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Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky told
the UN Assembly’s political committee that the
Soviet Union is using atomic energy for ‘‘razing
mountains . . . irrigating deserts . . gutting through
the jungle and the tundra.” ;

He said ‘’we are spreading life, happiness, pros-
perity and welfare in places where the human foot-
step has not been seen for a_thousand years.”

His statement jolted Western delegates, some
of whom said they didn’t believe it. They hadn’t
believed the Soviet Union had the bomb either.

He pointed out the Baruch (American) plan,
if adopted, would block such peaceful use of atomic
energy. - .

atom to transform desert

On the bomb he said he hoped the Soviet Union
would never have to stockpile it, but if it did have
to, “we should have as many as we need—no more
and ng less.”’

Papers in the German Democratic Republic
said atomic blasting out of a gap between:the Urals
and the Caucasian mountains had reversed the flow
of the Siberian Ob and Jenissei rivers, making pos-
sible irrigation of 75,000,000 acres of desert bet-
ween the Caspian and Aral seas. (Total Canadian
area sown in wheat last year was 24,000,000 acres.)

The achievement indicates Soviet atomic tech-
niques are considerably in advance of those’ in
Western countries.

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The St. Laurent government this week indicated that it
was preparing to bow to popular pressure and recognize’ the
fact that diplomatic and trade relations with the new People’s
Republic of China are essential to Canada’s own welfare and
economic development.

Speaking before the House of Commons on Wednesday
this week, External Affairs Minister Lester B- Pearson stated
that Canatla would have to recognize the facts confronting her
‘and ‘in due course” and in consultation with other friendly
governments, recognize the Chinese People’s government.

To underline the facts confronting this country which his
government has stubbornly refused to’ accept until now, Pearson
drew upon the arguments advanced by the Canadian Peace
Congress, many trade unions and other labor groups, the LPP, -
cultural and women’s organizations, as well as those Pacific
Coasts business interests whose pressure for recognition, al-
though not voiced openly, has been felt at Ottawa.

Pearson’s statement to the House followed the return to
Canada last month of T. C. Davis, Canadian ambassador to
the former Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek, who
told newsmen on his arrival in Vancouver that the new Chinese
People’s government, headed by Premier Chou En-lai, would
welcome trade with Western countries.

But the St. Laurent government,, although it acknowledges
the need, has not yet extended full diplomatic recognition, as
one sovereign power to another, to the Chinese People’s gov-
ernment. Pearson’s phrase, “in due course,” can mean an
indefinite period unless popular pressure for immediate recogni-
tion Is maintained.

Again, Pearson’s. insulting qualification that the Chinese
People’s government must demonstrate its independence—imply-
ing Soviet domination—comes with ill grace from a government
-whose own subservience to the United States. was indirectly
acknowledged by Pearson, in his same speech to the House,
when he appealed to the U.S. to regard Canada as a “work-
ing partner’’ and not as a “camp follower.”

The Liberal government, under W: L. Mackenzie King and
Louis St. Laurent alike, has given the Chinese people no evidence
of its good will. On the contrary, when the Chinese people
were fighting Japanese aggression and the Communist leaders
who now head the People’s Republic of China were struggling
to unite them, despite Chiang Kai-shek’s. treachery, the Liberal
government defied popular opinion by permitting continued ship-
ment of war materials to Japan. And after 1945, it prolonged
the civil war and the sufferings of the Chinese people by
squandering the Canadian people’s money on shipments of war
materials to Chiang Kai-shek. ;

Now that the Chinese people have destroyed the corrupt
Chiang Kai-shek regime and created a republic whose constitu-
tion reflects their own aspirations for peace and a new democracy,
the Canadian government needs to demonstrate its good will—

the good will Canadian working people have constantly ex- .
pressed despite their government. es :

That good will can best be expressed by recognizing that

China is an equal among nations and that. the new People’s

government is the creation of the Chinese peopl¢ ‘themselves,

achieved despite intervention in her affairs by other countries
of which, to her shame, Canada was one. :

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