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CONVENTION DELEGATE PROTESTS ATTEMPTS TO CREATE ATMOSPHERE OF WAR HYSTERIA

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CCF leaders engineer support for intervention

By HAL GRIFFIN

In an atmosphere which one B.C.
delegate, Mrs. May Campbell,
charged had been created “to pre-
pare delegates for support of the
national council’s resolution,” dele-
gates to the CCF national convention
here this week voted down an
amendment calling for seating of
the Chinese People’s Republic on
the UN Security Council and en-
dorsed a resolution approving Am-
erican intervention in Korea and
participation “in whatever military
and other measures are necessary.”

Passage of the resolution, by a
vote of 115 to 25, was a victory for
the CCF top leaders who, through
interviews, statements and
speeches, had endeavored to estab-
lish their views as official policy
before the issue came before the
convention.

They could be far less certain,
however, of their stand winning
any active support from thousands
of socialist-minded supporters who,
in the words of Colin Cameron,
former MLA, were “dismayed” at
their leaders’ proposals to rewrite

the Regina Manifesto.

A minority of delegates fought
the resolution around an amend-
ment offered by Rod Young, for-
mer MP for Vancouver Center,
proposing that the convention re-
commend:

e@ Calling of an immediate ses-
Sion of the UN General Assembly
for seating representatives of the
Chinese People’s Republic on the
Security Council.

e@ Issuance by the UN of a cease-
fire order on both sides, follow-
ing which representatives of both
sides would be asked to appear
before the Security Council.

e Appointment of a commission
headed by Prime Minister Nehru
of India to devise a settlement,

Support for Young’s amendment
embraced a wide range of views,
from those who, like Young him-
self, openly stated their anti-com--
munist position but proclaimed
their opposition to war, to veteran
members of the CCF like William
Mandell, another B.C. delegate,
who said he took his stand on the
Regina Manifesto, “which says the
CCF is opposed to war.”

CCF top leaders, clearly afraid of
the opposition, were well prepared
to meet it. For the greater part of
the debate they held the floor with
denunciations of “communist “ag-
gression” and shrewdly calculated
appeals for support of the UN.

Further time was consumed in
bickering over how much time
should be given to the debate and
how long delegates should be al-
lowed to speak, Because of the im-
portance of the issue some argued
that delegates should forego their
visit to the Theater Under the Stars
and return for an evening session,
but they were voted down, 52-39,
by a motion to terminate discussion
at the close of the afternoon ses-
sion. .

Clearest opposition to the nation-
al council’s resolution came from
Mrs. May Campbell, who deplored
“statements made to~the press in
an attempt to-create war hysteria
and prepare delegates for support
of the national council’s resolution.”

“Are you prepared to support
the use of atomic warfare, to sup-
port atomicebombing of concen-
trated areas, killing women and

children?” she demanded of dele-
gates,

Defeat of Young’s amendment by
a vote of 111 to 24 was followed by
adoption of the ,sational council’s
lengthy resolution, which:

@ Welcomed “the prompt action
which the United Nations Secur-
ity Council took to combat this
aggression.”

@ Declared that “the burden of
military action to halt aggression
in Korea should not be left to one
nation alone.”

@ Urged that “the Canadian gov-
ernment should recommend that
the United Nations immediately
convene either a meeting of the
Military Staffs Committee or a
special conference of government
. representatives” to plan collective
military action and determine the
forces to be employed.

@ Held the UN responsible for
promoting “emergence of Korea
as a free, democratic and united
nation... + .!

@ Stated “an attempt has been
made to secure admission of the

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But U.S. has support
of Lewis in Asia

During debate on the Korean
issue in the CCF national conven-
tion, David Lewis, retiring na-
tional secretary, objecting to the
amendment to seat the true rep-
resentatives of China’s 450 mil-
lion people in the UN declared:
“Asia supports the United States
in the UN.” ‘

Ten days later, in the UN it-

self, the representative of India,
Asia’s other great power, voted
with the USSR, also an Asiatic
power, on the question of barring
the discredited, Kuomintang dele-
gate,
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new government of China to the
United Nations as a condition of
settling the aggression in Korea,”
denounced this as “blackmail”
and maintained that the CCF
“favors negotiations on a proper
basis and has supported the ad-
mission of China to the United
Nations, but not under duress.”
@ Urged the government to re-
convene parliament at the earliest
opportunity.

Belgian people demonstrate to force King Leopold’s abdication

Determination of King Leopold to return to the Gironde
of Belgium in face of determined popular opposition has

above,

kept the country in turmoil during the past two weeks.

Return of Leopold, opposed by Socialists, Communists:
and others of the wartime Resistance who condemn Leo-
pold’s conduct during the Nazi occupation, precipitated

widespread demonstrations, such as the one pictured

Police attacks on demonstrators in various centers,
resulting in the death of at least three men and injuries
to scores of men and women, further inflamed popular

for his abdication.

opposition to Leopold, who stubbornly refused the demand

This week Leopold capitulated, stating in a broadcast
that he would ask parliament to delegate his powers to
his son, 19-year-old Prince Beaudouin,

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