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FOREIGN POLICY

To H-bomb tes‘s, whose
deadly fall-out is heaviest in
Canada, has now been added

the threat of inter-continental
through long - distance
which would bring
from the skies.
this, the Speech
speaks of
NATO de-

war
missiles
sudden death
In the face o

of
from the Throne

strengthening our
fenses!

That is the path of national
suicide, not national defense.

Possession of the ICBM will
not be confined to one power.
It will be in the hands of all
great powers before long. The
whole concept of modern war-
fare has been changed by it.

It is quite obvious that there
can be no defense from these
terrible weapons short of a
policy of stopping this insane

arms race.

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Disarmament and control of
weapons is the heart and soul
of a policy of peace and na-
tional safety.

Canada is an_ influential

member of the United Nations.

She should advocate in the
United Nations a complete and
thorough - going change in
Western policy — away from
the. arms race and military
blocs, and for Big Power con-
ferences and agreements to
unconditionally end H-bomb
tests, place the ICBM under
international control, ‘reduce
the arms budgets, and aban-
don once and for all the ridi-
culous idea that political dif-
ferences can be settled by war.
Canada would receive wide
support frony the members of
the UN.

SICKENING LACK

might have placed us in the
vanguard of the world through
research into hydrogen fusion
and radar improvements of
inestimable value to all man-

kind
Patmore estimates
Soviet scientific achievements

soberly

these words:

Red scientists have
proven beyond a doubt, with
their ini ially successful ‘moon’
that their research is at the
very least equal to, if not bet-
ter than, the combined effort
of the free world, while at the
same time ‘adding undeniable

to their chilling
ICBM mastery. Add
to these two thfilling achieve-
ments previous Communist ad-
vances in atomic and H-bomb

suostance

claim of

techniques and surely the
pattern emerges with start-
rity — a ‘crash’. pro-

designed to leap-frog

future.

“Tt will be recalled that a
Russian physicist stirred the
British scientific fraternity

about a year ago with an ad-
vanced paper on hydrogen

fusion research, stressing mag-
netic field constriction effects
that proved a real advance in
the pinch-control of super-hot
‘plasmas.’ It might be a need-
ed tonic to the western world
to note that in tossing us such
valuable ‘crumbs’ the fusion
scientists must have held most
of the loaf behind the Iron
Curtain. The complacency of
the AEC’s Strauss and of Can-
dian leaders has led us to be-
lieve that it will be 20 years
at least before we shall see
the first hydrogen stellarator
in practical energy production.

“But this would deny the
strong probability, nay the
certainty, that the Red plan
of attack will follow the above
all-out ‘crash’ pattern, where
cost in money and man-power
is of no consequence. Russia
could be on the verge of suc-
cessful peaceful use of hydro-
gen fusion power and it may
well be that the latest an-
nounced thermo-nuclear test
was triggered by electrical
means rather than by uranium
fission.”

Here Loy Henderson,

U.S. special envoy, is

seen conferring with U.S. Secretary of stale
John Foster Dulles on his return from the mission which prompted Soviet charges. :

Soviet Union charges US. plot’
to attack Syria through Turkey

LONDON |

The Soviet Union described last week how the United States had planned to cat
out its plot against Syria, using Turkish, Jordanian, Iraqi and Israeli troops. ;
A statement issued by Tass, the Soviet news agency, and broadcast by Moscow Radi?

said the plans had been worked out during the recent visit of Loy Hendersan, the

:

State Deparement’s Middle East expert, to Turkey and some of the Arab countries. 7

Britain had “given her as-
sent to aggression on the part
of Turkey,” the statement as-
serted. Henderson, President
Eisenhower’ special envoy ‘to
the area, had, however, failed
in his efforts to line up Iraq
and Jordan to attack Syria.

The plan then concentrated
on an attack by Turkey al-
though the hope of inciting
other Arab countries against
Syria was not abandoned, Tass
said.

The Turkish invasion was to
be on a wide front from the
Mediterranean to the Euph-
rates, with one column strik-
ing for Latakiya, the Syrian
Mediterranean port, to secure
a base for American Ships.
Turkish troops are standing
by for the attack.

The statement said the at-
tack was planned during Hen-
derson’s visit to Ankara (from
August 24 to August 27).

Israel was advised to “re-
main prepared” and go into
action after the attack had
started, Tass said. In exchange
Israel was promised the right
to re-occupy the Sinai Penin-
sula, the Jordan river valley,
and to turn the Gulf of Aqaba
into her own waters.

The statement added that in
the light of information now

available it had become clear
that the U.S. had been inform-
ed beforehand of the Anglo-
French-Israeli attack against
Egypt a year ago and had con-
doned it with a view to seiz-
ing British and French, posi-
tion in the Middle East.

The statement accused the
U.S. of a Middle East’ policy
of saying in effect: “Either
you accept the Dulles-Hisen-
hower Doctrine, or there will
be war.” Such a policy was
doomed to failure and would
inevitably encounter the oppo-
sition of the people.

The Soviet Union based her
relations with all countries,
including those of the Middle
East on the five principles of
peaceful coexistence, the
statement said. .

American declarations prom-
ising support to Turkey
“amount to an act of incite-
ment, to pushing Turkey to
start a war.”

Such a war, however, could
easily develop into a world
conflict. The Soviet Union
had to avert the creation of a
hotbed of war, especially one
at her southern borders.

The first step which would
have to be taken to avert the
threat of war “is tf withdraw

the Turkish troops from a
Syrian border and put an & 7!
to the blackmail against Sy!

The “new, dangerous situ®
tion which has arisen,” “ jh
Tass statement said, “calls
action on the part of all pea”
seeking nations.” The dull

of the United Nations was

intervene without delay
prevent the threat of wal it

“There is no doubt that ?
the event of an attack of
Syria the Soviet Union W,
take all necessary meas
to give aid to the victim
aggression,” the statemen
clared. ;

“The ruling circles of the
U.S. and Turkey bank 02, |\,
lightning war against SY*
in order to place a fait acta
pli before the United Nati? .
so that it should have no 1 ji
to curb the aggression.”

Tass said it was authori) }
to state “that the Soviet ae
ernment stands firmly for "|
preservation of peace and

: f the Ap
prevention of war in Fi
middle Eastern area ale N

guided by the principles at ‘jl

aims of the United Nations: | |
ready to take measures to cul” i

the aggressor.” .

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