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THE NATION

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ensure a

Pproval of a giant American military budget, the
fact re:

; Mains that H-bombs and A-bombs, if dropped in
he heart of Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Vancouver and

other Canadian cities, would wipe out thousands of inno-
cent citizens,

th “With great pomp President Truman ordered a fur-
ne drive for atomic armaments and on research work
b be done with respect to production of a hydrogen
aes or, as it is sometimes called, a hell-bomb,” the
viet commentator, A. Petkov, said.

mi “In the same way the American atom bomb was Once
ene cet vogue. Now it is the new hydrogen bogey that is.
‘Noying a honeymoon. ’
“It was needed by Wall Street for both domestic and
isn aims,
_., Another secret purpose is that the American im-
eee sts want to make the people follow the idea of an
aoe Pushputton war with no sacrifices on the part of:
merica The American version of Hitler's: blitz-
Krieg | &
to , Be aggressive policy of Wall Street can only lead
eae new catastrophe for it is impossible to escape the
POrs of a new war if such a war is unleashed by the
heoncan imperialists either by atom diplomacy or the
Ydrogen bogey.”
“ah Tf War comes, why pick on Canada? Because this
ee is the open door along the shortest route US.
aS “bent armies and air force must take to reach their
Tsets in the Soviet Union. Canada can be either a door-
Ae or a roadblock to the only power in the world today
t threatens war—the United States.

‘ 9 far, the Canadian government is playing the door-
Mat role:

fore

im While President Truman was committing the most
oon act in man’s history in approving production of
son Hell-Bomb, Canada’s External Affairs Minister Pear-
i Was conferring with General MacArthur in Japan on
P Secret military matters. Weis
hile U.S. Defense Secretary Johnson was beating
ar drums more brazenly than ever the insane, sui-
‘Forrestal did, Ottawa was announcing increases in
BS 4's navy and air forces, agreeing to buy—cash in
vance—U_S-made war equipment.

Henle maniacal U.S. military leaders were putting
Ch “bomb target pins on the map of the world, Canada’s
alk River atomic plant was being readied to aid both
By H-bomb’ production. Scientists there greeted Tru-

S announcement with: “We wish them well.”
Part of the current rash of warlike activity, rad-

the ‘Ww:
Cideg

before country
for war or roadblock for peace

W 1s, as Moscow pointed out last week, the hydro-
; Sen bomb is a “bogey” designed by Wall Street to

is doormat

iating fom Washington, “Operation Sweetbriar” to simu-
late an invasion of Alaska is now under Way in the
Yukon and Alaska.) :

When Wall Street found itself short of oil, iron and
uranium, it put its greedy hands into Canada’s rich bread-
basket and the St. Laurent government said: ‘Help your-
self.” Thus the oil and uranium of Alberta and Saskat-
chewan and the iron of Steep.Rock, Ontario, is now own-
ed by U.S. bankers. It will provide the guts of the Hell-
Bombs and power to fly them over Canada,

When Washington’s military madmen decided they
needed attack bases closer to the USSR, down went the
St. Laurent doormat again. Now we are an occupied
country, with U.S. troops and planes in Newfoundland,
Churchill, Edmonton and the Yukon; and the U.S. Navy
has free access,to our ports.

Where does this leave Johnny Canuck, citizen. of any
city you can name in Canada?

Right in the) middle, : :

- The Soviet Union, it was quietly admitted in Wash-
ington a few weeks ago, knew how to make atom bombs
two years before the U.S. did. Last week it was just as
quietly hinted in Moscow that Soviet scientists also know
all there is to know about the hydrogen bomb, too.

The Soviet Union is using atomic energy peacefully
—to blow up mountains. But, as Vishinsky warned in the
United Nations General Assembly, “We can make bombs
too, as Many as we need.”

The Soviet Union proposes that all nations ban atomic
weapons just as they have banned poison gasses. At the
same time they urge full international control and in-
spection without veto power to any nation. The United
States answers this proposal by building bigger and
bigger bombs.

Who's the aggressor?

