Shame Internati l Revie a0 RT A A TMC TT Bevin Anti-Soviet Policies Reflected In Diminished lrade Balances 5 Labor government over this state of affairs. Just a few days ago an official statement by the British Board of Trade not only confirmed this news, but admitted further that in recent weeks trade had virtu- ally halted with the USSR. One shipment of electrical equipment, crated for sale to Soviet Russia last August, still remains in the United Kingdom dockside ware houses. The Board of Trade statement said nothing, however, about an- other charge made by the labor press. This is the fact that while trade with the USSR has com- pletely stopped, British exports to fascist Spain have doubled in re- cent months. Perhaps no other development of international politics in recent times so clearly reveals the direc- tion that British imperialism «would like to travel. The Soviet Union, which gave the lives of 15 millions of its citizens to stop fascism and save the world from Nazi barbarism, is denied even the machinery to restore its wrecked industries. Yet fascist Spain, which activ- ely Supported MHitler’s murderous ageression with troops, supplies and money, and which even now shelters é¢scaped Nazi criminals and accommodates hundreds of millions of dollars of runaway German funds, becomes the re- cipient of goods from Britain which should be going te Europe’s devastated areas. The whole affair is a very re- vealing’ exposure of the dangerous role being played by Ernest Bevin and the other so-called Socialists now leading Britain’s Labor gov- ernment. : in half, OME weeks ago the international labor press featured the news that British trade with the Soviet Union had been more than cut benchers in the British House of Commons had bee and that Labor -Party back- n addressine sharp questions to. the U.S. Loans To China Used To Obstruct Peoples’ Peace LL the news from China these past weeks only further confirms the charges that American policy in that country is serving to bolster Chiang Kai-shek’s one-party Kuomintang regime and to perpetuate the state of civil One of the keys to the Chinese Situation is the Current negotia- tions between the Kuomintang re- gime and the U.S. state depart- ment for a big loan to Ghina. This week the Chinese Democratic League, a non-Communist politi- cal organization of Chinese lb- erals opposing Chiang Kai-shek, requested the American govern- ment to refuse any loan to China i 5 Bidault- Preparing for the 21-nation Bidault meet in Paris. Foreign Minister Molotoy, Br signing of just and democratic peace treaties. mands that the unity which won the war predominate in these decisive sessions. E : ey Molotey peace conference, U.S. Secretary of State, Byrnes, Soviet itish Foreign Secretary Bevin, and French Foreign Minister ‘Their.job is to iron out differences in order to facilitate the de- A growing volume of world opinion de- New Germany Will Only be Built by The People--Not By New Reactionary ‘Feuhrers’ HE PARIS conference of the Big proceeding for a week. Much of the discussion has been in Four council of foreign ministers has now been camera, and the news reports have been mainly confined to speculation as to what British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin intends to do and what U.S. State Secretary Jias. F. it is a dead certainty, however, that one of the key questions on the conference agenda has to do with the problem of occupied Germany. Respecting Germany, there is a growing weight of opinion which holds that the United States and Great Britain- are committing fundamental errors in ‘their oc- cupation policy. Evidence is now beginning to pile up to prove that British and American policy is directly contrary to the demo- cratic conception that elimination of fascism is basic to the founda- tion of a stable peace, and should, in fact, be the very touchstone of all foreign policy. Last week, for example, two correspondents of the ‘far from progressive’ New York ‘Times, completing a survey of the U-S. occupation zone, report that the Nazis and their sympathizers are Still firmly entrenched in German life. Iabor and other democratic people are going in daily fear of reprisals from the Nazis, while in the schools, criticisms of Hit- ler and the Nazis are booed by the students, many of whom are still joining underground fascist organizations, Just how deep the fascist poison has penetrated, and how efficient: are US. Military government PACIFIC FRIBUNE — PAGE 2 Brynes would like to do. policies in promoting it, was seen over the weekend when the so- called Christian Socialist Party, whose ranks are predominantly made up of former Nazis, swept the county elections in Bavaria, amid scenes of anti-Semitic riots. The Christian Socialists, strongly tied also with the Catholic hier- archy, are officially supported by. the American military govern- ment. Such anti-democratic develop- ments should occasion little real surprise. For they are the direct result of an occupation policy which consciously evades action on a basic problem—the breaking up of the great German monop- olies and cartels which were al- ways the foundation of German Military aggression. As an ex- ample, out of some 52 companies controlled by the giant I.G WFar- benindustrie, only two have been destroyed.. In the British zone, Wilbeim Junge, former president of the great Thyssen steel trust, is still permitted full freedom, and is still a director of Thyssen. Junge, incidentally, is not just a passive