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VOL. 19, NO. 26 VANCOUVER, B.C. THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1960

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U.S. military planners have come to. realize the full strategic value of B.C. in a nuclear missile war. The geod- graphic position of the pro- vince makes it possible to launch missile strikes across the Pole to major East Euro- pean and Soviet cities. It also

Make Canada Day

a day for peace

Following is the full text of a Canada Day message to the people of Canada from the Communist Party:

: Fellow-Canadians: On July 1st, Canada Day, our country Will celebrate the 93rd anniversary of its formation as a federal state of the English-speaking and French Canadian ations, fo For the Canadian people it is a matter of pride that i t almost a century our two peoples have lived together 2 peace, = By their labors the working people of town and coun- Soy have created out of the forests, prairies, mountains cult Park Jands of our new country an industry and agri-

ure which could provide a high living standard and pevsical comfort for all of our citizens. Doctors, painters, é &eers, technicians and writers have used their skill$ to Teate arts and_ institutions by which the labors of the Peoples have been given form and expression. the And yet—on this Canada Day, over our people hangs

fear of atomic war and the sudden destruction of their Smilies and all they hope for. Hundreds of thousands of min edans are out of work. Farmers are feeling the econo- as Pinch of declining markets and rising costs. Professionals

artists are cramped and frustrated. Why should this be so? It is because our country is in grip of the great monopolies, who look on our country its people only as a source of high profits for them- es,

the and Sely

Slowly but surely the sovereign control of Canada by People and government is passing into the hands of a pen power, the USA, with the connivance of the biggest pian capitalists. All the big industries, much of the cree and the most precious of our natural resources Th ™ alien hands—again by the consent of the monopolists. ®Y have sold our patrimony for dollars. inde t must not be so! Our people want our counrty to be bendent! oo our short span of life as a Confederation our people Wor] gueen in two world wars. Now the danger of a third arma, War menaces us—and billions of dollars are spent on aments to prepare for it. Canada is a military ally of

—__ See CANADA DAY MESSAGE, page 3

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|

| mentioned from time to time

| U.S. Air Force base at Mount

brings Siberian and Chinese territory within ICBM range.

the province with its forests, mountain ranges and valleys.

bers, rockets | flights.

| Despite secrecy surrounding | U.S. military activities in B.C. certain details have leaked out. | When a Vancouver daily news- Paper recently exposed the |U.S. base at Puntzi Lake it

| was immediately pooh-poohed.

| down and the daily news-

papers have not said a word about it since. It is known that there is a

Lolo near Kamloops. Other U.S. bases which have been

Soviets ask U.N. for disarmament action

Charging that Western pow- ers were using the 10-nation disarmament talks in Geneva as a cover-up while arms were being increased, and that there was no sincere desire to dis- cuss disarmament, the Soviet Union withdrew from the talks this week.

Simultaneously the Soviet Union announced it has asked

on the agenda of the next Gen- eral Assembly which meets la- ter this summer.

The last session of the Gen- eral Assembly adopted a reso- lution favoring total and com- plete disarmament. (See edit-

In addition, the vastness of

|A curtain of secrecy was rung}

provide (from their point of| view) ideal missile launching sites and bases for U.S. bom- and espionage

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the U.N. to place disarmament |;

orial pg. 4),

By MAURICE RUSH

The U.S. Pentagon is planning to turn British Colum- bia into a military base for nuclear war. Plans are already well advanced. They are now being stepped up.

Pushed out of many countries by popular protest, U.S. military planners are now eyeing Canada and its Pacific Coast province for new “safe” missile bases.

These plans place B.C. and its people in mortal danger. They would put our province in the middle of a nuclear holocaust if one should ever come.

The real situation is being =

kept from the people by Fed- govern-

in the daily press are at Baldy Hughes near Prince George and Puntzi Lake. Undoubtedly more exist.

Last week came an an- nouncement that “new equip- ment” was_being installed by the U.S. at these three bases,

First, an officer of McChord Field, Tacoma, said that the new equipment would “control aircraft.’ No mention was made of the type of aircraft over B.C. which would require “controlling.”

Fearing that this announce- ment might raise eyebrows and lead to concern among the

people the public relations of-}

ficer at Mount Lolo, Capt. Don Corcoran rushed in with an an- nouncement that the equipment is solely for the de- tection of ‘‘airborne objects.” How do we know that’s all its for? It’s bad enough that

Continued on back page See PENTAGON

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EDITION

Majority favor arms cut in B.C. poll

A majority of people in B.C. favor a large reduction in Can- adian defence spending. This was the result of a survey con- ducted by Western Surveys Research Ltd., and published last week in the Vancouver Sun.

Of 500 homes polled through the province 51 percent favor- ed a reduction while only 42 “percent thought spending should be continued.

Comments from those who favored a cut in spending were that Canada should be neutral; that defences are obsolete and ineffectual, a waste of money; ; that defence spending is a | threat to world peace; that tax- es are too high and should be reduced.

JULY 1 AT THE PENTAGON