tins alahe teen West German voters — o to polls Sept. 19 BERLIN On. Sept. 19 the voters of West Germany will be going to the polls to elect a new Bundes- tag or parliament. Here is a short sketch of the main par- West German Election Results 1961 Votes Seats 14,726,000 242 11,672,000 190 3,866,000 67 CDU/CSU SPD FDP ties, their leaders and policies. The largest party in the pres- end parliament, elected in 1961, is the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), together with its Bavarian brother-party the Christian Social Union (CSU). These two closely-associated parties, which occupy 242 seats in the present Bundestag, may be roughly compared to the Con- servative Party in Britain. They have governed West Germany as dominant partners in a con- servative coalition since the foundation of the West German state in 1949, for many years under Chanceor Adenauer and lately under Chancellor Erhard. The CDU/CSU has been res- ponsible for building up West Germany as a_ remilitarized state with the strongest armed forces in western Europe, and the only state in Europe which openly: proclaims its wish to re- draw the frontiers and incorpo- rate large areas of foreign ter- ritory. : The CDU/CSU is running its election campaign under the slogan “Es geht um Deutsch- land” (Germany is at Stake). Political commentators think that the CDU/CSU have a good chance of winnig the elections, though -probably with a reduc- ed majority. Second largest party is the their | DFU 587,000 = CHANCELLOR ERHARD Social Democratic Party (SPD), roughly equivalent to the Brit- ish Labor Party, though it stands well to the right of the Labor Party on most questions. Top candidate of the Social De- mocrats is Willy Brandt, best known as Lord Mayor of Wes Berlin. : In the early post-war years the Social Democrats opposed West German remilitarization, and at one time they put for- ward relatively tfealistic plans for disarmament, neutralization and understanding in Central Europe. More recently, in an attempt to become thoroughly “respec- table’ and win middle-class votes they have thrown over- ‘board most of the more progres- sive planks in their party pro- gram. Despite their shift to the right, the Social Democrats are expected to get the votes of most workers and trade union- ists, in default of any alterna- tive party with serious election chances, | The only other party likely to be of-any great importance when the votes are counted is the Free Democratic Party (FDP) a con-~ servatively - inclined liberal grouping, which gets the votes of a wide range of people dis- satisfied with the other two par- ties. No other party is likely to re- ceive the 5 percent of the total votes necessary to win parlia- mentary representation. Most important of the minor parties is the German Peace Union (DFU), a loose association of progressives. The Communist Party of Ger- many (KPD) has been banned in West Germany since 1956 and will be unable to present can- “didates. Canadian tourists in USSR are no longer a rare sight By WILLIAM DEVINE Tribune Staff Correspondent A Canadian in Moscow is no longer — if he ever was — a rarity. ‘This last summer it seemed you could trip over a fellow -Canuck wherever you went. I counted 12: groups (there could be more) who made the trip to Moscow and other parts of the Soviet Union either to attend various international gatherings or just as sightseers. These included doctors and hospital workers, dentists, orni- thologists, chemists, photogra- phers, teachers, therapists, lib- rarians, film workers, a group of Lithuanian-Canadians and a group organized by the Canada- USSR Society. In addition there were the Canadian parliament- ary delegation and Northern Af- fairs Minister Laing and his party. July was the best month of the June-through-September per- iod tabulated, accounting for six of the groups mentioned. Last June in Georgia I came across the traces of other Can- adians and met up with an In- tourist group in Sochi. Mr. and Mrs. Mike Moroz of Estevan and other members of this group were particularly impressed with Sochi. “Tf IT ever come to the Soviet Union again,” said Mrs. Moroz, “Tll_take the plane directly to Sochi.” In the Georgian health resort of Tshkaltubo, Mrs. Theresa Hazell of Canada had written in the visitor’s book last January that she hoped the ‘miracle waters” there would continue to give comfort and satisfaction to all. Doctors said she had ar- rived virtually bent double with rheumatic trouble but had gone away dancing. : In Sukhumi I just missed a Professor Delorm from Canada who had been there in May for a conference on cancer centering on research at the famed mon- key preserve of the USSR’s In- stitute of Experimental Patholo- ~ gy and Therapeutics. Incidentally, quite a few Can- adian scientists have been visit- ing the Joint Nuclear Research Institute at Dubna, near Mos- cow.. The latest, last June, was Prof. John Spinks of the Na- tional Research Council, accom- panied by his wife.,Prof. Spinks noted that many Canadian scientists have visited Dubna, while Soviet scientists have worked in Canada. “This international exchange is beneficial, without doubt,” he said. Among those Canadian visi- tors I spoke to the biggest over- all impression was the friendli- ness and warm hospitality of the Soviet people. get them. H. F. Barrie died after being hit by seven bullets... ‘election. peas China -has protested to Britain against the use of Hone Kong, next door to Canton, as a “base of operations for H U.S. war of aggression in Vietnam.” Photos show the 1! 4 year-old city of Canton at night and in the daytime. On China’s largest cities, it was bombed by the Japanese durils the Second World War. —<—- J eu around the worl sone “= et NEO-NAZI West German National Democratic Party. ‘that the 1938 Munich agreement which surrendered the Jand to Hitler is still valid... Malaysian police have arres Hock Loin, a committee member of the left-wing Penang © Labor Party ... At Geneva the Soviet Union accused the He powers of “manoeuvering” for an agreement to halt the Sy all nuclear weapons in a way which would enable West Germ’ grey HURRICANE Betsy cheated a team of planned to bomb it with silver iodine crystals: it fade on again.., British Speaker of Aden state legislative Arthur Charles, was shot and killed last week as he was tennis club in Aden. Four days earlier British police SUF ee unions have called for a wave of mass strikes to deme ® e * * * TWO HORSES, one a winner and the other the dead at the end of a hurdles race in England last week - for a five-year trade agreement between the Soviet Union © United Arab Republic will start next month .. .T have been discovered in a field at Rhoose (Glam), | adult dating back to 1800 B.C. and the other, of a chi * * * CONGRESS of the Mexican National Peasants Con has asked the government to take over large estates (laut the states of Chihuahua, Sonora, Guanajuato and Duranee i tribute the land to the peasants within six years . . - Brae ernment mission is in Moscow seeking a trade and econ™ operation agreement with the Soviet Union . * * * is WORLD Congress of Trade Unions will meet in October tl! saw .. . Soviet Union has 11 newspapers with circulation) | the million mark. They are: Pravda, 7 million; Izvest!a, °* Pionerskaya Pravda, 7.4 million; Komsomolskaya Pravda, mil lion; Selskaya Zhizhn, 5.1 million; Sovietskaya Rossy4, ie Trud, 1.75 million; Sovietski Sport, 1.6 million; Uchitelsk@y™ 1.15 million; Futbol, 1 million and Nedelya, 1 million. September 17, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE?