from A.R.Karim. The U.K,office of the Malayan People's Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee has issued the following Press Statement:~ "The decision to allow officially~organised groups of United States troops from Vietnam on a large scale tospend "rest and recreation" leave in Malaya, is a major step towards extending the U.S, war in Vietnam to Malaya and other parts of Asia. Tunku Abdul Rahman's puppet government has aleeady paved the way for their entry by making it an offence to publish any activity of these troops. This decision is the direct result of the British imperialist co-operation with the U.S, in its plans to drag British imperialism into still deeper involvement in the U.S.,aggression in Vietnam, The territory of Malaya is already used by British imperialism as a forwarding-centre for British arms for the U.S, forces in Vietnam, and as a training-base for "jungle warfare" under the U.S. = British material assistance arrangement on Vietnam and Laos. Now the U.S, is stepping-up its efforts to get a military foothold in Malaya, and the British Labour Government, no doubt eager to lay its hands on some of the U.S.Dollars these troops will spend in Malaya to help it through its deep economic crises, has willingly bartered yet again the lives and territory of Malaya. The British Government which negotiated this deal is thus directly responsible for further jeopardising the lives, the country and the resources of the Malayan people, The fact that both the Abdul Rahman and Lee Kuan Yew regimes acquiesced in this deal confirms again their role as agents of imperialism and enemies of the people. The Malayan People's Afro=Asian Solidarity Committee is confident that e11 Malayans will unite to resist this latest threat to their lives and their homeland, We are cOnfident also that all Afro-Asian-Latin American peoples will intensify their solidarity action in support of the heroic people of Vietnam in their resistance against U.S. aggression, and in support of one another's national liberation struggles,"
Vietnik Manifesto = continued, tYou can get into pawn, but don't then talk of an independent foreign policy.! (11) Fi ought to name my colleagues in the team which drew up this declaration of faith. They are:
1) Barbara Castle 2) Clement Attlee
3) Richard Crossman 4) Richard Crossman
5) Aneurin Bevan 6) Aneurin Bevan,Harold Wilson,
and John Freeman