The United States exploded a
third H-bomb in the Pacific this
week, despite world-wide pro-
tests following the second “4test”’
explosion last month. Piling
horror on horror, the New York
Times announced simultaneous-
ly that “the most dreaded wea-
pon of all, the cobalt bomb, can
be successfully built.”

William L. Lauter, the Times’
atomic expert, wrote that the
cobalt bomb could produce “a
deadly radioactive cloud 320
times more powerful than rad-
ium,

“The cloud can travel with
the prevailing winds over dis-
tances of thousands of miles,

destroying all life in its path.
The bomb could be exploded
from a ship in the Pacific, for
example, hundreds, even thov-
sands of miles from the coast
and the cloud would travel with
the winds toward the U.S. west
coast and the rest of the North
American continent.”

. (The menace, of the H-bomb
will be discussed at a B.C.
Peace Council rally in Pender
Auditorium this Friday, April
9, at which Dr. Harold Bass of
Tacoma will speak.)

Speaking in the House of
Commons on March 31, Harold
Winch (CCF, Vancouver East)
declared that “we should do

‘Destroy bomb - before it destroys us’

ing atomic weapons: “We should
go ahead and do it. I suggest
that Canada can give a lead to
the United Nations.”

The Canadian Peace Congress,
at an enlarged extraordinary
session of its national council
held in Toronto April 4, issued
a “Call to Canada” under the
heading, “Stop the Tests: Out-
law the H-Bomb!”

Text of, the Peace Congress
call reads.

“We are facing a _ terrible
danger — every man, every wo-
man, every child. Who can say
that he is safe even from the
testing of the hydrogen bomb,
whose power can be increased

“Canada must act.

“The tests must be stopped.

“The H-bomb must be out-
lawed, with full guarantees to
prevent any violation.

“It is now the supreme task
of parliament and government
to bring the nations together to
rid the world of this threat.

“Every individual and organ-
ization must speak.

“Let all men and women, of
all views and faiths, place life
first.

“The world is with us. We will
destroy the bomb before the
bomb destroys us.”

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New proposals for ensuring peace in Europe and the
world have been put forward by the Soviet government
in a note to the Western Powers. .

The note was presented to the U.S., British and
French ambassadors in Moscow last week by Soviet
Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov. It declared:

4. That agreement must be reached to rule out the
employment of atomic, energy for the wholesale an’
nihilation of human beings.

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To outline policy
at LPP meeting

“Canada’s path to. socialism,”
as charted in the new Labor-Pro-
gresssive party program adopted
by that party’s recent national
convention held in Toronto, will
be outlined at a public meeting
in Pender Auditorium here this
coming Sunday evening by Nigel
Morgan, LPP provincial leader,
and Maurice Rush, LPP city or-
ganizer.

The meeting begins at 8 p.m.
and will be chaired by Alf Dew-
hurst, LPP provincia! organizer.

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