The people of Canada have a real defense weapon
that cannot be manufactured in any scientific laboratory.
It is a piece of paper, about letter size. It bears the ad-
dress: To Prime Minister St. Laurent. It is a petition and
all the wordage written.on it can be summed up in three
words: Ban the Hell-Bomb!

A few months ago, 7,000,000 Italians signed a peace
petition. Millions of people in France have voted yes on
a gigantic peace ballot. The French and Italian people
know about bombs, Today, hundreds of thousands of
British people are signing a petition to outlaw the atomic
bomb, Britons know about war too,

200,000 Canadian signatures on the Ban the Bomb
petition will be the starting point for sweeping away St.
Laurent’s doormat to war and in its place erecting a
roadblock for peace.

BY JOHN STEWART

PARLIAMENT HILL BY MARK FRANK

Pearson ‘shaken’
after Asian visit

EWSMEN interviewing External Affairs Minister

Pearson on his return to the capital from Colombo
and other eastern hemisphere points came away from
the conference with “the distinct feeling that his round-
the-world trip had depressed and even shaken him,” as
one writer put it,

It was easy to see why after the first few minutes of
the conference. His trip had “certainly been educational”,
declared the minister, in announcing that henceforth “the
center of gravity” had shifted from Europe to the Far
East.

Although he claimed that basis for concern about
developments in the Far East was what he termed the
“expansion of Soviet imperialism” and the use of “Mos-
cow agents,” he was forced to contradict this in the
statement that “part of the world is on the march as
never before, People are stirred up by the idea of political
freedom. They demand a better standard of life.”

Pearson spoke of “danger points all over the place
there,” in Korea, Burma, Indo-China, Malaya, Indonesia.
Using the language of the Japanese warlords he deescib-
ed these movements as the work of “communist agents”
or “communist bandits”.

“Our discussion in Colombo dealt largely with what
we have to do about this situation,” Pearson acknowledg-
ed,

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Asked whether the technique used in Europe against
Communists would work in Asia, Pearson replied that it
was an “open matter.”

Pointedly asked about recognition for China, Pearson

~ said he had to report to the cabinet, and that a decision

on recognition wold be a government matter. Forcing
the question of recognition is the condition of the Japan-
ese Empire of General MacArthur, Japan’s biggest mar-
ket is the mainland of China, and Japan needs this mar-

“> KSE,

Pearson emphasized the difficulty of trading with
Communist countries, discreetly avoiding the important
fact that cold-war policies on the part of the Canadian
government is the source of trade barriers with Com-
munist-led countries.

This was shown in Pearson’s affected lack of knowl-
edge about an appeal by the North China Trading Cor-
poration for a barter deal with Canadian grain merchants
in Vancouver, “Never heard of that,” said the minister,
when questioned.

A startling indication of the company a Canadian
cabinet minister keeps when on tour was his reference to
the fact that he met up with several old Japanese ambas-
sadors to Canada while in Tokyo. Three of those men-
tioned were barons, who were terribly concerned about
what was doing at the swank Royal Ottawa Golf Club. It
seemed like an “old boys’ reunion,’ remarked the min-
ister, in speaking of men implicated in Pearl Harbor and
the Second World War. ;

On hand to:greet Pearson when he arrived was !U.S.
Ambassador Laurence: Steinhardt.

The fight for peace is the key

8
Ocial democrats, the agents of

i
™Perialism in the ranks of the
Working class,

eee Canada as throughout the
Nd the forces of the peace

* :
ae are growing. The Canadian
eee Congress unites tens of
housangs

of peace-loving men

ben Women

THe. é
oR Women of Canada, through
the * Peace Action Committees,

meh adian Congress of Wo-
fae and, in numerous democrat-
* “omen’s organizations, are ral-

1
lying in united action to defeat
the warmongers.

There is a revival of militant
political activity among the pro-
gressive youth. The National
Federation of Labor Youth is
rapidly building a strong nation-
wide cadre of fine young Marx-
ists, The illusions created among
youth by the post-war boom are
beginning to evaporate. The
youth of Canada will be a power-
ful force in the fight for peace
and Canadian independ€nce.

