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o. TO COMMON MARKET. Above is
Of the large crowd in Trafalgar Square
a Sunday to protest Britain joining the
~°Mmon Market. Speaking is R. W. Brig-

i 3 Gone
"Shaw, chairman of the Forward Britain

__ ILLAN HAS ROUGH RIDE

Movement. This week the British press re-
ported a public opinion poll in which the
largest group opposed British membership
in ECM.

Britain’s entry to Common
Market runs into big trouble

British Prime Minister
“emillan’s plan to take
Ntain into the European
Fmon Market ran into
4 fre criticism this week
at British Common-
oa Prime Minister’s
ti frence opened in Lon-

.

isting at what is con-
a €d the most crucial Com-
Wealth meeting in deca-
the fifteen Common-
h representatives show-
4 No enthusiasm for the
Out S of admission worked
By the Brussels talks.
fee me a three day meet-
Q,°" Saturday before the

Weal
q

Monwealth conference
underwa Common-

We y,
a ‘lth labor leaders issued

the ™Munique which said
Could not regard the
ons so far reached in
r ham as “safeguarding the
&%, US of Britian with the
Monwealth.”

4
mine

®Bree

labor communique,
ch was released by British
°r leader Hugh Gaitskell
f, , & Britain were to en:
the he Common Market on
Dean SIS of what has so far
agreed, great damage
Man. inevitably be done to
Countries in the Com-
Wealth.”

Oy added: “The essence of

the, Pection is that while

Co, .2Ppears to be a firm

Weantment to end Common-

tha preferences not latr

ah 1970, and to give Europe-
By, *Ports a preference in
against Common-
Wh: . 2O precise agreements

i
Van... Offer compensating ad-

% oe to Commonwealth
Tles have been reached.”

iy aa Communique drew par-

cu ‘
i attention to the Com-
Qo}; Market agricultural

ty .Y Which it said is likely
terest Srave harm to the in-

S of the older Common-
~ countries.

OPPOSE DECISION

“This is in no way compen-
sated by the vague proposals
for international commodity
agreements or for possible
future bilateral agreemenis
between the Common Market
and countries of the Common-
wealth,” it said.

The communique urged
that “since the terms fcr
Britian’s entry as at present
known are either too vague
or too damaging to be accept-
able, no final decision should
be taken by Britian until a
further meeting of common-
wealth Prime Ministers has
been held to consider g more
precise and satisfactory pro-
posal.”

Prime Minister MacMillan
opened the conference with a
one hour outline of his gov:
ernment’s stand for joining
the Common Market. He was
followed by Commonwealth
Prime Ministers, who were al-
most unanimous in the criti-

TO SPEAK IN CITY. William
Kashtan, national labor secre-
tary of the Communist Party,
will speak on “Prosperity and
Austerity”, Sunday, Sept. 23
at 8 p.m. in Vancouver's Hasi-
ings Auditorium, 828 Hast-
ings St. East. An entertain-
ment program has been ar-
ranged, and a question period
will follow the speaker.

43 F por

cism of the terms of member-
ship.

Sir Abubakar Balawa reject-
ed for his country any form
of membership with the com-
mon Market. He was joined by
other Afro-Asian and recenily
independent member - coun-
tries like Jamaica in condem-
ning ECM. Jamaica’s Prime
Minister said “The Treaty of
Rome is like a surgeon’s knife
thrust into the body of the
Commonwealth . . . I do not
see that such a Treaty can be
beneficial to us all.”

The Big Five—Menzies of
Zealand, Nehru of India and
Canada, ‘dolyoake of New
Zealand ,Nehru of India and
Ayub Kahn of Pakistan —
all vojced dissatisfaction with
the terms of membership in
the Common Market. oS

CANADA'S STAND

India’s Prime Minister
Nehru issued a grave warn-
ing at the conference on the
consequence of Britian’s en-
try into ECM and charged
that it would not bring peace
but increased tension.

