Morgan
speaks

Nigel Morgan, provincial
leader of the Communist Party,
will speak at the following
cenires on his current tour of
the Interior;

Nelson, Sun., July 9, Eagles
Hall; Thrums, Mond., July 10,
Community Hal]; Trail, Tues,
July 11, 625 Wellington St.;
Kelowna, Wed., July 123. Ver-
non, Thurs,, July 13, Elks’
Hall; Revelstoke, Fri., July 14;
Mable Lake, Sat., July 15,

: The Okanagan-Kamloops Re-
gional picnic. which was to be
held at Tappen Beach Sun.
July 16 was cancelled because
Cf a local jaundice epidemic,
Instead of the Picnic on that
date Morgan will speak at the
Notch Hill Community Hall,
Sun. July 16 at 7 p.m,

Defuse The

By ALAN WINNINGTON

“Berlin is the cheapest atom bomb of all,” said Ernst

Reuter, former ‘West Berlin
“West Berlin's job,” said

Willi Brandt, its present mayor| ticians and militarists

“is to slow up.as much as
possible and disturb. as much
as possible the stabilisation”
of.the German Democratic Re-
public.

And why? In preparation for
the Anschluss, for the annexa-
tion of the G.D.R. for Berlin
to be the restered capital of
Greater Germany.

They have deliberately re-

installed in West Germany, and
in, West Berlin, the people who |

caused 60 million deaths in

Europe and now intend to give |

them nuclear weapons.

The Soviet Union, which tore
the guts out of Hitler’s army at
terrible cost; insists on stopp-
ing this reckless drive to an-
other war. -

West Berlin is the first place
to_begin calling a halt,

It lies 106 miles inside the
territory of the German Demo-
cratic Republic. Western allied
occupation of -West Berlin is re-
Barded by Bonn’s rulers as

‘ their ace of trumps in the pro-

cess of strangling and annex-
ing the G.DR.

But that would mean war,

The West. Berlin poison sac
is known to contain at least
86. Western secret-service and
@spionage . organizations. “A
eollection of secret agents that
must be unique,” said the West
German Schwaebisches Tage-

' Dlatt.

Organized smuggling and

economic sabotage by means of

the false exchange rate main-
tained in West Berlin are Sub-
sidised by Bonn at fantastic
eost.

From ‘here too is organised

‘industrial sabotage—arson and
‘the blowing up of factories,
' pridges and railways.

With each new access of
strength the West German poli-

mayor.
have
emerged more into the open
with their demands for annexa-
| tion of the G.D.R. and the re-
vision of post-war settlements,
| just as Hitler did,
| It is obviously absured to
| imagine that the Western Pow-
iers would now negotiate for
neutralising West Germany as
was agreed by the anti-Hitler
coalition. But .a start can be
made by neutralising West
Serlin and taking the fuse out
| of this “cheapest atom bomb.”
Legally and geographically
the West German Government
has never had a shred of right
to be in West Berlin at all.
It has opened quite illegally
some 50 West German Govern-
ment offices there although
elections to the West German
Parliament do not embrace
Berlin. :
The three Western allies used
to have some right to be in

West Berlin under postwar
agreements. These were all
four-Power rights exercised

jointly with the Soviet Union.

But the Western Powers
divided Berlin and conducted
Separate elections. They intro-
| duced West German currency

{and restored the old Hitler |

judges.

Western allied rights in Ber- |

lin rested. on the agreements
with the. Soviet Union. In
breaking them the rights dis-
appeared. Their attempts to
use their occupation to tnstall
Adenauer’s regime illegally in
West Berlin have become stead"
ily more insistent and provoc-
ative.

These old agreements also
governed access to West Berlin
from West Germany. ‘These
rights have been misused to
transport West German Parlia-

mentary meetings to West Ber-

¥. Berlin Bomb

lin and to hold huge nazi-style
rallies demanding annexation
of the G.D.R. and parts of
neighbouring countries.

West German Power and
truculence have 8rown with
this help anq increased the
tension in West Berlin to flash
point.

