| iL | ILL a the past three years Can- farmers have been enjoy- a benefits of increaseing ee Of wheat and other grains © Socialist countries, ae year, new contracts, larg- Chi, ever, were signed for such a exports, Minimums un- ecent contracts with the ae Socialist buyers amount U ae ~-----~~-- $515 million Palen --------- 234 million oe -------- 103 million Zechoslovakia - 78 million Total. enone “itl eee $930 million hes : feos under these Over $1 S will take the total well ae billion, Deliveries will be es Over several years, main- The the next three years. ae €nefits of these increased oS, oe not only put more ae ne into the pockets of aihic nN farmers, they create a a employment directly ae ee and shipment of Bb ai = help to improve our fad alance of payments po- a and generally stimulate anadian economy. aS remainder of our export with the socialist coun- eles, ho i ait wever, remains pitifully a H €re are the totals for recent Years ¢ cereals - a aia ee Export of . non-cereals ie -------- $15.5 million — 38.9 million os aa 38.9 million oh | a 18.4 million ortin Countries have been ex- ca 3 in much bigger volume eee even with the in- More East-West trade possible creased grain trade of recent years. The following countries exported more. than Canada last year, according to figures given in ‘*Newsweek’’, Sept. 30: West Germany -$750 million Britain -------- 393 million France <------- 320 million Italy ---------- 261 million Japan --------> 213 million Finland ------- 200 million The list ofitems exported from European countries to the USSR alone includes shoes, textiles, clothing, iron and rolled steel, building equipment, ships, print- ing machinery, paper products, rayon and whole factories mak- ing rayon, hides and chemicals. see * U.S. businessmen;partly asa result of the much publicized Canadian- Russian wheat deal, and partly because of envy of the lucrative orders falling to their European competitors, are now taking a new look at the whole question of East- West trade. ao The Canadian Wheat Board has given a good lead in expand- ing trade to the mutual advan- tage of everyone concerned. Will Canadian businesses get moving at last as their Europ~- ean counterparts have done already? The UE has been arguing the desirability of expanded East West trade for a long time. Now we are not alone. But we should like to see some action from those businessmen who can also benefit from it. From Research Bulletin, United Electrical Workers? Union. Native Indians ask ull citizen rights itd ieee Indian population is the in Srowing ethnic group in ee and our primary "Peoples S to see our Indian h nee accepted, not as eae citizens, but as fully Soctan qeeictate citizens both 5 hd economically.?? a bi. oe ee blay, vie © Hon. Rene Trem- omg Ster of Citizenship and i = a ve in Ottawa, in a let- Acting €n Paul of Kamloops, Ameren Sident of the North : ies Indian Brotherhood. : €r said that unemploy- nae ae of the greatest pro- tish Con, hg the Indian in Bri- the eee and pointed out that ee S0vernment recently the mae an investigation into in ne a of joblessness among Not yer y Zs B.C, but that this has . nN done, ee affairs seem almost Mires be stagnant in revision ng and we wonder why Nok Bie si ee Act has SE 35} Cated ay eer ood has advo- “Sp ea of the revolv- ing loan fund from one million to ten or fifteen million dollars and a relaxation of. credit so more avenues to borrow for In- dians are made available. The letter, which contained a number of recommendations, also urged decentralization of In- dian affairs together with a new portfolio on Indian Affairs in the federal government. ‘Education in Indian affairs branched supervised schools is another point,’’ says the letter, charging that inspection officers and their staffs are far below those allotted to Northern Af- fairs and Eskimo schools in the north. The organization also recom- -mended setting up of an Indian Employment Service in the de- partment of labor and a Ssys- tem of provincial-federal co- operation in road and housing improvements on reservations. The letter ends by pointing out that in making these requests the Indian population is seeking to be accepted as first-rate citi- zens socially and economically. Hall, leading U.S. Communist spokesman, last week con- aPpeared latest statement of the Communist Party of China, which Req Flag) i The s Sophia) Ut 75 x thesis aime ‘i - fop Whice to Striv. ’ all i a ho ti 4S an editorial in the party’s theoretical journal, Hongaui ratement, Hall charged, presents ‘a political and philo- rests seeking to justify the splitting of the working class pee’ as a necessary and even desirable thing. It is ae glorifies irresponsible, disruptive factional activities Splitting Communist parties—that sets disunity as a goal eudea that, ‘A thesis which justifies splitting ranks can at ruge) Mm the interests of the working class. It is a disservice to ialis, © for world peace, harmful to the struggle against imper~ a for deh; Nd for colonial liberation, and detrimental to the struggles 10¢ . acy and for socialism.” Cyprus—living example of legacy of colonialism By JERRY SHACK The tragic events taking place in Cyprus are a glaring exam- ple of how ruthless imperialism can be when protecting its own interests. For the root cause OL. all the so-called ‘¢trouble’’ there is to be found in the fact that the island of Cyprus is virtual- ly the last base from which Bri- tain can look after its oil hold- ings in the Middle East. British imperialists, for whom Cyprus was a ‘payonet thrust at the heart of the Arabnations,”’ long refused to let go OL Jt. After years of intense struggle, however, they were finally forced to back down and on August 16, 1960, the island proclaimed its independence. The status of the future repu- blic had been determined by agreements concluded in Feb- ruary, 1959 among Britain, Greece, Turkey and Cypriot rep- resentatives of both the Greek and Turkish communities. It is interesting to note that both Greeks and Turks had lived peacefully side by side for hund- reds of years on Cyprus. The first signs of trouble only began to appear in the 1950s and were instigated by British Imper- ialism, which had long ago learn- ed the valuable lesson of ‘‘div- ide and rule’’. . This playing of one commun- ity against the other was Bri- tain’s answer to the growing demand of Cypriots for inde- pendence—for the right to be ‘¢masters in their own house.’’ The 1959 agreements perpet- uated this divisive tactic. Under the terms set out by.them for Cyprus’ rather limited independ- ence, the Vice-President of the island (who had always to be a Turk) held a veto over the head of the elected Parliament. And this was only one of the ridi- culous provisions of the agree- “ments. Thus, under the guise of pro- tecting minority rights, the rights of the overwhelming majority of the population were subjugated and British imperialism felt rela- tively safe that the good old days wouldn’t be changed much by having Cypriots elect their own rulers. Britain, Greece and Turkey undertook to ‘¢ouarantee’’ the sovereignty of Cyprus; a lofty- sounding phrase which actually meant they had the right to sta- tion troops on the island. In addition, Britain withheld granting of sovereignty over its two air bases (an area of about 100 square miles) and reserved the right to use these bases as it saw fit—even in the event of hostilities! Such was the essence of the ‘¢independence”’ granted to Cy- prus in 1960; not independence at all, but rather of form of military trusteeship, with three NATO powers acting as trustees. WwW Nonetheless, the Cypriot people and president Makarios set out to try to make this seem- ingly impossible setup workable. Cyprus adopted a policy of neu- trality and non-alignment in in- ternational affairs and proceeded to build friendly relations with all ‘countries, including those of the socialist sector. As time went by, however, it became increasingly obvious that the peaceful aspirations and yearnings of Cypriots were being frustrated by the provisions of its inequitable Constitution — thrust upon it by a diehard, NATO — dominated imperialism, which saw the island as a pawn in the game of cold war power politics, Led by the Working People’s Progressive Party and other de- mocratic organizations, the de- mand grew for a more demo- cratic form of government. Ac- I MEDITERRANEAN SEA 4@ Limassol s Akrot Ze CYPRUS ire 3 cordingly, last December Pre- sident Makarios proposed to his Turkish Vice - President Kucuk that some of the causes which prevented the normal function- ing of the government machine should be done away with—in- cluding the veto right held by both men. Although this was a purely Cy- priot affair, Turkey immediately opposed the proposals and threa= tened to openly intervene. It had the support of other NATO pow- ers which quite correctly realized that any extension of democracy would be a blow to NATO aims. And Britain, posingasa ‘peace keeper’? promptly sent in 7,000 troops. The London Sunday Times, in a moment of refresh- ing candor, blurted: ‘‘We are seeking to re-enter by the back door the same colonial territory that we recently left by the front.’’ Cont'd from pg. 6 tion on Nov. 22, Marina Os- wald told the police her hus- band owns a gun, but that the one they were showing her was not his.’’ “i * * Lane charged further that the Dallas police and the FBI have an affidavit containing the results of tests proving that Oswald did not fire a rifle on the day of the assassination. The former New York state Assemblyman charged, too, that affidavits of a number of persons given the authorities dis- pute the FBI conclusions regard- ing the direction from which the bullets were-fired, as well ‘as the number of bullets fired. There are also official eye- witness affidavits, said Lane, giving descriptions of the man who killed Dallas policeman J. D. Tippett, which challenge the FBI claim that Oswald was that man, Lane said, ‘*‘I know that the FBI is not gathering evidence, when they know that evidence is there.’’ He declined to comment on Chief Justice Warren’s press statement in Washington, Feb, 4, that ‘‘national security reas- ons may postpone the release The Ass'n of United Ukrainian Canadians presents Shevchenko Festival Concert Celebrating 150th Anniversary of the. Birth of the Great Ukrainian Bard Queen Elizabeth Theatre Sunday, March 8th, 8 p.m. @SONGS @ MUSIC @ COLORFUL DANCES @ COMENTARY IN ENGLISH @ Guest Speaker from USSR EMBASSY @ Handicraft Display and Sale of Ukrainian Home-Baking in Foyer ADMISSION — Reserved Seats: $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 | Available at AUUC Hall, 805 E. Pender, MU 4-9720 or Peoples Co-op Book Store, MU 5-5836 DOORS OPEN 7 P.M. — EVERYONE WELCOME of some facts for decades.’’ Warren had elaborated that this was so ‘‘because the man (Oswald) was in Russia and Mex- ico and the trips may have security aspects, and if they do, we could not release the security matters at the time of our report.’’ The silence of the FBI and the Justice Department in the face of a number of unanswer- ed questions have strengthened opinion that Oswald may have had some connections with those ‘security agencies,’ Some ' of these questions include: * The financial and legal as- sistance given Oswald by Wash- -ington and the U.S. Embassy to help him return from the Soviet Union in 1962, although he had supposedly defected to Moscow and had an ‘‘undesirable discharge’? from the U.S. Mar- iInés;-=-= ; * The visits he had from the FBI; the impressions he gave his mother, as well as the pub- lic stenographer who typed parts of his anti-Soviet manu- script, that he was working for ‘*Washington.’’ * In a style typical of the FBI informer, his erratic at- tempts to join and contact all kind of different liberal or- ganizations. * Despite his supposed pro- gressive organizational con- tacts, he applied for and se- cured a passport again within 24 hours in 1963. * His trip to Mexico, his visits to the Cuban and Soviet em- bassies and the ease with which he returned to the U.S, with- out difficulty after this odd trip. * Although he was well known to the FBI and despite these strange activities and move- ments, he was not considered a so-called ‘*security risk’? by them during preparations for President Kennedy’s arrival in Dallas. 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