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civil rights

RESTRICTIVE LAW LINK

ANY FrAPiEKR MACME CKOSSES?

Instead of a plan for peace,
it was reported here last week
that the St. Laurent govern-
ment is planning to manufac-
ture collapsible, easily-stored
fibre-board coffins for distribu-
tion to urban’ centers likely to
be bomb targets in event of
War. As an added gesture to
culture, the National Research
Council has developed a spray
to give the coffins a velvet
appearance. The cost will be
approximately $5 each.

Instead of demanding the
Outlawing of all weapons of
Civilian destruction, school
boards in many cities are plan-
ning to have children’ crawl
under their desks—as in the

St. Laurent - Your

Friendly Undertaker

OTTAWA

picture from New.» York on
page 12—in “civilian defense”
training. The child’s feelings
are not taken into account.

Instead of peaceful construc-
tion of homes, Ottawa is re-
cOmmending citizens build
bomb shelters in their cellars
—at a cost of $150. Presum-
ably those who don’t have the
$150 can buy the card-board
coffin.

A better way would be to
send ‘a flood of letters to the
government and your MP de-
manding PEACE — recogni-
tion of Uhina, riot flimsy cof-
fins; mo rearmament of Ger-
many, not fear-ridden child-
ren; disarmament, not bomb
shelters.

IN WAR CHAIN

By STEWART SMITH
: : TORONTO

Changes in the Citizenship Act, forecast by the. Speech from the
Throne, represent the start of an all-out attack on civil rights. This attack
is inseparable from the five billoon dollar war budget. It is of one piece
with Wall Street aggression in Asia and the rearming of Germany for new
aggression in Europe. It is a direct step to fascism, removing civil rights,
inherent in citizenship, from the sphere of law and placing them under

fascist control of government and _ police. : ; 3 a ee :
= poses to deprive Canadians of citizenship on

The Speech from the Throne says the the basis of some form of “loyalty” test—
government will bring in amendments to the without trial, and, of .course, once deprived
Citizenship Act “to prevent the retention of of citizenship Canadians would cease to have
Canadian citizenship by persons who have any civil rights‘and would be left at the

US, placing
hope in Tifo

WASHINGTON

The U.S. State Depart-
ment is reportedly placing its
hope for wrecking of the pro-
jected four- -power conference
©n Germany in Marshal Ti-
‘o of Yugoslavia. The hope
is that Tito, of whose in-
‘teasing frontier provoca-
tions Hungary recently com-
plained, will create an “in-
Cident” which could be used

both to divert attention from
emecny. and to whip Brit-
‘n and France into line with

Merican rearmament pro-
DoSals,

@ The American plane shown
at right is one of 511 planes
of all types, including
B-29 bombers, downed by
the Korean People’s Army
and Chinese volunteers in
six months of fighting,
despite the fact that the
U.S. air force has a heavy
numerical superiority.

shown by their conduct that they are

not loyal to Canada.”

This part is a fascist technique.

mercy of any further arbitrary action by the

Continued on page 6

It pro-

“SEE GOV'T

STALIN STATES ‘WAR NOT INEVITABLE’

People must preserve, strengthen peace

MOSCOW

Answering a question, “Do you
consider a new world war inevit-
able? posed by the Soviet news-
paper, Pravda, in an interview on
Rebruary 16, Prime Minister Jo-
seph Stalin stated, “No. At least
at the present time it cannot be
regarded as inevitable.”

“Peace will be preserved and
strengthened if the peoples take

into their own hands the cause

of the preservation of peace and
defend it to the end,” .the Soviet
leader declared in elaborating his
answer. But, he warned, “War
may become inevitable if the war-
niongers succeed in enm
the popular masses in a net of
lies, deceiving them and drawing
them into another world. war.”
Stalin answered a series of five

questions. The official text of the
interview, received by cable from
Telepress follows:

QUESTION: How do you ap-
praise the latest statement of
British Prime Minister Attlee in
the House of Gommons that since
the end of the war the Soviet
Union has not disarmed, has not
demobilized its troops and that
since then the Soviet Union has

been increasing its armed forces
more and more?

ANSWER: I appraise this
statement of Premier Attlee as a
slander against the Soviet Union.

The entire world knows that
the Soviet Union demobilized its
troops after the war. As is
known, demobilization was effect-

Continued on page 7
SEE SOVIET