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Washington obstacle to Big-Power talk

By MALCOLM MacEWEN

LONDON

The obstacle to.a meeting between Churchill, Kisenhower and Malenkoy lies in Washington, Hugh McNeil, Scottish Labor MP, told the British House ef Commons last week.

McNeil was replying to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who had declared the latest Soviet note on Germany “completely unacceptable” because it insisted on* abandonment of West German rearm- ament. Although the Soviet note had said that talks on German reunification would be futile if West

German rearmament was proceed- ed with, Eden asked the House to believe that “talks at any level re- main our objective.”

McNeil retorted that it was “a little facile’ for the government to say it was prepared to work now for a meeting at any level.

“The first impediment to such a meeting will have to be re- moved, | suspect, in Washington and not in Moscow.

“We have had statements both from the president and the secre- tary of state of the United States of America which could not be said to be warm approvals of the idea of a heads-of-states meeting.”

Eden threw the entire responsi- bility for world tension on to the Soviet Union and China, and did not suggest that Britain or the U.S. was prepared to make a single concession for peace.

He did not even mention the Soviet proposal that a five-power conference, including China, should be called to relax tension.

On the contrary, he appeared to make such a conference condition- al upon acceptance by China of the Anglo-American proposals for Ko-

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change his heart or we will change it for him.

‘We‘ are planning now to con- vene a meeting of all African na- tionalists to discuss African prob- lems, social, economic and politi- cal; and there is every reason to believe that the plans which will be formulated and the decisions which will be taken, by the confer- ence will all be in the interests of Africa and international peace.

Dr. Nkrumah called for the tight- ening up of discipline and educa- tion in the party which he called the “fighting weapon of the masses.”

“It is therefore necessary that the party, particularly its leading elements, should combine theory and practice, so that every incident may be interpreted in its true con text and adapt our strategy accord- ingly.”

By this means, he said, the party would avoid being shaken as in the inconclusive political victory of the 1951 elections. “The present period was critical and there was every need for vigilance and iron dis- cipline in the party.

Dr. Nkrumah repeated his de- mand, made in the House of As- sembly, for full independence.

“We of the Convention Peo- ple‘s party are unalterably OP- posed to colonialism and imper- ialism. We believe in a world of free and independent partners. We believe that the very eX!S tence of colonialism refutes the claim of the colonial powers to regard such territories as part of the free world and we are de- - termined to see to it that the world enjoys peace and free- dom.”

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NEW YORK

Jacob Malik, Soviet delegate, told

the UN last week that the peace-

loving peoples of the world had

noted with relief the easing of in-

ternational tension, but this did not suit U.S. reactionary circles.

Malik charged that the U.S. press had played up unfounded stories of atrocities in Korea in order to speed up the arms race.

viet delegate was speak- a = ‘5 Soviet. resolution calling upon all states which had not yet ratified the ,Geneva protocol ban- ning bacterial weapons to do so. The U.S., supported by Britain, proposed that the resolution be re- ferred to the Disarmament Commis-

sion. ey chemical trusts, © sal pies were interested in bac- teriological warfare. That was why the U.S. opposed ratification and prevented UN bodies from discussing the question.

For he said that if a Korean settlement was achieved “we can move on to a wider relaxation of tension.”

Far from seeing any danger in U.S. policy in the Far East, Eden praised the U.S. for its “self-con- trol” in confining the war within Korea.

Eden discerned two favorable

Soviet note on Germany warns powers

MOSCOW

The Soviet government has warn- ed the Western powers that ratifi- eation of the European Army Treaty would make a Big Four foreign ministers’ meeting on Ger- many completely futile.

This warning was the main point in the latest Soviet note delivered to the U.S., British and French ambassadors in Moscow.

The note declared that creation of Western military bases mainly bordering on the Soviet Union and the Peoples’ Democracies clearly showed they were to be used for aggressive ends.

Pressure was being exerted on certain countries in Europe and the Near East and Middle East, in- cluding Iran, to force them to give up their territory for establishment of foreign military bases.

Such a situation created a men- ace to the security of the Soviet

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aggravation of international ten- sion and increasing the danger of a new world war.

“The Soviet government,” said the note, “would like to receive clarifications from the French, American and British governments whether their declaration that they are ready to examine the German problem at a conference of the ministers of the foreign powers, and the fact that they recognize the importance of assuring European security, mean that they will not place themselves in a situation whereby on one hand the German question will be submitted to the examination of such a conference while on the other hand measures will be taken at the same time for ratification of the Bonn and Paris agreements by the states which have not yet ratified them.

“Such a clarification is essential since ratification of the said agree- ments and their entry. into force would render impossible the re- establishment of Germany as a united state and by the same token render futile the examination of the German question at a foreign min- isters’ conference of the Four Powers, as this conference would have its hands tied by the separate engagements concluded in advance py the three powers with. the Adenauer government to bring Western Germany into the North Atlantic bloc and to create a venge- ful West German army.”

The Soviet note also recalled the existence of the Franco- Soviet Treaty which provided for France and the Soviet Union to take joint measures against the rebirth of German militarism.

The Soviet Union was always willing to respect the obligations

of the treaty.

signs in relations with the Soviet Union: the first was the new So- viet program to develop agricul- ture and consumer goods, with its promise of better conditions for the people. -

The second was settlement of five of seven questions raised by the new British ambassador in Moscow with Foreign Minister Mol- otov.

As an example of “Soviet propa- ganda” he mentioned the Vienna conference of the World Federa- tion of Trade Unions, which he accused of fomenting strikes, anti- U.S. feeling and colonial unrest.

He also professed “abhorrence” at the alleged persecution of re- ligion and denial of human rights in Poland, and in the light of all this declared: ;

“We have no option but to per- severe with our defensive arrange- ments”. — particularly German re- armament through the European Army.

Ellis Smith, Labor MP, interrupt- ed to point out that the big Nazi industrialists who put Hitler in power were now wielding great in- fluence behind the scene again in Germany.

Eden did not deny this fact, but merely retorted that it was better for Germany to be joined with the NATO powers rather than to stay out and have no contact with the West.

Another, Labor MP, Turner Samuels, charged that the Church- ill government was tied to Ameri- can apron strings.

“The U.S.~ government's afti- tude ‘I won’t talk’. is absolute international dynamite,” he said. “The U.S. reaction to Russia and its anti-Communism is an abso- lute obsession.

“Today the crucial fact is not what help we are going to get against the Russians from German divisions. The danger is a possi- bility of German domination in Europe.”

Unionists report on China trade

LONDON

The Chinese people are anxious- ly waiting to buy all sorts of equip- ment and materials. from Britain, an eight-man team of electricians said in London last week.

The delegation has just returned from China after a five-week tour. Walter Stevens, Electrical Trades Union general secretary and leader of this ETU delegation, said his colleagues were surprised to see so many American cars on the roads in the main Chinese cities.

In Peking, he said, it was four days before the delegation came across a British car; the rest were Chevrolets, Fords, and others man- ufactured in the United States.

While U.S. goods, including those on the strategic list, were supplied to China through Jap- anese agents, some British busi- ‘nessmen were trying hard to break down the stranglehold on British goods imposed by the U.S. government.

The delegation said that while in China, they had heard that a representative of Austin Motors was there on a business mission. But time was not on Britain’s side. West Germany, in addition to Jap- an, was already in the market, Stey- ens pointed out. :

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