~~ iain basa el El al asl Kalil bast) (HUI pis SLUT The German Democratic Republic —a bastion of peace in Europe ae German Democratic Republic is the youngest state in Tope. Its 20 years of existence coincides with the longest Period of peace in the recent history of Europe. This is no accident. ae the founding of the German Democratic Republic ne came into being two states on German soil. These two ine aa direct opposites in social character and political “Ms. This is a matter of great historical significance. per many decades Germany was the embodiment of ag- ager a imperialism, unbounded expansionism and brutal com fe The great German monopoliés, with the criminal Pea. of other imperialist powers including Canada, with penn the whole world the horror of two great wars ayin €ir hundreds of millions of dead and broken ‘bodies, ee whole cities, towns and villages. They fastened he te : people of Germany and the countries they ravished ie pele scourge of Hitler fascism with its monstrous tor- : crimes ambers, gas ovens and concentration camps. These a, against the world and humanity were committeed by an imperialism in the short space of some 30 years. ii] oe West German Federal Republic continues along this its ¢] aid down by the big German monopolies. It does so in ; in Fen to be the sole representative of the German people, ee tes to dominate Europe, in its stubborn refusal to : State e results of the Second World War as reflected in 4 cludin Oundaries, in its unrelenting drive for rearmament in- | as a nuclear arsenal, and its militarization of the West | incre n economy. These dangerous policies are meeting with | asing resistance from the working class and democratic tees in the Federal Republic. aa they are inspired by the new German socialist state efore on the rule of the working class which has declared Sey whole world that the German people can win the Or its : aa and friendship, as well as peace and security its a 5 only through its peaceful policy, the good work of Work ple, through the contributions of its scientists and the of its humanist culure. aH is deeds the German Democratic Republic has establish- State x the basic element in the policy of this young German nee the guaranteeing of peace and security in Europe and tem ae As an integral part of the world socialist sys- It has works continuously to do everything in its power ovia _€stablished itself as the German state of peace and ce Bpeuice: The economic development of the German De- ranks ic Republic has been phenomenal. Its industrial output among the top ten countries in the world. | Lith TTT LLL tony Canadian people can only forget these lessons of his- in blo their own peril. Canada has twice been forced to fight pee inhuman wars triggered by aggressive German im- - ae Tens of thousands of Canadians, struck down in of Ey wer of their youth, lie buried close to the battlefields rope victims of the German imperialist war machine. Perja por the Canadian government to continue to pursue policies ality Aaa in respect to Germany is to fly in the face of re- | dians fe to sacrifice the real interests of Canada and Cana- | mono pee aggressive revenge-seeking aims of West German nates y capital and the Washington-Bonn axis which domi-. establicnene: Over 20 countries have already recognized and epubli ed normal relations with the German Democratic deay ic. We urge democratic Canadians to press the Tru- 80vernment to do the same. LT TTT vi Basing itself on the historical record and in keeping with the Mii of our country and of all mankind, the Com- ets Party of Canada extends warmest greetings to the ful eb Democratic Republic and its hard-working and peace- ona on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the Europe of this great bastion of peace and social progress in th . We undertake ‘to popularize its achievements and i lessons f i Ww j ; or Canadians throu hout the oy, £ orking class Roe Gag take this opportunity to urge upon the government of \da, in the interests of peace, the welfare of Canadians ish Of all humanity, to extend the best wishes of the Cana- Sao to the German Democratic Republic on this his- lic, “A Occasion, to recognize the German Democratic Repub- to Ree ee trade, cultural and scientific relations with it, and With ‘a for its admission to the United Nations, in accordance € growing demands being voiced in Canada. eve Iso take the opportunity of this occasion to urge the Propo ian government to give its whole-hearted support to the Sure re conference of European states on measures to en- Wards € people and security of Europe as a vital step to- ds ensuring world peace and security. . : Long live the German Democratic Republic! aa hg live Peace and Security! e _ Ong live the Socialist Unity Party! wa TO Central Committee, Communist Party of Ca da. 7] CELULEOUERDEEOUCLGECEUECEEEET > HOLADEOGUGEOGUOOOUGUSEOUSECEEOUNOUGSUGUOUOOUUEDOUQGUNOGOUUGUUEUOOUOOTULCEOUGLECUEEE EY - along the AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO BISSELL BACKS DOWN University of Toronto Presi- dent Claude Bissell beat a retreat from his hard-line position on university discipline when he appeared before the second mass meeting of students within a week. He announced that Caput, the old style disciplinary authority without student representation, had agreed to cede its powers immediately to a new body with equal student-faculty representa- tion. With respect to the “‘work- ing paper” of Ontario University presidents which had called for the use of police to put down campus “disturbances”, he said flatly: “the paper .. . is not (re- peat) is not the policy of the: University of Toronto.” The Student Administrative Council issued a statement say- ing: “President Bissell’s state- ment of Oct. 1 which meets the thrust of SAC demands at the University of Toronto, is a vic- tory for students. The adminis-. tration concessions were gained by the effective participation of students on this campus in voic- ing their rejection of CPUO and Caput statements. The students by this action have demonstrated their support of the right to or- ganize on this campus... .. We extend our thanks to all organi- zations and individuals, both faculty and students, who helped in the resolution of this crisis.” The statement called on stu- dents to work towards “quick and reasonable implementation of reform in light of the Camp- bell commission and the Com- mission on University govern- ment.” The Campbell report setting forth a new system of disciplin- ary procedures was