CANCEL OTTAWA-BONN SECRET PACT URGED

'No German troops on Canadian soil’

A demand that the Canadian government cancel the secret agreement with West Ger
many permitting German troops to train and test equipment at Camp Shilo, Manitoba came
from many quarters this week following disclosure of the agreement last week. Meanwhilé
it was announced by the Canadian Peace Congress that pickets will protest the arrange —
ment before German Consulates across Canada on Friday, September 10.

“The Canadian Peace Congress -

treaty in 1963.

DR. ALBERT SCHWEITZER MOURNED. The famed healer, philosopher,
theologian and a strong voice for world peace, passed away last week
- at the age of 90. Dr. Schweitzer won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952. In

recent years he campaigned against nuclear weapons and was among
the first world figures to welcome the signing of the partial test ban

in a statement released to the
press last Thursday charged that
German forces will be allowedto
test weapons in Canada ‘‘the
possession of which was denied
to them by the Potsdam Agree-

ment, an agreement to which
Canada adhered,”’

The statement adds that ‘the
Canadian government attempts to
justify this betrayal by assur-
ances that German militarism no
longer ‘exists and that the Ger-
man Federal Republic is. a tho-
roughly peace-loving democratic
state, which maintains military

forces only for defence, The fact

is that the leadership of the West
German army consists of Hitler
generals .,, and istheonly state
in Europe which officially and
formally claims the territory of
its neighbors,

‘The armed forces ofthe Fed-
eral German Republic are being
built up not for defence. They are
planning to resume ‘the Marchto
the East’ which they hope to carry
out under the nuclear deterent of
NATO, Any support given tothem
encourages this criminal plan
which endangers the peace of the
world,”’

Also adding its voice of pro-
test last week was the Associa-
tion of United Ukrainian Cana-
dians in Manitoba, In a message
to Prime Minister Pearson the

Association urged him to ‘tim-
mediately rescind the agreement
reached to permit German troops
to train or otherwise be found
on Canadian soil.’’

Pointing out that the training of
West German troops in Canadais
a dangerous step which should
‘alarm every Canadian who che-
rishes peace, the AUUC state-
ment said:

‘‘Three times within three gen-
erations German militarism led
to wars, caused death to millions
and untold destruction in every
war-torn country ... we urge
your government to declare its
firm opposition to re-militariza-
tion of Germany. We ask that
your government follow a peace=

ful policy for Canada aimed #
keeping our land free from aly —
aggressive military force.’

Revue (Munich) if

“My party will carry out Its

promises. This is as certain % |
the fact that I stand here befo!
you.”

Protest set for German
Consulate in city Friday

The B.C. Peace Council announced Tuesday
night that it will stage a protest before the German
Consulate at 325 Howe Street in Vancouver at 5 p.m.
on Friday, September 10 to protest against German? —
troops being stationed at Shilo, Manitoba.

September 10 marks the 26th anniversary of the
declaration of the Second World War. Many veterans
are expected to take part in the protest and the pub-
lic is urged to participate in the demonstration.

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‘Province irresponsible’ charges labor

The following article, slightly
abridged here, appeared on the
front page of The Labor Statesman,
organ of the B.C. Federation of
Labor and the Vancouver and Dis-
trict Labor Council, in the Septem-
ber issue:

It is generally overlooked as,
press monopolies swell inside the
body politic that freedom of the
press carries with it serious and
parallel responsibilities,

High among these is the re-
sponsibility of anewspaper to ac-
curately reflect the truth and to
avoid misleading the public
through deliberate distortions
and omissions of fact.

More than once critics have
pointed to “The Vancouver
Province,” the morning half of
the Pacific Press, as one glaring
example of a paper which con-
sistently ignores the duties im-
plicit in the right to publishina
free society,

Since the Ormond Turner case
it would be difficult to deny the
charge, nor, it should be added,
as anyone attempted to do so,

Ormond- Turner is known in
the arcane circles of journalism
as a “saloon reporter,” of the
same genius (though less compe-
tent) as the local master of fly-
speck journalism, Jack Wasser-
man, his opposite number on
The Sun,

Early this year, however, Tur-
ner did what Wasserman hasn’t

That was the nut of the charge,
But Turner’s next paragraph is of

done, namely draw national at-
tention to himself through some-
thing he wrote,

This was a celebrated series
of columns purporting to expose
a trade union-NDP conspiracy to
subvert Canada’s electoral pro-
cess. If true, it was a real
scoop,

Besides a possible scoop the
alleged facts just happened to be
in line with The Province’s
recognized anti-labor, anti- NDP
prejudice, a coincidence which
would bring joy to any hot-eyed
Birchite in full-blooded pursuit
of a victim,

Headlines blazed across the
country Feb, 22 after Turner
wrote:

' “A local union official has pri-
vately admitted that at least six
B.C, unions have conspired to
get NDP candidates elected
fraudulently by entering fictitious

‘names on the voters’ list, . .”
>

interést if only to note the sub-
dued indignation, the controlled
outrage of one who has discovered
somebody playing hanky-panky
with democracy,

“He didn’t seem proud to have

been involved in this illegal and
shocking subversion of Canada’s
election laws; he agreed that a
conspiracy to fraudulently affect
the outcome of an election was
an affront to democracy — no
matter WHAT the candidate stood
for. a.”

T.C. Douglas, Federal NDP

leader, carried the demand for

an investigation to Parliament,
He got it. Judge Nathan Ne-

metz headed the investigating
commission,

Benignly .confident, Turner
came back on Feb, 26 with “yes,
I’ve got evidence enough to back:

up charges here about phoney:

voting in B,C.”

Perceptive readers noted that
The Province never insisted that
the writer qualify his charges or
to.employ any of those devices
experienced journalists resort to
in case “the facts” aren’t what
they seem, Andthey oftenaren’t.

No, as far as The Province
was concerned it was full steam
ahead and damn the trade unions

and the NDP together with Tur-

ner acting as the torpedo,

The tense, expectant atmos-
phere which the Nemetz hearings
began almost immediately
collapsed into one of discom-
forture and embarrassment,

Those who attended the
hearings, anticipated Judge Ne-
metz’s conclusion released re-
cently,

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September 10, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PO9?

“After reviewing the whole at
the evidence I have arrived at™™
ineluctable conclusion
nothing of substance emerges J
would support any of the serio)
charges made by Mr. Turner 7

Turner said he was SOrry- a a
does that repair the damage We
likely don to trade unions and
NPD?

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For if it is true here, att 4

‘said about lies, that the
never catched up, much har™
been done, An impression ot)
been created (unwittingly °F as
which may cling long afte? ‘i
Nemetz vindication is forgote”
That is why an iressponsible
press is a menace to free pe :
tutions, why responsible ©
papers will not tolerate ase :
alist who is either deceitful, ©
competent or careless.

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Such a journalist is 46 ae
a danger as a drunken Sut nest
holding a scalpel or a dis
lawyer administering 4

If journalism had the io
fessional status of medicnyell
law, Ormond Turner migh ne
now be showing cause W the
should not be kicked out °°”
profession for malpractice

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If newspapers were subjer
the same rigid standards a well
pitals, The Province mig ce oe
be closed down as a Sour

contagion,