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Bonner muddies water

Why were the Kaiser
©xperts at Ottawa?

: ‘Ww : By SID ZLOTNIK
Chg: hy were two representatives of Kaiser Aluminum and

Cor
Atto
the U.s

With;

pe A Dittmar, power man-
ya. 2d Norman L. Krey, North-
the Eee ons manager, have
attity pee of “softening up” the
Ment of the federal govern-
Ser g Owards the proposed Kai-
oth near Castlegar?

Drone. Wa indicated in the
“Resources Minister

Jean € of
Lesage that “‘full considera-

tig P
ee the government” would
ame €n to. Bonner’s proposed
ent weakening the inter-
in Tivers bill which will be
thing © UP before parliament for
Teading. .

® young B.C. attorney-gen-
’ With this Socred leader's

cational

fic} fe of presenting as a bene-

fae his government's
dia ce for selling out Colum-
Poly, “7 Power to a U.S. mono-

B e
Ser Aeeeind Bonner stand Kai-
yale and power-hungry
ada’s terests which want. Can-
Tivers to provide storage

Mildred McLeod will
Speak in city Friday

Ss Mildred
Raj r McLeod, of Na-
A 9, who is to attend the World
wilt ly for Peace in Helsinki,
this pudress a@ public peace rally
Tiday, May 6, at 8 p.m. in

se Auditorium here.
this ua Peace Council announced
eek that the assembly has,
(29 POstponed a month to June

Mical Corporation present at the meeting of House of

ons external affairs committee last week when B.C.
tney-General Robert Bonner was defending his deal with
. company? Did the presence of these two executives,

for the benefit of the U.S.

“The fact that we are delaying
the development of ‘hydro instal-
lation in the United States while
we in Canada pursue a leisurely
examination of our own resources
can only cause our American
friends understandable exaspera-
tion,” declared Bonner, to the
silent applause of the Kaiser ex-
ecutives.

With the funeral rites of the
B.C. Power Commission at Pow-
ell River hardly concluded, the
death potion having been admin-
istered by the cabinet itself, Bon-
ner had the temerity at Ottawa
to accuse the federal government
of threatening the future of the
commission, on the argument
that B.C. would not have control
of its rivers.

But Bonner went further, as-
serting that the Frobisher de-
velopment in the north would
likewise be endangered.

Yet it was the Bennett gov-
ernment that opposed the Fro-
bisher development in favor of
a deal to divert the Yukon River
to the Alaska Panhandle, and was
enly later forced to bow to the
combined pressure of public op-

position and Ottawa’s support of

the Frobisher~plan.

Bonner spoke glibly about
building an industrial empire in
the Kootenays. But this is pre-
cisely the reason for the wide-
spread opposition to the propos-
ed Kaiser dam at Castlegar. It
would be built at the request of

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~ EIGHT

ATIONS IN

‘ATOMS FOR

PE

CE’ BID

LONDON

Delegations from China, Rumania Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany
have been in the Soviet Union since the middle of March discussing the exchange of
information on the peaceful use of atomic energy, Moscow Radio announced last week

The report said experimental atomic reactors will be set up in the five countries

during 1955 and 1956.

At the same time the So-
viet government has decided
to widen the circle of coun
tries to whom atomic help is
to be given to include Hun-
gary and Bulgaria.

During the talks, agree
ments were signed to deliver
during 1955 and 1956
atomic reactors and acceler:
ators of elementary particles
produced in the Soviet
Union.

The conference was called
in connection with the offer
made this year by the Soviet
Union to a number of Peo-
ple’s Democracies to give
them scientific and technical
assistance in the sphere of
nuclear physics and its peace-
ful application.

IN THIS ISSUE

Soviet scientists plan
for space flight
page 4

Ten years after V-E Day
by Bert Whyte

page 9

May Day reports
on pages 6 and 12

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