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By MAX REICH

PT Correspondent
BERLIN — The current
news here is good news. It
deals with international trade
instead of international ten-
sion. It is the kind of news
coming out of Germany one
hopes will soon replace the

‘eold-war crisis news around °

West Berlin and the German
problem.

Those who wanted to bar
international trade in favor
of international tension have

. suffered a crushing defeat.

Even as late as Feb. 19,
blackmailed by West
Germany to enforce the “boy-
cott” of the Leipzig Fair, the
British government minister,
Edward Heath, warned Brit-
ish business not to partici-
pate in the fair.

This is the reply given by
British businessmen in the
Times of Mar. 6: “If British
businessmen conducted trade

~as ineptly as
he govern-
ment suggest-
e a th ey
* would not be

© very long.”
And the
super - con-
servative Da-
ily Telegraph

wrote “Trade
cannot be turned on and off
like a tap.”

Witness how its NATO
allies supported West Ger-
many’s boycott request:

Observer, London, Mar 4:
“British businessmen believe
it could be a Liepzig Fair
with a difference.”

Daily Express, London,
Mar. 4: “Despite a caution
from Mr. Edward Heath and
a Bonn-sponsored request by
the NATO council for a boy-
cott of the Liepzig Fair, Bri-
tain, France, Belgium and
Italy are putting on a show
of western goods this year,
which out-dazzles the
Soviet pavilion.”

The press also reports that
even though West German
steel combines stayed away
from the fair, nevertheless,
West German and West Ber-
lin exhibitors formed the
biggest group at Leipzig, with
626 firms from West Ger-
many and 68 from West Ber-
lin.

So complete was the col-:
lapse of the Adenauer boy-
cott, so isolated and in such
a disadvantageous position
did West German big con-
cerns find themselves, that
eventually they all came
crawling to Leipzig—to state
excuses why they had * not
exhibited this year, to en-
quire whether they cou ld
have their exhibition stands
back, and to stress that they
were interested and eager to
do business with the GDR.

As the fair unfolded, the
western press, including that
of West Germany, had to ad-
mit that in spite of the West
German sponsored boycott
(or maybe because of it?),
this year’s fair is the biggest
in its 800-year history.

Economist, London, said
that no British exhibitor will
regret having gone to Leip-
zig. :

Figaro, Paris, said:

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we miss it?

“Seen from Berlin, East
Germany may appear as a
puppet state.

“Seen from Leipzig, the
German Democratic Republic
is an impressive reality.”

Die Welt, Hamburg, at first
tried unsuccessfully to sup-
port tottering morale with
the fairy tale that “competi-
tion among: Western coun-
tries for participation in
Leipzig, which the Zone
(GDR) would have liked, does
not exist.”

The same Welt was forced

to write only a day later:

“Circles of West German in-
dustry state that “if a few
leading firms send observers
to the fair this.is in the na-
tional interest, because it is
important to know what the
industries of Japan, Great
Britain and other states put
out on the market.”

(Mind you, the ‘“non-com-
peting” Western countries!)
WAILINGS, ACCUSATIONS

Zeitspiegel, West Berlin:
“Many firms appear this
year for the first time in
Leipzig, and with great dis-
plays, because, to gain a
chance through the absence
of those who heeded the boy-
cott appeal.

“They make true the cyni-
cal prophecy of the Commun-
ist dogma that capitalists will
sell the rope on which the
Communists will hang them
one day.”

Bild Zeitung, West Berlin:
under a headline flanked by
two black flags at half mast
—‘“Europe should fly a flag
of mourning,” said: “In spite
of a clear warning of the
NATO council, in spite of re-
peated urgings by Western
politicians, more Western ex-
hibitors have gone to Leipzig
than in prior years.”

Neue Rheinzeitung: “. . .
They all lack the feeling for
the tragedy of’ the German
people .. .”

Frankfurter Rundschau:
“Almost all great British
=o tas

Thomas and Baldwin has
been prevented from coming
_ . . What British business is
looking for in Leipzig is not
mainly trade with the Zone
(GDR). More important is the
direct contact with Commun-
ist managers from the Soviet
Union, Poland, Hungary, Ru-
mania, Czechoslovakia, and
Bulgaria.”

