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hinsky says war end desire of all mankind

NEW YORK

Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vyshinsky told

the United Nations political committee here last week:

All mankind is interested in a cessation of the war’ in Korea. aha ped

In a 72-page speech answering that made to the

committee by U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson,

the Soviet spokesman ripped the American presentation

to shreds. | . Vyshinksy said that Acheson had alleged the So- viet Union had turned down American proposals for

a settlement in Korea at the Moscow Conference in

1945, but this was an “invention.”

The conference had recognized the necessity of setting up a Provisional Korean government and proposed a mixed commission to.create the conditions for a democratic and independent Korea.

But “the United States sabotaged the above-mentioned decisions of the Moscow Conference,” he declared.

The U.S. delegation in the mixed Soviet-American Commission

ad tried to include among so-called democratic parties groups elonging to the “Syngman Rhee camp,” and to exclude a number

of large democratic parties in Northern Korea.

The Soviet delegation had press- €d for consultation with those de- Mocratic parties and organizations which thad fully supported the Mos- Cow decision on Korea. :

“The American side persevered in its anti-democratic policy. Tt Continued to support anti-democra- tic organizations and excluded de- Mocratic organizations from any Consultation. :

“The United States unleashed a Campaign of repression - against those parties who had supported the Moscow declaration. There was 4 wave of arrests,’ Vyshinsky went On.

He added that “the United States did: nothing at all to rectify r correct the situation to ensure the success ‘of any ‘democratic Movement in Korea’ with a view ‘to unifying the country.”

- He ‘could cite “hosts of facts and figures” to show that North ‘Korea. ad developed a “people’s economy 4nd cultural activities” on a large Scale while South: ‘Korea was “a Scene of unbridled reaction.” ' Vyshinsky detailed: a: number of Teforms «carried out in North Ko- Tea — land reform, extension of the franchise and education’ and Teorganization of former Japanese ‘hdustries.

In 1947 the Soviet government ‘ad proposed’ establishment of a

emocratie government in Korea on’ the basis of free elections and had at the same time proposed that the “oviet-American commission should Tesume its work.

_ Instead, the declared, the United tates decided to ‘refer the whole Matter to the General Assembly be- fause it “was unable to reach any ®greement with the Soviet Union.” . ‘Acheson’s statement that the So- Viet Union had trained North Ko- Tean Army forces °and had main- ‘ained a isecret police control of "e country wag “ludicrous and ab- ‘urd, :

‘He attacked the Syngman Rhee regime, claiming that it had done

Teat harm’ to the South Koreans, ‘ad been guilty of “repression,” and was constantly engaged in poli- tical struggles with the South Ko- tean National Assembly.

Dealing with the start of the Korean war, Vyshinsky began by

nying Acheson’s assertion that, 1,000 North Korean youths were tained in Siberia.

After Acheson’s statement that the United Nations forces had cap- “Umed a plan for the invasion of South Korea by North Koreans

Vyshinsky said: “This is the first we have theard of it.”

Vyshinsky reviewed various ne- gotiations leading to the compilation of lists of war prisoners on both sides and then accused the United Nations forces of using ‘“‘terror- ism” in POW camps to force pris- oners to refuse repatriation.

“Screening” of prisoners in it- self, he said, was a “flagrant transgression of international law.”

He then passed to decisions tak- en by the Security Council in June 1950 which branded the North Ko- reans as aggressors.

“Where did they get their in- formation for such assertions?” he asked.

‘He asserted- that the Security Council had taken its decision on the basis of ‘“‘falsifications.”

It was well known that the Unit- ed States had “delivered Syngman Rhee ‘by express to South Korea” and his activities there were ‘a clear expression of the political physiognomy of fascism.”

The Syngman'Rhee government was “repression clothed in the sheepskin of a democratic gov- ernment,” and added: “Even the United Nations Commission could not -conceal: that the Syngman Rhee regime was a fully fascist one.” ;

“The latest report of the United Nations Commission contains num- erous pieces of evidence that il- legality and terror are rife in South- ern Korea under the Syngman Rhee government.”

Not long before the “agression” which South Korea had launched on North Korea, in June 1950, the United Nations Commission had noted “bellicose” statements by Dr. Syngman Rhee and others.

Acheson had not mentioned those “facts,” he added.

He recalled the visit which John Foster Dulles, Republican political adviser, had paid to Korea, and the “discovery” of a secret map in Seoul proving the aggressive intentions of the government of .President Syng- man Rhee.

“The Security Council had no right whatever to allege that the North Koreans had invaded South- ern Korea and act on that deci- sion,” he said.

3600 arrested

Jome Kenyatta, leader of the Kenya African Union, heads the list of 3600 unionists and mem- bers of democratic organizations arrested by the British colonial regime in Kenya.

