is a desire that our dis- cussion take that kind of turn, we on our part could bring up quite .a few questions of a sim- ilar character... . ’’) On his way to Rumania for a concert tour the American artist Paul Robson told Hun- garian newsmen during a stop- over in Budapest that he will spend four or five weeks in Hungary next spring. “I shall come back”, stated the great Negro artist, “though my pass- port says ‘not valid for Hun- gary’ Hb)? Chinese to celebrate Marking the historic Tenth Anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China, the Vancouver Chinese Committee are sponsoring a grand concert and banquet to celebrate the occasion on the afternoon and evening of ae day, October 4. The concert, to be held at the Russian Peoples’ Home at 600 Campbell Avenue. from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. will present a fine program ‘of Chinese music, folk dancing and other arts. A film showing the con- struction of the Great Ming Tombs Reservoir, just recently. built. will also be-a feature on the concert program. In the evening the big Chin- ese banquet will get under way at 6:00 p.m. in the Marco Polo restaurant at 90 East Pender Street. Banquet tick- ets can be secured at the Peo- ples Co-operative Bookstore at 307 West Pender. Desire to hang onto fat profits , hehind India-Tibet border issue By SYDNEY GORDON The Chinese government, in a series of official pronouncements, has replied to the Indian outburst over the Sino-Indian frontier with the firm assurance that it wants no part of Indian territory, will not be blackmailed into giving up any of its own, and that the interests of both countries and world peace will be served by friendly negotia- tions on the issue. This calm note typified the long communication on the subject sent to Delhi by Prem- ier Chou En-lai. It was also typical of the tone in many newspaper editorials. and pub- lic meetings, in 60 odd speech- es to the special meeting of the National Peoples Congress’ Standing Committee, and in this week’s final declaration on the issue by the Standing Committee itself. The Standing Committee or executive body of China’s gov- ernment in its resolution ad- hered to its traditional posit- ion that “‘the overall. settle- ment of the Sino-Indian boun- dary question should be sought by both sides, taking into .ac- count historical background and existin,g actualities through friendly negotiations conducted in a well-prepared way.” The historical of the issue, length in Chou En-lai’s note, is that the Sino-Indian~ frontier has never been delimited be- tween the two countries. “Western imperialist forces and their agents in India,” says the NPC declaration, ing to take advantage of the Sino-Indian border incidents to disrupt the great friendship between China and India and change India’s foreign policy of peace and neutrality. The Chinese people fervent- ly hope that the Indian peo- ple will frustrate their vicious schemes so that the common interests of the people of In- dia, China and Asia may be safe-guarded.” The: frontier area in the is- sue, now pushed with such heat by India, is actually the long boundary between Tibet and India, Sikkim, Bhutan, Nepal, all three also border- ing Tibet have made clear they have had no frontier inci- dents whatsoever. On the Chinese side, Foreign Minister Chen Yi has now re- vealed that while the Indian agitation on the issue contin- ues, in the western sector of the Sino-Indian border, Indian troops have crossed the tra- ditional customary line and continue to occupy areas of Shipki Pass,’ and have en- croached on Chinese territory elsewhere. In the remote mountain areas of Tibet, from which I have just returned, facts avail- able on India’s sudden fuss background about the border add up to a secret story quite different as outlined at. “are try- |: {from what certain Indian lead- ers are telling the world. Whai no Indian official is saying is that extremely questionable troop movements took place on the Indian side of the bor- der during the Tibetan serf- owner rebellion of last. March. Following: the defeat of the re- bels, who are known to have conducted their activities free- ly on the Indian side, Indian troops moved into three sep- arate areas on the Chinese side of the traditional border CHOU EN-LAI JAWAHARLAL NEHRU and even set about organizing Tibetan villages into the In- dian political administration. While protesting that the Chinese are hampering trade, India is now preventing nor- mal shipments of grain, kero- sene, edible oil, sugar. and so on,-into Tibet and exerting pressure on Bhutan to join this blockade. Behind such actions can be seen the enraged upperclass Indians for whom feudal Tib- September 25, 1959—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3 farmed invasion. et was a source of enrichment. It is not generally known abroad that India enjoyed in Tibet extra-territorial rights, special postal and telegraph concession. special trading privileges, including the oper- ation of a trading market at Yatung, freedom from certain customs duties, etc. These were partly terminated by the Sino-Indian agreement of 1954 but other prerogatives remain- ed, including telephone con- cessions, certain postal routes and primarily economic privil- eges. Under the latter, Indian businessmen have become ac- customed to fat commercial profits through their grip on Tibetan trade. Others through usury and squeezing herds- men, have become big absen- tee livestock owners in border areas like Ari. In this manner they have long been associat- ed with reactionary serf-own- ers in plundering Tibetan peo- ple. Now democratic reform is putting an end to this plunder. Indian references to the sc- called McMahon line as_ the supposed frontier between In- -|dia and Tibet are of course looked upon here as wild fan- tasy. The so-called McMahon line would deprive China of an area as large as Chekiang pro- fivince and bigger than some || European #7 | boundary line dreamed up by * |British imperialism earlier in countries. It isa the century, when it ruled In- dia by terror and sought to gain control over Tibet by It got some puppet local rulers of Tibet, at point of bayonet. to agree to the - so-calléd McMahon line but for a full decade did not dare even to acknowledge it publicly. »The Indian suggestion that it should now be suddenly brought out as the Sino-Indian frontier, in violation of thous- ands of years of tradition and present realities, makes “sense” only. as an attempt at blackmail, The Chinese on their side, however, . will not now be blackmailed into accepting the imperialist land-grab which Britain could never force on her at the height of British imperialist power. Thus, no matter how any- one may twist and turn, there posed by the Chinese: friendly negotiations on the basis of the principles of Panchshila agreed upon between China and India in 1954. remains only the solution pro- SR A ae Selah Se a a eB ae A Sa a eect se fal Sopeaclicaagpiam Coan ceil a eae las : .*