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April 7, 1945 — Page 11

| Canada Wants True Security:

_ (Excerpts from Dorise Wielsen’s speech in the House of Commons

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RISING this evening to take
people I represent back in the

constituen cy

really a small League of Nations of our own.

Wie are French,and English

We come from the
Poland, Hungary,

spealing. -
>) Ulkzaine,

» Germany and many other Kuro-

| pean countries. There have
\ been plenty of differences be-
‘tween us in the past—even dur-
ing this war. ~But I have no
hesitation whatever in speal-
ing on behalf of them tonight
jand stating that our unani-
mous desire is for peace.
Although Canada has been
very fortunate in escaping to
f such a large degree the de-
struction which has overtaken
BD other nations, we must not for-
)get that many, and sometimes
| quite terrible sacrifices have
had to be made by our farming
» people for the winning of this
> War. Our people Jonge for
Bl vonce. They long for the re-
‘turn of their sons and daugh-
‘ters, and to the reunion of their
families. It is true that for
the last few years we have had
‘markets for what we could pro-
‘duce, which has contributed to
‘some extent to our incomes.
» But the - price of war for such
) markets is one which the farm-
oe people do not want ever
sagain to pay.
' I have no hesitation in sup-
porting whole-heartedly on be-
half of my people the sending
‘of this deiee2 nea to San Fran-
PciSco.

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T AM reminded also as I stand
here tonight, of a section of

€ "Canada’s people who would like,

7 constructive -
'buildine of a richer life and the

'l believe, that their voices
| should also be heard. I refer to
Sthe Canadian women. I noticed
that the other woman member
»in the house said that she had
ino authority to speak for wo-
'men. I felt rather sorry about
+, because I feel that both she
jand I should speak for Cana-
) dian women. After all, between
the Colonel’s lady and Judy
O’Grady there is no difference
under the skin, any more than
lthere is between any other
fears and our hatreds of war.
Canada’s women in all strata

of society have mace a tremen-
fdous sacrifice. And not only
that, but the role of women in
— this war has been far from pas-
sive. They have broken all pre-
—cedents in their great endea-
"vour to play a full and impor-
ptant part in the winning of the
owar. They have, I think, earned

E “the right ‘to make their voices
heard. I cannot believe there is
"a single woman in the land who
does not say with all the rest
of us: “Let there be no more
“War? BS
B We look forward to av era of

» lasting peace. in which we can

| throw our full weight to ,more
efforts, to. the

paling of ‘motherhood and citi-

© zenship a task worthy of our

pooies:
Ss

“THERE have been, 1 believe,
in the past some of my peo-
"ple at home who have favored
‘the policy of no commitments.
ut today there is one commit-
Pment which we all have to
y28ree is necessary, above

) <verythingélse, and that is that _

Canada as a sovereign nation

in her own right be committed
to uphold world peace: And
not just that, but that we un-
reservedly support ‘the decis-
ions which ave needed to es-
tablish a really effective insimu-
ment of peace which will work.
That is the important thine.

There is every reason why
We, together with other na-
tions, can go forward to the

actual establishment of a world
Security organization, with con-
fidence and with high hopes. It

eas because of 2 completely new

world which has arisen from
the ashes of this war’s fright
Tul conflagration. The old Jea-
Sue of nations was attempted
in a world where economic iso-
lation and hatred of the Soviet
Union kept divided the nations
that desired peace, thereby
helping fascism to power and
ascendency. —
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FODAY the world picture is
_ so different. All peace-lov-
ing nations, including the So-
viet Wnion, have been welded
-by the fires of war. They are
united today in their aims and
purposes. Together they are
destroying the fungoid and
parasitical srowth of fascism,
tearing it out by ‘the roots—
roots which have sucked at the
very life blood of the~ people,
and fed upon the very vitals
of humanity. And together
they are freeing the great host
of democracy for its growth, to
maturity, for its flowering and
for its fruition.

