rons [BUN ax Mite ed or mth oti) Phone MUtual 5-5288 Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa. C 10 FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1959 VOL. 18, NO. 34 VANCOUVER, B.C. Press Dief to invite ‘Khrushchev to Canada’ TORONTO—“If you and I do what we should do, _ Premier Khrushchev’s visit might mean the end of the cold -war,”’ Tim Buck told an applauding audience of 5,000 | at-Toronto’s 26th annual labor festival on Sunday this Week, The national leader of the | Labor - Progressive Party called for a month of effort: for peace “to make sure — insofar a the working class. can — that public opinion will be aroused to influence the fed- fal government to. invite Khrushchey to visit Canada.” He urged that MPs be writ- fen and phoned, that the ques- fion of inviting Premier Khru- shchey be taken up in organ- Wations, churches and trade Unions. “We have not recognized clearly enough in the past,’ Buck reminded his listeners, “that because of the instability Of capitalism and the rise of S0cialism, governments in North America are much more fesponsive to the pressure of public opinion. We have not done enough to make sure that Our voices should be. heard.” We need Khrushchey in Canada, he declared, because Canada, situated as it is be- tween the United States and the. Soviet Union, would be the first victim of atomic war. “One half of our population would be wiped out; one half of the country would be made unfit to live in.” There is another reason, he added. ‘‘We are living through what may be the last summer of eapitalist expansion.” Referring to the song which the audience had just been Singing with folk artist Guy Carawan, Ain’t Gonna Study War No More, Buck urged that the audience resolve, ‘“‘We’re Gonna Study How to Make Peace Prosperous.” Last year, he reminded the labor festival audience, he had said that “Everything is com; ing our way.” “Was I right?” he asked. Thousands of voices answered *VWies.1?. Just a couple of months ago, he pointed . out,- Eisenhower |. said at a press conference he could not think of any: reason that would justify an invita- tion to Khrushchev. Now he is inviting him. “The ice is melting. It has to melt before the river can flow. The river is flowing to- day towards democracy, peace and human progress. The years of the cold war from 1947 to 1959 have been one, of the darkest periods of man’s hopes.” With powerful interests still trying to make, sure Krush- chev’s visit will be a failure, it would be wrong to say that the cold war is entirely at an end, Buck stressed. The people must make their influence felt. “If you believe ‘things felt,” ELL SIGN PACT TO ND NUCLEAR TESTS —K MOSCOW - “The Soviet Union attaches great importance to the conclusion of an agreement to end nuclear tests, and is pre< pared to sign such an agreement immediately,” Premier Nikita Khrushchey said ina letter tothe World Federation of Scientific Workers, made public His letter was a reply to a WFSW memorandum express- ing concern in connection with a serious threat arising from the arms race and the contin- ued tests of nuclear weapons. In his letter to WFSW presi- dent Professor C. F. Powell, the Soviet premier said in part: “Expressing the insistent | demands of the Soviet people, | | the government of the USSR, is coming out consistently for full prohibition of nuclear! weapons and destruction of all their stocks, for the uncondi- ‘tional - termination of nuclear weapons tests for all time. “The Soviet government at- taches great importance to the conclusion of an agreement to end nuclear tests; regarding it as a most important step to- wards the implementation of other and broader measures for disarmament and. improve- ment of the international situ- ation. The Soviet Union is pre- pared to sign such an agree- ment immediately. “As for the aspects of the activities of the World Feder- ation of Scientific Workers, I note with satisfaction that the last week. main goals of the federation include the ensuring of an ex-| tensive application of science for the purpose of banishing want and disease and raising the well-being of all the peo- ples. “This aim is near and under- | standable to all Soviet people. In my opinion it is absolutely inadmissible that in our times, when brilliant achievements of world science open up unlim- ited possibilities for improving the well-being of all mankind, | there are in the world millions of people still living in appal- ling conditions and suffering from hunger, misery and dis- eases. : “T am convinced that in the implementation of these tasks the World Federation of Scien- tific Workers will have the | support of all progressive man- kind.” - On August 5 Premier Khrushchev replied to a letter from the European Federation Against Atomic Armament, and said, in part: .drogen weapons (the USSR, the United States and Great Britain) assume the obligation not to be the first to hold new experimental nuclear explo< sions, which, as you write, would contribute to the conclu< sion of an agreement on the definitive termination of all] kinds of nuclear tests. “For -its part, the Soviet Union is prepared to assume the most solemn obligation nof to be the first to hold new nuclear weapons tests. ‘Moreover, it would be aps propriate to recall that in its time, on March 31, 1958, the USSR already stopped unis laterally all tests of atomic and hydrogen weapons in the hope that the United States and Great Britain would follow our example. { “But you. know that, -far from following the Soviet Union’s example, the govern= ments of the United States and Great Britain tried to get, at our expense, maximum mil- itary advantages by carrying “You ‘suggest that the pow- | out a series of nuclear tests of ers possessing atomic and hy-| unprecedented intensity,”