YANK ATROCITIES IN SOUTH VIETNAM War of extermination shocks world The first result of recent high-level talks in Honolulu by U.S. mili- tary and government leaders has been the unleashing of a total war of - extermination against the people and land of South Vietnam. This was revealed last week with the disclosure that South Vietnamese puppet troops, under direct command of U.S. officers, carried through a large- scale three day ‘“‘scorched earth” operation near the Cambodia border. According to an Associated Press report last Friday, jungle- trained U,S, and Vietnam forces launched a three day attack on a U,S, has now deliberately em- barked on a policy of total de- struction of the country and its population in order to attempt o SRIDAY JUNE 12,1964 FRIDAY, JUNE 5 CANADA’S "BLACK FRIDAY’ © Last Friday Canada’s Parliament voted to ratify the Columbia River Treaty despite wide Public opposition. ® This deal with the U.S. represents one of the greatest sellouts of Canada’s interests © a foreign power.in our history. ® Canadians should not forget those re- SPonsible for this betrayal of the national terest, SEE EDITORIAL, PAGE 4 Parliament should vote °n single flag, anthem — Says wire to Pearson te Th Ports e Communist Party sup- Cana pect Proposal for a new Of i -” flag and the designation Says ‘Mada’ as our anthem,’ Ministe telegram sent to Prime b €T Pearson last Thursday » the ; tive C arty’s National Execu- ©Mmittee, Pri . ist Bee Out that the Commun- ' a haq si Ty has for many -years imj 2 cemanas in its pro- See also, pg. 12 am, t Minis ® telegram to the Prime T Says; & 0 Major, *xXPerience is that the “Deakin °fCanadians in English- . distin and French Canada want P¥tbo} five Canadian flag as a Wo n a the federal union ofthe ap NS. The adoption of our Way 9 as not stand in the tia perce? encourage the a Sa of Confederation Ving hon constitution em- P oe Complete recognition Teng, tence of two nations, 4 English-speaking, & + Ye *€cong ,78€ You to withdraw the art of the present re- solution which perpetuates the present ambiguities about the flag and anthem, Parliament. should vote on the simple; and direct question of the Canadian flag and anthem, Any proposal for the use of British symbols for special occasions should be completely separated from the Canadian flag and anthem, Many who want to retain some official use of the Union Jack and ‘God Save the Queen’ are at the same time in favor of a Canadian flag and anthem, “We urge you to reject pro- posals for a plebiscite which could only deepen divisions and suspicions and in effect provide a way of outvoting the French Canadian people, One nation can- not be *outvoted” by another ex- cept at the cost of bitter strife between them, ‘*We hope you will avoid the temptation to use the flag issue as a means of calling a general election, Let Parliament decide the issue and let MP’s take their stand for Canadian independence and sovereignty.’’ ~ armed and ten largetroopcarry- to turn the tide of war and retain South Vietnam as a base in south- east Asia, 20 mile front along the Vaico Oriental River and destroyed 1,000 tons of rice, slaughtered thousands of animals and fowl, and razed everthing needed to sustain life in the area, “This is a policy of genocide for which the world condemned Nazism, and for which top Nazis The story says that the opera~ were branded as war criminals, tion was one of the biggest heli- copter-supported operations of the war, and that twenty-five Britain rejects Soviet appeal ing U.S, helicopters took part, “American advisers. on the ground maintained direct contact with the U,S, helicopters,”. says the report, The Soviet Union sent a note to Britain this week asking that she join in call- ing on the United States to “stop its interference in the affairs of South Vietnam.” The Soviet Union and Britain are co-chairman of the 1954 Geneva confer- ence on Indo-China. Britain has made it clear that it would reject the Soviet Union's appeal. One U,S, “adviser” said, “All we've tried to do in the past is to kill as many Viet Cong as we can, But this is not enough, We must burn out and destroy every- thing the Viet Cong depends on,” - Since most of the South Viet- nam countryside, including the area surrounding Hanoi, is con- trolled by the National Libera- tion Front, this means that the The “dirty” war being waged by the U,S, against the peopie of South Vietnam has aroused a world-wide storm, On May 29th, the World Council of Peace called for world peace action to compel a second Geneva conference and to ban all external intervention, Dr, James Endicott, chairman of the Canadian Peace Congress, issued a statement June 4thcall- ing for support of the appeal of the World Council of Peace, Strong voices of protest were also being raised in the U,S, Speaking in the Senate May 20th, Senator Wayne Morse said; “In © my judgment the greatest threat to the starting of a third world war is the United States . , . I make that statement becausé this illegal and unilateral course of action of the United States in South Vietnam could lead to a third world war.” Meanwhile, this week the New York Herald Tribune reported that 50 U.S, B57 jet bombers are training at Clark Airforce Base north of Manila for bombing tar- gets in North Vietnam, Thecom- bat force was sent there recently, according to the story, Brutality in South Vietnam (Asnociated Presx Rudiolotos) Brought to Heel South Viet Nam soldier uses dagger butt on Viet Namese farmer who gave wrony information about the Viet Cong to goy- ernment troops. After knocking the farmer down, the soldier proceeded to work him over. See foto right... The above photos, with explanations were carried a while ago in the New York Daily News. The photos were taken in South Vietnam and show a U.S.-equip- ped and trained soldier brutally beating a farmer. Such beatings, and even worse acts of brutality, are Farmer is stomped on by soldier, meted out to the people for refusing to co-operate. in most instances U.S. soldiers stand by as the inhu-' man tortures are inflicted. Now, the U.S. has decided on an all-out campaign of devastation in the hope of winning the war.