7 Speech blacked-out by daily press FRIDAY, JUNE a ee ; : : 29, 1962 DET VOL. 22, No. 25 VANCOUVER, B.C. 10¢ i Yanks in Thailand Us, i Thailan a *Ccupieg. *lition toons i : og,"* ae Rfantry are shown on maneuvres north of Bangkok in. The small country bordering on ed by U.S. military forces. This week the new Laos government said that the presence of American n Thailand “constitutes a threat to the neutrality of Laos has been ~—~_8nd called for their removal. China warns against U.S.- PEKING at. armed of al ie Support, : Agence New China News | War a reported Sunday that + Sarria Sbilization had been "Porm,., Ut by Chiang on this, since the start of » and that a supreme Committee for en set ae invasion has a an report also states that has «ministration bureau . nm, - &stablished for gov- Greg, _ ‘2 invaded mainland, n 2nd that there have ‘ang “creased U.S.-Kuomin- ’Neuvres recently. a8 ar China’s press and r preparations for an invasion of and by Chiang Kai-shek forces from Formosa W! backed Chiang invasion adio this week the Chinese th tities of munitions and wat materials have recently been shipped to Formosa. The report also points out that there has been a constant stream of top U.S. brass visit- . ing Formosa since last spring. Included among these has been the Assistant Secretary of State, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secretary of the Army, Com- mander-in-chief U.S. Armed forces, the Commander of the Pacific Seventh Fleet, and Allen Dulles, former head of MCNAUGHTON DENOUNCES DRAFT COLUMBIA TREATY A crushing indictment of the draft Columbia River treaty negotiated by the Diefenbaker government with the United States, was delivered Montreal by General This important speech by’ McNaughton was almost com- pletely ignored by the Cana- dian press, radio and TV. General McNaughton, outstanding authority on Co- lumbia waterpower develov- ment who headed up Cana- dian government studies for over 12 years until last month, denounced the draft treaty, which is expected to come before the next session. of Parliament for ratification, on the following grounds: 1) The Treaty is defective in at least two important re- spects—the physical plans of development, and control of storage. 2) Libby is a very expen- sive project because of in- undation and necessary fre- placement of important main road and rail facilities. 3) To make Libby finan- cially: tolerable to the U.S., “Canada is to pay for the flowage of this trans-bound- ary project where its. reser- voir extends 42 miles into Canada. Canada is to receive no recompense for flood con- control downstream which could have been provided more efficiently by the use of Canada «water in alterna- tive . . which would also previde greater at site power in Canada.” 4) High Arrow dam, which would be very useful to the U.S. is of no intrinsic value to-Canada. ‘The most serious effect of this project is that it will flood out some 2,000 persons in the Arrow Lakes region: whose future condition is made precarious because to the Engineering Institute of Canada in A. G. L. McNaughton on June 13th. the high level selected for the sell Canada short, General reservoir eliminates not only McNaughton informed the their homes and communi- Engineering Institute that ties, but also most of the “the force of these objections usable land so there is no- was understood and appreci- where left for them to go in ated by my US. colleagues the vicinity.” in the IJC (International He declared, “The cost of Joint Commission) and by the High Arrow used by the ne- gotiators was $71.8 mililon and the latest figures, that of the Montreal Engineering is still higher at $88.7 million.” SELLING US SHORT Explaining how the Dief- chief of U.S. Army Engineers- . Even after’ the matter passed from the Commission to the negotiators, until mid- June 1960, the record shows there was acceptance by the U.S. of the basic proposals I enbaker-Bennett deal would had made... the much more advantageous Dorr-Bull Riv- er-Luxor adopted together with early machining of Mica.” “This arrangement repre- sents a reduction in the total investment for both countries of more than $250 million’ and an increase of 450 mega- watts of Firm Energy net at load centres,” he continued. See McNAUGHTON, pg. 3 Stop Columbia sellout CANADA DAY EDITION theme of car cavalcade. A colorful cavaleade of twenty-five cars will travel 1,000 miles through the B.C. interior on the Canada Day: weekend to demonstrate against the Bennett-Diefen- baker-Pearson “give-away” plan for the Columbia. The colorfully decorated in the Fraser Valley, Okana- cavalcade will seek to mobo- gan and Kootenay areas. lize support for the ‘Canada The cavalcade will stop to First” plan advocated by hold open air rallies at Gen. McNaughton. Castlegar and Vernon. Sponsored by the .Com- Among slogans carried by the munist Party of B.C., leaflets cars will be: “Put Canada and posters will be distrib-, first — stop the Columbia uted en route. Local contin- sellout!” “McNaughton plan gents will join the cavalcade is best for Canada’’. "SAVE THE-COLUMBIA’ CAVALCADE ROUTE. \ ( Cotimbiia’) River « f REVELSicKE Ss ; \ an , Seal x datee fy NERNON. S : | CY <--<« ; KUnew ——— 9 WD Soheea, Oiranage} i} > pa KeLcwna. NUS NAkuUSsP \ ES OF: X PENTIGTON. § Hs ) 4 ° : \ 2. ae 3 \ \ Ae _ rs § \ . \\ \HoPe S ig SUS RS MAninind KALE DIN ae b vos ; PRirewr 53 Fav —- gue eames a CHILLIWACIC (Bs > A TRA: ee osores : ae ee BKS._f