Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa TOM McEWEN, Editor — HAL GRIFFIN, Associa te Editor — RITA WHYTE, Business Manager. Published weekly by the Tribune Publishing Company Ltd. at Room 6, 426 Main Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. — MArine 5288 Canada and British Commonwealih countries (except Australia), 1 year $3.00, 6 months'$1.60. Australia, U.S., and all other countries, 1 year $4.00, 6 months $2.50. ope Nee Printed by Union Printers Ltd., 550 Powell Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. EDERAL civil defense authorities are insisting that Vancouver try out .a } full “evacuation” exercise. Health Minister Paul Martin gives the Medical profession a jolt with his ora- tions about the H-bomb and “its long- ~ term damage to the human race.” Dr. 0. M. Solandt, Canada’s top mili- _ lary scientist in charge of promoting the Nuclear know-how of mass murder, says We are close to ‘the ultimate horror of total nuclear war. . . and the desperate Alternative of one world or none.” Dr. Gordon Shrum of UBC opines 3 that “dispersal of the population is the Snly long-range answer to the hydrogen bomb,” There may ‘be more to _this “dispersal” than the learned doctor is aware of if one takes Hiroshima as an Object lesson. a , Couver target area civil defense work- €ts is being called to consider the evacuation” Ottawa insists on. Al- Teady a great many municipal aldermen, Teeves, mayors and what not, have very Sensibly described this new spate of bomb “evacuation” hysteria as com- Pletely impractical. There is just one Important omission in all their published Temarks—a demand that nuclear weap- ons be universally banned, no matter Who has them or where they are. That is the one and only effective _ M@fense against H-bomb warfare and ‘fe mass murder of civilian populations. : es % . Now let’s look at this Vancouver vacuation” stunt, and at the moment We won't even pose the problem of pas we might be urged to “evacuate” By road we have four outlets from the city proper, the Lion’s Gate Bridge, the “Second Narrows, Pattullo Bridge, and the world-famed Marpole Bridge, all of which it is agreed are inadequate °r normal daily traffic. | By rail Gf the “enemy” kindly gave th adequate advance notice of when : é ®y planned to drop the H-bombs) we eae Probably move the bulk of Van- eae S population in the course of a ®ek, provided there were no slides. . Where to, of course, no one knows, or wae happened to meet our Calgary the edmonton neighbors heading west ch evacuation” would become some- Sa Congested and a lot of people ‘sht prefer taking their chances with go ombs rather than with the mountain ats or CPR hospitality. Pg armada, but the hazards of a destination and so forth would of © such a “Dunkirk’’ a poor replica the famed original. = Nation apie of inches of snow, a Pacific ‘onal Exhibition, or some visiting are ay 1s acute. But that’s nothing com- rises “ Ottawa’s proposed oul sa W, Gs x Teal thing on a trial trip or the he ‘best for the short or long-range solution - old f H-bomb is to stay put on the Wea Tont porch and fight to have these eae of horror universally banned— i oe Promoters of such horror plac- “Ho oe €r strict quarantine so they can Ten nger scheme harm to their fellow- : a aa Signature on the World Appeal ar St the Preparations for Atomic Gera Serve a much better purpose pe mass hysteria of a planned ‘ An early meeting of- our local Van- ¥ Sea we could muster quite an “eva- _ 8wig, and even Chief Mulligan will © that the Vancouver traffic prob- | Signature your best defense N April 7 last year Britain's ©) sort blitzed city in the Sec ond World War, Coventry, told the British government that civil defense was a waste of time and money. Later Coventry joined with an- other hero-city of the same war, Stalingrad, to call upon the gov ernments of the world to outlaw the use of atomic weapons. Closer to home, Long Branch — -Town Council in Metropolitan To- ronto has urged the federal gov ernment to do all in its power to bring about a ban on nuclear wea- pons. | Why then the sudden spate of - propaganda in Canada, the United States and Britain around the ques’ tion of civil defense? horrifying stories of the terrible destructive powers of the H-bomb?. At the heart of all this will be found a lie. The most diabolical lie ever perpetrated in history — the lie that atomic war is inevit- able; the lie that the Soviet Union is the potential aggressor; the: lie that disarmament is impossible. Worse: inherent in the current propaganda is the germ of the idea Why the’ ~ of “‘preventive’’ war against the , USSR, China, and the People’s Democracies. In Kingston, Ontario, a firm is currently advertising an “‘atomic air raid shelter,’’ fully tested in the U.S. Nevada desert tests. But the evidence from every honest sci- entist the world over is over whelming: there is no place to hide from this hideous weapon. The only escape is to destroy it before it destroys us. That is why the petition cam . paign being conducted in Canada, by the Canadian Peace Congress is a matter of life or death \for every man, woman