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Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu: “Those crazy Buddhists—setting fire to them-

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erblock in the Washington Post

Yanks threaten Canada with strong
retaliation over trade conflict

By PAUL MURRAY

In the growing Canadian-U.S.
economic conflict, even tiny steps
toward econcomic self-interest
taken recently by the govern-
ment, have been greeted with
alarm south of the border, have
been described as ‘‘economic
nationalism’’, and have been
warned off with threats of out-
right retaliation by the Yanks,

Last week I reported the fact
that U.S. officials viewed: the
Canadian proposals for either
tariffs on U.S. auto imports to
Canada, or increased Canadian
auto exports to the U.S., as
*¢screwy’’. Even this Yank ‘‘daf-
fynition’’, however, has been fol-
lowed up by the open threat that
the U.S. will consider counter
measures.

The threat came from Com-
merce Secretary Luther Hodges
in Washington as a _ warning
against any measures by Canada
to implement its proposal to re-
duce imports of U.S. automobiles
and parts by $200 million a year.

One of Canada’s big-business

Soviets say Chinese leaders
want A-weapons at any price

The Soviet government issued
a statement on Sept. 22 in which
it declares that the Chinese lead-
ers have suffered aserious mor-
al and political defeat in their
Campaign against thenuclear test
ban treaty.

Answering a Chinese govern-
Ment statement of Sept. 1, the
Soviet statement says that ‘‘the
Unseemly position of the Chinese
S0vernment on the nuclear test
ban treaty does not have the sup-
Port of the peoples.’’

It charges that the last Chinese
Statement ‘‘proves once again
that the negative position of the
Chinese government to the nu-
Clear test ban treaty is explained
by their desire to make their
Country a nuclear power.”’

The ‘statement declares that
an increase in thenumber of soc-
ialist countries possessing nu-
Clear weapons would immediate-

ly cause ‘a chain reaction in the

imperialist camp,’’ and ‘‘the a-
tomic cancer would spread
throughout the whole globe, mul-
tiplying the threat of nuclear
Wwar.’’

The statement reproaches the
Chinese leaders with refusing

**to consider the tremendous ca-
sualties that war would bring,”’
and with ‘‘repeating that one
should not exaggerate the danger-
ous consequences of war, even if
half the population of our planet
should die.”

**But even if a part of human-
ity, whether more than half or
less than half, survives, who can
seriously consider that the sur-
vivors would be able to rapidly
build a new higher civilization in
conditions in which cities, eco-
comic and cultural centres would
be reduced to radioacaive rub-
ble?"’

Peace, continues the Soviet
statement, is the prime condi-
tion for consolidating and expand-
ing socialism and peaceful co-
existence, far from impeding
the development of the national
liberation movement, in. fact
stimulates it.

*'The Soviet Union is doing
everything necessary to prevent
a nuclear hurricane from sweep-
ing our planet, leaving behind
millions and millions ofcorpses,
including in countries that have
become free from colonialism.

Canadian CP calls

The National Executive Com-
Mittee of the Communist Party
Of Canada is of the opinion that
2 world conference of Commun-
ist and Workers’ parties is ne-
Cessary' now in order to give
€xpression to the widest support
and unity around the policies of
Peace, democracy, national in-
dependence and socialism con-
tained in the Statement adopted
by the last conderence of the

Parties in 1960 and which arenow

Under heavy attack by the leaders
‘S the Chinese Communist Par-
Wad

The statement of the National
Executive Committee of the Com-

Munist Party said, ‘*While our
* Party proposed such aconference

Some tme ago, we feel that it is
Needed as soon as possible in
View of the factional and split-
ing activities of the Chinese

€aders in violation of the agreed-
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for world parley

on standards of relationships be-
tween the fraternal parties and
the methods being used by them
in their assault upon the agreed-
on policies of the world Com-
munist movement—among which
the struggle for the peoples for
peace stands supreme.

‘Such a world meeting would
assist the further clarification
and mobilazation of all forces
making for peace and democracy.

‘We express the hope that the
fact of such a meeting and the
demonstration there of the soli-
darity of the majority of parties
around the principles and policies
adopted at the last such con-
ference in 1960, will influence
the leaders and members of the
Communist Party of China and
cause them to reconsider their
present policies, to listen to the
voice of the world Communist
movement and by so doing re-
store its unity,”

2. oe a

*‘Ts there anything bad in this’?
Every sensible person will reply:
‘This is good. I am grateful to
the Soviet Union.‘”’

The statement charges the
Chinese leaders with setting
themselves the aim ‘‘of making
a breach in the relations of
friendship and cooperation be-
tween the Soviet Union and other
socialist countries and the na-
tional liberation movement.”

Facts show, it continues, that
the Chinese leaders, far from
putting the interests ofthe people
fighting for socialism and not
fighting for socialism and na-
tional liberation in the forefront,
are pursuing their own great
power aims.