8. Take Canada out of war camp

t or the Labor-Progressive par-
(206) SKE 40° ban 'thd “atoms
Mb is a

The
ae atomic bomb must be ban-

stot the stocks of bombs de-
Gu aa _to save the people of
In ye from national disaster.
bombs © of stockpiles of atomic
Nea the LPP calls upon all
Rs 8, Canadians to de-
mr # the St. Laurent govern-
at it supports the pro-

& Pact of Peace be-

Posal go,
tw, :
fen the’. five great powers:

USsR
China,

continuing struggle.

» USA, Britain, France and

In place of the enormous and
increasing expenditures on pre-
parations and for training large-
seale aggressive warfare, the
LPP demands and fights for ad-
equate expenditures on people’s
welfare. Instead of
hundreds of millions of dollars
per year upon armaments, the
LPP demands that the federal
government uses the money to
subsidize desperately needed low-
rental homes. :

Against the St. Laurent gov-
ernment’s

Me

spending .

anti-Canadian agree- ©
ment with the U.S, not to sell

Canadian products to govern-
ments to which the U.S. does not
sell similar products, the LPP de-
mands that Canadian products
should be sold to any country

that desires to buy them. Canada’

should extend immediately, full
recognition to People’s China and
take advantage of China’s desire
to trade.

The Labor-Progressive party
calls upon the St. Laurent gov-
ernment to stop the scandalous

export of Canada’s valuable ur- ,

anium to the U.S. for the ridi-
culous price of three dollars a
pound. Canada is being depleted
of her potentially almost price-
less raw material for enriching
peace, so that all the production
can be accumulated by the U.S.
for war, and development of its
peacetime use can be hindered.

Utilized for peaceful industrial
purposes as it is in the Soviet
Union, our uranium would be
worth tens of thousands of dol-
lars a pound. The present policy
of delivering practically the
whole of Canada’s uranium pro-
duction to the U.S. is an insult

to Canadians and a wrong to
Canada,

The LPP calls upon Canadians
to demand of the federal govern-
ment that henceforth, no Can-
adian uranium be exported to
any country at all unless the
government of that country gives
an official guarantee that it will

be used. only for purposes of

peace,

We call upon democratic Can-
adians to call a halt to the oc-
cupation of Canada by U.S. mili-
tary forces. For the safety of our
country we demand a stop to
the preparations to use Canada
as a storage depot and a launch-
ing base for U.S. atomic bombs.

Take the U.S. war machine out
of Canada so that the Canadian
people may Keep Canada Out of
War! ° :

The fight for unity includes the
fight to overcome all weaknesses
and hesitations in telling our fel-
low-Canadians the facts about
U.S. imperialist attempts to dom-
inate the economic, cultural and
political life of Canada. It in-
cludes a stern and unequivocal
struggle against the war program
of U.S. imperialism inside the
Canadian labor movement, and
against the St. Laurent policy of
subordinating Canada’s interests

to the war plans of U.S. imper-
ialism.

It requires a militant, confident
and proud battle for the streng-
thening of true patriotism to
Canada and the interests of her
people, for a new foreign policy
based upon the aims of peace,
disarmament and loyalty to the |
Charter of the United Nations.

The main conditions of a suc-
cessful struggle for the unifica-
tion of the working class is the
all-round exposure of the policies

-and false propaganda of the

right-wing leadership of the CCF
and their representatives in the
trade union movement, Simultan-
eously it is necessary to engage
in patient, painstaking day-to-day
explanatory work among the
rank-and-file workers, farmers
and democratic urban middle-
class people who are opposed to
war but do not understand the
significance of the fole of the
right-wing CCF leaders are play-
ing. :

I call upon all members of the
national committee, and through
you upon all party organizations
and members, to pass over to the
offensive in the battle for peace;
to join hands with all lovers of
peace in united action; to organ-
ize peace committees every-
where; TO BUILD A MIGHTY
NATIONAL MOVEMENT FOR
PEACE AND CANADIAN IN-
DEPENDENCE !

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