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the economic troubles, sapped
the position of the dollar. Ame-
rica’s prestige has sunk, her in-
ternational position weakened.
At home, a powerful movement
to end the Indochina aggression
has developed, and it is assum-
ing ever wider political implica-
tions.

This has alarmed a section of
the ruling element. Many prom-
inent politicians, opinion lead-
ers, businessmen want Ameri-
ca’s Indochina policy rethought
and the war ended ere worse be-
fall. It is significant that among
them are men like former De-
fense Secretary Clifford, former
Secretary of Labor Wirtz, for-
mer Secretary of Health Gard-
ner, former Deputy Defense
Secretary Vance, “and former
U.S. Commander in Europe, In
Korea and in Asia General Ridg-
way. Also indicative of the
widespread oppostion to the
war among the ruling elite 1s
the passage by the Senate of
the Mansfield amendment to the
law extending the draft. By that
amendment, the Senate called
on the Administration to with-
draw all U.S. forces from Indo-
china not later than nine months
after the enactment of the law.

Professor Daniel Ellsberg,
now of the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology, who gave
himself up in Boston after the
Department of Justice ordered
his arrest, has admitted that it
was he who leaked the Penta-
gon papers to the New. York
Times. It is clear, however, that
their publication had the bless-
ing of a group of very influen-
tial figures, who, fearing that
the Vietnam war might shake
the very foundations of Ameri-

Ex-lackeys of Hitler

By JOSEPH DURJANCIK
Editor, Ludove Zvesti

The “second part” of the con-
vention of the Slovak World
Congress took place in Toronto
during the week ending June
20. The initial gathering was

‘ held a year ago in New York,

where the Slovak World Con-
gress was established. Because
the organizers of the Congress
could neither gain enough sup-
port nor achieve unity among
themselves, a second gathering
was Called to Taronto.
Canadian millionaire Stephen
Roman, elected as president of
the newly established Congress,
has. used all the instruments at
his disposal to secure the broad-
est representation of Slovaks
from many parts of the globe
at the Toronto gathering. It had
been predicted that up to 2,000
delegates from 20 countries
would attend. But according to
the Toronto Daily Star “about
20 delegates from Canada,
United States, Australia, South
Africa, Europe and Argentina
attended . ...” : ‘
Mr. Roman claims that those
who came to the Royal York

Hotel represented about 2,500,-.

000 Slovaks living outside of
Czechoslovakia. The fact is that
from Canada only one mass Or-
ganization — the Canadian Slo-
vak League, representing Slo-
vak right-wing separatist ele-
ments in Canada—was officially
represented at the Toronto con-
vention. Other Slovak mass or-
ganizations in Canada ignored
the gathering. Basically, it was
a gathering of the representa-
tives of Slovak reactionary po-
litical emigrés from postwar
Czechoslovakia, scattered all

rulers

can capitalism, decided to have
recourse to extreme measures.
That alone can explain the
“audacity” of New York Times
publisher Arthur Sulzberger,
who ordered the papers’ edi-
tors to make the top-secret doc-
ument known to the world.

No, the 47 volumes of the
Pentagon study do not help to
boost American “democracy.
Quite the reverse. The well-
known journalist James Reston
has called them “the govern-
ment’s own official Vietnam in-
dictment of itself.” They are al-
so, we may add, an indictment
of America’s whole capitalist
system, an indictment of Ame-
rican imperialism.

The secret Pentagon study is
added proof that deception of
the electorate is normal parc-
tise with the candidates of Ame-
rica’s bourgeois parties. — It
shows that no administration,
Democratic or Republican, told
the people the truth about its
Indochina policy. Suffice it to
recall how during the 1964 elec-
tion campaign Lyndon Johnson
posed as a man of peace and
told voters he had no intention
of sending American boys to
fight and die in the Vietnamese
jungle, when he had already
ordered the generals that spring
to plan and prepare overt mili-
tary intervention in Vietnam.

Bourgeois democracy, wrote
Lenin, “is always narrow, hypo-
critical, spurious and false; it
always remains democracy for
the rich and a swindle for the
poor.” The Pentagon papers pro-
vide extra documentation for

that.
—New Times

over the globe. Let us mention
a few of the “top” ones:

Dr. Joseph Kirschbaum, well-
known nazi-collaborator, who
served with the Tito puppet
government of Slovakia during
Hitler’s occupation of Czecho-
slovakia and was sentenced to
life imprisonment in absentia,
now - residing in Canada; Dr.
Ferdinand Durcansky, sentenc-
ed to life imprisonment in ab-
sentia by Czechoslovak courts
for war crimes committed in
Slovakia, who now makes his
home in Switzerland, West Ger-
many and the United States.
Also present were Slovak Cath-
olic dignitaries in exile — such
as bishops Grutka and _Hnilica,
residing now. in the USA and
also spending a lot of their time
in Rome, trying hard to con-
vince the Vatican that Slovaks
are the most god-fearing people
on earth, thus to gain support
for their cause.

