MOSES IS JOHANNESBURG. AIRPORT WITNESSED DRAMATIC SCENES LAST SUNDAY, WHEN OVER 400 MEMBERS OF THE FOUR CONGRESSES GAVE MOSES KO- NEW IGE TANE, BANNED PEOPLE’S LEADER, A ROYAL WELCOME ON HIS RETURN NORTHERN EDITION Registered at G.P.O. as a Newspaper TO AFTER AN ELEVEN-MONTH ABSENCE OVERSEAS. Vol. 2, 7. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1955 PRICE 3d. The Non-European enclosure was a riot of Congress flags, pennants and bunting. Specially painted banners bore the words “Welcome Home Kotane.” While they waited for the BO AC Skymaster from London to land, the crowd sang DOW N TO songs of the Defiance Campaign and the Congress of the People. Who are they waiting for? asked many a puzzled spec­ tator. The answer was not long in coming. As the plane 4 PAGES touched down, a great roar went up: “We want Kotane.” For many weeks now we have been warning you that Minutes ticked by, as one by one leader to emerge. As he did, he was the hnanciaJ position of New Age was becoming more and the passengers descended . . a busi­ mobbed by supporters, and pre­ ness man with his attache case, a sented with garlands from Basupat- more precarious. We had hoped that you would take our middle-aged woman, another wo­ sela and Young Democrats. warnings seriously and give us the money we needed to man . . and then, there, framed in But Moses Kotane could not stay keep going on the present basis. the doorway, stoood the rnan for with his supporters, and left quickly. whom all were waiting—his hand His banning order still operates. While many of our readers and supporters responded raised aloft in the Congress salute. Before he drove off, he told New magnificently, many others remained apparently indifferent Airport officials on the tarmac Age: “I am glad to be back, and I to the fate of their paper. momentarily turned to stare as a congratulate the people who have thunderous roar of “Afrika!” broke been carrying on the struggle.” AFRICA ARE EQUALLY GLAD THE RESULT IS THAT WE ARE NOW FORCED TO CUT from 400 throats, and the beautiful JUDGING FROM THE RECEP­ THAT MOSES KOTANE IS OUR COSTS. FROM NEXT ISSUE NEW AGE WILL BE RE­ strains of “Nkosi Sikelele Afrika” TION, THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH BACK. DUCED TO FOUR PAGES. floated over the airfield. Moses Ko­ We regret having to take this step. We fully realise how serious tane had returned. it is to cut the effectiveness of New Age by half at a time wlien the Outside the immigration office a democratic movement is fighting for its very right to exist. But you long double line of Congressmen SACPO CALLS FOR have given us no option, for without the necessary funds we can formed, waiting for their banned do nothing. Unfortunately, we cannot hold out any promise of an early return to an eight-pager. The reduction in BUS BOYCOTT size to half does not reduce our costs proportionately, so that we . workers. They want to stop us will still be faced with the urgent from being tradesmen in the Build­ problem of keeping even the four- A call to the people of Cape ing Industry and skilled workers in pager in production. factories. They want to stop pro­ New Age belongs to everyone Town to prepare to struggle gress. who refuses to bow the knee to against the new threats to their Nationalist tyranny. It is our finest “The Population Registration in collective achievement and it is our existing rights has been issued Johannesburg and other towns has duty—the duty of every one of us in leaflet form by the South meant great hardship to our com­ —to cherish and protect it to the munity. It will become as bad as best of our ability. The problern of African Coloured People’s Or­ the Pass Laws for the African peo­ saving New Age from extinction, ganisation. ple. After Group Areas (Locations) the problem of bringing our paper and Identity Cards (Glorified Pas­ back to full fighting strength is, “The Nationalists are plan­ ses), they will no doubt clear us therefore, the concern of every off the streets at night democrat in South Africa. ning to extend on the “WHAT NEXT! Only concentrated activity buses,” says the leaflet. “If they throughout the country can save ARE WE GOING TO SIT succeed we will only be allowed BACK QUIETLY AND ALLOW New Age and ensure that we go OUR CHILDREN TO FACE back to eight pages with the least to use certain parts of the buses. possible delay. SUCH A DARK FUTURE? THE To make up for loss of profits ANSWER LIES WITH US. The matter now rests in your COME TO THE MEETING ON hands. by bus-owners, fares will be IF YOU CAN RALLY ROUND THE GRAND PARADE AND AND SEND US AN EXTRA raised. Non-European workers HEAR OUR PLAN.” £1,000 BY THE END OF DE­ CEMBER, WE CAN GIVE YOU will be left stranded on apart­ BACK THE EIGHT-PAGER IN heid bus stops, be late for work JANUARY. Prof. Hallhews Acting Make it a point of honour and lose their jobs. to send your donation before the Mr. S. Fisher (right) addresses the Port Elizabeth meeting, “DO NOT GIVE WAY TO Principal of Fort Hare end of December. Together we can antf must keep New Age in circu­ THIS INSULTING AND OPPRES­ PORT ELIZABETH. SIVE MEASURE. PREPARE TO lation. P.E. Meeting Condemns At the November meeting of the FRED CARNESON. BOYCOTT THE BUSES,” STATES Fort Hare Governing Council Pro­ Remember our addresses: THE LEAFLET. fessor Z. K. Matthews was ap­ pointed Acting Principal. He re­ Cape Town: Room 20, Chames Special Branch Tactics “The Government plans to build Buildings, Barrack Street. places Prof. C. P. Dent, who re­ PORT ELIZABETH. a huge location at Nyanga. This is signed after the Dumminy Com­ Johannesburg: No. 5 Progress intended first for African families, mission had severely criticised his The attempts of Special Branch policemen to intimidate members of later to be converted into African Buildings, 154 Commissioner the newly formed branch of the S.A. Coloured People’s Organisation by administration. Street. single quarters and finally into a visiting and questioning them at their homes and places of work were Coloured location. We are being The appointment of an African Durban: 6 Pembroke Chambers, condemned by the audience at a large meeting held by SACPO at the forced into locations and ghettoes. as Acting Principal after the re­ 472 West Street. Malatsky Square recently. We call on all people to stand with marks made recently by Dr. Ver- Members of the New Brighton and Korsten branches of the A.N.C. us in our total opposition to group woerd that the Dumminy Commis­ Port Elizabeth: 9 Court Cham­ areas and locations. bers, 129 Adderley Street. also attended the meeting. sion had missed the real cause of the trouble at Fort Hare has cre­ Mr. S. Fisher, the chairman, rights for themselves and their “With the Industrial Conciliation urged the people to stand firm in ated a certain amount of specula­ children. Bill the Government wants to split tion. Banned For Five Years the face of the police pressure. They “ Now the Coloureds can no longer our trade unions on colour lines, JOHANNESBURG. must know that to fight for freedom rely on the United Party, the Liberal as Hitler did with the German Dr. Verwoerd felt that Fort Hare was no crime, and he urged them to Party, nor any of the political par­ should be controlled by the Native The Minister of Justice has ban­ intensify their efforts until freedom ties that have always lulled us to iliniilinillillllllllllHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Affairs Department, like the rest of ned Mr. Peter Selepe of Dube, Or­ was won. sleep,” declared Mr. Fisher. African Education. Some Africans lando, from all gatherings for five Appealing to the people to feel the appointment of Prof. Mat­ years. He has also prohibited him ARRESTED thews may have some bearing on from taking part in the activities of develop self-confidence he dramati­ Pass your copy of cally seized upon a crutch that was Mr. Robert Resha of Johannes­ this proposal. 35 organisations, ordered him to re­ burg, who was arrested the morning sign within 30 days from the Afri­ lying on the ground near a limping Dr. Don Mtimkulu, Principal of woman. With the crutch under his of his arrival for entering New N E W A G E can National Congress and the Brighton without a permit, ex­ Ohlange, Natal, and well-known in Transvaal Peace Council, and or­ armpit he demonstrated graphically Race Relations circles, has been dered him never to become an how the Coloureds had all along pressed joy that the Coloureds had rallied round S.A.C.P.O. “Had you on to a Friend appointed as Senior Lecturer in the offioe-beArer of the Federation pf been leaning on other people'in­ Education Pepartment as from South African Women, stead of fighting for decent human (Continued on |»ge 8} Ititililililliifiiiiiililllllillillllilllliltliillililillllitlilliiil 1957. NEW ACE Israel Blaming The EDITORIAL Wrong People I am a Jew who sympathises with Israel and wishes it utmost LETTER BOX peace and much progress. This WHAT ARE THE does not mean sympathising or agreeing with the Government of Israel’s policy. If Israel is in trouble, part of the fault is her LIBERATION IS NEARER own. BLACK SASH UP TO? I have one important grudge against Israel—right from the be­ The Black Sash women decided at their conference last THAN WE BELIEVE ginning the Government followed week to carry on their campaign against the Nationalist Govern­ an utterly opportunistic policy. Those of us who were fortunate shared that question, not only For years it has gone out of its ment’s rape of the constitution. Their “silent vigils” and demon­ enough to be at Kliptown on the from among the thousands who way to get as many Jews as pos­ strations are to be continued all over the country. 