REPORT

Solon Low won't retract forged

quotations he read into Hansard

‘ AS what might be called the
#* case of the false quotations
unfolds at Ottawa it increases)
the political embarrassment of
Solon Low, Social ‘Credit nation-
al leader, who read them into
Hansard, and Prof. Watson Kirk-
connell, who used them in a
CBC broadcast.

The case has been completely
ignored by Vancouver © dailies
which apparently preferred to
spare their readers the spectacle
of the national leader of a politi-
cal party reading anti-commun-
ist forgeries to justify his argu-
ments for German rearmament.

On January 20, when Solon
Low spoke in the House of Com-
- mons, he read two* quotations.
One, attributed to Lenin, pur-

portedly read: ?

“For we will take eastern Eur-
ope, then the nations of Asia,
then we will encircle the United
_ States, which will be the last

‘bastion of capitalism. _We will

not have to attack. It will fall

like an over-ripe fruit into our
_ “We must secure the goodwill
of teachers and professors in
schools and universities, of lib-.
eral ministers of religion, and of
pacifists and reformers of the
world in order to create a mental
barrage in the minds of the capi-
talist youth, which shall forever

bar them from participating in a
carnal conflict with the commun-
ist order.” :

The other, claimed by Low to
have been made by Dmitri Man-
uilsky, first foreign minister of
the Soviet Ukraine and a foun-
der of the United Nations, read:
“War to the hilt between com-
munism and capitalism is inevit-

_ able. Today, of course, we are
- not strong enough to attack. Our
time will come in 20 or 30 years.
“To win we shall’ need the
element of surprise. The bour-

- geoisie will have to be put to
sleep. So we shall begin by’
launching the most spectacular
peace movement on record. There

will be electrifying overtures and

unheard-of concessions. The capi-
talist countries, stupid and deca-
dent, will rejoice to cooperate in
their own destruction. They will
leap at another chance to be
friends. As soon as their guard
is down we shall smash them
with our clenched fist.”

On January 25, John Stewart,
editor of the Canadian Tribune,
wrote a letter to Solon Low de-
nouncing the quotations he had
used as “deliberate forgery.”

Stewart demanded that Low

either give the source of his

quotations “so they can he veri-

_ fied as forgeries by honest men;
or retract them.”
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In the meantime, Stewart check-

ed with ‘both the Parliamentary
Library at Ottawa, which was un-
able to find the alleged quota-
tions used by Low, and the U.S.
Library of Congress at Washing-
ton, which sent this reply:

“We have checked all of the
indexes to Lenin’s works avail-
able in the Library of Congress
as well as many of his articles
and speeches and have made a
cursory examination of Manuil-
sky’s works, but have failed to
find any reference to the quota-
tions enclosed in your letter.”

The Library of Congress let-
ter noted that a “quotation” such
as that attributed to Lenin by
Solon Low had been used in U.S.
“internal security” investigations,

‘and gave as the authority An-

thony Marcus, president of the
Institute of Foreign Affairs, New
York.

The letter continued: |

“The source of this quotation
is given as Volume 10, Collected
Works of Lenin, p. 172, but
though we have checked Volume
10 in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Rus-
sian editions and in the edition
published in English by the Co-
operative Publishing Society of
Foreign Workers in the USSR,
we have found no such state-
ment.” :

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In view of the mounting evi-

dence that his “quotations” had

tion’ from Lenin, Low gave the
London Intelligence Digest, edit-
ed by Kenneth deCourcy, No. 193,
December 1954, page 2. And, as

Stewart- noted in reply, “de-
Courcy ... is a notorious pro-
fessional anti-communist who

_makes-his living at this sort of

indeed been forgeries, Solon Low ©

finally decided to reply.

His letter of February 18, pub-
lished in full in the Canadian
Tribune, confirmed the fact that
he had gone, not to Lenin’s and
Manuilsky’s works for his “quota-
tions” but to the most notorious
anti-communist sources.

