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: se Exhibition Forum rally for The $150 million now spent to he news and TV coverage of on the surface, with an apparent
; ‘NDP. national leader T, C. build one B-70 bomber would go U.S. President Kennedy’s re-_ well-fed and well-zeroomed mob do-.
‘Tommy” Douglas, scheduled for ska towards the building of some... junket to a number of Latin ing very well on American “aid”.
Wednesday, April 3, promises to 37 modern schools, see padi, Asaerinasi countries, passed up a But “down below” a volcanic re
be the top highlight in the cur-» needed am almost every Canadian whole number of salient features sentment seethes and rumbles and
rent election campaign. community. Or again, the $100 of. the. countitées visited boils.

There Mr. Douglas has promis- million spent on the construction True, there were SHEPS of True, as an extra-territorial
ed to spell out the full program of a polaris submarine would pro- large cheering throngs, literally colonial office for U.S. imperialism
of the NDP on the vital issue of Vide no less than 25 one-hundred thousands of them, but the pictur- in Latin America, the “Organiza-_
nuclear arms and U.S. interferen- bed hospitals. obey a0 08 dN ox didu'taneinde dn their scope the tion of American States” (OAS
aap: Canadian affairs. To date the line, the possibilities are end- millions of starving, illiterate, rag- looks good to President Kennedy
NDP candidates across the coun- less. : : ged and persecution-ridden peo- as a center of counter-revolution- |
try, with some few exceptions, As in Toronto’s Maple Leaf ple in the background; the mil- ary intrigues against the Republi
have taken a very forthright stand Gardens, where the NDP leader lions upon whom a native parasite of Cuba, and for the greater glory

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in opposition to both, and which,
in reality are inseperable.

What is lacking however, is an
equally forthright position for a
complete break with all U-.S.-dir-
ected war alliances, and especially
that of our dangerous and costly
“membership” in NATO and
NORAD. Both provide an oppor-
tunity for smuggling U.S. nuc-
lear arms into the hands of Can-
ada’s forces at home and abroad,
and both are ruinously costly for
the Canadian people — in terms of
a bottomless arms drain, plus the
futility and illusion of an alleged

_ “defense” in thermonuclear war.

Were such vast material and
financial resources to be used for
peace-time construction and hu-
man wellbeing, there is no end
to the great possibilities which
could be opened up for a sound
Canadian economy.

made these vital issues the key
theme of that historic election
rally, the Exhibition Forum can
likewise become the focal point
for turning the political tide in
B.C.; to keep Canada free of nuc-
lear weapons and ‘heir pro-U.S.
Liberal salesmen, to call a halt to
U.S. interference in Canadian af-
fairs, and to begin the utilization
of Canada’s vast resources for the
peace and well-being of the Can-
adian people, rather than for the
suicidal war plans of the USS.
trusts and their Canadian ‘Charlie
McCarthys.” :

Working men and women and
their families from Vancouver and
the Lower Mainland should see to
it that the “Tommy” Douglas
Forum rally tops all records in
numbers, enthusiasm, and decis-
iveness on April 8 for peace and
Canadian independence.

‘David and Goliath’

ce is a special 12-page election
edition, with 10,000 copies ov-
er and above our regular subscrib-
ers, for free distribution as good
solid election material that makes
sense,

Unlike the extravagant propa-
ganda balderdash put out by the

__ ton by the pro-American Liberal

nuclear -Salesmen, and financed
by the U.S. trusts, this edition of
the “PT” as always, is edited, fin-
anced and distributed by and for
working people. ;

Against U.S. and Canadian mon-
opoly slush fund handouts to the
old-line parties, running into mil-
lions of dollars, the working peo-
ple give their dimes and dollars
—and their inexhaustable deter-
mination to halt the betrayal of
Canada; to restore Canada’s
wealth, sovereign independence
and peace to its own people.

To that end this edition of the
Pacific Tribune is specifically
dedicated. Make it a weapon for
victory for YOU and Canada on
April 8. q

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class and the U.S. trusts batten
and pillage.
True, President Kennedy’s “Al-

liance for Progress” looked good -

People’s needs
before arms!

3ST MODERN
SCHOOLS

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and profit of the U.S. trusts in
Latin America, but again the gap.
is wide and unbridgable between
the objectives cf OAS and the as
pirations of Latin America’s mil

So wide indeed that not even
Lester B. Pearson’s anxiety to
fill the vacant OAS chair reserved
for Canada, to serve as an obliging —
hellhop for the Yankee trusts, can
bridge the gap.

All in all Kennedy’s ““New Fron-
tier’, ‘Alliance for Progress,’ —
and all the other sales gimmicks q
for U.S. exploitation, looked very |
good in the pictures, and the press —
hawks did a bang-up job of por-—
traying an atmosphere of “cordial
relations” between exploiter and
exploited, but it was as phoney
as a Confederate three-dollar bill.

