H OW best can Canadians help stamp out the
fires of war lit by the incendiaries of West-
erm imperialism, to assure that those fires lit in
Korea and elsewhere shall not sweep humanity in
a world conflagration?

How best to re-establish the United Nations
as an international cooperative for world peace,
rather than a handy vehicle for imperialist con-
spiracy and aggression?

These are momentous questions.

The answers will not be nod Bs rabid,
hysterical, anti-communist ravings of the propagan-
da organs of big business. Nor will they be found

will no longer be permitted in the adjust-
_ ment of international disagreements. and ideologies.

If President Truman of the U.S. and Prime
Minister St. Laurent of Canada do not like the
Russians, their form of government, or their social
system, that is no reason why countless thousands
of young Canadians should die a premature and

Stamp out the fires of war--
Sign the peace petition

horrible death on some foreign battlefield. And
the same holds good for any other nation and its
leaders holding similar views on our form of gov-
ernment and “way of life’. That, we believe,
is our business, to be changed in our own way
and in our own time, in accordance with the de-
sires of the Canadian people.

Korea provides ample proof that our so-called
statesmen ‘haven’t learned this simple lesson yet.
Their turning of the UN: Charter into another
“scrap of paper” is a demonstration, not of their
inability, but of their unwillingness to learn it.

It is now up to the people — to impose peace
— to save the UN as an instrument of peace.
Not by giving up butter for guns, or volunteering
to kill people with whom we have no quarrel, but
by signing the world peace petition to ban the atom
bomb, and to brand as a war criminal any power
that uses it against humanity.

Your signature, added to the millions al-
ready signed for peace, will help to extinguish
the fires of war. :

Add your name today.

4 Nba man who guided Canada’s destiny for over
21 years as prime minister, who topped ‘all other
Commonwealth prime ministers in tenure of office,
é :

. William Lyon Mackenzie King, born in Berlin

{now Kitchener) Ont., on December 17, 1874,
died at his summer home at Kingsmere near Ottawa,
on Sunday, July 23 at the ripe age of 75 years.

Now the biographers can go to work, as un-
doubtedly they will; and it is a safe assumption that
there will be little resemblance in their respective ef:
forts to portray the life and work of Mackenzie King.

As bourgeois statesmen are sured, William
Lyon Mackenzie King was undoubtedly one of the
_ most outstanding figures of our time. On his mother’s

Cold war lunacy

~ Russian youth newspaper, reviewing the effects
A of “cold war” on the American mentality, esti-

mates that to date it,has produced “I 7,000,000 luna- |
tics in the United States.” Just how Russia’s young
_ people arrived at that total we don’t know. Within
closer range of Uncle Sam’s heavy propaganda ar-
illery, press, radio, theater, to say nothing of “Voice
of America” hysterics) we would hazard a figure
about twice that number. Further, if we were to take
— Upton Sinclair's definition of lunacy as ‘“‘a man wit
wrong ideas on the use of an axe”, both the Russian
estimate and our own might be away short of the
U.S. “cold war” exponents certainly supply the
world with plenty of evidence of widespread lunacy,
with the haberdasher industry leading. One of these ;
windy babbits named Paul D. Gilbert, addressing
the Association of Better Business Bureaux in Wash-
recently, came up with this atomic gem: “A
the world’s problems would be solved if Joe
would come over here and get himself a nice
‘suit, a good straw hat and a pair of brown.
nd white shoes.” H ilbert, who is also
the

‘dkessed malt tothe internailonal’ scope".

consequence, unable to appreciate all the finer niceties

»

dollar gangsterism.
That, of course, is the main trouble with all the
Russians, the Chinese, the peoples of the New Demo-
cracies of Europe, and now the Koreans. ey just
won't fit themselves into one of haberdasher Gilbert's
1950 aggressive models, thereby avoiding the high in-
cidence of lunacy noted by a Russian youth news-
paper.

Mackenzie King

side, a grandson of the illustrious rebel leader of
1837, William Lyon Mackenzie, (a fact on which
he felt justifiably proud) there was little of the rebel
in Mackenzie King.

“Men make their own history,” said Karl Marx,
“but they do not make it just as they please; they do
not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves,
but under circumstances directly found, given and
transmitted from the past.”

Back in 1906 when Sir Wilfred Laurier select-
ed Mackenzie King for his first minister of labor. the
great French-Canadian was also conscious that he
was choosing a successor for leadership of the liberal
party, the mantle of which was to fall on Mackenzie
King’s shoulders eleven years later in 1919. :

Laurier noted a quality in Mackenzie King
which, above all else, was essential to steering a safe
course through the troublesome waters of rising Cana-
dian imperialism, at times disturbed in its Anglo-
American relationships and its French - Canadian
“problem child”. The, Scots call this quality being
“canny”, and Mackenzie King was its living embodi-
ment.

His literary efforts, like his oratory were always
“canny”; heavy, laborious dry-as-dust verbosity. Of
Mackenzie King it has often been said by supporters
and opposition alike, that he could “‘talk longer and
say less’’ than any other living Canadian. Perhaps
they failed to see that in this “canny” wordiness the
helmsman was astutely wielding the paddle of com-
promise, seeking to avoid the “‘shallows and miseries”
that strew the course of class society as it nears its
final estuary.

