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Ninth session of the United Nations Assembly is now being held.

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DISARMAMEN r

document behind which every-
body can unite.

The Canadian proposal is not,
of course, a distinct plan for dis-
armament. It is a procedural
move, enabling the UN Assembly
to go ahead and lay down the
frame of reference for further
negotiation.

Canada’s resolution was made
possible by the central develop-

ment at this session which was-

the Soviet declaration of Sep-
tember 30: In that, the USSR
no longer put forward the un-
conditional prohibition of nu-
clear weapons as a priority to a
system of disarmament and con-
trols.
As outlined by Paul Martin,
Canada’s minister of health and
welfare, the UN Disarnfament
Commission ‘would reconvene
the sub-committee, consisting of
the United States, the Soviet Un-
ion, Britain, France and Canada,
which had conducted private dis-
cussions in London last spring.
This sub-committee would not be
bound by the deadline of the As-
sembly’s mid-December adjourn-

ment, but would report to the .

UN Security Council as well as
the Assembly “as soon as suf-
ficient progress has been made.”

The Canadian draft embodies
the objectives of total prohibition
of the weapons of mass destruc-
tion, and a system of disarma-
ment control “adequate to guar-
antee” effective observance such
that “no state would have cause
to fear that its security was en-
dangered.” In Canada’s pro-
posal, the phrase “balanced re-
duction” appears. It is likely
that the West ‘will agree to the

Soviet request that it be deleted. ~

It supposedly counters the Soviet
“percentage” plan.

The Canadian draft also couples
the peaceful use of atomic energy
with the disarmament proposal,
alluding to the separate point on
the UN agenda, the U.S. so-called
“atomic pool” plan.

he Canadian proposals, as
bc by Martin’s criticism of
Vishinsky’s position, are quite a
ways from the Soviet position,
and they may require some iron-
ing out before the USSR sponsors
a resolution jointly with the U.S.,
Britain and France.

Although Vishinsky’s plan takes
the Western Powers’ own -propos-
als of last June as a basis, they
still put up such a “barrage of
_ questions,” in Vishinsky’s phrase,
“so that one would think they are

deliberately seeking excuses for
not going ahead.

Selwyn Lloyd of Britain has
asked whether the USSR agrees
that a system of controls must
be established before disarma-
ment begins, and whether the
Soviet Union will allow the con-
trol system to be stationed and
ready in all countries prior to the
actual disarmament measures,

The Western Powers envisage
a control system so autonomous
that it would itself have the
power of sanctions in cases of
violation.

Vishinsky has painstakingly re-
plied that any control system
would work under instructions
previously laid down.in a disarm-
ament convention. These rules
might give certain powers of
policing to the control system,
but the ultimate powers of sanc-
tions would have to lie in the
Security Council, where the UN
Charter originally placed them.

Vishinsky has repeatedly warn-
ed. that the procedures of dis-
armament must not become a
way of wrecking the UN Charter.
But he consistently adds that in-
stead of listing hypothetical ques-

tions to hypothetical situations in

advance, and using these to balk
the whole idea, the thing to do
is to sit down and agree to basic
principles, and then work out the
methods by a negotiated con-
vention. :

“couver Civic Employees’

John Hewitt, teacher at Shawni-
gan Lake School, flew to Kingston,
Jamaica, from Victoria on Mon-
day this week, hoping to bring his
wife Dorothy back to their honey-
moon cottage on the school
grounds. Hewitt said the board of
governors had offered to pay all
expenses for the trip.

Action of the board of governors
came after country-wide protests
had been made against action of
the school’s headmaster, who had
allegedly asked the pretty bride to

leave “before the boys return and

see a colored person here.”

Noel F. deB. Holtz, accountant
general of Jamaica and father of
Mrs. Hewitt, has written a letter
to Jack Phillips, secretary of Van-
Union,
Outside Workers, in reply to a
letter from Phillips containing a
copy of a resolution on the case
unanimously passed by union
members attending a regular mem-
bership meeting.

The called

union resolution

upon the governors of the school -

to “state publicly, and without re-
servation, that they are opposed
to any and all discrimination based

on racial origin or color of skin,

and to inform Mrs. Derotny Holiz-
Hewitt.”

Text of Holtz’ letter to Phillips
follows:

““T have to acknowledge, witht

‘thanks, the receipt of your letter

enclosing a copy of the resolution
passed unanimously at a meeting
of your oganization.

