https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/58f9d49888b7e09aa9b9471adeb9939c.pdf 64fda7fdef5c77e9c3bdb0126dc525b2 PDF Text Text -3M-C O N G R E SS OF C ANADIAN The most interesting incid ent C ongress of C anadian Women is, I think, trip to North Kore a in 1951. It is the C ommunist propaganda campaign which was the best re sults and operated at a very WOMEN irt the history of the Mrs. Nora Rodd ’ s story of a successful w ell planned to get high le v el. On A pril 2Uth, 1951, Mrs. Rodd, an elderly Windsor la wy er’ s wife, l e ft for a visit to the Iron C urtain countries with a group of w ell known C anadian communists. She hadrever be en p articularly prominent as a communist and we had no inkling of the re ason for her trip. We next he ard she had arriv e d in North Kore a on May 16th as the C hairman,, of a group of women invite d by the Women's Intern ation al D emocratic F ederation to inv e stigate a trocitie s alleged to have! be en committed by the United N ations forces in Kore a. A ‘'few days la t er, on May 22nd, the first a trocity re ports appe ared in the press and as a re sult a wave of indign ation swept across C anada and demands were made th at Mrs. Rodd be prosecuted on her return. By June h-th Mrs. Rodd and her p arty had returned to Moscow a ft er spending only about two we eks in Kore a to inv e stig ate such a serious m atter. On June 19th Jacob M alik, the U.S.S.R. delegate to the United N ations and President of the S e curity C ouncil for the month of June, wrote a l e tt er to the S e cretariat of the United N ations requesting public a tion of the W.I.D. F . a trocity re port as a United N ations do cument. While a ll this was ta king place abroad the C anadian P arliament was passing an amendment to the Crimin al Code to cover the a ctions of C anadians abroad who a ssist any enemy at war with C anada or against whom the C anadian forces are fighting even though a state of war has not be en declared. This amendment to S ection 7^(3) of the Crimin al Code was passed in the House on June 25th and became law on June 30th. Mrs. Rodd returned to C anada shortly a ft er and although this le gisla tion was passed too late to cover her a trocity statements made while abroad it obviously could be used if she continued making such statements on her return to C anada. Mrs. Rodd did make such statements on her return home, in fa ct she .toured the country spre ading her vicious porpaganda, but unfortunately she only repe ated what was a l re ady published in a United N ations document. O bviously it would have be en difficult and embarrassing for the C anadian G overnment to prosecute her succ e ssfully under such circum stances. She got away with it. I think you will agre e there was good timing in this a ff a ir. Mrs. Rodd and her d ele g ation made the Kore an trip just at the time Jacob M alik would become President of the S e curity C ouncil when he would be in a position to arrange for the public ation of the a trocity re port as a United N ations document. T his was an id e al way of disseminating C ommunist propaganda on a world wide scale under the prote ctiv e cloak of the United N ations. Although it could not be forese en th at the C anadian P arliament would pass le gislation of the type it did, Mrs. Rodd c ertainly made good use of the U.N. document in her spe eches across C anada w ell knowing th at quoting from it would prote ct her from prosecution. O TH E R F R O NT G R O T TPS The Le ague for D emocratic Rights is the third major C ommunist front in C anada at the present time. It was formed, 000038 �-35of course, because it appe ared very lik e ly th at the LaborProgressive P arty would be declared an ill e g a l org a niz ation or th at amendments to the C rimin al Code would curb its ac tiviti e s. It has be en directing a lot of atte ntion to the trade unions, trying to convince them th at the proposed amendments to the C rimin al Code will have dire effe cts on the right to strik e . T he C anadian Soviet Friendship Society is another w ell known front org aniz ation. It has be en putting out some highly effe ctiv e propaganda since Dyson C arter commenced pu blishing "N ews F acts" which is a w ell set-up littl e pamphlet designedto give a convincing, pro-Soviet sla nt on curre nt news items. We also have the mass language cultural groups which are strictly spe aking C ommunist front org aniz ations but I will not be discussing them as they will be the subje ct of a separate le cture . C O N CLUSIO N It is g e n erally accepted th at the C ominform journ al " F or a Lasting P e ace, for a P eople ’ s D emocracy" is one of the me ans used by Russia to give instructions and the P arty lin e to C ommunists everywhere. To arriv e at the me aning of these instructions it is necessary to penetrate the smoke scre en of jargon. Words are ofte n used in a sense diff ere nt from th eir diction ary me aning. When the C ominform journ al says th at c ertain things are ta king place we should re ad it as me aning those things should take place through the efforts of the loc al C ommunist P arties. With this in mind I suggest you interpret the article which I sh all now re ad as being curre nt instructions for C ommunist front org aniz ations as it was only printe d in the C ominform journal la st May l?th under the he ading " Struggle for U nity of Working C lass - V it a l T ask of C ommunist and Worker's P artie s" ’’ U nity of the working class and the ra lly ing of the democratic forces in general are being developed on an intern ation al scale as w ell. Such larg e mass organisa tion as the World F ederation of Trade Unions, the Women's Intern ation al Demo cratic F ederation and the World F ederation of D emocratic Youth are pla ying a vit a l role in rallying the working people in the struggle for th eir vit a l intere sts, in defence of P e ace. A p articularly vit a l role in the struggle for pe ace is played by the indomitable movement of our time, the pe ace movement." 000039 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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