The latest statements of the
Chinest leaders gave rise to ap-
prehension in other respects for
they had disclosed to the im-
perialists the internal affairs of
the Communist movement and
confidential correspondence be-
tween governments and parties
of the Socialist countries.

**We are deeply convinced that
in the -prevailing situation the
question of ending openpolemics
between the Soviet and Chinese
governments and Communist
parties remains just as pressing
as before . .. °’ says the Soviet
statement.

It reiterates that those who:
really want to strengthen the
socialist camp and the unity of
the world Communist movement
**must come out for the ending of
public policies.”

It points out that the meeting of
Chinese and Soviet representa-
tives that took place in Moscow
between July 5 and 20 this year
has not been ended, but only sus-
pended at the request of the
Chinese side, and agreement was
reached to continue it later.

The latest actions of the
Chinese government and Chinese
Communist Party leadership, it
says. with ‘‘the open hostile cam-
paign against the CPSU and the
Soviet Union, do not indicate an
intention to resume the meeting.”’

F

The average weekly wage in
Canadian manufacturing last May
was $80.26, or $1.95 per hour.
The average workweek was 41.1
hours.

beacons, the Financial Post,
found its own colorful way of
describing how the Canadian pro-
posal was met in the U.S. when
it said that *f Canada’s ministerial
delegation returned from Wash-
ington last weekend wiser, if
sadder.’*

The paper added even more
explicitly: ‘Washington isn’t go-
ing to make it easier for Canada
to reduce its trade deficit with
the U.S."’

As one FP correspondent put
the situation;

‘*Even the New Frontiersmen
found the Canadian proposals
particular, reacted strongly
against the Canadian plan, dis-
playing an unshakeable belief that

ORVILLE FREEMAN, U.S. agriculture
secretary, who is reported this
week to have had “‘heated”’ words
with Canadian representatives
over recent wheat deals.

WEATHER HIT
USSR GRAIN

MOSCOW—Purchase of wheat
in Canada and Australia, and
greater economy in the use of
grain for feed and industry will
assure’ normal supplies to the
population, USSR Premier Khru-
shchev. told a gathering of agri-
cultural workers: in Krasnodar.

This year has been exceptional-
ly hard, he said. The Soviet
Union and many other countries
in Europe suffered a long and
severe winter. Heavy frost which
killed winter crops was followed
by a hot, dry summer’ when
grain was ripening.

Britain also yeported one mil-
lion ton drop in grain production
from 1962.

what’s good for General Motors
must be good for the world.

**He made it clear that ‘sound
commercial policies by sound
American companies’ shouldn’t
be interfered with by any tariff
juggling—particularly when those
plans are earning the U.S. a nice
steady flow of foreign currency.”’

The ‘feconomic nationalism’
charge appeared in a New York
Times article by Edwin L. Dale
Jr. He wrote:

‘*The U.S. government is con-
cerned by what it considers a
continuing trend toward econ-
omic nationalism in Canada —
a trend that could specifically
harm U,S, interests in trade and
other fields.’’

* * *

Canadian ‘‘economic national-
ism’’, found Dale, ‘‘takes the
form of a desire for more self-
sufficiency and more Canadian
ownership of industry,‘* and also
the desire ‘‘to achieve a balance
in the bilateral balance of pay-
ments between the two countries
on current account — that is,
exclusive of capital movements.”’

The reason the U.S. side is
**so strongly opposed to the Cana-
dian position’’ is because ‘‘if
Canada succeeds in balancing its
accounts with the United States,
it would be bound to make the
deficit in the U.S. (i.e. world-

wide) balance of payments
worse.”’
Curiously enough, this U.S.

self-interest does not appear to
be U.S. ‘economic nationalism”’
—at least Dale doesn’t describe
it as such.

Last week I suggested that
some $500 million (out of a total
of $1 billion) of our annual
balance of payments deficit with
the U.S. was made up of an
outflow of dividends and inter-
est (profit) which is the fruit
of U.S. investment in Canada.

It should be added that this
is only half the story. Total U.S.
investment in Canada is well
over $18 billion. The precise,
total profit figure of this invest-
ment is impossible to obtain.

But it can safely be estimated
that less than half the total
profit flows out of Canada into
the U.S. The other half, over
$500 million, remains in Canada
and goes into plant expansion.
In other words, it increases the
amount of U.S. investment in
Canada.

This means that every dollar
of it that stays here increases
our future debt to the U.S., and
also increases the potential out-
flow of profits from this country.
It’s an economic noose that's
getting tighter all the time.

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Japanese say: 'Yankee go home!’

Dozens of protest demonstrations against American submarines
entering the country’s ports have taken place in Japan in recent
months. These demonstrations managed to get a small boat close
to an American aircraft carrier in Koba, Japan.

October 11, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3