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Peace Arch acquires new
significance through rally

Christmas Eve, 1814, in the
: city of Ghent, Belgium, a
treaty was signed proclaiming an
end to the War of 1812 and mark-
ig, among other things, the in-
Auguration of an era of peaceful

Telations between the U.S. and
Canada. -

One hundred and seven years
-later—on September 6, 1921—an
Imposing -memorial arch was
dedicated on the ‘Canadian bor-
der just north of Blaine, Wash-
Ington, “to commemorate more
than a century of peace without
rtifications or armies along

3000 Miles of border.”

Referring to peaceable rela-
tions between the two countries,
Judge Thomas Burke of Seattle
told the 7000 who had gathered
eos the dedication ceremonies:

“The. world has here a stand-
ing example of rational, practic-
able disarmament, followed f6r
More than a century by ‘the
blessings: of unbroken peace.”

Today, with the peoples every-
Where hungering for an end to
War, thousands are expected to
meet at this shrine of peace for
he Second annual ‘Canadian-
American Border Peace Rally on,
July 29,

oie first’ Such rally :last! year,
virtually onthe ‘eve of ‘Korea,
"a8 ‘organized by the youth of

Washington and British Colum-
la and’ attended by 3000, per-__

a To the youth of the world
ee Made the ringing pledge to
a Tk to outlaw weapons of mass
€struction, “We will consider
ee the first government which
cme S the atomic bomb; ,against
i Pe Country will have committed
aa against, the. youth of, the
the pledge declared. *

mace year the rally Twill | take |

ce at a time when negotiations

Toa cease-fire. in. Korea, are; in
ome

“In; this rouiion the rally can
ee onten to centre its demands.
is und, the need, to bring ‘peace
Paid as the beginning of the
righ need for negotiations be-

£n the, five .great; powers to

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The massive Peace Portal is,

ane the borderline, “sur:
sry ed by an open field of
afeauet Across the. crest ‘of the,
Reidy the Canadian side are
vn ed - the words: “Brethren.

ing” ‘Together | in “Unity.” " On

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border near

the Washington side is engraved:

“Children of a Common Mother.”

The portal is a structure of
reinforced concrete. It consists
of a solid base upon a foundation
of heavy piling and two support-
ing walls or pillars upon which
rests the cross-piece of the arch.
The cost of the structure was
about $40,000—one-tenth the cost
of a medium bomber today.

Built into the arch on the U.S.
side is a portion of a beam from
the . vessel Mayflower which
brought the Pilgrims to Ameri-
ca. The bit of wood was obtained
in England and specially wiessed

by Cardinal Mercier of Belgium,

the nation in which the Treaty
of Ghent was signed.

‘On the  ¢anadian side, a frag-

ment of a timber from the re-
nowned Hudson’s Bay Company
ship. Beaver was inserted in a
cornerstone. : The ship was
‘brought around the Horn in 1835
to become the first steamship
ever to ply the Pacific.
- The seven-acre park in which
the Peace Arch is set was donat-
ed as a commemorative site, half
by the city of Blaine, half by the
province of British ,Columbia. In
1932, 11 years ‘after ‘the arch was
built, a collection was , taken
among, the school.children of the;
state and _province:. to , provide
funds for landscaping. >

Doubtless ‘hundreds of the
pupils who invested their. pen-
nies in peace ‘then will return as
adults July 29 to.give,even more
éffective expression to their will
for world friendship.

The grounds “surrounding fhe
arch make a magnificent setting
for a peace gathering. Thousands
of roses;of more than, a hundred
(different kinds bloonty along the)
‘western’ margin of the» park.
Groves ofthe native maples,
birches and evergreens offer in-,
viting shade.
overlooks Semiamoc Bay, and be-

yond it the cool blue reaches of
the Strait of Georgia.

In a ‘world torn for generations;
by riyal , empire-grabbing powers
and . regularly, bathed in, , blood,,
the peaceful tradition of the, bor-.
der to the south is symbolic of
what hundreds ‘of: millions’ ‘the
world:sover: are idetermined to’
have--an enduring peace in which’
different: economic and social sys-'
tems can: exist side‘by’ side, in»
which; the peoples ‘¢an: work’ out!
peaceably, @ © glorious. ofuture)
worthy of mankind. 79%"

OLR ; tas JROTS

Blaine. Washington .

CyAG

STANLEY B. RYERSON

A. ‘sloping hillside, .

a coexistence possibi lity
has been givenn new confirmation

HE fact that ‘cease-fire: nego-
tiations ‘have ‘been ~ opened:
bears witness to the ‘tremendous
power of the’ people's’ will'/to
peace. x
Faced with the simple, direct
proposal
spokesman | of the Soviet Union,
and the. striking mass response
it evoked in the United Statés’
and throughout the world ,the
warmongers who rule America
were compelled to pause in their
mad course. Their — desire, now,
to throw a spanner ‘in ‘the works,
to. frustrate the achievement ' of
peace, is brazen and. evident. That
they will. endeavor to break up
the negotiations, to make a settle-
ment as difficult as possible, is
most likely.

