"Coup’ heralds end . [ast week's “coup” in South Vietnam once again points up the hopeless situation facing the U.S. in the preser- vation of its puppet Nguyen Khanh “government’’. Like the proverbial man with “a tiger by the tail” Washington fears to let go, but neither can it long hold on. The stark truth is that it faces certain and inevitable defeat, now or later. The burning problem giving no end of headaches to the Johnson administration is, can it hold on until after the November 3 presidential elections? Can it stave off the inevitable defeat—which would play right into the hands of the Goldwater forces? A vexing problem indeed, but why should the people and lands of South Vietnam be destroyed, just to make sure of the election of a U.S. president? A big Hence the “coup”—with another promised on the way... to hasten the inevitable. Much to ‘celebrate’ Wile U.S. President Johnson and Canada’s Prime Min- ister Pearson “celebrate” the Columbia River give- away to U.S. monopoly, another and greater sell-out of life-giving Canadian waters is already being contemplated by the U.S. trusts. This grab, initially labelled the “Par- sons Plan” (see fuller detail in front-page article) envisages a “take-over” of the bulk of our vast hydro and irrigation water resources. | In typical huckster lingo, Liberal MP Jack Davis (Coast-Capilano) hails this Parsons Plan as “one of Can- ada’s most lucrative undertakings”’. For the U.S. president at least there is truly some- thing to “celebrate”. With the Columbia River system now in U.S. hands, with approximately seventy percent or more of Canada’s industry under U. S. ownership or con- trol; with U.S. nuclear bombs now established on Canadian soil, and our obliging minority Liberal government getting set to “take a chair” in Uncle Sam’s OAS-Latin American price to pay by the people of South Vietnam. eS a7 aN Nightmare parade Feeeublican presidential candidate Senator Barry Gold- .water’s march towards the White House is more than alarming. According to the AFL-CIO General Board State- ment of Sept. 1, Goldwater “voted wrong” on every major bill affecting the peace and wellbeing of the American people, at home and abroad. _In the Senate Goldwater scored 53 “wrong votes” on all issues of prime importance to the nation, while his vice- presidential running mate, Congressman W. E. Miller ran a close second in the “wrong vote” parade. The menace of a pro-fascist-John Birch-KKK ment- ality in the highest office in the U. S., reckless and reac- tionary, avowedly ready to impose his will upon the world with nuclear bombs, poses a grave threat to all humanity. . of its liberty, never will havé any “colonial office” there is much to “celebrate”. But not for the common people, buck, piecemeal. Tom McEWEN ver since the time when the “patron saint” of stool- pigeons, Judas Iscariot, commit- ted his heinous act of betrayal for “30 pieces of silver,” most people, regardless of social or class position, have ahealthy ab- horrance of this abominable specie of moral derelict, Even those police agencies or others who require the services of stool pigeons, informers, “un- dercover” agents, call them what we may, have little or no respect or liking for the specie they hire, This dislike is founded upon the well-grounded presumption that a person who sells himself for a price to inform upon, or bear false witness against his fellow men, is just as likely to sellhim- self to the next highest bidder for a similar purpose, In fact it is well known (aside from the fiction books) that some of the breed have done very well for a brief period “informing” on both Sides of the paymaster fence, who must sit by and watch their country and its resources be ing bartered away for a fast oon 2 Be that as it may however, it must be said that the modern stool or informer differs radi- cally from their “patron saint? Judas, That worthy, having com- pleted his act of betrayal and accepted his “30 pieces of silver,” and obviously obsessed by a re- maining glimmer of conscience, had the good grace to go and hang himself, Not so with the modern stool, Having pocketed his hire and spun the lying fabric of his trade (and in the process probably expended his usefulness to his immediate paymasters), instead of follow- ing the commendable example of the original Judas, noisily and without shame, demands “com- pensation” for time lost, This as we see it is the case of one Calvin McDonald, now “noisily “campaigning” for some such “compensation” from the RCMP for terminating his “serv- ices” in stooling upon Canadian Communists and others, Having “‘voted wrong” on all other counts, neither the American people nor the world have