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A These picketers were part of the 200 from.

© marched before the federal parliament bur

Eeneing an all-Canadian Seaway. The demon
N awarm response from Ottawa citizens.

SC cracks whip

Ontario and Quebec
idings on August 20
stration and leaflets

on Freedomites

This fall the thorny Doukhobor problem appeared likely to
announcement by
drive to enfor
ther Sons of Freedom centres

*xplode into a new crisis, following
ter Ray Williston of an all-out
attendance in Krestova, Glade and o
'n the Slocan Valley.

A committee will be set up than police

roundups of non-at-

Education
ce school

Rejection by the French Na-
tional Assembly of the US.
sponsored plan for a European
Defense Community with a re-
armed Nazi-led West Germany at
its head has opened the way for
the settlement of the problems of
Europe on the basis of negotia-
tions among the European pow-
ers themselves.

pony to investigate the sale of tending children. lg PLO
oukhobor lands seized by, the What it mean : The Assémbly in Paris turned
y RCMP. embark on wholesale own the European army. treaty

Previncial government during the
depression. The committee will
priser methods of resale of the
®nds to Doukhobors now living
°n them. °
This latest move makes it ap-
og that the Socreds are start-
<§ on the same sorry path of re-
fession and coercion that was
'tied by previous governments
‘nd failed.
‘ In 1952 the Doukhobor Re-
‘ feos Committee made a report
advancing some solutions of the
: *roblem. The ‘committee’s re-
‘ommendations leave some room
or dispute but in any case the
povernment has done virtually
a to put into. effect any
Das, its constructive recommenda-
: Ns and has adopted only the
€ctions urging coercion.
, may well be that the report’s
€as on education would not be
*€eeptable to the Sons of Free
‘ened But their approach is cer-
tainly far more likely to succeed

searches
children can
story of one»
Siding who wro
Tribune.

One day when
wife were away,

Welfare force
home, looking for a

ren
who was alone

state of nervous
The screen door

‘hrough it an

letting them in.
Multiply this
action by a hu

the new government
n eans.

for delingquen
be seen

by a P
man and a woman from f
d their way into his
‘bsentee child-

poth he and his
14 RCMP officers
lainclothes-
the Child

They frightened a teenage girl
in the house and
not feeling well, almost into a
collapse.

was

kind of police
ndred times and

vou get a clear picture of what
‘ order really

t school
from the
father in Perry’s
te to the Pacific

locked

hen the knocked so they proke
Hn % d unhooked the
latch and stampeded into the
house to berate the girl for not

py a vote of 319 to 264 after- a
fierce debate in which all parties
jn the Chamber of Deputies, with
the sole exception of the Com-
munists, split ranks over a
spectre of a re-armed Germany.

The Communist party which
has been at the head of a pro-
‘cnged struggle embracing wide
sections of the French people to
defeat the plan, stood solidly in
opposition to the ratification of
the treaty.

The action of the deputies fol-
lowed the failure of Premier

week before to get U.S. support

treaty in an effort to get Assem-
bly approval. The French legis-
lators in voting to end debate
on the controversial treaty over-
rode'a plea by Mendes-France
for more time to conduct further
negotiations on changes.
Pressure of the people of
France and of Europe who fear a

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Mendes-France at Brussels the ©

for his proposals to modify the

resurgence of German militar-
ism was undoubtely the key fac-
tor in deciding French politicians
to break with Washington and
vote EDC down. A gigantic cam-
paign against the plan which
grew ‘in intensity in the past

- weeks tipped the balance against

the European Army.

Reaction of U.S. spokesmen to
the defeat shows that they intend
to go ahead anyway with plans
to put guns in the hands of the’

unrepentant Wehrmacht veter-
ans. But they will not find it
easy without the cooperation of
France and Britain.

The rgad has now been open-
ed for the settlement of the
knotty problem of a divided Ger-

many and its attendant tensions.
Basis of the negotiations will like-
ly be the proposal of the Soviet
Union made after the - Geneva
tslks for an all-inclusive Euro-
pean security treaty.

Harnessing

power for peace

atomic

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