a ee To Hea LY i VOL. 18, NO. 40 Phone MUtual 5-5288 Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa. VANCOUVER, B.C. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1959 10° Victoria groups join , : with Mr. K. for peace VICTORIA — Responding to the dynamic and far-reaching proposals for an end to the cold war and for total disarmament made by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchey to the United Nations Assembly, five Victoria or- ganizations gave their warm approval of the Khrushchey peace plan by forwarding a ‘multi-signature telegram to the UN signify- ing their endorsation. Betories to the UN telegram included such or- ganizations as the United Nations Association, Peace by Peaceful Means Society, Victoria Humanist Fellow- ship, Victoria Reconciliation Fellowship, and the Society of Friends (Quakers). The joint telegram to the UN said in part: “We who have been word- less with dread of the horrors that face us and our children. speak out with joyous hope because of the tremendous challenge to all people in the! proposals by Chairman Khrushchev to the United Na- tions calling for complete dis- armament. “We beg that statesmen forego mutual recrimination during negotiations towards this end. “Tf criticism is needed each nation should first acknow- ledge its own errors. May ali the resources of mankind be used to convert military per- sonnel and organizations to meet human welfare needs.” The telegram was held for a time at the CNR telegraph office in order to give Victoria citizens an opportunity to ap- pend their names and suvport to the list. A telegram was also Continued on Back Page See VICTORIA Key tasks See page 5 facing the BCFL convention HAT SHOOK THE No event in recent times has had such an impact upon world opinion and the longing of millions of the world’s peoples for peace as did the 13-day visit of Chairman of the USSR Council of Min- isters, Premier Nikita S$. Khrushchev, to the United States. Truly this visit of the USSR‘s chief-of-state, and living symbol of a ae desire for peace, was 13 days that shook the world.” Khrushchev’s visit marks the first great “thaw” in over a decade of cold-war tensions. It also marks the finale of the Dulles era of nuclear “brinkmanship.” His clarion call for total dis- armament and peaceful co-ex- istence to the United Nations Assembly reached into every home on the North American continent, and still resounds around the world. Nikita Khrushchev was met on. American soil even. as an invited guest, with coldwar frigidity, hostility and planned Following his meteoric 13-day visit to Ste U.S., which included his dramatic proposals" provocation by the yahoo seg- ment of coldwar anti-Soviet addicts. He left American shores in the warm glow of friendship, freely extended by the American people, and with the admiration and gratitude of a whole world. He made history that the future will honor, even if the present may live too close to it to fully appreciate its full import. The yellow journalists and the vest-pocket politicians did their utmost with ridicule, cynicism. and provocations, to ‘“play-down” the import of Khrushchev’s mission for peace. All they managed was to reveal the wide gap between their sterile coldwar mentality and the inherent desire of the American people for peace. In President Eisenhower’s press conference this week these standardized press hawks even attempted with trick questions, to lead the Presi< dent into an admission that “nothing had been accomplish< ed.’ I’n this as in all other similar efforts, they failed miserably. Continued on Back Page See VISIT to the UN for total disarmament, press con ferences, numerous official state affairs, and his history-making talks with President Eisenhower for world peace, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev is now in Peking, celebrating with the Chinese people and govern- ment the tenth National Day anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Here he is seen with Mao Tze-tung, chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. 8 tin ARN A it.