Students
denounce

firings
TORONTO

The Students Administrative
Council of the University of. To-
ronto last week “‘deplored” the fir-
ing of six members of the Toronto
Symphony Orchestra because they
could not obtain U.S. border cross-
ing cards.

In a resolution adopted by a con-
siderable margin, the student’ body,
representing the entire university
of 11,000 students. declared:

“That the SAC deplores the stand
taken by the Toronto Symphony
Orchestra with regard to the Sym-
phony Six, on the grounds that this
action sets a dangerous precedent—
in essence the hiring and firing of
Canadian citizens by Canadian or-
ganizations on the basis of entry
requirements into the U.S.”

all yellow peoples,

“This sentiment about the Ko-
rean war seemed unanimous among
all Asiatic peoples. The hatred of
the United States was no less gen-
eral. Since June 25, 1950, it is the
American who has personified west-
ern imperialism in the eyes of the
Asiaties. They are blamed _ for
everything, not just war, that is un-
derstood — but for famine and
drought and locust-plagues.”

“Since 1945, the immense pres-
tize of the United States in the Far
Fast has disappeared. Oriental peo-
ples once looked to Washington for
"heir economic and political libera-
tion. After two years of war in

Gordyn Gwynne-Timothy, SAC
chairman, read a letter from the
TSO management outlining its posi-

tion. The arguments however, were

Korea, they look to Moscow for
this.”

He talked, he said, to about 100
délegates on this question. ‘They
all said the same thing — Asia

rejected by the meeting. :

for the \Asiatics. The wars ‘are an

“There was one thing which impressed me
Pacific Peace Congress held at Peking),” Gerard
at the Plateau Hall here on November 20. “It is
against the intervention of the
in Malaya.” As reported in the Montreal Gazette, Filion continued:

BY PIERRE GELINAS

Solidarity of Asian peoples
against all intervention,
for peace, impressed Filion

more than anything else at the Congress (Asian-
Filion, editor of Le Devoir, told a packed audience
the solidarity of all the peoples of the Far East, of
white races in their affairs, in Korea; in Indo-China, |

"MONTREAL

intervention of the whites in the in-
ternal affairs of Asia.

“J do not say they ‘are right,”
said Filion. “I just want to say
that this general idea is the most
profound idea in the Orient. They
do not want to know who started
the Korean war; all they know is
that the whites — America, Can-
ada, Britain and France — are
bombarding their cities.

“When there is war in America
or Europe,’ they say,‘ ‘we do not
send our troops to fight. Leave us
alone in |Korea.’

“In every speech, they denounc-
ed American imperialism, Ameri-
can bases in Japan and Western
industry and capital in other
countries. But the subjects spoken
of most and with most feeling
were germ warfare and Ameri-

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“There is a story about an Am-
erican burning a large number of
civilians to death in‘ a cave. I have
never met a single Oriental who
doubted that we were guilty of

this,’, he said, according to the
Gazette.
About germ warfare, Filion

stated later on: “There is a report
by a scientific commission on this
question. American aviators “are
supposed to have dropepd bombs
filled with microbes. You will not
find:a single person who will doubt
the authenticity of thesé charges.
It corresponds to the hatred of the
Americans. I do not say that the
Ameritans used germ warfare. All
I am in a position to say is that
everyone believes they did.”

Filion expressed unreserved ad-
miration for the culture of the
Chinese “people. The Gazette re-
ported him saying:

“The Chinese are anxious to
have unity and order in_ their
country, and the Communists are

the first who have succeeded in unit-
ing the country since 1840 when the
English opened her ports at the
point of a gun. China’s customs de-
partment was run by an English-
man, until the Communists took
over; this will give you an idea of
what freedom they had.

“The great achievement of the
revolution has been to give the land
to the people. At the time of the
revolution, 80 percent of the peas-
ants worked land-that was owned
by the land-owners and the Man-
darins . . . Three hundred million
were given their land by the Red
zovernment ... In the eyes of the
Chinese, Chiang represented this
old order. I think the Americans
have put their money on_ the
wrong horse.” ae

Filion said he wanted to give “a
warning to our missionaries. It was
no longer enough to look after the
souls,” he said. They had “to be in-

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terested in and support all social
reforms” in the interests of the
masses of ‘Asia.

