—al LIL TU oe HL | TT Continued from page I _ GENEVA CONFERENCES Since then Soviet attempts to get a summit meeting at which disarmament could be discussed have been met by months of evasion and go-slow tactics by -the British, U.S. and French governments while NATO plans for estab- lishing missile bases in Europe were pushing ahead, including the atomic armament of West Germany. The Western powers have long stressed the question of controls, and pushed for groups of experts to discuss various aspects — on which the Soviet Union often felt it would be more useful to have agreement first on what was to be controlled. The surprise attack discus- sions are, therefore, specially important as a test of the good faith of Britain and the U.S. It was Nicolai Bulganin (then Soviet premier) who, in May 1955, first proposed that pre- vention of surprise attack should be part of a disarma- ment agreement, and suggested international inspectors at im- portant ports, road and rail junctions and airfields. Two anda half months later, President Eisenhower, at the Geneva summit conference, countered with his “Open Skies” proposal’ for aerial in- spection. This, in its original -form, was that the U.S. and the Sov- iet Union should exchange blueprints of their military es- tablishments, station observers in each other’s country and al- low unrestricted aerial recon- niassance. The U.S. seized on this aerial photography proposal as though it were a panacea, calling it the “gateway to the reduction of armaments.” In subsequent negotiations the U.S. put forward proposals for varying areas to be cover- ed by the aerial inspection plan, ranging from a small area in the Arctic to the or- iginal proposal plus parts of Europe. So far, however, the American proposals has included all the American bases ringing the Soviet Union, including those in North Afri- ca and the Middle East. For a long time, moreover, there was no step of real dis- armament linked to the Open Skies plan. “The Russians could hardly be expected to accept aerial photography and _ re- connassance patrols over their none of PATRONIZE CEDAR FUEL & TRANSFER Plfone: 566-R-3 Cedar, B.C. } territory without-any commit- ment from the United States as to the actual disarmament steps which might follow.” Anthony Nutting, British for- eign minister in 1954-56, point- ed out. : But the Soviet Union, in November 1956, proposed a disarmament agreement includ- ing aerial photography in an area 500 miles east and west of the dividing line in Europe. The: U.S. finally made areial inspection part of the West- ern powers’ “package plan” for first step disarmament agreement during- the 1957 London negotiations. ‘. The latest Soviet disarma- ment proposals, made last Sep- tember in a memorandum to the UN General Assembly, again included steps to prevent surprise attack. They included ground con- trol inspection posts and aerial photography “in the zone of concentration of the main armed forces of the two mili- tary groupings in Europe” up to 500 miles east and west of the dividing line. Officials in Washington now say that .the Geneva experts should not discuss geographic areas at all, only the technical means usable for checking sur- prise attacks. It is clear from the years of B.C. GRILL 328 Carrall St. HOME COOKING Cabbage rolls a Specialty “All Loggers Welcome” Albert Truman, Prop. ROOFING & SHEET METAL REPAIRS Duroid, Tar and Gravel Reasonable Gutters and Downpipes NICK. BITZ BR. 7-6722 ay Ma aces © Gas Installations FURNACES — STOVES WATER HEATERS Harry C. Weinstein GAS CONTRACTOR 692 East Hastings MUtual 3-5044 Res.: AL. 2991L FREE ESTIMATES disarmament talks that pro- posals for inspection without disarmament are no more use- ful than those for disarma- ment without controls: and the exact amount of each will have to be carefully balanced. An end to U.S. H-bomber flights. over Britain, Europe and the Canadian Arctic day and night, an end to U.S. mis- Sile bases in Britain and West- ern Europe should be insisted on even without’ any further negotiations. But success at the Geneva talks will remove yet another excuse of the British and U.S. governments and ‘their NATO allies for continuing the nu- clear armis race. And success at both the Geneva conferences gets every day more vital, with West Germany’s Dr. Adenauer get- ting his hands on atomic arms and France’s General de Gaulle getting ready to test his first home-made nuclear weapon any day now. Soon it may be too late. HALIFAX—Springhill, Nova Scotia is like a tomb. The dead have been buried, but only 33 miners of some 900 aré now empléyed at the Cumberland Railway and Coal Company. The relief fund will only serve immediate interests. Officials of the parent A. V. Roe Company have indicated the mine will not reopen. Meanwhile revelations are now being made ((as the Pa- ific Tribune reported earlier) that the October 23 rockburst “bump” which took 74 lives had been forecast by the min- ers months earlier. Monson Harrison, president of Local 4514 of the United Mine Workers of America, said he told Harold Gordon, chief of coal operations for Dosco, that the men had _ doubts about a plan to line up coal faces in No, 2. The recent Nova Scotia Dis- Stricken Springhill] faces bleak future) trict 16 convention of the UMWA passed a_ resolution sharply condemning the com |} panies for neglect of safely | measures. It mentioned in particula! an earlier explosion at thé Springhill mine—but the res lution was ignored by official dom. . ae Two weeks after the tragedy the local union leader noW says: “That mine would have bumped sometime no matter how the faces were lined UP The mine is too deeP | there’s too much pressutl® | down there.” —s_» , Will these facts be told @ | a Royal Commission? 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