25th and 26th June were so in­ were at Kliptown, but also among sible into the country, by hook or spired that even now, as the year the many other thousands who by crook, notwithstanding the One cannot help admiring the spirit of the Black Sash comes to its close, we feel 1955 were sceptical, critical, and even lack of resources. It thought women, who have braved public ridicule and Nationalist hooli­ will always be to us “the year of suspicious. money could right all things, and the People’s Congress.” it no sooner got a soul of its own, ganism to demonstrate their opposition to what the (jovernment CRITICAL than it sold its soul to the devil. is doing. They have shown more guts than the United Party, and But as with all great ex­ The U.S.A. gladly accepted the in truth they have done the duty of an Opposition far more periences the hours of reaction Personally, I am not ashamed role of rich uncle—one who at­ set in. Somewhat in the same sort to admit that I was critical at tached political strings to his mis­ courageously than Mr. Strauss and his weak-kneed lieutenants. of mood as the old song writer various stages, but I have always erly purse. who gave us “After the ball was believed that it was a God-im­ At the same time, one wonders what the Black Sash women over,” I found myself asking “and planted inspiration that gave Britain created the Arab hope to achieve by their demonstrations. Their proclaimed now, what?” I believe many others birth to the concept of a true League, and saw to it that Israel intention is to shame the Nationalists into honouring the consti­ People’s Congress. I am happy to had always to be on the alert for say that I have lived to see that military intervention. It was her tution, and presumably repealing the Senate Act. A DEFENCE OF most of my critical fears were un­ revenge for being ousted from one founded, because Kliptown of her “spheres of ruling.” The In this they are undoubtedly wasting their time. Hie Jewf ISRAEL proved beyond question that the U.S.A. looked on, and was cer­ of Germany might as well have tried to shame Hitler into hunger for liberation from op­ tainly pleased that a threat of war always existed there, so that she repealing the Nuremberg decrees. The Nationalist Government Mr. Sam Kahn has seen fit to pression, injustice and groundless is not open to any moral influence. The only language it under­ severely criticise Israel in his fears, is deep In the hearts of could bargain influence for arms series of articles upon the Middle millions—and it will find expres­ and prepare bases against her stands is the language of practical politics. East. According to him Egypt sion. imagined enemy, the U.S.S.R. only seeks “to maintain some ele­ Israel, together with leading From this point of view the only hope of defeating the ments of independence and neu­ Still, it is difficult to shake off habits of a life-time, so I remain Jews elsewhere, is now busy pro­ Nationalists or turning them from their evil courses is to organise trality.” of a critical temperament. Conse­ pagating slanders, blaming the a force amongst the people which is greater than that represented Mr. Kahn neglects to mention quently when the Action Com­ wrong people (as if she could not by the Nationalist Party. Then they will listen, otherwise not. that whilst in Israel can be found mittee which so brilliantly orga­ herself get arms from little the only successful attempts at nised the Congress proce^ed to Czechoslovakia, as she has done The Black Sash women have annoyed, but not seriously disturbed true socialist living (viz. the kib­ initiate a campaign to secure a in the past), all in order to do two the Cabinet Ministers they have been shadowing up to now. butz, which is the purest form of million signatures for the Free­ things: Please her American bos­ socialism), in Egypt we find a vast dom Charter, I found myself ses and escape her obligations How is such a force to be organised? To this question the moss of fellaheen living in media­ hesitating. That the Charter is a with regard to the Arab refugees. Black Sash women can give no answer. Indeed, they proclaim eval serfdom and poverty, society fine piece of work I have never My appeal is; Refuse to be themselves a non-party-political organisation. They only stand disease-ridden and rotten to its queried; in fact I greatly admire moved by pure chauvinistic senti­ very core. If Soviet Russia and its the drafting ability of those who ment, and to be taken in by pro­ for the Constitution, and so long as the Constitution is honoured, allies were to attempt to amelio­ could produce such a document paganda mixed with much untruth. the Nats can do what they like. rate the terrible conditions of the in the face of all the difficulties Use your brains! It does not be­ mass of the Egyptian people, then which are too well known to come Jews, wh^ know to their Yet it is by no means certain that the Nationalist Govern­ Israel would support and praise need enumeration. sorrow what blood libels are, to ment has