Because of this new ‘riders
standing which has been gained
by nations during the war three
men sat down together at Yalta
—strong men, men strong with
the strength of determined peo-
ple behind them. And because
their united efforts have now
made certain of victory, they
were able to talk on the busi-
ness of peace. It was not just
their business; it was the
world’s business. And what

they agreed upon is our busi-~*

ness, for they committed the
world’s peoples, including us, to
a new form of team-work for
tackling our problems and for
securing all human endeavors.

By deciding that the two
great capitalist democracies of
Great Britain and America, to-
gether with the socialist Soviet
Union, would work together in
friendship and in mutual con-
fidence, these three men creat-
ed the one supreme condition
for world security and prosper-
ity without which there can
never be any basis for a world
security organization.

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my people at home this

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al question of prosperity

through markets both at home
and abroad is all part of secur-
ity, as it is indeed for all Can-
adians and part of the question
of peace. And the two cannot be
separated. They are integral
parts one of the other. Western
farmers need markets; they

canot live without them. There
is only one way of getting as-
sured markets, and that is by
having a world able, because it
is at peace; to turn its full at-

part in this debate, I am very-conscious of the niany
of North Battleford.

We are in effect

tention and energy to the ques-
ion of international trade.

it must be a world able to
buy our products. Before this
war we lived in a world of re-
stricted markets, where the ac-
cepted policy was one of scar-
city and limited trade. Any re-
turn to that world would result

in depression and misery and
unhappiness, which western
farmers

onee before.

It was at this conference in

the’ Crimea, at Yalta, that a
completely opposite policy, a
policy for world expansion of
trade and international coop-
eration, was accepted as being
the only way for the world to
proceed mto the peace. Can-
ada’s future depends upen that
policy being realized. That is
why I say without reservation
this evening that the preposals
at Yalta, together with the set-
ting up of the world security
organization must go hand in
hand. They are of importance
to every Canadian, man, wo-
man and child.

The facts are that not only
lasting and increasing prosper-
ity, but peace itself depends
upon Canada’s realizing that

her interests lie in trying to -

help rebuild the economies of
other countries.

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FJERBERT Lehmann, presi-

dent of UNRRA, recently
said that the minute fighting
stops there will be an instant
demand for ‘about 200,000,000
suits of clothes. That, of course,
is only one thing. Not only
that, but im the necessities of
the home, footwear and shoes,
to say nothing of the greatest
of all human needs, food. Coun-
tries devastated by war will be
almost Imsatiable in their de-
mands. Let us not forget also
how last spring millions of
India’s people died from sheer
starvation—not through causes
of war alone. j

Our aim and our object must
not be to keep these people on
a diet just above starvation
level, as they have been in the
past. Our objective, if we are
to realize the proposals of Yal-
ta, which are bound up with
the success of a world security
organization, must be to build
these peoples up to full health
and strength by letting them
have as much as they are able
to consume.

Take China, that land of lone
suffering sorrows where the
people’s grief for centuries has
been bound up with famine, that
land where 400,000,000 souls
ery out for food which we can
so amply produce to* sive them
the disnity of human beings.
These forgotten peoples of the
world must be helped to lift
themselves out of the mire and
misery of destitution through
mnutual aid, through the éestab-
lishment of a central bank and
through all and every ‘kind of
channel that is available to us.
We must help to start these

“people with the equipment and
jneans whereby they can be-

come great new purchasing
nations, providing in turn 2
vista of expansion in Canada

suifered to the full

which until now has been un-
dreamed of.

It can only be 4when these

_ things are done, that “we our-

selyes will know the blessings
of peace and enjoy the right to
a full and satisfied existence; it
is only upon such a basis we can
build eur own liyes and com-

munities into the fabric of a
prosperous and peaceful world.
These things will not come
automatically; they must be

worked for.
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HE times are too serious for
anyone to indulge in carping:
criticism. The stake of peace
is tar to high a stake for that.
For my own-part on behalf
of the Canadian people, partic-
ularly. those who are followers
of the CCF, I wish that we
could be clearer as to the real
teelines of the CCE leadership
with tesard to this question of
the setting up of a world se-

eurity organization. Phere were -

some quite excellent statements
in the speech made by Mr.
Coldwell on Mareh 207:

“And who is there among us

who does not realize to the full

that the entine future of man-
Kind depends upon the mainten-
ance of the solidarity of the
united nations, ; ‘and particularly
the solidarity {ef the three
sreat powers?” ;
That is an excellent state-
ment, but how are we going to
understand the position of the
C@F when statements such as

_that made in this house are so

utterly contrary to statements
made by leaders of that party;
both in their press and at pub-
jie meetings throughout the
country.

