i Page Two THE PEOGPLE’S ADVOCATE AL Ye _ March 25, is} rp THE PEOPLE's ADVOCATE Published Weeki y by the = PROLETARIAN UBLISHING ASSOCIATION Room 10, 163 Vv W. Hastings Street ancolver, B.C., Phone, Trin. 2019 One Year a ee $1.80 Three Months. 12.) 111117 oe Single Copy Seon 5 05 Make All Cheques Payable to: The People's Advocate FRIDAY gossoeny MARCH 25, 1938 Tax The Rich, Nir. Pattullo PRE! Over by Hon. Ni ewton W. Rowell, Chief Justice of Ontario, a commis- Sion is sitting in Victoria to hear Premier Pattullo’s brief for better treatment of BC by the federal government. Van- couver’s municipal goyern- ment lays claim for more fi- nancial consideration from both the provincial and fed- eral governments. _+he commission was de- signed to study the relations between the provinces and the dominion, and as far as Mr. Pattullo’s case has been made public he seems to be out to get the right to increase pro- vincial taxation by whatever means taxes can be got. In the 26 points of Mr. Pat- OS proposal there are some to which no exception can be taken. He says, and rightly, that the federal government should be responsible for old age pensions, unemployment insurance, mothers’ allow- ances, and for other social and welfare legislation. But when he proposes that Oriental im- migration should be stopped on the sround of ethnological differences of race, and that as Many as possible should be returned to their homeland, he is letting the cat out of the bag—he is showing what a friend the pro-fascists have in Pattullo. The Premier says that to in- erease the income tax in BC would be placing a too heavy burden on our people. He means on our rich people, whose interests he is at Vic- toria to protect. His class bias is further disclosed when he suggests that the province should be given the right to impose new taxes, such as a business turn-over tax and a retail sales tax. This sugges- tion, if made effective, would cause the already high cost of living to skyrocket. The rich would get off easy, the com- mon people would get it in the neck. Mr. Pattullo should be given to understand that the major- ity of the people in BC are in favor of the burden of taxa- tion being placed on those who are able to carry it—the rich. If BC goes bankrupt it will not be because there is no money in tre province, but be- cause Mr. Pattullo tries to raise it from those who haven't got it—the poor. He hints that BC never got its due from confederation. Several years ago, when in - financial difficulties, he ut- _ tered remarks about this prov- ince “going it alone.” Is the Duplessis-Hepburn axis to be extended to be a Duplessis- Hepburn-Pattullo axis? There are a number of straws show- ing the wind is blowing that ~ way. The commission is costing the people of Canada $2000 a day. To February 4 its ex- penses were $74,141. Its mem- bers manage to struggle along on $25 per day, plus trans- portation. It has been clear across Ganada, and by the time its evidence has been sorted out and its recommen- dations made most people will have forgotten about it. But just at the moment, while it is in Victoria, Mr. Pattullo has shown definitely that he fav- ors the rich at the expense of the common: people. Quebec Labor Awakes HILE Premier Duplessis is trying to fasten fas- cism on the people of Quebec, labor is by no means standing by like an uninterested spec- tator. In a recent radio broad- east, Gustav Francq, secretary of the provincial federation of labor, said that labor is pre- pared to take action in the political field. This decision, even though it should have been made be- fore Duplessis was elected, is a great step forward in the di- rection of a people’s front. For too long, Canadian labor has been indifferent to. the election of parliamentary rep- resentatives. It has regarded this action as altogether out- side its scope. But the reverse is the case. In these days when big business is trying constantly to destroy labor or- ganizations by the legislative process, the need for the labor unions to jump into the poli- tical field is more urgent than it ever was. Francg proposed either the formation of a third party, along labor lines, or of a non- partisan body not subordinate to any party. The first pro- posal would seem to fill the bill more adequately. A Que- bee Labor party, affiliated to the CCF for example, would not only be a very promising move on the part of organized labor in Quebec, but would give the lead to labor in other provinces. The united front of labor, the heart and core of a people’s front against fas- cism, would be brought much nearer realization. In Quebec, labor has been aroused by the advent of the padlock law. One of the best means BC labor can use to es- cape a padlock law here is to enter the political field and help elect representatives to the legislature who will not permit such laws to be passed. A Black Eye For Gardiner AST Edmonton electors have given a black eye to federal