Poll shows 65 percent of U.S. people

favor Soviet peace in Korea proposal

Under pressure from the United States,.41 countries in the United Nations this week voted down a plan advanced by the Soviet Union for an immediate cease-fire in Korea. Ironically, while U.S. diplomats were working: with might and main to keep the war

going, 65 percent of the American people favor a proposal which differs in no’ essential detail

Soviet delegate to the UN, according to a Gallup Poll just completed.

Text of the proposal for the cease-fire made to the UN by Vishinsky reads:

from that proposed by Andrei Vishinsky.

“To recommend to the belligerents in Korea an immediate and complete cease-fire, i.e., the cessation of military operations by

both sides on land, by sea and in the air, on the basis of the draft oe armistice agreement already approved by the belligerents, the ques- tion of the complete repatriation of prisoners of war to be referred for its solution to the commission for the peaceful settlement of the Korean question provided for in the USSR draft resolution, .in which commission questions shall be decided by two-thirds majority

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_. Campaign § sparked

by Effie Jones spurs

action on housing

The fight led by aldermanic candidate Effie Jones for con- tinuation of the Little Mountain low rental housing project was crowned with success this week when Vancouver: City Council, under pressure of an ardused public, voted to go ahead with the scheme and asked Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation to call tenders for the 224-unit pilot development.

Thanks to Nanaimo,

North Van

Nanaimo and North Vancou- ver hit the tape together in the sub race this week, with nine each. Pacific Tribune support- ers in Greater Vancouver and throughout the province boost- ed the sub total for the past seven days to :

£6

Here are the leading areas and press clubs: Nanaimo, 9; North

Vancouver, 9; NFLY, 4; Elec-

trical, 3; New Westminster, 3; Norquay, 3; Prince Rupert, 33 Vancouver Heighgts, 3; West End, 3; Hastings East, 2; Ladner, 2; Lake Cowichan, 2; Powell River, 2; and Victoria, 2. ; One street salesman sold 100 papers this week and another sold 47. While we fight to in- crease the number of steady readers by securing subs, street sales are also important, in order _ to introduce the PT to wider cir cles of progressive people. What press club will win the honor of being “Club of the _ Week” in this space next week ? The race is wide open. ‘Are YOU in it?

The vote was taken after a long debate in which more than 30 business and ratepayers’ organiza- tions expressed their opinions.

“Little Mountain should only be a beginning in the effort this city must make to cope with the housing problem,” said Mrs. Jones,

_ speaking for the Associate Coun- cil of Vancouver South. f

Opposition to the move came from Mayor Fred Hume and Ald. Jonathan Cornett. The mayor tried to move an amendment limit- ing the scheme to old age pension- ers and war veterans.

Vancouver’s contribution to the 2,000,000 project will be $7,700 a year. In return the city will get back $28,000 in annual taxes.

The federal and provincial gov- ernments are paying all capital costs for the building of the 224 rental units on a 15-acre tract near 33rd Avenue and Ontario. The city will.only have to pay 12% percent of the rental sub- ~sidy.

Delegations favoring the project represented Associate Council of Vancouver South, Civic Reform Association, Vancouver Housing Association, Community Chest and Council, Vancouver Labor Coun- cil, Trades and Labor Council, Kitsilano Chamber of Commerce, Labor-Progressive Party, National Federation of Labor Youth, Cana- dian Legion, Community Planning Association, Architectural Instit- -ute of B.C., Municipal Chapter, IODE, Social Service Committee, Church of England, First United Church, Holy Rosary Cathedral, St. James Church and Greater Vancouver Health League.

Main opposition to the scheme came from the big real estate in- terests.

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vote of its members.”

Text of Vishinsky’s proposal was kept out of all New York papers, and not mentioned over the air by a single U.S. national radio commentator, which led the New York Daily Worker to con- clude that the U.S. government had brought pressure to bear for suppression of the proposal.

No publicity was given, either, to some sensational facts on Korea wired to Lester B. Pearson, presi- dent of the UN Assembly, by the Canadian Tribune, progressive Toronto weekly newspaper.

“Only one thing bars peace in Korea and the bringing home of Canada’s sons from the Korean battlefront by Christmas, and that

Continued

Czech

Dr. Sichl then again stressed the point that Jews have com- plete freedom of worship in Czech- oslovakia. Every facility is pro- vided for the observance of Jewish ritual and custom.

I asked Neumann, whether as a result of what had happened at the trial, he and Jewish friends of his acquaintance felt less secure.

In reply, Neumann laughed at the idea that he should feel less secure. His parents and grand- parents were born in Czechoslo-

' vakia, he had never felt any op-

pression or anti-Semitism before, and he did not feel any now.

I then asked the three Jewish leaders what they had to say about the reports of suicides of leaders of the Jewish community in Czech- oslovakia. They pointed out that their presence with me was com- plete evidence of the falsehood of these reports. ; :

They told me that they knew of

‘two Jews who had committed sui-

cide just before the trial began, ‘an Eric Kohn, who gassed himself and his wife. ;

_ He had at one time been chair- man of the Jewish community in He had left a note say-

this doctor that he was suffering from cancer and that he and his wife could not face the prospect.

If I had any doubts about what Dr. Sich] and Neumann had told me, they would have been imme- diately dispelled by what the por- ter told me, when I asked him questions similar to those I had put to the Jewish leaders.

“Does it mean,” he asked me, “that because I am a.Jew, I am in the same category ‘as_ those criminals like Fischl and Reicin who betrayed Jews to the Nazis and Gestapo during the war? Of course not.” sy

“And as for anti-Semitism,” he added, “I, as a Jew, know that if anyone did make an anti-Semitic remark, I would have the full sup- port of the State Security Police in taking action against them — which is more than any Jew in Britain or America can say.”

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one thing is the monstrous tramp- ling upon all principles of human- itarianism and international law by the U.S. Command in Korea,” declared the Canadian Tribune.

The telegram drew the attention of Pearson and, Paul Martin (Can- ada’s minister of health, and chief

UN delegate) to the sensational |

admissions made by William Stey- enson, Canadian war correspond- ent in Korea, in the November 2p Star Weekly:

@ That the U.S. had organiz- ed and sent Chiang Kai-shek “in- structors” to Koje Island prison camps to terrorize the Chinese and Korean prisoners of war and compel them ‘to “volunteer” to join Chiang’s army to invade the Chinese mainland, spread the Korea war and re-establish Chiang as dictator over China;

® That British minister of state Selwyn Lloyd had accompanied Stevenson on a visit to a Koje prison camp where they found that 10,400 prisoners had been terrorized by physical ‘violence to

renounce their desire for repatri- |

ation home;

© That the organizer of these terrorists was Lee Bum Suk, a cabinet minister of the Syngman Rhee regime, who spent many years in Nazi Germany.

The Canadian Tribune called upon Pearson and Martin to place the Stevenson article on the record in the UN Assembly. (Copies of

‘the Stevenson article were sent to

them, as well as to Andrei Vishin- sky and to UN Secretary General Trygve Lie.) “3

ANEURIN BEVAN

Bevan wins

Labor post

LONDON: Despite attempts of the right- wing Labor party leadership to keep him off by altering the sys’ tem of voting, Aneurin Bevan was elected last week to Labor’s front bench, the Labor Parliamentary Committee. He said he would not allow himself to become the pris- oner of right wing policies, how- ever. :

Placing twelfth on a first bal- _ lot, with 12 vacancies to be filled, — Bevan ran sixth on a second ballot, — insisted upon by Attlee, for the last six vacancies. ‘

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