Scrap all bases! No nuclear arms! |

HAIL CUBA ACCORD,
NOW END COLD WAR

The world breathed easier this week following the accord
} [I ad bd between U.S. President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Khrush-
| aD ; acl 1¢ chev which averted nuclear war and drew the world back from

the brina of catastrophe.

The events of the past few days vade Cuba, but to open World and peaceful coexistence.

have created a new stage in the War Three — thermonuclear war It must be remembered, in the
fight for peace. The world and that would have annihilated civil- face of the most misleading prop-
Canada face new problems which _ ization. aganda emanating from Washing-
must now be resolved to make This desperate, murderous plan ton, that this world crisis was
peace secure. has been thwarted by the action caused by the interference by the

Immediately following the an- of the Soviet Union. The world United States in the internal

PR | - Mt Ze nouncement of the Cuba accord, owes, once more, a debt of grati- affairs of Cuba.
V IDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1962 i 10¢ the National Executive of the tude to the Soviet Union and its It was in response to daily vio-
BOL. 22, No. 43 VANCOUVER, B.C. - Communist Party of Canada re- socialist policy of world peace lent interference, and the threat

of a second invasion, this time
in full force, that Cuba exercised
her sovereign right to arm in her
own defense and to receive mod-
ern weapons from the Soviet
Union.

What now?

It would be wrong to now be
passive and’ retire into compla-
cency. Until the aggressive mili-
tary, economic and diplomatic
policy of the Western alliance,
dominated by the United States,
is replaced by a policy of “live
and let live,’ of peaceful co-
existence between countries pos-
sessing different: social and
economic systems — we can ex-
pect further crises.

END COLD WAR

Repetitions of the Cuban crisis,
aan either around Cuba, or anywhere

The public has been in in the world, and ultimate therm-
vited to participate in the: onuclear war, can only be avoid-
petitioning. Forms mre av- 2: ©d by:

leased the following statement

Abolish military blocs, cited: “Now: — Bate Oi

On the initiative of the Soviet
h government the danger of world
ases urges Dal ey war arising out of the American
The B g - ; da. resolution plan to invade the Republic: of
Pay -C. New Democratic tion adopte ; Cuber huctbeen averted:
oi on called for “the ab- which stated that Balad The Canadian people, together
a Of pil military pacts, military defence re ane with the people of all countries,
Bay and foreign military pacts outside of oe ane nen GHOTK! Bball) tow. atten. the
e tion of the Unite gone terrible crisis of the past week.
che delegates at the conven: not offer a solution” to the ““mHe-US. government han pledg-
uneasy world situation. The ed that it will not invade Cuba

Np will fight resolution also demanded: Pan era fia nlocknde. The

¢ The ending of the arms gic government is removing

Street
petition

nounced it will sponsor
street vetitiow in Vancou
ver this comivg Sat., Nov
8, starting at 10 a.m. Peti
tioning will go on all day.
The petition will urg
that nuclear ‘weapons b
kept out of Gsnada, tha
Bomarc missiles be dis
maniled. and that Canad
nsist in the U.N. on imme
diate disarmament negotia

race and a “universal ban on those weapons from Cuba which

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Olumbia pact (nuclear) testing”; e ind were installed to enable Cuba to
Follow; : e The adoption of an Inde a .fend itself from the enormous-

the meee ® tively: debate pendent position by Canada in *

last oe convention, meeting

ly superior arms of the United

world affairs. States

ee i z 5 :

Ster = a at ileal ¢ Condemnation of the use How close the world came to
Sutive tp oe ae ao a of force to settle international war is to be seen in the fact

put fais Gra See problems; that over the weekend the Ameri-

fight
bi ee save tne Cohun= e No nuclear weapons on a ay Kea
ae resolution ‘was adopted . “ can military build-up reache

NS renegotiati Canadian soil. enormous proportions. It was ailable at Rm. 414, Shelly 1. The removal of foreign bases
on of the 2
| Treaty sca on the Mc- (Full report on the NDE sno obvious that the Kennedy gov- Bldg., 119 W. Pender Si everywhere in the world.
Naughton Plan vention on page 8). ernment was ready not only to in- See COMMUNIST PLEA, pg. 2

"U.S. BASES SURROUND THE SOVIET UNION
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Communist bloc countries

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u he abo e October 27 issue of the Financial Post. The story accompanying wae bended:
In| ory’s verdict might say U.S. was the aggressor.” Missing from the above

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