Pees

SEPTEMBER
CIRCULATION
CAMPAIGN

%% 1000 New Subs

and Renewals

* Increased Street
Sales

@ All subsefurned in from
August 20 will count on
the September campaign
standing. ~

© Each bundle order of 25
papers will count as one
Wore ie

“Watch for proposed press club
targets in the August 24 issue

nea

PLAN. to sell subs to your
neighbors, an workmates,
~~ your fiends

CHECK sgt subs around
your community and your
~ place of work

‘Help your paper oe win 1 fiends
and influence people :

~ about?»

_there will

EESLIE MORRIS

AMERICAN STRaT
ROUND Ei c

BA
RUSSIA SES

Actions speak louder .. .

"We" just want to be

a with Russia Ane

nd Stam
y

“SE is Eee

Srchannn Sesion)

Eight hundred million people -
_ want fo do trade with Canada

ANGER! Russians are friendly!
So says the military expert of
the journal Saturday Night. So
also says Dean Acheson, Canadian
(Pardon! American!)~. foreign
minister. So say all the brass.
So says the little man with the
gun, British War Minister Shin-
well, who is now in Washington
with a Lee Enfield rifle to beg the
Yanks for machine tools to fix its
calibre so it will be like the U.S.
Army’s rifle. Shades of the Brit-
ish Army!

are they all. excited
The Soviet Union has
started to publish an English
language magazine with the
simple title, News. It tells some

What

homely truths about the relations

between tthe Soviet Union and the
Anglo-Saxon powers in exquisite
English.

Many honest Canadians sincere-
ly believe that if peace is secured

times; plants will shut down, war

orders will ‘stop and many work-

ers will be jobless. And so forth.

This illusion is one of the biggest

guns in the warmongers’ arsenal.’
News says it isn’t so.

}

Consider the economic aspect.
Russia and the East-European

-and Asian People’s Democracies

constitute a vast, inexhaustible
and unequalled market for goods
and a source of supply for raw

inevitably be hard '

materials . . .. The Soviet mar-
ket alone, for all the development
of our own industry, is able to
absorb a ‘vast quantity of British
goods.”

1951 is not the same as 1939. |

Then China, Eastern Europe and
the Balkan countries were not
independent. But now, as a
Chinese Communist recently said,
“The key to our front door is
in our own pocket.” Hundreds of
millions of people, for the first
time in history, are building a
society whose purpose is not pro-
fits for a few, but the welfare

of the many. They want world

trade as between equals.
€

Peace today would mean nor-
mal economic relations between
the new world of socialism and
the old world of capitalism. That
is the message of News—and it
igs not a new one, Stubbornly
since 1917 Lenin and Stalin have
been saying the same thing. It
is only the handful of malignant
men who have set themselves
the aim (as Dean Acheson re-
cently said) of destroying the
political system of the Soviet peo-
ple through war, who have stood
in the way of this normal econ-
omic trade.

'

Now we hear that because of

“these new offers of peace and

trade, patiently repeated, our re-

ply must be to arm to the teeth?

Is it not time that the people —
rejected this insane flouting of
peace and trade proposals, and
turned back from the road to
hell! :

People are moving. Human be-
ings in Canada and the U.S. do
not think as the top ruling circles
say they do. No wonder General
Marshall bewailed the “tragic
and humiliating” response of the
American people to the Malik
proposal for peace in Korea. But
we must give organized expres-
sion to this response.

Fight hundred million people
want to do business with us om
the simple terms of honesty and

' straightforward business rela-

tions, leaving internal politics to —
the country concerned and no
one else.

If Canadians respond to this
appeal we can change the direc-
tion from war to peace. If we
do not -respond then we may
have war and the ruin and mur-
der that goes with it. The choice
is ours.

Peace means markets for Can-
dian goods, jobs and wages for
Canadian working men and
women. Along the road of peace
is the prosperity and friendship
ae people yearn for. |

We have been given “cha hana
of friendship and trade. Let us
Eraap. it.,

four times the population.

East and West - Comparisons i in 1 culture:

4 pore the capital of Coehoslar at: has more ‘bookstores than fhe city of Nai York which fea
eight times the Populations

‘The tiny People’ s Republic of Albania has more permanent theatres Bas the a of New.
York whose population i is about six times greater. /

Poland published more books in 1950. than Italy hich has double the population.

In People’s Democratic isa? there are more university students than in France, which has

inane Sabhehed 55,000, 000 volumes of artistic ‘and political literature in 1950, ate aa
ing the same period 55,000,000 detective nee were published in, the United States.

r

'

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — AUGUST 17, 1951 — PAGE 9