DEMAND FOR SUMMIT MEET GROWING ge _ By NELSON CLARKE _. The Geneva conference of foreign ministers is to reconvene on July 13. pes of the world’s people, it must agree to the If it isto fulfill the al ing pt a meeting of heads of governments. | _ Where does the Canadian government stand ‘on the all-important question ofasummit meeting and what it could accomplish? Over a ar ago Prime. Minister Dief- iker put it on record as ‘sanding for a ban on nuclear tests providing problems of ection could be worked Three months ago De- fense’ Minister Pearkes stress- ed in the NATO Council the ftance of negotiations. d the “Western powers hould be ready to ex- re the possibility of ac- ing some measure of arms tation or redeployment in Uropean area to include territory now within ATO and some territory ind the Iron Curtain '. The good offices of the United Nations should be ised to guarantee free access Vest Berlin and the right ‘the people of West Berlin o self determination, pending -re-unification of Ger- this is not what Prime sar Diefenbaker and Ex- Affairs Minister Green alking publicly now. They ing their solidarity he “hard line” pursued he United States at Gen- hey are calling for an- meeting of the NATO to work out strategy; thing the Macmillan gov- it does not want because ; such a meeting will d to apply pressure on ck away from the sum- in’s top Tory’ paper,* te Times, last week gave dice to its’ dissatisfaction th Canada’s role in foreign airs, Discussing Howard n’s appointment as mini- of external affairs, The Ps said: “It is widely be- intment means that the final entrol of external policy will ontinue to be vested mainly ithe prime minister and that “control-has hitherto been Ic astinating and indeci- ‘The Diefenbaker govern- nent is torn between its des- to retain the support of ‘Canadian people, who long Weeply for a relaxation of World tensions, and its com- hitments to the U.S. imperial- ts, The balance can be tipped st the pressure from ishington only by the reso- outspoken struggle of fanadian people, and first and foremost the organized labor and farm movements. How necessary this is can be seen by taking. a look at the relationship of forces in the world as it has to do with a top level conference. The pressure for a meeting at the summit is growing. It has already been felt at Gen- eva, in the prevention of a complete breakdown .of the conference. The Adenauer gov- ernment in West Germany and the De Gaulle government in Francee, which never wanted a meeting of any kind in the first place, worked day and night for the collapse of the foreign ministers’ meeting. Although there are _differ- ences of opinion within U.S. ruling circles,, the main line . pusued by State Secretary Herter at Geneva was also directed towards a breakdown of negotiations. But is proved impossible to carry out this plan. The con- sistent and firm diplomatic initiative of the Soviet Union, the world-wide demand for positive results and the sharp differences with the British ‘government all combined to compel the. German, French and U.S. delegations to agree 30,000 say 'We want no H-bombs or tests’ - HOWARD GREEN to another meeting on July 13. But it now quite clear,. as the Soviet Union has held from the beginning, that a summit meeting must take place if there is to be any substantial progress towards easing inter- national tensions. It. is. also quite clear that without a summit meeting there will be grave deterioration in the world situation. The most urgent tasks before a summit meeting would be: 1; Agreement on a ban. on the testing of nuclear weapons. Despite tremendous’ pressure from the Pentagon. brass, the U.S. government is not able to openly oppose such a ban. The obstacles they have erected on the inspection issue have been broken down one by one. The Soviet Union is stressing a pro- posal, originally advanced by LONDON-—Britain’s biggest postwar demonstration, with 12,000 actually on the’ March for Life from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square, demonstrated to all party leaders that the people want neither H.bombs, tests, nor a rearmed Germany. ‘With the marchers, and those who gathered to welcome them, the historic square was packed to overflowing with a total of over 30,000: people. Prof. J. D, Bernal, deliver- ing the main speech on be- half of the British Peace Com- mitteé and the World Peace Council, said that the struggle against nuclear tests was ‘“‘the first battle in the popular war against the bomb.” i The greatest moment in all the mighty demonstration was the breathless hush that came over the square as Paul Robe- son sang Ain’t Going to Study War No More. In a short speech Robeson urged the- crowd to, put an end to the “suicidal gyrations of a few gentlemen who fail- ed to realize that a new world is being born.” f ment representatives, Stop all tests! is appeal of Toronto peace marchers TORONTO—More than 5,000 leaflets were handed out on the busy streets of downtown Toronto recently by members of the Toronto Association for Peace, while 50 marchers paraded in front of the city hall carrying placards calling for an end to nuclear tests. “Stop the Bomb Tests, Start the Summit_Meeting,” said the leaflet. It continued: “From all sides we hear the call: let those at the SUMMIT get together. Let them agree to stop all nuclear tests and abolish all nuclear weapons. Let them start disarmament and peaceful cooperation, Such agreement would ease ten- sions. A summit meeting would pull us back from the brink of war. We would begin to turn billions of dollars into medical reseach an@ other pressing needs.” The leaflet called for letters and wires to all govern- the British, which would pro- vide for advance agree- ment on a certain unmber of on-the-spot inspections each year by both sides. The United States is now- haggling over the number of such inspec- tions. A summit meeting could settle this question, and sign an. agreement which would both stop the further poisoning of the air we breathe, and curb the French and West German atom-maniacs who are hell-bent to develop their own bombs. - 2. Agreement on the settle- ment of the Berlin problem. The Western powers have no business in Berlin. They got there first through the Pots- dam agreement at the end of the war. but they long since have torn that agreement to pieces by re-arming West Ger- many, by allowing Nazis to hold key positions in the Bonn government, and its army; and by. putting ‘+-™-reat arma- ments trusts like Krupp back into business. The status of West Berlin has to be changed. It can be changed along the lines of the Soviet proposal which would create a free city with international guarantees. This plan guarantees the peo- ple of West Berlin the. fullest opportunity to work out their own future in their own way. The Western Powers in op- posing this solution prove that they have no interest whatever in the future peace and secur- ity of West Berlin, but a great deal of interest in maintaming an outpost in the Heart of the German Democratic Republic for espionage, subservision and for the setting up of missile bases. But the Soviet Union does not even insist that its proposal be adopted at once. Alj it asks is that a start be made on” .-PAUL.-ROBESON... ae -working-out-over-a~period of July 10, 1959 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 3 time a new status for West Berlin. A summit conference can make that start. In this situation the respon- sibility of Canadians is clear. There must be many more let- ters, telegrams and resolutions sent to members of parliament, and to the government say- ing: Speak out for a summit meeting now, to end nuclear tests, to work out a solution to the Berlin crisis, There needs to be the fullest encouragement to'every move- ment among the people, which even in the most limited way seeks a peaceful solution to problems. Unquestionably the broadest expressions of united action for peace are shaping up. around the demand for an end to radioactive fallout, through a ban on tests. There will be differences of opinion as to the best ways of achiev-- ing this goal but these differ- ences must not become an ob- stacle to the building of unity among the widest. cross-section of the Canadian people on the imperative need ‘to stop tests. It has been over 14 years since Winston Churchill stood besides Harry Truman in Ful- ton, Missouri, and declared the cold war. The _ imperialists have fumented crisis after crisis. They have succeeded in starting shooting wars. The nightmare of the bomb has hung constantly over human- ity. But the will of the people for peace has overcome crises; ‘has stopped wars, pulled down the bloody hands that tried to spread nuclear death over the globe. Now the great move- ment for peace, growing ever stronger, can overcome the present danger and bring the world still closer to the day ‘when war shall be forever éxcluded from’ the’ life ‘of* humanity. **>” :