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Our Contemptible

Contemporaries

Q)YNE would think, to read the capitalist

press sometimes, that the Spanish people
are only hanging on to Madrid in order to
provide General Franco with the opportunity
of killing them now and thus saying him the
trouble of repeating the mass slaughter of
Badajoz when he makes his “imevitable” entry
into the ruins over the dead bodies of women
and children. .

There was a time when the editorial stat of
the News-Jicrald., with the assistance of a
couple of United Press shock troopers at Bur-
zos, sallied forth and took Madrid every
norning before breakfast. They nearly cap-
ured Barcelona too, one morning, but appar-
ently one of the correspondents had to go back
for his typewriter and the assault failed.

The boys on the Sun had the time of their-

lives for a while shooting priests and nuns
until ammunition ran so low and public indig-
nation so high that they were forced to beat
4 strategic retreat.

And the lamentations of Aunt Matilda over
it the Province have filled innumerable edi-
rorial columns. The old girl is a bit befuddled
‘nm her dotage for all her snappy make-up and
thinks that the Conservative party represents
progress and Anthony Eden world peace.

She states quite frequently that the war 12
Spain is “no affair of Ganadians,” but she
souldn’t belp sticking her nose in, and what
she saw appalled her. So much, in fact, that
she inadyerteatly credited the Fascists with a
Loyalist victory.

Since British Columbia people don’t seem to
have appreciated their efforts to assist Hranco
by disseminating his propaganda without
charge, Vancouver’ three daily papers have
adopted a more devious method. It is some-

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shat ak Get o gove antes a eaTrison im Worth Chin: Tsstae ge ake 2 -

a ee ae ee Seo neu garrison mm North China. Whatever its source, ing the Leagne to wither through lack of sup-

other war materials are shipped to the Fascists
through Portugal, while the democratic Span-
ish government is denied the right to purehase

“arms and munitions.

Every time a press despatch is received trom
Hendaye (Franco-Spanish border) they give it
a two-column head and chalk up another victory
or two to Franco. Of course, Hendaye being in
neutral territory, the star correspondents of
the big press agencies can get a mauch better
idea of what is going on than they could, say,
in Madrid, where there is so much noise and
confusion from Italian bombs and German
shells falling on Spanish working-class dis-
tricts.

Not that the daily press maintains this “in-
dependent” attitude only in regard to the
Spanish conflict.

They have reported so many rifts in the
French People’s Front that, if we didn’t know
better. we would be inclined to compare it to
the Yukon river at break-up time. It must be
positively disheartening for them to admit to
themselves that the People’s Front in France
has obdurately refused to provide them with a
basis for their fabrications: :

Again, whenever a few traitors are shot m
the Soviet Union, it is enough for them to
predict the downfall of the Soviet Union in
their indecent haste to vindicate their pro-
phecies of twenty years agone. In fact, so joud
have been their lamentations of late, one would
almost suspect they had suffered some irrepar-
able personal loss. Well, perhaps they have.

A Diplomatic Affront

N a calculated effrontery to the intelligence
of British Columbia people, H. Nemichi,
Japanese consul in Vancouver, gave a statement
to the daily press here this week in which he
seeks to justify Japanese imperialist aggression
in China.

The statement, in itself typical of the Fascist
and pro-Fascist propaganda for which the
News-Herald and the Sun so often provided
ready mediums, purports to be the official re-
port made by the commander of the Japanese

only in his more plausible approach does the
statement of the representative here of Japa-
nese imperialism exceed the eruder verbosity
of his pure Avyan and neo-Roman prototypes.

No areument can justify the presence of
Japanese ‘roops in Chinese territory and cer-
tainly the predatory aims of Japan in regard
to China have been apparent for a long time.

Tt is a serious matter when the representa-
tive of a nation conducting an undeclared war
of aggression and annexation against another
nation with whom Canada has the friendliest
relation can utilize our “neutral” press to dis-
seminate his palpable falsehoods ; more so when
both countries coneerned have thousands of na-
tionals resident in this provinee. Or is the Japa-
nese consul deliberately trying to provoke racial
contiict here?

That the people of this country will permit
such a breach of diplomatie privilege to: pass
unchallenged is unthinkable. The attention of
Ottawa must be drawn to the matter in no un-
certain manner.

