GERMAN. GENERALS GIVEN MORE CONTROL OF A- ARMS Nuclear know-how spreads; Canada to back U.S. plans ag Plans which would open the way for Hitler's former generals to get greater control over nuclear weapons in NATO were agreed on at the NATO strategy conference in Athens, Greece tana is Pa me Masel ll ncte clic aA sacl serpent = zy A Bi ink in nan mee a Na a la “ee Se Ss SS ~. last weekend. next step — outright posses- Pi yyetestio VANCOUVER, B.C. 10¢ Members arr} Str iences, eg of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra on their alin Moscow. where they and Toronto soprano Teresa. atlas have received many ovations from their Soviet Devaluation big blow fo Canada says Buck Ment h Value Tim RB : eallowing are Buck’s an- y © Some questions posed oe devaluation: fe What will be the annoy, of Donald Fleming’s Ncement? ite It was a body blow Seng ey Standards. It will Very tn the prices of almost fie go Ve. buy. Every- Cost mn at is imported will This ae Canadian dollars. Cost a Will increase their Million us by more than $50 Sales ,, CuUStoms duties and 50 i On this additional 80vern, lion may enrich the to i ment but it will heip fami eV erish the millions of low. “S whose incomes are Major the overwhelming’ Wil] Bie Canadians this Valuation Only effect of de- “Uestion, : * in le that be its Uwara * No. It is an overall Inflat; turn on the spiral of the = Tt will tend to raise in Ghhas. of things produced of 4 is 2 Up to the new level Produ Prices of imported ~ For example, two ha Donald Fleming the ies ur dollar, one of fe ne companies an- flou, ‘ that the price of by 15 Canada is increased ents a hundredweight. Singgs » *: Do you think big Nterests' ‘were’ ‘ac: Donald Fleming’s announcement that the govern- as devalued the Canadian dollar and is pegging its at 921 ¢ (U.S.) is a serious matter for Canada, said Uck, national chairman of the Communist Party. tually waiting for Fleming’s announcement in order to raise prices? eke Answer: Plans for price 1n- creases have been building up continuously since the Die- fenbaker government fired James Coyne and depressed the value of the Canadian dollar in relation to U.S. cur- rency. But, there was no scar- city of goods in the retail stores, therefore, as long as the depreciation was “experl- mental” the manufacturers hesitated to exploit it to the limit. Now, official devaluation, pegged at 1.08 Canadian for one dollar U.S., is a signal that prices can be increased. What the people buy will be dearer. Question: Some sections of the capitalist press say it will bring an expansion of the economy. ss Answer: If more Canadian dollars for the same amount of goods and more federal customs and sales tax rev- enues from the same amount of goods were really economic expansion this would be fully true. As it is however, that statement misrepresents a new burden on the Canadian people as economic gain for Canada as a whole. ‘See BUCK, page 3 In a communique released sion of nuclear arms. after the NATO Council Emboldened by the victory meeting it was announced won at the Athens meeting, that the United States had the West German govern- agreed to two measures of ment through Chancellor Ad- major importance: enauer moved this week to e The U.S. will supply the torpedo the Soviet-U.S. talks non-nuclear powers with a great deal of information which they have not had until now. e The U.S. has agreed to allocate six nuclear Polaris submarines to the NATO command, with 41 more under construction also to go to NATO. These decisions represent a big step towards the spread- ing of nuclear arms. It is also another step forward for the West German ex-Nazi gener- als who have set themselves the goal of acquiring control over nuclear weapons. Polaris submarines at the disposal of NATO gives them a share of control. It will be recalled that the top positions in NATO in Europe and in NATO plan- ning committees in Washing- ton are headed by such ex- Hitler generals as Speidel and Heusinger. Bonn circles are reported to be jubiliant at the NATO decisions, for once the West Germans get a share in con- trol it becomes easier for the U THANT, United Nations Acting Gen.-Sec., this week called upon both East and West to halt the arms race. Meanwhile, Soviet spokes- man at the Geneva talks, V. Zorin, told the disarmament conference that if the West would accept the Soviet pro- posal to abolish all means of delivering nuclear weapons, then the Soviet Union would be willing to accept 100 per- cent inspection over its en- tire territory. on a settlement of the Berlin problem. Adenauer is reported to have called for ending the talks which have been taking place between U.S. State Sec- retary Rusk and Soviet Am- bassador A. Dobrynin in Washington. The German Chancellor is said to have denounced the reported U.S. proposals on Berlin for work- ing out an international con- trol authority for access to Berlin. External Affairs Secretary Howard Green attended the Athens NATO conference. According to reports from the conference, Canada went along with the U.S. plan for spreading nuclear know-how and weapons, under NATO. Ottawa's agreement with the latest NATO proposals underlines the support which both Tories and Liberals have given to the creation of a nuclear armed NATO force, in which nuclear-armed Cana- dian forces would take part. The decisions of the NATO conference opens the way for all NATO countries to later acquire nuclear weapons. These decisions point to the need for Canada to renounce nuclear weapons now and withdraw from the NATO alliance which endangers our security. ‘Peace Walk’ at Seattle World’s Fair Close to 5006 ‘persons took part in a Peace Walk at the Seattle World’s Fair last Sat- urday afternoon. They marched through downtown streets and then circled the grounds, attracting wide attention. Photo ‘above shows the front ‘section of the pro-: cession. The Walk was sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee. Close to 50 persons from Vancouver, B.C. joined in the Walk. Handbills given out by the marchers advocated cessation of nuclear testing and world peace.