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ANSWER TO MACLEAN‘S

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propaganda exposed

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methods other than war. ,

The British government ‘should
declare that it will in no circum-
stances support the Chiang Kai-
shek regime.

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Lef's enlist everyone
for negotiation now

C. PROCUNIER Nanaimo, B.C.:
Recently a woman in Parksville
Said to me: “The fundamental
difficulty in life today will never
be solved by killing people. Kill
half the world and that difficulty
Would still remain. We have to
negotiate some day. We should
do it now.” ;

More and more, people of many
different beliefs are agreeing that
War solves nothing permanently.
It never did. It never will.

_ More and more, people are

coming to the view that differ-
7 €nce of opinion can and must
exist peacefully without recourse
to devastating war.

More and more we must enlist
the agreement of such people
anxious for peace.

This is the period of decision.

He won't change diet
fo suit gov't policy

NATURE BOY, Vancouver,
\B..: So now the big cheeses
Want us to turn from eating cow-
Meat to eating horsemeat. The
Papers tell us how good it tastes,

accept all that, but I don’t like
the idea of changing my diet
just because the government
wants to ship all our beef to the
United States,

What we eat is largely a mat-
ter of habit. Horsemeat is prob-
ably as healthy «s cowmeat. For
that matter, what’s the matter
with dogmeat, or catmeat, or rat-
meat? In England they eat
Wwhalemeat, and I understand you
Can buy canned whalemeat here
in some stores. °
' A group of Cambridge 'Univer-
sity experts once ‘experimented-
on rats as a food. They found
nothing much wrong with rats,
and summarized their report in
verse: :

“Rats are not a dainty dish to

set before a king,

But for a really hungry man

they’re just the very thing.

Wrap each rat in bacon fat,

* roast slow before the fire,

Take him down and serve him

brown, you’ve all you can
| : desire.”

But what has that got to do
with us? We’ve got used to our
own delicacies, and why should
We give up beefstakes for horse-

linens ple

how healthy it is, ete. Well, I _

meat? No reason at all, that I
can see. It isn’t a case of vita-
mins and calories, it’s a straight
fight to prevent the warmongers
lowering our accepted standard
of living.

Says PT should. be in
home of every worker

OLD AGE PENSIONER, Van-
couver, B.C.: Saw your ad in the
PT for books on economics, so
am mailing you under separate
cover a book that has been on my
bookshelf for years. It may not
be what you want; in that case,
your waste paper basket is as
big as mine. {

I must tell you how much I en-
joy your paper. I am not able
to do anything in the line of
getting new subs as my health
will not permit. I feel that this
paper should be in the hands and
homes of every working man and
woman. I would surely miss it, if
it stopped coming.

Here's view of British
Labor rank-and-file

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E. H. TUDOR, Morningside, Al-
berta: The resolution on foreign
policy passed unanimously by the
Stroud and Thornbury Divisional
Labor party at a special meeting
in January seems to me to be so
important that I hope the Pacific
Tribune can find space to print
more than the very brief sum-
mary you recently published.

Here are some of the key points:

Negotiations for a cease-fire in
Korea and free elections super-
vised by an international body
appointed by agreement of the
USA, Soviet Union, Great Britain,
India and the Chiriese People’s
(Republic.

The British government should
publicly press more strongly to
have the Chinese People’s Repub-
lic unconditionally admitted — to
the United Nations. .

Should the atom bomb be used
in the Far East by the UN’s
forces we (Britain) should at
once . withdraw from the UN
forces, and that our intention to
do so should ‘be clearly stated at
an early date.

A statement to be issued by the
British government that it can
see no fundamental cause for
conflict with the Chinese Peo-
ple’s Republic and no disagree-
ment that cannot be solved by

A declaration to be issued that
rearmamend increases the dangér
of war and that Britain would
agree to international disarma-
ment.

A declaration that no German
should carry arms as part of any
German or /European army.

A public declaration to be is-
sued by the British government
of its differences and agreements
on foreign policy with the other
members of the United Nations,
believing that such a frank state-
ment between friendly powers
would further the cause of peace.

Ol’ Bill's memory shines
through labor press

JOE IVENS, Okanagan Mission,
B.C.: It was indeed gratifying

-and uplifting the way the work-

ers surged forward to keep the
Pacific Tribune rolling, This par-
ticular phase of the labor move-
ment, the press, was what con-
cerned the late Ol’ Bill Bennett
‘perhaps more than anything else.
We discussed this the last time
we were together... There must
have been many like myself who
had Ol’ Bill in mind.when dig-
ging down to become Press Build-
ers. Long may his memory shine.

