THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1950.
WORLD PEACE CONGRESS
Urged To Embrace
All Peace-Lovers
Professor Accuses
Atlantic
Nations
Warsaw, Nov. 20.
Professor John Bernal, a British research scientist, urged the World Peace Congress here today to enlarge its campaign to embrace "all peace-lovers, however con- servative their views,”
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"We have yet to learn how to understand and to deal not only with the arguments but also with the feelings, and often sincere feelings, of these 2,000 delegates of 71 nations.
Embassy, was a "paid employee of the Yugoslav Government."
"We must be ready to work together and to break down the barriers of political suspicion.”
Insistence on a "broadening", as a lawyer for the Yugoslav of the anti-war campaign has been the keynote of this Con- gress. The conciliatory tonc has already been put by such high Communist dignitaries as Professor Joliot-Curie, the French atomic scientist, and Signor Pietro Nenni, of Italy.
Professor Bernal accused the Atlantic nations of believing themselves "the born masters of the world" with rights over inferior peoples and particular- ly the United States for trying to impose a peace of their own choosing.
He proposed a resolution to facilitate the greatest possible extension of the peace move- ment."
"think this Congress should evaluate his speech in the light of that employment," he said, "I am not going to argue with him about Tito. I will just say that he has become not only the lawyer for Tito but, at this late hour, he makes himself the advocate of the slave-holder, Jefferson Dacies, and of King George III," he declared.
Mr Howard said that the fight for peace was a fight to save the national future of the United States.
"We are against wars of ag- gression. We stand for peace, but we do not stand for the status quo.
want
Already Interested
Wearing overalls and a cowboy hat, this tiny youngster wanted to play
: farmer at the Royal Livestock and Horse Show at Kansas. At the moment he was
~~~feeding-four-month-old colts their oats. (Acme),
change. ASTRIDE
Charles Howard, a Negro af,
"We Negro Americans the American: Progressive Party, had earlier attacked peace together with yesterday's speech by his party And we defend the inalienable all peoples, including leader, Mr John Rogge, as that right of of a "paid employee of the the American people and
Yugoslav Government.'
He declared that Rogge was a lawyer employed by the Yugo- slav Embassy in Washington.
The delegates cheered for nine minutes today after a North Korean woman, Nam Pak Den Ai, said that the Koreans would defend their country "to the last drop of blood."
a
holy war
"The flame of grows," she declared.
The Congress will end to- morrow evening with a grand concert.
Professor Joliot-Curie will make the closing address during the interval and the Congress
· resolutions will be read in eight languages. Reuter.
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LAWYER'S VIEWS
Warsaw, Nov. 20. Mr Charles P. Howard, a Negro member of the Execu- tive of the American Progres- sive Party, told the Warsaw Peace Congress today that yesterday's speech by his party leader, Mr John Rogge, should be judged "in the light of his employment as lawyer for the Yugoslav Embassy in Wash- Ington."
the
Negro people, to alter their con- YALU RIVER
ditions of life by whatever means they find open to them.
with
"All my people look forward to the day when, in our own land, we will be treated the human dignity and the love that has been accorded us in and Poland."-- Czechoslovakia Reuter.
Birganj
Recaptured
New Delhi, Nov, 20. Nepal State troops today re- captured the Congress insur- cent "capital" of Birganj, near the Indian border, the Nepalese Embassy announced here.
"Numerous prisoners" were taken and lorries, trucks, rifles and ammunition captured.
near
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the east coast captured
yesterday.
and
Aircraft dropped food petrol to the forward groups.
The Anglo-American frontline in the North-West advanced two and miles in thawing snow against stiff resistanhe tonight to- wards what appeared to be the outer perimeter of the main Communist defence line.
Forward elements of the American 1st Cavalry Division are now six miles north-east of Wonni.
Colour Bar Heiress
Invalid
Ottawa, Nov 20. Indicted For
The Supreme Court today ruled invalid a sales covenant. that excluded Jews and negroes from owning cottages at the exclusive Beach of Pines area on the shores of Lake Huron,
The court overruled decisions by the Ontario Supreme Count that had held the covenant to be legal--United Press.
Contempt
Washington; Nov, 20. A Federal Grand Jury today
籍 former indicted
atomic
scientist, a West Coast heiress and 10 other persons for con- (empl of Congress for refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities
Communist concentrations Committee, threatening the centre of the Seven of them are members thin Allied line between the of the United Electrical, Radio Eighth Army and the 10th and Machine Workers, a group Corps in the east.
expelled by the CIO last year for following the Communist Party line
The South Korean Capitol Division, advancing up the east coast, was reported to be near- ing the vital Communist port of Chongjin.
British troops, on their left,
The former atomic scientist are maintaining a straight line
is Clarence Hiskey, of the above the Chongchon River
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, front around Pakchon. Clashes Unconfirmed frontline reports who at one time was a chemist with small Communist groups spoke of a threatening chain of on the wartime atomic bomb and roadblocks occurred.
Communist strongholds running project. He refused to answer" Consolidation of
past gains through the mountainous spine questions on May 24, 1949, went on amid thawing snow. of Korea from just east of. Tok-during a Committee Com-
British and South Korean
chon, near the frontline, to munist investigation. patrols, now apparently near- Seoul, the Southern capital, Mrs Louise Berman, heiress ing the Communist main lines
About 20,000 well-armed to a San Francisco fortune, was North-West, reported in the
Communists were said to be indicted for refusing to answer increasing activity along the
holding a mountain fortress east 26 Committee questions on Chongchon River front.
of the former Northern capital November 7, 1949, many of British troops wiped out
of Pyongyang. Another 10,000 them about whether she had' Korean patrol near North
were reported to be in the area been a "financial angel" for a few Yongbyon,
miles to
of Seoul-Reuter and Communist causes. United while the
Southeast
Press. Koreans were in action against United Press.
The telephone service be- tween Raxaul and the Nepalese capital of Katmandu, about 60 miles away, was resumed to- Mr Howard, a lawyer from day. The only Nepalese village Des Moines, Iowa, said that Mr still in rebels hands is Parasi, not conveyed the 95 miles west of Birganj on the Rogge had views of the American delega- Nepal-United Provinces border. | the right, tion. Mr Rogge, he declared, -Reuter.
NANCY
I'VE GOT TO
CUT OUT
FATTENING FOODS
Fat Chance
By Ernie Bushmiller
WHAT'S THE USE
When there's bif. I needn't use my
fist!
bif
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