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U.S. Armed Intervention
In S.A. Goes Away Back

The Kennedy Administration is
3 smokescreen of the “communist threat” to justify
its open policy of intervention in Cuba. Actually.
the U.S. has a long record of intervention against
South American countries long before the Russian

This is proven by the May issue of U.S. NEWS
-AND WORLD REPORT. It points out that U.S.
4 troops directly intervened in Latin-American coun-
@ tries 31 TIMES BETWEEN 1900 AND 1934.

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Latin America In Uproar
Over Kennedy Doctrine

From U.S. Peoples World

Uruguay is a fair weather
vane of Latin American opin-
jon. And if the invasion of Cu-
ba did not arouse a cross-
section of Uruguay’s people
against official U-S. policy,
President Kennedy’s post-in-
vasion speech to the Ameri-
can Society of Newspaper Ed-
itors did it.

A. special New York Times
dispatch (April 23- from Mon-
tevideo reported “one of the
largest demonstrations in re-
cent. Uruguayan history.”

_“More than 8,000 students,
workers, intellectuals, -and
business men,’ said the dis-

patch, - “gathered in front of
the University of Uruguay
and marched down’ Avenida
18 de Julio, Montevideo’s Fifth
Avenue chanting “Cuba yes,
Yankee no.”

“As significant as the class
composition of the demonstra-
tion was its political makeup |

and ‘thte immediate impulse
behind it.

representing political parties
from both right and left, de-
nounced President Kennedy,”
The Times reported. “Many
Uruguayans, including some
who have been traditionally
pro-Western and.cool toward
the Castro regime, joined the
demonstration.” :
The reason, said The Times,
was that these Uruguayans in-
terpreted _Kennedy’s speech
“as a new United States policy
of intervention.” -K.ennedy
was denounced by the speak-
ers, from right to left, as “the
worst imperialist in 50 years,”
and “the advocate of open ag-

gression.” ;

The Uruguayan incident
was symptomatic of the surg-
ing tide in Latin America

against the intervention in
Cuba and against ‘Kennedy’s
declaration that ‘the U.S. will
launch a full-scale military
assault against any Latin Am-
erican country whenever it
chooses — regardless of what
all the other Latin American

“Twelve speakers| countries might think about it.

ENNEDY

BOVE is the headline under which the
Toronio. Globe and . Mail's Washington
correspondent, George Bain, reported that
United States President Kennedy “has ‘warned
that countries of this hemisphere—which in-
clude Canada—that if they do not keep their
own houses in order with respect to outside
Communist penetration, the United States re-
serves the right to intervene in its Own in-
terest to put them in order.” . ~

Bain continues that: “The president in his
speech to the editors was primarily concerned
with Cuba, but there was the wider implica-
tion—which the White House said today was
valid—in his mention of U.S. readiness to act
“i the nations of this hemisphere should fail
to meet their commitments against outside
Communist penetration. ... “

Bain points oui that ‘Canada being out-
side the Organization of American States, but
not outside the hemisphere, would not be out-
side the orbit of the doctrine.”

DY DOCTRINE |
APPLIES TO CANAD

/

"The Kennedy declaration must be con
sidered, however, as having said that it would.
not be allowed to happen.”

Editorially, the Globe and Mail thought
such conclusions were “reading altogether too
much into the speech.”

“But the Toronto Siar showed more con
cern over Kennedy’s aims. In a froni-pag?
editorial it admonished the U.S.: “Don't im
vade Cuba. The moral credit of the West
won't stand the blow.”

The Star drew attention to Article 15 of
the charter of the Organization of Americal
States: "No state or group of states has the
right to interfere, directly or indirecily, for
any reason whatever, in the internal or e*
ternal affairs of any other state.”

