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RUSH REPORTS ON GDR

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leaders of the New Democra-
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the biggest of the big lies.

Ra her than exploiting these
states for their own ends, the
peoples of the Soviet Union,
at the expense of their own
living standards, have given
tremendous’ assistance. to the
new peoples’ governments.
The German. Democratic Re-
public is a case in point.

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In his report to the 5th
Congress, SUP secretary
Walter Ulbricht detailed. the
new economic agreement re-
cently arrived at under which
the Soviet Union will increase
by many times its supply of
practically all important basic
materials.

In the next seven years the
GDR will get from the Soviet
Union about four times as
much oil, pig iron, copper
aluminum and cellulose, three
times as much timber and two
and a half times the present
amount of rolling mill steel.
In addition, the Soviet Union
will extend large loans and
help build- an oil pipeline.

In his speech to the con-
gress as chairman of the
Soviet delegation, Soviet Com-
munist party secretary Nikita
Khruschev touched on _ the
fraternal help being given by
the Soviet Union to many
countries striving to build
socialism.

He said: “We shall share
everything with the socialist
countries — the joy of our
success and victories, and the
hardships of struggle for our
common cause ... it is nec-
essary to help one another so
that through common efforts
we can bring those lagging
behind up to the level of the
foremost.”

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Is it any wonder that one
of the most enthusiastic
moments of the congress came
when the delegates arose as a
man to cheer the statement
from thé rostrum expressing
thanks to the Soviet Union
for the unselfish aid it is giv-
ing to help build socialism in
East Germany.

Under capitalism the rela-
tionships between the states
is one of dog eat dog. The
weaker states are subjected
to the stronger which impose
onerous conditions for their
services.. These capitalists find
it hard to understand how the
new relationship springing up
between socialist states could
possibly be based on high
moral grounds of unselfish
fraternal assistance to each
other. Yet that is what is
happening.

A commonwealth of social-

ist states is emerging in which
entirely now relations exist
such as have never before
been known in history.

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I saw many evidences of
this in the Soviet Union and
East Germany. For example,
while taking a stroll in a
park in  Moscow.we came
across two teams playing
basketball. We stopped to en-
quire who was playing and
found that they were Russian
and Chinese teams from a
nearby engineering — school.
The Chinese students were
to become experts in certain
engineering fields.

On my visit to Moscow Uni-
versity I also found that a
large number of the students
came from colonial countries
and New Democracies

In the Zeiss plant in East
Germany I spoke to a 25-year-
old technician who had re-
cently come back from China
with a group of experts who
spent a year helping the
Chinese establish a first class
optical industry. The Zeiss
plant is building special equip-
ment for China. He was as
enthusiastic about what China
was doing in the field of
optics as he was about the
successes of his own factory.

A very impressive feature
of the 5th Congress was the
demonstration of the unity
and strength of the socialist
camp. Here, in attendance
at this congress, were. fra-
ternal delegates from 46 fra-
ternal communist and work-
ers’ parties.

Not only was one third of
humanity represented by dele*
gates from parties now in
power, but parties from the
capitalist and colonial coun-
tries. representing scores of
millions’ of members and, sup-
porters. Among these were
the communist parties of
Italy, France, Indonesia, the
Middle East, Spain, Great
Britain, Latin America.

Leader of the delegations
made short speeches which
were simultaneously. translat-
ed in seven languages. Listen-
ing to. them speak you felt
the power of the world move-

ment toward socialism and

colonial freedom.

Here in life you see the
truth of the statement that
the socialist camp is stronger
than the capitalist camp. You
are impressed by the oneness

.in the world-wide struggle for

peace independence and soc-
ialism, You come. away~con-
vinced of the inevitable. vic-
tory of the forces which are
changing the world.

>% Dr James Endicott, Cana-

dian Peace Congress chair-
man, arrived in Vancouver
Wednesday this week from
Tokyo, where he has been at-
tending the Fourth World
Conference against A- and H-
Bombs and for Disarmament.
Earlier he attended the Con-
gres for Disarmament and In-
ternational Cooperation in
Stockholm. He will speak on
both these international gath-
erings at a public meeting to
be held in Pender Audi-
torium here Friday, Septem-
ber 5, 8 p.m.

North hails

conference

“It’s almost like being in
a different world — and I
guess it is a different world,
at that.” This is how George
George North of Vancouver,
editor of The Fisherman, des-
cribes the Fourth World Con-
ference against Atom and
Hydrogen Bombs and for Dis-
armament which he has been
attending as a delegate joint-
ly sponsored by United Fish-
ermen and- Allied Workers
Union and B.C. Peace Coun-
cil.

Writing from Tokyo, where
the conference concluded last
week, North gives his im-
pressions ina letter to
UFAWU secretary Homer
Stevens made available to the
labor press by the union’s
public relations department.

“In my opinion, the confer-
ence was very much a suc-
cess, despite an attempt by
a  yepresentative of the
Friends of Reconciliation and
an American Quaker to weak-
en its effect by engaging in
a last-minute red-baiting at-
tack.

“This is Japan however, and
there was representation at
the conference from 39 coun-
tries, including the United
Arab Republic, Iraq, Viet
Nam, Indonesia, Burma and
India.

“The anti-British and Am-
erican feeling among Asian
and African delegates was
very strong. It’s almost like
being in a different world—
and I guess it is, at that.

August 29, 1958 —PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 7