LATEST EXPERIMENT WITH DEATH LS. PLANS 3.000 MILE FLIGHT BY LIVE H-BOMB Pacific FRIDAY | 5 v. » MAY 25, 1962 oes OO LOL. 22, No. 21 VANCOUVER, B.C. 10¢ Crisis in S.E. Asia ZS BURMA LYA7 RANGOON we Muona’ - loei PH — £ \ BANGKOK te = oF Fg a THAILAND Staosy LN o pRTpparalle) CAMBODI» Z x NORTH. Yj T ZA Viel NAM GPR : KA SOUTH £27? Danc : th GER AREA. Conjuring up a “threat to Thailand” eUs *. and other SEATO nations this week continued pou i 5 . Laos. t troops into the small country neighboring on Weapon S. forces, who are trained in the use of nuclear inten 2 ave all the appearances this week that they Wer Thailand indefinitely. atines in Thailand extend intervention BERT WHYTE Acific Tribune PR Correspondent Vniteg G—The landing of lang ; tates troops in Thai- etican ; an extension of Am- ney og ervention in the war the Wa and a move to link With ¢ * in South Vietnam ®diton: at in Laos, charged an : Orig ‘ this Pa in Renmin Ribao a a By _ Co illisme €nting on U.S. imper- ©OUnty; MVvitation to other ilang a send troops to ‘Some’ he editorial says: r fee ities have wise- others to do so. Some are itching for action. Lobless plan “lection rally Cleg}; Sore ae meeting spon- y sled by the Vancou- Aneouy. Yed Council and will be h t Labor Council av at eld on Sunday, June Hs ra at the Powell We Parti S. Candidates of all to State re have been invited Les heir Proposals for P Peake,” unemployment. arty oe t for the Communist Mc i] in S.E. Asia It would be well for those countries which are ready to follow the lead of the US. to consider carefully what con- sequences would arise from joining in the war of aggres- sion. “Pentagon generals have talked with animation about a Korea-type war. Neverthe- less, it is certain that if U.S. imperialism dares to launch any new military adventure in South-east Asia, it will suffer a worse defeat than it did in Korea, and those who tie themselves to the U.S. war chariot will also invite dis- aster.” On the internal situation in Thailand the editorial says there is no doubt that the broad masses of the people of Thailand who cherish in- dependence and freedom will not submit to the rule of U.S. occupation forces without resistance. As for the Thai rulers, “by letting the wolf into the cor- ral they will eventually re- duce themselves to the same status as Ngo Dinh Diem and Pak Jung Heui and will see Thailand turned into a colony under U.S. military occupa- tion like South Vietnam and South Korea.” Tory-Liberal Parties mum on dangerous U.S. tests It was reported this week that the U.S. is planning to fire an Atlas rocket with a live nuclear warhead 3,000 miles from Cali- fornia into the Pacific Ocean near Christmas Island as part of its current series of nuclear tests. The Pentagon war chiefs want to test one of their inter- continental ballistic missiles under fully operational con- ditions. This means carrying a nu- clear warhead of at least one megaton — equivalent to one milion tons of TNT — 50 i.mes more powerful than the U.S. atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The risk of the warhead ex- ploding by accident after launching was described by Pentagon 2fficials as “almost nil’. Bui U.S. army chiefs decided the risk was worth taking to prove their H- rocket works. Past experience of U.S. rocketry is bound to cause additional fears, particularly in the Pacific area, that the rocket may stray from its target. The Atlas is to be fired from Vandenburg U.S. Air Force base, California. At the same time as this plan was disclosed the U.S. also an- nounced that it was making vast new efforts to try to develop ‘other mass horror weapons using chemical and biological means. Spending on these new weapons in the coming year has been stepped up by 67 percent. Announcement of the plan to fire a live H-bomb across Communist candidates hit US test plan 24 2 a! WILLIAM STEWART (left), Communist candidate in Vancouver South, and TOM McEWEN, candidate in Van- couver East, have strongly condemned the latest U.S. test plan. the Pacific came a few days after the Pentagon stirred up a world-wide storm with its plan to blast a large hole in the Van Allen radiation belt with a huge explosion 500 miles in space. Both major old-line parties, the Liberals and Tories, have refrained from criticism of U.S. tests and have said noth- ing about the latest U.S. ‘“ex- periments’”’. In fact, one of the main Lib- eral Party campaigners, Miss Judy LaMarsh of Niagara Falls, told a Coast-Capilano audience Tuesday night that “resumption of U.S. nuclear - tests was essential’. Presenting an _ opposite view Tuesday was Mrs. Ther- ese Casgrain, NDP candidate for Outremont-St. Jean, who told ..a.press..conference _in Vancouver that she was “a peace candidate”, and that the question of nuclear arms for Canada, which she opposed, was the only real election issue. WAR AGAINST PEOPLE OF VIET- NAM. Photo shows U.S. trained and led troops of the puppet Ngo Diem regime in Vietnam in a mopping up operation southwest of Saigon. Atrocities commit- ted by these soldiers against villagers ment. See U.S. TESTS, page 3 and peasants has shocked the world. Large areas of Vietnam are being turned into concentration camps in an attempt to crush the national liberation move- a