right wing Liberals and their chief, Hon: James Gardiner. He, along with two other federal cabinet minis- ters, has been on the Edmon- ton hustings instead of earn- ing his pay at Ottawa. East Edmonton in a national victory for the people and a bad setback for the Hepburn- Duplessis-Gardiner gang-up, for it is an open secret that Gardiner wished to win East Edmonton, (a) to represent the people of Alberta as re- turning to the Liberal fold, (b) to represent the Alberta government as a hopelessly lost cause, (ec) to increase his personal following so as to strengthen his pro-Hepburn hand in the federal cabinet. In that sense, Fast Edmon- ton was the most important federal parliamentary fight since 1935. Had the Liberals won, with the active aid of the federal Liberal treasurer (again the ever-present Gar- diner!) and assisted by the effects of federal discrimina- tion against Alberta, there would have been loud cheers in the Hepburn - Duplessis - Gardiner camp. Instead, there is fogsy gloom. Orvis Kennedy's victory, with a vote over 60 per cent larger than the Social Credit vote in 1935, is not so much a victory for Social Credit the- ory aS a deeper and broader continuation of that protest against old line parties which began in 1921 in Alberta. Not jailings, not slander, not the most brazen misrepresenta- tion, has gagged that protest. Kennedy’s platform was not purely Social Credit. It stood against fascism and war, for democratic rights and for col- lective action against the fas- cist nations, for higher pur- chasing power and immediate ‘action to help the producers. His election was therefore not only a severe blow at the tory Liberals but a brilliant vindication of the deep desire of the people for unity against reaction. Great credit must go to the Communists in Alberta. Due to their, unceasing efforts, the progressive vote was united in East Edmonton and the platform was broadened to gain the support of a thou- sands of non-Social Credit pro- gressives. They worked hard and loyally to win the seat for Kennedy and progress. We are sorry the same can- not be said of the CCF and union leaders. Elmer Roper’s People’s Weekly, the voice of the CCF, loudly campaigned against Kennedy, while the Edmonton council of the CCF told its members to take no part in the campaign. Carl Berg, as secretary of the EKd- monton Trades Council, open- ly supported the Liberal can- didate. Despite this, the figures show that CCF and union members went to the polls, their political sense being far superior to that of some of their leaders. In this they fol- lowed the friendly advice of the Alberta Communists, who in splendid and effective leaf- lets, meetings and canvassing urged every progressive to strike at the polls against re- action. Lessons of the Paris Commune By T. A. Jackson QO* MARCH 18, 1871, the provisional government of the French Republic fled in panic before the aroused and armed people of Paris. If the people of Paris had realized their situation fully they might easily have made themselves the nominators of the government of France. At the least they could have extorted from their enemies terms such as would and economic movement of the workers of Paris and of France generally upon a secure have established the political foundation. Unfortunately, they did not suf ficiently realize the situation. Consequently, after two months, during which they ruled Paris better than it ever had been ruled, their “Commune” was over- thrown by the armed forces of the reactionary bourgeois govern- ment, and the Commune of Paris By Victoria Post HLL, thirteen proved unlucky for the Women’s Vote Bill, when it was again presented to the Legislature on St. Patrick’s Day, in spite of the statement of its sponsor, J. Gregoire Belanger, that “there is nothing democratic about a democratic state that refuses 50 per cent of the popula- tion access to the first democra- tie right.” So Quebec women are still with- out the right to vote in the pro- vincial elections, and will have to wage their fight all over again mext year. You bet they will, too! e FF ALL the music in the world, surely Chinese music is the queerest! To me it seems to have neither rhyme nor reason. As for harmony, it just doesn’t fit in with our ideas of what that word means. Some weird examples of Chi- mese music and singing were given on Thursday this week at an afternoon chow mein tea, spon- sored by the Chinese Women’s Missionary Society and the Chi- nese Women’s Association, to raise funds for war refugees in China. When I arrived at 1:30, the Mandarin Gardens were pretty full of women, and although it wasn’t intended to be a “female do” the four lone males looked decidedly uncomfortable and un- easily eyed their plates of chow mein with a “wonder-what’s-in-it” look. The tea was a success even at that time, and there were two further sittings afterwards. A Chinese girl, wearing cute purple pants, if you can imagine it, gave a