“ I i y | a Mpa } Wi; { glu Wit ie (byt efits ED) : ‘ els iat / iy, j # 4 fi! { by | y iy : i 4 4 i i Ay < : rite) Meat y y stage My is ty : RY AAO | jan tag i! ip /; mS : 4 Dace rea ie aR ee HID eae eae : if Lalbaht AAS Me bbs re f VOL. 14 No. 12 Vancouver, British Columbia, March 25, 1955 <> 28 PRICE TEN CENTS STORY ON BACK PAGE The U.S. flag flies on | J ( | 4 Ellesmere _ Island, : : northernmost of Can- ada’s main Arctic is- lands, where U.S. mili- : tary personne! are sta- tioned, / 3 Endicott challenges | U.S. TURNS OUR ARCTIC INTO GIANT WAR BASE Pearson on speech lao . James G. Endicott, Canadian Peace Congress fe a called this week for an assurance from External ae Minister Lester B. Pearson that “‘we will avoid N the slightest risk of getting into an atomic wat.’ Endicott, who completes a speaking tour of B.C. points pubhie tay: March 25, with a Pana, @ddress at Vancouver’s either of us, if the other were fot Auditoriim, was com- engaged in a major war in which Slaten on Pearson’s recent its very existence were at stake r Main that Canada would not would be unthinkable.’ involys neutral in a major war “Now there can be no doubt, Ving the U.S. as matters stand. that a major fone of Endicott’s statement War Means an atomic war. — OWs: “Mr. Pearson realizes this as he was present last December at the North Atlantic Treaty Coun- cil meeting in Paris where the fai The minister for external af- .? 4t0n, L. B. Pearson, made last Ortant statement of policy Slater on a rather remarkable alam ~tt Which; ‘thas created app Be One the people and some Self. Bes in parliament it- able? that said it was ‘unthink- Neutral at Canada: would remain ing thew any major war involv- 7. & United States. 1 #.),©Xact words weré, ‘Today, pink that the neutrality of decision was taken to allow the NATO military commanders to base all of their planning on the use of atomic weapons. And, only a day or two after Mr. Pearson spoke, President Hisen- hower at his press conference likened atomic weapons to bul- Continued on back page See ENDICOTT SGIENT YF What dangers, known and unknown, do continued uncontrolled atomic tests hold for the peoples of the world? Throughout the world in recent weeks scientists have voiced their alarm. To the world’s people now demonstrating their own protest against preparations for atomic war, the scientists’ warnings point to the dire peril in which the world has been placed by the advocates of atomic war and emphasize the need for control of atomic and nuclear weapons. Continued on back page — See TESTS Does radiation hasten aging? Does natural radioactivity affect the process of human aging and ‘if So, what will be the effect of increasing radioactivity from continued atomic tests? This is a question to which scientists are seeking the answer as a result of experiments on animals which indicate that exposure to artificial radiation hastens the aging process.