COMMUNIST PARTY BRIEF TO OTTAWA SAYS:

‘THERE MUST BE NO WAR OVER BERLIN

On Saturday, Oct. 28 a delegation from the Communist
Party of Canada submitted a brief to the government
of Canada on the danger of war over Berlin. A summary
of that important brief follows.

Within the past week, the
extreme gravity of the Berlin
crisis has been sharply em-
phasized by fresh evidence
that the United States govern-
ment is refusing to enter into
negotiations and intends in-
Stead to pursue a policy of try-
ing to impose its will by
force...
~-It is the insistent demand of
the Canadian people that there
be no war over Berlin. Our
people are convinced that no
differences between nations or
froups of nations can justify
under any circumstances
plunging mankind into thermo-
nuclear war.

That conviction is all the
deeper because a great many
Canadians know that the call
upon us to be prepared to die
in defense of the “freedom”’ of
West Berlin presents the issue
in a totally false and decep-
tive light — first of all, be-
cause the freedom of West Ber-
lin is not threatened by a
peace treaty; secondly, because
Wwe are, in reality being asked
to die fighting in support of
that. same clique of German
militarists whom we fought
@gainst in two world wars.
which took the lives of 100,000
of our sons.

It is also quite clear on the
other hand that peaceful so-
lution of this problem would
be of the greatest importance
in. helping to bring about
agreements on all other mat-
ters in international dispute,
especially with respect to gen-
eral and complete disarma-
ment which would end the
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NATO AND GERMANY

It is by and through our}

membership in the North At-
lantic Treaty. Organization
that we have been committed
to fight to uphold the occupa-
tion of West Berlin: by the
United States, Britain, and
France, that we have been
committed to policies which
have up to now rejected the
signing of a peace treaty
which would recognize the
reality of the existence of two
states and two social systems
on the soil of Germany.

NATO has been the instru-

ment through which the U.S.
has pursued a calculated policy
of reviving and fostering the
German militarists, monopol-
ists, revanchists and _ anti-
Semites who brought Hitler
into power and unleashed the
second world war.

The Potsdam agreements
with respect to the de-militar-
ization and de-nazification of
Germany and on the breaking
up of the great trusts have
been systematically. torn up
and scrapped by the NATO
powers led by the United
States.

The West German state and
army are led by men who are
proven aggressors.

They refuse to accept the re-
sults of World War II, indeed
War Minister Strauss declared
in the U.S. on July 25, 1961,
that the ‘Second World War
is not yet finished.”

They are demanding nuclear
weapons in order to finish it,
and this demand will be grant-
ed by the U.S. unless world
opinion is strong enough to
prevent it.

Can there by any question
that the existence of such a sit-
uation in West Germany con-
stitutes an intolerable threat to

|| peace, which becomes progres-

sively more dangerous and dif-
ficult to control, and which
under no circumstances can be
allowed to continue?
CAN NEVER FORGET
Canadians can never afford
to forget that German Impe-
rialism has waged wars of ag-
gression also against the West.
Successive Canadian govern-
ments have grossly violated
the true interests of Canada in
aiding and abetting the revival
of militarism, nazism ang re-
vanchism in West Germany.
Its revival by threatening
the peace of the whole world
threatens the peace of the Ca-
nadian people...
There are two ways in
which Germany can be re-uni-

fied. One begins with recogni-
tion of the fact that there are
now two German states with
different social systems. The
other is by force, but under to-
day’s conditions with the ad-

vanced development of nuclear | ;

weapons, the use of force

would destroy Germany (and a|

great deal of the rest of the
world). There would be noth-
ing left to unite.

Those who continue to press
for immediate  re-unification
are therefore blocking the
peaceful solution of the prob-
lem. :

A PEACE TREATY

A peace treaty with both
German states which  recog-
nized the existence of both,
which provided that they
should order their relations
with each other and with all
states on the basis of the aban-
donment of all threats og the
use of force, which endorsed
the present frontiers of Ger-
many—this would be the es-
sential first step to creating
conditions under which over a
period of time the German peo-
ple themselves could solve the
problem of. re-unification,
which is an internal matter.

Such a peace treaty would
of course provide for the ex-
clusion of nuclear arms from
both parts of Germany. It
would be buttressed by the es-
tablishment in central Europe
of a neutralized zone from
which all nuclear weapons
would be barred.

In short, a peace treaty rec-
ognizing both Germanys wou!d
end the possibility of another
world war being launched
from German territory.