I am keenly interested in the
lives of the outstanding men and
women being reviewed *in. the
Canadian Tribune and Pacific Tri-
bune. These great men and
women should inspire the younger
people. The fight they have
fought, which is now in the win-
ning stage, and the little some
of us have contributed to help, is
indeed paying off. Let us have
more of this material.

Oh yes, I am old enough to
know. them all, or nearly so—71
years is a long time, one can
learn a lot in.that time “if one
wants to.’ The world is learning
fast, and this could not have
been accomplished -without the
great leaders whose lives you are
now bringing to a new generation,
so that the riches they garnered
through hard knocks and some
bitter experiences can be passed
on.

I enclose another dollar to help
still a little more. Keep up the
good work.

issue of Maclean’s Magazine
entitled “If the Russians attack
Canada” is described by the Brit-
ish Columbia Peace Council “as
an attempt to whip up war hys-
teria and fear of Russia under
the innocent guise of promoting
civil defense.”

The council’s comment on the
article by Wallace Goforth, form-
er member of. Canada’s General
Staff, and social worker Sidney
Katz, continues:

““Though the article is designed
to create fear of a Russian at-
tack, the writers have unwitting-
ly exposed the dishonesty of the

propaganda campaign directed -

against tlhe Canadian Peace Cong-
ress in its efforts, through the
Stockholm Appeal, to outlaw the
atom bomb.

“The whole article is predicated
on the supposition of a ‘predawn
attack by 50 or 60 Russian planes
bearing A-bombs’ against nine
Canadian targets, with Vancouver
topping the list.

‘

“The article says, . we feel
it unlikely that the Russians
would try to land troops on Can-

adian ‘soil.’ ;

“Apparently the editors of
Maclean’s have already forgotten
the essence of the propaganda
campaign carried on by press and
government, against the Stock-
holm ‘Appeal.

“Don’t they remember that op-
ponents of the Stockholm Appeal
branded it a trick to deprive the
West of its so-called A-bomb
monopoly? The Russians, we
were told at that time, had no
atom bombs, or so few iti didn’t
matter. So the trick of the
Stockholm Appeal was to rob the
West of its bomb so Russian
‘hordes’ might land freely in the
West without fear of atomic re-
taliation against their homeland.

“But now we are assured by

’ Maclean’s own warmongers that

it would be almost impossible for
Russia: to launch a land attack
on us. Instead, she is probably
planning a sneak attack with 50
or 60 atom bombs.

“Tf these fears are honestly held
by the editors of Maclean’s, they

must now regret not having sup-

ported the Stockholm Appeal to
the limit, for to ban the. bomb
would quickly dispel all fears of
a Russian attack on Canada.
“However, it is not too ate for
the editors of Maclean’s to join
with the world peace movement
in demanding the outlawing of
the bomb. We would welcome
their support of the Second World
Peace Congress proposal that the
five great powers meet to pro-

truction, under air-tight interna-
tional control, including the right

of international inspectijon

through UN.

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“The Maclean’s article states
that ‘if another world war comes,
a part of it; will almost certainly
be fought in Canada.’ We agree
that if the West attacks Russia
with atom bombs, the Russians
might be forcedgto retaliate in
order to survive and that they
might well retaliate against Can-
adian cities.

“We therefore believe it is the
first responsibility of every Can-
adian to see that no atom bomb
attacks take place anywhere. A
meeting of the five great powers
to conclude a pact of peace could
remove ;all fears of atomic war.
We suggest that the editors of
Maclean’s support the world-wide
petition campaign to this end.

“The Maclean’s article paints a
frightening picture of the casual-
ties to be expected in an atomic
attack, setting the figure at per-
haps 750,000 if nine unprepared
Canadian cities are
About. 90,000 of these would be
in Vancouver, the article esti-
mates,

“Instead of advocating a policy
of peace, of outlawing the bomb
that would rule outi all casualties,
*the article coldly puts forth the
idea that casualties can be re-
duced through civil defense but
that the lives of some Canadians
must be deemed expendable,

“It states: ‘As distasteful as it
may seem politically we must face
the fact that not everyone can
be protected by shelters.’ This
statement reveals completely the
callous inhuman approach of the
writers’ to mass slaughter by
atom bombs. The‘saving of lives:
is to them not a moral, human
issue ‘but only a question of
politics, es

“In any case, the whole idea
of adequate defense against the
atom bomb has already been ex-
ploded in the House of Commons
by: Health Minister Martin who:
has said there would be no really
safe place in- the event of am
atomic bomb attack and that men,
women and children in our cities
would be exposed to battlefield
conditions.

“The question facing Canadians
today is not one of burrowing
into the ground to escape from
atom blasts, but of standing up
on their two feet, in the broad
light of day, and saying they
will not tolerate war. That is
how they will protect their child-
ren from ‘battlefield conditions.’ ”

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