violated the Constitution. The United Party has so far them and so would Jews the falsely accuse another group of world over, but when the assist­ FIRST SKETCH people, or to talk of “preventive brought no action in the courts, and many believe it has no ance offered comprises enormous war.” Protest against all this, and grounds for bringing one. If it can be shown that the Govern­ supplies of arms, one cannot but Still, it is only a first sketch of struggle for the better way, which ment has acted legally within its constitutional rights in passing deduce that their arms and inten­ the shape of things to be in South is safer for all humanity. tions are directed with hostile in­ Africa. We all know that the first A JEW. the Senate Act, will the Black Sash then abandon its opposition? tent against Israel. sketch of any building needs much Cape Town. It is not enough for the Black Sash to defend the Constitu­ Another interesting point in Mr. skilled work before the final blue­ Kahn’s article is that Israel has re­ print is ready; to say nothing of tion when it is precisely the Constitution which has brought fused Czechoslovakia’s offer of the toil which will go into build­ South Africa to its present sorry pass. The Constitution is based arms purely on the grounds that ing the suF>er structure. So my African Women Are cautious mind expected education­ on a denial of franchise rights to the majority of the fwpulation. she would prefer to obtain them Any parly which aims to perpetuate that denial of rights must from the West. This is poppycock. al cartipaigns, and what have you, Taking The Lead and no doubt they are yet to ultimately follow the same course as the Nationalists have done In one sentence Mr. Kahn advises The conference of the ANC Israel to be free, neutral and inde­ come. Not all of us are able to and end up presiding over a naked dictatorship. a^rce with everything your colum­ Women’s League which was held pendent. Does Mr. Kahn really on November 13 was a dynamic believe that the Soviet bloc offers nist Inkululeko recently wrote, but at any rate he sets us think­ success. The participation of the Moreover, the Black Sash women have shown they are not arms to Israel and Egypt from a women in discussion, their con­ spirit of benevolency? Is not the ing—in fact he made me think opposed to the denial of fundamental rights enshrin^ in the again! tribution to a well-planned pro­ Constitution, On the contrary, they have practised it themselves. real truth rather that whilst the gramme of action outlined in the Western bloc and the Soviet bloc This time I realised that the first Presidential address, and the secre­ When they organised their protest march in Cape Town, they jump from one position to another thing is to find out how many be­ tarial report showed a high stan­ insisted that only women who were registered voters should as they scheme for strategic strong- lieve in the fundamental principle dard of political maturity. Here take part. In this way they carefully excluded participation by points, Israel becomes purely a of Human Freedom, covering the was the answer to the insults of pawn to be moved at will by either whole of life equally for all peo­ the oppressors who regard our any section of the Non-Europeans. bloc? ple. Then I saw the rightness of womenifo folk as nothing else than To join forces with the West in the mass signature campaign, hur­ nannies. Similarly, in a statement last week repudiating the Congress a race to provide arms can mean ried to the nearest place with a list for signing, and with many The conference and the recent of Democrats, the Black Sash stated it “wishes it to be known only one thing. The Soviet bloc that its membership is confined to women entitled to vote.” wants trouble in the Middle East. blushes made up for my hesi­ demonstration of the women in tancy. Pretoria are events of great histo­ B. WENER. rical significance in our struggle Thus the Black Sash repeats the error which led to the Cape Town. Hoping that thousands of others will do as I have done, and be­ for liberty and democracy. The destruction of the Torch Commando. The Nationalist Govern­ (If it is true that Israel is only lieving that our liberation is active participation of women in ment stands for apartheid, and has won and maintained power a pawn on the international stage, nearer than we dare to believe. a democratic movement, opening because it stands for apartheid. It will only be defeated when the it is because she has not followed the eyes of the oppressed against an independent policy but has ARTHUR W. BLAXALL. oppression and actively engineer­ forces which oppose it challenge the apartheid policy root and thrown in her lot with the West Durban. ing the united front of the liber- branch, and are prepared to substitute for it the policy of equal and maintained a consistently hos­ atory forces against the forces of rights