Heading Towards War

TANHE irony of the King government policies

becomes more apparent every day. The
Canadian people have expressed their desire for
peace im no nmeertain terms. With less ¢er-
tainty, Mackenzie King has announced his 1m-
tention of keeping Canada out of war, the grim.
heralds of which are seen in the ambitious ma-
chinations of the Fascist dictators, in their
plans to overthrow the world’s remaining de-
moeracies and in the suicidal armaments race.

And yet, King’s policies are leading Canada
directly into war. The Canadian prime nun-
ister could have aligoned Canada with New
Zealand in opposing Britain’s laissez faire atti-
tude in regard to the League of Nations and
demanding application of penalties to the Ger
man and Italian invaders of Spain. Instead,
he chose to follow the British national govern-
ment, willy-nilly, in its cynical policy ot allow-

port.

Moreover, in falling in with empire defense
plans and all they imply, he has weakened
Canada’s right to take an independent stand
should Britain become imyolved in war. Jt
seems throughout that King has become the tool
of Britain’s reactionary national government.
Britain decided to enforce the Foreign Enlist-
ment Act of 1870. Whereupon a correspond-
ing bill was rushed through at Ottawa, with
orders-in-couneil this week to ensure its en-
forcement. Britain, under the false mask of
“neutrality,” refused to permit the sale of arms
and munitions to the democratic Spanish goy-
ernment. Canada followed suit, jomoring: the
protests ot the Canadian people. =

: It has been clearly demonstrated that this
ineffectual poliey of continual retreat before as-
eression only serves to encourage the Fascist
powers, while the smaller democracies are stam-
peded into the Fascist camp.

A strong stand by the world’s powertul
democratic powers can defeat Fascism. The
Leaeue of Nations provides the machinery
whereby the Fascist dictators can be brought
to heel. And Canada. as a member of the
League, as a force within-the British empive
Downing street cannot ignore, can be a power-
ful-factor in rallying the democratic powers.
The Canadian people must see that this stand
is taken before it is too late.

“Warly this year 1 was talline to an otticer
im one of the battalions of the International
Brigade. He was telling me that his men lacked
proper clothing and footwear, while their rifies
were more dangerous to themselves than to the
enemy.

“T. met him again after the rout of the
Italians at Bribuega this spring. He told me
lis men now had Italian boots, modern rifles,
and had been living on spaghetti for two weeks.
They had sent Mussolini a telegram of thanks.”

—Dr. N. Bethune.

| Who'll Lead |

From Blum To Chautemps

HAUTEMPS formed his cab-

CanWeSave

| The Tories?

a ee political pots of
Canada’s old-line parties
are simmering and just what
will come out of the brew it
is difficult to predict.

One thing, however, is certain.
The people are turning away from
the old-line parties. In future
elections, political observers fore-
cast that straight Tory and Lib-
eral candidates will find it hard
fo muster a winning yote. The rise
and just as sudden fall of the Re-
construction and Social Credit
parties also jndicates that candi-
dates running under these colors
will not fare so well.

Labor, farmer, Gommunist, re-
form-Liberal, CCE, and independ-
ent candidates will capture Many
seats in the approaching Ontario
elections.

All of this is displeasing te the
moguls of St. James and Bay
streets. Im various plush-carpeted
poard rooms, in special coaches
between Toronto and Montreal
and in the private homes of some
of the multi-millionaires heated
political discussions are waxing
these days.

Flow can we resurrect the Con-

- servative party, or should we even
try? Can we bank on Mitchell
Hepburn, or would Herridge be
the better gamble? Will Golonel
Drew pick up anything in Eng-
Jand that would help him to make
the grade as Canadais tx hite
hope”? Maybe Charlie Dunning
could make it? Harrington made
a bad job in Nova Scotia, he’s
out.

These are the questions the “biz
shots” are discussing.

They have given up hope of cur-
ing the “bad heart” of R. B. Ben-
nett—not because the old multi-
millionaire’s cardiac trouble is
serious—but because his stock is
too low.

They are not willing to string
along with Mackenzie King’s poli-
cies either.

