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60 peace delegates

Tokyo getting ready

Some 60 delegates who

ference called by the All-Jap-
anese Council for Banning
Nuclear Weapons held apress
conference afterwards to ex-
plain their decision,

The delegates came from 27
countries including the Soviet
Union, Britain, the United
States and India as well as
delegates from the World
Council of Peace and three
other international organiza-
tions,

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delegates saying that they had

The Soviet delegate, G, A,
Zhukov, said: “The Chinese
delegation and its puppets did
not let us speak at the confer-
‘ence, But they cannot prevent
us Speaking in Japan, We are
going to Hiroshima,”

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And a Soviet delegation
statement said that instead of
discussing the problems of
the struggle for peace, the
Chinese delegation and their
Supporters tried to turn the
conference against the Soviet
Union,

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Dr, James Endicott, of Ca-
nada, said that the conference
was attended by almost 50
ss people who represented no
one, while others said thatthe
delegates of Algeria, the Ar-
gentine and other countries
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As typical of the attitude
* Prevailing at the conference,
Dr, Endicott quoted one per-
Son telling the leading member
s of the British Peace Commit-
= tee, Gordon Schaffer: “As soon
# as we come to power we will
= String up the likes of you,”

Later Dr, Endicott said in
an interview:

walked out of talks

* walked out of the Tokyo con- °

Joseph Curtis of Nigeria Ee
read out a joint letterbythese |

been unable to fulfil theirtask:
as delegates because of the °
obstacles placed in their way, °

ith the 1964 Olympic Games

due to open in Tokyo on Oc-
tober 10, the preparations for
them are absorbing the attention
of the Japanese public, press and
radio, Tickets for the opening
and closing ceremonies are in
great demand; 3,545,144 requests
were received for the 60,500
tickets available, To solve the
problem it was decided to raffle
them, The winners received their
tickets in July,

“My foreign colleagues with
whom I have participated for
15 years in the peace move-
ment know me as a friend of
China, That country is really
dear to me, A whole period of
my life is tied up with it, All
the sharper, therefore was the
feeling of grief with which I
Signed the collective declara-
tion of the foreign delegations
about a withdrawal from the
Tokyo conference, But I did
this without hesitation,

The publicity given to the
Olympics is al-prevalent, J apan-
ese businessmen are already
counting the money they will make
on it, The five interlocked rings
that are the Olympic emblemare
to be seen on ties and hats, on
the covers of brochures and book-
lets, on suits and kimonos, Speak-
ing of kimonos—one enterprising
firm has thought up the slogan,
“Let’s welcome the Olympics in
kimono,”

A firm manufacturing badges
expects to sell ten million of
them, or 1,000 million yens’
worth, A life insurance company
whose offices are near the Na-
tional Stadium has hung out on
its building a 13-metre-long and
more than 7-metre-wide alumin-
um sign with the Olympic em-
blem which, it has informed the
‘public, cost it two million yen,

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“Once I felt I knew and un-
derstood China, But in the
last few years it became more ‘
and more difficult to explain
the inexplicable to my friends
—the activity of the Chinese
representatives in our move-
ment, It seemed something

new and not understandable
until more and more clearly
there began to be revealed the
too familiar and too repulsive
qualities, the qualities of
Trotskyism,

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Japan’s thousands of fortune-
-tellers, newspapers report, are
also looking forward to a boom,
Restaurants, cafes and bars are

‘Demand end

The Friends of the Latin Am-
erican Peoples have wired the
Canadian government, demanding
it take action to assure Canadians
there will be no repetition of a
dangerous incident which took
place in Montreal harbor Aug, 9

“When at the Tokyo confer-
ence we were interfered with
in many ways in getting down
to business, when an organized
attack was carried out against
us by 50 mythical delegates,
representing nobody, in all
this in view and behind the

Scenes there were Trotsky-
ites,”

The attempted sabotage of the
Cuban ship Maria Theresa could
have resulted in lost lives and
injuries because of the irre-
Sponsible act of U.S,-backed
mercenaries, said the statement
by the Friends,

The sabotage attempt “is a
disgraceful act against a coun-
try engaged in the peaceful and

SIGHTSEEING IN MINSK. Tim Buck,
of the Communist Party of Canada, recently visited Canada”
the Soviet Union. Above scene shows him taking in
some of the sights in Minsk, copital city of Byelorussia,

national chairman Buck's new pamphlet on ‘A New Economic Policy For

will be off the presses shortly. It costs only
75c and can be ordered from the People’s Co-op Book
Store or the B.C. Communist Party office, 502 Ford Bldg.