One of the leaders of the
CGF, a member of the British
Columbia legislature, Mr. Colin
Cameron, writing in the CCF
News of British Columbia in
its issue of December 21, 1944,
said:

“The hard, indisputable fact
of the matter is that the real
hope and aspiration of men and
women everywhere—the com-
plete and total outlawing of the
idiocy of war—is not compat-
ible with the fereign policies of
Messrs. Churchill, Roosevelt
and Stalim:”

That appears to be a com-
plete contradiction of the state-
ment of the leader of the CGF
party here. In the same article,
speaking about the conferences
which led up to Yalta, partic-
ularly the Teheran conference,
Mr. Cameron goes on to say:

“Any such meeting would
fail to bring about the hoped
for harmony so Jong as the Big
Three are Churchill, Stalin and
Roosevelt.”

In that same paper of De-
eember 21, 1944, the CCF News
of British Columbia, there was
an editorial which says:

“The truth which is revealed
through thiS ‘sordid Polish deal
is the fact that the Atlantic
charter and similar pronounce-
ments were nothing but a cold-
blooded hoax, practised upon
the people of the world.”

-~These are terrible statements

in my opinion, Mr. Speaker, and -

I_ cannot reconcile the present
position of the leader of the
CCF with what has been his
party’s attitude right up until
the summoning of parliament.
jee the whole speech of

the leader of the CCF I feel

. featism

that to the rank and file of
his party it must prove as dis-
appointine®: as it was to any or
the rest of us in this house.

‘All the way through it while

he seems anxious to, well,
praise, shall we say, really he
dammns the conference with faint
praise. He said:

“Everyone, I believe, agrees
it is essential’ that the security
counci: sheuld have the power
to act and to act swiftly—

That is very zood, but then
comes a “but.”

“but the assembly repre-
senting the nations should have
the right at all times to discuss
any matter without limitation.”

He goes on to say:

“Canada as a member of the
assembly but not of the security
council should carefully review
the present preposal to prevent
discussion on matters being
dealt with by pute council of the
ereat powers.”

When [I look over section B
of chapter V of the Dumbarton
Qaks proposals with reference
to the general assembly 1 find
this:

“The general assembly should
have the right . . . to discuss
any questions relating to the
maintenance of international
peace and security brought be-
fore it by any member or mem-
bers of the erganization or by
the security council; and to
imake recommendations with re-
gard to any such principles or
questions. Any such questions
on which action is necessary
should be referred to the se-
eurity® council by the general

-assembly either before or after
discussion. The general assem-

bly should not on its own initia-
tive make recommendations on
any matter relating to the
maintenance of international
peace and security which is be-
ing dealt with by the security
council”

I fail to see where there is
any limitation on democratic
discussion relative to the work
of that organization, but I am
glad to see that there is a safe-
guard provided against the
whole proceedings being bog-
ged down by irrelevant dis-
cussion to the.exclusion of the
necessary action for which the
assembly is being set up. I

-think that is an euesllent: safe-

euard.
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HE world and its peoples

want action, not words.
They want to see the security
organization take on life, “not
to be strangled at birth by un-
limited discussion of irrelevant
matters. I would say that de-
in time of war is a
betrayal of the cause for which
we tight and of those who gave
their lives to fight. I wish to
say openly in front of the-whole
Mouse that any person today
who is spreading even doubts
and little fears about the pos-
sibility of our achieving demo-
eratic rights and so forth in
this new peace and security
organization which is being set
up comes into the same cate-
gory as those who spread de-
featism in time of war.

Let Canada have none of that
type of person. Instead, let all
of us wholeheartedly wish our
Canadian delegation godspeed
and send them forward with
the- greatest enthusiasm to
carry out their part in the
work that has to be done.