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‘TT IS NOT in the interest of the

American people to have the

image of the hated American and
“Yankee Go Home” which rings all
Over today’s world.

My nation has emerged as per-
haps the most hated nation in all
history. I do not except from this
characterization the Roman Empire,
Whose legions spread around the
then known world, and nations and
People and tribes had to pay tribute
to a Caesar and salute him.

I do not minimize what happened

_in the world of yesterday when Hit-

ler disturbed all mankind.

But I do know that no nation in
history has had its hands so deeply
enmeshed in the internal affairs of
all the peoples of this earth, exploit-
Ing them, as does America at the
Present moment.

This is not in the interest of the
American people.

We are facing, in the United
States, the elements of a political
crisis. The .old can no longer live
with the new, The outcome of the
Struggle in the U.S. is going to de-
termine, in large part, world peace
or world war and the nature of to-
Morrow’s world.

In jest, a friend said to me there
Can be no Canadian revolution with-
Out the consent of the Americans.

hat was in jest, but I can tell you
there’s a lot of truth in that.

Our comrades:south»of the -bor-
der, in Latin and South America,
having witnessed Cuba taking the
Path of socialism, now. wonder what
the Preconditions are for other-na-
“ons taking that path. Will U.S. im-

- Perialism hold baek and refrain from

intervening? Or will it intervene?

The answer to this question is

emg forged in present-day Ameri-
a. Hardly anyone writes, however,
about the possibility that the hand
of American imperialism might be
Stayed by the American people.

The crisis in the U.S. today re-
Volves around three main approach-
®s to foreign policy.

First there is the old approach:

© continuance of the Cold War, as
€xpressed in the policies of the John-
Son Administration.

Then there is another very dan-
8erous, though subtle approach
Which
following way: we are not bound to
ommit ourselves to the whole
eae our lines are drawn too far;
&t us leave Asia; get out of Viet-
nen let us stay in Africa as long
S We can, but that’s not the point
Where we'll have a knock-down and

"ag-out; let’s concentrate on the
Western hemisphere; let’s establish
g1 eater control over Canada and let
5 regiment Latin America to cor-
ae Bradt our will; if need be we'll
a Our legions into all the coun-

= of Latin America; we'll send

*m into Canada if need be to get
in Ne water; we will build a fortress

orth and South America to with-

Stand ch ° 2
World. ange in the rest of the

3 eek concept is not advanced in

a i Precise terms ; but it is implicit
or ee Who say: “Let us retreat

actical reasons.”

cae issue before the American
ble IS not a continuation of the

| has been expressed in the

‘SEVEN —

DAYS

IN MAY’

A WARNING

,

Communist Party of Canad
munist spokesman in Illinois,

of the national committee of the Comm

old policy, nor a tactical retreat.

is required is
aye reine and establishment =
a new policy which corresponds 0
the acceptance of today’s world es
it is, and America living with at
not thinking she’s duty-bound to
change it.

Tied up with these struggles ee
change in policy is a rising surge 0
the democratic forces of our coun
try—the trends that have already

a reversal of

1 h convention of the

i icle i excerpt from the speech to the 19t
Be bee a by Claude Lightfoot, civil rights leader and Com-
USA. Lightfoot greeted the convention on behalf

unist Party of the United States.

made it possible for the Communist
Party to come out mope'freely in
the: marketplace of ideas.

Our party is about ready to enter
the marketplace of ideas again. Most
of the legal barriers have been
stricken down. But now we see a

new method evolving—there is talk.

of the revival of McCarthyism mn
the United States.

I want to assure you that if what
is in store is not checked, it is some-

June 17, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5

thing that will make McCarthyism
look like a picnic.

Today, there are forces accumu-
lating in the U.S. which are decid-
ing more and more to take matters
into their own hands as they lose
the legal battles. There is the be-
ginning of terror.

The killing of- a president was
no isolated phenomenon. We have
seen a number of events take place
in the last several months which
now cause our party to pinpoint the
existence of a new trend and ney:
danger.

The ultra-Right, conservative
forces represented by. the John
Birch Society and the American
Nazi Party headed by Rockwell are
directly intervening to cancel out
the new, popular developments.

Last year, on my farm—incident-
ly it has never been used. for farm-
ing purposes—we had a -conference
of about 80 young people from 25
or 30 campuses. The conference
lasted for about a week. After the
conference was over I flew to Eu-
rope. When I returned, the farim had
been burned down. The house had
been burned to the ground.

On the same night, on the west
side of Chicago a Dubois Club head-
quarters in the heart of one of the
Negro ghettoes was burned down.

Then bombs were sent by mail to
the Worker office in ‘New York, and
to a book store in Chicago, and later
there was the bombing of the Dubois
headquarters in San Francisco.

I myself, speaking several months
ago at the University of Missouri,
had to be escorted out of town by
police. Thé meeting had been jam-
packed with Birchites and Ku Klux
Klarmers.

A few weeks ago Gus Hall. spoke
at a meeting in Detroit. For some
reason somebody suspected some-
thing and called in the police. They
searched a few of the intruders and
found a revolver.on one of them.

A few days later some so-called
maniac went into the Socialist Labor
Party headquarters —a Trotskyist
organization — with a gun and shot
three people down.

’ Our party takes a serious view of
all this. This moving over to extra-
terroristic measures by the ultra-
Right in the United States we are
determined to crush, just as qeci-
sively as we crushed McCarthyism
in another age.

For if we do not, let me tell you
the prospect. Seven Days in May
could become-a reality. The “invis-_
ible government”: which has pulled
military coups all over the world
could still doit in the United States
unless the people are aroused and
understand the danger and realize

- that it can happen here. ”

To my Canadian comrades I say:
we request your help. I know we'll
get it. We got it in the battles of
yesterday. We need it even though
you see the rising tides of struggle
in the United States.

We need your help to prevent
America from taking a path toward
fascism, toward a military govern-
ment, with the resulting effect of
the occupation of the whole conti-
nent, which would be in order if the.
US. lost its semblance of democracy.

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