thinking up new Oriental and
Western dishes, Stamp collect-
ors are buying up newly issued
stamps at 100 yen a series,
Recently, five huge interlocked
rings of colored smoke appeared
in the sky, over Fujiyama, This
was the first rehearsal for the
opening ceremony,

With a population of over ten
million and about a million mo-
tor cars crowded into its narrow
crooked streets, Greater Tokyo’s
transport problem is a hard nut
to crack in any case, During the
Olympics it will be its No. 1
problem, Newspapers estimate
that at a minimum there will be
from 430,000 to 550,000 visitors
arriving daily then,

To ensure their swift progress
from the international airfield
and the Harumi docks to their
hotels in the business centre and
to the stadiums, tow overhead
roads are now being built, one
from the airport, and the other
from the docks,

They would certainly ease the
traffic problem but the signs are
that they willnot be ready intime,
It has also been decided to ex-
tend two of the four underground
lines, In general, ten thousand
structures are being built for the
Olympics, at a cost exceeding
500 million dollars,

The city fathers have also de-
cided to clean up Tokyo for the
occasion, For the first time in
its history waste-paper urns have

to sabotage

human mission of bringing pow-
dered milk and baby food to
Cuban children;

“We call on our government
to make an immediate investiga-
tion of this hostile act and make
the most vigorous representa-
tions to the U.S. government,
which gives shelter to those re-
sponsible, The Canadian govern-
ment should demand the prose-
cution of those responsible and
their leaders who are boasting
about future actions,”

The wire is signed by Jean
Pare, vice-president of the
Friends of the Latin American
peoples,

CP of Canada
approves meet

Full approval has been voic-
ed by the National Executive
Committee of the Communish
Party of Canada of the calling
of a commission of 26 Com-
munist and Workers’ parties
in Moscow on December 15
to prepare a draft of a docu-
ment to be considered at a
meeting in the middle of 1965
of the 81 parties who adopted
the famous 1960 statement,

All along the Communist
Party of Canadahas supported
the idea of ending the public
polemics between Communist
parties and of convening a
world conference,

The party’s national com-
mittee will give its proposals
in writing to the drafting com-
mission, of which the Canadian
party is not a member, and
will take part in the world
conference when it is called,

for World Olympics

appeared in 1ts streets, Thenum-
ber of sanitary inspection cars

patrolling the streets has been

increased from six to fifteen,

Ten street-cleaning machines
have been assigned to keep the
Olympic roads spick and span;
eight additional dredges have
been assigned to keepthenumer-
ous canals clean, ‘Thousands of

residents armed with brooms and - *

shovels are sweeping the capi-
tal’s streets,

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Side by side with this cam-
paign, the municipal authorities
have also started a* moral clean-
liness” campaign, According to
police figures, there are approx-
imately 45,000 gangsters in
Tokyo, Prostitution and all kinds

of other illegal “businesses” are |

flourishing, Fearing that this
might. give the country a bad
reputation, the municipal council

has decided to take action well

ahead of time and is already
closing down the all-night coffee
shops known to be haunts of young
criminals and establishing
stricter police control over the
activities of procurers, prosti-
tutes, owners of Turkish baths,
etc,

One other big problem is hat

of issuing the results of the

Games, It is expected that more
than 8,400 sportsmen will com-

‘pete in them, The most numer-
ous teams (round about 390 each)

will come from he Soviet Union’
and the United States,

The Olympic program includes
four thousand events, They will
take place at many different
sports grounds and the tallying

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of their results will not be simple.

An electronic computer has al-
ready been flown to Tokyo from
overseas, Its memory device or
“electronic brain” will be fed
75,000 instructions, On their
basis it will integrate the data
phoned in from $2 different sports
grounds and transmit the final
scores to a television screen,

“The computer has been in-
stalled in the Nihon Seinenkan,
the Japanese Youth Hall, which

will also be the Olympics press _

centre, That will simplify things
for the correspondents,

For the first time in the his- |

tory of the games the Olympic
Committee was planning to tele-

vise the contests to the whole ©

world via the American Telstar,

But the Americans have asked
such a high price for the service .

that as yet the decision hangs
in the balance,

With less than two months to. ~

go, the Japanese pressisalready

predicting that the Soviet team

will come out first, and the’®

American second, Though the —
Japanese sportsmen took no a
prizes at Innsbruck, their hopes

are undaunted, for, say the Tokyo
newspapers, they were not out to
win at the Winter Olympics but
were “saving their strength” and
concentrating on studying their
rivals.

Now they lay claim to: third
place and count on carrying off

at least 15 and possibly more

gold medals,

One thing is certain, the Olym-
pic Games will be keenly con-
tested,

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