Indians demonstrate

‘Reports of an impending U.S.-Pakistan military pact, which
the people of India regard as a direct threat to their own security,
have sparked tremendous demonstrations such as that shown above

in many Indian cities.

: Ppp plans boycott of
_ British Guiana probe

GEORGETOWN

The People’s Progressive party

will boycott the commission set up
by British Colonial Secretary
Oliver Lyttleton to decide on a
hew constitution for British Gui-
ana.
_ “Lyttleton, by pronouncements
in and out of the House of Com-
mons, has already made up his
mind as to the type of Constitution
British Guiana should have,” the
Party stated.

“No useful purpose will be serv-
ed in making representations.

“It is as clear as daylight that

in the terms of reference given to
the commission Her Majesty’s gov-
ernment has departed from what
was obviously a promise held out
to the people of British Guiana.”
It added that the commission
was “precluded from inquiring
into the circumstances which
gave rise to the suspension of
the constitution and determining
whether the suspension was in
' fact justified.”

It accused the British govern-
ment of “insincerity” in sending
the commission to British Guiana
without the governor first remov-
ing the Emergency Regulations.

Cannot hail Queen
while king deposed

; KAMPALA, Uganda

The Buganda Lukiko (parlia-
ment) has passed a resolution in-
forming the governor that “it
would be difficult for people of
Buganda to welcome the Queen in
& suitable manner” so long as their
Kabaka (king), recently deposed by
the British government because of
his stand for independence, is away
from his country. Queen Elizabeth
and the Duke of Edinburgh are
due to arive in Entebbe, capital of
Uganda, on April 28 and to visit
Kampala the next day.

E. M. K. Mulira, member of the)

Buganda delegation which recent-
_ ly visited Britain, read a memor-
andum to the parliament answer-
ing the arguments advanced in the
British government’s White Paper

to justify its action in deposing the
Kabaka. ;

The memorandum denied that
the Kabaka had sought to split
Uganda. It stated that the Bu-
ganda feared the consequences of
federation, which would bring in-
dustrialization and an influx of
foreigners into the country.

“South Africa was built by for-
eign labor and capital and there is

no happiness there. Buganda would

prefer the capital to stay away and
to have peace,” it said.

Other resolutions adopted by
the parliament proposed two
‘days’ “lamentations” in Febru-
ary, during which all stores and
offices would be closed, and a
boycott of all places of enter-
tainment until the Kabaka re-
turns. :

Increase in East-West
trade topic of talks

By SAM RUSSELL

LONDON

_ Toprlevel trade talks to increase East-West trade are to start during the coming
month in Moscow, Warsaw and Prague, despite U.S. attempts to increase restrictions on
such trade. They will be conducted by Gunnar Myrdal, executive secretary of the UN
Economic Commission for Europe, who arrived in London last week on the first stage of

' Details of the tour were an-
nounced by a ECE spokesman in
Geneva only a few hours after the
director of the U.S. Foreign Op-
erations .Administration, Harold
Stassen, had announced new re-
strictions in Washington.

The Economic Commission ~for’

Europe was set up in 1947 to pro-
mote the economic development
of Europe as a whole, and its mem-
bers include all: the European
members of the UN plus the Unit-
ed States.

“It has played a leading part in
getting East and West together to
talk trade and last year was in-
strumental in calling a conference
at which over 100 deals were con-
cluded. :

Last November the ECE bulletin
warned of the danger for Western
Europe of too great a dependence
on the U.S. and urged that more
East-West trade was the solution.

“Western European countries,” °
it declared, “are beginning to
look to Eastern Europe, not-
simply as a source of dollar-sav-
ing imports, but also as a potenti-
ally expanding export market.”

It also drew attention to the pos-
sibilities for Western Europe in the
decisions of the Soviet Union and
the People’s Democracies to in-
crease the supply of consumer
goods to their peoples.

“Analysis of the particular goods
to be supplied by the USSR sug-
gests that the increased trade will
allow Western European countries
to make substantial savings in dol-
lar imports,” it said.

Myrdal will probably arrive in
Moscow on January 23 and will

visit Warsaw and Prague early in.

February.

In his statement at Washington,
Stassen claimed that recent Soviet
shipments of gold to Britain were
the result of U.S. restrictions on
East-West trade.

He said the U.S. was tightening
its controls on export of what he
called “highly strategic commodi-
ties” ‘to the Soviet Union and Peo-
ple’s Democracies and maintaining
its total trade ban on China.

Cotton, he said, was no longer
regarded as a strategic commodity
and rubber and drugs were no
longer in the “highly strategic”
category. ‘

U.S. policy was now one of
“greater concentration on a smal-
ler number of items,” he added.

Egypt expels Turkish ambassador

Split upsets

: CAIRO

As he boarded a plane for Tur-
key last week, Hulusi Fuat Tugay,
Turkish ambassador to Cairo ex-
Pelled by the Egyptian govern-
Ment, declared, “I’ll take my re-
venge.”

