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FRIDAY, JUNE 7,1968

U.S. bombing of North Vietnam continues to kill, maim and cripple civilians. The key to peace in Vietnam is for the U.S. to halt bombing now. Canada cannot remain silent on_ this

question.

MASSIVE MEDICAL AID URGED FOR VIETNAM

The Canadian Aid for Vietnam Civilians in Vancouver has written Prime Minister Trudeau urging that Canada launch a ‘‘massive Canadian medical aid program for the people of Vietnam.”’ >

Pointing out that the need for this is obvious and daily grows more urgent, the letter points out that for almost two years the CAVC has attempted to persuade the Federal government to undertake such humanitarian program but to no avail.

It charges that the little aid being extended goes only to the area under U.S. control. ‘‘To give substance to the new image of liberalism which you project, why not set up a genuine medical

aid plan for all of Vietnam to

which volunteer groups and the government will contribute?” asks the CAVC.

The Vancouver-based committee headed by Dr. Alan Inglis,, has already raised $75,000 in funds and supplies. This week the CAVC announced that in

response to an urgent. appeal for — rtificial limbs for children under _

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fifteen years of age it is launching a campaign to raise funds for the purchase of

adjustable artificial legs to help

some of the thousands of child amputees walk again.

Material for the campaign will go out to some 4,000 names on the committee’s mailing list in the next couple of weeks. A national response to the humanitarian appeal is expected.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Sheila Young. convenor of the CAVC’s Children’s Committee, announced last week that the 12th shipment of children’s clothing was forwarded aboard the Soviet freighter S.S. Ostrogozhsk. The shipment contained 1,910 garments and bed covers, 305 ounces of knitting wool, surgical

_ supplies: and four artificial legs,,

Stop arms sales, emand U.S. halt Vietnam bombing

“fhe fight for peace remains the key question in this election but both Prime Minister Trudeau and Tory leader Stanfield continue to give support to aggressive U.S. foreign policy, especially in Vietnam, which endangers world peace.

This was the charge made by Vancouver East Communist candidate Charles Caron at an election rally in Clinton Hall last Sunday. :

“It is important not to let the old line parties slip away from their responsibilities to effect a real change in Canada’s foreign policy,’ Caron told about 200 people at the Communist Party election rally where he spoke with Stanley Ryerson and Vancouver South candidate Robin Smith. (See page 8.)

He said the Communist Party would press hard to influence the great world-wide and Canadian movement for peace, which has forced the Paris talks on Vietnam, to bring further pressure on Canadian politicians to end the U.S. war of aggression. Caron declared his party gives wholehearted support to a three- point peace program which:

e Calls for an immediate cessation of the bombing of North Vietnam;

e Calls for an end to all Canadian arms shipments to the US.

.@ Calls for a peace settlement based on the Geneva Accord of 1954.

They are not negotiating in good faith. They are using time to try and regain world prestige and lost battle positions. Now that the talks have begun the time is ripe to intensify efforts to bring about

@ a settlement, not time to slacken i, off,’ said Caron: :.

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“The U.S. is stalling at Paris..

Tuesday, June 1:

The Vancouver’ East Communist candidate said that because of the necessary concern existing in Canada today over the constitutional question, there is a danger that-the old line parties might be able to evade the question of peace.

‘‘Trudeau, for instance, has proven himself to be to the right of the Liberal establishment,’

SPEAKS HERE. William Kash- tan, Communist Party national leader, joins the election battle in B.C. this weekend when he

_ arrives to speak at three rallies.

Sunday, June 9 he speaks in New Westminster's Dreamland Hall, Church Street at 8 p.m. with candidate Bob McLaren.

Monday, June 10, Kashtan will speak on behalf of Communist candidates Robin Smith (Vancouver South), and Charles Caron (Vancouver East), at the Peretz School, 6184 Ash St. The third meeting will be in support of Mark Mosher in Port Alberni on

said Caron. ‘‘None of his pronouncements about a so- called ‘new look’ at foreign policy have included the demand previously voiced by Paul Martin that the ending of U.S. bombing was a first priority for peace in Vietnam.”

Quoting recent statements of Tory leader Robert Stanfield that “we support the aims of U‘S. foreign policy,’’ Caron said the read mood in Canada is vastly different from that expressed by these spokesmen of the old line parties, and that Canada should get out of NATO and NORAD.

“There is a desire for a change in foreign policy. This desire is based on the deep suspicion that exists with regard to U.S. policies. The crisis of the old line parties in Canada _ is fundamentally one of their support for U.S. imperialism. This is the policy that has brought about today’s high prices, high taxes, record unemployment and the danger of currency devaluation.

‘“‘This crisis will not be charmed away by the deception of the image makers. We believe it is possible to further shake the establishment in this election, to bring about a further rupture in the two party systems, and to prevent the formation of a

majority government pledged to

support the foreign policy aims of the U.S.”

Caron said that based on this belief, the Communist Party calls for the maximum unity of the Left to inflict heavy defeats on the old line parties. and thus play an important part in the world-wide movement to secure

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