THIS COULD HAPPEN! NORAD pact another step in surrender of sovereignty HE CHIEF of the U.S. Stra- tegic Air Command (SAC), surrounded by his staff of- ficers, hurries to the Head- quarters’ war room buried 45 feet underground on the bluffs overlooking the Missouri River near Omaha, Nebraska. They have been alerted by the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) that un- identified planes are winging their way south. The chief of SAC contacts the president. And the presi- dent with his military advis- ors also hurries to Washing- ton’s jwar room _ likewise buried deep underground. There, the president is in con- tact by direct wire and TV Screen with the chief of SAC at SAC _ headquarters in Omaha who will advise him if this) Is: Sik? Meanwhile, high in the Sky, 600 SAC bombers loaded with H-bombs streak towards the Soviet Union. They are sent on their death dealing mis- sion under the war plan, “Alpha Hotel Eight” which is based on the theory of so-called “massive retaliation.” Backed by a slogan on a signboard at SAC headquar- ters “Peace is our profession,” the stated mission of these airmen is to “eliminate com- munism’s air and _ missile forces, destroy its war ma- chine’ and industrial capa- bility, and to break its will to fight.” As the bombers hurtle through the skies they await the special command from the president which only he can give sending them on _ past SAC’s imaginary “Fail Safe” line to drop their deadly cargoes on peaceful Soviet cities and touch off a world- wide nuclear war. This time the special order from the president did not come when “Fail Safe” was reached and the giant jets re- turned, one by one, to their bases. It was another false alarm. The black digits on the radar screens which had sent SAC into immediate of- fensive action turned out to be — geese! bes os % This is SAC in operation. Im- mediate offensive’ action with- out waiting for verification of information supplied by NOR- AD nor interception by NOR- AD if sighted objects turn out to be planes. And Can- ada, tied to U.S. military ad- ventures by NORAD, teeter- ing on the brink of war with- out our government even being aware of the terrible aqanger so imminent. Far-fetched? No. For the re- flection of geese on the radar screens did send SAC bomb- ers streaking towards the Soviet Union. And the pro- cedure briefly outlined above has been spelled out in con- siderable detail in a series of articles carried in the Toronto Star. This is what Prime Mini- ster Diefenbaker and his Tory government did to Canada by Signing the NORAD agree- ment. The secret talks leading up to the NORAD agreement were initiated by the USS. and entered into on behalf of Canada by the Liberal govern- ment headed by former Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent. Prime Minister John Diefen- baker and Minister of Defense Pearkes gave verbal recogni- tion of NORAD when the Tory government was elected last June. What has Canada been com- mitted to under the NORAD agreement? Minister of Ex- ternal Affairs Sydney Smith has only tabled in Commons two letters between the two governments simply recording the existence of NORAD which has for all practical purposes been in effect since 1956. The two letters have been written with an eye to creat- ing an illusion that NORAD came into being as a result of Canada’s initiative. Nothing could be further from the truth. Harold Greer, Toronto Star correspondent, writing from Washington, disputes the Can- adian government’s claim that NORAD will give Canada more control over the actions of the U.S. military ag relat- ed to the North American continent. Greer writes: “The NORAD agreement announced this week reveals that Canada is ~no more able to prevent some jittery U.S. officer from reach- ing for the panic button than it was before the agreement was signed. “With or without the agree- ment the North American De- fense Command continues to be a joint U.S. - Canadian agreement for collecting in- formation which the U.S. needs to decide whether to start U.S. airpower winging on its nuclear way.” Srime Minister Diefenbaker tried to convince the U.S. gov- ernment that the agreement should reflect a closer link be- tween NORAD and NATO in line with the assurances he gave parliament last fall. The U.S. government rejected Die- fenbaker’s plea. Newsmen in Washington pointed out that the