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WORLD SCENE

U.S. INDUSTRIALISTS FOR SOVIET-U.S. TRADE

MOSCOW. — The head of the U.S. National Association of Ma- chine-Tool Builders said in Moscow on Thursday that all members of the association are ready and willing to cooperate with the USSR. Henry Sharpe, NAMTB President, made the remarks while visiting the Soviet Ministry of Automobile Industry. Fifteen U.S. machine- tool corporations have representatives in Sharpe’s mission to the USSR. :

Sharpe said the NAMTB is making every effort to try to get licenses from the Nixon administration to export machine-tools to the Soviet Union. “We came here to start long-term trade rela- tions,” he said, recalling the 1930s, when the Soviet Union took in more than one-half of ail the machine tools exported in the entire world and gave the depression-struck industry of the U.S. millions of dollars worth of orders. Pavel Lesnyak, Soviet Auto Industry Minister, met with Sharpe and the U.S. delegation for nearly two hours and said that U.S.-Soviet trade cooperation is certainly pos- sible. He said that Sharpe had invited the USSR to take part in the international exhibition of machine-tools in Chicago next year.

-MORE NATIONALIZATION PLANNED IN INDIA

DELHI — Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi said that uhre-*

mitting efforts will be continued to carry out the nationalization of banks, land reforms, abolition of the privy purse and privileges for former rulers of the principalities, and other reforms vitally needed by the Indian people. :

In an interview in the weekly, Socialist India, she said that the Indian National Congress and the Government remain committed to the basic principles of democracy and the policy of peace and non-alignment. This policy meets the national interests of India and makes an important contribution to the social reconstruction of the country, she emphasized.

FOREIGN ‘AID’ TO LATIN AMERICA GROWING

The foreign debt of Latin American countries has been growing steadily. In 1960 it stood at $6.6 billion against $2.9 billion in 1945. In 1968 it climbed to $16.7 billion, according to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

The new loans Latin American countries receive are not enough even to pay interest and clear off arrears. This makes U‘S. ‘aid’ look like a farce.

Almost 45 percent of the developing countries’ foreign debt and more than half of the loan payments made in recent years fall to seven countries: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Chile, India and Pakistan. The biggest debtors in Latin America are Argentina and Colombia ($4 and $2 billion, respectively, in 1970).

Growing foreign debts result in something more than a net out- flow of capital. They also lead to devaluation, higher fees for mu- nicipal services, higher taxes, a wage freeze, increased monopoly penetration, unequal trade, curbs on cooperation with the socialist countries, the use of the greater part of credits for purchasing U.S. goods, and other adverse phenomena. :

Private investment is a traditional instrument of U.S. economic penetration into Latin America. In regard to direct U.S. invest- ments, Latin America held third place in 1969 ($13.8 billion) after Western Europe ($21.6 billion) and Canada ($21.1 billion).

U.S. NATION-WIDE ‘PEACE CONFERENCE

NEW YORK, June 4—Leaders of the People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice, sponsors of the Spring Peace Offensive and the April 24 March on Washington, have announced a national conference June 25-27 in Milwaukee, Wisc. ;

An invitation to the conference has been extended to all groups active in the fight against war, poverty, racism and repression.

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Lenin Medallion awards

The Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Canada released on June 2 the names of its members who have been awarded the Lenin Medallion, struck in 1969 in honor of the Lenin Centenary by the government of the USSR.

Those receiving the award are Tim Buck, chairman of the Party; William Kashtan, general secretary; Samuel Walsh, president of the Parti Communiste du Québec; William Beeching, former editor of the Canadian Tribune; Claire Demers, editor of Combat; Tom McEwen, veteran former editor of the Pacific Tribune; Maurice Rush, editor of the Pacific Tribune; Elizabeth Hill, secretary of the Young Communist League.

The medallion, not to be confused with the Order of Lenin, the Soviet Union's highest award, was presented by the Communist Party, the Young Communist League, the Party press, the trade unions, the women’s organization and other mass and cultural organizations in the Soviet Union, to leading members of their fraternal counterparts in many countries throughout the world.

The Central Executive of the Communist Party of Canada congratulates the members who have received the Medal- lion as an expression of the respect held by the fraternal communist movement in the USSR for the Communist Party, the Young Communist League and the Communist press in Canada.

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Messages greeting its 50th Anniver- sary are being constantly received by the Communist Party of Canada from Communist and Workers parties throughout the world. Here, in addi-

Communist Party -of Czechoslovakia

Dear Comrades,

On the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Canada, we are conveying to you our cor- dial comradely greetings. We highly appreciate the work done by your Communist Party. It has proved to be a principled revolu- tionary party of the Canadian working people. We are particu- larly thinking of the Party’s con- sistent struggle against exploita- tion, for unity of the working class, for genuine democracy and for the socialist transformation of Canadian society.

