European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 2, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes thursday july 2, 1959 Tass is a miserable liar says Rangoon editor turn burmese anti red North Alliance Rangoon if someone sat Down and wrote a Book called the ugly russian it might have a big Sale in this country until recently in Fife neutralise Camp of India indo Wiesia and other International Fence Sitters is being swept by arising tide of anti soviet sentiment. The hostility has been triggered by three developments two of them Well known in the West. The first was the red chinese assault on Tibet and the flight of the Dalai Lama which persuaded Burma and other countries in Southeast Asia that communist imperialism was every bit As bad As if not worsethan19th-Century British colonial ism. The second was the attempt by the military attache of the soviet embassy Here to receive political Asylum. Soviet police agents publicly dragged the errant officer Back to the embassy. After the officer reportedly tried to commit suicide he was taken under rus Sian guard to Rangoon Airport and shipped Back to Russia. This incident prompted burmese journalists to Pelt the soviet embassy with Rotten fruit and eggs. Several of the newsmen were Man handled by soviet officials and the burmese press is still commenting editorially on this third incident unpublicized in the West in Many ways was the most embarrassing of All for the soviets. On april 24 the nation highly respected English language newspaper Here published a Dis Patch noting that an Indian journalist the Rangoon correspondent of the Delhi times had accused the editor in chief of the nation of accepting a $34,000 bribe. The bribe the dispatch continued was made by the american embassy to persuade the editor u Law Yono to abandon a neutralise editorial policy and support a pro West policy. Similar accusations were made against the editors of the guardian and the reporter two other burmese newspapers. Following this dispatch by the Rangoon correspondent of the Delhi times was a Brief editor s note which pointed out first that the dispatch originated from Tass the official soviet news Agency and second that there is no such per son As the Delhi times correspond ent in Rangoon and Tass is a miserable the next Day virtually All news papers Here ran Banner front Page headlines exposing the Tass Dis Patch As deliberate falsification of the news. Refusing a demand for Public apology Tass Rangoon Cor respondent Eygueni Kovtunenko fled to the soviet embassy for Sanctuary. V ,. These three developments com ing at a time when american Pidto this country has been materially Liaty turned Many Bur Niese against the soviet bloc. Al though it is not expected that Burma will sign up with the South East Asia treaty organization there is every likelihood that it will take a More forthright stand against communist forces in Asia. Kerala strikers stage Lay Down protest defeat at polls hailed Iceland reds lose bid to oust . Troops new York up the great disillusion about communism that began with the subjugation of Czechoslovakia gained intensity during the anti communist revolts in East Germany Poland and Hun Gary and is now spreading through Asia because of the rape of Tibet has led to another., de feat in a tiny but strategically important Western bastion Iceland the new York times said in an the election held there on two striking workers form a human barricade to halt a state owned bus in Kerala the state in India where 300,000 strikers have staged riots in a attempt to Force the resignation of the communist controlled government. One of the communist spokesmen wednesday accused prime min ister Jawaharlal Nehru of conspiring to bring about the overthrow of the government. Up latin american revolts worry . By North american newspaper Alliance Washington Seething poli tics in seven countries that ring the Caribbean sea is causing grave Jeff Ocial concern Here. There i growing fear that recent latin american revolutions widely separated but closely related might flare into an International conflict. V at the Root of the disturbing developments in Cuba Haiti the dominican Republic Nicaragua Gosta Rica Honduras and Vene Zuela is a widespread movement against the so called dictatorship governments. The primary targets Are Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo a Jpn listed ruler of the dominican Republic and Luis Somoza presi a i Dent of Nicaragua. V " inspired by the Success of Fidel Castro in overthrowing the Batist dictatorship in Cuba forces which describe themselves As democratic Are undertaking to liberate the dominican and nicaraguan people. In this movement they Are rec e i v i n g considerable encourage ment and Aid from the Castro forces in Cuba the partisans of president Romulo Betancourt i Venezuela and former president Jose Figueres of Costa Rica. Observers Here say there is Ever indication that cubans Are mixed up in All of the recent attempts to invade other latin american coun tries. In an attack on Panama i april cubans constituted virtually the entire Force. Central America feuds in most cases however the cubans Are associating themselves with exiled nationals of the coun try invaded. In Central America there is Long standing ill feeling Between Costa rican and nicaraguan 1 e a d e r s. Nicaragua was the springboard Foran invasion of Costa Rica a few Congress told Gold outflow c go. -.-. No reason to devalue Dollar a Washington a Congress has been assured there is no need Over the outflow of Gold the . And no need to con ,-/8ijler devaluing the Dollar. Ujj economist Charles p. Kindle of Massachusetts Institute ology testified that last fears that this country was itself out of world markets through inflation Are now widely recognized As largely wrong and entirely he appeared before the Senate House economic committee in its investigation of the implications of shifts in world Trade and pay ment trends which caused a $2.3 billion Drain on this country s Gold stocks last year. The outflow has continued in 1959. Years ago and the Costa rican exiles had support of Gen Anas Tasio Tacho Somoza the late president of Nicaragua and father of the current president. Figueres of Costa Rica is openly behind the movement to oust Lui Ssomoza. And the recent invasion of Nicaragua was launched from Costa Rica in planes. Some Nicaragua exiles Are in Honduras and they appear As eager to go Home As those in Costa Rica. Honduras is sparsely populated and reinforcements for the exiles could be landed there easily. The
