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WORLD SCENE

U.S. INDUSTRIALISTS FOR SOVIET-U.S. TRADE

MOSCOW. — The head of the U.S. National Association of Ma-
chine-Tool Builders said in Moscow on Thursday that all members
of the association are ready and willing to cooperate with the USSR.
Henry Sharpe, NAMTB President, made the remarks while visiting
the Soviet Ministry of Automobile Industry. Fifteen U.S. machine-
tool corporations have representatives in Sharpe’s mission to the
USSR. :

Sharpe said the NAMTB is making every effort to try to get
licenses from the Nixon administration to export machine-tools to
the Soviet Union. “We came here to start long-term trade rela-
tions,” he said, recalling the 1930s, when the Soviet Union took
in more than one-half of ail the machine tools exported in the entire
world and gave the depression-struck industry of the U.S. millions
of dollars worth of orders. Pavel Lesnyak, Soviet Auto Industry
Minister, met with Sharpe and the U.S. delegation for nearly two
hours and said that U.S.-Soviet trade cooperation is certainly pos-
sible. He said that Sharpe had invited the USSR to take part in the
international exhibition of machine-tools in Chicago next year.

-MORE NATIONALIZATION PLANNED IN INDIA

DELHI — Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi said that uhre-*

mitting efforts will be continued to carry out the nationalization
of banks, land reforms, abolition of the privy purse and privileges
for former rulers of the principalities, and other reforms vitally
needed by the Indian people. :

In an interview in the weekly, Socialist India, she said that the
Indian National Congress and the Government remain committed
to the basic principles of democracy and the policy of peace and
non-alignment. This policy meets the national interests of India
and makes an important contribution to the social reconstruction
of the country, she emphasized.

FOREIGN ‘AID’ TO LATIN AMERICA GROWING

The foreign debt of Latin American countries has been growing
steadily. In 1960 it stood at $6.6 billion against $2.9 billion in 1945.
In 1968 it climbed to $16.7 billion, according to the International
Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

The new loans Latin American countries receive are not enough
even to pay interest and clear off arrears. This makes U‘S. ‘aid’
look like a farce.

Almost 45 percent of the developing countries’ foreign debt and
more than half of the loan payments made in recent years fall to
seven countries: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Chile, India
and Pakistan. The biggest debtors in Latin America are Argentina
and Colombia ($4 and $2 billion, respectively, in 1970).

Growing foreign debts result in something more than a net out-
flow of capital. They also lead to devaluation, higher fees for mu-
nicipal services, higher taxes, a wage freeze, increased monopoly
penetration, unequal trade, curbs on cooperation with the socialist
countries, the use of the greater part of credits for purchasing U.S.
goods, and other adverse phenomena. :

Private investment is a traditional instrument of U.S. economic
penetration into Latin America. In regard to direct U.S. invest-
ments, Latin America held third place in 1969 ($13.8 billion) after
Western Europe ($21.6 billion) and Canada ($21.1 billion).

U.S. NATION-WIDE ‘PEACE CONFERENCE

NEW YORK, June 4—Leaders of the People’s Coalition for Peace
and Justice, sponsors of the Spring Peace Offensive and the April
24 March on Washington, have announced a national conference
June 25-27 in Milwaukee, Wisc. ;

An invitation to the conference has been extended to all groups
active in the fight against war, poverty, racism and repression.

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Lenin Medallion awards

The Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party
of Canada released on June 2 the names of its members
who have been awarded the Lenin Medallion, struck in
1969 in honor of the Lenin Centenary by the government
of the USSR.

Those receiving the award are Tim Buck, chairman of the
Party; William Kashtan, general secretary; Samuel Walsh,
president of the Parti Communiste du Québec; William
Beeching, former editor of the Canadian Tribune; Claire
Demers, editor of Combat; Tom McEwen, veteran former
editor of the Pacific Tribune; Maurice Rush, editor of the
Pacific Tribune; Elizabeth Hill, secretary of the Young
Communist League.

The medallion, not to be confused with the Order of
Lenin, the Soviet Union's highest award, was presented by
the Communist Party, the Young Communist League, the
Party press, the trade unions, the women’s organization
and other mass and cultural organizations in the Soviet
Union, to leading members of their fraternal counterparts
in many countries throughout the world.

The Central Executive of the Communist Party of Canada
congratulates the members who have received the Medal-
lion as an expression of the respect held by the fraternal
communist movement in the USSR for the Communist Party,
the Young Communist League and the Communist press in
Canada.

