; fflutiniiins Me NE Bait ano FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, IN} IN ( ih ins ih fit 1955 U.S. SOWS THE WIND... Continued from page 1! THRONE SPEECH | toll bridges and highways will get additional funds which, of course, will not show on the provincial balance sheet. The B.C. Power Commission will likewise get loans to extend its program. of rural electrifica- tion and power development, es- pecially on the Campbell River. In announcing approval of a ten-year, $10 million building pro- gram for the University of British Columbia, the goverment goes out ef its way to djscount earlier re- ports that the Socreds were hos- tile to the university. The ‘Speech UBC's “significant contribution to the academic and technical needs of the province” and to proclaim a university week from February 28 to March 5. A Girls’ Industrial School will be built to match the new Boys’ Industrial School just opened. There will be new facilities pro- vided for women prisoners in ad- dition to the new “open” reform institution for men at Haney, al- ready announced. An experimental program for treatment of drug addicts was also revealed but no details were given. ~ Great stress is laid upon the highway needs of the province and in line with this, a new de- partment of highways is to be cteated separate from the pre- sent department of public works. This means a new cabinet min- ister and it is rumored that he will come from Vancouver Is- land; which has no cabinet seat at present. If this is the case, he will have to be chosen from among the four Socred members who sit for Victoria and district ridings. Most likely choice is W. N. Chant, Victoria city repre- sentative and former Alberta cabinet minister. The perennial and _ politically thorny problem of redistributing Ellis, Regina City; eron, Nanaimo. ‘the seats in the provincial house in accordance with the popula- tion growth and changes since the last redistribution in 1938 will be tackled again by a House commit- tee. Near the close of the 1954 session the committee was tor- pedoed by its Socred members who repudiated the agreements already arrived at by the all- party body. This year the com- mittee will have to make a fresh start. Other topics dealt with includ- ed legislation to prevent the setting up of fraudulent co-ops such as those that bilked the Vancouver public recently; en- took the oesasion to un define: couragement for apprenticeship training for young people; and government participation in a medical plan for civil servants. How CCF MPs voted on pacts This is how the 24 CCF MPs voted on ratification of the Lon- don-Paris agreements: AGAINST—J. W. Noseworthy, York South; Stanley Knowles, Winnipeg North Centre; R. R. Knight, Saskatoon; H. W. Her- ridge, Kootenay West; O. L. Jones, Okanagan-Boundary; A. M. Nicholson, Mackenzie; G. H. Castleden, Yorkton; E. G. McCul- lough, Moose Mountain; Thomas Barnett, Comox-Alberni; Harold Winch, Vancouver East; Claude Colin Cam- ABSTAINED—Hazel Argue, As- siniboia; nipeg North; Mervyn Johnson, Kindersley; A. H. Bryson, Hum- boldt - Melfort; Erhart Regier, Burnaby-Coquitlam. FOR—M. J. Coldwell, town-Biggar; Angus ~ Vancouver-Kingsway; lis, Thatcher, Moose Jaw-Lake Cen- tre. Rose- MacInnis, Clarie Gil- ABSENT—Fred Zanlitny, Dau-. phin; William Bryce, Selkirk. Alistair Stewart, Win- Cape Breton South; Ross ¢ 12 CCF MPs vote against oe arms ratification - OTTAWA Ratification of the London-Paris agreements to rearm West Germany, assured by the big Liberal majority and the support given by Conservative and Social Credit parties, was endorsed by the House of Commons on Wednesday this week. The vote was 213 to.dgs The 12 opposing votes were cast by CCF members a adhered to the resolution | Socred leaders sound war-on-Russia theme OTTAWA Three Social Credit MPs, scorning even the Liberal government’s attempts to present German rearmament in democratic guise, emerg- ed from the House debate on ratification of the London-Paris agree- | ments as rabid advocates of restoring German militarism to further war aims against the Soviet Union. Solon Low, Socred national leader, gave what he alleged to be quotations from Dmitri Man- uilsky, first foreign minister of the Soviet Ukraine, -that, “War to the hilt between communism and capitalism is inevitable,” and, “As soon as their guard is down we will smash them with our clenched fist.” (The Canadian Tribune, in an open letter to Solon Low this week, branded these and other alleged quotations ‘as a deliber- ate forgery” and demanded that Low either establish the source or retract them.) Rev. E. G. Hansell, Socred na- tional organizer, denounced ad- vocates of peaceful coexistence with the Soviet Union, claiming that negotiation meant concession and thus far the West had receiv- ed no benefit from concessions. In a burst of open warmonger- ing, he declared: “We must either destroy the ability of commun- ism to destroy others or face destruction ourselves.” John Blackmore, Socred mem- ber for