Koelner Stadt Aneiger:
“Among the exhibitors from
Belgium are names of world
renown . . . Belgians point

out that it is German indus-
try that does not refrain
from doing business in Leip-
zig. ‘Why should we be more
German than the West Ger-
mans?’ they ask.”

THE SOBERING UP

Hessische Allgemeine: “If
other countries, even NATO
allies, fill the vacuum, it be-
comes senseless (for West
German firms) to abstain.

Sueddeutsche Seitung: “A
trade embargo against all
countries of the East block

. is practical neither from
the political nor the trade
angle.”

Deutsche Zeeitung, organ
of the West German heavy
industry, summed it all up:

“tJlbricht can be satisfied
with the success of his fair.
Not only has he attracted
more Western exhibitors than
the number of West German
abstainers due to the boycott
of the Leipzig Fair. With the
massive participation of Wes-
tern exhibitors, he out-dazzl-
ed the Russian pavilion.

«| Nor should we fail to
soberly draw the lessons. It
would be completely wrong
to be angry at the foreigr/
firms which disregarded the
NATO boycott appeal request-
ed by Bonn...

How wise they would be,
the Western politicians, to
draw the same conclusions in
the political field in connec-
tion with West Berlin and a
German peace treaty, before,
not after the debacle — in-
stead of feeding on absurd
unrealities, like the one that
the Soviet Union was willing
to sacrifice the sovereignty
of the GDR in one way or
another, or that discussions
like those between Thompson
and Gromyko can be prolong-
ed indefinitely.

Going through the fair, I
noticed that even the United
States was there. Camouflag-
ed though they were, I saw

Westinghouse — not USA,
but British branch. Bell Tele-
phone was exhibiting — the

Belgain branch. And Ford—
not of Detroit, but the Dur-
ham, England branch, which
has been sold to Ford of De-
troit.

It seems as if it is only the
Canadian branches that US.
firms can or wish to stop
from trading with socialist
countries. In Leipzig, Canada
was the only NATO ally ab-
staining from participation—
“more German’ than the
_West Germans. =

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world, over 4,000 miles.

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the Leipzig Fair?”

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workers,

New and growing markets —

° this article, Pacific Tribune correspondent Max He
asks the question, “Why wasn’t Canada represente

Canada must face up to the fact that with the dev
ment of the European Common Market many of our ir
tional markets in Europe are shrinking. If and when Br
membership in ECM becomes a reality, then our trade P
lem will be multiplied many-fold. 2

Continued reliance on trade with United States
hopes for expansion of fhis trade (some have sugge
Canada-U.S. customs union) — with its annual deficit
ances, and its one-way direction (raw materials into the
finished goods into Canada) — cannot solve the problem:

But if the capitalist world, with its fierce competiti¢
offers shrinking markets, then vast trading possibilitie
opening up in the socialist world. :

The socialist countries, with their rapidly-growing
omies, offer increasing possibilities for the developmen?
two-way, mutually beneficial trade. q

Speaking in Toronto two weeks ago the Soviet 4 ab
sador, Amasasp Aroutunian, said that his country would
come a Canadian industrial exhibition in Moscow, s
to last year’s Soviet exhibit in Montreal. Why not take

Trade with socialist countries means jobs for Can

Rally hits Ottawa
citizenship policy

A:resolution protesting the

“declared policy of discrimin-
ation against immigrant
-workers by depriving them
of citizenship rights” was
wired to Immigration Mini-
ster Fairclough from a public
meeting at the Clinton Hall,
Vancouver last Sunday.

The meeting heard M. J.
Sago, chairman of the recent-

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“Look Mac—how many un-
employed ae you got for
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tos,

ly formed Canadian Co
of National Groups, 0V
the activities of the new
ganization in rallying n@
al support for a campaié
gain citizenship rights.

The wire to Mrs.
clough condemned her *
ment in the House of
mons last Wednesday
which she said that
grants who take part i?
tivities of “suspected su
sive” organizations cal
denied certificates of
dian citizenship.

Her stand in the
was branded as “a sho
admission of McCarthy!

Harry Rankin, prom
city lawyer, also addr
the meeting.

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thousand people are p@
pating in socialist emul
to overfulfill production ©
gets which has spread 10—
branches of the national
omy in Poland. Widely
rent is emulation be
shops, in which about 4 ©
lion workers are taking
at 2,700 industrial enterP

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