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by JOWN STEWART

ing ovation in Massey Hall on Sunday of last week.
Majority of Canadians the desire for friendship, peace

adian Soviet Friendship Sgciety held in Toronto January 25-27.

TORONTO

Twenty-five hundred Canadians gave the representative of the Soviet Union in Canada a stand-
In so doing, they expressed for the great
and trade with our northern neighbor — a
desire made clearly evident during the proceedings of the three-day national convention of the Can-

When L. F. Teplov, Soviet
charges d’affaires in Canada, and
V, Bourdin, first secretary of the
Soviet embassy in Ottawa, ap-

“peared on the platform with Dy-
Son Carter, president of ‘the So:
“ety, and Mrs. Carter, they were
greeted with cheers. Dyson Car-
ler summed it up in ‘his conclud-
ing remarks when he said: |
“We are devoted to the cause
of Canadian-Soviet friendship
use we love Canada, be-
Cause this is the hour of history
When the national security of
our country demands that we
' Canadians break with those
Who would organize .a new
World war and take up the
Cause of peace, trade, cultural
exchanges and friendship offer-
€d by the people of the Soviet
Union.”
_ This was the theme of the en-
lire convention from the moment
tt opened in Bathurst Street Un-

ited Church on January 25. The DYSON:

CARTER

59 official delegates and 35 ob-
Servers who came from as far
West as British Columbia and east
from Montreal, adopted strong
Tesolutions on three main points:

Tiendship between Canada and
the USSR”; cultural exchanges

between *the two countries; and
Revere |

Soviels offered
lo buy Canadian
farm machinery

_An article in the Soviet fort-
nightly magazine News reviews
Soviet proposals for trade with

nada over the past 25 years
and reveals that the USSR has
Offered to b uy aluminum,
leather, agricultural machinery
4nd other items. The author,
N. Zhigalov writes:

“Why Canada should have
erected a* wall between itself
‘8nd the flourishing economy of
the Soviet Union and denied ‘it-
Self the benefits of economic
Cooperation with it on a footing
of equality defies all logical ex-
Dlanation.” ,

peaceful trade on a basis of
equality. Additional resolutions
covered a new constitution for
the organization.

L. F. Teplov, speaking in Eng-
lish, emphasized the peace aims
of the USSR. In bringing greet-
ings to the convention from the
‘people of his country, Teplov de-
clared:

“Expressing the will and hopes
of its people the government of
the Soviet Union is unswervingly
pursuing the Stalin policy of
strengthening peace and estab-
lishing friendly relations among
nations. There have been no in-
ternational conferences in which
the Soviet Union has taken part,
at which the envoys of the Soviet
people have not made proposals
aimed at preventing international
conflicts and ensuring peace and
security.”

The charges d’affaires was re-
ceived by Mayor Alan Lamport at
Toronto City Hall on January 28.

The resolution on trade adopt-
ed by the convention urged the
Canadian government “to ext
plore the possibilities of trade
with the USSR, the People’s De-

mocracies of Europe, and col-
onial and other countries; and
to facilitate the travel of Can-
adian businessmen and other
citizens to such international
conferences as the April 1952
world trade conference to be
held in Moscow, for the pur-
poses of discovering ways of
expanding Canada’s trade and
consumer production and for
the exchange of information on
production; and agricultural
techniques.”

The resolution criticized the
“present policy of the Canadian
government of hostility to the
USSR and ‘preparations for war.”
This had resulted in unemploy-

ment, in curtailing production of |

consumer goods and exchange of
such goods through international
trade. e

It pointed out that the govern-
ments of the USSR, China and
the People’s Democracies “have
already indicated their wWilling-
ness to trade with Canada by of-
fering large orders for goods and
machinery to Canadian firms
during the past five years.”

A dramatic highlight of the
Massey Hall closing session was

the exchange of music scores and
other gifts. between Canada and
the Soviet Union. ‘

On behalf cf the Society,
Emil Gartner, conductor of the
Toronto Jewish Folk Choir and
recent visitor to the Soviet
Union, presented to L. F. Tep-
lov a new choral work “Sing
My Native Land” composed by
Samuel Dolin to a libretto by
Louis Model, both of Toronto.
In exchange, Teplov presented
to the Society the complete
score of Sergei Prokofiéff’s
new oratorio “On Guard For
Peace.” Both will be perform.
ed in Massey Hall this spring,
it was announced.

John Weir, editor of the
Ukrainian Canadian, presented
the resolutions on friendship and
cultural exchanges to the Massey
‘Hall audience, where they were
unanimously: adopted.

“This convention appeals to all
‘Canadians who cherish peace and
prosperity, to help build a broad
nation-wide movement for Can-
adian Soviet friendship,” the
first resolution concluded, “thus
making a vital contribution to
the struggle for peace and friend+
ship over the whole world.”

The resolution on culture re-
called the demand of the student
‘bodies of 14 Canadian universi-
ties for student exchanges be-
tween the two countries. It laud-
ed the special broadcasts to Can-
ada from the Soviet Union during
the past “friendship” month and
urged an extension of such ex-
changes in all fields of the arts
and sciences. :

Dyson Carter, in his opening
keynote address at Bathurst
street United Church — he was
suffering from a throat ailment.
and it was read for him by Mrs
Carter—outlined the tremendous
increase in interest and support
for the organization during the
past year. He urged greater cir-
culation for the Society’s popular
journal News Facts, and the con-
vention agreed to obtain _5000
new readers in the coming year.

National officers elected by
convention were:

Dyson Carter, president;
Major H. T. Lafond, Montreal;
Dewar Ferguson, Toronto, vice-
president; Mrs. Dorise Nielsen,

‘executive secretary; William

Tweedale, treasurer. —

greetings

Canadian - Soviet Friendship rally
eaceful trade with USSR

All parts of
world sent

TORONTO
So many greetings came to the
recent Canadian-Soviet Friend-
ship Society national convention
here that it was impossible for
national secretary, Mrs. Doriese
Nielsen, to read them all.

Mrs. Nielsen carried an armful
of wires, cables and letters onto
the platform at the closing ses-
sion in Massey Hall. Leafing
through them she said there were
“hundreds and hundreds” of mes-
sages from every corner of Can-
ada, from the United States,
from almost every country of
Europe and Asia.

The miners of Alberta, a Farm-
ers Union local in Manitoba, a
group of workers in the Canadian
Peace Congress in Toronto sent
mesSages. Over 100 messages
came from supporters in the U.S. :
including one from Prof. John
Somerville, New York.

There was loud applause as
Mrs. Nielsen read one from a
“five generation American whose
great-grandfather fas a Negro
slave”; it came from the great
American fighter for peace, Dr.
W. E. B. DuBois. There was
more applause to a_ greeting
from Prof. Leopold Infeld, for-
merly of the University of Tor-
onto, now living in Warsaw. _

Other greetings came from
Germany, . Iceland, Rumania,
Czechoslovakia, Ireland, Scotland,
Britain and Australia.

Prof. ,Andrie Denisov sent
greetings in the name of the So-
viet Society for Cultural Rela-
tions with Foreign Countries
(VOKS), of which he is chair-
man.

The big audience also was
thrilled by the singing and danc-
ing of the Ukrainian girls choir
and dancers from the Association
of United Ukrainian Canadians.

And when chairman Ross Rus-
sell took over the financial ap-
peal, there was an enthusiastic
response. The collection was an-
nounced as $2,043.92 and an addi-
tional $170 in pledges.

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