any cause to believe Goldwater can “vote right” on this menacing horror. We do not know what this per- son’s “payroll” rating with the RCMP was, but whatever it was it represented his “30 pieces of Silver” for the job on hand, and ended there when his “services” were dispensed with, That is ‘an ironclad rule in stooling for the police — any police, anywhere, When any of their stools or “in- formers” is “washed-up,” to use a slang term, any self-respecting police force or individual police officer, would prefer to be seen in company with a battalion of whores, rather than with a dis- carded stool pigeon, There are some very rare ex- ceptions of course as there are in all such relationships, In the horde of RCMP stools which have operated in the Canadian Communist and labor movements during the past 50 years, we can recall only two who “made good” following exposure of their iden- tity: Sergeant John Leopold, alias Jack Esselwin who became an “expert” on Communism and later elevated to the rank of “in- spector.” The other, Sergeant Zanith who “starred” as a stool in the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 who helped railroad the late J.S, Woodsworth and other strike leaders into prison, He also was elevated to an “expert” capacity on labor matters, But as we said, such cases are the exception rather than the rule, We have it on good authority, how- ever, that neither of thesenotori-_ ous characters enjoyed much friendship or respect from their fellow officers, That we can readily understand, It takes a strong stomach to function nor- mally when in tod close associa- tion with “promoted” or discard- ed stool pigeons, While on the subject of stools, informers and such like, one shouldn’t overlook the Igor Gou- zenko type who did very well (financially) in the betrayalofhis own people, plus the framing of not a few Canadians, But even in Gouzenko’s case, years after his “dime thriller” exploits, it is rumoured that the government and the RCMP would be very happy if some salvage company were to take this Russian mon- ° Strosity off their hands, with or without a bag over his head, Wort * The new crisis in South Vietnam hot two linked meanings of the 9°4 sort It means, first that the ba adopted by Pres. Johnson W ; sent Sen. Maxwell Taylor to Saig' has failed abruptly, decisive irrevocably. It means, second that the pre: is going to have to make 4 ye stern choice in the very negr fu ” quite possibly within 10 days choice is between ordering drastic steps to change the cow the Vietnamese war or pass! cepfing an eventual defeat - « —JOSEPH ALSOP, U.S. col * Men blame us for the pitterne! our language and the perseng our attacks. It results from 04 a tien The great mass of the peoP a never be made to stay and oe long question. They must be yee. feel it through the hides of ne f; Eternal vigilance is the price of libé The manna of popular het ; be gathered every day on it 43 ie tion © wake moth Only by uninterrupted agit@' a people be kept sufficiently % principle not to let liberty be * ed by material prosperity. The public that sinks to sete i ing to constitutions and machinery politicians and statesmen for the * 5.1879 —William Lloyd Garrison, 1805 J , in the first edition of his paPe” a Liberator. Anti-Sovietism doe bedfellows. (Ed.) "Republican Presidential candidett Senator Barry Goldwater sa, ft statement last week deploring “th anti-Semitism and inserted ae Congressional Record a written * ible ment supporting Sen. Abraham © coff s resolution calling for com tion of the Soviet Union for its ment of the Jews."’ s make strange lem™ treat (Editorial page, Jewish Westem Bulletin, Sept. 11/64). Thus, whatever this meponal# stool may have to say about ©? munists or Communism, noth a “new” can be added to the ye, tain of slander, lies and ee representations piled up in da. decades of coldwar propaga” And while there is still a ket” for this odorous comme? <5 as the daily ravings of our PIO” and radio commentators CO stantly remind us, the “b0O™ period is over and the #s]umP well advanced, The era of the stool piger? the snoop and the informer ha passed, but the “vocational y z ards” of the trade increase © each exposure, as does the © dignation of all decent people being “spied upon,” : i In the long haul society ¥ undoubtedly dispense with > garbage, ; ed Editor — Vancouver 4, B.C. $4.00 one year. Australia, of postage in cash. TOM McEWEN Associate Editor — MAURICE RUSH Circulation Manager — JERRY SHACK ' Published weekly at Room 6 — 426 Main Street Subscription Rates: pce Canadian and Commonwealth countries (except Austral! 5 ai countries; $5.00 one year. 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