That also could be one of the
reasons why every session of
the convention in the Royal
York Hotel began and ended
with the prayers and blessings
of these bishops. They also
brought from Rome, the statue
of “Our Lady Fatima’ blessed

-by Pope Paul VI, to be carried

in a procession on the streets of
the Slovak community in Toron-
to. It should be noted that the
main purpose of these ceremo-
nies was to show Canadians
that the Slovak community sup-
ports the aims of the Slovak
World Congress.
What are the aims of these
people who once served Hitler,
who had thrown the Slovak na-
tion into the darkest period of
its history, who had forced Slo-
vaks to fight on the side of Hit-
ler against the allied nations,
including Canada, who had de-
fended and spread fascism —
the most reactionary ideology,
hated by the whole world?

Their main aims, proclaimed
at the convention in Toronto
are: to “liberate Slovakia from
Communist oppression” and to
create a new Slovak state, in-
corporated in the _ so-called
United States of Europe. The
presence of Duke Otto Haps-
iburg at the Toronto gathering
was to demonstrate that these
gentlemen are seriously con-
templating the creation of such
a Europe.

It is obvious that people like
Dr. Kirschbaum, Durcansky,
Pauco and others, who with the
help of Hitler’s Germany, once
held leading positions in the
Slovak puppet state, are long-
ing for lost power and promin-
ence. No wonder these gentle-
men were so eager to organize
a so-called Slovak World Con-
gress, through which they
would like to appear as repre-
sentatives of the “will and as-
pirations” of all the Slovaks
abroad and in the homeland.

As one can see, they are ex-
tremely ambitious and cunning
people, these ex-lackeys of Hit-
ler. After the defeat of nazi-
Germany, they escaped to Can-
ada, USA, and other western
countries. To cover up their
dark pasts and crimes against
humanity, they are parading
here as fighters for “freedom
and democracy.” In fact they
are the worst enemies of the
people and democracy. They are
enemies of peace. The Third
Reich had cost nations many
millions of lives. These adven-
turers would not hesitate to
create an even greater holo-
caust just to get back power
and glory, which they lost with
the defeat of nazi-Germany.

.« One should not woncer why
Mr. Roman has accepted presi-
deficy of the Slovak-World Con-
gress. As a rich man, he also
has a lust for power and glory.
He is not hiding the fact that
his ambition is to become can-
didate for presidency of Slo-
vakia in the futur2 “United
States of Europe.” One wond-
ers, though, how this man, who
swore allegiance to Canada
when he became . Canadian
citizen, could expe :t to be a
representative of the Slovak
state?

What good this man might do
for the Slovak people can best
be measured by his attitude and
behavior towards Canada and
its people. Only recently Mr.
Roman was threatening tc sell
Canadian uranium mines to
American interests and to lezve
Canada for good! Such is the
loyalty of millionaire Roma
to Canada and its people. One
can imagine what kind of loyal-
ty this man would have to the
people of Slovakia, where he
could never even dream of grab-
bing the richness of their land!

The formation of the Slovak
World Congress was motivated
by efforts to co-ordinate the
anti-communist policies of the
reactionary Slovak emigré cen-
tres. By holding the second part
of the convention in Toronto,
the organizers of the Congress
hoped to influence Slovakian
Canadians of strong religious
and patriotic feelings and to
win their support for their un-
holy war against socialist
Czechoslovakia.

But their efforts met with
fiasco. The majority of Slovak-
ian Canadians and their organ-
izations did not send represen-
tatives to the convention. They
condemn the plans and policies
of the Slovak emigrés and re-
fuse to become tools of their
slanderous and subversive ac-
tivity against socialist Czech-
oslovakia.

“Freedom takes many years
to grow and only a few hours
to die,’ Ontario Premier Davis
said at the closing session of
the convention of SWC. How
true, Mr. Davis! That is why
the: people of the Czechoslovak
Socialist Republic will stand
on guard as_ never before
for their dearly won freedom
against all those who would
once more dare to raise their
dirty hands against it.

Vi e hii €
anishing ice

An expedition which has
spent the last four springs in
Severnaya Zemlya (Northland),
the Soviet Union’s most north-
erly islands in the Arctic, has
now published its report.

The party concluded that, if
present Climatic conditions per-
sist, there will be no glaciers
left in 300 years.

The islands’ glaciers — the
largest glacier massif in the
USSR—are at present steadily
melting.

Only at the tops of the moun-
tains does more snow fall than
melts. i

About 400 million tons of ice-
bergs are “launched” every year
into the sea, and that, plus the
ice and snow that melt, means
that Northland jis losing its
glacier cap at the rate of 12,000
million tons a year.

It is too early, however, to
reach any hard conclusions!

For the scientists add that
there are signs that another
cold spell is setting in.

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