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Cuba’s Premier Fidel Castro was greeted by Soviet Premier
Khrushchev after arriving in Moscow recently. ‘‘Although it’s only
my second visit to you, | already feel at home in your country,’’
said Castro. He said his visit to the Soviet Union was a rest as well
as being a chance to discuss some matters.

Naked men shot before wall

After days of hearings at the
Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt, one

-of the 22 accused has finally ad-

mitted that he saw inmates exe-
cuted in the death camp, Priorto
that, the defendants seemed tobe
playing ‘‘See No Evil, Hear No
Evil, Speak No Evil.”’

During the sixth day of the
trial former S.S. Sergeant Klaus
Dylewski, 47, told the court he
saw men led out naked to a wall
and shot.

Dylewski, who said he fell ill
because of his experiences inthe
camp, told the court ‘‘at least ten
condemned men from the notori-
ous arrest block 11 were shot on
every execution day.”’

He said the prisoners were told
to undress in the washroom inthe
cellars, then a fellow prisoner led
them one by one into the court-
yard. :

Dylewski said he had been
present at several executions but
had never fired himself, He de-
nied having been involved in
selecting victims for the gas
chambers, where between three

and four million people.perished.

Dylewski, an engineer, is ac-
cused of having selected victims

‘for death and of having himself

shot Soviet Commissars at the
**black wall.’’

He is one of 22 former camp
guards facing charges of murder
and complicity in mass murder.

Erhard pushing cold war

On the eve of his visit to Brit-
ain last week, German Chancellor

Ludwig Erhard was frantically.

trying to carry on the policy of
his predecessor — Herr Aden-
auer, A source in Bonn disclosed
that one of Erhard’s prime objec-
tives in making the British trip
would be to bring pressure on
Britain to prevent the extension
of its trade with theSoviet Union.

A Bonn government official
said the West German Chancellor
would ‘‘forcefully back the U.S.
view’? that NATO countries should
refuse long term credits to the
Soviet Union as a means of in-
creasing trade.

Dr. Erhard was also expected
to present equally ‘‘forcefully’’
his government’s demands that
there should be no further con-
tacts with the Soviet Union to
relax international tension which
did not include acceptance of the
West German government’s de-
mand to speak for the whole of
Germany.

He also aimed to calm British
government anxiety about his lat-
est moves to promote plans for
West European ‘‘political unity,”
as the British government had
stated it would regard any such
moves taken without previous
consultation with Britain as ‘an
unfriendly act.’’

Algerians guard revolution

Italian CP group
visits Yugoslavia

A six-man delegation of the
Italian Communist Party led
by its general secretary, Pal-
miro Togliatti, has visited
Yugoslavia for a week.

In a statement issued be-
fore leaving for Belgrade
the party said the delegation
would have talks ‘‘on the de-
velopment of co-operation and
friendly relations between the
parties and working class

ties.’’

Togliatti last visited Bel-
grade in May, 1956, when nor-
mal relations were re-estab-
lished.

movements of the two count- |

ALGIERS — President Ben
Bella told a meeting here last
week that a group of men had
planned to. seize power in Al-
geria with the aid of a foreign
power.

The day before making this
statement the President had re-
ported in a radio speech that
public order had been restored
after disturbances earlier in
-the week in Oran, Western Al-
geria,

‘*] warn you we are going to use
the firing squad,’’ President Ben
Bella told the Algiers rally,
recalling that he had signed a
decree setting up the *‘Revolu-
tionary Criminal Courts.’’

WILL CANADA FOLLOW EXAMPLE?

FRANCE MAY RECOGNIZE CHINA.

France may recognize China
within the next few weeks. French
businessmen are pouring into
Peking, seeking orders for
everything from wheat to indus-
trial machinery. French politi-
cians are visiting China, Vietnam
and Cambodia, bent on increas-
ing France’s influence in the Far
East,

All this while Canada, under

Back closer
China ties

The newly - formed Canada-
China Friendship Association has
written External Affairs Minister
Paul Martin congratulating him
-on his recent statements that
Canada extend commercial and
cultural contacts with People’s
China.

Mrs. E. Wood is secretary of
the new Vancouver organization
whose address is 3506 E. 25
Ave. in the city.

The association has announced
it will be showing a film on China
at the Jubilee Hall, 6886 Jubilee
Ave., South Burnaby, on Sunday,
January 26, at 7:30 p.m.

Merris on TV

The CBC has announced that, as
part of its ‘*Horizon’’ TV series,
it will show a one-hour program
on the Communist Party of
Canada, Entitled ‘‘Whither the
Party?’’ it will be screened on
Vancouver’s Channel 2 onSunday
evening, February 2, at10:00p.m.

Host J. Frank Willis will inter-
view national leader Leslie Mor-
ris, national chairman Tim Buck
and others, :

COLUMBIA

Cont'd from pg. 1
along the length of the U.S.-
Canadian border,

He said the new Canadian poli-
cy plus the new technology for
moving power over long distances
had opened a new era under which
Canadian water resources would
be available to the U.S. He also
pointed to the agreement by Ot-
tawa to allow export of power
from Manitoba and Hamilton
Falls, Labrador, to New York.

