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HALT U.S.

DRIVE TO

ATOMIC WORLD WAR

“The Canadian government should endorse the proposals for end-

Yankee soldiers bury their dead

an officer told AP newsman Tom Lambert in Korea. last

A grimy, bloodshot-eyed Americ
week: “I never saw such a useless damned war in all my life.”
the field: his opinion was probably the same as the other U.S. ‘soldiers who are ordered to fight and

die for Wall Street, Learning from bitter experience that both North and South Koreans hate the

Presence of the Yankee invaders,
Back of them, however, are the

38th parallel and start the war — MacArthur, Dulles, Bradley and

But he was only an officer in

the officers and men in the field express their war weariness in simple,

h men who pulled the trigger in Korea and sent Rhee’s
eartfelt terms.

Puppet troops to attack over the
ps to All along these jingo firebrands have thirsted for armed attack against the

They pulled the trigger — and hundreds of American boys

War secretary Johnson.

Peop] he Soviet Union.
a ao. Re ey bes) ae satel of Wall Street dollar diplomacy. As Shakespeare wrote: “Dead,
ce)

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for a ducat, aeadt?

ing the war in Korea which are contained in the Nehru-Stalin letters,”’
said Tim Buck, national leader of the Labor-Progressive party, in
a telegram to Prime Minister St, Laurent on the eve of the July 19
cabinet meeting. ““These proposals are for the peaceable solution of
the conflict by a UN Security Council reconstituted as an effective
body. by the seating of the People’s Government of China» and the

hearing of the case of the Korean people as a whole.”

Rejecting this sane call for peace
action, Prime Minister St. Laur-
ent announced Wednesday after-
noon that:

@ Canada will assign a squadron

of RCAF North Star aircraft
to the Pacific airlift to Korea.

@ If an “international brigade”’ is
formed to fight against the North
Korean army, Canada will give
“Immediate consideration” to
participating in it.

@ Canadian defense expenditures
will be increased; -air force
strength will be increased; air-
craft production will be speeded.

Regarding ground troops, St.
Laurent said that their dispatch
“is not warranted” at present.

But only a few hours after the
cabinet meeting adjourned, Mini-
ster of National Defense Brooke
Claxton issued a statement urging
Canadian men from 17 to 29
years of age to enlist in the navy,
army and the RCAF immediately.
Huge advertisements in the daily
press Thursday carried this “call
to arms.”

Step by step, Canada is becom-

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CCF convention
must take stand
for peace or war

By STEWART SMITH

US. imperialist aggression in Korea cannot fail to speed

up the deep-going differentiation within the CCF between
those who stand for peace and those who are out-and-out
supporters of the imperialist war camp. This division may find

expression at the CCF national convention on July 26.

Little democracy remains in
CCF national conventions. Dele-
gates are pretty well hand-picked
by the top officials. But the con-
vention takes place in Vancouver
where a “peace wing” has con-
tinued to oppose the Atlantic pact.
Prairie peace sentiment, too,
might be able to break through
the “thought-control” policing of
the CCF national council. But re-
gardless of what transpires at the
national CCF convention, the poli-
tically important and vital fact
remains that the anti-war forces
in the CCF are growing and are
bound to grow.

CCF leader Coldwell and his
group in parliament have joined
without a murmur in the govern-
ment’s policy of active participa-
tion in U.S. aggression.

On June 28, Stanley Knowles
(Winnipeg North Center) spoke
for the CCF in parliament after
External Affairs Minister Pearson
had stated the position of the gov-
ernment in committing Canada to
war. He spoke two sentences. The

first one was meaningless and the
second one was this:

“I rise now merely to say that
we welcome the steps that have
been taken to make whatever ac-
tion the present situation calls
for not the action of one power
but the collective action of mem-
bers of the United Nations prompt-
ed by one aim, namely the main-
tenance of peace.”

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