TOP: Clement Attlee, leader o t far left) in friendly discussion with Chines en-lai drink a toast to Anglo-Chinese frien f the British Labor party dele e Premier Chou En-lai. Ld gation to People’s China, is seen (at BOTTOM: Clement Attlee and Chou dshin and (right) Chou En-lai chats with Aneurin Bevan. ‘Formosa naturally belongs to Chinese’ states Attlee HONGKONG Clement Attlee, who arrived te last week with the British Labor party delegation after 17 hays in China, told a news con- ‘rence today that they had tried _ ‘0 understand the Chinese govern- Ment’s point of view. “I think there was a general im- Bression wherever we went of good Will,” he said, “and I believe it is important we should get as close a contact with the Chinese people as possible.” On relations between East and West he thought there was a gen- eral impression of the. desire for friendship, but undoubtedly there was a very strong feeling in China over Formosa in particular. A correspondent said that Attlee wrote in an American magazine that the only solution for Formosa was that it should be neutralised. Attlee replied: “I consider it would be useful if Formosa were neutralised for a period before there was a final decision taken on it. “In‘ my view Formosa natur- ally belongs to the Chinese.” ee ATU ULL LI aa Germa This is what the six years of the Second World War cost mankind: A total of 16,095,644 members of the armed forces killed or reported missing, a further 11,860,327 wounded. At least 14 million civilians kill- ed. , d The fantastic sum of $670,028,- 578,629 in cash. The International Military Trib- unal tried the leading: Nazis and Wehrmacht generals as war crim- inals. It passed this solemn judginent on the German General Staff and High Command: “They have been responsible in narmy| What it fee Ee large measure for the miseries and suffering that have fallen om millions of men, women and chil- dren? 223.% f “They were certainly a ruthless military caste. . . . The truth is they actively, participated in all these crimes, or sat silent and ac- quiescent, witnessing the commis- sion of crimes on a scale larger and more shocking than the world has ever had the misfortune to know.” To give these men new armies is to make a-mockery of the dead, a betrayal of all the sacrifices. A rearmed Germany means a third world war, means an atomic holo- caust. What it means This is what Adenauer and the German militarists want now: An army of 48 divisions, total- ‘| ling 1,600,000 men. An effective air force, paratroops and all necessary “special units.” ‘Full and unrestricted sovereign- ty, plus membership of NATO, so that Canada will be pledged to their assistance if Adenauer starts any desperate adventures after the pattern of Syngman Rhee in Korea. The alternative The Soviet Union has proposed that European collective security be built on the simple proposition that an attack on one is an aitack on all. This principle would prevent any more Hitler plans to divide Europe. Clause 4 of the European Col- lective Security Treaty proposed]. by the Soviet Union says: ‘ “An armed attack in Europe against one or more of the parties to the treaty by any state or group of states shall be deemed an at- tack against all the parties. “In the event of such an attack, each of the parties, exercising the right of individual or collective de- fense, shall assist the state or states so attacked by all the means at its disposal, including the use of armed force, for the purpose of re- establishing peace and security in Europe.” This is the foundation of peace for Britain, for France, for the Soviet Union. No reply has yet been sent to the Soviet note, proposing four-power talks, received over a month ago. Former Nazi field marshal addresses Steelhelmet League Butcher of Warsaw claims he was to By MALCOLM McEWEN LONDON The butcher of Coventry, War- Saw, Rotterdam and the Ardeatine aves, near Rome, has now pro- Claimed that he was too “humani- arian,” ; _Ex-Field-Marshal Albert Kessel- "tng told 800 district fuehrers of © Steelhelmet Beague of former Tont-line Nazi troops on August 29 What the verdict of future histor- “ans on his work would be: f One day they will blame me oF putting humanitarian consider- lOns- into the forefront af the *xPense of. tactics.” ; Next time, presumably, this car- ae error must not be commit- ae Humanitarian considerations , Ould be sacrificed, and the “tac: “es” of human obliteration given full scope. ther Kesselring has little doubt at there will be a next time. is hen Britain’s Tory Prime Min- ; er Sir Winston Churchill let him a of jail in Octover 1952, osten- bly because he had cancer of the on at, his first words were: “Get "with the German Army. The 4“Ssians are still scared of Ger- &N soldiers,” ed e “scared”? Russians, who chas- St the Germans all the way from snerad to Berlin, are probably Ml laughing at that one. But *sselring’s idea about a new Ger-} 4n army is not a joke. 79 years ago he was proclaim- saz thats in future, “we must all fight together” against the Rus- per August 29 he boasted again that (“the Germans = are the world’s best soldiers,” as the im- perial German flags were parad- ed and bands played “The Prus- ian Glory.” Steuer, ane of his local fuehrers, told the meeting that all talk of a democratic German army was noh- sense. “It must be the Prussian system again,” he said. The Prussian system, of course, is precisely what the U.S., through the European Defense Community, has been scheming to resurrect. The French National Assembly, py killing EDC stone dead, has removed all possibility of using this scheme. z pee canies friends, the ex-gen- erals who have revived the General Staff, have completed their plans for the new German Army that was to have been created as soon as EDC had been approved. Schmidt-Wittmack, West Ger- man MP and one of Adenaver’s former confidants, revealed last month that in secret meetings General Gruenther, the U.S. Su- preme Commander in Western Europe, and ex-Nazi General Heusinger, have already planned a’ German army of 48 divisions, 1,600,000 men strong. A gigantic army, led by men of the Kesselring stamp, trained for aggression—such is the “Prussian system.” Now that EDC has been destroy- ed, the U.S. administration, with Churchill’s support, will try to re- vive the “Prussian system” under some new guise, such as German membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. : * * * In 1947 Kesselring was condemn- ed to death by shooting as a war eriminal by a British court-martial, which heard evidence for three months. ° He was not convicted as a war criminal for directing the air at- tacks on Warsaw, for planning and directing the raid that added the name “Coventration” to our vocab- ularly, or for obliterating large parts of Rotterdam, although he richly deserved to be shot for all these crimes. 3 He was. convicted on two charges. The first was that he signed an order that for every German killed ten Italians were to be killed in reprisals. As a result 335 Italians were murdered in the Ardeatine Caves, near Rome. The second charge was that he issued new regulations to his troops which said that the fight against the partisans was to be carried out “with all the means at our disposal.” - KESSELRING “T will protect any commander who exceeds our usual restraint in the choice and severity of the means he adopts in the fight PACIFIC TRIBUNE — o ‘humanitarian’ against Partisans,” the regulations said. : F. Elwyn Jones, MP, assistant British prosecutor in the Nurem- ‘| berg Trials, said that this order “in effect licensed German com- manders to kill hostages, bur~ down villages, hang suspects with- out trial.” ; But. Kesselring now thinks he was too “humanitarian.” .In response to an outcry in Britain led by Lord De Lisle and Dudley (now air minister in the Churchill government) the Labor government commuted his_ sen- tence to life imprisonment. Again, to a further outcry led by Field-Marshall Lord Alexander (former governor-general of Can- ada, now Churchill’s minisier of defense) the Tory government set him free two years ago. It was a deliberate move in the cold war—a move to draw the veil over German war crimes, and enlist the support of the German generals in the campaizn for a new German army and a new war. Not the old war, but a new one a less humanitarian war, in which “tactics” will not be scra- ficed. That is, if the peoples of Britain and the Commonwealth, France and Germany, are foolish enough ever to let Kesselring. and his like have troops under their command again. SEPTEMBER 10, 1954 — PAGE 3 ’