SEND U.S.

PERSONNEL HOME, OTTAWA URGED

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it

Cuba is busily engaged in industrializing the country and building industries to
ensure a growing food supply. Big headway has been made in building a mod-
ern fishing fleet. The Soviet Union has given a lot of help to increase the size of
the fleet and train fishermen in modern methods. Photo shows a Russian fisher-
man in Havana port explaining new gear to a Cuban fisherman.

to Prime Minister Pearson last Sunday a
vention of the Communist Party.

The action followed the an-
nouncement last Friday by De-
fence Minister Hellyer that the
flow of U.S, personnel to Comox
had increased and that the first
warheads are to reach Comox
next year, It will be recalled that
Bomarce warheads were sneaked
into eastern Canada on New
Year’s Eve last year under cover
of darkness,

The wire, which charged that
the action constituted an insult
to Canadian sovereignty and that
Canadians gave the government
no mandate for nuclear weapons
in the last election, called on the
public to protest,

A resolution adopted by the
meeting said the bringing of nu-

: Clear weapons to Comox was in
¢ direct opposition to the signature
; Of the Canadian government onthe

partial test ban treaty, and its
pledge to do everything to stop
the spread of nuclear weapons,

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The convention also adopted a

; resolution charging that reac-

s| tionary interests are threatening
| to destroy the natural beauty of
Stanley Park in the interests of:

commercialism, It urged City
Council and Parks Board to main-
tain the natural beauty of the
park for this and future genera-
tions,

Central theme of the keynote ad-

dress by city secretary William:

Stewart was for “a greater Van-
couver in a world of peace,” He
called for modernization of the
port and said that the key to its
growth was extension of trade
with underdeveloped and socialist
countries,

Stewart said that after 27 years
of NPA rule the city faced aseri-
ous crisis which enters into every
aspect of city life, He called on
labor, ratepayers and all those
desiring a change at City Hall
to unite to oust the NPA in the
December 9 election,

apons at Comox protested

A protest against the arrival at Comox base of American custodial personnel and¢ dee
mand that the installation of nuclear warheads at Comox be stopped was voiced in a wire
t the closing session of the Greater Vancouver com

Addressing the convention, B,
provincial leader Nigel More®
charged that the giveaway 2
B.C, resources to U,S, monoP?”
lies was being stepped UP. He
pointed to U,S, takeover of fo
est, oil, natural gas and wale
resources and called for 0%
economic policies to process 1a
materials in Canada inste@
allowing them to pass unde
foreign control,

Attending the convention We
65 delegates from clubs if Vani
couver, Burnaby and North
couver, The convention chait™
was Harold Pritchett,

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owners Association.

Fraserview vets prepare
fight against evictions

Fraserview veterans will hold a public meetilé
Sunday at 7:45 p.m. to lay plans to fight an evictio?
threat made by Ottawa. The veterans have refused .
pay the higher rents and officials from the Centt
Mortgage and Housing Corporation have threaten@
that evictions will be carried through if the new hig
rents are not met by the end of this month.

The meeting will take place at Bobolink Pa
Community centre at Holylake and Nanaimo,a? -
being called by the Fraserview Veterans and Hom

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Why Khrushchov resigned

By WILLIAM DEVINE
PT Staff Correspondent

MOSCOW—As of Oct. 25, no
official public explanation has
been presented here of the de-
tails surrounding the resignation
of Nikita Khrushchov as premier
of the USSR and first secretary
of the Communist Party,

But, based on information from
reliable sources, the following
explanation emerges:

The advanced age (70) and -de-
teriorating health of Khrushchov,
while valid points, are not the
main reasons,

The most immediate reason
revolves around agricultural
policies of the Soviet Union,

Backgrounding this are habits of :

work considered at variance with
the spirit of collectivity, includ-

ing a tendency to make individual |

pronouncements on domestic and
foreign policy,

An element of “going over
heads”

newspaper Izvestia, as a special
emissary in foreign affairs,

The agricultural issue came to

a head at a meeting of the pre-
sidium of the CPSU Oct, 12,
called to discuss new proposals
formulated by Khrushchov, It is
understood these recommended
dividing the Soviet Union into 17
agricultural districts,

and bypassing official :
channels is also seen inhis use of. |
his son-in-law, Alexei Adzhubei, :
former editor of the government :

EXCLUSIVE FROM MOSCOW

Last year proposals by
Khrushchov to establish farm
marketing boards had-been ac-
cepted and, not without some
difficulty, were still being im-
plemented, This year’s bumper
crop is considered due more to
favorable climatic conditions

- than to reorganization,

Khrushchov was absent from
Moscow and the other. presidium
members reasoned that any new
reorganization of agriculture

might do more harm than good,
and that the main emphasis should
now be on consistent work based
on present plans for overcoming
difficulties in agriculture as well
as in other aspects of the

The U.S. government announced this week it is pl

economy,

Khrushchoy was asked to re-
turn to Moscow for the presidium
meeting, at first refused, but
after insistent urging finally re-
turned for the latter part of the
second day of the meeting,

He apparently refused to argue
in defense of his proposals, de-
spite urging from the rest of the
presidium, stating he would let
the central committee decide, A
meeting of the central committee
was convened the following day
and presidium member Mikhail
Suslov presented a report, in-
cluding a recommendation that
Khrushchov be replaced, Again

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ing s closer to

China. The above photo shows the U.S. Air force setting up a missile on Formosa.

Khrushchov did not speak,

The presidium and the central
committee voted to accept Sus-
lov’s report and on the following
day Khrushchov presented his
resignation, He remains a mem-
ber of the central committee,

Beyond the agricultural issue,
increased concern is said. to

have been felt at certain traits of

Khrushchov’s, considered veer-
ing in the direction of the per-
sonality cult against which the

CPSU has been campaigning fol-:

lowing the Stalin era,

During his journeys about the
Soviet Union, Khrushchov is said
to have made “off the cuff” state-
ments about domestic policy,
though these may never have been
discussed by any appropriate
government or party body, Sub-

sequent modification of such
statements was said to be diffi-

cult because of the influence en-
joyed by Khrushchoy among the

people and local government and ,

party officials,

In the same vein, Khrushchov
is said to have made extempor-
aneous comments in the realm of
foreign affairs, including the
present ideological debate in the
world Communist movement,

-It is stressed that Khrushchov
at all times presented the views
of the CPSU as decided by its
leading committees, but that he
often “added to” these views and
tended to personalize the ideo-
logical dispute with the leaders

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October 30, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE:

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incre af
ew

In addition,
Khrushchov had become

ingly intolerant of the ee ye

others, He is said to h@ tiv?
passed normal adminis ’ nel
channels in a“one-man” a

and to have failed to refer ce
on occasioly

presidium, em”
tions raised with him PY "ye
bers of the party’s centr
mittee, a is
It is understood thes ae are
of Khrushchoy’s resignatl® pet?
being reported to partyM® ine

ship meetings throughoU 1 the
country, with stress laid met
need for a balanced ass© +4007
of Khrushchoy’s contri nis
the good and positive a5P°
well as any negative one>

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Whatever the full details as
is nothing to suggest the P’ nt w2
of Khrushchov’s replace™™ ae
not fully democratic 2” ori
cordance with the PF? jg5
procedure, That a leade? © og jn
Khrushchov' can be reP* 4 jn
the manner described 0, of
itself be the best indi?” ork,
the democratic proces®

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foreign policies follow
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the 20th, 21st and

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