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VOL. 28, NO. 3

FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1967:

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STRIKE AGAIN NEAR HANO

‘Halt U.S. bombing’
demand sweeps

The world wide outcry against the U.S. bombing of North
om reached a new height this week as American planes re-

Vietn

turned once again to the attack near Hanoi.

Shocked by the brutal Ameri-
can bombings, these were some of
the highlights of this week’s
&Towing protest movement:

®A delegation representing 375
members of the faculty of the
University of Toronto met with
Prime Minister Pearson Tuesday
to protest the bombings,

More than 4,000 faculty mem-
bers of 83 universities across the
U.S. signed an advertisement ap-
Pearing in last Sunday’s New York
Times Saying simply: “Mr,
President, Stop the Bombing.”
On the next Page an advertise-
ment by the« Lawyers Committee
On American Policy toward Viet-

nam” branded U.S, action in
Vietnam as “illegal”

®Harrison Salisbury, of the
New York Times, in the last of
S series of articles summing
up his Observations from North
Vietnam Said; “Thant has offered
the opinion that a halt in bombing
is a requisite to talks, This is
the view of this correspondent
brought away from Hanoi.”

Reflecting the concern among

© American people over the
Toe threat of escalation in
ae the U.S, Senate foreign
ons Committee, headed by
Senator J -W. Fulbright announced
€ committee will start a new
Series of public hearings into the

administration?
fice S foreign poli-

ULLELY: ‘up a three-day
€eting in Toronto Monday, the
Central Committee of the Com-
as Party of Canada con-
ia ed U.S, bombings and de-

ed to launch a nation-wide
Campaign to Tally Canadians to

demand a halt
t
attacks. 0 the bombing

In his address to the meeting,

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William Kashtan, national leader,
warned that “The longer the war
lasts, the greater the danger that
the most reactionary forces in
the U.S, will gain the upper hand
and demand even more desperate
measures including the use of
nuclear weapons as Eisenhower
has already done,”

Kashtan said that “In face of
this grave danger, no stone should
be left unturned in the effort to
bring an end to U.S, aggression
in Vietnam and to compel it to
negotiate based on the right of
the Vietnamese people to their
freedom and independence,”

The meeting of leading Com-
munists from all parts of Canada
adopted a three-point program of
action to meet the problems
facing Canadians today. Placed
at the top of the list was the
campaign to stop the U.S. bomb-
ing of North Vietnam,

Professor Hilary Putnam, of
Harvard, one of the organizers
of the faculty advertisement
which appeared in the New York
Times said:

“This project has been spurred
by the need to convince our gov-
ernment that the course sug-
gested by U Thant — immediate
termination of the bombing of
North Vietnam, — is the only
one that can bring peace. . .

“We believe that increasing
numbers of patriotic Americans
want to end the brutal bombings
by American planes of a small
country, and thereby create
conditions that may lead to
peace.” He added that additional
signatures had been received
from another 140 universities
and that these will appear innext
Sunday’s edition of the New York
Times,

Support for U Thant’s position
on ending the war in Vietnam
and for cessation of bombing also
came this week in Vancouver
from Chester Ronning, here to
address a meeting of the United
Nations Society. He said U.S,
policy in Vietnam is based on
an out-dated political theory, He
backed the demand for an end to
U.S. bombings.

This week a delegation from the
faculty of the University of Tor-
onto presented an appeal to Prime
Minister Pearson condemning the
U.S. bombing of North Vietnam,

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This powerful cartoon by Macpherson of the Toronto Star was recently published in the U.S. weekly,
“National Guardian,"’ and has attracted wide attention.

NEO-NAZI VISIT HIT

Thadden not wanted here

A wave of protest greeted. the announcement
this week that neo-Nazi Adolph von Thadden, vice-
chairman of the West German National Demo-
cratic Party, had been invited to speak at the
University of B.C, around January 31,

Earlier the Canadian Broadcasting Commission
had been forced by public pressure to cancel
plans to bring von Thadden to Canada to appear
on the program “Sunday.” Many organizations
in Toronto threatened massive demonstrations if
the pro-Nazi leader was brought to the city,

The ultra-right nationalist party in West Ger-
many, represented by von Thadden, made gains
in two recent elections in Germany, The emer-
gence of this neo-Nazi movement, which supports
the same program as Adolph Hitler’s Nazi Party,
sent shock waves around the world,

There has been considerable criticism of the
program “Sunday” for attempting to bring him to

Canada, Demands for cancellation of his appear-
ance, and that he be denied admittance into
Canada by the immigration department were
raised in Parliament.

The announcement that von Thadden had heen
invited to speak at UBC by the Alma Mater So-

“ciety’s special events committee immediately
brought strong protests from leaders of the

Vancouver Jewish Community and others,

The Pacific Tribune joins with all democratic
citizens in demanding that the pro-Nazi von
Thadden be kept out of our universities and out
of Canada, The issue involved here is not civil
liberties but whether a platform shall be given to
a representative of a movement which advocates
policies of race hatred, genocide and war,

There has also been a storm of protest in
Great Britain over a proposal to bring him to
Oxford University,

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