in upholding the constitution probably prevented the capitalist roaders from really making an attempt to take over by military force. What was the government to do? Not react? Relationship with Canadian Communists In 1971, William Kashtan, general secretary of the Communist Party of Canada asked him to resign from the Canadian Peace Congress and as Canada's delegate to the World Council of Peace accusing the Canadian Far East Newsletter of being anti-Soviet and pro-Mao. Endicott agreed to leave the organization rather than stop publication of the newsletter or withdraw his support for China in its conflict with the Soviet Union. He founded the Canada-China Society shortly after leaving the Canadian Peace Congress and publicly broke with the Soviet Union. Though friendly with Tim Buck, Stanley Ryerson, Leslie Morris and other Canadian Communists, Endicott never joined the Communist Party of Canada though three of his children joined its legal front, the Labor-Progressive Party. He had joined the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation while living in Toronto on sabbatical from 1941 to 1944, and campaigned for the party in the 1942 federal by-election in which Joseph Noseworthy won an upset victory, but his membership lapsed when he returned to China. When he applied to rejoin the CCF in 1948 his membership application was rejected; no reason was given but it is almost certain it was rejected due to Endicott's perceived association with Communism. See also List of peace activists References Sources Endicott, Stephen James G. Endicott: Rebel Out of China (1980) Endicott, Shirley Jane China Diary: The Life of Mary Austin Endicott (2003) External links 1978 radio interview with James Endicott Text of Rev. Paul Fairley's sermon on his great-grandfather, James Endicott 1920s James Gareth & Mary Endicott and Family | Vic in China: Photos and stories about James Gareth Endicott from families of Victoria University graduates. 1898 births 1993 deaths Canadian Christian pacifists Canadian Christian socialists Canadian Methodist missionaries Canadian Marxists Methodist missionaries in Sichuan Methodist missionaries in China Methodist socialists Ministers of the United Church of Canada People of the Chinese Civil War Stalin Peace Prize recipients University of Toronto alumni Writers about China Canadian military personnel of World War I Canadian expatriates in China Methodist pacifists