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Royal City forum : |Five parties debate

policy on

Formosa

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.

Strong support for a policy of restoring Formosa to China and seating the People’s Republic of China in the United Nations was indicated by an audience which packed the Nordic Centre here on Friday last week to hear spokes- men for five political parties outline their stand on Formosa.

Speakers at the open forum, which was sponsored by New Westminster CCF club, were: Alf Dewhurst, Labor - Progressive; Mrs. Dorothy Steeves, CCF; Frank Lewis, Liberal; Ira Mon- son, Social Credit; Gowan Guest, Conservative.

- Opening the discussion, Dew- hurst outlined the LPP stand in four proposals: :

@ Advocacy by Canada of U.S. withdrawal from Formosa and restoration of Formosa to China.

® Acceptance by Canada of a policy of non-interference in the internal affairs of China, includ- ing Formosa as rightful Chinese territory.

® Recognition of the People’s Republic of China by Canada.

@ Support by Canada for seating of People’s China in the UN.

Mrs. Dorothy Steeves support- éd Canadian recognition and seating of China in the UN but advocated a policy of neutraliz- ing Formosa under the UN with the island’s future eventually to be determined by a plebiscite on whether it should be restored to China or remain “independent.”

Frank Lewis, who contested Vancouver East as a Liberal can- didate in the 1952 provincial elec- tion, defended the St. Laurent government’s position by arguing that “Canada’s foreign policy was in the hands of the best for- eign’ minister this country has ever had.” Evading the question of interference in China’s in- ternal affairs, he said the Liberal stand was for a cease fire in Formosa. ,

USSR offers new plan

Forged “quotations” from Len- in falsifying Communist aims were used by Ira Monson, Socred spokesman, to bolster his con- tention that the U.S. should: re- tain Formosa as an armed base.

(The alleged “quotations,” from notorious anti-Communist sources, were read into Hansard earlier this year by Solon Low, Social Credit national leader, to justify Social Credit support of German rearmament.

(Subsequent, John Stewart, ed- itor of the Canadian Tribune, challenged Low to state his sources and showed the “quota- tions” to be forgeries.)

Boos greeted Ira Monson’s fur-

ther-statement during the discus-’

sion that he favored using For- mosa_ as a base for attack on China.

The Conservative spokesman, Gowan Guest, a student lawyer,

frankly stated that he could not

speak for his party because he did not have a copy of a foreign affairs speech prepared for but not yet given in parliament.

Lacking an official guide to Conservative policy, he fully supported U.S. policy in Asia, advocated world war if necessary “to destroy communism,” and favored use of Formosa as a base for attack on China.

Dewhurst, in his rebuttal, charged Liberal, Socred and Con- servative spokesmen with taking the same fundamental stand, which could drag this country into H-bomb war in the wake of an imperialist United States un- less the people acted to change it:

vacation area of Huntsville, 150 miles north of Toronto, was so radioactive a prospe~ tor’s gieger counter “‘went like mad.’ Ontario Game Warden Bill Ellerington told the — Canadian Tribune here that an area of 50 miles was affected. He has “made an official — report to the provincial department of lands and forests. Some residents, he said, feared

Better talk 5 years than fight 5 minutes_

the water in the district might become - polluted.

Ellerington told the Canadian ‘Tribune he had set his geiger counter at the highest range on a 50m scale. The tested snow in Dwight near Algonquin Park, registered a count of 32, which is considered unusually high. He did not know the danger scale, he said. Nevertheless he was sufficiently concerned to make urgent inquiries and send an im- mediate report to Toronto.

When asked what . prompted him to test the snow, he replied that his curiosity was aroused when the .geiger counter inside the building began to tick at the rate of 12 to the minute. He decided to test-the snow in order to find out for himself whether the disturbance in the counter was the result of some radio activity.

“There is growing concern

“among people here,” Ellerington

said. They are afraid of the A- bomb.tests being carried through in the United States.

' The game warden said his snow tests were corroborated by Eric Phelzer, a prospector in the Algonquin Park area as well \as by George Cook, who owns a camp on Wolf Lake.

Cook said the geiger reaction was at least three times as strong a day after the snow fell. His first day reading was 20 on the 5m scale—equal to “a good piece of ore from Bancroft.” The next day it jumped to 39.

Phelzer decided té test the snow, remembering the Japanese fishermen incident at the time of last year’s U.S. H-bomb tests in the Pacific. The geiger coun- ter “went like mad, and I nearly jumped out of my pants,” Phel- zer said. He followed down the road as far as Cook’s camp and got the same reaction all the way.

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to end armament race

In a dramatic move to end the arm reduction in conventional weapons and an at

bombs.

Pravda, authoritative Soviet riewspa been submitted to the Disarmament Commi

London. ' Tt indicated that the plan makes significant concessions to the Western powers on the dis- armament issue, stating that the Soviet proposal was ‘based on the proposal of France and Brit- ain of June 11, 1954.” > Pravda declared that the So- viet proposal “provides for an international convention on arms

McEwen, Murphy will |

outline LPP policy

Tom McEwen, editor of the Pacific Tribune, and Harvey Murphy, Mine-Mill western reg- ional. director, will outline the LPP stand on the TLC-CCL merger, union democracy and other issues in the trade union movement at a public meeting to be held in Pender Auditorium this Sunday, April 3, 8 p.m.

