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mistaken, They are doomed to miserable failure,

“In the last ten years or more, our 14 million fellow country- men in the South have endured all conceivable hardships and sacrifices and have fought with matchless valour,

“Bare-handed in the beginning they captured arms from the enemy and fought back and have won one victory after another,

“The heavier the defeat of the Americans, the more barbarous means did the U.S, employ, said President Ho, citing the use of napalm bombs and poison gas to massacre Vietnamese,

“Just because they cannot pull themselves out of the hopeless predicament in the South, they have started frenzied attacks on the North,” he said.

Pointing out that the U.S. im- perialists played the trick of a thief crying “Stop thief,” Presi- dent Ho charged: “They are the aggressors, but they are cynical enough to slander the North as having ‘invaded’ the South,”

The «Taylor plan” has fizzled out; the “McNamara plan” had

gone bankrupt; and the present “escalation plan” of the U.S, imperialists against the North was also bound to fail,

The “army men and people of our country are determined to defeat them, even if the U.S. sends a few hundred thousand more men, and dragoons troops of some of its satellites into this criminal war,” President Ho said.

“It is the firm belief of our entire people that with our united fighting strength our courage and creativeness, and with the sym- pathy and support of peoples throughout the world, we will surely be able to carry this great war of resistance through to complete victory.”

He thanked the peoples of the Socialist countries and of allfive continents for their help to the Vietnamese people and welcomed the wish expressed by young people of various countries, to join as volunteers in repulsing the U.S. marauders,

“Our people fight and make -

sacrifices not only for our own freedom and independence, but also for the freedom and inde- pendence of other peoples and for world peace,”

brink, warns Kosygin

By PETER TEMPEST MOSCOW — The United States

is “step by step approaching a

very dangerous brink” by ex- tending the scale of its military operations against Vietnam, Premier Kosygin warned here Monday,

“We are watching with grave anxiety the situation in South- East Asia where the clouds of a threat of war are growing ever thicker,” he told a Soviet- Mongolian friendship rally in the Kremlin,

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Already Press Clubs and in- dividuals have placed orders for 1,400 extra copies of this Sou- venir Edition and we hope to receive many more orders by the time we go to press,

This edition of our paper will no doubt be of considerable inter- est to young and old alike and most readers will want to keepit as valuable reference material, Here is a glimpse of some of the features it will contain:

PT Editor Tom McEwen will be looking back over 30 years; Associate Editor Maurice Rush will describe how a new labor tradition was formed back in 1935; former staff editorial member Hal Griffin will trace the growth of the radical and fighting press since B.C.’s early days; Cowichan’s Ron Liversedge (author of The On-To-Ottawa Trek) will tell how the first few editions of the newly-launched workers’ press in 1935 were

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Our Financial Drive for $18,000 to meet this year’s op- erating budget now stands at the $4,700 mark, Greater Vancouver , has contributed $2,500 of this total while provincial points account for ‘the remaining $2,200,

This means that funds have

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While on the Island, Shack will try to strengthen Club efforts in the Drive and participate in 30th Anniversary celebrations,

Why doesn’t Ottawa act to stop race-hate mail?

Above is an envelope sent to the PT along with the an-

1630 alverni Street, Vancouver 5, b. C.

The #ditor, Pacific Tribune > 426 Main Street, Vancouver

The Soviet Government pur- ,sued a Leninist policy of peace but “is always ready to give a resolute rebuff to the imperial- ists and their acts of aggression against socialist countries,” Mr, Kosygin declared to applause.'

“Are people in Washington aware of the full seriousness of the situation, the full burden of responsibility the United Statesis taking upon itself by stubbornly sticking to its aggressive course in Vietnam?

“The growth of the war threat, the hotting up of war have their logical development,”

In the sharpest terms the Soviet Premier warned the United States that it did not have monopoly possession of modern weapons.

“The use by the aggressors of this or that instrument of war may turn against themselves and moreover, with the same weapons which they are using,” he said,

The United States were using

Oppositien leader Robert Strachan last Tuesday urged the B.C. government to take over the petroleum industry and develop a petro-chemical industry. The NDP leader, who appeared before the Royal Commission on Gasoline Prices, said the necessary legislation to control petroleum products is al- ready on the statute books.

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they received this announcement and other racis ut .

“the inhuman weapons” of palm, phosphorus bombs and The plea that poisonous sb : stances have been used with? White House sanction “only e creases our anxiety.” :

Mr, Kosygin added: “Wor public opinion rightly asks— not American military ci!’ of their own will use ° weapons too in disregard of White House? If that is 5% situation is fraught with um pected consequences,

4 American appeals for

peaceful settlement are valu because they are accomp by declarations of a dete! ation to wage war to the &

‘Surrey should run own centre ite

Harry Ball, secretary of i Surrey Municipal Reform raf mittee, has written the SU” council urging that the new ™ Si, reation centre, when comple” — be run by the municipality. —

Recently the North suri | Recreation Association PFOP i) to the municipal council take over the new centre ©

built,

Ball said in his letter that Surrey Municipal Reform © mittee did “not believe the P@ of Surrey should be ask finance the building for any 8? but should be run by the muni ff pality, with a committee elet iB through a general meetil® | ratepayers and responsible ; Council,” a

The letter drew attentio® i the fact that in Vancouvel Parks Board runs the comm | ty centres, hires the pers? ve to run its activities and thee? | munity associations in then® borhood works with the Board to serve the needs ° ~ area,

nouncement of anti-Semitic meeting. The return address is ericls in the mail. Why doesn't Ottawa act to stOP "~

the headquarters of the anti-Semitic and Fascist organiza- s have ph

tion, ‘Natural Order.” Many read

d to say

April 23, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUN

of our postal services for racist propaganda?