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Show Worfd News Today Constitution Drafted On Indonesian U. S. ' Bum I mai Dan? Km Svrtak DP, Ar km Dra IwM Indpndnc for 70,000,000 people In the rich lilanda of the Kut Indies neered reality with the lnltialinf oT a draft eonetltu-tion eonetltu-tion for a United State! of Indonesia. Tlie draft conetitutloa was the result of talks between the Dutch government tnd representatives c( 13 southwest PacUic Island states. The talks began hero Aug. 2J. In effect, acceptance of the draft signaled hopes of a workable agreement between the Dutch and her former Island colonies which may bring to an end four years of warfare and political strife. So successful have been the round-table discussions here that a final plenary session probably will be held Nov. S to formalize acceptance of this first draft constitution. From its preamble It could be assumed the Dutch had agreed to give the Indonesians full sovereignty under a republican and federative structure. Italian Communists Rail for Tito Thirteen Italian Communist rebels opened a bold campaign to win friends and Influence people for Premier Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia. Yugo-slavia. The IS, who returned from a 10-day visit to Yugoslavia, said they would seek to "spread the truth" about Tito's quarrel with the Comlnforra throughout Italy. They started "spreading the truth" outside the locked doors of a pro-Cominform "peace" meeting here, from which Yugoslav delegates have been barred. The II Italians aid at a news conference: "Much doubt exists In the minds of Itallsn Communists today. We Intend to prove to everyone that Yugoslavia Is fighting for progressiva democracy against the menace of armed Intervention and economic blockade." The Italians, all members of the Communist-led Psrtlsans' AaoL, were Invited to Yugoslavia for celebration of the fifth anniversary anni-versary of the liberation of Belgrade. Led by ex-partisan Gen. Giovanni Maras, 2, they unanimously supported Yugoslavia's stand against the Cominform. They added, however, they did not plan th ormaUoftot nr jew. jroTltoJeftlstigrmipsJnJtali, Nationalists Announce Now Lossts National 1st China anneunoed loss of the rail gateway to Kwangsl ' province and Increased Communist pressure am Kweishow province, just to the north. The announcements were made officially as top level Nationalist generals gathered here for military conferences. Their aim. In the words of one of them. Is to make southwest China an In vincible fortress and convert It Into a base for an eventual counteroffenslve. Loss of Tungan paves the way for the Red Invasion of Kwangsl, headquarters base for Gen. Pal Chung-hsl armies, the best still under the Nationalist banner. Tungan. just across the border In Hunan province, is SO miles northeast of Kwetlin, capital of Kwangsl Russia to Return Prisoners Again - Communist President Wllhelm Pleek of the East German republic re-public announced that the Soviet union has promised to return all German war prisoners by next Jan. 1. He told an east Berlin opera house rally of 1600 former prisoners prison-ers that "we have no reason to doubt this definite word. The Communist leader did not estimate how many Germans were still In Russian captivity nor did he refer to a previous Soviet promise to release all prisoners by last Jan. 1. The rally, organised by the German-Soviet Friendship society, ried, "Pfui." when Pieck accused the West German republic of sing the war prisoner issue as "anti-Soviet propaganda." Pieck asserted western claims that at least 1,000,000 Germans were missing In Russia were greatly exaggerated. He said two ex-prisoners ex-prisoners recently had appeared la the West German parliament as "anti-Soviet puppets." |