Dear Editor: -

Please allow us the use of
your columns to record our
appreciation to all those
citizens, elected officials,
civic administrators, church
leaders and journalists who
responded in their in-
dividually appropriate ways
to help their community
express its concern about the

ever-looming’ prospect of a-

nuclear holocaust.
_. The West Van
Referendum, in spite of all
. the difficulties attending its
organization and the usual
demands put upon those who
voted, accomplished its
main purpose: First, to give
the citizens an opportunity
to form a consensus;
Second, to give their elected

representatives in Council -

the opportunity to present to
our Federal government a
mandate well-founded in
public opinion.

While the referendum was

in every way a community”

action, we feel bound to
congratulate in particular
our Mayor and Council for
voting unanimously on
Alderman Finlay’s motion to
present the view of Council
and citizens ‘to our national
government in Ottawa.

As for this committee
itself, we must point out that
we see it, not merely as a
small formal group, but
rather as a growing nucleus
with real’ membership
already at least ‘as ‘large in
number as those citizens
who openly and forthrightly
put their names to the
referendum.

As the initial facilitators of
the referendum, this
within, the: ‘modestly limited
abilities of a few people. But
now,. with. so many other
citizens (over. : 480 ~at last

count) “having “expressed ~~

similar. -concern -over this
most crucial. of all con-
temporary human problems,
we are made’ aware that
there must be amongst them
an abundance’ of thoughtful

To All Of Our Friends

And to all those who have not found
their way here, we wish to extend our sincerest wishes

| MERRY CHRISTMAS

HAPPY NEW YEAR

“THINK OF US WHEN YOU THINK OF HAIR"

Ken Garrett and Staff

NORTHPARK MEN’S HAIR

and useful ideas and abilities. .

to develop an ongoing
community action. We
invite their help.

Clearly, the referendum is
not the end of the matter.
But it is a positive and
hopeful indication that,
amidst all the pervasive
apathy and hopeful in-
dication that we have been
persuaded to believe
characterises public at-
titudes in the nuclear age,
there is indeed an influential
number of ordinary. people
who do choose, life and will
act upon that choice. rather
than acquiesce in the sen-
seless ‘ annihilation of
humankind and our planet.

For us to give up on this
matter simply because we
cannot be sure-of succeeding
would be no different from
medical science giving up on

_ seeking preventions and

cures for the most stubborn

ofdiseases. We recommend

“Gn this respect a reading of

a

Albert. Camus’s THE
PLAGUE, in which that
Nobel. Laureate drew the
analogy between the
resistance of a few doctors
and other citizens to a
bubonic epidemic in a small
North African city and the
resistance of a few decent

men and women to the.

brutal Nazi occupation of
France in the Second World
War. In both cases there
were those who threw ‘up
their hands and indulged
themsélves in a ‘hopeless
nihilism or a self-centred
abdication from their own
humanity...and those who
saw the truth of the matter

_-and did what they could,
committee’; has’-acted’ only ”

‘individually. ; and “as: .-a.

community, to resist the lie

~-of the “inevitable”.

The nuclear holocaust

must be prevented. If not by
‘us, by whom? If not now,
when?

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Dear Editor:

I am one of the 2,104
North Vancouver District
voters who, as you suggest in
your November 24th
editorial, were misled by
wrong questions to vote
against disarmament. I gave
the right answer to the right
question, and J dare to say
for all of us that we were
right and the rest of the poor
souls were misled to believe
that) you can coexist
peacefully with the Com-
munists.

We all should have voted
against disarmament,
whether it be. nuclear,
conventional, biological or
chemical weapons. This
strong western arsenal keeps
us in our enjoyable position
of freedom and a democratic
way of governing ourselves.

If we take some time to
study the Communist Party
doctrine, we will find out

" mistreating their negroes. If

need be, when they
encounter resistance, they
take one step back wards like
in the Cuban crisis, only to
take two steps forward, at
the next occasion, as in
Africa.

We should abandon ‘our
childish behaviour: of hiding
under the bed every time
thunder starts rumbling,
hoping that the evening
thunderstorm will pass away
and the next morning arrives
as bright and sunny as ever.

In my opinion nuclear
unilateral disarmament

-would be synonomous to

total disarmament. and

would.-put us in a very

precarious position.
Finally, a question to
everyone, and especially to

their anibition and drive isto 4...

conquer and dominate the
whole world. Their motto -
“Workers of the whole world
unite”. But what Moscow
«wants is for the workers to
unite under the Kremlin’s
rule. They stop at nothing to
expand and to keep their

influence - nay their-yoke - -

‘on nations near and far.
They would go to Budapest
with brute armoured force.
They would go to Prague
with their airforce. They
would go to Afghanistan
with whatever they possess
in their ‘military stores. They
impose - thru their vassals -
Martial law in Warsaw. They
are determined

_ justified .. , the ‘means. The
negotiate, * sign ‘an

west's
Kremlin. They: would go to

Helsinki to sign an
agreement just to sweep

their Gulag Archipelago
under the rug, and promptly |
of |.

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