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FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1964
VOL. 25, NO. 2

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Soviets call for
world peace pact

By PETER TEMPEST

MOSCOW—The Soviet Union
has called on all countries to
sign a world treaty renouncing
force as a means of settling
territorial and frontier disputes.
In a message dispatched to all
Heads of State on New Year’s
Eve, Premier Khrushchev said
Such an agreement would bring
**a fresh breeze into internation-
al affairs,’’

He outlined a four-point treaty,
Proposed by the Soviet govern-
ment, calling on all states to:

* Solemnly pledge not to re-
sort to force in order to alter
existing state frontiers;

* Recognize the fact that the
territory of states should not
even temporarily be the object
of any invasion, attack, military
occupation or other forceful
measures, taken directly or in-
directly by other states or for
whatever considerations — whe-
ther political, economic, strate-
gic, frontier or otherwise:

* Firmly declare that differ-
ences of social and state struc-
tures, a denial of recognition or
the Spaairs of diplomatic rela-
tions, or any other pretext, cannot
be a ground for one state to vio-
late the territorial integrity of
another;

+ Pledge to settle all terri-
torial disputes solely by peace-

ful means—such as negotiations,
mediation, agreed procedure,-as
well as other peaceful means
chosen by the interested parties
in accordance with the United
Nations Charter,

The elimination of local wars,
which risked developing ‘‘very
quickly’ into a world war with
nuclear weapons, would bring
great benefit to all countries,

See PEACE, pg. 12

While world statesmen were urging further steps toward easing
world tension and reducing the spread of nuclear arms the minority
Liberal government at Ottawa this week secretly rushed a second load
of nuclear weapons to North Bay, Ontario almost coincidently with a
statement by Prime Minister Lester Pearson on a nation-wide TV in-
terview that Canada would seek t.o reduce its nuclear role.

The second shipment of nuclear
warheads for the Bomarc B mis-
siles were moved into the missile
site at North Bay, Ontario Mon-
day under cover of darkness,
Sunday night Prime Minister
Pearson told the nation that in
future there will be ‘‘a dim-
inution of any kind of nuclear
arms and equipment.”’

The first shipment arrived at
the North Bay base New Year’s
Eve, within hours after news-
paper reports stated that it will
be some time before Canada
gets nuclear arms because U.S.

President Johnson had not yet’

signed the release papers.

The nuclear warheads must
have been in transit at the very
moment this newspaper story was
being fed to the Canadian public.

Arrival of the second shipment
of nuclear warheads came as a
surprise after an RCAF state-
ment following the New Year’s
Eve delivery. which said that suf-
ficient warheads were delivered
in fhe first shipment to equip

the 28 missiles at the base,

Rather than a ‘‘diminution” as
Prime Minister Pearson promis-
ed, the second shipment of war-
heads was followed, according to
press reports, by a third ship-
ment which arrived in Canada on
Wednesday,

Co-incident with the acqui-
Sition of nuclear warheads was
the disclosure that a scheme to
register the entire Canadian
working force was sec retly drawn
up and established under the Nat-
ional Emergency Manpower
Authority without any discussion
or even disclosure to Parliament
that such a scheme was under-
way.

Commenting on the intro-
duction of nuclear warheads in
Canada, B.C, Peace Council
chairman L, Gardner said:

“The great danger to world
peace inherent in spreading nuc-
lear weapons from one country
to another has been stressed by

many knowledgeable people ...:

VANCOUVER PORT HUMS WITH ACTIVITY. As
scores of ante s entered the city’s harbor to cope
with gkpandin ng trade with the socialist countries

the crisis of lack of facilities came very much to the.
fore this week. For the story on the demand for
expansion of port facilities see page 3.

“The presence of nuclear war-
heads on Canadian soil is even
more deplorable at this time when
the prospects for peace and dis-
armament have been strengthen-

ed following the partial test-ban
treaty.’’

A Vancouver-wide member-
ship meeting of the Communist
Party Tuesday night adopted a
resolution condemning the **two-
faced policy’’ of the government.
It called for cancellation of the
secret pact with the.U.S., send-
ing back of the warheads, and
urged that Canada put its full
weight behind a policy of re-
ducing the arms race and work
for world peace.

LESLIE MORRIS, national
leader of the Communist Party,
said the importation from the
USA of nuclear warheads— ‘on

New Year’s Eve of all times— ~

. Normally cancels Canada’s sig--

nature on the partial test ban
treaty.’’

