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ttast to py The G-D-R. in con-
trols its nada owns and con-
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thoroushin its culture is
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the eee I have done twice in
but be j WO years, cannot help
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a avoid another war. To
Dhasis in this continual em-
Obsegsio Peace seems almost an
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that they peyen you remember

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tions Plomatic and trade rela-
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Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia

-and Hungary.

The only reason Canada does
not recognize the G.D.R. is be-
cause of pressure from West
Germany. To bow to West Ger-
man demands only encourages
its plans to try to take over the
G.D.R. and West Berlin by force.

Let’s not kid ourselves—the
West Germans will never get
away with any such attempt.
The G.D.R. is backed by the
military might of the Soviet
Union and the other socialist
countries, allied in the Warsaw
Pact. Any military moves by
West Germany to the east will
result in another war in which
we could quickly become in-
volved.

The G.D.R. is here to stay.
This fact is understood by all
sensible people. Unification with
West Germany is out of the
question today in view of their
fundamentally different political
systems. This is realized by an
increasing number of countries
which are establishing commer-
cial and* diplomatic relations
with the G.D.R. to their mutual
advantage. Canada could. also
benefit by developing trade with
this highly industrialized state
of 17 million people.

The Canadian government 1s
currently negotiating with Chi-
na, a country also celebrating
its 20th birthday this year, and
whose existence it has refused
to recognize until now. At the
same time we are scaling down
our commitments to NATO in
Europe, a step welcomed by the
majority of Canadians. We
should now go a step further
and recognize the German De-

mocratic Republic.

“National Secretary Women's
Congress reports Korea visit

Mrs. Hilda Murray, national
secretary of the Congress of
Canadian Women reported at a
press interview, her participa-
tion in the International Confer-
ence of Journalists, which took
place at Pyongyang, The Demo-
cratic People’s Republic of
Korea, from September 18 to 24
this year. It was attended by 114
delegations from 90 countries.

“The meeting,” said Mrs. Mur-
ray, “was called to discuss the
common tasks of struggle
against U.S. aggression and im-
perialism, which the conference
sharply denounced. Not all of
the delegates were united ‘in
their political beliefs, and there
were many differences of opin-
ion, but unanimous and thunder-
ous support was’ given to the
Declaration of Pyongyang adop-
ted on the 24th of September.”

“The Declaration calls upon
progressive journalists of the
world to use their pens in the
struggle to expose, behead and
stop aggression and U.S. imper-
ialism, wherever it raises its
head,” she said. .

Mrs. Murray said that the
conferences noted that the U.S.
imperialists, the chief enemy of
mankind today, had selected all
of the smaller countries, such as
Cuba, Vietnam, Korea and the
Middle East, Laos, Cambodia,
the Dominican Republic and the
small emerging African Scout
as its victims for colonization
and exploitation.

Mrs. Murray emphasized that
the U.S. and Japan are forming
a new military alliance, with a

standing army of one million ,

men, for the express purpose of
subduing South East Asia. In
South Korea, the U.S.A. has
conducted since last March
Operation Focus Retina, by
transporting huge amounts of
armaments, _ tanks, bombers,
chemical and bacteriological
‘mass killing equipment.

The United States has shown
itself to be the greatest menace
to mankind, and must be stop-
ped, said Mrs. Murray. The Jap-
anese delegates pointed out that
Okinawa had been stocked
with the most horrific chemicals
known to science, as well as
germs of the deadliest kind. She
remarked humorously, that a
cholera epidemic had broken out
in South Korea, so that the
North Koreans vaccinated every
delegate upon arrival.

The North Koreans have not
forgotten what the United
States imperialists did to their
country, said Mrs. Murray, and

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they maintain that the U.S. is
now in the urgent process of
preparing to attack North Korea.

The Koreans assert with the
greatest emphasis that they will
unite their whole country and
drive the Yankee imperialists
into the ‘sea. They will be free,
they will be heard as a sovereign
nation entitled to human justice,
mercy and understanding. They
are willing to sacrifice all their
hard-won gains to achieve that
unification, she said.

The delegates declared their
solidarity in a standing ovation.
The delegates gave Cuba, Africa,
the Middle East, and other coun-
tries standing ovations and ex-
pressed support for them in
their struggles against imperial-
ism.

The Declaration stressed that
the journalists of the world can-
not remain as mere bystanders,
or mere recorders of trivial
news, in face of prevailing
world conditions. They must,
emphasized Mrs. Murray, take
up their pens in all seriousness
and use them to stop all aggres-
sion, particularly U.S. aggres-
sion. The journalists of the
world must wield their pens to
lay bare the total enormity of
imperialism and its policy of
perpetual war upon the little
countries of the world.

Mrs. Murray said that the
Congress of Canadian Women
would be campaigning to send
hospital beds to Vietnam, and
to help the Women’s Interna-
tional- Democratic Federation to
build a hospital, equip it, provide
linens, etc. This, she said, is a
unique effort for women, as far
as she knew never undertaken
by an_ international women’s
movement before.

Mrs. Murray said that the
journalists from Vietnam told
her that they had personally
seen the crates of clothing sent
from Canada being opened and
distributed in their country.

When asked a question about
the attitude of the.Koreans to
Canada, Mrs. Murray said that
Kim Il Sung had told her per-
sonally that Korea wants friend-
ship with Canada, and would like
to open diplomatic relations.
They do not look upon Canada
with enmity, she said, and fol-
low Canadian affairs closely. In
fact, stressed Mrs. Murray, the
attitude of the Koreans to Can-
ada, and don’t forget’ we had our
army there, is not one of hostil-
ity. The Vietnamese, too, dis-
tinguish between the American
people and their government and

the American militarists..

You find no strong feelings
against American people she
said. There is, however, a deep
hatred for militarism, especially
American militarism, and no

other militarism in the world is
regarded with such hatred.

As for defense capability, she
said, Korea is well-prepared, the
beaches have been fortified, and
everyone in North Korea has a

:gun.

Korean poster: “For the Fultfitt
ment of the Seven Year Pian” —

NUCLEAR

TESTING

Winnipeg’s ‘health and wel-
fare committte will press Win-
nipeg city council to officially
deplore the continuation of nu-
clear testing.

The action was taken after a
letter was received from the
mayor of North York, James D.
Service, who urged “perpetual
public support and statements
condemning nuclear explosions.”
In his letter he also said that a
Professor E. J. Sternglass, Uni-
versity of Pittsburg, says that
nuclear testing has caused the
death of infants as well as leu-
kemia and bone cancer.

There was, of course, the usu-
al red-baiting, with Winnipeg
Alderman Brotman asking whe-
ther or not the Mayor of North
York is a Communist front. He
also raised the usual buck-pas-
sing proposals that such ques-

tions aren’t within the jurisdic-

tion of municipal bodies, and
that he didn’t like such com-
munications because “they do
not deal with things that affect
Manitoba or Canada.”

However, Alderman Stinson
didn’t agree to all that, and said
that he supported the motion.
Alderman Magnus Eliason
moved concurrence with Mayor
Service of North York because
he felt that public bodies should
do something to shock the
powers-that-be.

Alderman Brotman returned
to the attack, trotting out all
the old saws about the Soviet
Union stirring up trouble, and
not wanting to restrain “our”
military advisers, and his fears
that the resolution would play
into the hands of the Commu-
nists.

However, the health commit-
tee backed Mayor Service of
North York, and is. making its
recommendation to city council.

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