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NOREA HORRORS JOLT
[0 ‘PUBLIC CONSCIENCE’

Admission by UN press correspondents of the

horrors and destruction being visited on Korea by

'  “‘saturation’’ and napalm bombing were this week

' termed a ‘‘shock to the public conscience’ by Ray
Gardnet, secretary of B.C. Peace Council.

Referring to the report brought back from Ko-
/ rea by Mrs. Nora K. Rodd, chairman’ of an international women’s
; committee, who will speak in the Auditorium (Denman and Georgia)
here this' Friday night, Gardner recalled earlier atrocity reports. He
mentioned particularly the protest made by British troops against sum-
mary mass executions of Koreans carried, out by Syngman Rhee’s
officials within sight of the British encampment. This disclosure, he
pointed out, had evoked a wave of revulsion in Britain and drawn pro-
tests from MP’s, church and labor leaders.

“The conscience of the Canadian people will not allow them to
listen to Mrs. Rodd’s report without demanding an end to the killing
in Koréa—of that I am sure,’’ Gardner declared.

Continued on page 7 — See HORRORS

Reports confirm
- atrocity charges

placed before UN

The tragic and terrible story of torture, death and destruction in
Korea reported to the United Nations by the delegations of the Women’s
; International Democratic Federations that visited Korea a few months
‘ago, is being confirmed in dispatches from newspaper correspondents
4 attached to the UN in Korea. Since the WIDF document became
{ UN property, the story of unbelievable conditions and treatment can
A no longer be suppressed.
hi In its report to the UN the : :
WIDE group which was headed In a dispatch to Canadian
by Mrs. Nora K, Rodd of Wind- Press from Korea where he is
sor, declared "Every tape pets stationed with the Canadian troops,
‘4 of the mass exterminating character B ill Boss reported on August 16:
of this war. More homes have The Korean people have been so
been destroyed than military ob- humiliated by the universal of
jectives, more grain than ammuni- '€™ptuous attitude, the sneering
Hon! more womens. Children mands STTOBANCE that springs from treat-
dvechaan tool dies odidius war tee ine human beings like cattle, that
war-on life itself.”” The Commis- experienced observers fear they
sion dad wae eanie Ce ponte have irretrievably alienated them.
of the Korean war and the atroci- : Said one foreign correspondent
ties committed” on the U.S. gov- with years _abroad for a US.
Sao newspaper: Tt doesn’t matter now
who wins the war. Our troops
have lost us the Koreans.’

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the pea ae one i " i i P AN arade “Add to the abstract fact of
Deon rs nt «ar ROIGigenS de e a of Ca S ea S eo attitude, the concrete ‘facts of
the wor press hy New Chine murders, rapes, lootings and burn-
°WS Agency. The caption on A float bearing the single word ings by individual soldiers, and

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girl. As it came opposite the and smilingly returned her bow.

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Tkish and American units.
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POW’s at a rally before
“4 ung returned to U.S. lines
Ty d American, British and
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“peace” spelled out in flowers —

stole the show in the Pacific Na-
tional Exhibition parade here on
Wednesday this week.

Atop the flower-bedecked float,
entered by Kitisilano Chamber of

Commerce, rode a pretty little

saluting base at the post office,
where sat the Governor General,
Field Marshall Alexander, and
high civic and military officials,
the float halted. Gravely the little
girl turned to the saluting base
and bowed.

Lord Alexander rose to his feet

The spectators thronging about
the saluting base burst into tre-
mendous applause. A little girl
standing among flowers, symbol-
izing all that peace means to a
war-weary world, had won every
heart with the most meaningful
word of our times.

the wanton battlefield destruction
of whole communities by field
commanders, and the impact of
the United Nations on Korea has
been impressive but not happy.”

While three Canadian soldiers

Continued on page 7
See CONFIRM