Harlem tap dance and a tiny little girl, in the most beautiful green silk (Chinese, of course). dress, sang. The Chinese music and singing came in a fable from the Tong Dynasty, something about 4 rich man and his three concubines. These had high shrill voices, and their main object seemed to be to drown their Lord and Master’s deep voice, while, in the tradi- tional manner, the stage Manager kept popping on and off whisper- ing instructions in the players’ ears! e i pS CHINA, the dance hall girls are doing a tremendous amount of work for the country. War conditions have forced thousands of them out of work, and they formed themselves into a Tax- Dancers’ National Salvation As- sociation. Many cabaret owners have been forced by these organ- ized hostesses to turn their estab- lishments into hospitals and first aid stations. Later when countless thou- sands of refugees roamed the streets, the organization per- suaded the cabaret owners to open their doors to provide shel- ter for the homeless and hungry people. One dancing girl, Liu Chi-chow, even helped capture a traitor. She was approached one evening by a so-called liasion officer of the Chinese government. He showered her with gifts and flow- ers, which she promptly turned over to the wounded in hospitals. After a few nights of attention, he asked if she’d like to earn a handsome sum of money in the pay of the Japanese. Pricking up her ears, she agreed. The officer proposed to send her to Nanking, where she would make the acquaintance of government officials and try to obtain military secrets from them. Liu Chi-chow agreed and made arrangements to receive money and further instructions from him the following day. At the same time, she advised detectives, who were able to overhear all the conversation and arrest the officer. A BOYCOTT SONG. (To the tune of “Smile a While” By LILA C. TEMPLE. Lisle a while We'll like the Japanese. Tisle’s the style To wear on pretty knees. Wow that skirts are worn so high, Lisle’s the thing to catch the eye. Lovely legs look swell in cotton mesh, Don’t wear bloody silk next to your flesh. Until peace shall reign afresh, We will lisle a while. was drowned in its own blood. The first lesson of the Com- mune is the pathetic folly of trusting to the goodness of a cause to secure humane reason- able consideration from class enemies. When the provisional govern- ment fled from Paris, the only sort of responsible authority left to save Paris from anarchy was the central committee, elected by the various battalions of the Na- tional Guard, which had func- tioned as their executive all through the six months’ siege. That committee had as good a right to proclaim itself the gov- ernment as, on September 4, 1870, had the members of parliament for Paris, who constituted them- selves the “government of na- tional defense.’ They were a properly-elected body; chosen by a majority. of the adult population of Paris. They were known to those who elected them, even if they were unknown to outsiders. They could easily and naturally have treated the runaways as the deserters and de- faulters they were. Most of all, with any sort of revolution, they could have fol- lowed up the runaways and have seattered them from every halt- ing-place, giving them no time to rally and organize themselves as the “government of France.” e Tae central committee, punctili- ous in its legalism and its formal democracy, decided that it had no mandate to do anything of the sort. It called for the election of a commune. It gave the known enemies of the work- ers an equal right to vote with the workers and the working- class members of the National Guard.’ it scrupulously confined itself to its Parisian functions It trust- ed wholly to its appeal to the reason and humanity of the peo- ple of Hrance—an appeal which their enemies took good care should never reach the ears for which it was intended. Certainly, in the end, the men of the Commune showed that they knew how to die. What they lacked (alas!) was knowledge how to live. in our own day we know how little the justice of a cause counts in determining the attitude to- wards such a cause of those whose interests would be im- perilled by its triumph. That the cause of the Irish peo- ple was just—that it had been acknowledged to be just by act of parliament—made no difference to Garson and his braves, or to the whole blood of aristocratic and plutocratic sympathizers who planned an armed insurrection in Ulster and a revolution in Britain as an alternative to surrendering to this just cause. That he himself had acknowl- edged the justice of their cause made no difference to Lloyd George when he let loose upon the terror of the Black and Tans. All their talk about “fighting for the rights of self-determina- tion” did not prevent the Allies, victorious in the war, from land- ing their armies to deprive the Russian people of their right to ‘determine their own destinies in the way they had made