“T am cognizant of the fact that
the headmaster and the governors
of Shawnigan Lake School repre-
sent only a small minority of
the pompous discriminates living
in Canada who still insist in ex-
pressing a superiority complex be-
cause of their color. It is most un-
fortunate for Canada, the British
Empire, and the entire civilized
world that it should still be cursed
iby the habitation of such people. I
am only too glad to have been able
to have unearthed this nest of
vipers. It is up to Canada and
Canadians to burn it out!

JOHN HEWITT

‘School governors

flayed by Holtz

‘Do they think for a moment
that the color of one’s skin deter-
mines the quantum of brains,
brawn, or blood that an individual
has? Or do they think, if they be
Christians, that the color of one’s

skin guarantees one’s passport to
heaven? ;
‘Do ‘they know that the first
colonial governor of Vancouver Is-
land, Sir James Douglas, who quite

probably signed the original grant

of title to the land on which the
school now stands, came from
Jamaica? Who is to-tell that he
did not have colored blood in his

veins, if there be such a thing?
There are innumerable families
living in this Island and some that
have left it who could never be
suspected of color, but neverthe-
less had an African ancestor! What
of the mixture? The African may
have been a prince in his own
right. But he was entrapped by
the white pirates and sold int
slavery for gain. Who is the baser
creature?

“Wishing your “organization vig-
orous strength and that it may col
tinue to uphold the principles of
freeedom of thought and life.”

Send trade mission
to USSR, gov’t urged

TORONTO

The federal government was
urged last week to “take the
initiative in arranging a Cana-
dian trade mission to the USSR.”

The national council of the
Canadian-Soviet Friendship So-
ciety wired Prime Minister St.
Laurent making the request
“with the aim of securing for
Canadidn business and agricul-
ture a share of the very large
and rapidly growing foreign
trade of the USSR.”

The wire, signed by Dyson
Carter, - society president, cited
the experience of Finland, Den-
mark, Belgium and other coun-

tries to show “that even small
countries can secure very large
orders from the USSR and indi-
cates a potential market large
enough to have substantial posi
tive effect on the Canadian econ
omy.”

The matter was of special im-
portance to Canada, said Carter,
in the light of declining foreig?
trade, growing unemployment
and the farm crisis.

Carter said the society plans
to seek opinions on this matter
“from the widest sections of the
Canadian public and respectfully
requests a statement on the atti-
tude of your government towards

a Canadian trade mission.”

Programs to promote

friendship

Strengthening of friendly nein
tions between Canada and the
Soviet Union will be the purpose
of a series of special programs
throughout the country sponsor-
ed by the Canadian-Soviet Friend-
ship Society next month.

-

Highlight of the program of
meetings, film showings and con-
cert evenings arranged by the
society's Vancouver branch to
mark Canadian-Soviet Friendship
Month will be a public meeting
at Pender Auditorium on Novem-
ber 5.

Attending the meeting will be
a number of those who have
gone from B.C. to the USSR in
the past few years as guests of
various Soviet organizations,
among them John Dubno, Ken
‘Smith, Allister MacLeod, Miss
Lena Paliwoda, John Hines, Wil-
liam Stewart and Mrs. Fel Dor-
land.

The film taken during the visit
of the Canadian-Soviet Friendship
Society’s delegation to the Soviet
Union will be shown at this meet-
ing. /

This opening meeting will be
followed by community meetings
throughout the Greater Vancou-
ver area, in the Fraser Valley
and on Vancouver Island.

Recordings of the concert giv-
en in Vancouver last April by a
group of Soviet artists are avail-
able for house meetings, accord-
ing to Mrs. Fel Dorland, secretary
of the society’s Vancouver branch,

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — OCTOBER 22, 1954 — PAGE 12

with USSR

and may be obtained by phoning
her at CHerry 4668.

The society’s Vancouver branch
plans to send a delegate to the
Soviet Union next month at the

invitation of the All-Union So

ciety for Cultural Relations with
Foreign Countries (VOKS) and
is inviting suggested nominations
from the public. .

Company formed
to foster trade

A new company has recently
been incorporated here to foster
trade with Asiatic countries and
the USSR.

East West Export Import Com-
pany, Ltd., 339 West Pender, eX~
pects that in the near future 2
substantial’ amount of Canadiat
products will be exchanged with.
countries. which now have a neg

' ligible trade with Canada.

President of the new company
is Marshall A. Johnson, and sec-
retary is Algirdas Grinkus.

Delegation to council

A delegation from B.C. Peace
Council will appear before Van-
couver City Council at 2 p.m.
this coming Tuesday, October 26,
to present a brief on trade an
friendship with People’s China.

Ray Gardner, B.C. Peace Cour
cil secretary, this week appealed
to all interested persons to join
the delegation.

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