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By SAM RUSSELL
LONDON
West Germany has been
given entire freedom to -pro-
duce nuclear fuel, the main
ingredient of atomic weapons.

British Foreign Minister Sir
Anthony Eden has given Dr.
Konrad Adenauer and his
Nazi supporters authority to go
ahead with unlimited produc-
tion of the material that could
be used to make atom bombs.

The news—tucked away in
the obscurities of the text of
the London and Paris agree-
ments to rearm West Germany

West Germany now free
to produce nuclear fuel

—has alarmed leading British
atomic scientists.

In May 1952, when the Euro-
pean Defense Community
Treaty was signed, the West-
ern Powers considered it nec-
essary to limit strictly the
amount of nuclear fuel that
Western Germany might pro-
duce,

But now, quietly and with-
out attracting public. notice,
Sir Anthony Eden and U.S.
State Secretary John Foster
Dulles have wiped all these
controls out—they do not ap-
pear in the texts of the Lon-
don and Paris agreements.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1954

New H-bomb fesis |

alarm New Zealand

AUCKLAND

New Zealand is alarmed at a
U.S. plan to start H-bomb tests
in the Antarctic, which will cer-
tainly endanger her fisheries and
may endanger New Zealand it-
self.

News of the plan became pub-
lic at the height of the election
_ campaign which concluded on
Saturday last week with return of
the National party with 43 seats
to 37 for the Labor party. Stand-
ing in the 80-seat House of Rep-
resentatives before the election

was National 50, Labor 30. Out-
come of the election cut the gov-
ernment’s majority from 20 to
six. i

Walter Nash, Labor leader,
stated during the election cam-
paign that the Labor party would
not agree to the explosion of a
hydrogen bomb in the south.

Reminding New Zealanders of

what happened to Japanese fish-

-ermen in the March H-bomb test

in the Pacific, Nash said:

“In addition, when we become
the government we shall use
every means to ban the hydrogen
bomb by international agreement
— and this little country has
quite a voice in getting things
done.”

His statement was immediately
followed by one from External
Affairs Minister Webb, stating
the National party’s position.

“New Zealand would view with
concern the Possibility of hydro-
gen bomb tests being conducted

by a United States Navy expedi-
tion to the Antarctic,” he said.

A U.S. naval reconnaissance ex-
edition is due to leave for the
Antarctic on December 5 in the
ice-breaker Atka and is reported
to have the task of finding suit-
able H-bomb testing sites.

EFFIE JONES CHARGES:

‘Entrenched interests —
encouraging crime’

Mayor Fred Hume hasn’t answered her lette
the conduct of the present Vancouver Police Commi
know, that won’t deter Effie Jones.

This coming Monday,

sentations personally to the

In a statement she issued this
week, the independent candidate

‘for alderman noted that although

she “had not had the courtesy of
a formal reply,” half the mem-
bers of the present city council
had echoed her charge that Van-
couver’s police force was being
compelled to occupy itself with
bingo investigations and _ traffic
tickets while major crime increas-
ed.

“Gangsterism is rampant,” she
charged. “Juvenile crime is in-
creasing. Failure of those en-
trusted with direction of our
police force to deal with this
grave situation encourages, the
belief that organized crime is
being nourished by powerful en-
trenched interests in our city.’

“Mayor Hume is evading his
responsibility as chief magistrate
when he covers up for Police
Chief Mulligan.

“Citizens are concerned, and
rightly, over the crime wave and
dissatisfaction in the police force.
Action to reassure the public is
required and I intend to press
TOM it:7

Continued

RUSH

dian communities from coast to
coast.

Warning that U.S. corporations
have already seized control of
some of British Columbia’s most
vital natural resources and that

they are also out to capture our’

natural gas. Rush urged the
provincial government to build
the line from the Peace River to
Vancouver as a_publicly-owned
utility. He said, “We do not
want any recurrence of the situ-
ation we have in Vancouver: to-
day where the people are at the
mercy of a private monopoly like
the B.C. Electric.”

What’s holding back
Canadian-Soviet trade?

The Soviet Union has repeated-
ly offered to open up a vast new
trade agreement with Canada,
specifying what it would buy and
what it would sell. Trade Minis-
ter C. D. Howe has said he would
“welcome” Soviet trade.

But nothing happens. Who’s
blocking the deal? Why doesn’t
Canada follow Britain’s lead and
send trade delegations to the
USSR and China? Orders from

these markets are keeping Brit-_

ain’s factories producing.
Recently one of Canada’s fore-
most bankers issued a_ serious
warning about the direction of
Canada’s trade. James Stewart,
president of the Bank of Com-
merce, said in Hamilton on No-

vember 2 that since 1950, Canada ©

has had only one export surplus

and three deficits. “We
changed a heavy positive balance
into a deficit in one year,” he de-
clared.