Lethbridge, openly de- fended Hitler’s policies, claiming that economic boycott organized by “friends of communism” in the U.S. had caused Nazi Ger- many to believe it faced hostile encirclement. Hitler’s regime, he claimed, had sincerely tried to improve re- lations with the U.S. only to be rebuffed. He blamed the late President Roosevelt and “international com- munism” as being largely respon- sible for the Second World War. Must work for repeal declares Tim Buck TORONTO Adoption by parliament of the “forms of ratification” does not mean that rearmament of West- ern Germany is an accomplished fact, Tim Buck, national leader of the Labor-Progressive party. — told 15th anniversary banquet of the Canadian Tribune here last week. He demolished External Affairs Minister Pearson’s argu- ments favoring rearmament by showing them to be based upon outright lies. “The fight against rearma- ment is not finished. The battle against ratification is only part of the general struggle against rearmament. Its successful con- clusion will guarantee that US. imperialism will be defeated in its attempt to plunge Europe: into another war,” he said. Buck urged that should ratifi- cation go through, Canadians must enter a “fight for the re- peal of ratification.” Pearson’s argument that the world was closest to war last sum-~ mer after EDC was defeated was shown by Buck to be in direct opposition to the facts. On the contrary, said Buck, this was the very period of the historic negotiations at Geneva that ended the war in Indochina and brought about a decided les- sening of world tension. He described as ludicrous Pear- son’s claim that ratification had TIM BUCK “as one of its chief purposes the prevention of a permanent basis of German militaristic national- ism.” Buck hailed those members of the CCF group who had spoken out against the plan as repre- senting “the voice of the majority of the people.” He said they stood with the future and the determination of all Canadians to defeat any plan for aap cae tion of ratification. “The people of Germany do not want rearmament,”’ Buck add- ed. “They don’t want to become entangled into that web of war and become the spearhead of re- action once again.” PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JANUARY 28, 1955 — PAGE 12 opposing German rearmament ap- proved by the last CCF national tonvention. Six other CCF mem- bers abstaining from voting, four voted with their national leader, M. J. Coldwell, to support’ rati- fication in defiance of their panty’s natiomal- resolution, :and two were absent from the House. Even External Affairs Minister Lester B. Pearson, who opened the debate for the government, “was compelled to acknowledge’ the widespread opposition to Germany rearmament throughout the country, expressed in the thousands of letters and wires, | phone calls and visits of delega- tions to MPs. Pearson prefaced his defense of German rearmament with the | observation that he could sym- pathize with the loyal Canadians who were opposed to it. He de- nied, that rearming of West Ger- many meant restoring German militarism and strove to justify the government’s policy by claim- ing that the Soviet Union a begun rearming East Germany in 1949. He appealed for a un- animous vote. CCF members who spoke against ratification ripped his _ claims apart, although their argu- ments fell on closed ears in the Liberal, Conservative and Sgcred ranks. Most ‘significant of CCF speeches opposing ratification was that made by J. W: Noseworthy (York South), who said: “There is just no enthusiasm among the peoples of the world today for the ratification of this protocol, no enthusiasm except possibly on the part of those re- maining members of the German military staff and on the part of those who believe that war with Russia is inevitable.” He declared “there.can be no doubt that those who will control German rearmament will be members of the former German general staff,’ which would lead once again to a resurgence of German militarism: Stanley Knowles (Winnipeg * North Centre) CCF whip, declar- ed: “There are thousands of good solid, patriotic Canadian: ; from one end of the country to the other who are concerned about this! step.” f R. R. Knight (Saskatoon) said the move would. “create an im- passable barrier to unification.” Alistar Stewart (Winnipeg North) while declaring he would abstain from the vote, indicated that the hurry to have 12 Ger- | man divisions was the result of “American pressure.” H. W. Herridge (Kootenay West) took issue with the lack of controls in the plan. He said the pledge that Western Ger- many would not manufacture atomic, biological or chemical weapons in its own territory were ominous words, indicating that German plants were already being built in Spain and Turkey. The words “in its territory,’ he said, did not offer much of a- guarantee limiting German re- armament. O. L. Jones (Okanagan Boun- dary) said history showed a re- armed Germany will bring meshes stability or peace. Dy, @