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“VOL. 20, NO. 45

VANCOUVER, ee
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1961

Bonn demands A-bombs
for ex-Nazi generals

_ Chancellor Konrad Adenauer last Thursday demanded NATO members,
including West Germany,*be given nuclear arms.
He told reporters his country now has weapons capable of firing or
delivering nuclear warheads, but it also wanted the warheads.
; Just prior to departure for Washington, where he met this week with
U.S. President Kennedy, he told reporters that former top Hitler General and
war criminal, Gen. Theordor Heusinger, now top NATO commander, had drawn
up a plan showing-why NATO partners should have nuclear weapons,

T om McEwen nominated to
‘run in Vancouver East —

- . Thursday. of last week in
“sponsorship of the Vancouver East Communist Party, Tom
McEwen, editor of the Pacific Tribune. was nominated as

the party’s- standard -bearer
‘coming federal election.

In his acceptarice speech Mc-
‘Ewen Said, “the great question
‘Mark of this age is the vital
issue of peace; or nuclear’ de-
‘struction; the opportunity to
‘live and work in peace; or see
A ‘human civilization » destroyed.
‘That question transcends . all
Others.

“T am also of the opinion
that the coming: federal elec-
tion, unless the international
Climate improves, that anti-
Soviet ‘and anti-Communist
Propaganda will figure largely
‘in Liberal-and Tory demagogy
on the hustings as a cover-up
for their bankrupt and disas-
trous policies. Even the right-
Wing leaders of the New Demo-
Cratic Party, among whom the
MP for Vancouver East may be
Tegarded as a shining example,
find it necessary to resort to
anti-Communist - red-baiting to
hide the shoddy nature of their
barren policies.”

McEwen reminded his aud-
lence that “even while this
Nominating meeting is in’ ses-
Sion, NDP rank-and-file mem-
-bers see Winch participating in

the Swedish Hall, under the

for . Vancouver . East. in the

NATO sessions. in. Europe; anh
as an: opponent of NATO, but
as...an .-official parliamentary
yubber stamp. for Diefenbaker.
Vancouver East. electors de-
serve something - better than
that, where Canada’s future
peace and independence is con-
eerned. That will be the cen-
tral issue in.my carbalgi in
this constituency.”

TOM McEWEN

U.S. presses Ottawa

for power export

It was reported from Seattle this week that statements
| by U.S. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall indicate Washing-
ton is putting pressure on Ottawa for.a change of heart on
export of power to the U.S.
- Reports say that: the U.S. wants B.C. power but they
are treading carefully for fear of arousing Canadian opposi-

tion,

ae

Brazen interference in Canada’s internal affairs came this week -

By MAURICE RUSH

ATO DEMANDS CANADA
KE NUCLEAR ARMS NOW

PEACE MAIN ISSUE

from top NATO officials who put the screws on Canada to acquire
nuclear weapons, end trade with China, and step up war spending.

These- demands were made

‘on Canada at.the ‘Paris. meet-
‘bing of: législators fromm 15. na-

tions, who: «are ~ members: of

NATO. Among the 15-member

delegation from Canada is Van-
couver East: MP Harold Winch,
‘The main pressure on Cana-

‘da came. from NATO secretary

general | Dirk  Stikker, ‘U0;

“General Laurss Norstad, Su-

preme Commander ‘of Allied
Forces. in, Europe, and U.S.
Army Secretary Elvis J. Stahr.

In an address to the Paris
conference, Stikker called for
a build up of NATO’s nuclear
armory, and said nuclear arms
for NATO forces were “‘neces-
sary.” Heé outlined a plan for

‘| NATO forces being armed with

nuclear weapons on which, he
said, a decision would soon
have to be made.

