wort 14) So 3 ares British TC ubiee sami 25, 1955 Wigs Jad 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!