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PEKING

While visiting one of the many
prisoner-of-war camps which, for
Safety, are dotted around the’
rear areas in Korea, a special
Correspondent of the New China
News Agency attached to the

ese people’s volunteers was
“pproached by a group of .Am-
®rican and British prisoners who
asked him +o do them a favor
ste publicising a statement which

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‘they had all discussed and sign-

ed. They told him that they
all felt very strongly about it,
since they had had a chance to
learn the facts of the Korean
war after their capture.

Here is their statement, to-
gether with the names and home
addresses of the prisoners who
signed it: :

We, the undersigned, wish to
express our appreciation for the

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humane, courteous and_ kind
treatment extended us by the
Chinese volunteers. of the North
Korean People’s Army. We are
housed warmly and fed plenti-
fully.. We are treated consider-
ately.

We hope ‘for an early and

Continued on back page
See POW’s

NATIONAL EMERGENCY

In two centers — the nation’s parliament at Ottawa and
the United Nations at Lake Success — the St. Laurent gov-
ernment this week had an opportunity to serve the real in-

terests of the Canadian people by taking

peace,
Instead,

the government knuckled under to

a strong stand for

American

dictates and forced the Canadian people farther along the

road to war.

At Ottawa, the Speech from. the Throne indicated that
the government intends to ask parliament to declare a state

of “national emergency,”

so patently a duplication in this

country of the step already taken by the Truman adminis-
tration the only possible inference is that it is being done

at American demand.

At Lake Success, the gov-
ernment retreated from its
earlier stand in opposition to
condemning People’s China
as an aggressor and voted
for an amended version of
the original American dem-
and for branding China and
imposing political and econ-

omic sanctions.

The amended resolution,

proposed by Lebanon, was
adyanced to split the major-
ity opposition to the Ameri-
can demand and to defeat the
conciliatory position for open-
ing negotiations with People’s
China urged by the Asian-
Arab bloc, led by India. Can-
ada voted for the Lebanese
resolution, which differed
from the original American
demand by proposing sanc-
tions only after further at-
tempts have@ ‘been made to
reach a basis for negotiating

peace, and abstained. from
voting for the Asian-Arab
resolution.

The effect of China’s stand
was to support the U.S. i
obtaining formal UN approval

Continued on page 7
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LPP convention Issues
‘Action for Peace’ call

STORIES 1ON PAGES 6 AND 9

U.S. holding
famine threat
over India

TORONTO

Condemnation of the Tru-
man government’s refusal to
honor its promise of two mil-
lion tons of wheat to relieve
threatened famine conditions
in Indian because of the In-
dian government’s stand for
peace with China was voiced

in a resolution adopted by the
Labor - Progressive party’s
national convention here last
weekend.

Continued on page 7
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