for all. tile attitude towards the Soviet fascism is another great step for­ ward in the people’s march to­ Union and the People’s Democra­ Evil cannot be fought with evil, or with silence. Those who cies. As for bringing trouble to wards freedom. the Middle East, surely it is ob­ The Bishops' Siand Let those who still have doubts themselves advocate a form of apartheid, or who side-step the vious that it is the presence of the I feel I must say something on about the people’s movement, re- whole issue, can never succeed in mobilising the mass of the Western imperialist powers—in the stand taken by the bishops of gardinjj our “Freedom Charter” as South African people, of all races, in a huge crusade against the Egypt (until recently) and the Su­ a foreign ideology, take courage dan. in Cyprus, in Iraq and Iran— the Roman Catholic Mission from the actions of the women. Nationalist tyranny. Schools, who have refused to I^se and the construction of the Middle Let them take inspiration from the The Black Sash women would do well to read the Freedom East Defence Organisation which their schools for Bantu Education, uncompromising and unchallenged has been the source of all the which has been recently intro­ spirit of the women against the in­ Charter, If they agree with the principles set forth there—and trouble there since the end of duced. sanity of apartheid and racial they are basically the principles of the United Nations Charter World War 2. If the imperialist Though I am not a member of humiliation. of Human Rights—then they should, far from dissociating them­ powers were to clear out, dis­ their church, I appeal to aU South These are not just warnings to selves from the Congress of Democrats, join that organisation mantle their military bases, aban­ African citizens, particularly the the exploiters in this land, but don their aggressive pacts directed Africans, to support this action great signs showing the nearness and help make the Charter a realilty. against the Soviet Union and leave financially, irrespective of their of victory in our struggle against the peoples of the Middle East to church denominations. the Pretoria despots. If they cannot accept the Charter, then they should hold settle their own affairs, there their peace, for it means that on the essentials of South African J. nkadtmeng. would be peace in the Middle S, XAMLASHE. life they see eye-to-eye with the Nats. East—Editor I Langa. lohannesburg. ADENAUER FACES CABINET SPLIT Negro Congressman Moves Exclusion of Apartheid Demands for Negotiations with Soviet BONN.—Germany’s Chancellor, Dr. Adenauer faces a serious split in his coalition Representatives Cabinet following a strong attack on his pro- American policy by the leader of the right- NEW YORK.—Five of the six members of the United States wing Free Democrats, Dr. Dehler. Congress who represent the state of Mississippi will lose their seats Speaking at Munich last week, Dr. Dehler criticised Adenauer if a resolution by a Negro member of Congress, Mr. Charles Diggs, for ^‘neglecting the Russians while taking and making opportunities BRITAIN ATTACKS and fourteen others, is adopted. to confer with the Western powers.” The fifteen Congress mernbers, He pointed out that Herr von closes that 20,000 West German IN MALAYA all strong supporters of civil rights, Brentano, the Foreign Minister, had metal workers visited East Ger­ SINGAPORE. will challenge the right of the Mis­ Chinese Paper Supports gone to New York to see the three many last year, and a similar num­ The British have resumed sissippi representatives to be seated Western foreign ministers before the ber went during the first nine full-scale military operations when Congress reassembles next Geneva conference and had travel­ months of this year. against the Malayan National month. S.A. Struggle led to Geneva to see them again, Trade union officials from East Liberatory Army. Grounds for the challenge are but had not taken the opportunity Germany have spoken at more The British authorities issued that the law requires that the num­ LONDON. than sixty trade union meetings in ber of Congress members elected to see Mr. Molotov. He aiso com­ this announcement the day “The Chinese people together plained that the West German ob­ West Germany on the need for after a meeting between a must be based on the total eligible servers at the conference had made unity, and have not once met with representative of the chief min­ voting population of the state. with the people of the rest of the no attempt to get into contact with opposition. ister of the Malayan Federation “But,” says Mr. Diggs, “Negro world extend their sympathy and the Soviet delegation. and a representative of the citizens are not permitted to vote support to the just struggle of the Malayan Communist Party to in Mississippi.” ADENAUER ANGRY U.S. Bars "Accident" This vital issue was first placed people of South