4 ism in West Germany. Rhein Zeitung wrote: going to be war.” militarily.” Stop West German Miltearism This picture shows thousands of students in West Berlin demonstrating - Jan. 18 against the revival of militar- _ The war preparations of the Aden- ‘auer government came under sharp attack from a West German paper last week. Under the heading, “Will the | shooting start tomorrow” the Neue “If somebody were to come to the Federal Republic within 24 hours: he would get the impression :. “Tomorrow the shooting starts, tomorrow there’s pe. ive paper adds: “One gets the “im- pression that Bonn’s entire policy consists only in organizing something ee 7 border By SYDNEY GORDON -China-India to meet ; ‘soon on The Sino-Indian border dispute is “higher ground” of direct diplomatic negotiations. Jetter to Indian Premier Nehru it is now firmly mitted to a face-to-face conference in New Delhi in resolving the current dispute. dispute moving steadily and predictably towards the Following Premier Chou En-lai’s last established that both sides are com- in the near future as the next step This development is clearly the border question. - @ major breakthrough: in the drawn out diplomatic ex- changes between Peking and New Delhi. It has long. been the announced objective of Chinese policy and has been repeatedly forecast in these weekly Peking commentaries. ‘It is seen by many observ- ers as a setback for all those, like the U.S. state department and right-wing diehards in- side India, who banked heav- ily on using border differenc- es to drive a wedge between the billion people of India and China. : ‘Many factors are undoubt- edly enmeshed in the latest development. One of the most decisive has incontestably _been the remarkable policy of restraint pursued by the Chin- ese government. While hostile ? propaganda abroad has been picturing China as waging a campaign of frontier aggression against India, what she has ac- tually been waging against In- dia has been ‘fa campaign of peace and friendship.” In the face of the most pro- voxing and unfounded accus- ations China has adhered steadfastly to the view that she desires friendship with In- dia and that direct negotia- tions are the only solution for Such negotiations were first proposed by the Chinese side last fall. The proposal was re- jected by Premier Nehru. It was rejected a second time New members join Communist Party Seventy-eight new mem- bers have joined the Com- munist Party in B.C. since October./This was announced by the provincial executive last. week. Highest number was in February when 30 new members joined. The}. Fraser. Valley and Vancou- ver Island clubs have done particularly good work in enrolling new members late- ly. To parade on May 1 Vancouver’s Ma yy D ay celebration this year will be highlighted by a parade on Sunday, May 1st. This was decided‘ at: the May: Day con- ference, held in Pender Auditorium, last. Thursday. A second conference to which labor and progressive. organizations are to: be in- vited will be held Wed., March 23, at 8 p.m. at Pen- der Auditorium. when Premier Chou suggested the two premiers meet in Bur- ma or Peking last Dec. 26. However, a new letter from Nehru delivered in Peking Feb. 12 in effect reversed this negative position and invited Chou to come to New Deihi in the latter. part of March. In his reply Chou accepts this invitation for the visit, which in his words has the purpose of “holding meetings to explore avenues which may lead to a peaceful settlement of the boundary issue.” | Because of “state affairs’ he proposes that he come to New Delhi in April. It is assumed state affairs referred to in- clude the visit to Peking in mid-March of Nepal’s Premier Koirala, which can be expec- ted to further improve the at- mosphere for Chou’s negotia- tions with Nehru. : It is noted by observers that some diehard elements in In- dia appear to. be working fran- tically to, torpedo the negotia- tions before they begin. Thus the leaders of the small but highly vocal and ultra-reac- tionary Jam Sangh Party have publicly declared that if Chou “dares aecept’” Nehru’s inyi- tation they will make New Delhi ‘unbearable for him.” -are World bo ycott of South African goods growing The movement to boycott South African goods is sweeping across the world as decent people everywhere express their abhorrence of South African government. Conditions of the negro peo- ple in Africa are shocking, Ht was recently revealed that in- fant. mortality -is never less than 150-per thousand and in some places it is as high as 600 per thousand. of In the compounds of South Africa, where negro workers herded together, men work from 4-a.m. to 6 pm. Seperated from their families | they live 50 to a hut. Meat is ‘served once a week: and there is no pay when sickness or in- jury occurs. Civil and political rights are denied the negro population who constitute the overwhelming majority. In Great Britain March has been declared as “boycott South African goods month.” Many of the large city coun- cils and the biggest mass or- ganizations of the people have joined the boycott. Speaking at a large rally in Trafalgar Square recenily, Labor Party leader Hugh Gaitskell supported the boy- cott, Answering those, who like Vancouver Sun column- ist Elmore Philpott, tried to discourage the boycott by ar- guing it would do more harm than good to the South Afri- can people, Gaitskell said: “The boycott has been spon- sored by the Africans them- the apartheid policy of the selves because they are de- prived of all normal ways of ‘making their protest.” South African exports to €anada have been growing. In 1957 they amounted to $6,- 800,000. The following year they reached over $8 million. Most imports are consumer goods such as canned fruits, jams and marmalade, peanuts, beans, drugs, wool and wines. Auto union head asks disarmament CHICAGO Seven hun- dred trade unionists cheered Emil Mazey, secretary trea- surer of the United Auto Workers, when he called for a full and frank discussien on foreign policy by all Ameri- cans, including trade wunion- ‘ists. The crowd, which packed the big ballroom, heard Mazey call for an end to nuclear weapon tests, for universal disarament, recognition of People’s China and seating China in the UN. He stated he was “deeply concerned with the real pos- sibility of an atomic-missile war that could destroy a good part of the world.” FIRST any number of entries may win an award. - Room 6, 426 Main St. . PT Whiting Contest ‘WHAT DISARMAMENT WOULD MEAN WHERE I LIVE’ ‘250 RULES @ Eniries should be not less than 100 words and not more than 500. Write about the changes that disarmament could bring to your locality—what public projects could be underfaken if money now spent on the arms race was devoted to people’s needs. There is no eniry fee, and ® Contest closes May 15, 1960. All entries will be judged by the editorial board of the Pacific Tribune, whose de- cision will be final, and must be submitied with the under- standing, that they may be published, whether or not they Address all entries to ’ Pacific Tribune Writing Contest be submitted. \ Vancouver 4, B.C. - March 11, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3 _