The people, including the re-
form-liberals are showing that
they will not stand for a repeti-
tion by King on a federal scale
of Hepburn’s tactics in Ontario.

The big men who own the mines,
mills, farmlands, railroads, banks,
newspapers and many politicians
of both old line parties want to
bring about a new kind of poli-
tical set-up, a set-up that would,
in their opinion, enable them to
settle the railway problem, put
the provinces and municipalities
in their proper places, and crip-
ple the rising trade union move-
ment.

They think that this can be
done if a good front man can be
found, a man around whom they
can build a party of “national
unity’ The main figures of the
Conservative party will be the key
men. Places will be found for re-
actionary Liberals and pseudo-
labor men will be very welcome
as a garnish. King will go, unless
he capitulates as Hepburn did.

Desperate men think up des-
perate remedies for their ailments.

The multi-millionaires are sO wOT-
ried that some of them have even
proposed Sir Edward Beatty or
Senator Arthur Meighen as the
new leaders to be prought before
the people.

By PAUL NIZEN
(In New Masses)

TS fall of the Blum cab-
inet at the end of June
was the kind of “accident”
that everyone had expected.
For days on end, the senate
had stood firm against the
financial measures asked by Vin-
cent Auriol, minister of finance,
and. eon Blum.

The final day came. Or rather
the final night. Towards ten
o'clock, the floor was packed, as
were the galleries. Many provincial
“jadies” came—the senate is the
great assembly of the French
provinces.

Abel Gardey, reporter for the
finance committee, walked to the
speaker's platform. His speech,
clipped and hard, was an attack
on the government.

Vincent Auriol followed him,
His speech was that of a minister
gone down to defeat; he spoke of
wis virtue, which no one ques-
tioned.

Then eon Blum spoke, spoke
well, with caleulated insolence
against the senators. His speech
heralded his resignation.

Joseph Caillaux, chairman of
the finance committee, elosed the
series of addresses. Caillaux is an
old man whom the years have
drained of color; be has the ges-
tures of a puppet and the voice
of a cruel old man. rom time to
time, in unbroken silence, his
monocle dropped from his eye,
clattering on the wood of the
speaker's stand. 3

The vote came—against Blum.
The session adjourned.

*

URING the night, autos sped
towards the Hotel Matignon
which houses the offices of the
premier. It is an old, eighteenth-
century mansion with a delightful
garden. In the cellars, shelters
have been constructed two storeys
deep for protection against air
bombs and poison gas. You can
never tell—there may be a war,
revolution. .. -

In the courtyard the newspaper-
men wait. They haye been wait-
ing for hours and hours, exchang-
ing chilly witticisms.

About two o'clock in the morn-
ing the leaders of the groups in

the parliamentary majority ar
rive: Radicals, Socialists, Inde-
pendent Lefts, Socialist and Re-

publican Unionists, Gommunists.
A little later, the two Communist

delegates, Jacques Duclos, vice-
president of the chamber of dep-
uties, and Marcel Gitton, vice-

chairman of the army committee,
leave the mansion.

‘we have advised resistance.
The gsovernment has no erounds
for resigning.”

Somewhat later, on the stone
steps of the Matignon, the res-
ienation of the cabinet is an-
nounced.

The reporters enter Leon Blum’s
office. He reads the cabinet com-
munique. The end has come. The
premier of the people's front has
surrendered.

The autos now speed toward
the Elysee palace to see President
Albert Lebrun. Madame Vincent
Auriol, wearing 2 broad-brimmed,
black hat from one of the better
stores, drives her husband. Chau-
temps took the wheel of his car
himself. He forgot to release the
brake. The car would not move:

The approach of power was mak-
ing the minister of state nervous.

*

se the Faubourg St. Honore, it is
four o'clock in the morning.
The ministers who have resigned
jeave the presidential palace. Im-
mediately afterwards the presi-
dent of the senate arrives and
consultations begin. The president
ef the senate, a bearded, little
old man, has not slept a wink. .-

Nees had happened? Premier
Blum had given in to 4
planned offensive of the banks
and big capital, with the senate
acting, in part/ as their tool. Blum
need not have quit. The full
powers he had asked had been
accorded him by the chamber of
deputies; there had been no
lower house. The Communists had
counselled resistance.

