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of Pennsylvania, disclosed today that he had asked Premiar Joseph Stalin for a porsonal moeting to chart a now course for world peace. Stassen made
only
public a personal letter which the one answer!
wrote to Stalin on Monday.
He said its primary objec-, conferences with American lenders tive was to pave the way for a conference between the Rus-
sian leader and members of the Politburo and himself and four or five other American "citizen" leaders.
The letter urged that Stalin change the present policy of the Soviet Union "and move towards world peace and freedom for mankind."
Stassen, who tried for the Re- publican Presidential nomination in 1948, made the letter public at] a Press conference,
He said the letter was the re- sult of a long period of study and1
mostly Republican..
By FRANK MACMILLAN
He declined to name
any of action, but said they included those associated with him in the university professors, Republican There are people today go- leaders in Congress, legal Re- ing around saying that it publican leaders, members of the would be better for Britain bar and retired military leaders. and the world to suffer Com-
Strason also disclosed He
will take leave from his Uni-munist occupation than to versity duties in November and fight a modern war. Would December and travel to Asla it?
tions in the Far East.
for a personal study of condi- No one is going to pretend that war is anything but a frightful prospect. Ono of Scotland's most distinguished soldiers, Colonel Fergusson, in his recent history of the Black Watch, des- cribed modern war as wholly
His trip of five or six weeks will be undertaken with the sup- port of one of the major founda- tions of the United States which he would not identify,
A students' mission that failed
By Alison Sutherland
regard the North Koreans as
damnable.
But Western Europe must re- fuse to be stampeded into believ ing that war is the worst of all evils. Defeat and occupation are worse. France discovered that in 1940. So did Germany In 1945.
But worsi
orst of all is o by an enemy who deterrained to impose tyranny.
For that is what Communist oc- cupation involved for the dozen European countries which have fallen under it since. 1946.
It has meant the end of all the freedoms on which Western civilisation has been founded-
They saw their men off to war
Weeping Unashamedly, women tean against platform gater et Philadelphia, sa Pennuyi.
vania national guardamen left for camp In Atterbury, Indianapolis, for war training, A.P. Photo..
Red 'general strike' fails in Austria
Vienna, October 4.
Less than a month ago I support of the Stockholm Peace left London for the Interna- Appeal automatically became a warmonger and our attempts to tional Union of Students' Con- improve education in the Com- gress in Prague, belleving monwealth were colonialist plots, Obviously, anyone who did not that, if only by talking to stu- dents from the Communist herces and
freedom to worship, freedom to Only about 50,000 of Austria's 1,500,000 workers Tito as a Hitlerite elect democratic representatives countries, I could do some- gangster must not only be a Fas- responsible to the electorate,
responded to the Communist call for'a general thing to promote understand- cist, he must be mad. So Shel-
nel-freedom to oppose the Govern
strike today. yepin, head of the Soviet delega- ment without fear of the secret ing and tolerance between us. tlon, advised the leader of the police and trial before a partisan
I have come back knowing that British National Union of Stu- court,
freedom of the Press, any useful exchange of ideas is dents to "go and see a good psy- freedom of Trade Unions impossible.
chiatrist,"
Even before the Congress open- And while the Communist stu- ed, when we left the national
dents stood round us shouting. dancing in Wenceslas Square and
"Hands of Korea!" utterly sat talking to a group of Czech amazed by our silence, photo students, I realised that the bargraphers were hard at work re- rier between us was for greater cording our incredible behaviour than that of language.
It was a boy of 19 called Lud- wick who first expressed the view of Czech youth when he said: "We know that there can be no real peace in the world until everyone is working towards Communism.
We want you to understand that we have room only for those who work with us. Unity is more
Important
than anything else."
He was not at all aggressive---
Even the beetle!
It was the same out of the Con- gress. We found no divergence of view among any of the stu- dents, who admitted it was neces- sury to pass an examination in Marxism and Leninism to enter a university. Yes, they said, by now. we have cleared away all enemies of progress from the uni- versities.
Everything their leaders said
is not a new problem which the present century is
facing. The burden of defending freedom generation and every is one which has challenged every century. Since Europe came into existence free men have faced that chal- lenge.
Died for freedom
1
Apart from Russian-controlled works in the Soviet sector of Vienna and the Soviet Zone, most factories worked as usual. All shops in the capital were open.
The Minisity of the Interior in a declaration issued tonigh: announced: "The general strike: called by the Communist Party throughout Austria has broken on the will to resist of our workers. Throughout the It did not matter to the men, whole land economic life takes who fell in those battles whether its normal course." they were killed by an arrow, a
The Russian-controlled Radio in catapulted stone, or a primitive bullet, or for that matter an Vienna broadcast continuous ap- atom bomb. They died and peals to workers to join the de- freedom lived on till our day.
capitulated
authorities before publication us required by law.
trarcars and overturned on tram trucks..
lor
They ordered the passengers of other trams and took the emp vehicles across the Danubo bridg to the Soviet Zone. Elsewhere Vienna the tram service was not mal.