prepared by a student-faculty committee un- der the chairmanship of Profes- sor D. Ralph Campbell. The report proposes a system of tribunals representative of both faculty and students to deal with both disputes and charges involving both students and fa- culty members. It urges “re- straint” with respect to demon- strations, including obstructive sit-ins, which do not involve violence. The University of Toronto Club of the Communist Party in a leaflet issued on the eve of the mass meeting, focussing on the need for a withdrawal by Bissell from his previous posi- tions, went on to urge “very close study of the Campbell re- port.” It noted “somé loopholes.” The report proposes. student and faculty participation in enforcing regulations, but nowhere speaks of such participation in enacting these regulations. Nor does it exclude “a presidential summon- ing of the Metro police without consultation and even in a situ- ation involving no violence or destruction of property.” It is expected that the whole struggle around discipline which arose so sharply at the beginning of the academic year will have a significant impact on the forth- coming plebiscite to determine whether Canada’s largest univer- sity will remain in the Canadian Union of Students. Many stu- dents are saying that the threat- ening statements made jointly by Ontario university presidents proves the need for the main- tenance of a union of students in Ontario and throughout Canada. Eyewitness in Soviet Ukraine Flood damage repaired By JOHN WEIR Just one month ago I visited the _ Carpathian foothills of Ukraine where floods of unpre- cedented magnitude had caused considerable damage in June. I had read and heard about this natural catastrophe when it took place, how dikes had been broken, bridges damaged, tele- phone connections disrupted for several days, mountain roads blocked, and crops harm- ed. When I was there two and a half months later, there were practically no signs left of the damage, although of course there were adverse effects. My visit was a personal one to say goodbye to relatives and friends. (I did not dream that there would be persons in Can- ada that would seek to feed vulture-like on a misfortune in their country of origin for. the sake of (dirty politics, so I didn’t make a tour of the entire area.) Since there are many people in Canada from the sec- tion I visited (Kalush, Rozhnya- tiv, Tsineva, Perehinsk), I want to assure them that their folks over there are all right although they underwent a harrowing ex- perience and under different cir- cumstances would haye suffered greatly. In Tsineva, for example, the bridges across the Duba River stood up and what damages had been inflicted have been re- paired. The second school build- ing had its foundation banged up considerably, but it was as good as new again when I saw it. There were no casualties in the entire area, although there were individual cases in other areas. All the livestock was saved,. but vegetable gardens river banks were “washed out” and crops dam- aged. SB gk as V. Dzhurin, the chairman of told me that help was ‘be: ing rushed in from the outside even as the flood was taking place. Helicopters rescued peo- ple who massed in buildings on hilltops in isolated mountain communities, and the entire population and manpower from other areas immediately set to work to repair everything as soon as the floods subsided. Ma- terials were shipped in from all over the Soviet Union and the collective farms in other parts of Ukraine made up the losses suffered in fodder (this particu- lar collective farm specializes in cattle-breeding and it re- ceived a helping hand from the Odessa Region). He estimated that the farm income in 1969 would not be below last year’s as a consequence of this aid, but fo course they wouldn’t have the big advance they had plan- ned. The floods were expected. There have been recurrent floods in the Carpathian regions every 14 years (in 1927, 1941, 1955), and moreover the Soviet sputniks had reported the on- rush of a warm, moisture-laden cyclone from Scandinavia which might meet the cold air of an anticyclone over the Carpa- thians. Warnings were broad- cast over the radio. There was “no intimation, however, that the floods would be of such mon- strous proportions (in places rivers rose by 20 feet). People who had gone camping in the mountains without a radio were caught unawares, otherwise protective measures were taken beforehand. ‘Every household that suffered damage received a government grant to make up the loss, and the state insurance company paid out over one million rou- bles in insurance. Areas where winter crops suffered (in the Ivano-Frankivsk Region by near-. ly one-third, for example) were relieved of grain delivery sales. ‘this’ year. Building’ materials ee ~ IPAGIFIG TRIBUNEOCT were supplied to the population at a nominal price. nee A deep study is now being made of measures to prevent such disasters in the future. While a special institute with 500 research workers has been functioning for five years in Ivano-Frankivsk, there wasn’t sufficient coordination, many projects for dams, roads, bridg- es, etc., and for reforestation were made by scientists in Kiev and Kharkov, who were experts on plains problems but didn’t sufficiently take into account the specific features of moun- tain and foothills areas. For ex- ample, the principle of planting a tree for every one that’s cut down was lived up to, but over a long period of time (long be- fore this area joined Soviet Ukraine) beech trees were re- placed by fir and spruce. How- ever, while a beech sinks deep roots, a fir’s roots are nearer the surface and moreover the tall fir with a heavy top is more easily toppled by a storm wind, and then rains wash the soil off the mountains, leaving the way open for disastrous floods when a cloudburst (the rain in June poured for three days) takes place. That’s just one of the points being made in the Soviet press. reis Yes, there’ were big floods in western Ukraine last June. The damage amounted to tens of millions of roubles. In_other cir- cumstances it would have spelled ruin and famine for the people. In Soviet conditions the damages have already been re- paired and the well-being of the population has not been im- paired. That’s because all of the Ukraine and the whole Soviet Union immediately provided all ‘the help that was needed. To “put it mildly, the calamity- hungry “relief committee” Ukra- inian anti-Sovieteers in Winni- — _ wrong, peg are bar’ tree. ca ie . a