The real Latin-America wasn’t —
there — but it will be, and soon; —
which is one more reason why Can-
ada must definitely decline Wash-
ington’s invitation to ‘be seated” e| |
in her OAS colonial office “hot
seat”. &

Ly Saaeeials my dear Watson,
elementary”, as the noted
sleuth Sherlock Holmes was wont
to say to his colleague Dr. Watson,
when a case they had just ‘“‘crack-

ementary, old chap, what?”

In a recent edition of The Ubys-
sey we noted where Inspector Sher-
lock Harvison of the RCMP has
also been doing a bit of remarkable
sleuthing on alleged “Communist
activities’ among the student bo-
dies of Canadian universities.

“We are not dealing withan or-
dinary politica] party,” warns Sher-
lock Harv, “but part of an Interna-

- tional Communist Movement direc-
ted by the Soviet Union”. With
this remarkable ‘deduction’ Sher-
locks lays out the “proof”. x

“Tim Buck and Leslie Morrts
have both been ‘to Russia within
the past year; Norman Freed serves
on the editorial board for the Com-
munist publication World Marxist
Review, (a very excellent journal
if we may say so). John Weir rep-
resents the Canadian and Pacific
Tribune in Moscow, Bert Whyte
represents the same papers in Pe-
king,” while the Park family are
the “Canadian party’s envoys in
Havana’”’,

Considering that these press cor-
respondents and others are almost
a weekly feature in the Pacific

Tribune and other progressive la-

ed” looked so doggone simple. “El-.

bor journals, Sherlock Harv’s ‘“‘de-
ductions” are nothing short of mir-
aculous. Compared to such master-
ly sleuthing poor old Holmes and
his pal Watson look like a couple
of country yokels trying to figure
out one of Gaglardi’s highway con-
tracts. :
It’s too bad Sherlock Harv could-
n’t have given us a “breakdown”
on the tens of thousands of tourists
who visit the Soviet Union, China
Cuba and other socialist countries
annually, or the hundreds of Assoc-
iateqd Press, Reuters, and other
news agency correspondents who
also write their daily blurbs on life
behind a mythical “iron curtain’.
C’mon Harv old boy, your Essel-
wein-Leopold slip is showing?

There is a point, however, to all
this warmed-up RCMP sleuthing
drivel, with its extra curricular
snooping and intimidation of the
young people (and faculties in
Canadian universities.)

To pinpoint al] who participate
in peace activities, anti-nuclear
demonstrations and the like? Who
headed up or played a prominent
part in the recent “I Back Mac”
petition activities, designed to ‘‘em-
barass” governments? Who delves
into philosophies that are consid-
ered by an RCMP embryonic po-
lice state to be “‘subversive”’ of the
status quo? Who prefers, as the
English poet Shelley puts it in his
Queen Mab, to prefer ‘Hell's free-
dom to the servitude of Heaven”
and scorns conformity in the pre-
ference? Who prefers the healthy
atmosphere of philosophical debate
to the cramped isolation of an
RCMP-operated brainwash tub?

In Sherlock Harv’s book these
are all potential ‘‘subversives’’, and

cum laude diploma. But John and

, of Canadian universities, is a typi- —

embryonic police state.

hence must be tagged as ‘security
risks” when they venture out into '
the larger world of earning a live-
lihood. John Smith and Sally Win-
ters may graduate in engineering,
chemistry or what-have-you cum
laude, but in the ‘free world” of
McCarthyism and coldwar, an
RCMP snoop dossier out-weighs the’

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Sally wil] never know who put
the jinx on their inability to secure
a position, the prime objective of
an RCMP-manufactured  ‘‘secur-
ity”.

When Sherlock Harv gets onto
the subject of Lenin, he almost
qualifies for a spot on the Wayne
and Shuster show. Seriously, how-
ever, this RCMP deliberately timed
and publicized concern about ‘sec-
urity”, branding a legal Canadian
party in the midst of an election
campaign, and utilizing this cloak-
and-dagger method of intimidating
the student bodies (and. faculties)

cal made-in-the-USA encroachment "
upon the basic liberties of Can-
adians. A method of police-state
interference with the basic liber-
ties, designed to aid U.S. nuclear
bomb salesman Lester B. Pearson
sel] out Canada lock, stock and bar-
rel to the U.S. war trusts.

No wonder the Vancouver Sun,
editorializing on this RCMP snoop
activities in Canadian universities,
poses the question; “Canadians can
be forgiven for wondering if their
country is as free as they thought
it was’’? Sa

A vote against Washington's nu-
clear bomb salesman and his pro-
American Liberal party on April 8,
is also a vote for the preservation
of basic liberties and against an