GIVES HIGHLIGHTS OF SPEECHES AT VIENNA PEACE CONFERENCE SESSION

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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia DATE OF
SUBJECT Political - Vienna Peace Conference, biographic INFORMATION 1951
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PUBLISHED 7 Nov 1951
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GIVES HIG.HI.IGHTS OF SFEECHES
AT VIENNA PEACE CONFERENCE SESSION
Delegates from a number of countries spoke at the 5 November sessions of
the Vienna Peace Conference. Highlights of speeches delivered at the after-
noon sesiion are as follows.
V. R. Vasos Ltsseridea. first chairman of the Cyprus Committee of the
Partisans of Peace, emphasized the untiring fight for peace of the people of
Cyprus.
The German writer J. R, Becher declared that Western Germany was an arsenal
and base of US imperialism aimed at the USSR and the People's Democracies.
Becher added that the fight for peace and the unification of Germany should be
stepped up.
Pero Popivoda, leader of the Yugoslav revolutionary emigrants, and Rene
Bovaroux, Swiss general secretary of the International Committee for Cooperation
Among the Organizations Fighting for Peace, spoke next.
J. Nicholson, a member of the British Labor Party who came to Vienna as a
guest, announced that he spoke for the rank-and-file members of the trade unions,
for the workers of the machine industry Nicholson is a former mayor of Hull and
an active trade union official.
Antonio Varvaro, representative of Italy. was questioned with great interest.
He said that, up to the present, 14,659,000 persons have signed the appeal for
a Big Five peace pact, but that the Italian goal was 17 million signatures.
Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri of Iraq pointed out that the people of Iraq
are firmly behind the peoples of Iran and Egypt, who are fighting for their
national independence.
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The chairman of the Guatemalan Committee of the Partisans of Peace stated
that the countries of South America are continually exposed to US interven-
tion, directly or indirectly. He asserted that in the 6 years of this repub-
lic's existence 30 different subversive attempts were made by the US.
The representative of Lebanon, Dr George Hanna, referred to the attempts
of the US, British, French, and Turkish governments to subjugate all the
nations of the Near East through the so-called Mediterranean Pact, which is in
contradiction with the UN Charter.
The representative of the Sudan, Ahmed Sulayman, said that the chief task
of the Sudanese Partisans of Peace is to broaden the peace movement in the
Sudan and to unite with the people of Egypt in freeing themselves from imperial-
ist oppression.
The representative of Syria, Said Tahsin, said that 225,000 persons had
signed the peace appeal in his country.
The following additional speakers were heard during the afternoon:
Dr Milad of Tunisia, Birgit Shetz of Norwp.y, and Jacob Mais of Israel.
The evening session was opened under the chairmanship of the representative
of Lebanon, Antoine Tabet. Marcel Laboher of Belgium, the first speaker, told
of the fight in Belgium for a peace pact signed by the Big Five.
Desmond Buckle of the Union of South Africa mentioned the increased rate
of military preparations in Africa south of the Sahara. He stated that these
preparations are being carried out particularly actively in the Union of South
Africa, industrially the most developed country in the African continent.
The representative of Iran, Iraj Eskandari, characterized the situation
in his country. He emphasized the peonleis fight against the attempts of the
Anglo-American interventionists who want to seize Iran's wealth, particularly
petroleum.
Other speakers were Dr Josef Dobretsberger of Austria, Prof Alvaro Perez
Vives of Colombia; and Le Dinh Them of Viet Nam,
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