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! Gouging the public

of us out of the market — in the
meantime taking the profits.

WT IS the height of absurdity

for the Vancouver Sun to be-
rate the United Nations for hav-
ing declared Britain, France and
Israel as the aggressors in Egypt
and its failure to hang a similar

label upon Egypt!

To charge Egypt with “‘ag-
gression’ against itself would
have matched the absurdity of
what a British Conservative MP
called the “‘hoary old myth’’ of
a Soviet plot in the Middle East
by which Britain and France
sought to justify their invasion.
Yet even some of the most re-
actionary sections of the daily
press have admitted that the in-
itial invasion of Egypt by Israe-
li forces was a planned ‘‘set up”’
for similar invasion by Anglo-
French: forces.

Then there is the UN “‘police
action’’ which, given the com-
plete withdrawal of all three ag-
gressors, could be a decisive, if
temporary. factor towards re-
storing peace in the Suez Canal
zone, a fact readily recognized

Get out of Egypt

by the Egyptian government.
But with the armies of Britain,
France and Israel still on Egyp-
tian territory, the UN’s efforts
and Canada’s “‘police’’ contri
bution is transformed into a
farce. With the invaders still
in Egypt, it isnot to be won-
dered at that many people in
Egypt and elsewhere regard this
‘police’ force as an agency to
restore the Suez to British and
French bondholders, rather than
to impose peace!

As if this weren't enough, we
are now to have the spectacle of
a high Israeli officer who parti
cipated in the invasion of Egypt
touring this country to sell Is-
raeli bonds while his country’s
armed forces are still poised for
war on the territory of a neigh-
boring state.

The UN's efforts for peace
in the Middle East rest upon
immediate fulfilment of one con-
dition, a firm ultimatum to Bri-
tain, France and Israel to get
their armed forces out.of Egypt.

Griffin

‘“ssHIOSE terrible Bolsheviks!”

I can still remember my
foster mother putting down the
paper at the breakfast table and
making this invariable remark
with something approaching real
fear in her voice.

Those were the days of Allied
intervention against the Soviet
Union, justified in screaming
headlines and hysterical atrocity
stories. But it meant very little
to me then, except to increase
my bewilderment in a war-torn
world that had taken my par-
ents, lifted me out of my home
and left me among strangers.

IT have read those newspaper
reports many times over the
years, as history—the history of
what has become known as the
Big Lie. And as a guide to cur-
rent events. they should be re-
quired reading in every high
school.

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At every decisive point in the

struggle of the capitalist world

against advancing socialism, the
daily press has used the same
stories to turn the facts inside
out and the motives upside down.
The place names are different,
the details vary, but the con-
tent of the stories is the same.

Seventeen years ago, the same
Vancouver daily papers that are
now filling their columns with
reports on Hungary designed to
whip up anti-Soviet hysteria
were playing up the plight of
‘poor little Finland.”

Then too, there was a “prin-
ciple” involved — the principle
of non-aggression. The Soviet Un-
ion, the champion of peace, which
had denounced Nazi German and
Italian Fascist intervention in
Spain, Japanese invasion of Chi-
na, Italian invasion of Ethiopia,
had attacked Finland.

Then, as now, right. wing
CCFers and trade unionists join-
ed in the tumult of condemna-
tion. Then, as now, a few Com-
munists in the Western world
disavowed their parties, John
Strachey, later to become a ca-
binet minister in a British La-
bor government, Ralph Bates,
the novelist, and others. The daily
press seized on it avidly to spread
dismay and confusion.

And all the while, as it grad-
ually became clear, the British
and French governments of the

_day had been readying troops for

Finland in an attempt to divert
the. war with Nazi Germany

against the Soviet Union.

So I was not surprised to read
about the Mongolian troops sup-
posed'y sent to Hungary and the
fear and apprehension among
Hungarians “who remember the
atrocities committed by Soviet
troops in 1945” — as though the
Soviet Army had never freed
Hungary from 25 years of fascist
rule.

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Undoubtedly there have been
cruelties in Hungary — but the

atrocities have been committed
by the fascists.

Over and above all the injus-
tices. and wrongs that led to the
Hungarian revolt there stands the
fact that the agencies which are
committed to “liberating” Eur-
ope from socialism are exploit-
ing*events regardless of the con-
sequences to the Hungarian peo-
ple.

Hitler’s generals are back in
uniform in West Germany. With
Horthy’s. fascists returned to
power in Hungary the outline of
a new reactionary alliance in
central Europe would have be-
come apparent — a West Ger-
man-Hungarian a_liance, _ per-
haps embracing Austria, directed
against East Germany, Poland
and Czechoslovakia. But its
greatest threat, as in 1939, would
ultimately have been -against
France and Britain.

This is what the hysteria con
ceals.

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