INDONESIANS DEMAND LIBERATION OF W. IRIAN.
Photo shows one of the many huge rallies held in Indonesia

recently to demand return of
mers read:

“Take back West Irian.” “Oppose colonialism.”

West Irian to Indonesia, Ban-

‘Liberal top brass caught with

nuclear arms policy showing

Secret national council meetings of the Liberal Party
in Ottawa last week are so secret that most segments
of the party don’t know what’s going on.

Real -reason, of course, is
that-the Liberals haven’t been
able to hammer out a vigor-
our program for Canada in
an election year, in spite of
the blunders of the Tory gov-
ernment.

Party leader Lester Pear-
son, after 444 years spouting
in Opposition benches, hasn’t
come up with any dynamic
leadership or forward-looking

U.S. pressures Canada to
abandon Cuba, China trade

Blackmail, top-level pres-
sures and threats were the
weapons used by the United
States at the Organization of
American States (OAS) con-
ference in Punta Del Este,
Uruguay, to browbeat the
eountries of Latin America
into supporting U.S. political
and economic “sanctions”
against the government and
people of Cuba.

After a full week of haggl-
ing, blustering and threaten-
ing, U.S. imperialism manag-
ed to line up the necessary
number of OAS votes to “con-
demn” Cuba as being “‘incom-
patible with the inter-Amer-
ican system.” But it was a
phyrric victory for President
Kennedy’s bribe-loaded “Al-
liance for Progress’ in Latin
America.

In the tremendous demon-

strations of solidarity with
Cuba in a number of Latin

Sat., Feb. 10
Slides — the Latest —
on Cuba
Grand Social Evening at
3023 West 4th’ Ave.
8:30 p.m.

‘(Take 4th ioe Bus to
Bayswater)

FUN & GOOD FOOD
OUR SPECIALTY
Everyone welcome

NSE se ete ae,
Concert - Meeting

CELEBRATING —
40TH ANNIVERSARY -
COMMUNIST PARTY
OF CANADA

Hear

TIM BUCK
THURS., FEB. 22.

8 p.m.

Dreamland Hall

(Church St. opposite
Eaton’s)

- NEW WESTMINSTER

Refreshments Served
Everyone Welcome

American countries, it is al-
ready clear that Latin Ameri-
can governments coerced into
supporting US-inspired politi-
cal and economic aggression
against the Republic of Cuba,
will not be able ° to impose
such policies upon their pov-
erty-ridden populations, who
look to Cuba as a mighty in-
spiration in their struggles
against U.S. domination in
Latin America.

Fully aware that its ‘“‘vic-
tory” in the OAS conference
fell far short of the desired
aim, Washington is now put-
ting on additional pressures
upon Canada to terminate its
trade -relations with Cuba,
China-and other countries in
the Socialist sector of the
world.

Answering these pressures
the Diefenbaker government
has made it clear that, short
of so-called “strategic” mater-
ials, Canada will continue its
present (and growing) trade
relations with Cuba and will
not join in Washington’s de-
mands for an-all-out embargo.
For Canadian economy and
jobs this is all to the good,
but to maintain this indepen-
dent position in respect to
trade with Cuba, it requires
an alert and united Canadian
opinion, standing solidly for
continued trade and friend-
ship with the government and
people of Cuba.

As with Cuba, U.S. pres-
sures and open expressions of
dissatisfaction with and about
Canadian trade with China
(wheat shipments), are becom-
ing more open, vocal and ar-
rogant. Threats of “counter-
measures” against ‘“mon-co-
operating states’ emanating
from the Pentagon and _ top-
level U.S: spokesmen are be-
coming more numerous, and
invariably couched in -the

coldwar language of “anti-
Castroism” and “anti-Com-|#&
munism.”

Trade export figures with

1960 and approximately $28
million in 1961, with possibil-
ities of still greater expan-
sion. In both years the bal-
ance of Canada-Cuba trade
was heavily in Canada’s fa-
vor. The arrogant bluster and
interference applied by U.S.
imperialism in the OAS ses-
sions are now being stepped-
up to compel Canada to toe
the U.S. “embargo” line on
Cuba. :
Canada’s independence, ec-
onomy and jobs. require that
trade with Cuba and the coun-

be expanded to the limit of
possibilities, rather than arbi-
trarily crippled by. a U.S.-
imposed “embargo.”

tries of the Socialist world |

‘policy. He remains a volatile

slick critic, but that’s all.
During the Throne Speech
debate, Pearson cracked down
on the Tories for omitting:
1. Effective action to com-
bat chronic unemployment.
2. Action to. stimulate ec-
onomic growth;
3. Practical alternatives to

changing world trade pat-
terns;

4. An intelligent defence
policy.

Liberal campaign propagan-
da already claims “the Liber-
als have the answer” but no-
where and from no one is
“the answer” spelled out. For
each Tory promise, the Liber-
als are trying to go one bet-
ter. Yet a promise is only a
promise as Canadians have
learned in the last 30 years.