Those who describe such a
course as “appeasement” are
deliberately obscuring the fact
that it would pull the claws of
the West German  militarists,
ang the further fact that the
very essence of the appease-
ment policy pursued by the
West in the Thirties was the
rearming of Germany in the
expectation that Hitler would
launch war against the Soviet
Union. :

Those who cry “appease-
ment” now are guilty of a new
appeasement of the West Ger-
many revenge-seekers, which
can lead to an even greater
disaster than the Second World
War.

WEST BERLIN

West Berlin cannot continue
to be used by the United States
and the Bonn government as
a centre of espionage and prov-
ocation. To do so is diametric-
ally contrary to the interests
of world peace, and to the in-
terests of the people of West

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Members of the Communist Party delegation which pr®
sented the brief to the government are shown here just
before they entered the Parliament Buildings. From left:
Nelson Clarke, Camille Dionne, Bruce Magnuson, Harold

Pritchett and Sam Walsh.

Berlin themselves.
Since the socialist countries

(unlike the imperialist powers)!

reject all ideas of imposing
their system and world outlook
upon others, and therefore do
not propose to incorprate West
Berlin’ into the German Demo-
cratic Republic on whose terri-
tory it lies, there is only one
possible solution to the prob-
lem of West Berlin. That is its
establishment as a neutralized
free city, with its rights of ac-
cess to all parts of the world
fully guaranteed.

In connection with the prop-
osition advanced by Prime
Minister Diefenbaker and some
others that the whole of Ber-
lin should be internationalized,
we must state that this does
nothing to advance a peaceful
settlement.

Berlin lies within the GDR,
and that state has selected the
Eastern part of the city as its
capital. The fact that the Wes-
ern powers have been occupy-
ing West Berlin under the
terms of an agreement which
they have scrapped does not
constitute any good reason why
the GDR should be compelled
to give up its capital, and even
more why the people of East
Berlin should be expected to
give up their social order.

Whereas the neutralization
of West Berlin would leave
the social system unchanged in
both sections of the city, the
prime minister’s plan would
maintain capitalism in West
Berlin and impose it upon the
people of East Berlin. Such
demands are completely un-
reasonable. :

WHAT CANADA MUST DO

What is required from the
government of Canada is not
misleading “plans” like this,
but a sturdy re-assertion of our
national independence.

_ We call upon the Canadian
government to declare to the
world that Canada will not be
involved in a war over Berlin,
that this country demands an
end to U.S. and West German
obstruction of a_ settlement,
and that negotiations must be-
gin 2% once to settle the prob-
lem c2 Germany. :

We also call on the Canadian
8overnment to recognize now
the government of the GDR
which has been in effective

| control of its territory for 12
| years.

We reject the view that our
relations with other states

Should be governed either by

the political prejudices of the

.' government in power or by

November 10, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—®:

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pressure from Washington.
By taking this action t

Canadian government would

forcefully and effectively show

to the world that this coun

‘stands firmly opposed to

efforts of the West Germat —
rulers and their U.S. backeP
to violently turn back th”
clock of history. q

The Canadian people would
benefit from this act of recoe
nition both in terms of trad d
with a country whose economy y
is rapidly expanding and
terms of cultural exchang®
which would bring to wus ©
deeper understanding and a?
preciation of all that is pest
the traditions and cultural h&
itage of the German people:"”

Two weeks from today, ce
nadians will stand before cen
otaphs in the cities and villaé
across our land in grateful *
membrance of those who $@¥
their lives in the great wah
against the German Kaiser 4”
Hitler fascism. a

We can keep faith with thot
who died only by pledging out
selves to do all within
power to make sure that G® F
man militarism is never ®
lowed to march again, to J
stroy the lives of more put
dreds of thousands of
people, to spread death acro®
the globe. off

The Communist Party |
Canada has now for alm
three decades been in the £0 a
front of the patriotic strugé

first against Hitlerism, a
then against its revival. | nt
We shall continue to fi

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with all our strength for
war over Berlin, for a p®
treaty to end forever the me
ace of German militarism.

More teenagers

will be jobless |

An average of 5,000 teen
ers are expected to enter ok
ada’s labor force every pe
from now until 1965, accord ;
to estimates by Canadian ©° .
omists. This will be five ti
the normal rate of the pos
years and is caused by —
coming of age of the “post
babies.” ‘ it6

With unemployment at 0
present peak, say the cn
mists, most of these teen@e”
are unlikely to find work-

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