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Protectors of Low and Older TYOMINICAN REPUBLIC— Bosch and Sent Him Into Exile Protectors of Low and Older TYOMINICAN REPUBLIC— Bosch and sent him into exile. According to theSunday Times Anarchist Weekly# ^ Where is that? One of the According to Wessin, Bosch was (9.5.65),a Henry Brandon reporting banana countries who hffve revolu­Communist. Juan Bosch was elected from Washington states: ‘Some MAY 15 1965 Vol. 26 No. 15 tions every week. People die in thePresident in the December of 1962. token withdrawal of American fighting, no matter they will His party, the Dominican Revolu­Marines will be ordered as soon as probably die of malnutrition ortionary Party, won 62 per cent ofthe first contingents of police or disease anyway. the vote in the first elections since troops from other Latin American Dominica has always been a 1920. From the very beginning States arrive’. happy stamping ground for dictators. Bosch fought a losing battle against Reading between the lines this Haiti was in occupation for 20 years the combined forces of the Church, could mean that a large force of Black Anarcliy or more, which was one of the most the Press, the Army and entrenched American troops will stay to ensure brutal and repressive periods in land interests owned by Trujillo’s that Caamano’s government does Dominica’s tormented history. Inthugs. Bosch’s policy was one notof take office. Of course this 1916 America sent in the marines liberal reform, obviously too liberalcannot be counted as interference to restorelaw and order. They for Wessin and the forces ofin the ihtemal affairs of another stayed eight years, created a national reaction. country, just plain bloody aggres­ Tomorrow? police force, which spewed up the After Bosch was ousted, a civilian sion. dictator Trujillo. In 1930 he rigged triumvirate took over led by ReidWhere does the British Govern­ TYURING the last year four elections going relations with all the three high the elections and stayed in office forCalbral. This set-up was fully ment stand? Lying quietly at •*-' in countries of Southern Africa have commission territories.’ 31 years. backed by Wessin, but not by the Johnson’sbenevolent heel. Johnson has dispensed with the lead, the taken place, all of which must underline If we take an over-all look at Basuto­ The ‘Benefactor of the Father- people of Dominica. On April 24, the futility of advocating the ballot-box land, Bechuanaland and Swaziland we land’ looked after his jpeople with 1965, the uprising began in an effort British Government is sufficiently as the salvation for the oppressed African will see that pro-South African parties hospitals, roads and some education. to restore Bosch to the Presidency. obedient to ‘come to heel’. people in the area. are in power in all three countries as Trujillo also looked after Trujillo Reid resigned and went into hiding, B il l C h r ist o ph er . Nearly a year ago now, Swaziland held they head for independence. Only in to the tune of $800 million at theGeneral Wessin took over as the a general election for the first time in Basutoland is the Pan-Africanist support counter-revolutionary leader of a the 61 years of British rule there. A expense of 1,000 political refugees strong. The question is whether political whom he put to death in police pro-Wessin junta. pro-South African alliance of African independence for these three territories ‘traditionalists’ and white farmers was means economic independence. Oliver cells. In 1937 he murdered 15,000 MARINES MOVE IN elected to power. In the first meeting of Walker writing of the three countries in Haitian squatters. MARINES the Swaziland Legislative Council the Funny no intervention then from Bitter fighting took place, and on his book Kaffirs are Livelier remarks Wednesday, April 28, 405 US Paramount Chief’s representative de­ that: ‘Except for Swaziland, each is US to restorelaw and order. The clared his desire for independence from utterly dependent on South Africa as a massacre of 15,000 people constitutes marines landed in Dominica to pro­NOT KILLERS Britain as soon as possible, whilst a market for its labour and its cattle. law and order. In 1961 Trujillo tect American property and lives. motion was debated in which the pro- Swaziland has mineral resources of was assassinated and a seven man On Saturday, May 8, the 82nd US T IBERALS IN THE United States, Government mover said Swaziland would asbestos and iron ore, now being de­ Airborne went into actionagainst these days, are in the unenviable not interfere with South Africa’s domestic civilian Council of State was in­ veloped, which could ensure a greater stalled. the rebels, US forces lost two men, position of apologizing for the most affairs. measure of detachment. But Basutoland twelve wounded, so 2,000 more US Early this year the first general election unpopular war in which this