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fy, “ne rid in demandin, i
4 Seer Nixon sign he peoples of Indochina to peers
[3S for peaceful settlement of American aggression and ecid
}dochina war on Oct. 31. their own future, and to nee
yitlling for U.S. to fulfill “Mr. fy efforts by all the pee :
) 8er’s commitment to the peace-loving countries an an
tic Republic of Viet- ple to bring about peace
yy.” the Canadian Peace Con- Indochina.

m Presented its statement of
»“8tn at the U.S. Consulate in excuse that peace terms cannot

y Failure to sign on Oct. 31 as than a million peop
ly USed, the statement suggest-
hy, Will indicate to the woe a ee
~ the peace negotiations and the wa

“upon terms were merely against the In
Ction ploy on the part of

€ statement continues: : :
is clear that U.S. failure tion rained down from the sky

to sign as agreed can only in-
crease the determination of the

“There is no credibility in the

be signed because of objections

' i ident Thieu. President
1," like people throughout from President 1
on orld acs Deacerned that Thieu holds his position solely
© must be no further de- by United States military Sp.
WS” the Rev. John Morgan, port. If the USA genuinely
}°° Congress President, told wants peace, 5
{ atd Bins political officer choice but to conform to this
y'® Consulate. Mr. Morgan wish.
thy c¢COmpanied by Congress
jy,/Man, Jean Vautour and an end!
| a members of the exe-

he will have. no

“This war must be brought to

“Already, as peporles by
i Press, Oct. , more
pe le — 100,000
of these innocent, defenseless
children,” have been killed in
f the United States
dochinese people.
“In the ‘heaviest bombing the
world has ever known — 7 mil-
lion tons of death and destruc-

on the countries of Indochina.

\ a)
ixon ‘sign!
in 1& following wire was sent
mh, Oct. 27 to Prime Minister
gudeau by William Kashtan,
», “tal Secretary, Communist

And, 56,000 Americans | have
e i ere.
! ae United States has de-
‘stroyed civilians of all ages with
flaming napalm and with anti-
personnel pellet bombs, inflict-
ing frightful. wounds and painful
death. It has destroyed villages,
poisoned food crops, killed live-

i urges Saal
RS government 10 “al_opon Se a eri of
[ "an date for signe : a's mil
5 eee by the United lions in demanding tha
S and the Democratic Re-

homes. ae
“We join with the world’s mil-

agreement now reached be sign-
ed and acted upon at once aS

clic of Vietnam and the Provi- : eat
' the United States gove
Government of , South has solemnly committed itself to

do.

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diteorial Comment...

Nixon was compelled two years ago
to sit down at the Paris peace talks
and negotiate an end to U.S. aggression
in Vietnam. The negotiations have
dragged on, and the U.S. has kept ac-
celerating its war. Now Nixon has final-
ly been compelled to agree to terms to
end this most criminal of wars. But he
is still stalling. He wants to destroy
more of Vietnam, to stock his Saigon
puppets with more war supplies, to pro-

Jong the agony.

Humanity cries: “Sign now!”

Virulent poison

The federal election campaign has
shown that while the Canadian people
do not want a return to the cold war,
they are still largely victims of it. Many
of those who listened to the Commu-
nist Party’s platform and arguments,
were afraid even to lend an ear a few
short years ago. And they found them
convincing, but . . . the poison of anti-
Communism and anti-Sovietism is still
strong enough to prevent them from
voting-for the carriers of that plat-
form.

The red-baiting in the campaign it-
self came mainly from the Tories and
their “ethnic” candidates, such as Dmy-
tro Kupiak, wanted for murder ‘in the
Ukraine and Lubor Zink. However,
they received a well merited rebuff
from the electorate.

Leaders of all three big parties made
a bow to Zionist anti-Soviet propagan-
da. It was a right-wing NDP candidate,
Mr. Gilbert, who went on the air with
a type of red-baiting attack reminis-
cent of the U.S. witch hunts.

Otherwise, at meetings and in the
media, anti-Communism and anti-
Sovietism was trotted out as a ma-
noeuvre to steer the discussion away
from the Communist policy proposals.

In this election the Maoists did the
dirtiest job in this regard. On the one
hand they presented a monstrous cari-
cature of Marxism-Leninism which, be-
cause they shamelessly assumed the
Communist title and the press often
helped to promote the confusion, many
people took to really be Communist,
especially since the Maoist “image” was
what the worst enemies of ‘Commu-
nism had been planting in their heads
all these years.

Secondly, the Maoists devoted their
literature and speeches to an all-out
onslaught on the Communist Party of
Canada, the Soviet Union and the
things that Communists have always
fought for. And they had the gall to
bring in the name of Dr. Norman Be-

thune in this venomous attack on every-
thing Bethune stood for.

That was the only purpose of the
Maoists and their mentors in nominat-
ing candidates—to confuse people and
slander Communism.

As for the masses of the Canadian
people, wherever there were candidates
of the Communist Party, wherever the
message of the party penetrated, it

evoked serious thought even when the.

continuing cold war propaganda, plant-
ing misinformation and prejudice in
people’s minds, still stopped them short
of taking the logical step and voting
Communist.

However, they heard the alternatives
posed in the election campaign, and in
the coming months and years they will
learn through experience’ that the is-
sues will not evaporate and the alter-
native will have to be embraced.

Stand up to U.S.

While at the beginning of the elec-
tion campaign there was a decided at-
tempt to sweep under the carpet the
whole question of U.S. domination and
the immediate question of U.S. pres-
sures on the auto pact, trade agree-
ment and related matters, by the cam-
paign’s end spokesmen of all parties
were compelled to speak about it.

_ Sensing the mood of the public, each
in his own way paid lip service to the

aim of removing the stranglehold of -

the American monopolies and their gov-
ernment from Canada’s economy.

With our elections over and the Ame-
rican vote only a few days away, the
Canada-U.S8. negotiations will not be
long delayed.

Will Canada’s representatives stand
up to Washington and tell the U.S. gov-
ernment we will not pull their chest-
nuts out of the fire for them?

Only the Communist Party of Cana-
da campaigned from the day the elec-
tion was called on a clear-cut policy of
opposing U.S. pressures that are direct-
ed against our national interest. While
the leaders of the other parties even-
tually had to face up to that issue, they
did not really commit themselves.

It is clear that we cannot rely on Ot- -

tawa to show the backbone that is
needed in this matter, which is of su-
preme importance to Canada.

That backbone must be supplied by
the combined pressure of the labor,
farm and democratic movements,
where true patriotism resides.

Make it permanent

During the election campaign there
was.a wide distribution of our paper.
Many who saw it for the first time
found its materials rich in factual in-
formation, its views thought-provoking
and pertinant.

The election is over but the issues
remain and the need for a searchlight
on the road ahead is greater than ever.
The casual reader has to become a suk-
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