Africa against So angry was Dr. Adenauer at discuss arrangements for peace negotiations. before Congress in 1947 by Eugene racial discrimination and for human this speech—which has since been Inquiry Dennis, secretary of the Communist rights,” declared the Peking Peo­ endorsed by the Free Democrats— According to a Reuter report Party when he refused to appear that he cancelled a meeting of coali­ NEW YORK. on the day of the meeting agree­ before the McCarthy Un-American ple’s Daily recently. tion party leaders, including Dr. The United States has been called ment was reached for the hold­ Committee and served a year in upon to permit a full inquiry into ing of talks on peace in the After citing in detail the many Dehler, which was to have met to prison for his action. South African laws “aimed at strip­ prepare a foreign policy statement the circumstances in which three middle of December between Dennis challenged the presence members of the Polish delegation Tengku Abdul Riihman, Malay­ ping the Non-Europeans of the poli­ for debate in the German Parlia­ of John Rankin, the “representa­ tical, economic and social rights ment. to the Neutral Nations Supervision an chief minister, and Chin tive” from Mississippi, on the Commission in Korea were killed in Peng, General Secretary of the that are their due,” the newspaper Most significantly, when Dr. Committee. He pointed out that pointed out that the movement Adenauer lator presented an ulti­ an aeroplane crash recently. The Malayan Communist Party. 700,000 Mississippi citizens had ’plane was provided by the United against racial discrimination is in­ matum to the Free Democrats to The resumption of war by not been able to vote in the 1946 tensifying throughout the world. give “an assurance of loyalty” to States. the British is seen as a last des­ elections “for reasons that cannot him or to resign from the cabinet, The Americans have refused to perate attempt to prevent peace be assumed to be voluntary.” “The struggle of the South Afri­ it was tte most right-wing mem­ permit the Neutral Nations Com­ terms favourable to the Liber­ Mr. Diggs has now declared that can people for human rights and bers of the Free Democrats who mission to investigate the cause of atory Army. For nearly ten in one Mississippi electoral district freedom is sui^ng forward. The insisted that Dr. Dehier should the accident. Members of the Com­ years the British have been there is not a single Negro voter, reactionary ruling clique of the stand by his statement. mission have expressed their concern throwing everything they have although Negroes make up 63 per will have Free Democrat newspapers have because the crash came at a time into the attempt to win victory, cent of the population—Diggs to accept the consequences of con­ tried to smooth the matter over. when the South Koreans, supported but without success. It is con­ claimed that if there was full equa­ tinuing such reactionary and in­ They say that Dr. Dehler wants by the Americans, have been mak­ sidered most unlikely that they lity, the U.S. Congress would have human acts, for justice will event­ direct negotiations “only in order ing violent attacks on the Commis­ will have better luck this time. 51 Negro members instead of only ually prevail,” the paper con­ to test Soviet intentions and to sion—including threats of violence. one or two as at present. cluded. clarify German wishes” and not to make a separate pact with the So­ glllllllllillllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll| viet Union without the permission I Do your | of the United States. I D U T Y I EAGER FOR UNITY “ BRITAIN WILL LEAVE CYPRUS There is no doubt, however, that I to = the rift is a real reflection of the mass opposition in Germany to j DEMOCRACY! | Adenauer’s subservience to the United States. The majority of IN HATRED Germans are eager for direct dis­ I Send a | cussions with East Germany on the reunification of the country. I DONATION I -LABOUR M.P. A striking indication of the work being done for unity by trade I to I LONDON.—By imposing a collective fine on a Cyprus village and telling the people unionists in both parts of Germany is given by the correspondent of I NEW AGE! I that they will be arrested if they leave their houses before the fine is paid. General Harding, the Manchester Guardian who dis­ ^iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiE the British military dictator in Cyprus has shown that he intends using the same brutal methods against the people of the island as have been used with so little success against every people who have fought for their freedo m against the British. General Harding imposed the collective fine of £2,000 after the “It is only a pity that—solely liberation movement had blown up the village post oflBce. The on account of the Government’s villagers, who are for the most part poor woricers have declared folly—we shall