As his authority for the “quota-

- Soviet Union, the People’s

thing.”

The source of his “quotation”
from Manuilsky, Low said, was
an article entitled “The War of
Peace” by Richard L. Stokes in
Human Events, Vol. 10, No. 32,
August 12, 1953.

Stokes, he said, had obtained
his information from Joseph
Zach Kornfeder, a former mem-
ber of the U.S. Communist party
who had become “disillusioned
with communism” in the thirties
and resigned from the party.

Stewart straightened out this
statement by pointing out that
Kornfeder did not resign from
the U.S. Communist party, he
was expelled “for actions harm-
ful to the labor movement and
since then has served as a paid
informer for the FBI.”

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Low thas refused to retract his
statements on the floor of the
House, but Stewart’s challenge
still stands, reinforced now by
evidence linking Low’s forged
“quotation” from Lenin with the
US. “Project X” for organizing
espionage and terrorism in the

De-
mocracies and China.
Last week, in a brochure pub-

lished by the American Friends

of Russian Freedom, headed by
Admiral Stanley, open advocate
of war against the Soviet Union,
Stewart found the same “quota-
tion” used by Low in the House.

use of atomic weapons

‘PROTECT OUR CHILDREN’

Congress of Mothers |
to be held in July

wove representing organiza-
tions in 45 countries - as-
sembled in Geneva last month
for the fifth session of the Wo-
men’s International Democratic
Federation Council meeting to
help plan a World . Congress of
Mothers to be held early in July.

They heard a stirring message
written by Queen Elizabeth of
Belgium, who said:

“J welcome with great emo-
tion the proposal to convene a
‘World Congress of Mothers. In
warmly approving this idea, I
hope the love which the moth-
ers of the whole world bear to
their children will overcome the
forces of evil.”

Leading women of - various
countries told of actions of wo-
men in support of the Congress
of Mothers. ;

The WIDF Council meeting,
after hearing reports of these
activities, agreed unanimously to
bring together women from all
lands and from all walks of life,
regardless of color, race, religion
or political belief, in an effort to
bring about peace and friendship
among all nations, against the
of all
kinds, and for disarmament.

An appeal to mothers of the
world adopted by the meeting
declares:

“In the name of mother love
that unites us all, we cannot ac-

cept the idea that war is in-
evitable — and we say we do
not want war, we have in us
the strength to prevent,it and
we must make our voices heard.
It is our duty to protect our
children from the evils menac-
ing them. Mothers of the whole
world — in the name of life that
we all give, let us unite to com-
‘pel peace.”
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Mrs. Marge Ferguson, execu-
tive secretary of the Congress of
Canadian Women, who attended
the Council meeting, said:

“Canadian women will surely
ibe happy to adopt this appeal as
a basis for a beginning of a real
effort to join with each other,
and with women of other lands,
to see that peace is maintained,
and that atomic weapons are out-
lawed.

“This effort cannot be separ-
ated from the collecting of signa-
tures recently launched in a
petition of the World Peace
Council.” :

Mrs. Ferguson recalled the
words of Mme. Eugenie Cotton,
WIDF president, who said:

“All mothers, rich or poor,
look on their child with the same
expression of love that has been

immortalized by so many great -

painters. The humblest peasant
woman, and the finest lady

HUE BU EEE sue Tt tn al

US. tycoon

BROOKLYN mining tycoon
has gained a stranglehold on
Ontario’s new uranium deposits,
said to be one of the richest in
the world.
Joseph H. Hirshorn, described
by Time magazine as “a fast-
talking, cigar-chewing promoter,”
has completed a deal with the
federal government which, ac-
cording to Time, “will make him
the No. 1 uranium producer of
Canada, if not the world.”
Hirshorn owns a million shares
of Algom Uranium Mines Ltd.,
at Blind River, Ontario, on the
highway between Sudbury and
Sault Ste. Marie. He estimates
that the holdings he*has staked

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gets Ontario uranium

in the past two years are today:

worth between $2 and $3 billion.
- In February, he signed a cost-
plus contract with the . federal
government, the only purchaser
of uranium in Canada, to sup-
ply $207 million worth of uran-
jum by December 31, 1961—the
biggest contract by far ever sign-
ed by the government. (Profit to
Algom is estimated at
lion by Time.)

