Dean of Canterbury says:

Youthful peace marchers

‘Rays of hope and
peacé in ‘63’
By HEWLETT JOHNSON
‘anterbury )

(Dean of (¢

UR world
for peace, never
han now after the shocks of last
year. What are the hopes of man-
kind? What are the omens?
The hopes are to banish weap-
“ons of mass destruction. The
» omens are good. Rays of hope
: pierce the gloom.
For the first time millions of
- people faced the reality of nu-
: clear war. Only the greatness of
: Khrushchev saved us from. ulti-
; Mate catastrophe.

Rightly he placed peace before
mistaken notions of personal or
national prestige.

Now, slowly, the hope
for the beginning of nuclear dis-
armament; for the stopping of
tests; perhaps for a real altempt
at solving the more urgent prob-
lems that divide the world.

The wise and generous action
of China in its border dispute
with India is outstanding.

With complete victory acheved
it yet handed back the fruits of
victory, an action without parallel

War-weary longs

and more

grows

in history—one unthinkable for
ourselves.

Here was a great moral ges-
ture. How can India spurn. it?

At some stage Nehru will see
who gains from war—certainly
not India.

Great things grow from small.
In China I have seen a bookstall
containing expensive books. No
one in charge, only a box for the
price of your purchase.

‘Don’t you lose much money
in that way?’’ I asked.

“No,” they replied, ‘‘generally
there is excess money; people
lacking change put in extra.”

This honesty struck my young
missionary doctor relatives at
Chungking who wrote to me be-
fore they left China for furlough.

e
They said: ‘‘We, like you, mar-
velled_at the industrial and agri-

cultural strides of China, but
still more at the extraordinary
new honesty and trust of the

Chinese.”’

In my book ‘“‘The Upsurge of
China” I give other instances of
* this new spirit invading stores
and factories, which makes for
* peace and brotherhood and helps
“us to understand the attitude of
‘China today.

A scrupulous reverence in the
Press for truth is the prime key to
beace. ‘The truth makes one
free,”’ says St. John, that is, en-
ables us to react according to
reality.

The history of the Soviet Union
for the past 40 years is a com-
mentary on that text.

From the very first
inundated with fies about
Soviet Union. Time after
we were told Russia was collap-
sing, her plans were failures; and
time after time we acted, not
on reality, but on fantasy. And
time after time the Soviet Union
produced eve r-fresh achieve-
ments, upsetting all calculations
based on false information.

5 Sa ”

NATO SPENDING IN 1962

PARIS — Defense spend-
ing by the NATO military al-
liance of Western countries
(of which Canada is a mem-
ber), this year will total a
record $73,152,000,000 ac-
cording to estimates issued
during the recent NATO con-
ference in this city. This is
$6,760,000,000 more than the
1961 total of $66,392,000,000.

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were
the
time

we

arrested by Toronto police

‘Toronto police broke up a_ onstration after it had been
youthful demonstration in dispersed by police when for
the city’s downtown centre no apparent reason they were

taken into custody. It was at
this point that a Christmas
shopper paused to ask the

recently against nuclear wea-
pons for Canada and arrested
21 of the 70 participants.

For the ordinary worker in the
capitalist West, with unemplo; Two were charged with ob-_ reason for the arrests.
ment rising, most striking are structing police and the re- He was taken into custody

also and became one of the
two charged with obstructing
police.

Police said they acted on
complaints that the demon-
strators were obstructing pe-
destrian traffic, but the organ-
izers of the demonstration
had in fact made sure there
was sufficient room left free
on the sidewalks and had also
obeyed police instructions
and traffic laws.

maining 19 were charged
with unlawful assembly. Nine
of the latter group were also
told they would be summon-
ed for creating a disturbance.

Police said the group broke
the law by not having a per-
mit for the demonstration It
was the first time in recent
years such a claim had been
made against peace demon-
strations and such mass ar-
rests carried out.

