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: Photo shows Chinese Premier Chou En-lai being greeted

by Indian Prime Minister Nehru on his arrival recently

in Delhi for talks on the border dispute. After the talks

the Chinese premier said, “It is not impossible to find
common points or points of proximity on the issue.” Com-

between us.”

‘Menting on the talks an editorial in the Peking People’s
Daily said, “There is no conflict of fundamental interests

MAY

In Moscow

My MARION FRANK

Special to the Pacific Tribune

MOSCOW: The words ‘Mir,
Peace, Paix” in the three lang-

, uages that will be spoken at
. the

coming Paris Summit
meeting—were strikingly dis-

_ Played at Moscow’s magnifi-
_ cent May Day demonstration
_in historic Red Square.

Everywhere — on banners,
floats, on the sides of buildings

“in great electric displays —
' the people’s determination to
' win the cherished goal of their
_ Sovernment and of all human-
ity. was expressed.

When Marshal Malinovsky,

_ Soviet defense minister, spoke

on Red Square he declared:
“The peoples of the world
expect the forthcoming Sum-
mit meeting to solve justly.
and without further delay the
most vital questions of our
the problems of total
and universal -disarmament,
and the climation of the vestig-
€s of World War II.

To cool the hothead still

_brandishing the threat of car-

Tying atomic war to Soviet soil

the lastest Soviet military

techniques were on display.
Following the’ military par-

- ade came a column of 1,500 of

Moscow’s best workers follow-
ed by thousands of sportsmen
and women who turned the
square into a riot of color and
flower patterns.

Citizens representing every
district in Moscow — an un-
ending flood of thousands —
streamed in twin columns into
the square.

Banners declared the econ-
omic pledges of the workers
and the most important slogan

_ Of all that the whole country

is working for—‘Semeletkoo
Desrochno” — a _ pledge _ to
fullfill the seven-year ahead
of schedule.

DAY

In Peking

By BERT WHYTE

Pacific Tribune
Staff Correspondent

PEKING: The banging of

firecrackers, the beating of
drums’ and the clashing of
cymbals woke me at seven

o’clock Sunday morning.

I crawled out of bed and
sleepwaiked my way to the
window. In the street below a
first contingent of some three
million Peking residents were
beginning their May Day cele-
brations. |

It was a different kind of
demonstration from any ever
held anywhere in the world
before on this international
labor holiday.

In Peking and in all Chin-
ese local activities, marches,
concerts and sports events re-
placed the traditional central
March and rally.

The city took on the ap-

pearance of a giant carnival.
- I walked slowly through the
surging crowds from my hotel
to Tien An Men square, watch-
ed several parades converge
there, saw them break into
groups and stage musical and
dance performances.

The square itself was decor-
ated with lanterns and ban-
ners, portraits of Marx and
Engels, Lenin and Stalin. At
the central rostrum .hung a
portrait of Mao Tse-tung. —

I was unable, because of the
distance involved, to. visit the
scores of other celebrations
taking place all over the city
and in the suburbs — in parks,
squares, factories, schools and
wherenot. f- i

But a quick check with oth-
er reporters who attended var-

ious events, attested that ev- }

erywhere the carnival atmos-
phere was the same. :

Bomarc

‘B.C. needs steel

= is
mill, says Mosher

_ COWICHAN LAKE, B.C.—
Mark Mosher, Communist can-
didate for Alberni provincial
riding told a banquet meeting
in the Community Hall here
May 1 that “if the money be-
ing wasted for arms was used
for manufacturing and build-
ing the country it would go
a long way toward eliminating

\

fiasco points

to stop.

This declaration came after
the Military Appropriations
Committee of the U.S. House
of Representatives voted to

unemployment.”

One project he gave as an
example was a steel mill for
which “B.C. has everything it

needs.”

The South African gov-
ernment announced last
week that 18,000 South Af-
ricans had been arrested in
the last five weeks. In many
cases families do not know
whether their relatives are
under arrest or where they
are being held:

Last Saturday an open air
rally on Vancouver’s Powell
St. grounds heard/speakers out-
line the
under which South African
Negroes are forced to live.

The meeting, organized by
the Vancouver Committee of
the Communist Party, heard
Maurice Rush and Dora Stew-
art. Nearly 300 attended the

% 5
hearing posfponed

The Public Utilities Com-
missi0n hearing on the Peace
River Power Co.’s application
for hydro development of the
Peace River will be postponed
until September. This was an-
nounced by company presi-
dent W. C. Mainwaring re-
cently. : :

The delay is seen by many
observers as a move by the
company to find the most fav-
orable time to have the hear-
ing, at which strong public op-
position is expected to placing
the Peace ahead of the Colum-
bia river.

Sewer by-law passes
_ Burnaby. ratepayers voted
last Saturday for a $7 million
sewer . program. It was the
heaviest vote in 14 years with
more than 16,000 voters turn-
ing out.

Under the new by-law rate-
payers will pay $21 per yea

service charge. :

terrible conditions’

Peace River PUC

South Africa terror
protested at raily

rally.

The speakers denounced the
terror in South Africa and
criticized Prime Minister Dief-
enbaker for not speaking out
at the Commonwealth Prime
Minister’s conference against
South African racist policies.

The meeting condemned the
South. African government,
supported the boycott and call-
ed on the provincial govern-
ment to stop buying South. Af-
rican wines and brandies.

to need for neutrality

Canadian Minister of Defence George Pearkes told —
parliament last week the government will insist upon
squandering another $125 million of the taxpayers’ money
on Bomarc bases, unless Washington officially tells him

scrap the missile. The US.
Has practically abandoned the
Bomarc program. But the Can-
adian government will insist
we have a sound defence pol-
| icy with two bases in eastern
Canada for firing weapons
which are obsolete.
Commenting on the crisis in
Canadian defence policy the
Canédian Tribune ‘said last
week:
“Is it not now crystal clear
that the policy which offers
the only real hope for national
security is a policy of neutral
ity. -
“How else can we free our-
selves from entanglement in
U.S. war alliances which
threaten us with nuclear an-
nihilation? How else can we
preserve our independence and
national dignity? How else can
we put an end to ruinous arms
expenditures? What other pol-
icy can make it possible for
Canada to really help world
peace? =
“The crisis in national de-
fence has reached a climax
with the scuttling of the Bo-
marc.”

Scene of the huge meeting in Peking, China, about which

Pacific Tribune correspondent Bert Whyte writes below.

By BERT WHYTE
PEKING: Six hundred thou-
sand people gathered in Tien-
anmen Square and adjacent
streets on the afternoon of Ap-
ril 28 to demonstrate their

support for the patriotic strug-

gle of the Korean people
against United States imper-
ialism.

Though the puppet regime
of Syngman Rhee has been
toppled the root cause of the

sufferings of the South Kor-

ean people still remains —- the
colonial rule of American im-
perialism. ;
~The tremendous rally (the
largest demonstration this re-
reporter has ever witnessed)
included ‘workers, students,
|peasants from communes on
the outskirts and government
functionaries.

They carried flags and ban-
ners and punctuated the speak-
ers’ remarks with roars of ap-
proval and shouted slogans.

May 13, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3