"Strike pickets stood guard o the Danubian bridges, scrutinisin all traffic.
Fist fights
The police also seized the Com-i
Hundreds of strikers and non munist newspaper, Wahrheit, in Graz, and the left-wing Socialist strikers clashed in fist fights fo news, Vorwaerts, in Vienna, the possession of the metal work Overnight, Austrian Govern- at Ternitz, in the Soviet Zon ment officials in
Vienna had Strikers from the nearby Russian patrolled Ministry buildings. Bri- controlled factories occupied th tish troops were confirfed to their metal works and tried to keep th barracks from midnight-zero employees out but were them hour for the strike.
selves evicted. Later the factor The police in the Western changed hands several times.
sectors were issued with steel
just a little superior, as though was accepted without question to where the defenders of free- monstrations in the city, Russian | helmets, carbines and bayonets.
he was explaining a, lesson to rather stupid children.
and
You that
the
as
of
No. 1
In Kagran, In the Sovjet area the city, strikers, Including! tram lines to hold up traffic. women and children, squatted on
The
the
Demonstrators Pailled to Communist-called demonstra
tion in front of the City H tonight. The staff of the Feder Chancellery prepared to defen the buliding in case the di monstratora again rushed th police cordons as in last week disturbances,
A crowd variously estimate
lorries brought workers into the In ancient
Price levels even the Colorado beetle, for the North Africa economic stan- city from outlying districts,
Several incidents were reported numerous posters showing beetles dards went down. The men who with stars He knew all
Communists' called and stripes on their fought in the Eighth Army saw in Vienna and tile provinces when
sabotage strike when the Government re- Although we worried him, with backs were pointed out as serious the result of the capitulation Communists tried to questions about Czech life for into warnings and nothing to laugh at. which was made 1000 years ago railway and tram services.
And, of
hey knew. who
Tram drivers in the American fused to accede to an ultimatum saw along the coast of they course, Here I quote Africa the dawn, he did not ask about
thousand a
miles of sector beat up 150 Communists from a Communist-led shop ste- Saturday ward conference last Britain, He knew, and indeed won the last war.
from a Soviet delegate's speech,
zech, disease, squalor and poverty..
who had tried to stop them from demanding the restoration of the he offered to tell us.
Do not be deluded by Commu- running. The police made 30 ar- prices levels existing before the at between 7,000 and 16,000 a "I know that in Britain there which was cheered by almost the
entire Congress
"We all know nist peace petitions or by the sin- rests, including the daughter of agreement of October 1. or double tended tonight's Communist d are beggars at every street corner,
Soviet
but sentimental men who Austrin's Union liberated cere that only the children of the very that
Communist, from
the wage rises granted by the monstration in Vienna. They li think can purchase peace by Johann Koplenig.
they rich can go to a university, that every country in Europe
agreement.
tened quietly to speeches ́broad you can buy votes for Farliament Hitler, including Britain too."
surrender.
This agreement, made between cast by a loudspeaker calling f This
No one can regard lightly the astounding news was am- the poor people are
when we went to see the threat of war. War plified
and prid starving."
led Trade Union Federation, In-demands on wages creased Of course we laughed at him, Soviet Stalin prize film, "The Fall and we must strive to prevent
the Government and the Socialist- the acceptance of the Commar the prices of certain then, after some half-hear inviting him to come and see for | of Berlin,"
in the only way open to us now
essential commodities by from 23 singing, drifted away. himself. But he smiled super-
course, explained the Czech by being strong enough to de-
to 40 per cent. Hourly wages were Austrian Government offe clliously, saying "But if I came interpreter behind us, you capi- ter our enemies from being temp- "Italists were really on the side of ted by the prospect of an easy you would only mislead me. know I am right, because the the Germans, you know."
victory or even a surrender. Czech Press tells only the truth.” Childish film
But let no one say that the evil the evil We returned to our rooms in
of slavery is preferable And how the Czech students of war. the enormous Masaryk Hostel cheered this incredibly childish where the corridors were lined
alm, with its intimate portrait of the Yos crymis with car the Bccompaniment of a celestial "Welcome to Stalin digging in his orchard to Fighters." toons of Truman and with paint- ings of Soviet tanks: We sat and choir, and then inviting a young
Stakhanovite to lunch and serv looked at the five pictures of
Profoundly Stalin which decorated our room, ing out the soup! and we wondered whether it had ror as we rocked helplessly in our shocked, they gazed at us in hor- been' any use coming.