But the, fact is, inescapable: thé
,camp.,of.,peace has. demonstrated
its ‘superiority to, the camp, of
war. ; a i

It has given mankind,a ena
ing proof ‘of the rittexine sah of
winning: /peace. i

o (Even; though aes jab: oh pects
ing a cease-fire stick; of really
ending. the war in) Korea, is im-
mense—its' ‘achievement is aided
mightily | by: othe knowledge in
the minds‘ of millions that a new
vantage-point: was: won: for peace’
im these last; couple ‘of, weeks. »:

‘The “theory” of: the .inevitabil-
ity of world wari has been aes @
stunning blow, is

The truth of the poustblitty of
the peaceful) co-existence; of) the,
capitalist. and ‘socialist. sectors. of
the world has been’ ee new

)

The ~~ ‘yelps, bat the Ag
passes. Yapping at the heels of.
history) are’ the motley, iN-favoréd
pack of j urnalistic ‘stool-pigeons.”
Their .stock-in-trade is the Mex-,
posure”, of, the sinister. activities
of, those who, work: for, peace. The,
higher swells the, tide , of peace,,
the. ; lower, ,, sinks, their, frantic.
grubbing. for the, real, “dirt.” ;

The Financial. Post’s, anti-labor.
hireling, Ron Williams, is, fasein-
ated .with a new, discovery made
by, reading , between, the lines, of.
this ..column,, in., recent, weeks, ;
(This. ‘process, of interlinear, read-.
ing. is. a, sure-fire, thing, as, will
be seen, especially, when, done
upside down and. backwards: =)
spiritual posture which: seems, to,
be a, habit..with. the character in
question), Buti, listen,.to. the,

put forward by the ~

sleuth: ‘
: “Fully a week before the
Malik speech, the Canadian

Communist party (LPP) was

distributing thousands ‘of pam-

phlets' calling’ for a ceasé-fire. |

“The text bears a remarkable
resemblance to the Malik pro-
posal, which means the Reds
must ‘have! been working on the
pamphlet some’ time before to
allow anne for. setting and print-
ing: ”

‘The ‘logic in’ the last sentence
limps a bit; but Mr!' Williams may
rest assured: ‘The LPP’ did’ not
write the! speech of the president’
of the Security Council. .

‘For! twisted minds, the simple
truth is a complication too splat:
cate: tobe grasped. ,

Several’ people, © in duttbrane
parts of thé world) ‘calling’ for
peace may represent a terrifying
secret Conspiracy — 6r’it could
just’ be’ that? they just. se Sy nis
war.

The LPP issued many "tenuis?
ands of léafiets, back ‘in’ July,
2950; calling for péace in Korea,
and ‘periodically thereafter: We
make so’ bold as to’ ‘think’ they
may have helped to spread’ un-
derstanding of''thé real’ issue’ in
Korea," ‘and to strengthen that
mass” publi¢’ pressure for’ peace
which is now giving sagan 4 oa
warmakers. *

‘Poor ‘sleuth! He wlaiseowets™
that “a major shift in ‘the party

° ,

line seems ‘tobe taking place.”
And, what.is it? ._The Communists
are. for peace, they. are, opposed
to.imperialist war. Some “shift”!
Some ignoramus, This. dopester
(who indicates he has, yet to dis-
cover that the, LPP. educational
director, since, 1948 has been and
is Beckie. Buhay, one of the foun-
ders ;,of the .moyement) has. all
the, “lowdown” on the LPP “pipe-
line , direct .to the; Kremlin.” He
has athe hot, sizzling. proof: the
LPP called for a cease-fire in
Korea, in line with the Johnston
resolution introduced in the U.S.
Congress, and in line with the
sentiment of a billion or so peo-
ple the world over.

.The masters whom. the Finan-
cial Post serves fear, peace, as, the
devil fears holy water. The lit-
erary,..lickspittles; of big business
stop,.at nothing, to distort the
simple truth, to enmesh the peo-
ple in a-net-of lies,.as.one of the
| chief means Jof “bringing ’ about al
|new war. The front-page edi-|

| torial: in’ the’ Post hollersy “The|
| war dsqnot won yetoa:g!esuore |

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In “other words; “We want,
| more blood- -soakéd thousand-dol-
\lar bills, coffers full 3 be get os

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| war ‘ts our meat.”"""

But the voice of decency, of
mankind, speaks louder than

5 It speaks. today sl greater

tive sources said naan

baie Monday, Sir

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.,

Communist way’ of ‘life.’

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- YONDONO fab PZ: 5— | (Reuters);

ir, Wald ron ‘Smithers, "01 ‘a

strong. anti-Communist, said the Red ‘Dean’ should b “aublicly- sf
hanged. The Dean (o ‘Canterbury Jyomho. Aas. often ‘expressed
“Communist views, has’ just returned. from a visil to. Moscow. .

where he ener a Soviet péace medal,
* *

Pennsylvannia Department ‘of ‘the Veélerdns “of ‘Foreign Wars
today adopted: a sesolution urging that the AJiS) ‘sei “hale an
island im the; Pacific to ship.:‘‘all these people wito like ithe

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July. 16. - —_ (AB) Eo ne

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