Even Walter Gordon, chair-
man of the Liberal campaign.
committee, revealed in Otta-
wa last Sunday that the par-
ty’s policy on old. age pen-
sions will have to be changed
since the Tories moved to

boost pensions $10 to
month,

There was even gf
consternation in the Li
camp over an_ incident
Ottawa last weekend. Al
the incident, the liberal br
could well be contemplall
that:

“To be young is to s
from ‘hoof-in-mouth’ dise

About 200 student Lib

from campuses across Cané
gathered in Ottawa for a &
ference. of the Liberal
versity Federation, just
fore the national coi
meeting of the Liberal P.
During a “top secret” ¢
cus at the conference, Lib
al leader Lester B. Pears
made a few remarks ab

policy.
Subsequently, one off :
conference delegate, Ji

Karasevich from the Uni
sity of Manitoba, repor
; Pearson as saying that if “
allies could convince us
foreign nuclear bases
necessary on our soil, we
have to have them.”

(Our “allies” of course, ¢
99 percent the United Stat

Senior party members W

quick to explain that Pears
had used the word “‘conside

Jobless March
Support Asked

Vancouver Labor Coun-
cil Tuesday night heard an
appeal by a spokesman for
the unemployed to give
“every measure of support
possible for the big job-
less march on Victoria on
February 21.”

Unemployed Council
Vice . President Roy
Hawken told the delegates
the march should impress
on the government at Vic-
toria its responsibility for
the grave jobless situation
in B.C...

At UBC Armories. Tues-
day evening, before an audi-
ence of over two thousand
people, Canadian nuclear
physicist Dr. Norman Z.
Alcock launched his $2. mil-
lion fund - raising campaign
for the Canadian Peace Re-
search Institute with the
simple statement that “war
is obsolete.”

On the platform, against a
backdrop of a pair of scales
symbolizing the main slogan
of the campaign “You can
tip the scales for peace,”
were representatives of po-
litical parties, churches, the
City Council, the University,
the Council of Jewish
Women and the Vancouver
Labour Council.

Speaking simply and di-

Cuba stood at $13 million in |fe

MORE TOURISTS
A 25 percent increase in

two-way tourism should -re- |;

sult from agreements conclud-
ed between Czechoslovakia
and foreign travel agencies.
It is expected 264,000 tourists
will visit the country next
year, while 204,000 Czechs
and Slovaks will. journey

CELEBRATE END OF LITERACY DRIVE CUBA.

Hundreds of thousands of voluntary teachers, some shown
above, held a huge celebration in Havana Dec. 22 to mark
the end of the successful literacy drive. During 1961 some
707,000 persons learnt to read and write. Cuba is the first
Latin American country to end illiteracy. 96.1% of the

people are now literate,

‘War obsolete’ Alcock
tells large city rally

rectly, Dr. Alcock explain
that Peace Research is n
sary because the new we
ons developed over the p
ten years have made war
a solution obsolete. There
no defense against the hyd
gen bomb, he emphasize
“T want to make it ve
clear that we cannot ha
war. We must have an alté
native.”

He went on to declare th

delusion and so are fall-ol!
shelters. :
Answering, as he sa
some of the questions in a!
vance, he spoke of his belli
that Peace Research Institu
could be established in ~
countries, “Communist, not
Communist, or neutral,
which would promote the
own programs and wit!
which Canada could co-o
ate.
_ Dr. R.. H.. Wright,
chaired the meeting becaus
of the sudden illness of D
Keenleyside, gave the inte
national co-operation on

i! scientific level which h

been achieved at the Pu
WaSh conference as an @

ample of what could be dom!

by the Peace Research I
stitutes.

The program included tw
songs by Eleanor Collins,
lullaby. “Little Brown Baby |
and “The House I Live I”
and a playlet on the them
of. Why Peace Research ;
stitutes? written by Doroth
Davies. and performed
well-known local actors a!
actresses. It closed with #
mass- singing of “A Song #
Peace” by Lloyd Stone to #

tune of Finlandia.

February 9; 1962—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page | S

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