Algom financed its operations
in part through the British Rio
Tinto Company Ltd., which put
up $57.6 million through loans
and stock purchase. Hirshorn
owns 36 percent of the shares;
Preston East Dome Mines (gold)
which was used for early staking

ne,

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100 mil-

ee a

e
and which is also controlled by

Hirshorn, owns 45 percent of
the shares; Hirshorn’s associates
have 100,000; only 400,000 are
available to the general public.
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Hirshorn owns a score of en-
terprises in Canada in mines and
oil. In 1950, Attorney-General
Goldstein of New York state is-
sued a/warning to investors
against buying shares in Hir-
shorn’s other uranium mine hold-
ings (American-Canadian Atha-
-basca) “because the promoters
were making too much,”

‘The Brooklyn promoter’s com-
ment on his latest strike:

“I'm just sittin’ on eggs wait-
in’ for them to hatch.”

IOUT TCLS TLC IC IC ROI CUC IC IC UNL TU ICH CUCU UT nahi

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MARCH 11, 1955

‘ have brought into the world — —

‘well known fact that the United

. flict.

“ofsthe wishes of the member

there.

alike, have equally well served
as models for the Virgin and
Child in many paintings.

“But the price of such happl
ness is anguish and fear —
mothers. tremble before any
threat menacing the child they

hunger, cold, sickness, fear —
and above all the threat of wat —

with all its terrible conse
quences. Mothers everywhere
echo the words of Victor Hug® ;

‘Though God should give his -
divinest star, the child you gave —
is dearer far.’” :

Among the 200 women attend
ing the council meeting were Te
presentatives from most of the
countries of Europe, from the
Americas and from China, Japa?: |
Vietnam and India, united in one ;
purpose despite their different
political and religious back
grounds, to maintain peace and —
strengthen friendship throughout
the world.

LETTERS

DIGEST

Cloak for aggression

S.M., Vancouver, B.C.: It is # —

States government (Wall Street)
is using an anti-communist cat
paign as a cloak for aggressio}: |
Likewise the enemies of labo
are using the same tactics J#
their fight against organize¢
labor. They wish to assure thet
selves that they can dictate 10
the unions who their offices
should be. These are the same —
people who pass anti-labor laws:
and seek to disrupt and weake®
organized labor by internal coo” —
They know that the com
‘munists are the most active 2m
loyal trade unionists, hence the=
efforts to oust them regardless

ships.

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Hearst on Soviet Union |

READER, Seattle: Speaking @
a luncheon in the Ranier
here last week, William Randol?!
Hearst Jr., editor-in-chief
Hearst Newspapers, told of bié
recent trip to Russia and his
terviews with leading figure®

Hearst said that at the cov
clusion of a long talk he had wit
Nikita Khrushchev, the first se
retary of the Communist Pa
of the Soviet Union, said with
smile: i ae.

“Tf, when you return to the fF
United States, you are: summer “|
ed before Senator McCarthy, J¢
me know and I will be glad '
come over and testify that Yo |
represented the interests of YOU |
country very well indeed.” oo
“Hearst reported that the Rus
sians showed concern with thé

U.S. policy of setting up a riné

of military bases for the Or

tainment of communism.” Be

‘comment on this reveals a Pe |

liar type of mind. ae
“These bases clearly worty |

the Russians, although we point :
ed out that such bases do sth 4a
worry the Cubans or the M&
cans or Canadians and should ® ‘i
bother any neighbor with
thing on his conscience.” __ da
To this argument, Hearst sak i
one Russian leader responded,
“The next thing you will
asking for a base within the
viet Union itself.”

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