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Students demonstrate in Greece

ON While Greece was making a claim on Cypr ne Greek students (above) parad 2. known soldier’ and burned recent “anti-sedition

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ed to the tomb of Greece's ” proclamation

of Criton Tornaritis, attorney-general of Cyprus.

Yanks spoil PNE parade

E The Pacific National Exhibition got und eek but if patrons of the big énd-of-summer Of more of a Canadian accent, they were crue ‘Ne opening day parade. Canadian floats butter in a White Lunch sandwich between

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: S. gobs and Gls, floats from path of -the border, U.S.-based Scrmal orders and Washington rate high school bands complete : sake hip-wrenching majorettes ad the quick shuffle beat of the €rican “goosestep.” an otable among the few Cana- #4 entries was the float from ‘Ne Fraser Valley community of

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Co. Good, too, was the B.C. Peace peel entry with its message ee Will Triumph” and _ its ae Y-costumed occupants depict 8 the peoples of the world. lows packing a powerful wal- e was the float of the joint inl “CCL Committee against Rac Discrimination. waonsiderably less convincing “8S the effort of a border town oy Washington that bore the slo- N “Peace, Progress and Pros-

Perty” on a float showing a wal- Ship,

Outstanding among the bands.

along the route was the Powell st Pipe band in its colorful on ge A good show was put “th vy the Chilliwack Senior Band, ® Pride of Chilliwack,” and the AcIntosh girls’ pipe band from non. aie real crowd pleaser was the , hedy team from the Vancouver vehenters driving an ancient iele, belching smoke , and ame and manned with a pirati-

erway in Vancouver this spectacle were hoping lly disappointed by were lost, spread as thin the contingents of

cal crew. The Kelowna entry featured

the beautiful “Tady of the Lake” chosen at last month’s Regatta in

the Okanagan city.

One float that would never have been missed was the black- face “PNE Minstrels” trying to revive a type of chauvinism that was out of date 40 years ago. ©

United States participants in the parade were the target of some rather unkind remarks from Canadian spectators. After watch- ing some intricate marching by the Seattle Police Drill Team, a Canadian Army vet observed sourly, “They’re pretty good at marching but not so good at

hting.” : ae saiingster on a building top reacted much the same to a flag- waving, drum-beating military manoeuvre carried out im , the style of the Nazi youth rallies by a sorgeously-uniformed US. high school band.

“Ah, why don’t you go back to school,”’ he shouted with typical Canadian irreverance.

An incongruous part of the par- ade was the delegation of Shrin- ers, ageing sports in fancy-dress Oriental costumes, looking as self-conscious as small boys at a masquerade party. They were ac- companied by a rather washed- out pair of “American Beauties” and a healthy-looking young

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Briton to Ike:

ERE'S WHY

THE WORLD HATES U;S,

By J. R. CAMPBELL

LONDON

The President of the United States, the country which is the main source of war policies and war threats, last week asked all mankind to pray for peace.

A few hours later he told Congress that it was unfortunate the France and Italy had not ratified the European Defense Community to enable the West Germans to rush ahead with rearmament.

He urges prayer and the rebuilding of German militarism almost in the same

breath. He wants Europe re-made according to American specific.- tions with People’s Democracy re- placed by capitalist, landlordism and probably fascism.

He regards the present divi- sion of. Europe as something to be revised. Hence his opposi- tion to any European Security Organization which would guar- antee existing frontiers.

Here is the whole paradox of the U:S. position in a nutshell. Eisenhower and Company pro- fess peace but they want changes which can only be brought about by war.

Eisenhower prays for peace, but also wants, and presumably prays for, the overthrow of the Peo- ple’s Republic of China, and its replacement by Chinese yes-men to Amerjcan Big Business.

He wants the United Nations, but would not admit to it any state that the U.S. does not like.

Eisenhower is prepared to give scme atomic materials to some countries for peaceful purposes.

He is against the unconditional

prohibition of atomic and hydro- gen weapons.

He is not prepared to say that the U.S. will not be the first to use these horrible weapons.

Eisenhower pays lip-service to

peaceful co-éxistence. It is, how- ever, peaceful co-existence in a world re-made according to U.S. imperialist desires. Continued on back page See WORLD

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