Only once during his long career as leader of
the Liberal party and prime minister did the breath
of scandal pollute the atmosphere of his leadership —
the Beauharnois scandal of 1924, Like a good
“canny” presbyterian, Mackenzie King led his Lib-
eral followers through “‘the valley of humiliation” with
due contriteness. In private the old chieftain thun-

_ ,dered anathema at his liberal culprits. Next time, he

muttered, they'd have to be more careful.

Mackenzie King is dead — but the tradition ‘out
of which he wove his history, lives on —

uring Canadian monopoly imperialism “under circum-
in the changing relationships
Anglo-American imperialism.

stances directly found”
and foreign policies of

that of nurt-

TOM McEWEN

As We See lt

LAst WEEK President Truman asked the U.S. Congress for another

“$10 billion to win the Korean war and to meet the threat of

aggression anywhere in the world.” So another 10, 20,
follow all the other astronomical amounts which have gone
‘down the drain to keep the world “free” from ideas Wall Street doesn’t
like. :
The sky’s the limit for a-bombs, h-bombs, bacteria—anything that
: can kill in a big way. Just kill off all the people who
disagree on what constitutes democratic freedom,
until the objective of “one world”—Wall Street’s
world—has been achieved. Shades of Wendell Will-
kie! :

The spread of new ideas on government, on
“ways of life”, is branded as “Communist agegres-
sion”. Thus the real imperialist aggressors, inter-
ventionists, invaders, call them what you will, seek
to justify their criminal acts by posing as crusaders
of “freedom”. To help carry the sorry swindle
along, they drape themselves with an emblem of
peace (UN flag) to incite war,

We'll soon require a brand-new 20th century Wall Street dictionary
to learn that “no” means “yes”, that “black”
‘war against the Korean people means “peace”.

But, as the Korean people themselves have so well demonstrated
in recent weeks, people just don’t like to be killed off in order to be
“saved” for dollar democracy,

women everywhere. The Korean Peasant is writing another brilliant
chapter in the long fight for real freedom, giving new content to Fitz-
Greene Halleck’s (1790-1867) stirring poem: ;
Strike—till the last armed foe expires;
J Strike—for your altars ‘and your fires;
Strike—for the green graves of your sires;
God—and your native land! !
®
Wall Street backed the corrupt Chiang Kai-shek Kuomintang re-
gime to the tune of some 600 billion dollars. Then its state department
issued a voluminous “White Paper” in which it tabulated its invest-
ments and found the results not very attractive. All the elements of
corruption, degeneracy, dishonesty and double-talk are duly noted and
recorded. But as a n:

Al Capone in Formosa—and in so doing
“scrap of paper” all its sacred conventions
rights of the Chinese people!

The pattern in Korea is almost a complete replica of the Chiang
Kai-shek “investment”, The regime headed by Syngman Rhee is also
admittedly corrupt and reactionary and an avowed enemy of the -
Korean people, but billions of dollars are being poured in to prop it up
and maintain it in power.

“Of course it is

Kai-shek and Rhee exhaust the list,

A little over two years ago, with much noise about “democracy”,
and “freedom”, U.S. imperialism granted the Philippines “independ-
ence”. Working people the world over eyed this magnanimous gesture
with more than a little suspicion—which has since proved to be well
founded. /

U.S.-sponsored President Quirino of the Philippines and most of
his cabinét and government hangers-on, run Chiang Kai-shek and Rhee
a close second. “We're not angels,” says Philippine Senate President
Jose Avelino with charming frankness, “What are we in power for?”
“Let’s rehabilitate the country,” said another Quirino politician when
presented with “independence” gifts, “but let’s first rehabilitate
ourselves.” :

That’s the stock picture at the top. The
journal Reader’s Digest
of corruption, graft, scandal and moral degeneracy in the top layers
of the Yankee-dominated Philippines government, posing the question:
“Are the

Swarms of Quirino govern-
pickings of “independence,”
and give their subjects police state rule in lieu of land, peace bread, and
enlightenment, the Huks concern themselves mainly with doing just
those things—the while “keeping their powder dry” against the mer-
cenaries of foreign imperialism.

This week’s issue of CIO News, which has now gone over lock
stock and barrel to Wall Street’s tommy gun “democracy”, bemoans
the inability of Yankee imperialism to impress upon the Oriental mind
our “superior” way of life, Here’s how Philip Murray’s Taft-Hartleyized
mouth-organ sees it: “We, to going to have to do
more than spread propaganda win the loyalty and
Support of the peoples of Asia.”

Editor Swim of the CIO News
balderdash for top CIO brass, feels as keenly as John Foster Dulles,

Support of the peoples of Asia.” Swim hasn’t learned yet,
nor have those he apes,
free to run their own affairs, cannot be bought for Yankee dollars, high
explosives or Coca-Cola. These prices, even with an attractive “Com-
munist aggression” Jabel tacked on, only cover the Chiang Kai-shek,
Syngman Rhee brand of “loyalty”. Obviously a dubious asset at best!

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