U.S. admits Bomarcs useless except
to draw fire on Canadian targets

SEND BOMARC BACK

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FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1963
VOL. 23, NO. 14

VANCOUVER,

REJECT

Big NDP Forum rally

NDP leader T. C. Douglas spoke
toa capacity crowd estimated at
10.000 Wednesday night at the
Vancouver Forum.

He said a major issue in this
election is to restore ownership
and control of Canada’s economy
to the Canadian people.

Blasting the Liberal Party as
the “fat cats’’, he said Pearson
1S now “the darling of Bay St.”

The enthusiastic audience loud-
ly applauded Douglas’ proposals
to put Canada’s economy to work
raising living standards and in-
creasing purchasing power.

Speaking the nicht before in
Eastern Canada Douglas said the
Liberal “war chest” for election
Campaigning has been heavily
Supported by U.S. money, and
that Canadian subsidiaries of U.S.
‘Corporations have made big do-
Nations to the Liberal fund.

The Forum was packed as was

greets Tommy Douglas

TOMMY DOUGLAS. who has
been drawing the largest el-
ection rallies across Canada
because of the NDP’s stand
against nuclear weapons, has
a good chance of holding the
balance of power in the next

Parliament.

pc. LOC

A-WEAPONS

Disclosure last Friday by U.S. defense secretary McNamara
that the Bomarcs are practically useless, and that “at the very
least’ they can act as “decoys” to “draw fire,” has thrown the
Liberal policy into crisis, and given rise to the demand to
scrap the Bomarcs and send them back to the U.S.

Also revealing, in McNamara’s
testimony, was that he had re-
fused to give the go ahead with
the Zike and other anti-missile
rockets on the grounds that their
use greatly increases the danger
to the population because of fall-
out from nuclear explosions.

This admission repudiates
earlier claims of the Liberals
and pro-nuclear Tories that use
of the Bomarc warheads would
leave civilian populations un-
harmed.

During the past week B.C. Com.
munist Party candidates Tom
McEwen in Vancouver South, and
Charles Caron in Coast-Capilano,
have urged electors to demand
that the Bomarcs be crated up
and shipped back to the U.S.

Both have made the point that
McNamara’s admission makes
the Liberal plan to arm the Bo-
marc with nuclear warheads ‘‘ab-
solutely ridiculous.”

In a final appeal to the voters
the Communist candidates have
urged rejection of nuclear arms
as the best way to register the
demand for Canada to stay out
of the nuclear arms race, and to
halt U.S. interfererce in Canadian
affairs.

MORRIS STATEMENT

Commenting on McNamara’s
testimony, Leslie Morris, national
leader of the Communist Party
said Monday:

The new revelations by U.S.
secretary of defence McNamara

LESLIE MORRIS, Commun-
ist Party national leader,
warned this week the aim of
the U.S. is to “make Canada
part of Fortress America.”

that the Bomarcs are useful as
“decoys” to “draw fire’ have
thrown the Bomarc Liberals into
a crisis.

But in all of this lies a danger
that people will also be ‘‘de-
coyed”’ into thinking that the
Bomares are not so important
after all.

The ‘‘comic opera’”’ aspect of a
“defense” weapon that not only
will not defend but on occassion
can boomerang upen us (as Paul
Hellyer admitted in B.C. recent-
ly) may, unless we are careful,
hide the real meaning of the
American pressure to arm Cana-
da with nuclear weapons.

As the Communist Party has

said in this campaign, the real
aim of Kennedy and Pearson is
to make Canada a part of “Fort-
ress America’’—a hostile, aggres-
sive North American nuclear
stronghold composed of the U.S.
and Canada, under U.S. com-
mand, from which the rest of the
world can be threatened and bul-
lied into accepting American im-
perialist policy.

U.S. CRISIS

Kennedy’s Western European
allies in NATO—Britain, West
Germany, France—are becoming
balky and cannot be relied on
permanently to pursue U.S. aims.
They have their own imperial-
ist fish to fry.

Latin America is pregnant with
revolt. The American aim of de-
stroying Cuba is failing. Mexico,
the southern neighbor of the U.S.
refuses to be its military ally.

As Kennedy’s difficulties with
his NATO partners increase he
turns to Canada, his ‘‘closest
ally”, as the Liberals say.

For 14 years Canada has been
in NATO, but we haven’t got nuc-
lear weapons yet. The time has
come, says Washington, to end
this procrastination and to en-
snare Canada in nuclear ‘‘Fort-
ress America’”’ via the Liberal
Party.

While the immediate issue is
the Bomarc, the real issue is to
push Canada into accepting nuc-
lear arms. Bomarc is the thin

See BOMARCS. pg. 8

the Exhibition Gardens.
_—_—_————_.
‘No

Thousands of men, women and youth op-
Posed to the Liberal betrayal to the U.S. on
Uclear arms, greeted the above group in
*8Ncouver’s Forum Monday night when they
Stood up at the opening of Liberal leader

nuclear arms’

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Lester Pearson’s
letters spelling out, ‘No
received
ience turned their back’
Pearson to applaud the group. The strong

cry thousands

speech and displayed these
Nuclear Arms’. They

a long ovation as most of the aud-
to Liberal leader

at Pearson rally

Liberals.

opposition to nuclear arms displayed by the
public at Pearson’s rallies has shaken the

—Photo S. Friedman