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am DAY, JUNE 15, 1962
L. 22, NO. 23

VANCOUVER, B.C.

in the history of the U.N.

Canada votes with Britain, U.S.,
to thwart U.N. action on racism

The government of John Diefenbaker. avowed champion of minority rights.
voted last Tuesday to prevent U.N. General Assembly debate on the issue of
white supremacy in Southern Rhodesia.

However, Canada and the rest of the imperialist bloc were swamped by a-
combined socialist and Afro-Asian vote which decided that the question should
be aired. Final tally was 62 to 26 to open up debate, with 15 abstentions.

It was one of the most stinging defeats ever suffered by the Western nations

TORIES ADMIT PREPARING
TO TAKE NUCLEAR WEAPONS

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have 5 N-arms
be tk —Harkness

At the very same time that Prime Minister John
Diefenbaker was assuring voters on the hustings that if
re-elected he would not introduce nuclear weapons, his
government was busy building an extensive nuclear arms

system in Canada.

This was revealed last
Monday by Tory Defence
Minister Douglas Harkness.

Speaking at an election
rally in Edson, Alberta,
Harkness said that Canada is
acquiring five military sys-
tems capable of carrying nu-
clear warheads.

He did not elaborate what
the five systems are. It was
obvious from this announce-
ment, that the Tories have
secretly negotiated with the
U.S. for additional nuclear
weapons systems unknown to
most Canadians.

The disclosure by MHark-
ness bears out the warning
of national Communist Party
chairman Tim Buck recently,
that if either the Tories or
Liberals are re-elected they
will introduce nuclear wea-
pons in Canada.

—Fiotos by Searle Friedman

ANE

~~SLECTION EVE APPEAL

THE ISSUE IS SURVIVAL!

* LESLIE MORRIS
ational Leader
©°mmunist Party

tj. is
Of @ * important on the eve
Ww a day to sum up a

The strongest, most signifi-
cant vote a Canadian can
cast next Monday is for the
Communist candidates in the
12 ridings where they are
nominated.

No other vote speaks so

“loudly for peace as a Com-
munist vote. No other vote
recognizes so clearly that
the issue is survival.

No other vote says so
plainly that our country is in
danger, that Canada must be

saved from ruin by putting
Canada first, that we must
stand up to the USA, that we
must be a sovereign and _in-
dependent country, masters
in our own house.

See SURVIVAL, pg. 8

arms is coming.

In his speech Tory Defence
Minister Harkness ridiculed
Canadians who argued about
whether Canada should have
nuclear weapons. A more im-
portant question, he said, was
whether Canada should re-
main in NATO.

The inference in his speech
was that if Canada remains
in NATO it will have to
acquire nuclear weapons un-
der its “obligations” to the
military alliance: 7

The Communist Party has
pointed out in the course of
the federal election campaign
that the weakness of the NDP
position on nuclear arms was
that it continued to support
NATO from which, as Hark-
ness indicated, the pressure
on Canada to take nuclear
That was
why the Communist. Party

- combined its call against nu-

clear weapons with the pro-
posal for withdrawal from
NATO.

Meanwhile, as the election
campaign was drawing to an
end, the U.S. announced that
it will go ahead with its giant
nuclear blast in space this
week.

Ignoring world-wide pro-
tests against the plan to blast
a huge hole in the atmos-
phere, and warnings from
scientists of the possible dan-
gers involved, the U.S. is ex-
pected to explode a bomb 50
to 500 times more powerful
than the Hiroshima bomb.

The huge blast is expected
to knock out radio communi-
cations for up to 36 hours.
The U.S. defence department
last Saturday extended the
danger area to 1,050 miles
which will cover the entire
Hawaiian Island chain.

Last week U.N. acting sec-
retary U Thant strongly con-
demned the U.S, plan to ex-
plode a nuclear bomb in
space.

Despite pretensions at be-
ing against nuclear tests
neither Tory, Liberal or Soc-
ial Credit parties have con-
demned the dangerous U.S.
tests. :