Commenting on the conference
in the Saturday edition of Le
Devoir, Andre Laurendeau writes
that the position of Filion is but
the continuation of the position
long adopted by the founder of
Le Devoir, the late Henri Bour-
rassa. After quoting Bourrassa
to the effect that the policy of
war and subjugation conducted
by the white men in Asia would
provoke a crisis, Laurendeau
says:

“Bourrassa was right. The planes,
the tanks, the soldiers of the west-
ern world have gone since on’ all
the roads of the world, and western
gold has mobilized yellow mercen-
aries. ‘Despite all the bloodshed,
despite all the gold distributed, we
have gone nearer the catastrophe.

“ . At the Plateau Hall, it was
as if Mr. Filion was saying: Yes,
you were right, Mr. Bourrassa. I
come back from China. JI _ have
seen what you predicted is begin-
ning to happen. In ‘China, India,
Pakistan, Ceylon, Indonesia, every-
where, the same clamor is mount-
ing. Asia does not have as yet the
strength ‘to pursue us into our own
soil. But we can feel all the tremor
of its revolt. You have seen far
ahead. I have been able to see on
the spot the fruits of hatred, ven-

POUT OTT MUTI UO uD DLL a

Filion ‘would be
welcome at other

parleys > says Boyd

TORONTO
Gerard Filion, editor of Le
Devoir, would “be welcomed at
other peace conferences, if he
cared to attend,” John Boyd told
a peace concert-rally here.

Boyd, a delegate to the Asian-
Pacific Peace Conference which
Filion also attended, referred to
a syndicated series of articles
written by the latter.

“Filion was invited to the Pek-
ing conference,” declared Boyd.
“He would be invited again. The
important thing is not his criti-
cism that ‘Russian imperialism’
was not attacked, but that he saw
for himself that the people of
Asia want peace, not war; that
they want the war in Korea end-
ed, something Filion himself
agrees with. .

“Peace,” emphasized Boyd, “is
everyone’s business. The people
of Asia do not care what your
opinion of their own land or
other lands may be as long as
you want peace. And peace can
only be achieved through the
unity of all peoples, including
anti-Communists and people like
Filion.”

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four centuries by exploitation and
egoism ... : ,

“But the saddest part of it is
there are still people who do not
understand — people who call, still
more and again, for the force of
arms !””

Filion’s conference shocked his “
French-Canadian audience. Stun-
ned silence and tenseness greeted
his strong condemnation of west-
ern imperialism and American pol
icy in Asia.

It is all the more regrettable that
he should have felt it advisable 'to
“spice” his conference with child-
ish, irrevelant and ofter downright
stupid distortions of facts about
some aspects of the conference and
life in People’s China, the People’s
Democracies and the Soviet Union-
(A similar attitude was taken bY
Filion in a series of articles pub-
lished here by the Vancouver Sun.)

Filion knows there is no regula?
passenger airlines between Moscow
and Peking, and that the Soviet
Union and the Chinese People’s R€
public made special arrangements
for the transportation of the pat
ticipants to the conference. yet
he refers with sarcasm to the “fam
tastic schedule of the Soviet air
lines,” comparing his flight betwee?
Moscow and Peking to regulat
flights over. Canada or - betwee?
Canada and Europe.

In more serious vein, he dismisse®
charges of germ warfare and atrock
ties committed by American troops —
in Korea on the ground that f9
each of them there ‘twas only on
witness,” which is, of course, 1°
true because Filion himself wa’
able to see the reports of the vat
ous ‘commissions that investigat
these problems and quoted ma?
witnesses. :

While appearing to be so scr
pulous for corroboration: abou
U.S. war crimes about which thet?
are thousands of witnesses, Filie?
speaks seriously about. the “Kat
forest massacre of Polish office
by the Red Army,” a Nazi fabric®” |
tion exposed years ago with doct™
mentary evidence, but now tak
up again in the U.S. Senate W n
only one witness, who testif
wearing a mask and whose identity
was not revealed for “reasons
security.” A newspaperman
some experience, Filion knows this:
Such remarks were unworthy of
and reflect an unwillingness to f#

geance and death engineered for

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the facts as they are.

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