Yet Leon Blum surrendered. He
was worn out by the exercise. of
power which he had not dared to
use as he might have. There had
been too many retreats, vacillia-
tions, defections.

Yet there was no question of a
change in the government. The
intact majority of the inner cham-
ber forced the president of the
republic to commission someone
from the same parties to succeed
Blum. He chose Camille Chau-
temps, a Radical who is noted for
his affection for compromises.
There would, therefore, be a sec-
ond people’s front cabinet under
Radical leadership, following on
the heels of the people’s front
cabinet under Socialist jJeadership.

The Socialist Ieaders, who had
eyes only for the attacks on the
Blum government and could not
see the shortcomings, raised the
slogan, “Blum to power!’ There
was a reason to fear that the So-
cialist national council might re-
fuse to participate in the new Z0Vv-
ernment, thereby breaking the
people’s front. Leon Blum, with
difficulty, persuaded his followers
to support the Radical cabinet
which was being formed.

The Communists announced
their readiness to support this
eabinet, but did not deem it yet
policy to demand, jointly with the
Socialists, the return to power of
men who had committed them-
selves to be Squeezed out of of-
fice despite the formal expression
of contrary opinion by the Com-
munists.

inet, announcing that it would
remain loyal to the people’s front.
Qn the whole, the cabinet was
composed of the same men.
Thus there is now 2 Radical
and Socialist government, SUD:
ported without restrictions by the
Communists, provided that it re-
mains faithful to the program of
the people's front, and supported
with evident unwillingness by the
Socialists who are still mulling
over the defeat of Leon Blum.

*
Fy} HE entire situation is domin-
: ated by the state of the

treasury and by the foreign out-
look.

When Georegs Bonnet took over
the financial portfolio after he
left his position as ambassador to
Washington,
000000 frances left in the treasury-
The chamber of deputies and the

senate, therefore, voted the full
powers required by the urgent
situation.

The first measure taken with
this power was to raise the ‘‘ceil-
ing” on advances of the Bank of
France to the treasury, this was
a form of inflation. There was

the ‘“‘unhooking”’ of the franc,
which was freed from the gold
standard and left “to float.”
Other measures followed, new
direct and indirect taxes.
These financial measures are

calculated primarily on the desire
for a ‘‘liberal’’ economy, in order
not to frighten eapital-holders. It
is still hoped that, without use
of forceful measures, eapital-hold-
ings which were exiled from
France by their owners may be
persuaded to return.

These measures, which are a
burden upon the French people,
are not a final solution of the
financial problem. “Tnhooking”’
the franc and jncreasing taxes
simply furnish temporary re-
sources which may last until the
end of the year, but will not per-
manently restore French finances.
Sooner or later, and sooner rather
than later, the difficulties will rise
again, and then it will be neces-
sary to look the problem square
in the face, as only the Commu-
nists have done.

>

Apes truth of the matter is that
the structure of the French
budget, as it was established

Dr. Antonio Salazar, whose bloody rule over Portugal led to placing
ped death on this Lisbon street.

of a bomb under his auto, esca

there was only 20,-.

more than a century ago by the
politicans of the restoration period,
corresponds neither to the struc:
ture nor to the requirements of
the modern state.

The real problem is that of re-
forming the budget. Resources
can be found, provided budgetary
allotments are modified and tax
provisions reformed. The only ef-
fective measure will be a pro-
found reform of the budget, the
creation of a genuinely democra-
tic tax system.

There can be no doubt what-
ever that this profound reform
will meet with violent capitalist
opposition. But, as I have already
remarked, once the extraordinary
resources have been exhausted,
the problem will simply have to be
faced squarely.

Then, if the actual achievements
won by the People’s Front are to
be retained, and if the program
of the People’s Front is still to
be carried out, the concrete propo-
sitions of the Communists will
have to be taken into considera-
tion.

It is no mere chance that, sev-
eral days before the fall of Leon
Blum, the Communists declared
that they were ready to assume
the responsibility of taking part
in the government of France.
Prance is now having 2 breathine
spell. Qnee it is over, the major
problems will again present them-
selves in their totality.

