PAULING HITS U.S. ACTION

Candidates must take
Stand on Vietnam war’

About 2,500 people were present in Vancouver's Exhibition Gardens last Friday night to
attend the largest public rally to be held in B.C. since the federal election campaign began, to
hear Nobel Prize winner Dr. Linus Pauling and Dr. R. Wright of the B.C. Research Council urge
Canadians to make candidates declare where they stand on peace in Vietnam.

Declaring that he was “horri-
fied” at the atrocities committed
by the U,S, and “ashamed” of the
role played by the U.S, in Viet-
nam and other countries, Dr,
Pauling said the U.S, is engaged
in an “immoral” war in Vietnam
and that in bombing North Viet-
nam it was guilty of “unpro-
voked aggression,”

Charging that the U.S, was
using horror weapons ofall kinds,
Dr. Pauling saidthe U.S, military
look on Vietnam as a‘‘war labor-
atory” and he compared their
actions to that of fascist Ger-
many in Spain, He condemned
the use of poison gas and said
that so-called non-lethal gases
are more lethal than the poison
gases used in World War 1, In
“right” concentrations, he said,
“they might not kill but used in

enclosed areas, against women,
children, aged and sick, they
could be very lethal,

Lashing out at President John-
son — who he described as a
Republican when the people
thought they were voting for a
Democrat — Dr, Pauling said the
war in Vietnam violated the U.S,
constitution. Under Article 8 the
U.S, Congress has power to de-
clare war, But because of John-
son’s trickery, Congress has
been prevented from debating and
deciding while a full-blown in-
volvement by the U.S, in a war
in South East Asia is underway.

He said that the President
had laid himself open to possible
impeachment because of his vio-
lation of the U.S. Constitution,
Later that evening he told an

Dr. Linus Pauling addressing the PNE Gardens rally last Friday.

audience at the UBC Teach-in
that he would sign sucha petition.

Dr, Pauling said the U.S, was
waging the war in Vietnam be-
cause it refused to allow the
Vietnamese people the govern-
ment of their choice. Recalling
how the U.S. had violated the
Geneva agreement of 1954andits
decision that an election be held
in 1956, Dr, Pauling saidthe U.S,
doesn’t want self-determination
for the countries of South East
Asia.

Refuting the stand of Presi-
dent Johnson and other top U,S,
officials that “the enemy is pre-
venting the war from coming to
an end,” Dr, Pauling said that the
refusal of the U.S, to include the
National Liberation Front of
‘South Vietnam in negotiations is
the main stumbling block to a
ceasefire,

Dr, Pauling recalled that he
and seven other holders of Nobel -
Peace prizes had written world
leaders calling for an immediate
ceasefire and negotiations to end
the war, In the letter it was_
proposed that all governments
and parties concerned be in-
cluded in negotiations, Dr. Paul-
ing said the U.S, reply made it
clear that they were not willing
to negotiate with the National
Liberation Front,

He told his audience that Prime
Minister Pearson was one of
two Nobel Prize winners who
refused to sign the letter,

He charged that the U.S, is

BOB PRITTIE

New Democrats demand U.S.||
recall troops from Vietnam |:

Bob Prittie, NDP candidate
in Burnaby-Richmond, told the
teach-in at UBC last weekend
that an NDP government would:
demand the withdrawal of U
troops from Vietnam,
statement was greeted wi
loud cheers, NDP candidate
Tom Barnett, Comox-Alberml,
condemned U.S, policy in Viet”
nam at a meeting in Cumber
land, :

Earlier, students grill ;
Liberal candidate for Vancou-
ver-Kingsway, Jack Austin,
over Prime Minister Peat
son's failure to live up to the
1963 promise to negotia
Canada out of a nuclear rol

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not advocating “unconditional

negotiations” but rather laying
down arbitrary conditions which
are preventing peace and also
blocking the United Nations from
taking action which could bring
about an end to the war,

Dr, Pauling called on his audi-
ence and the general public to
urge the U.S, government to give
up its policy of arbitrary condi-
tions in bringing about a settle-
ment in Vietnam,

The noted scientist and peace
worker said that it is irrational
to think of using modern weapons
of war. “Nuclear weapons,” he
said, ‘‘if used efficiently could

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kill every human on earth.
pointed out that there is now
tons of TNT for every pel?
earth — or 200,000 sticks

dynamite for everyone.”

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standing ovation at the opé!
his speech and again whet
concluded, He was suppor
the platform by one of the m0?
representative groups eve? Re
sembled at a peace rally, Bs
cluding many leading church© tf
cials, trade union andcommw
Chairman of the ral!
which was sponsored by the
Hoc Committee to End the
in Vietnam, was Pat O’N®
secretary of the B,C, Federal
of Labor,

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UBC teach-in

The B,C, Universities teach-
in, held at UBC on October 8,
9, and 10, saw 600 people attend
the first session with Dr, Linus
Pauling, with 250 in attendance on
Saturday and a smaller turnout
on Sunday,

The teach-in advertised itself ©

as a “forum for discussion”
where “all sides of every ques-
tion can be heard and examined,”
Centered around the theme
“Revolution and Response,’ it
fully lived up to its promise,

Saturday’s session, for ex-
ample, centered on Vietnam,

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debates

The audience first listened to
the Toronto International teach-
in panel which included a repre-
sentative from Cambodia who
condemned U.S, aggression in
Vietnam, a representative from
Saigon who defended the aggres-
sion and two American citizens:
William Worth, who presented
the National Liberation Front’s
point-of-view, and Dr, Robert
Scalapino, who presented the U,S.
State Dept, position.

During the debate, there was a
repeated call from the audience
to hear Michael Myerson, who had
been invited to present the point
of view of North Vietnam and
then later was refused the right
to participate,

Myerson, the International
Secretary of the Du Bois Clubs
of American, had just returned
Strong
opposition to the Toronto teach-
in decision was registered by the
Vancouver audience,

After hearing the Toronto
panel, the Vancouver teach-in
proceeded with a panel of its
own, Three UBC professors,
Wm, Holland (Head of Asian
Studies Dept,), K, Holsti (Politi-
cal Science Dept.), and W, Wil-
mott (Anthropology Dept.) joined

Vietnam war

in debate with Robert Scheer,
Foreign Affairs Editor of Ram-
parts, a liberal U.S, Catholic
magazine,

Scheer charged that an over-
whelming firepower, including
the most modern means of mass
destruction short of nuclear war,
was being unleashed against the
entire population of South Viet-
nam by the U.S,

Only Prof, Holsi defended the
U.S, position, He said the situa-
tion was complex and the U,S,
was right in prosecuting the war,
despite what he termed certain
“mistakes’’ it had made,

When challenged by a student
from the floor, Holsi admitted he
could not justify U.S. actions on
“moral grounds” and someone
then suggested he defend them
on “immoral grounds,”

The most revealing session of
the teach-in was held Saturday
night when Howard Green (Tory)
Jack Austin (Lib,) and Bob Prit-
tie (NDP) debated “Canada’s Role
in a Revolutionary World,’’

Both of the first gentlemen
supported present U,S. policy

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in Vietnam, but Prittie pre
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He called for an end to 20 a
ings, withdrawal of U.S. tony
and elections to be held uit
UN supervisory force.

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men did not address them?
to the topic, Most of the stud
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were particularly well info
and many expressed conce!™
our Parliament was ignora™
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The final panel on sunday
told that an International
Protest against U.S, aggre"
in Vietnam would be hel
Saturday, October 16, Va?
ver’s contribution to this
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in front of the Court Ho
12 noon on that day, Most ®

a stimulant to debate, the pe
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