TCT RTD UU TTD Dla ost Wy HH : TR i UG i i J ‘ ets , Had ip n Ps “r 4 OP Trayek Fee UH tients dd hg Rete MRT LAL ELE ia fod «4 - BL act LGN TAS OTTAWA DUCKS SOVIET PLAN TO BAN A-BOMB Revelation of Soviet mastery of atomic technique both for peaceful constuction and to make bombs has not yet pro- duced any official change in the determination of the Truman and St. Laurent governments to oppose banning the bomb. But it has given a chain-reaction stimulus to the world-wide movement for such a ban. And since the overwhelming majority of Canadians want the bomb banned the question is pertinent as to what business External Affairs Minister Pearson had piping “pure propaganda’”’ when the Soviet Union dgain laid before the UN on September 13 its realistic proposals for banning the Continued on page 7 — See A-BOMB FAD Te oe ORO Ua aE 5 o3 = The Soviet plan The Soviet Union in June, 1946, proposed that the first step to international atomic control must be an internaticnal pact never to use or to make A-bambs , and to destroy all stocks in three months. It called for strict UN contro] and punishment of violations, as well as international development of peaceful use of atomic energy. fs The U.S. voting bloc ‘rejected this entire plan in January, 1948. In September, 1948, Vishinsky proposed to strengthen the plan by coupling it with a one-third cut in great power armaments, The Soviet. Union also.agreed.to modify its proposals: - . The American plan The American Baruch plan, presented June, 1946, proposes that control be turned over, not to the UN, but to an “international” Atomic Development Authority, which would own and control all atomic raw materials and processes in every land, including those inside Canada and the Soviet Union. Skilfully — worded to look li/.e a genuine peace plan, it contain several deadly gimmicks: 1. Only when an “adequate system for control of atomic energy” has been put into effect would the U.S. stop making its bombs and destroy them. © Control would be by stages. Through the whole step-by-step process the U.S. voting majority would rule. As Vishinsky said, ‘Tf in such a small matter (election of chairmen ‘and vice-chairmen of “Committees) . . we have encountered such a crude violation of our rights as a minority, then what doubts can there be that in your ‘international’ body, where you will be assured the majority, you will not dictate to us such laws as will augur ill for our industry, for ous national economy?” : +e 8. First stage would be a world survey of raw materials, giving the U.S. a target map of the Soviet Union and further uranium to expand bomb production. ‘ ‘ ‘ 4. The ADA could forbid peaceful development, thus preventing the boon 1. She agreed that, once the bomb was outlawed, the day to day operation of the international ageney should not be subject to veto. 2. She agreed that international inspection of atomic facilities, proposed by the U.S. and cpposed by Russia, should be permitted. . 3. October 2, 1948, Russia gave up its insistence that the outlawing of the bomb must come before the setting up of the intemational agency. She pro- posed instead that the bomb ban and controls come into force simultaneously. Finally, on October 11 of this year, Soviet delegate Malik made a fresh effort with a proposal to lay all information on its atomic bombs before the in fact, be able to direct the economy of the Soviet Union. of industrial atomic energy frofm coming to the Soviet Union. The U.S. would, UN. providirg the U.S. would do likewise. oviets call for peace, friendship of peoples These are the children. They might be Can- adian or American or British children. But these are Soviet children, the second generation growing up under socialism. That is one profound difference, for they will grow up in a world where their talents will not be smothered by the culture of the dollar where the waste and frustration of unem- ployment is unknown. : These are also the children whom Dorothy Thompson would have murdered by atom-bombs— American atom-bombs made from Canadian uranium ——dropped upon cities so recently restored from the ruins left by the Nazis. That is one profound similarity, for the bombs, if the people of Canada or the United States or Britain should fail to re- strain those who threaten to use them, will not fall on Russian cities alone. Not only Russian children will die. : That is why there must be no third world war. That is why the atom-bomb must be banned and the atom used to advance the wellbeing of the Canadian people. The banners to be carried in the great parades in Moscow and other Soviet cities on this, the thirty-second anniversary of the founding of the first. socialist state, will not threaten war. There will be no talk of dropping atom-bombs on North Argrican cities. | Such threats, an echo of the boasts Hitler made at Nuremburg before his Nazi legions now forever dispersed, are heard now in Washington. They are made by Dorothy Thomp- son for whom the lives of children are nothing to the venom at her fingertips. But Ilya Ehrenberg writes of the struggle for peace, the friendship of peoples. One of the slogans to be carried in the Mos- cow parade will read: “‘Long live the friendship of the peoples of Britain, the United States and the Soviet, Union in their struggle for lasting peace against the incendiaries of a new war.” Peace ... . friendship. That is what the Soviet people want. That is what the Soviet government offers. And the strength of that sentiment through- out the world may well give pause to war-bent politicians in Washington and Ottawa and London who strive to conceal the economic crisis into which their policies are leading them and are so fearful of the people. Peace will not be made by stockpiling atom- bombs and massing fleets of war planes. It will not thrive in the restricting confines of the Marshall plan which substitutes subsidized pauperism and industrial decay for the life processes of world trade. It will be made as trade flows outward again, to People’s China, the New Democracies and the Soviet Union, as the democratic voice of the people declaring friendship, demanding peace, is heard above the shriek of the warmongers. It will be made to the extent that the Canadian people fight for these things. These are the children. They are much like our own. ‘There may well be no future for any of them if that fight is not won.