have to leave Cy­ ZIONIST HYSTERIA that they cannot, and will not, find the money. prus in ignominy and hatred, and The terrorist actions of the Bri­ that before we leave a lot more TEWS in South Africa who of reason, and a yielding to the tish forces, and their great military Tom Driberg, Labour M.P. in an innocent British soldiers and Cy­ share with all progressives emotions of a stampeding herd. strength, have not intimidated the article in Reynolds News last week. priots may have to die.” a feeling of alarm at the wave “There is only one important people. The Liberation forces of hysteria which is being arti­ difference between the Israeli launched a large-scale attack on a ficially stimulated by Zionist and the American Jews. In British military camp last week-end, leaders will be interested in Israel, the outburst of emotion­ using automatic weapons and hand this comment from an Ameri­ alism, as far as one can judge grenades. can newspap>er which shows from outside, has a basis in INFLUENTIAL U.S. BODY that the war hysteria is not reality. It wells from the hid­ confined to South Africa. den springs of a disillusioned “WE ARE SORRY” The following extract from the people who were promised The raiders left leaflets behind, United States bi-weekly review, security and peace and find saying, “we are sorry we have had OPPOSES WITCH-HUNT Jewish Newsletter, edited by themselves in a war trap. The to strike and kill a few among you. William Zukerman, is reprinted American-Jewish brand of hys­ But we warned you that if you NEW YORK.—The Fund for the Republic, an organisation set from Time Magazine. (Time’s teria is entirely without roots fought against the patriots fighting up with a fifteen million dollar grant by the reactionary Ford Foun­ headline: “Jews Hysterical over in the realities of American- for freedom we would treat you dation to investigate Inroads into civil liberties in Bie United States, the Middle East.”) Jewish life. It is completely with your own bullets.” is now being described as a Communist body by U.S. reactionaries. artificial, manufactured by the “There cannot be the slightest The British secretary for War, doubt that a state of mind very Zionist leaders, and almost mechanically foisted on a Mr. Antony Head, annnounced last “The Fund is giving comfort to mittee if he was a member of the much like that of Israel now week that the cost to Britain of the the enemies of i^erica. We are Communist Party. prevails among American Jews, people who have no cause for army installations in Cyprus would hysteria by an army of paid convinced that it is doing evil There is a fanatical certainty be £25 million. work,” said J. Addington Wagner, OPPOSE WITCH-HUNT abroad that there is only one propagandists as a means of Questioned on this appointment, advancing a policy of avowed “The blame for the bloodshed national commander of the Ameri­ truth and that Israel is the sole can Legion recently. the Fund President, Mr. Robert custodian of it. No distinction political pressure and of stim­ and the bitterness rests entirely on the Tory Government,” said Mr. In order to dramatise its views of Hutchins, a former university is made between the Jews of ulating fund raising. Never be­ the importance of civil liberties, the principal, said bluntly that he would the world and Israel, and not fore has a propaganda cam­ Fund recently made an award of not hesitate to engage a Cornmunist even between the Israeli gov­ paign in behalf of a foreign 5,000 dollars to a library which de­ as long as the man was qualified for ernment and Israel. Israeli government been planned and CHINA now has 1,240,000 co­ cided not to sack a librarian when the work and “I was in a position statesmen and their policies are carried out more blatantly and operative farms—over one-third of she refused to tell an un-American to see that he did it.” assumed to be inviolate and cynically, in the blaze of lime­ which have been established in the Activities Committee whether she This approach, which is a reflec­ above criticism. There is a light and to the fanfare of pub­ past three months. The target set was a ^mmunist or not. tion of the growing wave of opposi­ frightening intolerance of opin­ licity, than the present wave of by Mao Tse-tung of 1,300,(K)0 co­ The Fund has since gone even tion in the U.S. to the anti-Commu- ions differing from those of the hysteria now being worked up operatives in time for the spring further. It has appointed as a nist witch-hunt, has aroused the an­ majority, a complete disregard among American Jews.” sowing next year, is likely to be ex­ public-relations oflBcer Mr. Amos ger of the McCarthyites, who are ceeded, as more and more farmers Landman, a writer who had also all the more furious because their are applying for admission. refused to tell a McCarthy Com­ influence is lessening daily.

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