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NORTHERN EDITION McCarthy Defied NEW YORK. An American engineer, Mr. Al bert Shadowitz, a former War De partment employee, defied Senator McCarthy’s Senate investigating sub committee earlier this month by re fusing to answer questions. He said he did so on the personal advice of Dr. Albert Einstein. Dr. Einstein, through an observer, told pressmen that he had in fact seen Mr. Shadowitz a week before the enquiry and that he had advised him personally not to co-operate Registered at the with “this or any other investigating General Post Office as a Newspaper ADVANCE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1953 PRICE 3d. committee.” He had advised Shado witz he said, to invoke the First wcUance Amendment to the Constitution and refuse to answer questions on poli tics, thinking or personal associa tions. A.N.C. SUPPORTS PLAN FOR This incident recalls Dr. Einstein’s open letter to a New York school teacher several months ago, when he stated that intellectuals interested in preserving freedom should go to gaol rather than co-operate with PAN-AFRICAN CONFERENCE Congressional investigating com mittees. Luthuli’s Presidential Address QUEENSTOWN. rpHE African National Congress was already interesting itself in the proposition of a Pan-African Congress, said Chief A. J. Luthuli in his presidential address to the A.N.C. conference here last week. “We must regard our liberatory movement in the Union as part of the liberatory movement in the whole of Africa,” he said. “We welcome the interest taken in this matter by the Prime Minister of the Gold Coast, Mr. Nkrumah; the President of Egypt, General Neguib and the Prime Minister of India, Mr. Nehru.” Reviewing the achievements of Explaining the conference deci the defiance campaign, Chief Lut sion to call a national convention huli said it had produced a shar of the people of South Africa to pening of political consciousness vo^k * jt, a Freedom Charter, Pro among all sections of the South fessor Matthews said South Africa African people, “much heart-search belonged to all its inhabitants and ing among some people and much the A.N.C. believed all the inhabi ire and violent reaction with tants should take part in shaping its others.” destiny. CLAIM FOR FREEDOM “We want a gathering to which “One has to accept the justice of ordinary people will come; sent the claim of the non-whites for there by the people. Their task freedom and work unreservedly and will be to draw up a blueprint for openly for its realisation or be the free South Africa of the fu guilty of directly or indirectly as ture.” sisting the Nationalist Party in its Other resolutions condemned the relentless and unmitigated oppres Western Areas plan, high taxes on sion and suppression of the non peasants, the Native Labour and white peoples in their claim for Bantu Education Acts. The A.N.C. free democratic rights.” executive was instructed to draw Chief Luthuli added: “We must up a roll of honour of defiance keep up the spirit of defiance and volunteers and issue certificates of thus keep ourselves in readiness merit to them. for any call to service in the in «SOCIALIST COUNTRIES terests of our liberatory move ment” Chief Luthuli expressed appre ciation for the co-operation be ----- Yon, Jack, tween the A.N.C. and the S.A.I.C. WANT PEACE and also expressed the willingness I’m All Right of the A.N.C. to co-operate with NEW YORK. other bodies “on the basis of “Pres. Eisenhower spent SHRUG OFF equality and mutual respect for the eighteen minutes with Mamie Sisulu Reports On His Visit individual identity of our organisa and members of his staff in your tions.” a new 750,000-dollar White JOHANNESBURG. THE BOYCOTT House air raid shelter during “ impressed me most in the Eastern European There was a heated debate at a mock A-bomb raid. After countries, Russia and China, was the abolition of un BACKACHE! conference on the 1949 decision to wards, Civil Defence officials boycott elections held in terms of reckoned that, had the raid employment and the tremendously sincere desire for peace,” Mag-Aspirin is better. It quickly the Native Representation Act. been real, the President said Mr. Walter Sisulu, secretary general of the African Na ends the torture of backache. There were those who urged con would have survived, al tional Congress, in an exclusive interview with Advance. It is the ideal sedative for ference to rescind the decision and though 120,000 Washing Mr. Sisulu was greeted with an U.S.S.R. and Britain—he found a affected nerves, more than often those who wanted to see it fully tonians in the neighbourhood ovation when he reported to the warm sympathetic interest in the implemented. would have been casualties.” A.N.C. conference at Queenstown problems of the