RALPH DUNGAN, Former U.S. AMBASSADOR To CHILE: THERE 1S NO SHAKING THE PREVAILING LATIN CONCEPTION OF THE U.S. AS A SOCIETY good for people By WILLIAM KASHTAN The Speech from the Throne is a mixed bag. It was compel- led to take note, in words at least, of the large scale public demand for action on housing, social security, tax reform, pov- erty and technological change. It also proposed that Parliament give consideration to some ques- tions related to Canada’s foreign and defense policies and Cana- dian sovereignty in the Arctic. What the government will actually come up with to deal with these matters will be better known over the next few months. However the fact that the Speech from the Throne proposes to continue the austerity and anti-inflation program put for- ward by Prime Minister Trudeau and may even go beyond that, bodes no goud for the Canadian people. That program spells one thing—more unemployment and a continued drive to freeze wages, with its ever present dan- ger of recession. If this is the line the government intends to pursue, not much can be expect- ed from Trudeau’s Just Society except further injustice for the majority of Canadians and a soft approach to monopoly. It adds up to one thing, peo- ple’s pressure outside Parlia- ment will decide what happens in Parliamént. If anything useful comes out of the Speech from the Throne it will depend upon the united and organized action of the labor and democratic movement. Soviet Union warns U.S. not to interfere Workers, students and the en- tire Lebanese people have been called on to unitedly protest against the attacks of the Leban- ese army on the Palestinian com- mandos, and against the reac- tionary policies of the country’s leaders standing behind the army. The appeal has been issued from a meeting attended by leaders. of the Communist Party of Lebanon, of the B’ath party, and of the Movement of Arab Nationalists who met together last week with representatives of the Palestinian resistance movement. The appeal charges: ‘The Le- banese government challenges more and more the Palestinian resistance at the same time that it shows complete indifierence to the agents of American and Is- raeli intelligence agencies in Lebanon itself.” For several weeks there has been a furious campaign going on in Lebangn against the pro- PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 31, 1969— gressive paities, and against the Soviet Union. The CIA has been busy feeding lurid stories about left wing plots to the reactionary press. The question being widely ask- ed is whether all this is in pre- paration for another invasion by the U.S. Marines such as took place in July 1958. Protests against U.S. pressure go beyond the Left. The Moslem Council, presided over by the Grand Mufti of the Republic and composed of leading figures of the Islamic religion, last week denounced “the American inter- ference in the internal affairs of Lebanon,” condemned “‘the shed- ding of blood between brothers” and asked for “co-ordination be- tween the army and the feda- yens”—the fighters of the Pales- tine Liberation Front. The Soviet Union in effect warned the U:S. last week-end not to interfere in the Lebanon. A Tass statement carried in Pravda, Oct. 26 said: “No outside interference by a Big Power in the events in Lebanon can be justified. Not least of the intentions be- hind the U.S. plans, Tass said was to break the unity of the Arab countries and to encourage ‘the use of force by Lebanese in- ternal reaction against national patriotic forces. If the U.S. was seriously con- cerned about the independence and integrity of Arab states, it should direct its efforts to get- ting the speediest fulfilment of the U.N. decisions for a settle- ment of the Middle East ques- tion. —L’Humanité and Morning Star. Page 4 TMT 1 | tt Stay in NATO demand ex-nazis| Hitler general By WILLIAM BEECHING Nazi world war II criminal General ‘Hans Speidel has told Canada that it must prepare for war with the socialist camp. His speech, reported from Washing- ton, is one of the latest dealing with NATO. General Speidel said “Ameri- can complaints about in- sufficient contributions by the European NATO partners to common defense costs are not unjustified, but on the other hand the Europeans are concerned about the increasing reduction of American troop strengths. To a great extent the same comes true for Canada. There is an in- creasing concern about certain political thoughts in Canada.” General Speidel has been in the service of :German militarism since 1914. He participated di- rectly in carrying out the Nazi invasion of France. He was on the Soviet front, where he con- tinued his war crimes. Both Eurgene Rostow, former U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs, now a Yale pro- fessor, and general Speidel try to bolster their positions by trot- ting out.a fictitious threat from the USSR. They are joined by the British Labor Government’s Def- ense secretary, Denis Healey, who used for pressure the claim that reductions in NATO would increase the nuclear threat, be- cause the west would be weak- ened in terms of conventional forces. West German Ambassador to Canada, J. F. Ritter, in a recent address to a German-Canadian club, said that Canada NATO policies are frustrating her allies. He expressed his disagreement with Prime Minister Trudeau’s presses Canada fo sprepare for war ee! statement that Canada’s security is threatened more by racial turmoil in North America than by Russian foreign policy. Dr. Ritter worked as a Nazi lawyer under Hitler. He is joined by J. V. Clyne, of Vancouver, chairman of Mac- Millan Bloedel Limited, who says he agrees with Speidel. Senator Mike Mansfield, U.S.A., has announced that he will introduce a motion to reduce U.S. commitments to NATO. He has the support of Senator. Ed- ward Kennedy. Senators Ken- nedy and Percy both predict that the U.S. Senate will approve a substantial reduction of U.S. troops in Europe. The withdrawals and proposals for withdrawal shake the NATO structure and emphasize the growing lack of confidence in it. It should help to open the door to international discussion as to how to achieve European sec- urity. ‘ However, at this time it would be illusory to limit an estimation ‘policies, including a SY to just this, There are other sib nificant questions. oy There is a growing tender for the NATO powers. espera. West Germany, to think inc ingly in nuclear terms. Th oe growing problems of inl tional exchange and ! 2 which account for the BM" i, demand by Canada and 5 t0 U.S.A. for European count? assume greater financial respo sibility for NATO. aitted West Germany has bene" 1), from the maintaince of ty bY European forces—particulat yas the U.S.A.—in Europe, Whit” jig helped West Germany tod bi its own economy, and move a ageressively into world ma Recent speeches by Caf, government officials give # rounded-out picture of 5 sons for the withdrawal of tro, Canadian troops from |" ait External Affairs ministel © ig chell Sharp, in an ad oe . New York on October 20t ing js sured the U.S.A. that “Nothi™ in itself more important 1 Vip ada than our relationshiP ¢ a the United States . . . It is? easy time for government, 4 it isn’t an easy time for | o ate ministers. It is true that Vie reducing our component pl NATO forces . statione®, i. Europe,” but Canada is n° ging out.” takin’ The changes that are place, he said, are as ™ ternal as external, and © volve two new develop”, de’ The first is that “In the 185 4. cade there has been 4 wees ip ous surge of social dynam ig Canada’s French Speaking | he munity and particularly ¥ op Province of Quebec.” The § ai | deals with the youth, ne ust! age up to be at home in the mic if’ sharp focus . . . they 5° ye. sey little faith in the fut Action now, is what thé for.” jg i Quite clearly Mr, ShafP “pat dicating the possibility 4 {0 Canada’s army may be YO yy control social and econom’ . of rest in Canada. This 18 Pa ic) the same reactionary Bit presently advanced by Minister Trudeau. est ’ Insofar as NATO and German are concerned, t” 45 German Communist Par ici stated that the election 18° tor that country constitute 4 vr pul for the democratic force® qt! bring about no funda oy change in the control of DIB or ital over the economy, a pet" ment and society. Gene! _ af del, Nazi, remains a SP° : for West Germany. T° t pol West German governme? F cies requires mass actions "ow, German working people part peaceful, democratic an@ ig of European security. ‘ This demands the ad0P%oqr the Brandt government ° aiitt pletely new policies, ie 0 with the revanchist pO! aim West Germany, which ™! clude firing Hans: Spe Joachim Ritter.