Geiss

WIPE THEM OUT
Allied jets, helicopters and
) Sttillery crews pounded a half-
) Mile stretch of slums for hours
Yesterday... .

Smoke billowed from the
Weatherbeaten houses . . .

e American Military Com-
Mand sent in wave after wave
B rocket-firing helicopters.
Beads and sheets of roofing
€w many feet into the sky
Sfter each rocket exploded...
ae said a colonel in the

inth Infantry Division... “We
'@ going to wipe out this
mea

Most of the homes in the
ea look the same — tiny
‘Macks of tin and unpainted
_ *°ards bunched together near

9 muddy canal.
a ozens of the homes—per-
— 9Ps even hundreds — had
Sen destroyed. . .

HOLD IT CLOSER

During the forays, armored
personnel carriers — some of
them with American Confede-
rate flags swinging from radio
aerials — circled the area in
search of enemy troops. . .

An American radio announ-
cer who was on the scene spot-
ted the rebel flags and quip-
ped: ‘We haven’t settled our
own Civil War and now we're
trying to settle South Viet-
nam’s.” An Army sergeant
gave him an angry look.

New York Times,
May 11, 1968.

JOIN THE PARTY

One of the aspects of the
corruption within the Liberal
Party that has surfaced since
the campaign began has been

Views and comment...

the wholesale packing of nomi-
nation meetings. Party cards
have been openly sold and
votes openly bought. This cor-
ruption and crude manipula-
tion of the constituency organi-
zation of the Party is of course
nothing new or for that matter
inconsistent with the  anti-
democratic character of boss
politics in Canada. Although
when : it. appears so openly,
Canadians as a whole can
wonder about the integrity of
its prospective M.Ps as they
participate in such a mire with-
in their organization.

Interestingly enough, this is
supposed to be the era of the
“new” in the Liberal Party,
with the image of the leader
who will kindle the idealism of
young Canadians.

Trudeau’s hand in this un-
seemly business was evident in
the dumping of Veterans Af-
fairs Minister Roger Teillet in
St. Boniface, Manitoba. Teillet
had the poor judgment to op-
pose Trudeau when he sought
the leadership and to throw in
his lot with Paul Hellyer, and
the machine moved in on him.

Nobody can really weep for
Teillet, but it does cast inter-
esting light on the Liberal ma-
chine and its smiling lovable
leader. In the Liberal party the
leaders may come and go, but
the corruption grows and
grows.

YANKEE GO HOME

Anti-U.S. sentiment is so in-
tense in Sweden that persons
from the United States have
problems trying to rent homes
and apartments, a Lutheran
churchman says.

The Rev. Dr. Rudolph C.
Burke, pastor of the American
congregation in Stockholm,
traced the anti-American feel-
ing to concern over the war in
Vietnam.

Rev. Burke, former Minnea-
polis pastor said that when
U.S. Ambassador W. W. Heath
attends the American Church
in Stockholm, the Swedish sec-
ret police even accompany him
to the Communion table.

The Worker

FOR THE WINTER AHEAD

Well, it may not bring
votes but in the long winter
nights ahead, Pierre Elliot
Trudeau will be able to
cuddle under the quilt being
made at the first ‘political
“quilt-in” in history.

This “historic” event is tak-
ing place in New York where
words like ‘Reason over
Passion” are stitched on a
14 by 18 foot quilt in padded
letters.

They always did say New
York was the city of the devil
and we all know that the
devil makes work for idle
hands.

Happy sleeping Pierre!

The war escalates

With the beginning of discussions in Paris
between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
and the United States, it was perhaps natural
that a degree of complacency would develop
among people. Yet even though the turbulence
of world events has at times displaced Vietnam
from the front pages of the press, the war con-
tinued, and continued to escalate.

Before the talks, the American high com- -

mand ordered the intensification of the war i

the South. According to Keyes Beech, ite in
formed correspondent in South Vietnam, a top
secret directive was sent to all military com-
manders demanding a general offensive in order
to strengthen the Americans’ hand in Paris.

Since the talks began, the rate and degree of
American bombing has increased to unprece-
dented levels. American casualties have reached
new records and who could count the number
of Vietnamese they have killed and maimed
during this period?

Living with a lie because we are force-fed
American propaganda, it is possible for Presi-
dent Johnson to spout words that the war is
being fought with restraint by the Americans,
and some people appear to listen,

_ The American political and diplomatic posi-
tion has long since been eroded, and their mili-
tary position more untenable than ever; they
can still talk about “losing patience.” As if they
really expected to win at the conference table
that which they have lost on the battlefield—
the surrender of the Vietnamese.

Before the Paris talks began, the Vietnamese
demanded an unconditional halt to the bombing.
That is their position now. It is also the position
of almost every other government in the world,
Just as it is the demand of the overwhelming
majority of the people of the world.

The road to peace in Vietnam will not
open until the bombing of the North is eee
Everybody knows this. This fundamental posi-
tion of the Vietnamese is no different than that
of any other country under attack,

_ The Vietnamese have driven this point home

to Mr. Harriman in Paris, but the message isn’t

only for him and his bosses in Washington.

The point must be grasped by all wh
concerned and who have jcined a the mighty
protest against the war. The war will continue
until Johnson is finally forced to snap to his
senses. The talks will-fail unless the Americans
can be forced to move from their position of

ane Paris as a cover for the extension of the
Yr

It is not propaganda that is the issue i ;
It is war or peace—life or death, 2"

I ALWAYS USE His...
IT'S GOOD For P.O.#

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