USS. would have nothing to do with an agreement which would allow the 14-member NATO to have any say about U.S. military operations from the North American contin- ent. 5g xt 503 When the resolution to en- dorsé NORAD is placed be- fore parliament, members will be asked by the government to vote to tie Canada for the next fateful ten years to an agreement which arms the NORAD commander (a US. general) with powers to order Canadian combat planes into action without consultation with Canadian authorities; meaning that Canada would be committed to war on the Say-so of a foreign general and without the authorization of our government, to say nothing of parliament. They will be voting also to allow U.S. fighter squadrons armed with nuclear tipped rockets and missiles to fly across Canadian skies at will. NORAD is one more step —a giant step—in the delivery of Canadian sovereignty by successive Canadian govern- ments to the U.S. The Diefen- baker government, in the face of its own campaign speeches in defense of Canadian inde- pendence, has given away our country’s most vital sovereign right. Members of parliament, Tory, Liberal or CCF, should right this terrible wrong in- flicted upon the Canadian peo- ple by their government. ALF DDEWHURST A report from one of these radar stations __ OPEN FORUM asked by union and Living in past R. A. GREIG, Vancouver, B.C.: I see where Chiang Kai- shek claims that revolts “worse than Hungary” go on continuously in China. Obvi- ously the man is living in the past—his own. Figures corrected — GEORGE NORTH, editor, The Fisherman, Vancouver, B.C.: Just a few words to cor- rect a couple of errors appear- ing in the article “How can B.C. labor win its wage fight?” in your May 23 issue. First, in reference to the prices quoted for sockeye, they should be per pound, not per fish. All salmon is now bought by the pound, with the “per fish” method going out for pinks and chums about 10 years ago and for other species quite a time before. Second, in regard to prices quoted: fishermen this year are asking 30 cents per pound for sockeye and not 32 cents as stated in the article. The price request is the “minimum” and is written into the agree- ment as such. It is of passing interest to note that some companies last year paid the 30 cents asked by the union to some fisher- men, and as high as 32 cents the year before despite a lower minimum. Minimum price set out in last year’s agreement was 28 cents per pound while canners are offering 23 cents. In the case of cohoe, the union is asking 18 cents per pound; last year’s minimum was 15% cents and companies have offered 13 cents. For pinks, the union is ask- ing 11 cents as against 9%4 cents last year and 8% cents offered by the canners. For chums, it’s 12 cents Canada to war on the decision of a foreign commander. AG June 6, 1958 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—P" strung by the United States across the G Arctic could send planes winging across the North Pole to bomb Soviet cities and Brotherhood against a range from 7 cents paid last year an of 6% cents offered ners for summer chum Last year’s price for § chums, was 7% pound. Canners are cryiné over, talking market lems, and generally un we a i worn arguments at when they never ha good. the same cohoe and § -, 1951 ® chum minimums ip - aft they are asking this Y* 5 the determined to win ee culs season. They have ta ; 193! in some species from level and- see no jus for further reduction steadily dropping lev® come. And it has bee pe in ping steadily, with a cent decline since 195 : ¢ on ease of salmon fisher™ Alexandra Camp pti MYRTLE JUDGE, e%& agg director, Camp Alexall East Cordova, Vancouvé May we ask that the ing information be 8 licity in your pape?- Alexandra (a Red : e agency) is this year © col ing, along with the B: “endl Ws tennial, its own 40th PD} Camp dates are as 02! Senior women, ‘June Mothers and children years, June 30-July 11; girls, 7 to 14 years, Ju ¥ ait Boys’ camp — Family July 28-August 8; Boy® — Family camp, Augu® Senior citizens, August tember 5. en -Camp Alexandra is 0P ate! people throughout the Vancouver area. Fur formation may be obta phoning MU 4-9023. fisherme? da price by cents ye pal Fishermen who actually ef siticati” s in ay ive het jne Native ¢ S only. catty oul elf of i roe “i pow" fo ‘g 9 be 1 495; » cast 1 es p) 5-0 {0 if ae - ar - =e