We are taking this opportunity to greet the Communist Party of Canada as a significant compon- ent part of the international com- munist movement which. has al- ways. stood firmly for ideological and action unity on the road to- wards further demanding goals set for the work of the Party in following years.

We wish it the best possible success for the benefit of and in the interest of the Canadian working class, for the cause of socialism and proletarian inter- nationalism.

Long live the Communist Party of Canada! Long live Marxism-Leninism! ~ Central Committee Communist Party of Czechoslovakia

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organize the democratic, anti- monopoly, and _ anti-imperialist coalition leading the way to so- cialism in your country.

We are secure in the knowl- edge that relations between our two parties will constantly - in- crease, based on the principles of Marxism-Leninism.

With fraternal greetings,

- CELSO SA, Central Committee, Communist Party of Brazil.

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_ Communist Party of Brazil

Dear Comrades,

On behalf of all Brazilian Communists, of the working class and democratic forces of our country, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Brazil warmly greets the 50th Anniver- sary of the Communist Party of Canada.

In these 50 years, the Com- munist Party of Canada has gain- ed the respect and admiration of the Canadian working class and people, among whom it is con- stantly increasing its influence. In its struggle it has also gained the respect of the entire interna- tional Communist movement. .

The Communist Party of Can- ada is always a true defender of Marxism-Leninism and of prole- tarian internationalism.

Your achievements in defend- ing the interests of the Canadian working class are well-known; your fight against war and fas- cism, for peaceful coexistence, and your struggles against U.S. imperialism, for peace, an inde- pendent Canada, and self- determination for the French- Canadian nation.

The 50th anniversary of your Party comes at the time when you are faced with important tasks, as in the struggle against mono- poly’s assault on democratic rights. This we follow with deep

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Dear Comrades,

On the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Canada, we send our, warmest fraternal greetings to all your members.

Your Party over its 50 years has defended the interests of the working people of Canada and participated in the leadership of their struggles. It has fought for Canadian national independence against United States penetra- tion, and worked to develop a democratic, militant, anti-mono- poly movement.

In the very difficult period of the Cold War, you consistently defended the cause of peace, just as, today, you campaign to end the United States aggression against the heroic people of Viet- nam, for an end to war and ten- sion in the Middle East, and in solidarity with the people of Latin America.

We follow with great interest, too, the struggles of the French- Canadian people for their self- determination and we salute the principled and militant fight of the Communist Party of Canada on this important democratic and national issue.

In all its activities your Party has never lost sight. of the need to win the Canadian working people for the struggle to end capitalism and take the road to socialism.

Warm congratulations on your 50 years of struggle, and our warmest best wishes for all pos- sible success in the future.

Yours fraternally,

John Gollan General Secretary

Communist Party of Israel

Dear Comrades,

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Israel sends to you hearty fraternal greetings on the occasion of the 50th anni- versary of your Party.

Guided by Marxist-Leninist theory and true to the behests of proletarian internationalism, your Party has always done its duty as a_ revolutionary vanguard party. Throughout 50 years, part- ly under the hard conditions of illegality, your Party has fought against capitalist exploitation, against war and fascism, against the cold war, against Canada’s being dominated by U.S. im-

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We express our high oe the Communist Party oa and its struggle for the peor the working class and the Py of Canada, for the genera of peace, national indepen ee democracy and socialism: it

We are happy to rome ot that reciprocal solidarity . ways existed between 4 parties.

3 the | We are happy to point Od : struggle waged by both 04 righ | ties against American IMF ig | ism and against the one incitement, for the cohesi®™ 4, | unity of the internation? 4 | munist movement an in the | anti-imperialist forces 7 world. the gol | We highly appreciate © ad darity of the Communist rugs Canada with our Party's Ai against the expansions’ ‘76 of the Israeli ruling circles nfl political settlement of ir imple in the Middle East by fl dl mentation of the Security © of, | Resolution of November jst which will enable the & peat! ment of a just and stable ple for the benefit of all the Palit | and states in our regiom 4 tht ing the Israeli people © | Palestinian Arab people. ish you Dear Comrades, we WP ig new successes in your le portant revolutionary stU9? pa Long live the Commun! nnive of Canada and its 50t

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Dear Comrades,

On the occasion of Anniversary of the foun the Communist Party of we extend to all the ™ the C.P.C. our congie and greetings of militd darity.

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