country is a barren rock in the heart of South BOSCH FOUGHT A LOSING troops were sent in bringing the total was ever embroiled. Their humiliat­ under universal suffrage took place in Africa, accustomed to hiring its man­ BATTLE Bechuanaland and Seretse Khama be­ to 7,000 men to protectAmerican ing predicament of course follows power to the Rand gold mines, to farmers The Dominican military has property and lives. came the Prime Minister with a very and to secondary industry. And Bechu­ logically from their irrational belief large majority. His party stands for a always been the military and poli­ 7,000 men are a lot of troops thatto the State produces Order, Pros­ analand is good only for ranching and tical power behind^;! Dominica’s ‘good neighbour’ policy towards South game reserves. Any one of them could protect property even by American perity, and, most strangely of all Africa. Dr. Verwoerd sent his personal be occupied tomorrow without fuss by ^Thrones’. The boss at the moment standards. In an attempt to justify the supposed state-born qualities, congratulations to Seretse Khama and a battalion of parachute troops from is General Wessin y Wessin. A her actions a meeting of the Morality. Liberals pathetically IKied a ban on him visiting South Africa. South Africa. Britain is agt going tp, devout .Catholic with ^.pathological Organisation of American States cling to the notion that the State The Financial Times (5.3.65) saw this as allow them to become rallying points hatred of’COmmitirtliuywhich means was' called. Usually OAS obey their an attempt to wean Bechuanaland away somehow insures a higher level of for an attack on South Africa.’ any shade of leftistihinking). InAmerican master, sometimes reluc­ public morality than that which from British influence towards the Re­ It is little wonder that the editor of 1963 Wessin staged ajfoloodless coup public. If one casts one’s mind back to tantly, but eventually, after economic would obtain without the State and Die Burger, the main pro-Govemment against the elected/President Juan pressure, they do. This time the 1950, when the Labour Government paper in South Africa, can write (Sunday its agencies of control. stopped Seretse Khama returning to join Times, 2.5.65): ‘Bechuanaland, Basuto­ official representatives of twenty Many good-hearted and kind his white wife in Bechuanaland, it will land and Swaziland are in effect British American States have condemned people persistently refuse to accept be appreciated that Dr. Verwoerd has a Bantustans, and Britain finds nothing in­ or deplored US action in Dominica. the fact that the State produces task of some ease on his hands. In congruous about granting political inde­ ANARCHIST FRINGE The US obtained a bare two-thirds poverty and war. The subsequent 1950 Seretse Khama said: ‘I am not to pendence to their underdeveloped majority but only on the agreement by-product of both is violence and go home for five years. I told Gordon peoples.’ Even Llewellyn Chanter that the unilateral US presence in Walker (then Secretary of State for TO BATH FESTIVAL immorality. The womb of the State writing in the Daily Telegraph (21.4.65) the Dominican Republic be replaced is perpetually pregnant with violence. Commonwealth Relations) I thought I admitted: ‘One can only experience SUMMER CAME PLANNED had been tricked. They invited me to by an inter-American force under Violence is all that the State can feelings of deepest shame when faced by unified control. come, and now they say I am excluded the abysmal degree of illiteracy and A NARCHISTS IN BRISTOL and Bath breed; its ‘Order’ is but the after­ from the territory. I only thought those ignorance prevalent in all three territories, have joined the committee for the President Johnson has now birth of its violence. things were supposed to happen in notably in Bechuanaland and Swaziland. first Bath Festival Fringe, the ‘A’ Group. publicly admitted that the main The latest large scale American Russia. I said it was a dirty trick.’ In the former 250 primary and secondary The Festival, which is from June 9 to 20, reason for 21,800 troops in theadventure in South Vietnam offers (Doubtless the voters of Smethwick and schools, all under-staffed, are trying to is the West Country’s cultural focus, and Dominican Republic is the danger proof of this anarchist principle Leyton had this skeleton in Gordon- cope with 63,000 children, while another ‘A’ Group are determined to widen the of a Communist take-over.lik e every day. But the public is not Walker’s cupboard well in mind when 10,000 a year are clamouring to get in. range of activities presented. During the Arbenz of Guatemala, the t/S they voted against him in recent months!) often made aware of this as it was This is hardly a basis for independence.’ evenings there will be jazz, folksong, engineered the overthrow.
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