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Blind to reality

The CBC late evening news covered
Mr. Andrei Gromyko’s visit to Ottawa.
Mr. Gromyko is the first Soviet foreign
secretary visit Ottawa in twenty years.
The visit could open up a new era of
friendly relations between Canada and
the USSR.

As we would expect, the CBC, and
the mass media in general, covered Mr.
Gromyko’s visit. The mass media chose
to play up the demonstrations put on

‘against Mr. Gromyko’s visit. The CBC

TV news mainly showed the protests,
mostly the Maoists. The Maoist demon-
stration was well-prepared, so much so
that it raises the thought as to how
much of a role the CIA played in trig-
gering it off.

The main point is that Mr. Gromy-
ko’s visit was important for Can-
ada, not the demonstrations. The media
irresponsibly gave the main play to the
demonstrations, without discussing the
real importance of Mr. Gromyko’s
visit, thus, in effect, ridiculing the visit
in an obvious effort to belittle its im-
portance in Canadian eyes.

Obviously their anti-Communist pre-

judices. continue to blind them to the

reality. of today’s world.

A. deal for wheat was agreed to
which will help ease Canadian econo-
mic problems, particularly those of the
wheat farmers, who face a grim future.

Should a Canadian statesman jour-
ney to Moscow, which we hope will
happen, he would be treated courteous-
ly and with dignity. The Soviet people,
as the Canadian, would be entitled to
know the purpose, progress, and out-
come of the visit—and would receive
that information. Surely Canadians
are entitled to as much.

We hope Mr. Gromyko’s visit has.

helped to widen the whole range of
trade and other interchanges between
our two countries, to the mutual, ad-
vantage to both.

Risks that cost lives

“No earthquake. No tidal wave. No
escape of radioactivity.” These were
the words that began a CBC news
broadcast after Washington went
ahead with its test in the Aleutians, in

the face of a massive Canadian and

American opposition.

No earthquake. No tidal wave. No
thanks to the Pentagon, or to the Atom-
ic Energy Commission, or to Wash-
ington. These adventurers were willing
to take the risk, at our expense, for if
the test had produced disastrous results
people would have paid a terrible price
in the loss of life, property and health.

An official of the U.S.A. Atomic En-
ergy Commission, in being questioned
afterwards, said that he had never

heard a protest against Chinese and —

Soviet tests. That is a manifest effort

to try to distort by making out that the
protestors are just a bunch of Reds. ___ LE: USSR eam i IES CSET
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The protests were wide and broad,
expressing the concern of people of all
sorts against a aes real danger. It
wasn’t the Chinese People’s Republic,
or the U.S.S.R., but the United States
government that was testing an atomic
device on our doorstep.

The protests compelled foreign af-
fairs Minister Mitchell Sharp to state
publicly that the Canadian government
objected to the tests. He unctuously de-
clared that, if the U.S. government pro-
ceeded with the tests with resultant
damage, the Canadian government
would present’them with a bill! How do
you present, a bill for death? What do.
you collect for fear? How do you tally
up maimed lives?

The real Canadian patriots are those
thousands who went out on demonstra-
tions and pickets against the test.
From their efforts springs the bright
promise of peace. The work isn’t done,
for the Atomic Energy Commission
has already announced that it plans to
continue with its tests in the Aleutians.

Labor Farmer unity

Striking B.C. longshoremen pledged
prairie wheat farmers that, if the lons-
shoremen went on strike, they would
continue to load grain. It was an act of
solidarity, in which the longshoremen
recognized the terrible urgency of the
situation the wheat farmers face.

The union is prevented from carry-
ing out its pledge to the farmers by
the bosses. The B.C. Maritime Associa-
tion has suspended all grain shipments
for the duration of the strike, using
the lame pretext that the Maritime
Association must “give recognition to
all industry and not just one special
interest.” They have announced that

the loading of grain was stopped be-

cause of the “very strong protests from
all sections of Canadian industry
against the practise of loading only
grain vessels . . .”

They put their own selfish interests
before the nation’s —all the while
stoutly proclaiming their defense of
the best interests of B.C. workers.
Nothing could be further from the
truth. The longshoremen’s union has
called their bluff. The edge of farmers’
protest is turned against the bosses in
this strike, and so it should be.

We agree with the position taken by
national farm president Roy Atkinson
that the government must compel the

bosses to end their boycott of grain

shipments. :

As usual, everything is done to try
to suggest that the strikers are the
reason why grain does not move. .It
does not move, of course, because of
the failure of the federal government
to live up to its responsibilities to the
Canadian people. There are markets
for wheat. To enter them would re-
quire radically new approaches at the

_centre of which would be a break with

the harmful policies adopted during

the cold war.

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