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FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1966
VOL. 27, NO. 31

ATTEND THE

PEACE ARCH
_ RALLY

PEACE ARCH PARK

SAT., AUG. 6
11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

STOP THE BOMBING

By Tom McEwen

.S. bombing to
be probed by
ICC control body

Last weekend's heavy bombing of the demilitarized zone seperating
North and South Vietnam under terms of the Geneva Agreement by mas-
sive U.S. bomber squadrons, has further heightened world tensions and fears.

This wanton bombing of a demilitarized zone which the U.S. govern-
ment ‘‘pledged”’ to respect, merely serves as another example of the value

of U.S. ‘pledges’.

Teams of the International Control Commission (ICC) on which Canada is
a member, are now conducting an investigation of factors leading up to this

wanton act.

The U.S, B-52 ‘strato cruiser’
bombing raids upon the six-mile
wide demilitarized zone which
divides North and South Vietnam
has touched off yet another wave
of world indignation and revul-
sion, ‘Is nothing sacred to these
U.S. Hitlers?’ people ask.

‘U.S. defense secretary Mc-
Namara and other Pentagon war-
hawks have sought to justify this
wanton act on the excuse that

_ the zone is being used by North

Vietnam as an ‘entry way’ to the
South,

While protests come from
many parts of the world, none
has been heard from the Pearson
government to date, despite the
fact of Canada’s membership re-

sponsibility on the ICC,

" Such protests from Ottawa per-
haps should not be expected be-
cause of Canada’s growing in-
volvement in war contracts for
‘U.S. needs’ in Vietnam, The
fact remains however that as a
member of the ICC Canada has

greater responsibility to the
cause of world peace thana mere
‘apologist’ and war arsenal for
U.S. aggression in Vietnam or
elsewhere,

Obliterating a small six-mile
strip of demilitarized land and
its people is only the compound-
ing of a greater crime, already
added to by successive massive
bombings this week of Hanoi and
Haipong with its accompanying
massacre of civilian populations,

_In line with the “hope” ex-
pressed in Maclean’s Magazine
editorial (August 6, 1966) in a
reply to U.S. Senator Bobby
Kennedy, ‘‘that a time may come
when Canada can do something
useful towards stopping this
ghastly war, and we don’t want
to impair that usefulness for the
sake of emptily striking an atti-
tude now. But if Senator Kennedy
insists on*knowing what we think,
it’s ‘Yankee, get out of Viet-
nam,’”

Thus the first useful task Can-

ada’s teams on the ICC can per-
form is to demand of the U.S,

warhawks respect for the Gen-
eva Agreement provisions goy-

erning the bombed-out demili-
tarized zone: and secondly, to
demand of its own government
back in Ottawa the same forth-
right solution as set .forth by
Maclean’s — pouring from mil-
lions of voices around the world —
and in America itself, from Con-
gressmen to cab drivers;
‘Yankee, get out of Vietman,’

‘The devastating U.S. bombing
of the demilitarized zone, fol-
lowed by another massive bomb-
ing of the key cities of North
Vietnam points up the gravity
and urgency of the moment, Any
‘climate’ for peace in Vietnam
must be preceded by stopping
this murderous bombing; and
any ‘climate’ for a lasting peace
in Southeast Asia must be pre-
ceded by Maclean’s advice to
Senator Kennedy, ‘Yankee, get
out of Vietnam.’

THE MOUNTING U.S. COMMITMENT IN VIETNAM

400;-IN THOUSANDS

350
300fF-
250

200 -

An additional 18,000 U.S. troops will
soon join the 267,000 Gls stationed in South
Vietnam. Defence Secretary Robert S.
McNamara told a news conference June 11.
The size of the U.S. force in Vietnam is ex-
pected to reach 400,000 by the end of this
year, U.S. officials say. The American build-
up began slowly in early 1962 when about
1,000 American military advisers were in
South Vietnam. By the beginning of 1965

" -that figures had risen to 23,500. Through-
out 1965 nearly 160,000 U.S. troops were
dispatched to South Vietnam.

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