seats.
with
Nobody listened
MYSTERY. SHIP SMUGGLING INTO
PHILIPPINES
ship's latest clandestine
Manila, October 4. A mystery ship, alleged to have But it did not amuse us to see been used for smuggling Chinese, American Our very reason for coming to with Soviet tanks smashing their cigarettes into the Philippines, is
the film's glorification of war, oplum, frearms and the Congress had been to try halt its swing into line with way to victory without casualties, being sought by Government in- Cominform polley by giving the and the Germans falling before vestigators amid rumours that the minority view. We felt we could them like toy soldiers before a vessel has had protection from a prevent the International Union schoolboy. We did not think it high Government official. of Students from becoming the funny that intelligent students International Union of Commu should believe such childish pre-operation was sald to have been nist Students if we were able to paganda.
So we left this "Alice-in- the recent discharge of 800 cases speak our minds freely.
of American cigarettes at And no effort was made to pre- Wonderland" world, depressed by vent freedom of speech in inci, the realisation that our efforts to port of Dagupan City on Lingayen more speeches and interventions bridge the gap between our two Guif, 125 miles North of Manila.
The smuggling boat is also came from Britain than from any ways of life had failed hopelessly. other of the 71 countries repre. And no doubt we left the Czech wanted for sailing, without proper sented at the Congress.
Youth
just as bewildered, and customs clearing from San Fer- But it is no use talking if no- failing completely to understand nando, capital of La Union pro- body will listen.
the mad British men and women vince, last July for Hong Kong. financiers are Not only were we wrong in who cheered for Churchill and Three smuggling
of being behind the holding a different opinion wo who walked through the streets of suspected
operations.-United "Press. were dishonest.
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Built barricades.
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In the Russian-Occupied days and then gradually die station at Stadlau, a suburb on groschen, whichever was greater. the strike would drag on for s the Russian side of the Danube. Second District of Vienna, the Trade union officials in St They built barricades and tried to Post Office changed hands twice and Lower Austria reported block the lines until the police as strikers tried to force it to during today many strikers dra drove them off and smashed the close. In other parts of the Soviet back to work when they saw barricades.
Railway workers at St. Valen-sector strikers stashed motor car other factories had not joined tin, in the Soviet Zone, drove off and motor lorry tyres, derailed-Router. 400 strikers from the nearby Nibelungen factory, who marched on the station, intending to cut the Vienna-Linz lino.
The Austrian
Government;
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FLEET
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Washington, October 4.
today alleged that the Russians Units of the United States "mothball” supply fleet
were still Interfering with the police in their zone,,
at the
Russian Army officers Soviet sector publishing house of the Communist newspaper, Volks stirame, in Vienna, stopped police who tried to confiscate the news paper early today.
The police then tried to con- fiscate batches of the newspaper at the Western sector boundaries as its publishers had not
sub mitted a copy to the
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are putting out to sea again, emphasising the role that. United States amergency defence plans assign to the nation's reserve of the war-built "workhorses," the Liberty and Vic- tory ships,
Since the outbreak of fighting in Korea, the Arm- ed Forces have withdrawn from the laid-up reserve 65 cargo carriers, all of them Victory type ships.
This withdrawal has hardly de The Liberty ship has a lengt pleted the reserve, for the United of 441 fcal and a deadweigh States has about 2,200 more mer- capacity of 10,800 tons. Its spec chant vessels. "In storage.". More is little better than 11 knots. than two-thirds of these are the slow but dependable Liberty ships which could be a valuable fleet nucleus.
With an ayo.
competitive commerce, e United States in 1944 áwitche to construction of the fast The basic design for the
Victory ship, which can ma old
17, knot. This type is 14 To Liberty ship was given to the United States by Brifaln. in 1080;
Longer than the Liberty, b sald a National Geographic So- the deadweight tonnage cap ciety news bulletin. At that time,
city, is the simte poddaja Britain asked the United States
About 350 Victory ships w to build 80 of them. American Inunched during the war. 2 Th engineers improved on the plans to now 105 in storage, and m and "adapted, them to mass pro- others have been cold or chay duction technique. As a resulted to private shipping firms. Pearl Harbour, found this country
ready with a standardised cargo ship design.
Although the Liberty, ship
often derided as an "ugly d ling," It proved its feaworth More than 2,500 such vessels many times. were bullt. They carried the At the peak of Liberty bulk of the 200,000,000 tons of production in 1943, approxim cargo transported | by ^ United | jy 700 000 men and woineri States vessels during the Inst war. employed in the shipyards,
the average
building Ume tow Liberty, was only 30 days..EN
Though much of the country mass-produced shipping
Addod toughness - Welded hulls an innovation in mass production shipbuilding saved construction time and gave the Liberty added, toughness.
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