and child in this country... In weeks to come, tens of.thou- sands of Canadians will read this appeal; they will be asked to sign -_ it. Thousands of people will go from door to door on a mission of humanity; organizations will meet to discuss and endorse it. Dimes and dollars will be donated to the Peace Congress to aid its ‘magni ficent work, There is a defense against the Hell-bomb — your signature. The brass deserved this rebuff [T would appear that the most re- cent attempts of Canadian Army brass to invade our high schools and universities in search of recruits have met with widespread opposi- tion. In a circular letter to principals and others, the army command appealed . for registered lists of student bodies. Most principals turned this appeal over to their — local school board authorities. In the main this appeal has been re- jected by school boards and faculty personnel. In Winnipeg a few weeks ago the army approached local school boards with a request that they in- troduce an amendment ‘to their by- laws, which, if made effective, would make ‘all registration lists of high. ‘school and university students avail- able to it. In every case school authorities rejected this proposal. - Our armed forces must be main- with genuine defense needs, but such an invasion of our educational system by the army would lead directly to transformation of our educational institutions into mili- tary recruiting agencies. ~ Worse still, in the process the peaceful objectives of modern edu- cation would be subverted by the dangerous psychosis of militarism and war, It was undoubtedly this factor which led to the widespread rejection of the army’s demand for student registration lists. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MARCH 11, 1955 — PAGE 5 . ’ tained at a level commensurate | * alarmed by our resistance to their poli- ‘iron and oil of Venezuela, and USS. cor- Hal Griffin ie was bound to happen.. Unable to persuade us to sell ourselves to the U.S. as they are selling our country and cies, the apologists for the U.S. have re- sorted to the McCarthy technique. Now it’s un-Canadian to ‘be Canadian. How do they arrive at this conclusion? Well, if you criticize the U.S. you are joining in the “Soviet hymn of hate,” whether you know it or not. You are weakening Canadian-American coopera- tion and unity. This establishes your guilt-by-association of ideas. Obviously, you are un-Canadian. : The Canadian Chamber of Commerce criginated this it’s un-Canadian to be Canadian line, which is not surprising when you consider how many of its members are turning a quick profit from the sale of our natural resources to the U.S. Now it’s being.picked up across the country. Last week, in Vancouver, Herbert Mowat, an executive member of the Canadian Institute of International Af- fairs, spoke to the Men’s Canadian Club. His topic was Canadian-American rela- tions. Canadians who indulge in “petty, carping criticism” of the U.S. are join- ing the “Soviet hymn of hate” without realizing it, he said. He did not deny Canadians the right to criticize U.S., policy “when it seems directly opposed to our own principles,’ but from his viewpoint American and Canadian prin- ciples are identical. So criticism be- comes “petty, carping .. .” “We Canadians know the US. better than any other country in the world, and we should testify that she respects the freedom of small countries to coun- teract the Kremlin’s hymn of hate,” he said. He did not, of course, mention Guate- mala. This was an unfortunate omis- sion. As a*member of the Canadian United Nations Association, Mowat must . be familiar with the appeal made by the Guatemalan delegate to the UN shortly before the popularly elected Arbenz gov- ernment was overthrown by a U.S.-en- gineered “revolt.” This should have enabled him to il- lustrate the “respect” the U.S. has for small countries, particularly when U.S. monopolies have contrived to seize the greater part of their natural wealth — as, for instance, the United Fruit Com- pany dominates the Central American republics, U.S. corporations control the porations are seizing control of the iron, oil and other resources of Canada. te ie ; If we are becoming anti-American, it is because we are Canadians and proud of our achievements. It is not because we have any quarrel with the American people except where they allow them- selves to be deluded. into identifying themselvés with the ambitions of their ruling circles to dominate our country. But, at every turn, to assert our true — national interest, we come into conflict with U.S. policy — the policy that drains our national resources to the U.S. at the expense of our own industries and the jobs they should create for us; the Policy that makes us depend on the > USS. market, dictates the terms and for- bids us to seek those other markets which would enable us to assert our in- dependence. < Is it “petty, carping criticism” to op- pose the things that threaten our very existence? There can be no more damning indict- ment of the anti-national policies of our ruling circles than the one they them- selves have now set out to prove.