manifest in November, 1917. And all their professions of re- gard for “liberty,” “legality,” “con- stitutionalism” and what not have not prevented the rulers of Bri- tain from showing openly in the ease of the constitutionally-elect- ed government of Spain that their sympathies and their aid can be counted upon by anybody who does anything, however foul, against the champions and de- fenders of the common people and their aspirations for a freer and fuller life. The Commune taught us an- other lesson—the lesson of war- time “propaganda.” To this day orthodox historians repeat the 50- times refuted lies about the “an- _tive governments’ and to archy’ and “atrocities” of the Commune. They are at the same time totally blind to the revolt- ing horror of its suppression. e QO TODAY the reactionary- bourgeois press is full to over- flowing, with tales of “red atroc- ities” in Spain, but never carries a line about the proved atrocities inflicted upon the Spanish people by the cosmopolitan gang of fasc- ist invaders. The Commune, too, taught us the lesson of the paramount need for a united revolutionary leader- ship. “At one stage,” records Jel- linek in his new history of the Paris Commune, “the Wational Guard was subject to conflicting orders from no fewer than eight different authorities.” - The hopeless “heroism” of the slogan—“Eivery man to his own arrondisement’’ — an admission that the Commune could go noth- ing more than die “heroically”? — found its counterpart in Spain in the heartbreakingly-absurd slo- Zans issued by those who opposed a centralized command and pro- per military discipline, in the name of pseudo-“reyolutionary” spontaneity and initiative, and of so-called “iron self-discipline.” Wot only was this apparent— as it still is—in military methods. it was apparent from every point of view that only an agreed sin- gleness of aim could have enabled the Commune to have won over to its side all the forces in Wrance whose interests would have been served by its victory. Torn asunder between Jacobin traditionalists, who could think of nothing but what happened in 1793, doctrinaire “Socialists,” who could think of nothing but “intro- ducing socialism” by government- al decree, and revolutionary real- ists who saw that the first indis- pensable need was to defeat the enemy with such weapons as were really available, the Commune could do nothing but die. © it is because so many of them have learned this lesson from the Commune that the heroic Span- ish workers, faced with a similar struggle, will know how to live. Finally, the Commune taught us as never before the need for a revolutionary foreign policy. e EVEN years before, Marx, in his inaugural address to the International Workingmen’s As- sociation, had stressed the need for the workers to “watch the diplomatic acts of their respec- “coun- teract them, if necessary, by every means within their power.” When the Commune was in its death agonies, the response from the workers in other countries outside of the sphere of the in- fluence of the International Workingmen’s. Association, was trifling. They simply did not know that the GCummune was “the glorious harbinger of a new society.” They took the view of it their govern- ment took—because they knew no better. ; We are better situated today in regard to Spain. But the old bourgeois-begotten prejudice still lingers in the notion fostered in the name of “revolutionary social- ism” by more than one group of sectarians that the workers have mo concern with such things as “foreign policy’—that their busi- ness is with “socialism, and noth- ing but socialism.” By Communism, said Marx and Engels, ‘we mean the real move- ment which makes an end of things as they are.” Just as the Commune, for all its failure, altered entirely, for the workers, the significance of the beurgeois world, so in Spain, the heroism of its workers and peasants, and still more, the hero- ism of the International Brigades, have given an entirely new value to the world. Things were never again in France as they had been before the Commune. When the Inter- Open Wants Probe Of Essondale Editor, People’s Advocate: Dear Sir: To show that the BC consul for the Netherlands treats an ex-serviceman much the same as does the Canadian government. I was refused further treatment for an obstinate skin disease, al- though I was a pensioner. When I refused to leave his office he laid a charge of common assault against me and besides being re- fused a lawyer, I was spirited away to Ward X in the General Hospital, thence to Essendale. For three months I was con- fined in this crazy-house, and I found many there who are quite normal mentally. ‘These people, in the main, had no friends or relatives to assist them. In Ward E2, where no visitors are allowed, there are TB patients. The food is quite unsatisfactory for sick people. Progressive people and organ- izations should demand a more thorough investigation into this