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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

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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.