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Global action wins | 5 Vi
stay of execution Hi
| |r Rosenberg case |

R A great victory in the fight to save Julius and Ethel
* \ +\Osenberg from the electric chair was achieved this week

gihen the US. Court of Appeals granted a stay of execu’ ler
Co. Pending a review of the case by the U.S. Supreme
ea which has twice refused to intervene. The court's Bale
lee was undoubtedly the result of the greatest, most
ldespread and determined world protest movement ever
recorded, including two appeals
’ by Pope Pius XII (the first one an
4 AZ reportedly did not reach Presi- i
dz Z ey dient Eisenhower, having been

‘‘misplaced.”’)
Eisenhower's statement refus-
ing to grant clemency was an-

swéred by mass protest rallies, ;
and demonstrations in front of ;
U.S. consulates in hundreds of
cities. Some 2,500 Americans re- |
sumed their round-the-clock Vigil Bere
of Mercy for the Rosenbergs out- :
side the White House in Washing- Ge ey

} ton. On 96 hours’ notice 1,500 aa

: Toronto citizens attended a Mas- ey
sey Hall rally at which U.S. stage ig

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NIGEL M RGAN and screen star Karen Morley and
sama sauna ‘the Rev. Glendon F. Partridge

3 ee made impassioned pleas. In Ot-
THE first tawa 150 citizens from the capital

and what Premier W. : : '

i . C. Bennett obviously intends city gag from Montrens picketed ‘

© the last sessi : British the U.S. embassy.
Columbia’ aah esas In Vancouver, 150 citizens, re- <
into Fee S 23rd legislature moved > s
Politica; gear this week. Key :
huriy’y Issues became lost in the
bate. : saa of acrimonious de-
bares itical jibes and party man-
bers noe Social Credit mem- ]
Thron eclined to speak on the

€ Speech and CCF and Lib-

era)
n : ; ¢
: embers wasted much of their

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In ve : aye
hen). ain attempts to provoke

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The demand for an immediate cease-fire in Korea and the preservation of world
peace was raised in the corridors and offices of the British Columbia legislature last
week by a delegation of 40 men, women and young people.

Prem; a:
e1 :

oe Bennett is successfully
tines the session on a predeter-
ing Course, repeatedly challeng-

tl Cy ‘ s ;
0 Peer ee Limeral combination

is Soc Tanke
emment socred minority gov

ine~the na is driving to a dead-

8€neny] cae of a mid-May

Close to th ection which sources

Cede | ; a cabinet claim will pre-

to the C Premier’s intended trip
+ Oronation.

Sixty-thre

‘‘These issues are now being placed before parliaments and local legislatures in
almost every corner of the globe and we believe much was accomplished by placing them
before our own MLA’s,” said Ray Gardner, secretary of B.C. Peace Council, which
organized the peace mission.

cat oe eae In a brief addressed to Premier Bennett and given to all MLA’s, the mission asked
\nhhay under the Election Act
Proroguec © day the legislature
In be ‘Ss when the election writ
This tated, and election day.
€ session is to bea short

Seo cunment has’its way.
ally cal 10n sessions are gener-
affai, ed upon as “bonanza”

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Continued on back page — See PEACE LOBBY

Underss Finance Minister Einar the U.S. consulate last Saturday. : es

We Son’s budget, brought down .
Nesday this week. The 10 sponding to the appeal of the

ax on logging profits local Save the Rosenbergs Com-

$25,000 exemption), the mittee, marched through down-
Cong . town streets last Saturdayy in a
inued on page 6 Continued on page 6&
See HOUSE See VIGIL

Mao outlines | ss -
People's: Ghia Bill of Rights

stand on peace

One i¢

anna So far, the only “bon- ah
taineg at this session is that cont Two of the paraders who picketed

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