The area of danger has been
widened, he said, by extending
the nuclear weapons to Canada,

‘The opposition parties in
Parliament—and first of all the
NDP, must challenge the govern-
ment when the House opens next
month and, if necessary, bring
it down on the nuclear issue,

**The Canadian Peace Con-
gress has once more opened up
new paths of public action by its
splendid proposal that Canada
be declared to be a nuclear-
free zone. All people of good will
who want constructive action by
Canadians for peace will support
this proposal,

‘Remove nuclear weapons
from our territoy and make Can-
ada a nuclear - free zone —
what better New Year’s resolu-
tion could there be?’

For national reaction see page 12

TIME RUNNING OUT TO BLOCK COLUMBIA BETRAYAL

By JERRY SHACK

As the PT went to press late
Wednesday, press reports indi-
Cated that final agreement on the
Sellout of the Columbia River is
“‘hoped for’ by January 13, Ex-
ternal Affairs Minister Martin
Was reported to have made the
Statement as representatives of
B.C, and the federal government
Opened the latest round of talks,

The intention to proceed with
the sellout came in face of mount-
ing opposition and arising aware-
ness of the nature of the draft
treaty, opposition which included:

® Condemnation of the treaty
by a city membership meeting of
the Communist Party of Van-
Ccouver;

@aA further strengthening of
the pro-Canadian stand of the
Vancouver Labor Council;

@ Distribution of an open letter
to Jack Davis, MP, by the ‘*Col-

umbia River For Canada Com-
mittee’’ at a meeting of the Van-
couver Boardof Trade (Davis was
featured speaker at the meet-
ing);

‘@ A strong hint by Opposi-
tion Leader Diefenbaker that the
Conservative Party would not
vote for the treaty in its present
form,

The CP membership meeting
decided to ‘immediately wire the
Ottawa meeting condemning the
sellout of the Columbia to the
U.S. and demanding a reversal
of government policy on power
and water resources, We fur-
ther demand that the Columbia
and other Canadian and BC,
rivers be developed in Canada’s

interests and not be alienated to.

foreign control,’?
* * *-

The VLC, at its meeting Tues-
day night, unanimously endorsed

an executive recommendation
that ‘the treaty not be ratified
until B.C, is guaranteed that:

(1) B.C. has the right to di-
vert Columbia water for use in
other areas in Canada, and

**(2) Payment should be made
for any water diverted inthe U.S,
to states not directly served by
the Columbia River,’’

Council’s action came after
nearly half the regular meeting
was devoted to a lively, informed
discussion on the disastrous re-
sults which can be expected
should the present treaty be rati-
fied.

* * a

At the Board of Trade meeting,
Davis switched topics at the last
minute and, instead of speaking
on the Columbia, outlined a broad,
comprehensive program whichis
intended to ensure that not only
the Columbia, but ALL of Can-

ada’s northern rivers will be
made available to serve the needs
of the U.S.

Reversing his own stand prior
to the last two federal elections,
Davis bold facedly predicted that
‘‘water will become one of the

‘most important items of trade

between Canada and the U.S,”
in the future. He called for “‘long-
term arrangements with the U 25;
on our water resources, just as
in the case of the Columbia,”

Realizing that this would be a
bitter pill to swallow (even for
the Board of Trade!) Davis sought
to dress this up with phrases
like, ‘‘sale of our surplus water,
only’’ and ‘‘we must build 4n ele-
ment of flexibility into our long-
term arrangements.’’ (The lat-
ter, after having spoken interms
of 99-year leases!)

Anticipating astorm of protest,
he blandly stated:

‘Of course there will be some
Canadians who will shout ‘give-
away’ and ‘sellout’ in response
to this proposition,’’? He then
intimated that anyone disagree-
ing with this grandiose giveaway
program had ‘no faith in future
technological progress,’?

According to Davis’ reasoning,
after we have proceeded to place
our entire northern watershed at
the disposal of American in-
terests, some nebulous ‘‘tech-
nology’’ of the future will res-
cue Canada from an acute short-
age of fresh water.

Four members of the Columbia
Committee attempted to distri-
bute its open letter to Davis
at the luncheon meeting, but were
prevented from doing so by B of
T officials, Following the meet-
ing, however, each person pre-

sent received a copy on his.

way out,
See COLUMBIA, pg. 3