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Greek elections last week.

been nick-named “the servile
parties” because both put al-
legiance to NATO and to the
alliance with the U.S., Britain
and Turkey first, and the
struggle of the Greek Cypriots
for freedom second.

They put first the U.S. gov-
ernment’s demand for H-bomb
bases in Greece, and second
the Greek people’s demand
that such bases should not be
established on Greek soil.

Almost ten years after the
end of the civil war there are
still 600 men and women, kept
without trial in concentration
camps on barren islands and
over 2,000 political prisoners
in Greek jails.

There is a widespread de-
mand for a general amnesty
and for the lifting of the ban
on the Greek Communist
party which has now been
outlawed for over ten years.

A very strong popular
movement is growing against
foreign domination and a
strong national movement in
support of self-determination
for Cyprus and against U.S.
bases in Greece.

There is a tremendous up-~
surge among the people for a
policy of peace and of com-
bating unemployment, of which
Greece has a higher propor-
tion than any other European
country.

This was reflected in the
strong swing of votes to the
Union of the Democratic Left.

U.S. cold war policie

Marcos University in Lima booed hi
he visited the campus last week on
Peruvian student demonstration (above

in Argentina and Uruguay.

U.S. Vice-President Richard Nixon should have no

on Soviet market

By SAM RUSSELL

MOSCOW—The Soviet Union last week threw open its uranium mines to foreign in-

spection.

is being shown everything it
wants to see of Soviet indus-
try.

Ashforth said the immediate
aim of the Canadian business-
men was to get to know their
Soviet opposite numbers better
and to explore the possibili-
ties of expanding business re-
lations with them.

The group has already had
talks with the vice-president
of the Soviet State Bank, the
chairman of the State Plan-
ning Commission, the chair-
man of the State Committee
for Construction, the deputy
minister of foreign trade, the
chief of the Soviet Civil Avia-
tion Board, as well as special-
ists in metallurgy, power en-
gineering, construction engin-
eering, trade and higher edu-
cation.

It has also visited the Mos-
cow aircraft plant — the first
Western business delegation
to do so and had discussions
with leading Soviet aircraft
designers.

The “all doors open” treat-
ment given to this Canadian
group is, I understand, only
the first step in new Soviet
plans to show foreign manu-

illusions about popular reaction to
5 in Peru and other Latin American countries. Students at San
m and pelted him with orange peel and rocks when
his “goodwill” tour of Latin American countries. The
) followed similar hostile demonstrations by students

facturers — particularly from
Britain, the United States and
Western Germany — what
vast markets are here for the
asking.

The central committee of
the Soviet Communist party
at its meeting last week ap-
proved a vast new program
for the development of the
Soviet chemical industry.

Although the major equip-
ment for new developments
will come from Soviet indus-
try itself, the new plan pro-
vides for considerable imports
of machinery.

Members of the 33-member
Canadian group, who hold be-
tween them 160 company
directorships, are:

R. J. Adams, Vancouver,
president of American Land
and Investment Corporation
Ltd.; A. C. Ashforth, Toronto,
president of Toronto-Dominion
Bank; Oakley Dalgleish, pub-
lisher and editor of the Tor-
onto Globe and Mail; John
David Eaton, president of
T. Eaton Company, Ltd.; J.
S. Gairdner, Toronto, execu-
tive vice-president of. Gaird-
ner and Company, Ltd.; P. C.

The offer was made to 33 top-level Canadianb businessmen, industrialists, bank and in-

surance heads now here on a visit.

The group is led by Clifford Ashforth, president of the Toronto-Dominion Bank, and

Garratt, managing director of
de Haviland Aircraft of Can-
ada Ltd.

Goodwin Gibson, Toronto
president of Gibson Brothers

Ltd.; Harry Graham, Toronto,
president of Canada Building
Materials Ltd.; Alex B. Hill,
Toronto, president of Bridge
and Tank Company, Ltd.;
Bruce C. Hill, St. Catharines,
president of E. T. F. Tools
Ltd.; D. S. Holbrook, Sault
Ste. Marie, president of the
Algoma Steel Ltd.; Dr. Otto
Holden, Toronto, chief engin-
eer, Ontario Hydro - Electric
Power Commission: Dr. Stan-
ley W. Holmes, chief geologist,
Consolidated Denison Mines
Ltd.; T. G. Irving, Toronto,
managing director of Robert
McAlpine Ltd; J. Ross
Jenkins, Toronto, vice-ppresi-
dent and general merchandis-
ing manager of T. Eaton Com-
pany, Ltd.; J. W. Kerr, Hamil-
ton, vice-president and gen-
eral manager of Canadian
Westinghouse; W. Lattman,
Toronto, vice - president of
Massey-Ferguson Ltd.; A. D.
Margison, Toronto, president
of A. D. Margison and Associ-
ates Ltd.; M. H. D. McAlpine,
London, England, president of
Sir Robert McAlpine and Sons
Canada Ltd.; M. W. McCutch-
eon, Toronto, managing direc-
tor of Argus Corporation.

G. R. McGregor, Montreal,
president of Trans-Canada Air
Lines; A. D. McKee, Toronto,
president of Perini Limited;
W. R. McLachlan, Toronto
president of Orenda Engines
Ltd.; W. F. McLean, Toronto,
president of Canada Packers
Ltd.; Harold McNamara, Tor-
onto, president of McNamara,
Construction Company, Ltd.;
R. O. Pennington Toronto,
president of Parker Pen Ltd.;
Guy W.: Rogers, Toronto,
president of Elias Rogers Com-
pany, Ltd.; S. B. Roman, Tor-
onto, president of Consoli-
dated Denison Mines Ltd.; M.
OQ. Simpson, Jr., Toronto,
president of Combined Enter-
prises Ltd.; C. E. Soward,
Toronto, president of Maple
Leaf Milling Company, Ltd.,
and. R. Howard Webster,
Montreal, chairman of Toronto
Globe and Mail,

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