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SINCE THE 1814 settlement of the boundary line
between the United States and Canada, nearly two
hundred treaties and agreements on a variety of sub
jects, ranging from “amity to weather” have been
concluded, the latest being the Columbia River Treaty
on Jan. 17, 1961. The convention voted to urge the
continuance of joint commissions to strengthen our
strong bonds as witnesses of friendship and under
standing.
Along the 5,627 miles of border, between us. is
not a fort, soldier or gun — 55% being land and 45%
being water boundaries. The PEACE ARCH at Blaine,
Wash., celebrated its 40th anniversary on Sept. 6,
1961, the only symbol of peace of its kind in the his
tory of the world. It has evidence of the fact that for
one hundred eighty-five years we have agreed to dis
agree agreeably!
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these happy relationships, as they meet annually to
perpetuate the friendships of more than six decades.
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Pope John XXm
Makes Strong jriea
For Christian Unity
In Modern World
" VATICAN CITY UR — Pope
John XXIII Saturday made the
most powerful plea of his reign
for Christian unity in the modem
world.
The Pope made his appeal in
issuing an encyclical on Pope Leo
I, the great Fifth Century Pon
tiff.
Appealing for the unity of all
Christians, Pope John expressed
the hope that the day bringing
“the dawn of universal recon
ciliation” would come soon.
Leo, who became a saint of the
Roman Catholic Church, stood
up to Attila the Hun, dissuading
him from attacking Rome.
But the great Pontiff was es
pecially noted for his fight for
church unity at a time when the
church faced heresy both in the
East and the West, and the de
clining power of the Roman em
pire faced the assaults of bar
barian hordes.
Vatican sources said that the
Pontiff obviously intended his
encyclical on Leo as a call to the
world’s Christian forces to band
together against toe threat of
atheistic Communism today.
The encyclical, from its open
ing words in Latin, is named
“Aetema Dei Sapienta” — the
eternal wisdom of God.
Its issuance in advance of toe
Roman Catholic Church’s first
Ecumenical Council in nearly 100
years emphasized Pope John’s
deep concern with Christian unity,
a subject upon which he has fre
quently touched in the three years
of his reign*.
The Pope is expected to an
nounce the opening date of the
Council soon, possibly in his j
Christmas message to the world on!
Dec. 21. The Council will be pri
marily devoted to internal affairs
of toe Roman Catholic Church,
but Pope John has indicated his
hopes that it would be a step
toward union of all Christians. It
is expected to start in about a
year. '
U.S. Rocket Engine
Builds 500.600 lb. Thrust
SUNNYVALE, Calif. UR — A
prototype of a huge solid-fueled
rocket engine, four stories high
and weighing 70 tons, was fired
successfully with a great rumb
ling and a sheet of flame on the
ground near here Saturday.
United Technology Corp. con
ducted the test for the U.S. Air
Force at toe company’s remote,
development center near Morgan!
Hill, Calif.
The engine, fired nose down,
developed nearly 500,000 pounds
of thrust, the company reported.
Scores of Air Force officers and
scientists looked on.
The test was hailed as a signi
ficant advance toward production
of single engines in the multi
million pound thrust class.
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Congo Operation
To Cost U.N. $10
Million Per Month
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. UPV— j
The General Assembly got the sad
news Saturday. It will have to j
continue paying out at least $10
million a month to keep the U.N.
Congo operation going.
Acting Secretary - General U
Thant told the 103-nation world
body that the blow-up in Katanga
made it impossible for him to es
timate how high the Congo cost
would run in 1»62. But he made
plain it would not go below the
$ 10-million mark for months to
come.
"The task of guiding the Congo
operation becomes possible of
achievement,” Thant said in his
600-word message, "only if I can
count on the good will of member
governments and especially their
i readiness to provide financial sup
port.”
Thant has been trying to drum
up approval for his plan to float
a $200-million bond issue to keep
the UJf. out of bankruptcy until
September when the nest As
sembly convenes.
This would mean borrowing
three times the amount of the an
nual U.N. budget. It results from
refusal of the Soviet Union and
other nations to pay a cent toward
the Congo bill or for the U.N.
emergency force in the Middle
East.
The United States, in addition
to paying its Congo assessment of
nearly $36 million, is contributing
more than $15 million to help de
fray 50 per cent or more of the
assessments of the small nations.
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| Nikita Asserts
Kremlin’s Bom
Arsenal Is Ready
Should War Come
MOSCOW {Jft—Premier Khrush
chev asserted Saurday the Soviet
Union has nuclear bombs of even
bigger than 100 megatons and for
the first time seemed to tell the
world the super-bomb is a terror
weapon in dealing with the West.
The rockets that sent Soviet as
tronauts into orbit can deliver
super-bombs any place on earth,
he warned.
Declaring the Soviet super
bomb arsenal is ready should war
come, the Premier said the West
ern powers do not yet have a nu
clear bomb of even 50 megatons
and added:
“The 50 and 100-megaton bombs
will always hang over their heads
like the sword of Damocles."
His voice sometimes rising to
a shout, Khrushchev addressed
more than *1,000 labor leaders
from around the world assembled
in the Kremlin for the Congress
of the Communist - dominated
World Federation of Trade
Unions. In a wide-range speech,
he also laughed off President Ken
nedy’s recent proposal for inter
national control over supply lines ’
to West Berlin.
The audience sat icy still when
he uttered his “Sword of Damo
cles" sentence. This referred to
the ancient Greek tale of the court
flatterer Damocles, forced to sit
at Dionysius table with a sword
suspended over him by a single
hair.
But Khrushchev was cheered
repeatedly as he spoke of Soviet
might in world politics with weap
ons exceeding the equivalent of
100 million tons of TNT. He vow
ed never to use the weapons ex
cept in defense of the Soviet
Union.
“But we shall certainly use this
weapon against the enemy if they
unleash a new war," the Premier
added.
Again accusing the West of war
preparations and forcing the So
viet Union to resume nuclear
tests — including a 50-megaton
shot — in September, the Pre
mier said “we would be slobber
ing idiots if we did not carry out
the nuclear tests.”
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