African people. the cause of rheumatic pains, Conference finally resolved to re —Time, November 16. last week on his overseas tour. The At the Bucharest festival Mr. Sisu including backache, lumbago fer the matter back to <he provincial Rev. James Calata, Sisulu’s prede lu met Petru Groza, the President and sciatica. Mag-Aspirin set conferences. cessor as secretary thanked him on of the Rumanian Republic, and tles the nerves and soothes away The view was expressed by some behalf of the Congress following many other international celebrities the pain, brings welcome relief leading A.N.C. officials, including his stirring report. and leaders from as far afield as Professor Matthews, Dr. Njongwe, Sydney Elections Japan and Latin America. from headache, earache, tooth Mr. Mda and Mr. Gwentshe, that if Mr. Sisulu told Advance: All promised to inform their ache, bladder pain and neuritis there are A.N.C. members who SYDNEY. “I was invited by the World Fed countrymen of the facts of the sit Get Mag-Aspirin to-day! want to take part in elections they The City Council elections held eration of Democratic Youth to uation in South Africa. should be allowed to do so ,but not here earlier this month resulted in attend their Bucharest conference in the name of the A.N.C. the return of the first Communist and accepted with pleasure because Mr. Sisulu, as the elected lea The constitution committee ite- councillor ever to be elected in this it would enable me to visit various der of the African people, was mnc-RSPiRin commended that the draft consti city. countries and put the case for my regarded as an honoured guest is not ordinary aspirin tution be referred back to the pro The Australian Labour Party people.’* abroad. vinces for study, because it is a polled heavily, receiving more than SYMPATHY Whilst in Bucharest the Inter Mag-Aspirin Powders, 21- per box. Also long document with many new half the first preference votes, and national Union of Students invited available in Tablets at 2/6 at all chemists ideas and involving fundamental maintained its majority on the Coun Everywhere Mr. Sisulu went— and stores. changes in administration. cil. Israel, Rumania, Poland, China, the (Continued on page 8) 6560-4 ■ 2 ADVANCE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1953 FIGHT TO END SEGREGATION Clarion Call Kelly’s Home MORE MURDER XCEPT for the period when the Russians were our brave and IN KOREA IN AMERICA gallant ally during the war against Nazism, an anti-Soviet story PANMUNJOM. Eis always assured of prominence in the daily Press. Take the case Four more North Korean pri of Private Frank Kelly, which ranked as front-page news a few soners who insisted on repatri days ago. ation were murdered by specially Kelly, released after seven years in Soviet “captivity”, accused planted terrorists in the Tong- Negro Parents Bring the Russians of “brutality, barbarism and cannibalism”. According jangni Camp here on December to the reports, Private Kelly looked very emaciated at the Press 12. This was announced by the conference arranged for him. The strain was “clearly so great Indian custodian force recently, Court Action that the medical officer attending him . gave him several and brings the total number of NEW YORK. ___ sedatives in front of the reporters and said that he must return known murders to 19. During an to hospital immediately”. He was grimacing with pain and panting investigation into the latest mur fTUIE legal battle against educational segregation in America en- for breath as he was brought into the conference room, in a ders, the Indian troops arrested A tered a new phase earlier this month when Negro parents in wheel-chair, straight from a British military hospital in Germany. 17 suspects, and segregated 21 five Southern States brought an action against the school authorities. Reporters were so shocked by his condition that they refrained p.o.w.s who volunteered to be They are being backed by the National Association for the Ad from questioning him. witnesses. vancement of Coloured People, an organisation pledged to fight all The Daily Telegraph special correspondent, who attended the Since the suspension of the discrimination against the Negroes in the United States. Press conference with Kelly, was not, however, very impressed. explanations, the American-con The parents claim that segregation The Negroes, said Mr. Mar “I understand”, he writes, “that when Kelly was brought to the trolled Rhee and Chiang Kai-Shek violates the American Constitution, shall, were fighting segregation hospital the doctors expressed the view that there was no need to agents have intensified their inti and particularly the 14th Amend because it offended their racial keep him there at all. He was admitted on the insistence of midation of prisoners.