Communists in U.S. will

not register

NEW YORK “The Communist party and its members, as has been stated repeat- edly, will not register under the de- grading, fascist-like McCarran Act,” a statement issued by the U.S. Com- munist party’ states, following the ruling of the “Subversive Activities Control Board” that all Communist party members must register, and a list of all members and a financial statement be filed. The maintained that the Communist party was organized and controlled by the Soviet Union.

“. .. Our party is an independent political organization, making its own. policies and directing its own activities: “Its roots run back his- torically to the Marxian groups of pre-Civil War days, and its pro- gram is based upon the fundamen- tal needs of the working class, the Negro people, and the productive masses generally in the United States, .

“It is an American party and it will resolutely defend its rights as such. Our party will insist upon the right to bring its program free- ly to the American people. . . . It will battle for a legal existence and for repeal of, the Smith, McCarran and Taft-Hartley laws,’ says the statement, signed by William | Z. Foster, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Pettis Perry.

Africans petition UN

for attack on Kenya unions

BY SAM RUSSELL LONDON

Under. cover of a drive against ‘‘terrorists’’ the Kenya government has launched an attack intended to crush the trade union and democratic organizations of the African people of Kenya. Far from arresting mem- bers of Mau Mau—supposed to be responsible for the recent murders in Kenya—the police first arrested lead- ers of the Kenya Africa Union and of the East African Trades. Union Congress. ;

The first name to be released officially in Nairobi was that of Jomo Kenyatta, president of the Kenya Africa Union, which was organized in 1944 to give the African peo- ple a united leadership in their fight for full democratic rights.

Also arrested were the general secretary of the Kenya Africa

Union, Achieng Oneko, and one of its leading members, Peter Gatabaki. ‘

The attack on the trade union movement began with the arrest of the president of the East. African TUC, Fred- Kukai, who has been arrested on many previous occasions by the: government,, to-

gether with the general secretary of the East African TUC, Makhan Singh.

board |

Two years ago the Kenya goy- ernment tried to frame Kukai on a charge of “attempted murder.” on a frame-up charge of ‘perjury.

To avoid having to prove any case in court, the government has carried out its mass arrests—already

totalling 3600 — under “emergency .

powers.” -

In addition to the arrested union leaders, five African newspaper editors were seized.

With a membership of over 100,000 organised in 50 district branches, the Kenya Africa Union has taken the lead in placing the demands of the African people before the United Nations. These are demands for restitution of the lands seized’ from ‘them by the

Kenya government.

In 1948 it submitted a memoran- dum to the United Nations drawing attention to the plight of the Kenya Africans and the fraudulent charac- ter of the proposed new Kenya Constitution.

The arrested secretary. of the

union, Achieng Oneko, went to the

UN Assembly in Paris last year to put the case of the Kenya people. The union’s main fight has been against the government’s action in dispossessing Africans of 16,000 square miles of land, which was given to 2,000 European settlers. ‘A total of 50,000 square miles was “reserved” for 5,500,000 Afri-

On scores of occasions, Africans have petitioned the UN to act on their behalf against the white supremacists of Britain, France or South Africa. Here a petition is read to a UN mission in the

Cameroons.

‘cans but even this

“reservation” _ has been reduced.

Two: British Labor (MPs, Leslie Hale and Fenner Brockway, were to be in Kenya this week to investi- gate the situation at the invitation of the Kenya African Union.

In a statement they said the visit had three purposes:

1 To learn the facts of the present situation in Kenya,

and what steps can be taken to

remove the causes of unrest;

> To strengthen the hands of : the great main body of Af- rican~-opinion -which-~ is strongly opposed to violence and is eager to advance along constructive educational, social and political lines to racial equality; :

To meet people of good will,

of all races who believe that the only effective solution rests in common understanding, a sincere effort at the fullest measure of racial co-operation and. a pro- gressive approach to full demo- ince. = ii j

A representative of the Kenya African Union in London, ‘Mbivu Koinange, replying to the British government’s allegations about his country, said: ‘

“The present state of unrest in Kenya is the result of the failure of the Kenya government to meet the urgent and legitimate demands of the African people.

“The declaration of a state of emergency is totally unnecessary, since there is no violence on the part of the people, who are un- armed. Even the Kenya govern- ment. has admitted that the Mau Mau secret society is not repre- sentative of the African people.

_ “The Kenya African Union and the African members of the legis- lative council have repeatedly de- clared their opposition to terror- ism and have invited the coop- eration of the leaders of the other races of Kenya in the solu- tion of all outstanding problems.

“It is now clearly evident that the publicity given to the alleged activities of the Mau Mau has serv- ed as a camouflage behind which an intensification of repression against the African national movement could proceed. ‘

“It makes a mockery of all the declarations of the British govern- ment that its aim is to promote the rapid advance of the African people to self government.”

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