*

A pesca! remains the extremely
grave foreign situation, for it
is absolutely clear that German
and Italian intervention in Spain
constitutes a direct threat to the
French Pyrenees frontier as well
as to communications between the
French mainland and North Af-
rica.

The realization of this seems to
be growing, even in cireles where
Franco enjoys the most active
sympathy. Indeed, it appears—
and Blum has so stated—that the
realization of this Situation pre-
vented the Socialists from venting
all their spleen on the Chautemps
government as they had hoped to
do at first. :

The national congress of the So-
cialist party when it met in Mar-
seilles launched violent attacks on
the participation of Socialist min-
isters in the Chautemps govern-
ment. This had been anticipated
and Leon Blum was able to win
a majority of the powerful pro-
vincial federations to his side.

Hence France is not moving
towards an immediate government
crisis unless there is 4 sudden turn
in events, which no one Seems to
expect. Besides, throushout the
land, the People’s Front remains
in extraordinarily solid formation;
the by-elections have preven this
solidly.

The very same day that Leon
Blum fell, the Fascist leader
Jaeques Doriot was C rushed by-

the People’s Front in the elections
at St. Denis. His defeat is typical

of the situation in the entire
country.
Even in the colonies the Peo-

ple’s Front is making progress. In
Dakar, a People’s Front slate was
elected. In Algiers, eleven native
councilmen were elected by a ma-
jority of a thousand votes over &
reactionary Slate.

The masses of yoters and trade
unionists are. maintaining their
firm unity. This alliance remains
the decisive factor in French poli-
tical life.

The West?

By JOHN BOYD

AWN the Canadian West be
saved? Can the vyast
tracts of prairie land which
have been turned into a
desert by dust and drought
be made to yield abundant
erops again?

These are the questions troub-
ling the minds of Canadians today.
No longer is it a local problem,
for almost every section of Cana-
da’s population, every phase of
her economic life is affected by
the ravages of drought.

Truly, it is a national calamity-
Forty million acres of the west’s
grain-producing area, mostly in
Alberta and Saskatchewan, will
see a complete crop failure. Ano-
ther ten million acres (the so-
called marginal area) will use the
meagre wheat crops for cattle
feed only. Everywhere there is
lack of water. :

Yet, hard hit as the West is,
the situation is by no means hope-
less. Practical ways have been
proposed by which it can be reme-
died and the prairies and the
people saved from permanent
ruin. The scheme suggested in-
volves a large irrigation and af-
forestration project, harnessing
the many rivers that flow across
the prairie province into the Arc-
tic waters and diverting them
into irrigation ditches; re-grass-
ing the vast areas of now barren
land and planting of trees to
serve as wind-breaks and water
conservers.

Gigantic as this project may
seem, it is far from impossible.
Agvicultural experts and advis-
ers who have gone out to the
drought-stricken areas agree it
is feasible. Money can also be
found to finance such a scheme.
The huge sums that are even DOW
being squeezed out of the farm-
ers by the big land-owners, grain
brokers and loan sherks on St.
James street could pay for it.

>.<

NGINEERS place the cost of
such a project in the neigh-
borhood of $400,000,000, a large
amount, but not nearly as large
as would be the losses entailed by
the crop failures, deterioration
and human suffering if the pres
ent situation is allowed to con-
tinue. This year’s losses *= crop
yields will total over $300,000,000,

it is estimated-

The Domniion government has
sent out numerous advisers and
investigators into the West to
look
and find a solution. Most of these,
it is reported, favor the irrigation
project proposed by engineers.

Unfortunately, however, the au-
thorities in Ottawa are acting far
too slowly on the matter, making
it more difficult to put any re-
habilitation plan into operation as
each day finds more cattle dying
out and farmers’ families closer
to actual starvation.

Yes, the West can be sayed. But
will it? The answer to this ques-
tion seems to be up to the govern-
ment and thousands of Canadian
farmers are demanding that it be
given immediately. Perhaps their
united voice will make the states-
men of this country sit up and
listen — and before it is too late.

OL’ BILL

The Greatest The indomitable
Sones ‘ heroism of the in-

= vineible Spanish
people and their anti-Fascist al-
lies in Spain from all over the
world, is not only adding to the
epic of history but is lifting to
greater heights the accomplish—
ments of the race.