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Messages greeting its 50th Anniver-
sary are being constantly received by
the Communist Party of Canada
from Communist and Workers parties
throughout the world. Here, in addi-

Communist Party
-of Czechoslovakia

Dear Comrades,

On the occasion of the 50th
Anniversary of the founding of
the Communist Party of Canada,
we are conveying to you our cor-
dial comradely greetings. We
highly appreciate the work done
by your Communist Party. It has
proved to be a principled revolu-
tionary party of the Canadian
working people. We are particu-
larly thinking of the Party’s con-
sistent struggle against exploita-
tion, for unity of the working
class, for genuine democracy and
for the socialist transformation of
Canadian society.

We are taking this opportunity
to greet the Communist Party of
Canada as a significant compon-
ent part of the international com-
munist movement which. has al-
ways. stood firmly for ideological
and action unity on the road to-
wards further demanding goals
set for the work of the Party in
following years.

We wish it the best possible
success for the benefit of and in
the interest of the Canadian
working class, for the cause of
socialism and proletarian inter-
nationalism.

Long live the Communist Party
of Canada!
Long live Marxism-Leninism!
~ Central Committee
Communist Party
of Czechoslovakia

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already published, are more of
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organize the democratic, anti-
monopoly, and _ anti-imperialist
coalition leading the way to so-
cialism in your country.

We are secure in the knowl-
edge that relations between our
two parties will constantly - in-
crease, based on the principles
of Marxism-Leninism.

With fraternal greetings,

- CELSO SA,
Central Committee,
Communist Party of Brazil.

world-wide solidarity of the w®

Communist Party

of Great Britain

_ Communist Party
of Brazil

Dear Comrades,

On behalf of all Brazilian
Communists, of the working class
and democratic forces of our
country, the Central Committee
of the Communist Party of Brazil
warmly greets the 50th Anniver-
sary of the Communist Party of
Canada.

In these 50 years, the Com-
munist Party of Canada has gain-
ed the respect and admiration of
the Canadian working class and
people, among whom it is con-
stantly increasing its influence.
In its struggle it has also gained
the respect of the entire interna-
tional Communist movement. .

The Communist Party of Can-
ada is always a true defender of
Marxism-Leninism and of prole-
tarian internationalism.

Your achievements in defend-
ing the interests of the Canadian
working class are well-known;
your fight against war and fas-
cism, for peaceful coexistence,
and your struggles against U.S.
imperialism, for peace, an inde-
pendent Canada, and  self-
determination for the French-
Canadian nation.

The 50th anniversary of your
Party comes at the time when you
are faced with important tasks,
as in the struggle against mono-
poly’s assault on democratic
rights. This we follow with deep

interest as well as.your efforts to

Dear Comrades,

On the occasion of the 50th
Anniversary of the founding of
the Communist Party of Canada,
we send our, warmest fraternal
greetings to all your members.

Your Party over its 50 years has
defended the interests of the
working people of Canada and
participated in the leadership of
their struggles. It has fought for
Canadian national independence
against United States penetra-
tion, and worked to develop a
democratic, militant, anti-mono-
poly movement.

In the very difficult period of
the Cold War, you consistently
defended the cause of peace,
just as, today, you campaign to
end the United States aggression
against the heroic people of Viet-
nam, for an end to war and ten-
sion in the Middle East, and in
solidarity with the people of
Latin America.

We follow with great interest,
too, the struggles of the French-
Canadian people for their self-
determination and we salute the
principled and militant fight of
the Communist Party of Canada
on this important democratic and
national issue.

In all its activities your Party
has never lost sight. of the need
to win the Canadian working
people for the struggle to end
capitalism and take the road to
socialism.

Warm congratulations on your
50 years of struggle, and our
warmest best wishes for all pos-
sible success in the future.

Yours fraternally,

John Gollan
General Secretary

Communist Party
of Israel

Dear Comrades,

The Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Israel sends
to you hearty fraternal greetings
on the occasion of the 50th anni-
versary of your Party.

Guided by Marxist-Leninist
theory and true to the behests of
proletarian internationalism, your
Party has always done its duty
as a_ revolutionary vanguard
party. Throughout 50 years, part-
ly under the hard conditions of
illegality, your Party has fought
against capitalist exploitation,
against war and fascism, against
the cold war, against Canada’s
being dominated by U.S. im-

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