Most ironic note of the en-
tire incident was the fact
that the two charged with the
most serious offence of ob-
structing police were not par-
ticipants in the demonstra-
tion, but merely bystanders
who had questioned why the
arrests were being made. But
this was enough to cause their
arrest.

The demonstration had
been organized on Dec. 22 by
an ad hoc committee consist-
ing of members of the New
Democratic Youth, the Com-
mittee of 100, the Canadian
High School Students for Dis-
armament and others.

* One of the arrested said
that he and another were
: walking away from the dem-

the strides made in the produc-
tive economy of Russia, where
she can use to the full the ad-
vantages of automatic machinery
without throwing tens of thou-
sands on the scrapheap.

I was asked in a television in-
terview: ‘‘How could I, as a
Christian, say good words about
Atheist Russia?”’

ae z 2
DON COX, executive board
member of the United Fish-
ermen & Allied Workers un-
ion, was released- from Oak-
alla prison last -week after
serving 30 days (less time off
for good behavior) for his ac-
tions on the picket line at
Allied Engineering.

ering in Cuba

efforts for the achieve-
ment of better understand-
ing, for world peace and
for disarmament.”

Preparations for the
hemispheric congress have
been underway since Ap-
ril, 1961 and have been
advanced through a series
of preparatory meetings in
Latin America, attended
by representatives from
Canada.

A well-known woman
worker from Vancouver
Island is included in the
Canadian delegation.

Women gath

Canadian women will
meet with their sister rep-
resentatives from the
western hemisphere at the
Congress of Women of the
Americas, to open at Hav-
ana, Cuba on January 5.

In a letter announcing it
will send representatives
to the gathering, the Con-
gress of Canadian Women
states the international
meeting “will provide an
opportunity for women of
all the Americas to get to
know each other’s prob-
and to unite their

lems,

DEAN OF CANTERBURY

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In reply I pictured Christ, :
standing on the border of the ze
East and West. § c h i

Looking West, he hears red ey a an a ad :

head of the richest land in the
world confessing that 17 million
of his countrymen go hungry to
anything from

notes

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ate.

In the week before Christmas
the Moscow paper Pravda pub-

bed; he sees :
three, four or five million un- lished these and other photo-
employed; he sees fields untilled graphs of espionage activity by

of the world U.S. diplomats.

while two-thirds
starves; he sees the massing of Photo on fhe left — said to be
great fortunes and the spirit of former U.S. embassy official
covetousnsss rampant. Richard Jacob — is in the act of
” “fine pik > Sat
On the other hand, as he RURSAPE coplousgr: + Diaieeet
from behind a radiator at 5-6 =

looks Eastward, he fails to see a
single hungry child or man or

Pushkin Street on Nov. 2.

--Below are the instructions,

rampant. ‘Alex.’

Four U.S. diplomats and British

woman. He fails to see crowds

of hopeless unemployed men, Ta) cuatesk wakakaiand e
women or youth and, more im- found on Oleg Penkovsky, former
portant, he fails to see the i ar cheat ae ee
covetous spirit, unchanged and known to U.S. Intelligence as %

From which country
Christ detect the gleams businessman Granville Wynne *
hoped-for and longed-for | were cctiacitaiendbiine: Q
eagerly anticipated new socia

order, one in keeping with his

own great moral teachings?
On one side is peace and_ the
n of war; of social justice

rejectio
and: the rejection of unemploy
ment. On the other ——? Bu

you know the answer.

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Yes! There are rays of hope, : ;
rays of peace, shining through * _e
the gloom- Let the working class }
make these gleams the dawn of :
an era where war and unemploy-
ment are for ever banned.

Acreage seeded to wheat in
Canada in 1962 was the fifth larg-
est on record and production is
currently estimated at the sev-

enth largest.

Season’s Greetings
and to all
A Happy New Year
With World Peace
M. Marshall & Family

Jan. 4, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3