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: a ‘ ‘ and Britain are reaping profit he told his Chief of the High
: ’ from the promise of future death. Command, Keitel:
@ : “The time will come when —
All this is proclaimed to be in the tension between the Alles
the interests of democracy and will become so great that the
freedom, because the world ‘is break will occur just the same.
threatened by the Russians, be- All of the coalitions have dis

cause the “Atlantic community” integrated in history sooner OF
must be preserved. later. The only thing is to wait

Here, brought about in reality, for the right moment ne matter,
is Hitler’s fondest hope; ex- how hard it is.”

pressed at his military confer-- mye fighting men of Russia,
ence on August 31, 1944, when, fpyitain, “America and France
according to Hitler Directs His made sure Hitler himself could
War (Oxford University Press), not wait personally for the
‘ “right moment”. but his succes
VEVEVRUMNRNENERUENENENEIEIENENEOEEENEE §=©SOrs in Bonn now feel the mo
‘ ment is near.
The question before the Cana-

dian people, as before the people —

. of every other Western coun-

> try, is “whether they will allow
: . : aE ° . ; themselves to be bamboozled in-
: : to attempting to finish the joP

that Hitler could not do. :

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Will they allow their living |

WO world wars have cost the : : ne
T Jd a minimum of $2,200,- standards to be slashed, the buil

Phases Pyare cae , ing of hospitals, schools, bridge’
Ry ay eee ree 2 : « and other public works deferred
and over 50 million human lives | See etsy, contests, aa

—more than three times the popu- try converted to war production
Jation of Canada an@ equal to —all part of ‘present) gover=~

the population of Britain. mental policies looking toward
* the launching of an anti-com-

/ ;
Figures like these are far be- munist third world war? ;
yond the average persons grasp. e »
sum total of : ; In Eastern Europe, where
They represent a ah See te : construction has-raised new cities

human suffering before which the from the ruins of the old, thé
mind can only reel with horror. ; scars of war are fast being heat
ed. In Western Europe, wheté
thousands still live amid the
rubble of the last war and thé »
impressive new construction #
bomber bases, the scars are TU?
ning sores. Shall another

They are figures that make you PP) de EE Ta HUT A TL Uk

realize how few people there are
alive in Europe today who have
not lost one or more of their
immediate family circle in the

horrors of modern war within its
own borders since its own Civil
War of the eighteen-sixties.

last “two world wars—for it is é

Europe which has borne the gue e Pee Gaol biases e as to rip the scars ee
. ill i res:

brunt of the suffering. enemy bomb or gun. It is only a 3 Beal tbe SR a

These are questions the Can:
adion people—and the people of
Britain, France, the 'U.S.—™U
answer with their response
the demand for a_five-p0
peace pact. :

In the Second World War, Eur- in recent years that houses there
ope, including the Soviet Union, have been damaged by explosions
L Ruane te awe veutiered © 0D the tenkay ayiere the weapone
total of 23,788,000 fatal casualties of a third world war are being
without taking into account ‘ested: and: developed.
hundreds of thousands of people ent) in Phamreation the: world
who perished under Hitler’s rule mainly in Europe, honkes,
in the Balkans, of whom no tally schools, crops and public ser-
has ever been made. vices worth $195,000 million were
destroyed between 1939 and 1945
—the work of hundreds of years
wrecked in six,

The nations of the socialist 5°
tor of the world have alre
given their answer, by endore
ing the appeal for a five-powe®
peace pact, by making disse” is
ation of war propaganda @ Ch"
by building for peace—not ie
If the Canadian people add thet
voice to the powerful demand ia
peace, there will be no
world war.

Is it any wonder that in coun-
try after country millions of
people who know what war really
means are signing the demand
for a five-power peace pact? é

They look at their millions of Every year hundreds of
dead; compare them with the’ thousands of people in the world
520,488 Americans who were- die of hunger because there is
nineg . Lae eee ee gerd not enough food being produced 1 (EES MMM AM OT
why ey shou ow them- i, thei t of : - ®
selves to be herded yet a third oi ae us Rie ne ps oe
time to the slaughter to satisfy Tractors are needed to plough

the power-hungry bosses of a : a }
nation which has never seen the Hes, conti, neriipers © to. Te"
: plenish the soil, machines to dig } ; ' ‘

irrigation ditches, ships to carry

© peut
srieneneneyenieiel :

Spo encrone: TS neces he World Peace Council’s campaign for; Denmark
Yet the Second World War saw a Five-Power Peace Pact is being} Finland yarns 600,
48 million tons of merchant ship- carried out in a number of countries] Holland
‘ping and nearly 12 million toms throughout the world. Partial results|,,q
of naval shipping sent to the are tabulated below: : onesia
bottom of the ocean. . Sot ae é Iraq
How many tractors and ma- Albania A . 865,885 Tran. :
chines could have been built in- Bulgaria ) 5,630,000] Italy (7 provinces) 1,200.¥
stead of the 5,157,458 tanks and (Czechoslovakia 9,020,522] Japan (Tokyo) |
trucks produced by the Allies China : ; 259 000 000 ; ue
for that war? a a ae are? Lebanon
How much fertiliser could have Huns cs 6,500,000 Canada
been produced in place of the - ungary eso Ohl 7,148,000] Cuba
82,352 million bombs, mines and Mongolia = > 5,633,877 | Austria
rounds of ammunition? Poland : 18,053,315 Siam :
For every eee ee the Rumania 11,060,141 | Scotland
Alli¢s produced 9, rounds of Vietnam - H ] 400 000 S ri
‘ammunition of all kinds. Turned At and: ie arma Sek yaya
to the pursuits of peace a quarter German Democratic oe ia ; Sweden (Stockholm, -
of the steel and sage ale _ Republic 4 "fod 25h DOB O24 Goeteborg )
in those 9,150 rounds cou ve 4 . :
rgentina. - 200,000 | Uruguay
d the lives of many friends. : ' : i i t
eee S ‘ Belgium 5 119,383 | Germany (West Berlin)
Yet once again the arsenals of Bya7il (Sao Paulo, ert Guatemal
the capitalist world are busy. Ry ; d J 7 5 ala
Every kind of weapon is being aon 10 de aneiro) 110,889 Cyprus
piled up, from atom bombs to re- Britain 200,000] France (Seine Department)
volver bullets. The few men who - ' ' ‘ ;
control the industry of America® pigs : pase ci

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