WMiign HAR avaresanaeevansuuaunienananauavaaueya EVERY community bedevilled wi Burns’ day their }; Be bigoted censorship than they are in i na time. Burns classified this breed Hel ne of the greatest satires ever penned, ed Willie’s Prayer, and it would lose Pee Diets thrce were: it written today. t a ‘ia city of Kamloops a handful of ae Se te thon thought controllers |. “that “ have decided among themselves . Peace a Gardner, secretary of B.C. to tell aes should not be permitted. fing eeaulpape citizens of the delibera- Deine the recent Peking and Vienna Matter qe sees Rather than leave the citizen to the good sense. of Kamloops a to agree or disagree with what * histori rmay have had to say about these apparent rence our Holy Willies es Y Sot busy and, by threats of intimiast® and other acts of violence, oe ated hall jowners into refusing ner the use of their properties for Publie een ne even after the rent had Bones *S an old stunt of the modern f i t-controllers, to represent anything to the “agree with as being dangerous ity, one and order” of the commun- tated hi € the original Holy Willie, who ing i pet a .. A burning and a shin- Specie’ t to a’ ‘this place,” our Kamloops on wh oe themselves as “the law” : . the citizenry should read or hear, Viol ea to lawlessness and threats of their bi against those who encroach upon hall g a eane As they temporarily close Holy it against peace meetings these i illies out-howl the coyotes back in th : saint. is in mimicry of their patron 66) are visit him that did employ him; * ist “ae not in thy mercy by them; ear their prayers; F or thy People’s sake destroy a yg iad : em, ee d dinna spare.” Cannes mloops Sentinel of January 28 Lathe cre 27-inch two-column editorial on With He under the lofty caption, “Peace: nor.” After misquoting Voltaire Tight of an individual to express the pen. '. Views, the Sentinel dedicates \ fulsome ne 26 inches of its editorial in tality, blessing of the Holy Willie men- A The! the Old canards are trotted out. Garde ene disagrees “violently” with 88 a wey’ Views on peace, describing him the ve arley McCarthy to the Sage of ~ Peace pemiling? And anyway, all these Com; onterences “were arranged under burps ™M auspices and... their main in tha y8S to denounce American policy . Comes i. East.” Even Picasso’s dove by this pj for some severe condemnation Seems rd fancier on the Sentinel, who Boo he eve 4 preference for vultures. Rentlem Tutally frank,” the long-winded large or small, is th its quota. In Robbie On th hee, Dp with ¢ Says, “we are theroughly fed! ops Fr anadians who swallowed Marx Al who ov there on‘ the editor fumes on ism ag 9 Not recognize Yankee imperial- his Prope and John Foster Dulles as the tnie et. These, and only these, are ing to 4, PPOPonents of “peace” accord- What S tinel, the Struck us rather forcibly wasn’t _~ Wild harang ue of the Kamloops Sen- e ; Publis Tom McEwen, Editor One Year $3.00. ft One Year $4.00. Uthorized as second RUT RTTOtn ee fT | they were no less vocal in ° tinel on the suppression of Gardner’s meetings. That was common run-of-the- mill cold war froth, exported with Yankee dollars to keep the morale—and profits— of the warmongers at top level. Peking and Vienna represent a world peace move- ment, millions of people marching for peace, unperturbed by the noise of small editors caught in the backwash of their literary perversions! No, what struck as most forcibly was another front page editorial in the same edition of the Sentinel (this one a modest nine inches) on Scotland’s national Bard, Robbie Burns. It was a fine editorial—fine in the sense that it shows the Sentinel’s editor to be a versatile chap, if nothing else. “The kind that Burns had in mind when he wrote, “Ye are sae grave, nae doubt ye’re wise Nae ferly tho’ ye do despise The harum-scarum, ram-stam boys, The rattlin squad; I see you upward cast your eyes— —Ye ken the road—” The 27-inch dithyramb on “Peace With Honor” stands in sharp contrast to the nine inches on Burns.. The one desecrates the essence and content of Scotland’s plowman poet—the other places a, wither- ed wreath, not to Burns, but to a class-_ inspired Burns’ cult which seeks to distort Burns ¢o its own likeness. ; The Sentinel’s editor didn’t know it, but Burns was in Peking and Vienna speaking for peace, as he spoke for it in his Tree of Liberty. He was giving Korean peasants, Malayan plantation slaves, black men from Africa, the op- pressed and the free of all lands, a new vision of a new world, whén “Man to man the warl ower, wad brothers be for a’ that.” And he wasn’t giving them the Eisenhower-Dulles vesion of “peace” im- posed by A-bombs and jellied gasoline, but the way the people of his day and our day envision that new world. And he preferred Picasso’s dove to an Ameri- - can eagle, with a dollar in one taloned claw and a policeman’s club in the other. In fact, the editor didn’t know it ,but if Robbie Burns were with us today, he would have rated top billing in the Sen- tinel’s 27-inch diatribe . . . and saved the editor the job of the other nine inches of “kulturbund” bunkum! We agree that The Cotter’s Saturday ‘Night could “. . . well be echoed here,” ° but not as a “patriotic” lever to further the selling out of Canada’s independence, resources‘and freedoms to the American war trusts. Therefore we complete the stanza quoted by the Sentinel and taken out of context in a clumsy effort to make Robbie Burns a spokesman for cold war policies and gag rule: : , howe’er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous Populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their ' much loved Isle.” There Burns is speaking to the people, exhorting them to stand against jhe tyranny, treason and betrayal of the enemies of the people and their literary apologists. We join with the Kamloops Sentinel in asking “for Canada, as Burns wished for Scotland, that she be ‘loved at home, rever’d abroad’,” but to attain that de- sirable goal it is first of all necessary to free Canada from the criminal associa- - tion of the Yankee war trusts. The first step in this direction is to preserve the democratic right of Cana- dians to speak their piece, to hear the opinions of others, to form their own judgement, to curb the Holy Willies in the enemy camp, and to begin in our own community! : Meantime we recommend to an editor who claims he is “thoroughly fed up with . « Marx,” a careful study of Burns. There he can learn much also. Pacific TRIBUNE hed Weekly at Room 6 - 426 Main Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone: MArine 5288 Hal Griffin, Associate Editor aes C. Subscription Rates: | _ F _ ~8nada and British Commonwealth countries (except Australia) - Six Months $1.60 Australia, United States and all other countries . Six Months $2.50 — Tinted by Union Printers Ltd., 550 Powell Street, Vancouver 4, BC. class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa | A wi ‘American offic ba Germany i swingind ™ said “WE MUST INVITE ALL THE JEWISH PEOPLE THERE TO COME TO OUR FREE DEMOCRATIC ZONE..." Sanctuary Canadians want peace in Korea-- not war with People’s China Yo points in President Eisenhower's message to the U.S. Congress, _his determination to tear up the historic Yalta agreement and his dcision to end the ‘“‘neutrality patrol’ of the 7th U.S. Fleet in the ae of Formosa are of the gravest concern to all peace-loving Can- adians, Stripped of their lofty pretenses, Eisenhower's statements reveal the cruel, calculated determination of his Republican administration to extend the war beyond Korea, to ignite new conflicts in Asia. The man who owes his election to his focussing the hopes of the American people for peace in Korea upon his promised visit to the battlefront, now dis closes his inhuman, hoax. Not a cease-fire, not continued negotiation of the one remaining difference, but extension of the conflict that has already cost thousands of American, British and Canadian lives, that has ravaged an ancient land ahd decimated a cultured people—this is Eisen- hower’s policy. Is there a Canadian politician so shameless that he will try to represent it as the way to peace? _ ae . Eisenhower's stated intention of asking Congress for a resolution repudiating U.S. Second World War agreements with its allies is in reality no more than a formal declaration of what has already been done since Prime Minister Churchill launched the cold war by his Fulton, Missouri, speech. To the Yankee imperialists plotting the provocations of the cold e 3 friendehip and trade with People’s ‘public opinion on this gravest of all issues is no less war the agreements of Yalta and Potsdam have long been no more than scraps of paper’* to be torn up as and when they could. But those who pretend that it is the U.S. and not the USSR that honors its commit- ments will now have to look for new arguments to sustain their pretenses. It is Eisenhower's decision:to end the “neutrality patrol,” how- ever, that occasions the most immediate alarm and presents the greatest danger. Truman’s original “‘hands off” policy toward Formosa has long since been replaced by the policy that makes Formosa a U.S--occupied territory and Chiang a ward of the U.S. government. Until now Chiang has been protected in his island stronghold and restrained from inflicting hew miseries upon the Chinese people. Now, having undergone due treatment in the U.S. correctional propaganda institute, he is to be released as one of the gang of supposedly ex-Nazis, ex-fascists and ex: war criminals who compose the legion of ‘defenders of freedom.” the U.S. fleet will still protect him on Formosa. — The very presence of the U.S. 7th Fleet in Formosan waters in violation of China’s territorial sovereignty constituted aggression and not all the U.S. propaganda has been able to disguise its purpose —.to pro- tect Chiang and the remnants of his corrupt and repudiated regime from the just wrath of the Chinese people. 4 Now Chiang is to be the instrument for executing Eisenhower's policy of having “‘Asiatics fight Asiatics,”” with Wall Street filling the role of gunmaker and referee, ready to intervene when the fight goes against the pretender and eager to seize the purse. . Prime Minister St. Laurent’s evasive position, as stated in the House of Commons, that the decision to remove the 7th U.S. Fleet is “solely the responsibility” of the U.S. government, ‘is not one that will be shared by the great majority of Canadians, to whom peace in Korea and not war in China is the paramount concern. Britain’s Foreign Minister Anthony Eden has already voiced even the Churchill government's alarm, motivated by self-interest but compelled to speak by the tremendous force of British public opinion. i strong and it must likewise be aroused to compel the St. Laurent government to speak out. The interests of the Canadian people lie in peace in Korea, in China. By its refusal to represent these interests, the St. Laurent government reveals itself as serving not the But Canadian people ‘but the dictates of a foreign power. ; PACIFIC TRIBUNE — FEBRUARY 6, 1953 — PAGE 5.