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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2,

1956

TORONTO

An appeal to Premier Ben-
“withdraw Israeli
Egyptian soil’
and preserve world peace was
made this week by the editors
of the Canadian Jewish Week-
ly.

Gurion to

soldiers from

Warning that’ war threatens
to choke off the fledgling state
of Israel, the message carried
as an open letter in the pages
of the paper, said:

“We appeal to you, Mr. Ben-
Gurion, to do part in
removing that threat . .. we
have always felt that reprisai
raids are morally and tactic-
ally reprehensible, no matter

your

what the provocation. Reprisal
raids lead to more bitterness,
more hostility among your
Arab neighbors. And as Dr.
Nahum Goldmann has often
stated: Israel must find a way
to live with her neighbors.
“If the reports that France

Editors send appeal
ask Israel withdraw

and Britain have recommend-
ed this military action are true,
we are constrained to say that
you are playing the West’s
game in the Middle East, pull-
ing their chestnuts out of the
fire.

“The Arabs will not be in-
duced to negotiate the Pales-
tine Question by force of arms.
Israel’s greatest strength lies
in the moral support she has
enjoyed — and still does —
throughout the world. This
military ‘adventure’ — and we
use the word advisedly — en-
dangers that moral support....

“We ask you to order with-
drawal of Israeli soldiers from
Egyptian soil, refrain from fur-
ther such armed actions and
concentrate on presenting Is-
rael’s case before the world
through the United Nations.
Only in that direction will
peace be preserved and Israel
secured.”

800 AFFECTED

Sawmill workers in

Victoria face layoffs

Some 800 sawmill workers in Victoria are threatened with layoffs. Effects nf
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VICTORIA, Be

the decline in exports and the drop in housing construction caused by tightening
mortgage funds are beginning to be felt.

To make matters worse, local sawmills are finding it difficult to obt

ain suf

ficient logs to meet present requirements because of the monopoly control of t

big five in the lumber. in-
dustry. Two mills have al-

ready been shut down because
of this shortage and another
is on a four-day - week.

A plywood mill, the Sooke

Lake Lumber Company, re-
e e
Communist in
e
Jordan cabinet
History was made in the

Arab world this week when a
Communist was elevated to
cabinet rank in Jordan. Ab-
dul Qualeh As-Saleh, a mem-
ber of the National Bloc which
swept the polls, became min-
ister of agiculture and first
Communist to win cabinet
rank in an Arab county.

Suliman Nabulsi, leader of
the National Socialist party
heads the new coalition, which
advocates abrogation of Jor-
dan’s defense and friendship
treaty with Britain, federation
with Syria and eventual union
with Egypt.

A majority of the members
in the new parliament cam-
paigned for abrogation of the
treaty and closer ties with
Egypt.

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Ani.-French demonstrations flared throughout the Arab world this week following the

capture of five leaders of the Algerian in dependence movement. The five, taken by the
French through a ruse, are shown in handcu ffs. They are (left to right): Mostafal Lachref,
Mohammed Bondiuf, Hocine Air Ahmed, Mohammed Khider and Ben Bella.

cently received four barge
loads of peeler logs from Ore-
gon.

It is reported that a number
of smailer plywood mills have

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been forced to buy peeler a

in the U.S. because the a
in September stood at if
percent of average 1947
prices.

LPP STATEMENT

government and the Canadian
people can, if we act without
another moment’s delay, play
a decisive role in stopping this
war and saving mankind from
a terrible catastrophe.

The danger must not be
minimized. It is immediate
and terrifying. The national
committee of the Labor-Pro-
gressive party has called upon
Prime Minister St. Laurent to
call an emergency session of
parliament. We urge every
Canadian to insist that this be
done.

The government and parlia-
ment will have the overwhelm-
ing support of Canadians if
they act now to demand that
British, French and _ Israeli
troops be withdrawn from
Egypt and that the bombing
of Egypt’s civilian population
cease; immediately propose in
the United Nations that the
General Assembly of that body
be called to warn the govern-
ments of the three invading
forces that the alternative to
immediate withdrawal will re-
sult in the application of
world-wide sanctions against
them; and send cables from
Canada’s prime minister to
the prime ministers of Britain,

France and Israel in the name
of the Canadian people em-
phatically demanding that
they stop the war.

The LPP fully endorses the
action of External Affairs Min-
ister Lester B. Pearson in pro-
testing to the United Kingdom
and France against their arm-
ed intervention. We welcome
the statement by Prime Min-
ister St. Laurent in which he
associated himself with those
who condemn the use of force
in the Middle East.

But the British and French

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for action to preven
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restore peace to the
East.

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