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The peoples of Asia ask:

Will there now be a Japanese in the U.S. tank?

U.S, TRUCE VIOLATIONS
TED 10 JAPANESE PACT

The United States this week, by its admission that an American
plane had strafed the Korean truce city of Kaesong, gave tacit support
to Chinese and Korean charges that it deliberately provoked suspension
of truce talks in order to push through signing of the Japanese treaty.

Spokesmen for the Korean People’s Army and Chinese people’s
volunteers repeatedly charged that refusal of tae UN delegation to
offer satisfaction for armed violation of the Kaesong neutral zone, on
which issue truce talks were indefinitely suspended, was calculated to
create a political atmosphere in which to conclude the Japanese treaty.

This week the, U.S. announced that an American plane had
strafed Kaesong$ assertedly because the! pilot had made an error in
navigation. The UN truce delegation officially expressed its regrets

and stated that disciplinary action was being taken.

On other grave

charges, officially stated with supporting detail by the Korean and
Chinese delegation, it adhered to previous denials which the Koreans
and Chinese had denounced as a “mass of groundless slanders.”’

These charges were:

@ On August 19, armed UN forces men illegally entered the
neutral zone, killing Yao Ching-hsiang, a military patrol
platoon leader, and wounding Wang Jen-yuan, another mem-

ber of the patrol.

@ On August 22, UN Forces aircraft bombed and strafed
the Kaesong residence of the Korean and Chinese delegation.
Korean and Chinese statements poured ridicule on “‘brazen asser-
tions’’ that if there had been any bombing of the delegation’s residence
it had been done by the Korean and Chinese forces themselves.
: Continued on page 6 — See TREATY

Speakers af
bublic forum

Vancouver Sun columnist El-
ia Philpott denounced the new
oe Peace treaty as another

P towards a third, world war

ta public forum in. Vancouver
“st Sunday.

Ray Gardner, former Sun writ-
5 Who is now secretary of B.C.
«Ce Council, said the treaty is
its act, a war treaty because

Proclaimed purpose is to re-

™ Japan for aggresion in Asia.”

Aa third speaker, Homer Stev-
and secretary, United Fishermen
on Allied Workers Union, at-
oc Fi Isneries Minister _May-
‘i for failing to negotiate a

“nes treaty with Japan at San

Tancisco,
‘es

h It is time people woke up to
© fact that this new kind of
told treaty is no good,” Philpott
who an audience of 700 people
ti pattended the forum, sponsor-
Mar. the Fishermen’s Union, the
‘. te Workers and West Coast
“men,
sae is new in that it was pre-
Ro Solely by one man—John
Moret. Dulles, Wall Street cor-
10n lawyer and former work-
ae the pre-war German car-
." ‘gigie that: Britain was reluc-
9 sign the treaty but was
Continued on back page
See PROTEST

‘WHAT ABOUT CHINA?’ AUDIENCE WANTS TO KNOW

Pearson’s diplomatic aplomb upset
protest pact + as citizens hit Japanese treaty

By BERT WHYTE

The stage was stuffed with dig-
nitaries and the loges were packed
with ‘hand-picked guests when
dapper Lester B. Pearson, Can-
ada’s external affairs minister, ad-
vanced jauntily to the battery of
microphones and began his speech
dealing with the signing of the
Japanese “‘peace’’ treaty.

It promised to be a nice social
“evening. The Liberal machine
men had done a fine hurry-up job
when they got the word that Pear-
son would stop over in Vancouver
on his way back to Ottawa from
San Francisco. Hundreds of
telegrams had been dispatched to
the ‘“‘right people” on Saturday
and an imposing assortment _of
politicians, social celebrities,
church . dignitaries, a deputy
spokesman for the Tory “Opno-
sition” at Olttawa, and even a few
“respectable” CCF’ers had been
rounded up to grace the platform
of the Orpheum theatre last Sun-
dav night.

True, there were a few awk-
ward moments at the beginning
of the meeting, when spectators in
the loges attempted to give Pear-
son a standing welcome—only the
rest of the audience’ failed to
stand up. And again, the ghastly
fumbling for seats on the stage,

with more VIP’s attempting to
sit in the front row than the num-
ber of seats made possible. And
after that, the embarrassing 10
minutes while bumbling Fisheries
Minister R. Mayhew read
his speech, frequently losing his
place in the script.

But now everything was going
to be all right, for Pearson had
the floor. All the daily papers
bill him as Canada’s rising young
diplomat and politician. A vest-
pocket Napoleon against the
Rooshians; a _bargain-basement
Acheson at the conference table.

Pearson began his diplomatic,
carefully-prepared “‘off the cuff’
remarks. His tongue followed
a familiar groove... .

“>. . happy: to be here-. ..
Vancouver . . . great Pacific pro-
vince . . . all Canada interested
in Pacific . . . need collective se-
curity . . . Pacific Pact as well
as Atlantic Pact . . . importance
of treaty with Japan .. . great
peace treaty... .”

“IT’S A WAR TREATY?!”
broke in a voice from the audience.

Pearson paused only momen-
tarily, then resumed smoothly:

““’ . . we feel it’s a great peace

treaty . . . Mr. Gromyko called
it a war treaty. . . but 49 nations
signed... .”

> “WHERE WAS CHINA?”

The voice came from the “gal-
lery, and Pearson flushed, resum-
ed his speech a shade less calm-
Ly Ae se

*, . . the sole aim of disruptions
is to disrupt . . . China can’t
shoot its way into the United
Nations. . . .”

“THE UNITED NATIONS
IS TRYING TO SHOOT ITS
WAY INTO CHINA.”

“WHY DID INDIA RE-
RUSE On pda IN, he bade
TREATY?

“IT’S A WAR PACT.”

Behind Pearson the platform
guests shifted uneasily in their
chairs. Archbishop William M.
Duke looked pale (he’s never been
heckled in the pulpit). Dr. A.
E, D, Grauer looked angry (he’s
been heckled plenty over BCER
far hikes). Chief Justice Hon.
Wendell B. Farris was perturbed
(he’ never allowed heckling in
HIS courtrooms).

Pearson swallowed and_ tried
again:

“.. . Gromyko was allowed. to
speak without interruption (ap-
plause from. the loges) . ... Grom-

yko’s propaganda was designed
for Asia and to show the treaty

Continued on~back page
See PEARSON

LESTER: B. PEARSON
Shades of Chamberlain