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By DYSON CARTER

ANADA and the Soviet Union
together possess something ex-
tremely rare and valuable. This
treasure is an unbroken record
of peaceful relations.

Never in the history of our na-
tion have we Canadians been at
war with the nations that make
up the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics.

One day last August, in a lunch
room high in the Caucasus moun-
tains, I was introduced to a Rus-
sian professor of history. “What
do you know about my country,
Canada?” I asked him.

“J specialize in European his-
tory,” he said. “But I know this.
In the two world wars, Canada
was Russia’s ally.”

The very next day my wife and
I drove all the way down the
mountains to the Black Sea.
There we visited a holiday resort
owned by the coal miners union.
When the miners found out we
were from Canada, they swarm-
ed around us. |

We had an atlas bought in Mos-
cow. My wife and I took, turns
describing the various regions of
our country, using the Russian
map of Canada. One of the
younger men interrupted. He
pointed to a map that showed the
North Pole and “the top. of the
world.”

On one side the Soviet Union.
On the other side, Canada.

_ “Neighbors!” he said in Ukrain-
ian.

Maps were forgotten after that.
Soviet miners, youths and gray-
beards, from the coalfields of the
north, the Urals, the Ukraine, all
wanted to talk about their coun-
try and ours as neighbors.

We are neighbors of the Soviet
people. We have never fought
the Soviet people. We were allies
when Russia was tsarist and when
socialist. These aspects of Can-
ada’s historical heritage are of
immense importance to us today.

And today there is urgent need
for all Canadians to understand

that Canada, in Canada’s own in-
terests, must never be diverted
from the historic policy of good
neighbor relations with that great
nation, the Soviet Union.

All sections of the press, the
church, and public opinion, appre-
ciate that Canada would face ut-
ter destru€tion in a war fought
with the H-bomb and _ similar
weapons, Also much publicized is
the scientific fact that the same
nuclear discoveries now being
used in bombs, the same vast out-
put of uranium that Canada is
handing over to arm a foreign
power, the United States, these
discoveries and materials if ap-
plied for peaceful purposes could
raise our country to the rank of
a foremost power.

And what is the obstacle? Not
everyone will agree on the answer.
But I would like to point out an
undeniable fact.

It is our neighbor to the north,
the USSR, which proposes that
the Great Powers act immediate-
ly on the central problem of our
day, the problem of nuclear
energy. These proposals of the
USSR are proposals that would
bring together stupendous bene-
fit to Canada.

‘First, end the race to build nu-
clear weapons, ban all such weap-
ons. And thus lift from our coun-
try the terrible shadow of destruc-
tion. :

Second, collaborate to develop
the age of nuclear power. And
thus start our country on the
road to limitless development.

*

Oceans of printer’s ink have
been wasted, in the past few
years, in efforts to distort these
Soviet proposals. But newspaper
editorials are not quite so con-
fused today, in most countries.
Indeed, the situation has become
vividly clear. The Soviet Union

possesses weapons having un-
limited destructive forces, and
proposes a universal agreement
so that all countries can utilize

Here Dyson Carter,

head of the Canadian-Soviet Friendship

Society, is seen in a discussioon with research workers in a Soviet

laboratory.

such forces not for weapons~ but
only for peaceful development.

That is the unwavering policy
of our northern neighbor. It can
no longer be misrepresented. To-
day not only editors, but one by
one the governments of the world
admit the logic of this policy, the
burning need for such an agree-
ment.

More than any other nation in

the capitalist world, Canada
stands to gain from an interna-
tional policy of development of
nuclear energy for peaceful uses.
Recent discoveries show that, we
possess fabulous quantities of
uranium, That is only half of our

resources ,for in the world of sci-

ence our atomic research rates

among the most outstanding.
Canada right now has all that

is required to become literally a

great nuclear power.

I believe people will soon be
astonished by what the USSR is
doing to make industrial profit-
able use of nuclear forces. But
aside from that, there is no ques-
tion that a great many “practical”
people in Canada are raising a
more immediate question. Why
can’t we do business with the Sov-
iet Union?

The Canadian-Soviet Friendship
Society, ever since its foundation,
has strongly advocated trade with
the USSR. All members and sup-
porters of the Society are grati-
fied to known that the Canadian
government, in the person of C.
D. Howe, now indicates that such
trade is feasible, even desirable.

Our Society would go further.
As our publication News-Facts

recently pointed out, in the next.

two vears the USSR is going to
invest $12 billion in farm mech-
anization. If Canadian implement
factories were to get such am
“order,” and worked at capacity,
they would still be trying to com-

plete that job 50 years from
now!
The USSR, naturally, orders

only a part of its implements in
foreign countries. But expansion
of Soviet farms will be going on
indefinitely. And not only farms.
On a big and expanding scale the
USSR is ordering, in capitalist
countries, such commodities as
textiles, ships, motors, cheese,
transformers, stockings, butter
and cardboard.

There is highly profitable trade
with the Soviet Union. In this con-
nection, on the eve of Canadian-
Soviet Friendship Month, we of
the Friendship Society would like
to emphasize one fact:

Just as responsible business
men long ago learned that they
can do more and better business
by not even discussing each
other’s religious, social and politi-
cal views, so in the new, swiftly
widening world of trade between
capitalist and socialist lands, suc-
cess comes from non-interference
in the internal affairs of either
parties. Z

To put it bluntly, the Soviet
people are not in the market for
capitalism. The sooner Canada
accepts this, the quicker will
good business relations develop.

And at the same time, some
circles need to stop believing in
fairytales, and accept the fact that
the Soviet Union is exporting
commodities, not its socialist. sys-
tem.

If this can be said about trade
between Canada and the USSR,
how much more obvious is the
truth about arranging exchanges
of our concert artists, our poets,
scientists, hockey teams, fashion
designers, life-saving medical dis-
coveries and collections of fine

paintings!

From this, I believe, we can
take the message of Canadian-
Soviet Friendship Month.

Friendship with the Soviet Un-
ion should not and must not be
confined to those Canadians who
look with favor upon the political
and economic systems of the
USSR.

Friendship is vital to the high-
est national interests of our coun-
try. Friendship with the peoples
of the Soviet nations must and
will be recognized by all Cana-
dians as a treasured part of our
lieritage, now more than ever
essential to the’ peaceful, pros-
perous future of our land.

sea-wall 2,500 miles long!
coast, it would keep an ice-free channel open all yea
built of the cheap, natural building material of the arctic — ice.

Not only would this revolutionize shipping trade between Europe and
Asia but would also transform the climates of Siberia and China. Se

Dyson Carter, editor of the Canadian-Soviet news service publication
News-Facts reveals the plan in the January issue, and raises the question of its .
possible, application to Canada. You can get News-Facts (subscription — $1.00,
single copy — 10c), from 382 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ont.

Soviets plan seawall -- of ice

N astonishing proposal has just come out of the Soviet Union — to build a
By shutting off the polar seas from the Siberian’
r round. And it would be

iS : A view of the new Stalin embankment at Stalingrad.

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