Udall said the U.S. is in the
market to buy Peace River power
also. Udall’s statement recalls a
speech by B.C. Attorney General
Bonner some months ago that the
right of way for power lines to
take Peace River power to the
U.S. are already being staked
out,

All these events indicate again
the correctness of the warning
often made by this paper, and
others, that the ColumbiaTreaty,
if allowed to pass Parliament
would involve not only the sellout
of the Columbia system , but
would also open the way for the

U.S, to grab Canadian and B.C,’

hydro and water resources for
their own use,

These events underline once
again the need for all Canadians
to mount a powerful campaign to
prevent ratification of the Co-
lumbia Treaty when it comes be-
fore Parliament, andifnecessary
to bring down the present minor-
ity Liberal government on this
vital issue.

Hear an Eyewitness Account
of

LIFE IN CUBA—JAN./64 |
by

MYRTLE BERGREN

See Cuban Films on Hurricane
‘Flora and New Techniques in
Agriculture

SUN. FEB. 2nd—8 P.M.
Golden Horseshoe Hall

2685 EAST HASTINGS
Ausp: Can.-Cuban Friendship C’itee!

the *‘leadership’’ of Prime Min-
ister Lester Pearson, wavers and
wobbles on recognition of China;
expresses smug Satisfaction over
wheat sales to China but does
nothing about two-way trade; ig-
nores our special responsibili-
ties in Vietnarh as a member of
the International Commission.
The pattern of warmer France-
China relationships is clear.
France, a minor imperialist
power since the Second World
War, is fighting for a place in
the sun. To achievethis, General
de. Gaulle seeks to disengage
himself from the smothering em-
brace of UncleSam. He sees in
China a huge potential market
and in south-east Asia (antago-

nistic to the U.S. for obvious
reasons) at least, no matter how
temporary, in his struggle.
China, having cut its trade”
with the socialist countries by”
about one-half in the past thre@—
years, urgently needs to develop”
trade with capitalist countries:
In 1963 it doubled its volume fy
trade with Japan. When France ~
refused to sign the Moscow par=_
tial test ban treaty, Peking was”
delighted, De Gaulle’s emissary;
Edgar.Faure, was given a war
welcome when he visited China)
last fall, :
Now some form of recognition
of China by France is in the of-)
fing, and big business deals are)
being negotiated, ;

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HAPPY GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY. Photo shows Charlie and Annie Stewart 4
at the celebration last Saturday honoring their 50th wedding annivel”

sary.

Stewarts honored at
golden anniversary

Few of the fifty or more guests
from North and South Surrey
will forget the happy surprise
party held in Whalley last Satur-
day evening to celebrate the Gold-
en Wedding anniversary of
Charlie and Annie Stewart.-

Seated at an elaborately decor-
ated *‘50-Years’’ table, the bride
and groom once again cut a
beautiful wedding cake, received
the warm congratulations oftheir
guests, and graciously accepted
the Golden Anniversary gifts —a
beautiful rose design tea set for
the bride (to match one of the
finest rose gardens in B.C.), and

a **50-Year’’ engraved pipe for .

the groom.

It was one of those heart-
warming events which left all who
participated with a deep feeling
of gratitude and happiness for the
warm friendship and the long
years of devoted service to labor
progress by Charlie and Annie
Stewart,

Pacific Tribune editor Tom
McEwen, speaking onthe 50-year
companionship of Charlie and
Annie Stewart, said that ‘out of
their long and happy companion-
ship, Charlie and Annie have
given a great contribution to the
happiness of others through their
long years of devoted effort and
sacrifice in the cause of labor
progress.

‘For many years, especially
during the era of the ‘Hungry
Thirties’ andiafter, Annie'Stewart
led in the formation and work of
the old ‘Women’s Labor League’
fighting on behalf of the women
in factory and farm, for national
health and child welfare, for the
tens of thousands of Canada’s
dispossessed jobless of the 30’s.

January 24, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 1

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With all these struggles, now ?
glorious page in B.C. labor his" —
tory, the name of Annie Stewart
is inseperably linked.

‘And Comrade Charlie Stew”
art, a name that has now become”
a symbol for all that is best i?
the finest traditions of B.C, amd
Canadian labor. For many yeat®
a prominent leader in the street

Railwaymen’s Union, office!
business agent, convention dele“
gate, wage negotiator, facing ®
B.C. Electric octopus that sought
to exploit its working staff as
did the public, Comrade Charli@
served his union and the cause”
of labor with great integrity and”
devotion.

“Truly this Golden Wedding #
Charle and Annie Stewart is *
happy milestone, combining as !
does 50 years of a happy com
panionship with the same len
of time in devoted service to thé
cause of peace and working-clas?
progress.’’ :

A letter of greeting in tributé ~
to Charlie and Annie’s Golde?
Wedding celebration from th®
Provincial Executive of the Com”
munist Party was also read to thé
assembled guests, and warmly
responded to by Charlie Stewarts
who is also the party’s energeti®
organizer in the Surrey regio!

It was also the unanimov?
opinion of the assembled gues!”
that those who sponsored and ot”
ganized this happy event deserv@

a great deal of thanks for thei?
splendid effort to mark this hapP)
anniversary. From them to Annie -
and Charle it was ‘‘Forward 1”
your Diamond Jubilee with gv”
health, happiness, and social”
ism,”’ a

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