This U.S. ‘outrage in Viethom—Cameron By JOHN GRITTEN LONDON Those who believe that the Americans can bring the Viet- namese to their knees greatly underestimate the fact that it is a country which has: been at war for 22 years, said journalist James Cameron. Reporting at a packed London meeting on his recent visit to North Vietnam, he said there were people there who had grown up without knowing a single day of peace. They say: “This is life for us, we have fought for 22 years and I suppose we can fight for an- other 22.” Speaking of the effect of U.S. bombing, Cameron said _ there was not a main road that had not been blown up, or a bridge that had not been damaged. If equivalent raids had been ‘carried out on Pittsburgh or Detroit there would be chaos. But in Vietnam, when roads were destroyed, “the people found a way through the paddy fields, and when bridges were blown down they crossed rivers by pontoon. Cameron, changing from his quiet account of the facts, de- clared vehemently: “It is a bloody outrage, and an imper- tinence. I felt like asking who the hell gave you the right to blow up someone’s bridge just because you feel you have the right to do so? _ Though peace was susceptible to escalation just aS war was, Cameron personally thought that President Johnson’s: peace circus was just a piece of vaude- ville. Lynd optimistic on Viet peace Staughton Lynd, one of three American fact finders just re- turned from North Vietnam, said on his arrival in New York that he was “optimistic” about the chances of peace. The Yale professor said that the North Vietnam government and the National Liberation Front in South Vietnam seemed prepared to leave the U.S. con- siderable freedom in choosing how to demonstrate by con- crete steps that they would stop air raids and withdraw their troops. around the world TWO CANADIAN scientists will go to. Moscow this year to study northern development and two Soviet scientists will visit Canada for the same purpose, Northern Affairs Minister Arthur Laing announced last week . . . Central African Republic has out- lawed polygamy, but the decree is not retroactive. About 40 per- cent of the country’s 1,250,000 inhabitants are Moslems . . . French President Charles de Gaulle will make an official visit to Moscow within a year . . . Landslides and floods left 20,000 homeless in Rio de Janeiro. . . India’s harvest t his year will be about 80 million tons, compared to 88 million tons last year. “Famine clouds are looming on the horizon,” said one leading official. * * AMATEUR BOXER ‘Carlos Martinez, 21, died in hospital in - Santiago after being knocked out. He was the. third boxer to die _ from ring injuries in Chile in a little more than a year... The bearded sailor on Player’s cigarette packs is to fade out, a victim of “motivational research consultants.” Walter Holmes in the Daily Worker notes that in place of “medium cut” illustrated by the _ handsome beard, “the vogue word now is ‘androgynous,’ which,,. _ according to the Oxford Dictionary, means ‘uniting the physical _ characteristics of both sexes.’ Have a fag? What’s yours?” * * * _ BEWARE the Russian bears, motorists on the Isle of Wight have been warned. The two-year-old bears escaped from a child- _ren's zoo recently and could be mesmerized by a car’s headlights at night. Considered tame and cuddly, Nikita and Valentina might come out of the woods onto the roads if they got hungry .. . The : Knack has been voted best British film of 1965 by the London Film Critics’ Guild . .. Bayonets were used by Indonesian troops against massive sit-in demonstrations by students protesting srocketing - commodity prices. a * =n. * RECOMMENDATION that the name of the Daily Worker should be changed when the paper increases in size this spring was made by the paper’s management committee in London .. . China aS accused Premier Fidel Castro of making statements “at var- iance with the facts” about Sino-Cuban trade, Castro had revealed chat China had cut its exports of rice to Cuba in half. Peking said two countries agreed upon a trade volume “lower than in 1965.” A Lockheed Hercules air freighter is loaded with cop lift from landlocked Zambia to the East African coast 850 miles away. Normal land routes to the seo — per ‘at Ndola, Zambia for a demonstration air have been cut off by the Rhodesian government of lan Smith. Four RCAF Hercules are taking part in an airlift of oil. Without atomic weapons it is impossible even to con- ceive of the: restoration of Germany within its historic and national frontiers.” —Bundeswehr general’s Memorandum, December, 1961. These words should be re- membered now when so much energy is being ex- pended in so many places, from the White House in Washington to London and Paris, represented by the NATO Council, on plans for making nuclear weapons available to West German generals who have not given up their dreams of a new Drang Nach Osten and have no intention of doing so. Such plans are only one way of getting at nuclear weapons, and it is sometimes ‘WEST GERMANY | MAKES MISSILES forgotten that for years the West has been making plans. That is, it is sometimes for- jts own gotten that West Germany- has its own missile industry, working very intensively on developmental problems but ulso on practical production of nuclear weapon carriers. The Federal Republic has an atomic industry -on an equally advanced level. It’s interesting to say the least that the research and production was entrusted to the firm of Belkow, in Otto- brun, which at the present time is engaged in serial pro- duction of tactical missiles for the Bundeswehr. - Belkow has already pro- duced 80,000 short-range anti- German Bundeswehr the firm of Dornier, which - sidered before passing 0 tanks missiles. It is getting ready to produce anti-tank missiles with a range of. 30 km serially, and together with equipped Goering’s Luftwaffe, is occupied with the produc- tion of missiles which will reach altitudes of 40: to 220 km. In addition, West Germany is working on the project of a missile-craft which would be able to carry its load to any spot on earth and return to its base. This is the con- tinuation of plans to build a system more progressive than the famous V-2. Evidence that West Ger-— many has a sufficiently broad production base for missile technology is provided by a recent report in the Frank- furter Rundschau that ‘“‘with- _ in two or three years the Bundeswehr will be moder- nized. The main place in the armament program now beginning is occupied by mis- siles, which can be used both for atomic and. conventional warheads.” This brings us to another point on which a few words must be said. The British In- stitute for Strategic Research — has declared that the “scienti-. fic reactors” in the .German Federal Republic are already making enough nuclear ma- terial to produce 13 atomic bombs annually, and that the planned expansion of the pro- | duction of fissionable mate- | rial, beginning in 1970, will } be enough to produce 173 bombs a year. . These facts should pe con- warnings against German re~ vanchism as “mere propagan- — da,” instead of realizing that they are a reaction to exist- ing reality.