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APPEAL TO BACK
GUATEMALA

f oMONTREAL — Invasion of
Fi Matemala is a “clear case of
} Mernational aggression” and a
sj ‘me that can be compared
¢) With those of Hitler and Musso-
ni, Ismael Mendez-Zabadua,
CG temalan Consul-General to

anada, told the Tribune. The
“Nvasion started only after U.S.
4 lanes landed in Nicaragua and

“Ondoras with arms, — he
‘ Charged.

| aSehind the invasion was
J) ‘Nastasio Somoza, son of Presi-

.

; Provided Castillo Armas with
a and money and was the
et man for the U.S.-owned
jauited Fruit Company who bit-
lt, Y Contested the agrarian re-
Fm policies of the Guatemalan
| 8°vernment.

; aycndez Zabadua appealed to
¥. anadians to raise their voi-

tan Stop this terrible aggres-
~ against his people.

The Tribune,

June 28, 1954

__ FLASHBACKS FROM
THE COMMUNIST PRESS

‘| €nt Somoza of Nicaragua who”

Profiteer of the week:

50 years ago...

REACTIONARY SOUTH
AFRICAN ‘LABOR’ PARTY
The Labor Party in South

Africa, representing not the in-
terests of the workers, but the
interests of the petty capitalist
class, is waging an election cam-
paign in support of Hertzog,
so-called Nationalist Premier of
South Africa.

Hertzog represents the ruling
class in South Africa in their
desire-to; wrest greater,power.in
the exploitation of the Black
population of South Africa and
surrounding territories from
British: capital. This has found
expression in his demand for a
separate South African flag and
other suggestions of this kind,
which, on the surface appear to
be anti-imperialist, but which in
essence represent the growing
imperialist interests of the
South African ruling class.

The Labor Party, is composed
of only the small upper stratum
of skilled workers who very
often act as foremen over the
brutally exploited Black work-
ers. The Worker,

June 22, 1929

this year!

As long as Canada’s resources and the
means of transporting them are in the hands
of private corporations, million of dollars in
returns which should belong to the people of
Canada will be drained away to the board-
roommillionaires. Forexample, Interprovincial
Pipe Line Ltd., had an after-tax profit of
$14,317,000 for just the first three months of

Figures used are from the company’s financial statements.

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EDITORIAL,
COMIMUENT

Canada’s stake in SALT II

The real fight for the life of the SALT II
treaty signed by Soviet premier Brezhnev
and U.S. president Carter in Vienna June
18 is underway.

Capping almost eight years of difficult,
delicate negotiations, the signing itself is a
victory for reason, an important step to
limit the spread of strategic nuclear
weapons. It is also a sign of realism, faced
as the world is with major choices in the
field of nuclear arms.

SALT II limits the USSR and USA to
deployment of 2,250 launchers for inter-
continental weapons, places at 1,200 the
number of missiles that can be armed with

multiple warheads and takes a first step in|

limiting arms modernization. It also opens
the possibility to enter into the SALT II
negotiations which could make important
headway toward not only arms limitations,
but reductions. .

But, predicatably, the hawks in the West,

especially in the U.S., are out to torpedo
the treaty. Led by Senator Jackson and
other throwbacks to the political Middle
Ages, they are doing everything to scuttle
the treaty by building up opposition to it in

the U.S. Senate which requires a two-thirds

- vote for ratification.

The debate will go on through the
summer with the vote expected in early
fall.

Carter outlined the administration’s pos-
ition June 18 before a joint session of
Congress and said:

“In setting our hands to this treaty, we
set our nations on a safer course. Not one
nation on this earth, not one human being,

_is harmed, threatened or deprived by this

victory in the battle for peace. A victory is
here for all. . . .”

A true and realistic statement.

Given the battle ahead to make SALT II
a reality, and given that SALT LIT depends
on the U.S.’s ratification of SALT II, every
nation concerned with world peace now
has a responsibility to do something about
it in a concrete way by greeting this
important development.

This certainly includes Canada and its
new Tory government which, instead of
threatening to spend even more on war,
should openly and publicly endorse SALT
II which, if ratified, will protect this
country too.

Clark’s gamble backfires

The full impact of Joe Clark’s cheap
election stunt to move Canada’s Israeli
embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is
beginning to be felt. In their haste to get
elected, the Tory braintrust dove head first
into one of the most basic questions around
which peace in the Middle East depends —
the rights of the Palestinian people.

There’s not much point in being sur-
prised at such an ill-considered and pro-
vocative Tory strategy, except to remind
ourselves what this government is capable
of doing for votes in a few constituencies.

Clark is now caught in a bind ‘between
the Zionist lobby which backed him with
votes last month in exchange for the

embassy move and the swift and powerful »

reaction of the Arab world who had given

him ample warning what this move would

mean to Canadian-Arab relations.

But the issue is not simply petro-dollars
and this country’s international financial
health. There are more fundamental and
important questions raised by Clark's fool-
ishness.

The denial of the national rights of the
Palestinian people for over three decades

has plunged the Middle East into four

wars, caused untold suffering and, on
several ocassions, threatened world peace.

Israel's expansionism, its refusal to ad-
dress itself to the question of the rights of
the Palestinian people, indeed its repres-
sion and annexation policies, have been
condemned time and again by world
public opinion.

The United Nations has stated that a just
solution to the Palestinian question is the
key to lasting peace in the area. It has
called again and again on Israel to get out
of territory it occupies illegally (including
East Jerusalem).

Israel's problem, therefore, is to win

international recognition of its illegal
occupation — and one way is to convince
other nations that Jerusalem, all of it, is an
Israeli city.

And that is what Joe Clark has been
sucked into. ace

Only Holland and 13 Latin American
states have their embassies there and
Canada, if Clark doesn’t back away, is
going to join that company with all that
conveys.

We will then have joined with these
states in publicly rejecting the national
rights of the Palestinians and will have
thumbed our nose at the United Nations
on this vital issue.

That’s quite a price to pay for a few
ill-gained votes.

‘Boat people’?

Immigration Minister Atkey says Viet-
nam is practicing racial and entre-
preneurial discrimination against the
ethnic Chinese. He says Canada will up its
immigration quota on humanitarian
grounds. He says we don’t have a “guilt
complex” like the U.S. about Vietnam.

Entrepreneurial discrimination? Maybe
Atkey doesn’t know that Vietnam finally,
after 30 years of sacrifice, consolidated its
socialist revolution and those who find it
impossible to live without exploiting others

can leave.

Ethnic discrimination? Ask yourself —
why: doesn’t China invite these “entrep-
reneurs” to settle in China after urging
them to leave Vietnam?

No guilt complex? That's interesting,
considering Canadian business made mill-
ions out of the Vietnam war and just
recently Ottawa reneged on its promise to
aid in the country’s reconstruction.

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