eS AD MD og DM ee b ARE al Sa 4 5 Ly te ae 8 ee BieFon 8 E90 a ae | li As world leaders urge peace = OTTAWA SNEAKS IN Uae id oa us FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1964 VOL. 25, NO. 2 =" 10¢ 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