government establishment, to say the least. W. GREENWOOD. Vancouver, BC. Forum ‘Great Record’ Editor, People’s Advocate: Dear Sir: Allow me to congratu- late the Ehwen family for its con- tribution to the progressive move- ment. With the father working for the movement and his two sons and daughter doing their bit on the war fronts of Spain and China, surely this is a great rec- ord. Best wishes for your press drive for the Clarion Weekly and the Advocate, both excellent papers for workers, farmers and middle class people. No doubt the Daily Clarion had much to do with the success of the left wing forces in Ontario during the elections. IT hope many subscribers are gained in this drive. I had a letter from Sir Stafford Cripps, MP, and he declared he was always pleased to hear from Socialists in the Dominions. He is a great advocate for the forma- tion of a people's front movement and I am sure would subscribe to a united movement in Canada which would include the GCommu- nist party for its excellent work both in eastern and western Can- ada. Victoria, B.C. G. J. national Brigades went into action against fascist foes of workers’ liberation, they opened magnifi- cently a new page in the history which the Commune began and which the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917 completed. The brigades, continuing that history, opened a new page. It will bo for us to see that it is continued as it should be. Stage and Screen By John R. Chaplin OW Associated Film Audiences rates the new pictures: JEZEBEL: Bette Davis and Henry Fonda in a well-made pre- Civil War story of a New Orleans hussy’s sudden emergence as noble character during yellow fever epidemic. THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS: Entertaining comedy, with the excellent Robert Mont- gomery, about the phoney prob- lem of whether a rich business woman should give up her mod- ernistic office to live with her husband for a mere $15,000 a year. LA MARSETLLATSE: Impres- Sive dramatization of the French revolution, offering stirring re- minders of the birth of democ- racy in Hurope. More punch than a dozen G-man pictures. FURY BELOW: Inconsequen- tial film about a struggle for pos- session of a coal mine. GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST: Not-so-hot version of the old operetta classic. Nelson Eddy frightens no one as Mexican bad man. Jeannette MacDonald is no tough tomato. DANGEROUS TO KNOW: The alluring Anna May Wong and the capable Akim Tamirov in a gang- ster melodrama. Se OLLYWOOD—The much-her- alded and long sought-after revolution of third dimension seems to have come upon the films, and from a direction total- ly different from that in which most experiments have taken place. While many have been toy- ing with stereopticon ideas, spe- cial film and special cameras, re- cent tests with the so-called Spot- light Sereen appear to have cracked the nut of third dimen- sion. This new screen, instead of reflecting light as the usual screen does, absorbs it. The re- sult is that there is no distortion in the image, even when seen from the side, and each detail seems to stand out, as if in full three dimensions. The screen it- self appears not to be there. Claim is that within a few weeks many theatres will already be equipped with this screen, which gives the effect without special film or apparatus. . . Bette Davis is the latest star to be active for Spain and China. She was hostess at a Motion Picture Artists Com- mittee’s weekly luncheon for the children of the war-torn democ- racies. .. And Anna May Wong is undertaking a national per- sonal appearance tour, proceeds from which will go to the relief of the land of her ancestors (Anna May herself is American- born). . ) fee Marx Brothers have signed a new contract with Metro, to go into effect after they finish Room Service for RKO... And Harpo, incidentally, is branching out into something new: he will star in New York (and perhaps in Paris) this fall in a Russian Ballet, written by Sur-realist Sal- vador Dali, music by Cole Porter, dances by Leonide Massine. . . This is the season of big-money lawsuits in Hollywood. The ar- bitration committee appointed by the studios and fhe Screen Actors Guild just awarded Guinn (Big Boy) Williams $1,300 in salary for his work in Bad Man of Brim- stone. Metro was contesting it be- cause he was working in another film at the same time. .. Two writers just won $10,000 from Metro in a plagiarism suit in connection with A Day at the Races. .. Rosalind Russel’s agents are suing her for $31,145 in com- missions. (Nothing small about them but the name!) Con- stance Bennett is suing radio gos- siper Jimmy Fidler for $250,000 (with practically no chance of winning her suit) and radio writer Matt Brooks is suing Eddie Cantor, Ed Sullivan and the Hol- lywood Citizen-News for a cool $950,750 for asserted libel. . . @ ON’T quote us, but Garbo and Stokowski will never go through with that