On the new Kennedy doctrine, the Sta¥ ,
asked: “What are we io think of this cavalie®
dismissal of a formal treaty obligation? How
much faith will the world put in the othet
pledges of the United States, in NATO, and
(of particular interest to Canadians) in

While Bain thinks it is “hardly conceiv-
able’” that American troops ‘would invade
Canada if the government declared Canada
neutral, severed its connection with NORAD,
disarmed and sirengthened ties of mutual aid
with the Soviet Union, he nevertheless -adds:

NORAD?”

sharp increase

“Canada,” declares the Star, “should 1
ject the Kennedy Docirine, which promises 2

of tensions and dangers; which

would make’the United States the unscrup¥”
lous bully of the western world.” ¢

a

Cont’d from pg. 1

The most important obstacle
that still has to be removed
tip ensure full scale trade are

‘No nuclear arms’ petition
launched all across Canada

A nation-wide petition cam-
paign to ban nuclear weapons
in Canada has been launched
by the Canadian Committee
for the Control of Radiation
Hazards.

JMany centres have already
collected hundreds of names.
In\Wancouver last Sunday hun-
dreds of names were collected
at the May Day meeting.

‘Eext of the petition reads as
follows:

"Nuclear war could end civ-
ilization and most of the hu-
man race. The nuclear powers
already have enough bombs io
kill all the people in the
world. The spread of nuclear

| ers.

weapons to more nations
would increase the danger of

%

nuclear war breaking out and
would make disarmameni har-
der to negotiate.

"The Canadian government
is considering the -acquisition
of nuclear -weapons. Such
weapons offer Canada no de-
fense whatever against the ma-
jor threat, the intercontinental
missile, and little if any de-
fensé against manned H-bomb-
Their acquisition would
also handicap or destroy the

| leadership Canada is giving io-

ward disarmament,

"For these reasons: We the
undersigned oppose the spread
of nuclear weapons fo any
country or military alliance
not now possessing them. We
petition the Canadian govern-
ment to reject nuclear weap-

| Legault,
\.of the Quebec Federation of |

ons for the armed forces of
Canada and to prohibit their
installation on Canadian soil.”

Original signers of the peti-
tion include Dr. Claude Bissel,
president University of Toron-
to; Dr. Brock Chisholm former
director-general of the World:
Health Organization; Dr. J,
Girdin Kaplan of Dalhousie}
University; noted photograph-'
er Yousuf Karsh; H. L. Keen-)
leyside, chairman of the Radi-
ation Hazards Committee; Ivan’
executive secretary

Labor,

The B.C. Peace Council an-
nounced this week it would!
send a delegate to the Nation-
al Peace Trek being held in

Ottawa May 15.

the roadblocks of the cold war,
and ‘U.S. insistence on limiting
trade -with China and other
socialist countries.

An immediate declaration
by the Canadian government
recognizing the Chinese gov-
ernment and supporting a seat
for China in the U.N. would
remove the major obstacle to
normal relations. Along with
this the Federal government
should publicly declare thai
in seeking expansion of trade
and friendly relations ‘with
China and other socialist coun-
tries it will act in its own in-
terests and not be dictated to
in its trade policies by the U.5.
State Department.

Expanding trade with China
also opens up anew the need
for a Canadian merchant ma-
rine, It would be extremely
ridiculous for Canada to have
to charter foreign ships for
the vast trade now available
in the Pacific.

Tuesday night the Vancou-

ly adopted a resolution sub-

mitted by Local 400, C.B. of
R.T. which urged that Cana-

{dian ships under foreign reg-

Vast market opened in China

istry be returned to Canada
It asked that “the governme®”)
be petitioned immediately
initiate plans for the subsidi#:
ing of a Canadian merchal
marine.”

Speaking in the discussi0®,
Marine Workers Union prest
dent Sam Jenkins said, th®
“Vancouver port is going
be loaded with ships from
now on: Norwegian, Liberia?
Panamanian, Japanese, Ru®*
sian — but not one singl®
Canadian bottom. This is #
disgrace.” :

He said the building of 1%
or 20, 15,000-ton ships would
mean work for 36,000 men £0 |
three years in the shipbuil@
ing industry alone.

It is also. clear now that
Canada’s Gateway to
Pacific, Vancouver, which is
already the largest grain port
in the world, will need co”
siderable modernization 3?) —
expansion to cope with devel
oping Pacific trade. The cl:
of Vancouver should press fo}
such action without delay. *"
same need for expanded hat
bour facilities also exists for
B.C.’s other port cities. j

‘May 5, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page ?

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