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wealth countries still supporting
the American war — Great Bri-
tain, Australia and New Zealand.
It would constitute an important
step in the total isolation of the
United States.

It is also, of course, that step
which Canadians have the power
to take themselves. Some people
spend a good deal of time in
speculating from afar about what
the socialist countries ought to
do to end the war in Vietnam—

as if the whole responsibility

rested on those countries. Some
give way to despair over the di-

visions in the world Communist
movement fostered by Mao Tse-
tung and his group. The best an-
tidote to such moods is to throw
oneself fully into the struggle of
widening sections of the Can-
adian people, and to draw
strength and encouragement
from that struggle.

Canadians are reacting to the
war in different ways and at dif-
ferent levels of understanding.
Some are moved by purely hu-
manitarian motives—their hor-
ror at the brutal torture and
slaughter of women and children

—G. Yorsha in Krokodil (Moscow):

NEWS ITEM: President Johnson vows “to hold open the door

to an honorable peace.”

pavilion

Bessie, Walter Lowenfels, Paul
Novick and Morris U. Schappes.

In its petition the committee
points to the fact that “‘the West
German pavilion at Expo 67 in
Montreal is constructed in the
shape of a giant map of Germany
—not West Germany as it exists
within its present frontiers—but
Hitler’s Third Reich, including
large parts of Poland, East
Germany, Czechoslovakia and
the Soviet Union — territories
which the West German govern-
ment openly claims.”

A map of the former Germany
and a photo of the pavilion are
published at ‘the top of the peti-

at Expo

Prompts protest petition |

tion under the headline “West
Germans Use Expo 67 to Push
Their Demands for ‘Lebens-

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raum’.

The petition calls these ex-
pansionist demands of the Bonn
regime “a crass insult to all the
millions who died in World War
Il” and adds that “any attempt
by Bonn to realize these mad
plans could easily touch off a
nuclear war.”

All inquiries, contributions and
requests for petitions should be
sent to the secretary of the com-
mittee: Philip Oke, Box 2523,
New York City 10001.

by the American forces and their
puppets. Some see clearly the
need to end the bombing, while
remaining unclear as to the ul-
timate solution to the. problem
of Southeast Asia. Some grasp
the full implications of the U.S.
ageression as an expression of
naked imperialism and under-
stand that peace cannot be re-
stored until all U.S. troops get

out, and the Vietnamese people

are left to decide their own des-
tiny for themselves.

This .latter position is, of
course, that of the Communist
Party. We advance it as strongly
as we can, and we welcome the
fact that an increasing number
of other Canadians are coming
to see the situation very much
as we do.

But we don’t make our posi-
tion the pre-con-:tion for work
with all others who are in any
way, however limited, prepared
to take some step towards peace
in Vietnam. Hence we welcomed
the forthright statement of
Walter Gordon, sharply differ-
ing with ultra-Leftists in the
peace movement who condemn-
ed him as “nothing but an op-
portunist.”

It is impossible to speak of
“ending Canadian complicity” in
the war in Vietnam, without re-
cognizing that this can and must
be done within the framework
of the existing social system.
Hence those like Gordon who
support the present system but
are against the war must form
an essential part of the alliance
of forces for peace. To argue
that to “end Canadian complici-
ty” requires the winning of so-
cialism in Canada, is in effect to
deny the possibility of stopping
and preventing wars between
countries with- different social
systems, hence to bow to the in-
evitability of world nuclear war.

Sometimes we are accused of
“lack of militancy,” lack of “re-
volutionary spirit,’ etc. Our
answer is what can, in fact, be
more militant and more funda-
mental to all future progress
than the building of a peace
movement which is capable of
actually winning its objectives
because it involves the widest
numbers of people in struggle?

We want the Canadian gov-
ernment to break with the Unit-
ed States. We want Canada to
join with all of progressive man-
kind in forcing an end to the
bombing, an end to escalation,
knowing that this will be the
first step towards peace in Viet-
nam and freedom for the Viet-
namese people. It is a great deal
more important to achieve these
objectives, and thus to pro-
foundly affect the course of
world history, than to stand
around making “revolutionary”
sounding noises.

It is the opinion of the Com-
munist Party that it would be
most important for all the many
committees, all the organiza-
tions which have sprung up
across the country in opposition
to the war in Vietnam to con-

June 2, 1967—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5

Need is urgent for a united
Canada-wide peace movement

cert their efforts in a great Can-
ada-wide movement, drawing
into full participation the labor
unions, the churches, the stu-
dents and faculties of our uni-
versities, all the organizations of
the people in a- mighty stream
of common action which the
government of Canada could not
possibly ignore, except at im-
mediate peril of defeat.

In speaking of such a country-
wide movement, it is important
to keep in mind that even in re-
spect to this question of the war
in Vietnam,: there are certain
differences of emphasis as be-
tween the people of our two na-
tions. Understandably, the peo-
ple of French Canada see the
issue more clearly not only as
one of peace, but as one of the
right of all peoples to self deter-
mination. They also look to, and
press their own government in
Quebec city to speak out. It is
important for people in the Eng-
lish Canadian peace movement
to be sensitive to these dif-
ferences of emphasis and to
adopt a cooperative attitude to-
wards them. Given that degree
of understanding, it is certain
that there is no issue which has
such potential for uniting French
and English Canadians in com-
mon action as that of a fight for
a break with the U.S. aggression
against Vietnam.

The objective of a united, co-
ordinated Canada-wide move-
ment, far from contradicting, in
fact demands the putting for-
ward of every effort to build
wider unity and to draw more
people into some kind of activ-
ity for peace in Vietnam ‘in
every community across. the
country. .

Work in a neighborhood or in
a factory to get people to send
letters, telegrams or petitions to
their members of Parliament, or
to contribute towards aid for the
Vietnamese people, work to con-
vince unions and other organiza-
tions to take an active part in
informing and arousing public
opinion — all this is essential to
the broadening and deepening of
the movement against the war.

Experience shows that very
often one individual or a small
group can play a decisive role
in setting on foot activities
which may appear modest in
themselves but add up in their
totality to a far-reaching impact.

Here is where the responsibil-
ity comes down to every reader
of the Tribune to think out the
ways of drawing the people he
or she knows into the fight for
peace, and then to act.

Finally, and above all, what-
ever we can do, wherever we
are, we must be embued with a
sense of the deepest urgency. No
one who seriously thinks about
the situation in Vietnam and in
the world today, can take light-
ly the sombre warning of the
Secretary-General of the United
Nations about the approach of
World War III.

It is time to fight for peace as
for life.