much-ypubli- cized wedding. Or at least, that’s what the few friends Garbo has in Hollywood think. . . At a pre- view, the announcer called out: “Joan Fontaine and one.” The “one” with Joan was Conrad Wagel, great star of yesteryear. Wagel won his well-deserved ob- livion acting as Hollywood's chief stoope and strikebreaker. SHORT JABS “Hearts just as pure and fair, May beat in Belgrave Square’ 7 As in the lowly air Se Of Seven Dials.” : SOL e) a ‘ ) cc . When Gilbert pie Sees ns these now famo' Will Tell! words into the mous of Lord Tolloller he was giving ~ the breaks to the blue-bloods Belbravia and Mayfair. ; In case you don’t know ond 2 in the Smoke, these two distric }— situated on the east and sov jd sides of Hyde Park, are tile | of the Universe. Park Lane Cp ford Circus, Regent Street, Picc ‘fof dilly, Sloane Street and their cc} tiguous streets, lanes, squar | centre of all English “cultur: Out of them have come, .for t) guidance of the hoi-polloi, t7 comprehenisve precepts, “Nobles: Oblige” and “Breeding will tell” Like many a beautiful apy: that proved to be rotten at t! core, breaches in the aristocrat! exclusive shell of Mayfair ha recently demonstrated that Ma | fair is, socially and morally, wor than Seven Dials ever was. Four young bloods from th uppity centre of culture and lor ship have just been sent to prisi for terms varying from eighter months to seven years with lash’ | for robbery with violence. All them are “highly” connected, oj ] spring of top-ranking officials ] the diplomatic service and tl army, and of ‘‘business” in the cit : All of them are the products English “public” schools — Ha row, Wellington, Qundle and Ra | ley. q They have been associated wii everything rotten in life eee | One of them was a member of | fascist organization and was ‘ff San Sebastian with Franco. An {J ther boasted he had been a rac 4q eteer and a “coppers nark”’ (stor — pigeon) for the G-men in the U This is not an isolated cas Recent investigations by Lond ! detectives and journalists she that Mayfair is a hot-house th f is producing a native crop of bil ers, blackmailers, thieves, swin: lers, forgers and thugs. Burke Peerage and Debrett are becor ing duplicates of the Police @ zette and the Rogue's Gallery. These aristocratic criminals ¢ not have the excuse of povert they are naturally degenerat | They prove the proverb alreat mentioned,—*“‘Breedins will tell | Their tribe has lived by robbei and spoilation for centuries, bi were more successful in keepiz it within “egal” bounds: This rotten degeneracy is n confined to those of them who ¢ to jail. They are planted in tt permanent staffs of the Briti:~ government and use their ecrimin ~ talents to thwart the program a MacDonald government or smother the desires of the Britis people. Robert Forsythe, writing in tt New Masses a couple of weel ago, mentions a recent survi which showed that “over 90 pi cent of public offices in the Bri ish povernment are held by grad ates of what are called the publi schools. They dominate the Cab net, the diplomatic service, tk civil service, the foreign, colonia dominion and India offices, tk courts and the church. And the are linked with those who went i jail by something more poter than “the old school tie.” The facts were undoubted! with Professor J. B. S. Haldan: when, during the protest meetin in Trafalgar Square against th rape of Austria, he declared, “Th British government is in th hands of a gang of criminals.” * * * = * * The assertion of som pone Liberals and Laborite Olcy. that Chamberlain ha no foreign policy is the most palj able nonsense. No British politic leader since Palmerston has ha a more definite foreign policy c pursued it more relentlessly. His policy is to buy a place i the Berlin-Rome-Tokio “axis” an erush out the democratic aspir: tions of all people, including tk British. On Feb. 19 the diplomatic co respondent of the London Dai Worker wrote the following ney item: ‘“‘Mr. Neville Chemberlai called Count Grandi of Italy to N 10 Downing Street yesterday an offered complete national gover: ment cooperation on a plan i the joint exploitation of Spain Werr Chamberlain’s foreign pc icy is the same as British foreig policy has always been, one of w Scrupulous self-seeking to 1 achieved through the crookedne and cunning of the criminal, i duplicity and mendacity of t sneak, the cant and fraud of # hypocrite, bullying the weak az grovelling to the mighty, the mez and dishonorable double-dealiz that has earned for England # name of “Perfidious Albion.” Chamberlain puts every barri in the way of the Spanish loyalis because he desires a victory f fascism in Spain. His henchm< in the Upper House, Lord Halifa proved this last Thursday by h statement that “an insurgent V3 tory would not necessarily | against the interests of Gre Britain.” Pledges to Gzecho-Slovakia fro Ghamberlain are worth no mo than pledges from Hitler. T British people must ditch hira only for their own sake. 7