He had been given 24 hours to
leave Egypt. The British ambas-
Sador and the Belgian ambassador
Saw him off at the airport.” The
Egyptian government has also re-
Called its ambassador from Turkey.

Tugay, who was married to a
Cousin of ex-King Farouk of
_ Egypt, was expelled because of hos-

tility to the present Egyptian gov-
ernment. ;

The developing quarrel between
Egypt and Turkey is seriously
upsetting U.S. military plans in
the Middle East, for the U.S.
aim is to coach Turkey to take
over the leadership of all Middle
Eastern countries. _

- The U.S. is trying to secure a
military pact between Turkey and
Egypt as well as between Turkey
and Pakistan.

Lieut. General Aziz el Masry,
Egyptian ambassador in Moscow,

; e

U.S. plans

who has returned to Egypt for
foreign policy talks, was asked
last week about Soviet policy and
Egyptian neutrality. He replied:

“Neutrality means peace, and

Russia wants peace.”

He added: “We Egyptians must
first assess what we can give So-
viet Russia in return for what we
seek to obtain from her.”

Last week 10 Egyptians’ were
sentenced by a military court in
Cairo for “Communist activities”
—two to five years hard labor, one
to three years, and the others to
six months. All were also fined.

-|a tour which will take him to almost every capital in Europe.

Unique in judicial history

Rhee agents on trial
for murder of POWs

By ALAN WINNINGTON

- PANMUNJOM

The murder by Rhee agents of four young Korean prisoners who
were planning to return home to North Korea was described in court

here last week by an Indian prosecutor.
_trial for the murder of these four Koreans before the Indian military

Eight Rhee agents are on

court in a case that is unique in judicial history.

The court also heard how a fifth
young Korean prisoner who was in
the plan to get repatriated to North
Korea narrowly escaped being
killed.

The case is being tried under
Indian law in an Indian court in
the demilitarised zone. The prosecu-
tion is Indian but the defense is
conducted by U.S. lawyers who
make constant interruptions.

A breathless court room heard
the prosecutor and the survivor,
Yun Hyong Il, describe how the
five intimate friends made a paet
to-seize the first opportunity in the
explanations to return to North

Korea — but the explanations
never came.

On December 8 their plan was
discovered and the five young
men were beaten, forced to sign
a statement in their own blood
that they would “fight Commun-
ism to the death” and were tat-

toed on their arms with slogans
and the South Korean flag.

“After lunch on December. 12
they emptied the tent next to ours
and began taking up the floor-
boards, and I knew we were go-
ing to be killed,” said Yun.

“After supper, I pretended to
exercise near to the compound
wire and got a chance to escape
over the fence.”

This was around 6 p.m., and
about two hours later, said the In-
dian prosecutor, a sentry saw a
crowd of about 25 dragging some-
thing heavy, which turned out to
be the corpses of Yun’s four
friends — three dead from strang-
ling and the fourth from multiple
wounds.

The next morning the Indians
went with Yan to the compound,
where about 18 prisoners came for-
ward to say they had witnessed
the murder of the four North
Koreans. , ‘

Churchill clears wa y
for his resignation

_-. Appointment last week of R.

: LONDON
A. Butler, chancellor of the ex-

chequer, as a Companion of Honor, revived rumors of Sir Winston
Churchill’s possible resignation from the premiership early this year.
The award, announced as Butler attended the opening of the *

Commonwealth agen Ministers’

him as No. 3 in the
For some months there had been
a rivalry between Butler and Eden
for the succession when the time
came for Sir Winston to resign.

This was settled when Eden’s
health improved after his recent
operation, so that the Tories gain-
ed confidence that he could stand
the strain of leading the cabinet.

Next step was the award of the
new honor to Butler, which boosts
his prestige and will satisfy his fol-
lowers that he’ is assured of being
second to Eden.

Normally such an award is made
in the New Year’s Honors List or
in the June Birthday Honors. By
announcing it out of season, Sir
Winston Churchill has gone out of
his way to draw attention to it.

Tory MPs believe that Church-
ill did this with the definite pur-
pose of helping to clear the way
for his resignation, which is now
expected soon after the Berlin
Foreign Ministers’ Conference.

When-Eden takes over as prem-
ier, Butler will be deputy prime
minister and may retain his job of

Conference in Sydney, confirms

ory hierarchy after Anthony Eden.

chancellor of the exchequer as
well.

The MPs argue that it will take
at least a year to 18 months for
the public to get used to the new
leaders — and they believe the
cabinet has tentatively decided on
a general election in October 1955.

200 lawyers
hit McCarthyism

VIENNA
More than 200 lawyers from 31
countries meeting in conference
here strongly attacked McCarthy-
ism and appealed to lawyers all
over the world to defend constitu-
tional rights and personal freedom.
At the final sessison of the con-
ference of the International Fed-
eration of Democratic Lawyers last
week they passed resolutions con-
demning curtailment of democratic
rights in a number of countries
‘since the end of the war.

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