=a ™/_.... By BERT WHYTE America’s “Special Warfare” South Vietnam has created a € tide of hatred and loathing the United States, says Dr. €s G. Endicott, chairman of ? Canadian Peace Congres. vr. Endicott has just return- Tom a peace tour which took to India, Cambodia, Viet- in, the Soviet Union, Germany d Austria. He will relate his experiences (2 Public meeting Jan. 11 at © p.m. at the Maple Leaf Ball- ’m (Christie and St. Clair). On 0. 15 he begins an across-Can- a tour which includes meet- S in Fort William, Winnipeg, €ary, Edmonton and Regina. €anwhile the Canadian Ce Congress is stepping up Ssure to end the war in Viet- » by withdrawal of U.S. lops, reconvening the 1954 meva Conference and negotia- & a just settlement. The Peace Congress has is- #d an Open Letter to President Nson in which it bluntly tells Nn that “in spite of all the ter- ism of your puppet regimes Saigon, the National Libera- N Front government controls d governs almost 80 percent South Vietnam.” During Dr. Endicott’s stay in noi, Capital of North Vietnam, tere he atttended the World Mference of Solidarity With ftnam, the Canadian peace der met napalm-bombed vic- ; S from south of the 17th pa- el, talked to officials of the ttional Liberation Front, and +t North Vietnam President Ho 1 Minh and Premier Pham tf Dong. “In the interests of preserving ‘ld peace, the Vietnamese {ple have put up with many vocations on the part of the outed States, but any outright #2Ck on North Vietnam could afalate the present war into a bal conflict, he was told. € Hanoi meeting appealed the British and Soviet co- Itmen and the governments the participating countries of 954 Geneva Conference to anc ffective measures to com- € U.S. to respect and strict- Plement the agreements. e. Stopping Over at Irkutsk on 8 “ight back to Europe, Dr. En- spot Spoke at a mass rally in if im : Port of the heroic South Viet-° People fighting for their tPle fighting for their freedom independence. he Soviet Union, he learned, ; recently. sent plane-loads of i piles through its Red Cross the relief of flood victims in Vietnam. These supplies “ce turned over to representa- €s of the National Liberation New Delhi... Hanoi... Berlin... Vienna... . Paris Prime Minister Shastri addressed the World Conference for Peace and International Cooperation in New Delhi. Photo shows Krishna Menon shaking hands with Shastri at the conclusion of the prime minister's speech, while chairman of thes session, Dr. James G. Endicott of Canada, applauds. The conference, attended by delegates from 40 countries and 12 international organizations, issued this appeal to all govern- ments not engaged in the atomic race and to all governments will- ing to join with them, to meet without delay and demand: 1. A total ban on all atomic arms and weapons of mass ex- termination; 2. An immediate end to the manufacture of all types of nu- clear weapons and to all forms of testing these arms; 3. The destruction of existing stocks; and to study, in conjunction e with the peoples, the measures and actions necessary to achieve these aims. Prime Minister Shastri ad- dressed the conference and gave it his full support. India, he stressed, will “always remain friendly with those who think in terms of nonalignment, dis- armament and peace.” Reiterating India’s position against manufacturing nuclear weapons, the Indian prime min- ister felt this policy is correct “not only for India but I think for all the Asian and African countries.” Dr. Endicott, who chaired the session at which Prime Minister OURNEY FOR PEACE Shastri spoke, said in his thank- you speech: “No one ever had more world- wide sympathy than he who had to take upon his shoulders the heavy task of succeeding Pandit Nehru. The world waited with some apprehension to learn what would happen. Reassurance and confidence came quickly. India’s position on non-alignment, peace and anti-colonialism was pro- claimed clearly and firmly. At the Cairo Conference Prime Minister Shastri demonstrated that he intended to promote and practice these policies. And now the peace forces of the world are inspired by his declaration that India will not make the bomb and that she will continue to demand the abolition of nu- clear weapons.” 7 * * * From New Delhi the Canadian Peace Congress chairman flew to Hanoi via Thailand and Cam- bodia. He returned to Europe via China and the Soviet Union, and was in Berlin early in Dec- ember to take part in the presi- dential meeting of the World Council of Peace. It was announced that the next World Peace Congress will be held in Helsinki, Finland, from July 10 to 17 this year. The agenda will be worked out by all peace movements in the world willing to cooperate. — The World Council of Peace decided to deliver special memo- randums on Cuba and Cyprus to - the United Nations, to the Or- ganization of African Unity on the Congo situation, and to is- sue a world-wide appeal on the ‘ crisis in South Vietnam. It will also communicate with the co- chairmen of the Geneva Confer- ence to reconvene that body. Dr. Endicott went from Berlin to Vienna to open a special for- um on economic problems of dis- armament Dec. 12, sponsored by the International Institute for Peace. “IT was tremendously impress- ed by some of the papers pre- sented there,’ he said, “particu-- larly by two delivered by Mrs. Anile Graham of Great Britain and Mrs. Donna Allen of the United States. “The latter’s paper on disarmament argued convin- cingly that we needn’t tie the problem of disarmament to com- plicated schemes of reconversion —that, in fact, disarmament, if achieved gradually, will actually be good for the capitalist eco- nomy.” Dr. Endicott went on to Paris to participate in demonstrations and other activities organized by the French Peace Movement against the proposed multilateral “nuclear force (MLF) which was being discussed at that time in the city by the NATO council. One evening he took part. in a mass meeting at the Salle de Mutualite, the huge building where, more than a quarter ‘of a century ago, rallies were held in support of the Spanish Repub- lic. Dr. Endicott’s conclusions, based on his-long journey for peace: the necessity for interna- tional solidarity to end the wicked war in Vietnam; the need for world-wide action to prevent a nuclear war and put disarma- ment on the agenda of mankind. China’s National People’s Congress meets Pod ‘S in Haiphong. I A * ~ ; The first session of the third National People’s Congress of :% China opened in the Great Hall of the People in Peking on Dec. 21. ir ; followed these will not be made public. The situation in agriculture improved in 1964 but a population growth of some 12 million a year |, st main stop on Dr. Endi- Liu Shao-chi, chairman of the People’s Republic of China, declared is causing great concern among China's leading economists. An- : t's long peace journey was the session open, and Premier Chou En-lai delivered a report on the other problem is connected with the age of Communist Party and 'w Delhi, where he took partin work of the government. Like the last NPC meeting in 1963, sessions government leaders, few of whom are under 60. The natural desire World Conference for Peace were closed to the press and foreign diplomats. The session will of young Chinese for a rise in living standards and a broader intel- lectual and cultural life has recently been severely condemned by the yo International i al Cooperation, “Old Guard” headed by Mao Tse-tung and Liu Shao-chi. adopt resolutions on the report, the main targets set in the 1965 waich met Nov, 14-16. national economic plan and the state budget. If past practice is A , January 8, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7 2h :