Canadian Prime Minister
Diefenbaker told the confer-
ence that the Common Mar-
ket negotiations do not seem
to provide any assurances for
Canadian trade.

He is reported to have
stated that Canada had al-
ternative proposals to. in-
increase Commonwealth trade
but these would not be. put
forward unless ‘it appears
that British membership in
ECM is unlikely Diefenbaker
and other Prime Minister’s

® are reported to be urging a

second Commonwealth Con-
ference before any final de-
cision is made.

The Commonwealth Con-
ference seems to be ending up
as a fiasco for the Macmillan
government.

The British Communist
Party has taken a stand again
st joining ECM and has urg-
ed a general election.

Rough time for racist
from Vancouver youth

The avowed racist gover-
nor of Mississippi, Ross Bar-
nett, had to cross an indig-
nant picket line in order to
address the Washington State
Bar Association here last Fri-
day.

The picketers, composed of
young people from the NDP,
YCL and UBC students greet-
ed him with cries of “fink,
“scum” and “swine.”

The reception was so hot
that Barnett was reported to
have cut several of the nast-
ier paragraphs from his pre-
pared dinner speech, which
was boycotted by at least one
U.S. Negro lawyer — Jack
Tanner.

Tanner, who is a nationai
director of the National As-
sociation for the Advance-
ment of Colored People, also

‘wired Bar Association Presi-

dent Paul Ashley that invit-
ing Barnett was “irrespon-
sible and ridiculous.”

Among some of the choice
tidbits hurriedly cut from his
script by Barnett were:

“Tf we start out with the

self-evident proposition that
the whites and colored are
different, we will not experi-
ence any difficulty in reach-
ing the conclusion that they
are not and never can be
equal...

“Already, the big cities of
the North are growing darker
by the month as their centres
expand into slums faster than
they can be cleared away and
the white people flee to the
suburbs...

“Tf the State of New York
wants to integrate and pro-
mote inter-marriage and a
mongrel race, it is not Mis-
sissippi’s or Alamaba’s busi-
ness. However, if Mississippi
and Alabama want to main-
tain purity and integrity of
both races, that is Mississip-
pi’s and Alabama’s business

“We in the South know that
the laws dealing with the
separation of the races are

. essential to the protection
of racial integrity and purity
of the white and Negro races
alike.

Paris- Bonn axis fightens
as de Gaulle visit ends

Plans for further ‘practical
steps’’ to strengthen the Paris-
Bonn anti-Soviet alliance
were announced in a recent
communique issued in Bonn
at the end of General de
Gaulle’s visit there.

It is said the two govern-
ments would take steps ‘‘to
strengthen effectively the al-
ready existing links in a great
number of spheres.

What this meant was made
clear by the West German
government spokesman, Herr
von Hase, when he listed log-
istics, the training of officers,
armaments, production and
military manoeuvers as pos-
sible fields of bilateral co-
operation.

General de Gaulle and Dr.
Adenauer also agreed that ne-
gotiations for getting the
whole of Western Europe into
a political union dominated
ty them, should be concluded
as swiftly as possible, with
Britain being dragged in:

They devoted particular at-
tention to Berlin, and agreed

on the demand for “self-de-
termination of the German
people as a whole’’, which is
Adenauer’s way of demand-
ing the absorption of the Ger-
man Democratic Republic.

Polaris go home!

The closing session of
the British Trades Union
Congress has demanded
the removal of Polaris
bases from British terri-
tory.

By a majority of about
two to one, the TUC in-
structed the General Coun-
cil to press the Macmillan
government to order their
removal. It reached its de-
cision in the teeth of fierce
opposition from the Gen-
eral Council.

An almost identical vote
adopted a ‘‘wait and see”
policy in regard to ECM
membership. Over two
million votes were cast in
favor of outright opposi-
tion to joining the ECM.

ees COMER IS ea tS

ow
SIMRO,

“That's funnyel thought all roads led to Rome!”

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