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PRICE TEN -CENTS

_ ‘USE ATOM FOR PEACE’

SSR ASKS
0 BAN ALL A-WEAPONS

ie Killer’s calendar

by Ralph Parker
page 9

| broke the law’
by Keith Ralston
page 2

ALD Me

LONDON

The Soviet Union last week called for a world conference this year to ban all
atomic weapons and to freeze all armaments at present levels. It suggested the conference
should be called by the United Nations, and it asked all states to give two simple under-

takings:
To destroy completely the
stocks of atomic and hydro-
gen weapons in their posses-
sion and to use atomic mater-
ials exclusively for peaceful
purposes.
_ Not to increase the number
of their armed forces and of
their armaments above the
level of January 1, 1955, and
also not to increase their mili-
tary budgets above the appro-
priations for the year 1955.
The statement, broadcast by
Moscow Radio, declared that the

USSR was in favor “of setting .

up an international control for
the supervision of the above-
mentioned decisions.”

“Not a single state—whether
or not it is a member of the

United Nations—must be exclud-
ed from joining in the solution of
this very important and urgent
task,” it said.)

It pointed to the dangers of the
Paris agreements on German re-
armament and the decision last
December of the North Atlantic
powers to prepare for atomic
war.

“The vital interests of the peo-
ples demand the solution, with-
out delay, of the question of
banning atomic weapons, so that
atomic power—that great discov-
ery of the human genius — can
not be put to such uses as the
terrible slaughter of people,’ it
said.

Continued on back page
See ATOM

British-U.S.
rift widens
over. China

LONDON

The rift between Britain and
the United States over Far East
policy widened this week when
Prime Minister Winston Chur-
chill told the House of Commons
that Britain will not become in-
volved in the defense of Chinese
coastal islands now occupied by
Chiang Kai-shek forces.

Churchill, while he rejected a
proposal made by the Labor
party that he send Foreign Min-
ister Anthony Eden to Peking
for a conference with Premier
Chou En-lai, neveretheless also
made it plain that if the U.S. goes
to war against China over the
coastal islands, Britain will not
become involved.

Churchill’s speech clarifying
Britain’s position follows a state-
ment by U.S. Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles opposing any
withdrawal of Chiang Kai-shek’s
troops from the offshore -islands
opposite Formosa.

@ Friendship for Hector
Crombie, secretary of Victoria
Chamber of Commerce, apparent-
ly includes handing our resources
to U.S. monopolies so that a few
Canadians can get rich from the
deals. He posed for picture at
left showing him tearing down
an LPP “Stop the U.S. Grab of
B.C. Resources” poster on the
Island Highway because, he
claimed, LPP members were “‘de-
luded Canadians disrupting
friendly relations between neigh-
boring democracies.” But - few
Canadians are so deluded as to
believe that giving away our re-
sources to the U.S. will help Can-
ada’s development!