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The Hustings Recalled
William Stewart, Vancouver,
(ates: In the last federal elec-
ion campaign the Hon, Arthur
aing publicly assured his con-
Stituents that the Liberal govern-
Ment was absolutely opposed toa
ee nental approach to exploita-
On of Canadian water and would
Rot agree to any diversion of

eanadian water to the U,S. until
2 full study of Canada’s long

rm needs had been undertaken,

ao a Candidate for the Com-

Unist Party in Vancouver South,
ay Constituency Laing repre-
aa. in Hf sa I pointed out the
ee ence between his as-
Dae and statements of Jack
Gas Liberal MP for Coast-
Minist 0, who was also Prime
Face Pearson’s Parliamen-
aH €cretary, and Pearson him-

tat countered by asserting
si © was the Minister of Nat-
Sop eaaeaioess under whose
Ss ment water resources pol-

Was administered and that he

SPoke for the
Matter, Syeriment on this

s mswered that while Laing
ah jee Minister of Resources
a ra might well be his opin-
Saas as obviously were not
his ae y the main sections of

Y and that if he tried to

Bie. in the way of the sellout

water resources, he would
Pushed aside,

It is note
‘i worthy that immed-
tely following the elections, a

Majo:
F a T propaganda campaign was

Nn to condition Canadians for

The superiority of socialist
science was once again dramati-
cally demonstrated to the world
last week when the Soviet space
laboratory Lunik 9 landed intact
upon the surface of the moon and
began radioing back priceless

information about earth’s sat-

ellite.

The success of such an almost
unbelievably intricate under-
taking has brought man.a giant
step closer to actually landing on
the moon and adds to the already
impressive list of Soviet space
“firsts,” including:

First Sputnik;

First animal in orbit (Laika,
the dog);

First man in space;

First woman in space;

First two man space flight;

First three man space flight;

First “walk” in space;

First hit on moon;

First photos of moon’s reverse

side;
And now, first soft landing.

William Kashtan, national sec-

retary of the Communist Party

of Canada, sent the following
congratulatory telegram to the
Central Committee of the Soviet
Communist Party, on behalf of
the national committee:

@Congratulations on historic
breakthrough in further conquest

the acceptance of large scale

export of our water and that,

in his cabinet shuffle, Pearson
removed Laing from his post as
Minister of Northern Affairs,

These incidents support char-
ges of the Communist Party that
the Liberal Party is committed
to a comprehensive policy of be-
trayal of the national independ-
ence of our country to the U.S.

That whatever differences in-
dividual members of the Liberal
Party may have with this policy,
no matter what their status in the
party may be, they will be com-
pelled to give way to the policy
of continentalism being purused
now by the Canadian government,

And the Liberal brain trusters
wonder why the Canadian people
refused them a majority in the
last election!

Stop These Madmen

Joe Ivens, Okanagan Mission,
writes: Had I not seen much the
same in the press as I heard
over the radio a few days ago, I
would have concluded I didn’t
hear correctly,

Mr, McNamara, right-hand
man of President Johnson was
saying, “We have the potential
capability of wiping China andthe
Soviet Union off the face of the
earth, and carrying on the war in
Vietnam at the same time.” If
those weren’t his exact words that
was the gist and essence of his

bombast,

I also recall at the time of the
U.S. Powers U-2 spy plane in-

of space, It marks another of
the great pioneering efforts and
victories of the Soviet Union and
its people in cause of peace and
socialism.”

The rocket landed on Thursday
afternoon, February 3 (Vancou-
ver time) and promptly began
sending back pictures which have
been described by Western scien-
tists as “amazing,” “fantastic”
and “sensational.”

Its lusty radio signals have
proved that the moon is not en-
tirely covered with a thick layer
of dust, as one school of thought
has maintained, It now seems
that the surface is composed of
dark chocolate colored rock, like
pumice stone or volcanic lava,

The big question for a future
manned landing, now: possible
before the end of the decade, is

whether the moon’s surface will

take the weight of a spaceship
-and allow it to be blasted off on

its return journey,

Scientists want to know what
the surface is made of, its temp-
erature, and radiation levels;for
the moon has no protective at-
mosphere against cosmic rays
and meteorites,

Any moonquakes or tremors
would need to be measured, for
they could upset a spaceship.

cident of hearing Krushchev say-
ing something of the same, that
he, (that is the Soviet Union)
could also wipe any nation off the
map,

But with McNamara it is a
horse of a different color, There
are no Vietnam planes over Am-
erican skies, as there were U.S,
planes over Soviet skies,

In Vietnam the Yanks have had
to go several thousand miles with
their armies to try and do what
the French couldn’t do, and which
the Americans will fare no better,

One cannot forget that the late
John Foster Dulles once said
“wherever Communism raises
its ugly head, we will be there
to stop it.” I was asked by a
neighbor the other day what the
war in Vietnam was all about,
My reply was that ever since I
can remember the white man’s
aim was to exploit the black man,
the brown man, the yellow man,
in fact anybody and everybody who
had something the white man
wanted,

And so we come to 1966 with
President Johnson and Mc-
Namara on the one hand and
Billy Graham on the other, all
wanting to ‘‘save’’ the Vietna-
mese from ‘Communism,’

Let each one of us who want
peace and human brotherhood do
what we can to stop these hellish
madmen, before they engulf the
whole world in nuclear flames,
It is not too late yet, but. late
enough, While we still have life
left, it is certainly worth a try,

. An artist's conception of Lunik 9

Then scientists would like in-
struments to dig below the arid
surface to discover if there is
any moisture there,

Protected against temperature
extremes on the surface and
warmed by the moon’s interior,
it is possible that primitive life
forms exist, but highly organized,
intelligent selenites are not ex-
pected,

Anyway, it won’t be long now

before the answers to these and
other puzzling problems become
available, thanks to the miracle
of science applied for the eoodof
humanity — socialist science:

This latest accomplishment of
socialist science illustrates once
again how, givena world at peace,
man Can creatively turn his ener-
gies to wresting newsecrets from
the infinite reaches of the
cosmos, :

ATTENTION, TRIB READERS:

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‘a film now in the preparatory

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The film will be about the Can-
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pictures from Western Canada
showing the change from afron-
tier to an industrial society, the
rise of the Canadian labor move-
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For example: pictures of un-
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