His demand for nuclear arms
for NATO was backed up by
U.S. General “Norstad, who
called for a further build-up of
NATO forces and for these
forces to be equipped with con-
ventional and nuclear weapons.
WAR ATMOSPHERE

Adding his
‘verge of war atmosphere”’ per-
vading the conference, U.S.
Army Secretary Stahr made a
pitch in favor of conscription
to build up NATO’s manpower.
He implied that any country
which does not introduce con-
scription does not take serious-
ly “their responsibilities as
partners in the defence of the
free world.”

Speaking for NATO leaders,
secretary general Stikker con-
demned trade between NATO
countries and socialist nations.
The meaning of his:attack was
not lost on the Canadian dele-
gation.

The NATO leaders made no
bones about trade being a
weapon of the cold war, and
showed they did not favor re-

voice to the.

laxation of tensions which ac-
companies trade between coun-
tries.

Resolutions adopted by the
NATO: conference were aimed
at. intensifying the cold war.
These. included:

@ Support for - increasing
combat-ready: forces in central
Europe from 21 to 25 divisions.
- @ Call for a “stand firm” on
Berlin. (The word “negotiate”
seems to have been stricken
from the NATO dictionary).

@ Support for nuclear arms
for NATO forces, and build up
both nuclear and conventional
arms.

WINCH ROLE

The role of New Democratic
Party vice-president Harold
Winch MP, at the NATO con-
ference, is not too clear from
first dispatches. There has so
far been no disassociation by
him from the decisions of the
conference.

Recalling the results of his

last trip abroad when he re-
turned with. the. advice to Ca.
nada’s workers that “the world
doesn’t owe you a. living,”
many people in his own party
are holding their breathe. _

First press reports from
Paris’ quote the Vancouver
East MP as having. said that
the Royal Canadian Air Force
in Europe would be at the ené-
my’s mercy unless it had the
utmost firepower which means
nuclear firepower. :

“T don’t see how we can do
anything else, either we have
to do it or pull out,” Winch is
quoted as having said.

The Paris NATO meeting
means only one thing for Ca-
nada: That the U.S.-dominated
military alliance will put new

and increased pressure on Ca- -

nada and other nations to step
up their preparations for war.
For Canada it means renewed
pressure for an early decision
on nuclear arms.

GENEVA. This will be the scene of renewed nuclear test
ban talks between the Soviet Union, Britain and U.S.
starting Nov. 28. The Soviet note, accepting renewal of
talks, said if some other powers test nuclear weapons while
the talks are on it “will draw the corresponding conclusions

concerning nuclear tests.”

U.S. generals

The U.S. military brass con-
‘tinued to repeat its threats of
Nuclear war against the Soviet

Nion, as President Kennedy
nnounced recently he would
Seek additional funds for de-
fense next year.
| These threats were coupled).
“with Browing evidence of the
“anger. -of. a fascist, piers
Victatorship emerging”

-in the |"

oe impetus to the fascist-
minded right was given by the
recent. resignation from the
army by Major General Edwin
A. Walker.

In an. open call to war, U. s.
Secretary .of Defense Robert
‘MacNamara is. reported to have
‘said. to.Randolph Churchill: .

_“Pjease, Mr. Churchill, make!

no mistake about this: I am
preparing to fight a nuclear

war. It would be crazy to
spend all this money as a
bluff.”

. Similar.threats . have. been
“made — by. Attorney. - General,
Robert Kennedy, Air - Force
Chief General Lemay and oth-
er American: officials...

The. Wall Street Journal
wrote recently about a new
plan for “controlled atomic
war’ based on theories: worked
out by G. Kissinger, R. Osgood
and others.

To demonstrate .the West’s
firm intentions about Berlin,
said the paper, the U.S. and its
NATO allies must bring atomic
-}-;weapons-into play. .The-U.S.

want free hand when to press button

and its allies would take the
first step by. using nuclear
weapons at the beginning of
hostilities, but.in a limited and
selective way.
The aims of these limited
blows is to give the Russians a
chance to “ponder on the hore
rors of thermonuclear war.”

‘See FASCIST THREAT, ps. 8