‘reduction and the banning of atomic, hydrogen and other types of weapons of mass destruction.”

“The new Soviet plan appeared to be based on meeting two prin- cipal US. objections to outlaw- ing atomic weapons.

One of these is that an atomic

ban would give the USSR an ad-.

‘yantage, since Soviet armies are supposedly larger than those of the Western powers. The Soviet plan meets this claim by propos- ing immediate slashes in all arms and armies. F

The other U.S. argument is that the Soviet Union has not

agreed ‘to adequate control and .

inspection of an atomic ban. Al- though the Soviet Union has pre- viously proposed tight controls the current proposal for a per- manent contro! commission and continuing ‘inspection is design- ed to dispel any misunderstand- ing.

LONDON

aments race, the Soviet Union has proposed drastic rtight system for enforcing a ban on atomic

per, revealed recently that the new plan had ssion of the United Nations now meeting in

Manitoba wants works program

Ottawa‘was asked by the Mani- toba legislature this , week to “speed up the federal . public works. program and extend aid to the unemployed.”

A resolution whieh carried by a vote of 43 to 6 asked the fed- eral government to help jobless workers not covered by the Un- employment Insurance® Act by accelerating public works, It also urged Ottawa to work ‘With the province in development’ of win- ter works projects and methods of co-ordinating public works.

—ENDICOTT

“In an atomic age it’s better to talk for five years than” fight for five minutes,’ Dr. James G. Endicott, chairman ot Canadian Peace Congress, told an audience of 1,000 Van-— couver citizens in Pender Auditorium Friday evening last

week.

oe “The war danger is rising, but peace sentiment is als0 ‘rising in all countries of the world,” he said. “Our position 15 optomistic as well as realistic. We believe that war can be

prevented. “Peace can triumph over war

if we mobilize everyone in Can- ada against atomic war, either in the Peace Congress or con- verging movements. And by

converging movements we don’t °

mean movements that converge on our movement; we mean movements that converge on peace.” opi

Dr. Endicott read the text of the World Appeal Against the Preparations for Atomic War, which he helped to draft at a meeting of the World Council of Peace in Vienna early . this year, and urged his listeners to take part in the great signature campaign now underway across Canada.

Jaycee disruptors rebuked by Colonist

VICTORIA, B.C.

Self-appointed witch-hunters in the Victoria Junior Chamber of Commerce were editorially rap- ‘ped iby the Victoria Colonist in its March 25 issue for their attempts to disrupt a’ meeting here addressed by Dr. James G. Endicott, chairman of the’ Can- adian Peace Congress.

The Victoria Colonist observ- ed that after “the performance of a group of its members at Dr. Endicott’s meeting last week the chamber is not in a very good position to preach about democ- racy to anyone.”

’ The paper continued:

“Tt makes not a pin of differ-

ence what ideology Dr.‘ Endicott

_ expounds: In a country believ-

ing in free speech he had a right so long as he stayed within cer- tain bounds to a fair hearing be- fore an audience which had paid to listen to him He did not get one from the Jaycees party which attended his meeting. .. .”

The paper described the Jay- scees as a group of men “grown up in years but apparently not in understanding of what democ-

e ”

racy means. . .

Rotary club denies hall to Endicott

CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. The Rotary Club here, whose president is Cyril J. Hague, per- sonnel manager for Crown-Zel- lerbach ‘mill at Duncan Bay, closed the Scout Hall to a recent meeting at which Dr. James G. Endicott,was scheduled to speak. Rent for the hall had been paid in advance. ;

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Continued

on homes where parents. had Te fused to send children to 80V- ernment schools. The Sons Freedom claim that teachers “glorify war.’ ;

In- January, 1954, a delegation of Doukhobor mothers. visit Victoria to plead for the releas® — of 35 children held at New Deh ver. Since then further raids have raised the number of child: 2 ren held under the Childrens Protection Act to 75.

When the government turned down their plea, weeping Douk- hobor mothers told reporters that they kept their children out school “because Canadian schools nourish militarism and prepare our children for war.” Doukhobors are all pacifists. _

Majority of the hunger strik- ers are parents of seized child ren, but one woman, Mrs. Wi! liam Stoopnikoft of Krestova, ba° refused food for 26 days eve? though she has no children.

Jules Verne anniversary

All France commemorated a 50th anniversary of the death °

_ Jules Verne on March 24.

Verne, pioneer of science tion, made 13 inspired guesse - about the future — and got te? of them ‘right. ;

He forecast the airplane, sul ‘marine, helicopter, long-ran8® artillery, talking pictures, pla ties, television, remote control, the atom bomb, and a voyas® round the world in 80 days., :

Of his other three forecasts interplanetary flight: is on thé way, and artificial satellites being planned, but no one yet attempted to burrow to the

_ centre of the earth,

Although the anniversary fell last month the main celebrations will take place in May. ele

Then writers and scientis'® from 82 countries (as many * the languages into which Verne*s —

- books have been translated) will

come to Paris for a “Verne CO? gress.” <e In June the French Colonial Museum will open an exhi of “Verniana,” including first editions of his books, models of the machines he described, nd maps of his characters’ imagi™ ary travels. ba

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