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FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1958

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USSR — CHINA

Genera] Assembly on the Mid-
dle East crisis. Accepting this
proposal, but on U.S. terms,
the Eisenhower administra-
tion, through Henry Cabot
Lodge, its UN delegate, made
it clear that it intended to
push for adoption of its own
resolution on Lebanon ahead
of the Soviet resolution de-
manding withdrawal of To.
troops from Lebanon and
British troops from Jordan.)
The Soviet-Chinese joint
communique declared in part:
In order to maintain and
consolidate peace, the primary
task at the moment is to bring
about agreement among na-
tions on the reduction of
armaments, discontinuance of
the testing of atomic and hy-
drogen weapons and prohibion
of their use, elimination of all
military blocs and all military
bases on foreign soil, and the
conclusion of pacts of peace
and collective security.
But whether war
avoided does not rest with the
good will and one-sided efforts
peace-loving peoples

can. be

of the
alone.

The aggressive bloc of the
Western Powers have up to
now refused to take any
earnest steps to save peace, but
on the contrary are aggravat-
ing international tension un-
scrupulously, thus bringing
mankind to the brink of a war
catastrophe.

The imperialist forces have
knocked together aggressive
military and political bloes and
dotted the world with their
military bases, and are inter-
fering more and more rudely
in the internal affairs of other
countries.

The recent armed aggression
carried out against the Leb-
anon and Jordan and the
armed threat they pose against
the Republic of Iraq and the
United Arab Republic, have
greatly aggravated tension in
the Near and Middle East and
the danger of war; they have
aroused the protest and con-
demnation of all peoples of the
world.

China and the Soviet Union

sternly denounce the flagrant
aggression carried out by the
U.S. and Britain in the Near
and Middle East; they firmly
maintain that a conference of
the heads of government of the
Big Powers should be called
at once to discuss the situation
in the Near and Middle East
and. resolutely demand that the
U.S. and Britain withdraw
their forces immediately from
the Lebanon and Jordan.
China and the Soviet Union
give firm support to the just
struggles of the peoples of the
United Arab Republic, the Re-
public of Iraq and the other
Arab countries, as well as to

the national independence
movements of the peoples in
Asia, Africa and Latin
America.

The events in the Near and
Middle East and other parts
of the world prove that the
national liberation movement
is an irresistible trend, that the
age of colonialism is gone. for
ever, and that any attempt to
maintain or restore colonial
rule in contravention of the
trend of history is detrimental
to the cause of peace and is
doomed to failure.

The two parties exchanged
views on a series of major
questions confronting the two
countries in Asia and in Eur-
ope in the present interna-
tional situation, and reached
unanimous agreement on mea-
sures to be taken to oppose
aggression and _ safeguard
peace.

China and the Soviet Union
will continue to do their ut-
most to work for the easing of
international tension and pre-
vention of a new war disaster,

The two parties reaffirmed
that the right of every people
to choose their own social
and political system must be
respected, that countries with
different social systems must
practise peaceful coexistence
in accordance with the fam-
ous five principles which are
widely accepted internation-
ally, that all international dis-
putes should be settled
through peaceful negotiations.

MOSCOW—The United States is planning atomic war in the Middle East. Soviet milit
experts suggest that this is the reality behind the Anglo-American summit-delaying tactics:

Their charge is based on reports of the U.S. military build-up in the Middle East fi
ticularly on what is going on at Adana, in Turkey, where American forces have taken ovet

air base.

There. are now more than
150 aircraft at Adana, includ-
ing B-57 and B-66 bombers,
F-100 Supersabre and F-86d
fighters, Hercules and Globe-
master transport planes, recon-
naisance and communication-
aircraft.

And the commanding general
at Adana has for the past three
years been the head of the
Atomic Planning Service at
NATO headquarters in. Paris.

Observers who have watched
the activities of U.S. pilots at
Adana assert that they have
been assembled at this airfield
for “a much bigger job” than
ensuring the landing opera-
tions in the Lebanon which
have already been carried out.

“Just to cover the landing of
marines in Beirut,” writes one
of these observers, “would cer-
tainly not require the presence
of super-high speed aircraft
such as are now at Adana.

“There is a strongly guarded
restricted area at the base

where nuclear weapons are
kept.
“All the pilots at. Adana

reply to all questions on this
subject with the stock phrase
that all U.S. combat aircraft
possess ‘atomic capabilities.’”’

It is estimated here that at
the present time the joint
Anglo-American forces con-
centrated in the Middle East
total at least 70,000 men, with
about 1,000 planes land-based
and carrier-based, as well as
120 warships and landing craft.

Earlier, the Soviet press
agency Tass charged. that
“from July 16. large consign-
ments of ‘special’ purpose
goods’ and numerous groups of
American ‘tourists,’ who, it is
reported, are military. person-
nel in civilian clothes, have
been arriving in Iran from
NATO military bases and West
Germany and elsewhere.

“All these ‘tourists’ are im-
mediately setting-off for the
cities of Dizful and Kerman-
shah and others near the Iran-
Iraq frontier.”

US building u

for atomic war!

By SAM RUSSELL 4
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week at Vancouver’s International Film Festival is the js
film version of Don Quixote, from which the above seen p |
taken. Don Quixote will be shown this Tuesday, August 12, 4 q

Unionists to sponso’
meet on Middle East

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of U.S. and British’ troops from Lebanon and Jordan 4” text

vening of a Big Power conference to resolve the Middle Ee al

crisis is to be sponsored here by a group of Vancouver fa
unionists.

The meeting will be held
Friday, August. 15, 8 p.m., in
Pender Auditorium. Speakers,
according to the press release,
will be announced later.

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Some 200 students on the
University of British Columbia
campus turned out to a noon-
hour meeting Tuesday this Arab peoples’ right
week to hear Nigel Morgan, determination.

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short notice, was organized by
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room blackboards.

Describing U.S. intervention

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