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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2,

1956

TORONTO

An appeal to Premier Ben- “withdraw Israeli Egyptian soil’ and preserve world peace was made this week by the editors of the Canadian Jewish Week- ly.

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soldiers from

Warning that’ war threatens to choke off the fledgling state of Israel, the message carried as an open letter in the pages of the paper, said:

“We appeal to you, Mr. Ben- Gurion, to do part in removing that threat . .. we have always felt that reprisai raids are morally and tactic- ally reprehensible, no matter

your

what the provocation. Reprisal raids lead to more bitterness, more hostility among your Arab neighbors. And as Dr. Nahum Goldmann has often stated: Israel must find a way to live with her neighbors. “If the reports that France

Editors send appeal ask Israel withdraw

and Britain have recommend- ed this military action are true, we are constrained to say that you are playing the West’s game in the Middle East, pull- ing their chestnuts out of the fire.

“The Arabs will not be in- duced to negotiate the Pales- tine Question by force of arms. Israel’s greatest strength lies in the moral support she has enjoyed — and still does — throughout the world. This military ‘adventure’ — and we use the word advisedly — en- dangers that moral support....

“We ask you to order with- drawal of Israeli soldiers from Egyptian soil, refrain from fur- ther such armed actions and concentrate on presenting Is- rael’s case before the world through the United Nations. Only in that direction will peace be preserved and Israel secured.”

800 AFFECTED

Sawmill workers in

Victoria face layoffs

Some 800 sawmill workers in Victoria are threatened with layoffs. Effects nf 0

VICTORIA, Be

the decline in exports and the drop in housing construction caused by tightening mortgage funds are beginning to be felt.

To make matters worse, local sawmills are finding it difficult to obt

ain suf

ficient logs to meet present requirements because of the monopoly control of t

big five in the lumber. in- dustry. Two mills have al-

ready been shut down because of this shortage and another is on a four-day - week.

A plywood mill, the Sooke

Lake Lumber Company, re- e e Communist in e Jordan cabinet History was made in the

Arab world this week when a Communist was elevated to cabinet rank in Jordan. Ab- dul Qualeh As-Saleh, a mem- ber of the National Bloc which swept the polls, became min- ister of agiculture and first Communist to win cabinet rank in an Arab county.

Suliman Nabulsi, leader of the National Socialist party heads the new coalition, which advocates abrogation of Jor- dan’s defense and friendship treaty with Britain, federation with Syria and eventual union with Egypt.

A majority of the members in the new parliament cam- paigned for abrogation of the treaty and closer ties with Egypt.

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Ani.-French demonstrations flared throughout the Arab world this week following the

capture of five leaders of the Algerian in dependence movement. The five, taken by the French through a ruse, are shown in handcu ffs. They are (left to right): Mostafal Lachref, Mohammed Bondiuf, Hocine Air Ahmed, Mohammed Khider and Ben Bella.

cently received four barge loads of peeler logs from Ore- gon.

It is reported that a number of smailer plywood mills have

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been forced to buy peeler a

in the U.S. because the a in September stood at if percent of average 1947 prices.

LPP STATEMENT

government and the Canadian people can, if we act without another moment’s delay, play a decisive role in stopping this war and saving mankind from a terrible catastrophe.

The danger must not be minimized. It is immediate and terrifying. The national committee of the Labor-Pro- gressive party has called upon Prime Minister St. Laurent to call an emergency session of parliament. We urge every Canadian to insist that this be done.

The government and parlia- ment will have the overwhelm- ing support of Canadians if they act now to demand that British, French and _ Israeli troops be withdrawn from Egypt and that the bombing of Egypt’s civilian population cease; immediately propose in the United Nations that the General Assembly of that body be called to warn the govern- ments of the three invading forces that the alternative to immediate withdrawal will re- sult in the application of world-wide sanctions against them; and send cables from Canada’s prime minister to the prime ministers of Britain,

France and Israel in the name of the Canadian people em- phatically demanding that they stop the war.

The LPP fully endorses the action of External Affairs Min- ister Lester B. Pearson in pro- testing to the United Kingdom and France against their arm- ed intervention. We welcome the statement by Prime Min- ister St. Laurent in which he associated himself with those who condemn the use of force in the Middle East.

But the British and French

NOVEMBER 2, 1956 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE —

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tests. Further action is thet® fore urgently required. ae moment's delay brings : world closer to the prink atomic catastrophe, from W : Canada could not escaP®

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Not only is Egypt peing ™ i aged, the development st major war in the Middle re will threaten the very ore ence of the state of Isra@ her million and a half inha tants.

world opinion and UN for action to preven ed occupation of Esyt iadle restore peace to the East.

now Stop the war in Bey pa before it is too late.. UF med!”

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