Nazi, but a prominent adviser of Hitler, who served as a fascist agent abroad. And in both the British and U.S. zones, military government policy has been to discourage the revival of the trade unions and working class parties, while encouraging known azis,and other reaction- aries to remain in key adminis- trative posts. Yet contrast this with the situ- ation in the Russian zone of oc- cupation. Jack Fleischer, corre Spondent of the openly anti-Soy- iet news magazine Time, recently cabled some observations of his tour of the Soviet zone. Said Fleischer: “I saw supplies in the food stores, plenty of good, warm clothing on German backs, even frequent fur cots. The Russian zone is far ahead of the other zones as a going concern.” is no secret in the Soviet Union’s admittedly superior occu- pation policies. The Russians recognize that fascism thrives on the existence of monopolies and eartels, and a low living standard for the people. So they have set about eliminating these conditions by breaking up the monepolies and promoting their nationaliza- tion; by dividing up the great landed estates of the Junkers among the peasants; by permit- ting full fredom to the trade unions and working class parties: and by stabilizing the zone’s eco- nomic life. There Until these same policies are followed by Britain and the U-S. in. their respective zones, West- ern Germany will continue to be the scene of a re-growth of fas- cism, and a future menace to world peace and security. war. until a fully-representative na-- tional government has been testab- — lished. And there was good rea- Son for this request. As in the period immediately after the Japanese surrender, Chiang Kai-shek has apparently overestimated his own politicel and military support and threat ens to upset China’s unity by his armed action in Manchuria. * The December truce put a stop to the fighting in China proper. But Chiang tried to take advantage of the truce in the main provinces to repeat the same effort at one party control in Manchuria, which had been excluded from the orig- inal settlement at his own request. ; Meanwhile American policy con-—~ tributed to Chiang’s illusions as te his own strength. UZ,S. troops remained in key posts. American air transport carried more and more Kuomintang forces to dis puted Manchuria. Finally, discus-— sions for 2 loan to the Chung- king government were carried further, in direct contravention of President Truman’s promise that |mone would be granted until a representative goevernment had been formed. The loan proposal, incidentally, is opposed by all of Chiang Kai-shek’s political oppon- ents, who argue that so- long as the present one-party dictatorship continues, American loans would only serve to finance civil war. Now, encouraged by the prospect of the loan, Chiang Kai-shek has whittled down the concessions to democratic opinion he made some months ago. He has reneged on his promise of constitutional re— form; has failed to carry out the release of political prisoners, tens of thousands of whom are still interned; and has refused to Carry out a purge of those who collab- orated with the Japanese. Now that the Manchurian fight- ing, in which Communist troops have gained Sweeping victories, has once more demonstrated the weakness of Chiang’s military forces, it is believed the General- issimo may soon sue for peace there as he did in China proper. Hor that reason, any loan srant- €d by the US. now would come at a dangerous time, for it might encourage the Generalissimo to again attempt to gain complete one-party control of Manchuria by force of arms, an action that would almost certainly plunge the whole of China into full-scale civil war. Democratic Nations Must Break With Franco--WFTU By MARCEL DUBOIS PARIS, April 23—In a cable to United Nations general secretary Trygve Lie, the World Federa- tion of Trade UWnions this week appealed to the United Nations Security Council meeting in New York “to condemn Franco’s re gime and to take all appropriate measures capable of wiping out this last vestige of fascism.” The cable, signed by WETU general secretary Louis Saillant, recalled the resolutions adopted at the London and Paris conferences of the WETU demanding that all democratic governments break re- lations with Franco Spain. It fur- ther cited world labor’s protests against Franco’s execution of Spanish Republicans and remind_ ed the UN that: “The survival of a fascist dic- tatorship contradicts the people’s rights solemnly affirmed by the United Nations charter; that one of the fundamental liberties of democratic countries -is the right to freely organize and manage labor unions; that such an es- Sential right is denied the Span- ish workers by FEranco’s regime, which jails, exiles or murders the best UGT (Generali Workers Union) and CNT GNational Fed= eration of Labor) leaders who re—- mained in Spain while most of their comrades have been forced to live in exile for seven years.” MOSCOW, April 28. — Soviet trade unionists are profoundly Shocked at the repressive anti- trade union measures and harsh sentences imposed upon 18 mem-= bers of the Cyprus trade union committee on the charge that they. possessed Marxist: literature. The report of the sentences and pro- test meetings held in TWondon haye received the widest publicity in the Soviet press and radio. The hope here is that this attaci upon Cyprus unions will be taken up by the World Federation of Trade Wnions. = FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1946