Such must have been the im-
pression of the packed house at
the Urpheum jlast Sunaay, that
witnessed the “premiere” in Can-
ada of “he Heart of Spain,” Dr-
bethune’s greatest or ali greatest
moving piciures.

This picture,
depths of human misery which
the destructive forces of interna-
tional Fascism are inilicting on
tne body of the Spanish people;
that depicts the bravery and de-
termination of the men and wom-
en who are trying to buud a new
world, that searches the heart and
mind of everyone who sees it, is
the acme of moving picture art.
It stands above any screen pro-
duction I have ever seen, whether

_ from Hollywood, France, Germany

into the drought problem (q

or the Soviet Union.

The Hollywood adjectives—col-
ossal, majestic, superb, super-ex—
cellent—have no Meaning in re-
lation to this picture, because
everything about it is so utterly
Simple, but it towers above them
as the truth of reality outshine
the simulations of art.

This superiority is due to the
fact that the picture is not only
the “Heart of Spain” but was
made in the heart of the struggle,
Wo million-dollar mimes strut
across the canvas, like marionettes
on the end of a string. Reali men,
women and children, suffer real
attack from real Fascists with
real bullets and real bombs, rained
upon them from real planes and
real machine-guns and defend
themselves and fight for their
ideals in an equally real manner
with equally real weapons.

Real blood flows — at the be-
ginning it all flowed out, but not
so now. Thanks to the efforts of
Dr. Bethune and the Canadian
Blood Transfusion Institute, much.
of the blood spilled by the Fas-
cists is replaced by new blood
flowing into collapsed veins, and
what Dr. Bethune calls ‘a new
blood-relationship” is established;
consanguinity between the front
line and the rear—there are no
non-combatants.

_Byveryone who sets any store on
civilization and culture, in whom
is any spark of the love of free-
dom or democracy, must see this
LIVING picture. It will make
them feel proud of the Madrilenos,
the Spanish people, the Interna-
tional Brigade, and the true Ca-
nadians who have already con-
tributed $32,000 worth of medical
supplies and food to the Loyalist
forces, and inspire in them @&
greater hatred of the hypocritical
British ruling-class, of the Fascist
wolves, Spanish, Italian and Ger-
man and their Canadian allies who
have sent over a million dollars
worth of war material to Butcher
Franco, via Portugal.

*
More About Many well eee
: faces were miss-
! z
Spain e ing from the

Communist Party picnic in VYan-
couyer last Sunday — “Paddy”
O’Neil, Tom Nelson, Joe Armi-
tage, Peter Johnson, Steve Daso-
vie, Bob Kerr and many others
who transferred their activities
to a sector of the class war where
there are few picnics and where
some of them have already paid
the supreme price.

-

If good citizens medals had been
awarded at the picnic, quite a few
would have been carried home,
and none more deservedly than by
the persistent members of the
Volunteer Girls Brigade, who in-
tend to raise $100 over the Youth
quota to make a little bit of Can=
ada in Spain.

The Fascist invaders have mur
dered the parents 100,000 Span~-
ish children. Already intellectuals
have converted one of the palaces
on the outskirts of Madrid into @
home and school for 1000 orphans,

Canadian Youth is taking up its
share of the burden by establish-
ing a home for 20 orphans—not
much, maybe, but 2 peautiful ges-
ture of international solidarity be-
tween anti-Fascist peoples. This
home will be reminiscent of Can-
ada. Parts of it will be named
after the towns from which the
money came to make it possible.

The Volunteer Girls Brigade in-
tend to make sure that some part
of it is going to be labelled “Van-=
couver,” and everybody at the
picnic knew they were “soing to
town."

These Volunteer Girls are of the
type that pioneer new countries,
that build new cities, that wit
battles in the war against Te=
action, that would make the world
a better place than it is,

Here is a list of the members
of the brigade with the sums of
money raised by each: Babe Grad,
$48.25; Sylvia Lowe, $15; Ann
Anita Saric, $18; Vi McCrae, $22;
Margaret McClintoch, $3.50; Sarab
Rosman, $52.50.

Recruiting for the brigade i5
now on and all girls who haye @
heart for the gallant people of
Republican Spain are eligible.

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