Stewart warned that the in-
flux of U.S. capital into Canada
has prevented balance of pay-
ments difficulties, but this tends

to make Canada minimize the im-
portance of the deterioration of
the country’s trade position.
“It is to be hoped,” he con-
cluded, “that the public at large
will realize the importance of
trade to our over-all wellbeing.
To be dependent un United States

investment decisions over a long —

period of time is a poor alterna-
tive to being dependent on a
variety of countries willing to
import our products.”

As though to bear out Stewart’s
warning, J. J. Calder, president
of the Canadian Manufacturers’

Association, said in Montreal the ~

same day that the U.S., which
now takes 60 percent of Canada’s
exports, would probably absorb
an even larger proportion in the
next 25 years. Chief reason was
“the growing U.S. dependence on
Canada’s specialized natural re-
sources,”

And to show how far behind
Canada is lagging in Est-West
trade came the UN figures re-
leased on November 1 which
show that West European exports

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-D. C. HOWE

to East Europe increased 43 per-
cent in the first half of this year.
The report was made by the UN
Economic Commission for Europe.

e

© proposing a public inquiry into
ssion but, as Mayor Hume should

November 22, Mrs. Jones is going to make her repre
council’s Fire, Police and Traffic Committee.

Continued from page 1

_ REARMAMENT

unaware that the West German
government and its apparatus are
heavily impregnated with Nazi
militarist elements, one must re-
member that in 1933 the militar-
ists made even more generous
promises than they are making
now.”

. The Peace Congress’ decision
to campaign against ratification
of the Paris and London agree-
ments followed a grave warning
by Prof. F. Joliot-Curie, presi-
dent of the World Peace Council:

“The coming weeks will be of
vital importance for the future
of peace.

“The enormous dangers . ee
contained in the London and
Paris agreements make vigorous
action by world public opinion
necessary. The peoples of the
countries directly concerned must
act without delay becaufse the
governments which drew up and
signed the agreements are striv-

_ing to get them ratified as swiftly
_as possible.

“There. is a reason for this
haste: if public opinion had suf-
ficient time, it could weigh up
the dangers contained in these
agreements and compare their
worth with the possibilities of-
fered by the Soviet proposals.

“Was not the French rejection’

of the European Defense Com-
munity obtained by the joint ac-
tion of all who see in the main-
tenance of national independence

a guarantee of peace and in the -

revival of German militarism .a
threat of war? :
“The dangers implicit in the
London and Paris agreements
can be perceived by all, regard-
less of personal preferences. for
one social system rather than
another. :

“To anyone who has studied
these agreements attentively and
understood their real significance,
their approval can only mean

approval of the policy of armed.

peace and rigid, hostile blocs.
This policy, which mistakes ulti-
matum for negotiation, can only
aggravate international tension
and increase the danger of inci-
dents and war. :

“It would, therefore, seem aS

if the signatories of these agree-
ments wanted to increase inter-
national tension in the most
dangerous manner — and this
at a time when this tension had
greatly decreased. Today, there
are no longer any armed con-
flicts; economic and cultural ex-
charges are being developed; the
prospects for agreement on dis-

armament have never been go ©

good; and the European Defense
Community treaty has been re-
jected. -

“These circumstances warrant-
ed the hope for a peaceful settle-
ment of the German question
through negotiation between the
great powers concerned. How-
ever, there would be a danger of
jeopardizing “all this if the agree-
ments signed in London and Paris

were ratified, since they settle

the Tearmament of Germany and
its incorporation in the Atlantic
Pact. Tate

DR. J. G. ENDICOTT

“If these agreements were fin-
ally ratified they would, in exact-—
ly the same way as EDC, maintain
and aggravate the division of
Germany and | Europe.’ They

‘would delay and endanger any

real negotiation with the Soviet
Union on the German question
by creating an accomplished fact
openly directed against that
country.”

Joliot-Curie concluded his state-
ment with these words: ~

“We must immediately pre-
vent the starting of a mechanism
which would take us away from
the genuine paths to peace and
risk crushing us all.” 5

Announcing the campaign,
public relations director Bruce
Mickleburgh said it was expected
that a great number of organiza-
tion and public figures “will put
themselves on record.”

“After all, if we adopt these
agreements we have put our
power to decide on peace or war —
in the hands of the German mili-

_tarists to whom we are asked to

ally ourselves. .That is what. it

- really means, no matter what Pear-

son thinks it means, when he
says we should pledge ourselves
to defend Germany.

“With Canadians ‘already sta-
tioned in’ Germany, presumably
till the end of the century, com-
mitment would be automatic and
beyond power of the Canadian

‘people, parliament or government

to halt. Once the militarists by

provocation start their pledged

war of revenge, we would be in
ate \ .
The Peace Congress ited up-
on all individuals and organiza-
tions to speak to their MP’s and
express their views. Round-robin
letters, petitions, postcards and
delegations from the _ streets,
schools, factories and farmers, as
well as individual letters to MP’s
are methods of expression recom-
mended. 2

Sub score next week

Final tabulations in the Pacific
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for 1500 new and renewed sub-

scriptions will be published next
week. Indications are that the
campaign, which ended Novem-
ber 15, has been fully successful.

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