Jewish leader hits false
“cusation against USSR

ae the outstanding Jewish
ie Nahum Goldman,
rai of the World Zionist
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a gion Over treatment of
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coe “only harm Soviet

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the more extreme of the
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he ~ © even dared to compare
Usg Sition of the Jews in the
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ae the Socialist state and
State for. all citizens of that
including.the Jews.

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. Oviet Russia, which saved

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beginning of World War II.”

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and rally support for anti-Soviet
actions.

Meanwhile, Soviet professor
Lev Landau, a leading physicist
and economist, published aletter
in the N.Y. Times protesting a
meeting being held June 3 in
Madison Square Gardens to con=-
demn “Soviet anti-Semitism.”

The letter said, “We Jewish
citizens of the USSR express
profound indignation regarding

the fact that some Western’

circles continually spread all
kinds of fabrications on the posi-
tion of Jews in the USSR.

“what precisely is this being
done for? Could misinformation
of public opinion serve the cause,
dear to us all, of peace and
mutual understanding between
peoples,

“Jews of the USSR, as are the
other national minorities, are
inseparable from all Soviet mult-
national people. They enjoy all
social benefits in an equal de-
gree, and participate in all eco-
nomic, political and cultural life
of the country.

“This gives us ground to de-
clare sharply that no one has been
given a right to act as unbidden
lawyers, intrude on our life and
slander our motherland, The
Soviet Jews regard the Madison
Square Garden meeting of June
as a provocation where without
us, without our representatives,
it is intended to discuss a non=-
existent problem.”

British lobby June 30
to protest Viet policy

B
opel Labor MPs repori the
Protas Nation-wide upsurge of
the 7. Sitce theSuez crisis over
T government’s support
dent Johnson in Vietnam,

Erhard demands
Polish lands

Bet German Chancellor
Speak Was one of the main
2 ei ae Sunday, June 18, at
0 Dre Tally in Hanover held
ot si) SS claims for the return
Sia—part of Poland,

at Presi

pot 250,000 took part in

Meetin ly, Erhard told the

each § that Bonn’s efforts to

the an “understanding” with

hag ae European countries
€n “disappointing.”

Eric

Spok h Schellhaus, leading

ee of the Silesian
trop, US who were expelled
Be Silesia 20 years ago
Ments Postwar Allied agree=
iden peharply attacked Pres-
Suge © Gaulle for having
Sted accepting the pres=
TOntiers,

any, amber, swastikas and
c ‘Wish slogans were re-
at weekend from a
Stroy, al for the town’s de-
€d Jewish synagogue only

houy.
Vetting ere its official un-

They said last week they were
getting a bigger postbag on this
issue than any other since the
Tory aggression in 1956 and
Ministers too were being bom-
barded.

The pressure has encouraged
‘Labor backbenchers to meet and
draft a letter calling on Prime
Minister Wilson to dissociatethe
‘government from American ag-
gression. Signatures will be col-
lected to the letter.

Meanwhile Prime Minister
Wilson will be left in no doubt on
June 30 when a huge “Peace in
Vietnam” lobby converges on
Parliament to protest the govern=-
ment’s Vietnam policy.

The British Council for Peace
in Vietnam, the group sparking
the lobby, announced last week
that at least 14 trades councils
and dozens of unions district
committees and branches, as well
as factory committees, have
registered their disgust at the
American’s “dirty” war by an-
nouncing their support for the
lobby.

Last Wednesday, the executive
committee of the 10,000-strong
Scottish Colliery Enginemen and

_Boilermen’s Association décided

unanimously to send two dele-
gates to the lobby. Many union

bodies are holding job meetings.

Ottawa peace pa

_TOHNSON SEES NEW GI COMBAT ROLE IN VIETNAM.

rley urges

independent foreign policy

More than 100 delegates from
several provinces met in Ottawa
June 12-13 at the Conference on
Vietnam called by the Canadian
Friends Service Committee

‘(Quakers) and urged the Canadian

Government to adopt a firmly in-
dependent foreign policy.

The conference also urged the
Government to:

@Refrain from supplying the
U.S. with weapons or compon-
ents of weapons which might be
used against the Vietnamese
people, (Canadian-made Caribou
aircraft are being used in Viet-
nam.)

®@Call for a permanent cessa-
tion of American bombing of
North and South Vietnam,

@Urge Washington to recognize
that the conflict in South Viet-
nam is a civil war; and that un-
conditional peace negotiations
with all parties, including the
National Front for Liberation,
will be necessary to solve the
Vietnam problem.

Participation was broad: tea-
chers, religious leaders, trade
unionists, youth, peace workers,
politicians, students, members.
of fraternal organizations, po-
litical parties and civil liberties
groups, ~

Congressman George E, Brown
of Los Angeles, an opponent of
current U.S, policy in relation to
Vietnam, participated in panel
discussions and spoke at a public
meeting sponsored by the organ-
izers of the conference,

The meeting was also ad-
dressed by Liberal MP John R,
Matheson, head of the Commons
External Affairs Committee,
whose inept defence of American
policy drew laughter and heckling
from the audience of 300, An-
other speaker was Dr, Vo Thanh

to hear speakers on the Vietnam
crisis.

Many other peace groups,
women’s organizations and uni-
versity student groups are sup-
porting the lobby and protesting
the war in Vietnam, Fourteen
Co-operative Women’s Guilds in
Watford have booked a 41-seater
bus for June 30.

Minh, a Vietnamese who left his
homeland in 1949,

Panel suggestions presented to
a final plenary session included
(in addition to those listed above, )
the following:

@Creation of an international
force, staffed entirely by Asians
and Africans, to implement pro-
visions of the Geneva Agreement,

@Recognition by Canada of an
overriding international and
moral obligation to uphold the

_ articles of the Geneva Agree-

ment,

@Increased Canadian aid to
Southeast Asia,

One panel discussed the ur-
gency of the Vietnam crisis and
proposed various methods to ac-
quaint the Canadian people with
the issues involved and spark
protest actions against escala-
tion of the war. It was suggested
that a co-ordinating centre could
be established to keep organiza-
tions informed of activities
planned by different groups,

Direct aid to Vietnam was also
discussed and it was proposed
that local committees be set up
to develop this work, It was
also proposed that a committee

of seven people be established, to

include Dr. Vo Thanh Minh, two
representatives from Montreal,
two from Toronto and two from
Ottawa, to examine the possi-
bility of sending a mission to
Vietnam,

A suggestion that the govern-
ment “instruct its external af-
fairs committee to hold public
hearings with respect to Can-
adians foreign policy, so as to
encourage and promote public
debate “won unanimous approval
at the closing session of the
conference,”

This committee has held such

meetings in the past onColumbia -

River Preaty, so there are pre-
cedents for such action, These
hearings would provide an oppor-
tunity for many organizations and
individuals to make their opinions
known on the crisis in Vietnam.

Letters to MPsand resolutions
to members of the committee, as
well as letters to the Prime
Minister, urging that the House
of Commons instruct the Com-
mittee to hold such hearings
would bring them about,

B.C. members of the External
Affairs Committee are Grant
Deachman, (Liberal, Quadra); A,
B, Patterson, (S.C., Fraser
Valley); D.V. Pugh, (Cons,, Okan,
Boundary),

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VON HASSEL: ‘‘Look here, Trettner, here’s how | see aid to the develop-
ing countries: we send manpower to South Vietnam and the Americans
give us nuclear bombs for that.”

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