Nobody in his Senses could
deny that the danger of war
bein g§ Started by West Germany
Is a real danger or that its

likely be West Berlin.

And as War Minister Strauss
put it: “The reply to the very
first rifle shot will be nuclear
and thermo-nuclear explosions

No wonder that West Ber-
liners whom I stopped in the
street all said they would
like to see negotiations for a
peaceful solution to this prob-
lem.

“Obviously we have to talk
—obviously.” one businessman
said. But Adenauer refuses to
talk or even to recognise the
existence of the G.D.R. as a
State because to do SO would
reduce his chance of 8rabbing
it by force,

In the interests of peace the
G.D.R. has agreed to West Ber-
kt becoming a neutral, de.

militarised, free city. It thus
; renounces its rights over part
| of its own territory.

| That is already a major con.
| cession.

It is willing to guarantee
| that the free city of West
Berlin will not be interfered
with and will have its own in-
dependent rule, legislation and
social system. -

It agrees to token foreign
forces being present, if neces.
sary under the United Nations,
to see fair play, and it guar-
antees access to and from the
city from all directions.

It only insists that West
Berlin should cease to be a
Western military base and
point for subversion.

point of Starting Would most |

Toronto unionists f ally
behind building strike |

; hel
TORONTO—Following the giant rally f ati
16,000 and 18,000 trade unionists at Contr one
Exhibition Grounds on June 26, Toronto labor S¥ oot
the embattled construction workers continues
nd of yd

Building trade unions Mon-| out since the & may

day considered a general work| A mass rally of met
*toppage on construction pro-| this Wednesday ction woes
Jects to win a just settlement| Toronto’s constrict 8
from contractors. Twenty-two| where it is expet oul 5 .
unions voted for a general) be announced o off
walkout to Support about 10,-| construction Wor me
O00. Strikers who have been| jobs. : ay

SETTLE KUWAIT DISPUT i.
PEACEFUL MEANS SAYS IR®

Traq’s delegate to the united Commentin
Nations this week charged | action Soe
that Britain had lodged a com-/ Palme ere

plaint with the UN to ‘“Sustify See i

a
warships to Kuw?
a blatant act Of aggression

: a move to ae waits }
Committed by British forces} domination of wid

landing in Kuwait.” i
; ° jon ist
This charge was made at an| East and a preparat e &
See ee Mieting of thal tervenition eee
Security Council in New York.| popular revolutio?

Argue on Berlit

Continued from
; page 1 jon *.
In reply to a quest som

trolled by Canadians 0 id el
& Yr any- floor Argue gal ; edit
ies else,” and added that| an eed for ge “f

€re should be no nuclear | ition of China
Weapons for Canadian troops pete

: i ing
abroad either, A story circulatl ¢ the a

: tha re

Turning to Cuba and the meeting was ¢ the
OASIH, +tee 0 fied

Argue said the world almost| Wincial Committe roe

sp?
came to disaster some months! Pad refused to since

j e, ?
480 when a U.S.-train meeting for Argu skate
eauipped army invaded ioe of them support "faa joo?
“Now,” he added ‘|Premier Douglas

= ’ “they want 2 Party:
Us to. join OAS as 3 Pobbey ship of the Nf aan
Stamp for their de ees

OAS.

eds.” RO SaRT AD é

SOVIET T#
yy atBue ‘Strongly criticized ict ly a
S. President Kennedy for} Trade between Ita by

sn Speech to the House of] Soviet Union incre? the
emmons telling Canada what percent in 1960 ove?

it should do for NAT i
O and! vious year. —

HEMINGWAY: “WRITIN@
‘MISSED PURPOSE”

Commenting on she Fo
of famous America? F
' Ernest Hemingway 28 os?
end, the British Daily
said: 4 od
“The first and greet og
our literary “tough oo
Hemingway had 2 Pa d
effect on a general}
writers in the English
age.

“His writings at theif ys"
caught the courage Of ¢ 0
man spirit, the dignitY ed
but they missed the Pet
which can put that ©" co
that dignity to work i
fully for worthy ends- ~

ERNEST HEMIN GWAY

$
July 7, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE