Th Uo, il i i a Hl ° \ 702-=IR EUS Marya = FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1956 0, “i 4 VANCOUVER, B.C. lO¢ aaa as second class mail by a Post Office Department, Ottawa \q Me Stat Win, eS done grave harm to its own interests as a eR to the cause of world peace by its aggression gypt. | oe by design or not, its attack has provided i " and French governments with the pretext al 4 military action to seize and occupy the Suez yeh eo action from which world opinion has effec- i Fained them until now. Me a that Britain and France have used their J teas. ee the UN to void resolutions requiring them iy 4 Gir aggression and withdraw their forces will hy, € them to escape the condemnation of world Ne me the opinion of the people of their own coun as popular opinion in all countries. t ON confronted with its greatest crisis since by Ndg by “Ge must act decisively, supporting its ti Ve ed € te a of Senne if pees e lg. Saar plone it is too late. oa the sce tion. nt must throw its full weight behinc The Deag Cana Nor. 0 Our country and ourselves, Hoye ove j Oe.) TY Measure necessary to endit 4 all of us . ; . have a duty to call for and rg the conflict dian people .. . it } e A Comes a major war. Wf TOus es f {en €d world opinion can save peace. It can com- stony to aggression. It can defeat those who. so Wis LY ps th _ndanger the peace of the world. But it re me fire ‘very one of us give our voices to the demands: - Withdraw from Egypt. As their armed forces proceed by air, sea and land to invade Egypt - this week, with the declared intention of occupying the Suez Canal zone, the British and French goveraments stand condemned as ag- gressors in the eyes of the world. Alike in their own countries and throughout a world alarmed by the grave threat to peace and the possibility. of a ma- jor war in the Middle East, they are confronted with the demand: Withdraw from Egypt. Although they have already used the veto twice in the UN Security Council to evade resolutions, one by the United States, the second by the Soviet Union, call- ing upon them to withdraw their forces, the British and French governments have [PP asks emergency session of parliament already been denounced by a majority of the world’s gov- ernments. And at Pacific Trib- une press time, the UN Gen- eral Assembly was meeting in extraordinary session to con- sider the crisis touched off when Israeli troops invaded Egypt and expanded to world proportions when British and French forces moved against the Suez Canal. President Eisenhower, in a radio speech Wednesday night declared that the British- French decision was “taken in error” and could “scarcely be reconciled with the principles and purposes of the United Na- tions to which we have all subscribed.” The U.S., said Eisenhower, would not intervene in the conflict with its military forces but would look to the UN for a solution. ‘Sn the past,” he said, “the United Nations has proved able to find a way to end bloodshed. We believe it can and will do so again.” Reflecting the split of opin- ion ‘in the Commonwealth, Canada, through External Af- fairs Minister Lester B. Pear- gon, protested the British- French action, and through Fisheries Minister James Sin- clair, stated that it would not ship promised jet planes to Is- rael nor supply arms to Egypt. Australia and New Zealand governments both declared their support for Britain. The Soviet Union condemn- ed the British-French aggres- sion against Egypt and called for a second Bandung Confer- ence to demand withdrawal of British. French and Israeli forces from Egypt. Both in U.S. and Soviet circles the suspicion was wide- ly voiced that the Israeli in- vasion and the subsequent British - French intervention had been by prearranged un- derstanding. TORONTO Warning that “every mement’s delay brings the world closer to the brink of atomic catastrophe from which Can- ada could not escape,” the national committee of the Labor- Progressive party, in session here this week, has issued a statement which calls upon the gevernment to convene parliament immediately to dis- cuss the invasion of Egypt and assert this country’s. “consid- erable power in world affairs.” Full text of the statement reads: The war in Egypt has. light- Ismalia, key centre in the Suez Canal zone which -was ed a torch which can send the entire world ablaze in fearful atomic war. ‘The Canadian Continued on back page See LPP the scene of many skirmishes bef iti i : S ore the British with- drew from Egypt, is again an objective of British troops in- vading Egypt.