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Send Canadian mission to
Cuba urged by newspaper

A leading Canadian newspaper
has called on the U.S. to change
its attitude toward Cuba and has
also proposed that a committee
of Canadians visit the island and
study the economic situation in
order to determine what genuine
help is needed.

In its lead editorial of Dec. 27,
the Toronto Globe and Mail
Suggested that the U.S. is at
least equally to blame for the
bad relations which have develop-
ed between that country and
Cuba.

Further, it continued, the U.S.
makes the error of considering
that ‘“‘all things Communist are

uniformly black and must be
settled with the trappings of a
holy war.”

“Tf Cuba has a friend in this
hemisphere it is Canada.” A
mission such as the Globe and
Mail suggests would have to have
the “unofficial blessing’”’ of the
U.S. but the world ‘“‘has the right
to expect that even the great and
powerful U.S. will change its atti-

tudes, when they have been
wrong.”’ :
The Globe’s editorial came

after the release by Cuba of 1,113
prisoners, Cubans who had taken
part in the Bay of Pigs invasion
fiasco in April, 1961. :

Alta farmers say ‘disarm’

A resolution calling for general
and complete disarmament was
passed at the recent convention
of the Farmers Union of Alberta.
Delegates reindorsed a resolution
to this effect which has been pass-
ed at a previous convention and
agreed it be placed in the basic
policy of the FUA.

District boards and locals were
urged to forward resolutions on
this subject to federal members
of Parliament.

The convention also voted over-
whelmingly in favor of public
ownership of power in Alberta.
The power decision was the first
major resolution passed during
the convention. Delegates had to
fight hard to get important ques-
tions on the floor while the leader-
ship emphasized secondary mat-
ters.

In a third major policy decision,
delegates adopted the principle

of a National Farmers Union fol-
lowing a report by NFU President
Alf Gleave.

The incoming FUA executive
was instructed to act with the
other provinces which had already
adopted the idea of a NFU tc
bring into the next FUA conven-
tion a finalization of the present
NFU set-up to a full-fledged, de-
mocratic organization of farmers.

In his address to the conven-
tion, NFU President Gleave put
forward major policies that would
go far to expand the farmers’
foreign and domestic market.

He urged further extension of
credit for the purchases of agri-
cultural products by Asian coun-
tries, expansion of two-way trade,
higher wages, pensions and allow-
ances for the development of
secondary and major industry to
bring about a greater domestic
demand for farm produce.

Buck marks 72nd birthday

TIM BUCK

Tim Buck, national chairman
of the Communist Party, received
messages from many parts of
Canada and a number of world

capitals last week on the occasion.

of his 72nd birthday, January 6.

Always ‘‘on the go”’ and in high
spirits, the popular Communist
leader spent his birthday, as he
has so often done, actively en-

gaged in party activity — this ~

time leading the discussion at a
seminar in Toronto.
The Pacific Tribune and his

many friends and comrades in>

B.C. join in wishing Tim many
happy returns.

Want answers on RCMP

OTTAWA — A letter from
the Canadian Association of
University Teachers has been
sent to the prime minister,
leaders of the three opposi-
tion parties, and Justice Min-
ister Fleming, protesting that
their inquiries about RCMP
activities on campuses had
been ignored by the jusuce
department.

The letter points out that a
request for an interview with
the minister on September 17
had not yet been granted, de-

“spite the fact that a heated

debate on the subject took

place last month in Parlia-

ment. ;
Before Christmas adjourn-

ment NDP-MP’s raised a

storm over RCMP “snooping”’
at the UBC and other univers-
ities. At that time Justice
Minister Fleming gave a very
unsatisfactory explanation,

and NDP members promised.

to raise the matter again.
The letter from the CAUT
is signed by many prominent
professors including A. W. R.
Carrothers of U.B.C. Attach-
ed to the letter are two ques-
tionaires sent to Justice Min-
ister Fulton last April 27.

Jan. 11, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 8

CELEBRATE 4TH ANNIVERSARY

One million Cubans
endorse revolution

A million people gathered in
Jose Marti Square, Havana, on
Jan. 2 to celebrate the fourth
anniversary of the victorious
Cuban revolution. The square
was a sea of red flags and re-
sounded with the March of the
July 26 Movement and other
songs.

Huge banners and streamers
on buildings surrounding the
square portrayed Cuba’s five

. FIDEL CASTRO

points for peace and against ag-
gression. These points, directed
toward the United States aré:
End the economic blockade;
stop all

subversive activities:

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During the past eight years
the South Vietnamese army,
armed and officered by the
U.S., has carried out 32,000
punitive operations, killing
140,000 people. Another 350,
000 people are in prisons and
1,700 prison camps.

stop all piratical attacks:
all violation of territorial air
space and waters; withdraw
from Guantanamo.

At 10 a.m. there was a 21-gun
salute, a band played the na-
tinal anthem, then Premier
Fidel Castro ordered the mili-
tary parade to begin.

More than 400 delegates from
other parts of Latin America,
from Canada, Asia, Africa and
Europe attended the rally. After
the parade, Castro spoke to the
nation.

In four years of heroic strug-
gle, he said, the Cuban people
had not been broken. But US.
President Kennedy’s — behavior
after the release of the Bay of
Pigs prisoners was like that of
a pirate chief, and ‘‘would en-
able us to understand the im-
perialists.”’

In what respect, Castro want-
ed to know, did Kennedy’s call
for the mercenaries to return to
Havana with their flag ‘‘resemble
any kind of pledge not to com-
mit aggression against Cuba and
invade it?”’

That is why the Cubans have
insisted and will continue to in-
sist that a pledge made by im-
perialists should not just be
words, but should be backed up
by acts.

The only guarantee lies “‘in our
resolution to fight, our resolu-
tion to resist heroically any
enemy attacks.

“The guarantee lies in the
arms which you have seen in
the parade — and many others
not displayed here. The guaran-
tee lies in the heroism of our
people, which has been tested at
very difficult occasions.”

Reminding those gathered in
the square and watching on tele-

stcp

IT COULD HAPPEN

Tory and Liberal political
Swamis are peering into their
crystal balls to see what the
future holds for their respec-
tive outfits. On the assump-
tion that they have a “future”
(2?) the Tory swanis see Mani-
toba’s Roblin replacing fu-
tureless Dief, while Liberal
crystal ball gazers see Que-
bec’s dynamic Lesage giving
Pearson the old heave-ho.

What the political swamis
don’t see is the possibility of
the common people giving the
whole caboodle the gate? It
could happen.

vision how the crisis had deve-
loped around Cuba, Castro went
on to say:

“Our people want to reserve
their full right to take every step
they think appropriate and to
have the arms they think they
need in the face of their im-

perialist enemies and imperialist

aggression.”

CEDRIC COX, NDP MLA for
Burnaby, is presently in Cuba
celebrating the anniversary of
the Cuban revolution, as a
guest of the government. His
trip has stirred up a heated
controversey within NDP

ranks. (See Editorial, page 4).

For the sake of peace, the
Soviet government had reached
certain agreements with the U.S.
government. ‘‘But this does not
mean that we have given up the
right to have the arms we think
adequate and take steps in in-
ternational policy which we think
necessary as a sovereign coun-
tye.

This was why Cuba could not
accept the unilateral inspection
some people wanted to carry
out, “‘its only purpose on the
part of imperialists being to
humiliate us.

“No inspection has taken place
and there will be none. If they
think they should inspect, then
they should also be inspected by
us. If not, then what do they
want?”

It is necessary to see through
the sinister character and tricks
of imperialism, Castro  con-
tinued. ‘‘We do‘not believe the
imperialists.’’ Cuba’s faith lay in
the “support of people every-
where and support of the social-
ist camp.”

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U.S. FIASCO IN S. VIETNAM. Military forces of
the U.S. and its puppet Ngo Dinh Diem regime
suffered a series of defeats in their attacks against
the forces of the Nationa! Liberation Front last
week. A number of U.S. helicopters were lost and .

puppets troops routed. Photo above shows U.S.
weapons captured by the patriotic peoples forces
who are fighting for the independence of their
country.

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