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Free France

The deGaulle Controversy

The campaign of slander against deGaulle which grew during
the visit to Canada and the United States of General Henri Gi-
raud, co-president of the French Committee of National liberation

and Commander of the North Af-
rican forces, had not died down
With Giraud’s departure.

Giraud was ostensibly here for
military discussions, but it seems
mere than coincidence that the
slander campaign, obviously in-
spired, sprang up when Giraud ar-
rived. This campaign is actually
an expression of the chagrin which
the State Department of the
US and the British Foreign Of-
fice feel with the substantiai
achievements of the liberation com-
mittee in the brief weeks of its
work. :

Despite many differences of
viewpoint within the committee,
and despite many issues still un-
solyed, a great deal has been ac-
complished to clear away the
wreckage of Anglo-American pro-
Vichy policies and set the French
people on the road to unified strug-
Sle against the enemy.

A number of leading Vichyites
have been ousted from their posts,
among them former Algerian gover-
nor Warcel Payrouten. Democratic
life has been restored within Al-
Siers. Decrees passed by the Vichy-
men discriminating aganst anti-
Vichyites, pro-deGaullists and
Communists haye been nullified.
Instead, the Parti Populaire Fran-
caise, the gang of the fascist
Jacques Doriot, has been banned.

The empire’s administrative ap-
Paratus has been house-cleaned.
Most of what deGaulle set out to
do has been done. All that re-

mains is to clean out the upper
ranks of the army of Vichyite
hangovers. :

Many so-called Giraudists joined
with deGaulle in carrying the pro-
gram through, and Giraud himself
Was close to yielding to public
opinion except when pressure from
London and Washington - inter-
vened. This pressure has been
turned on in a big way during the
last few weeks. In the House of
Commons Churchill admitted that
the US and Britain had objected to
any change in the “character or
control” of the French armed forces
in North Africa, thereby perpetuat-
ing the division of authority in the
French armed forces.

The invitation to General Giraud
without any invitation to deGaulle
was further instance of this policy.
deGaulle wanted to visit the Unit-
ed States in December and was
rebutted,

At the same time, inspired stories

from Washington have kept up the

fire against deGaulle: tales that his
organization was financed by Mos-
cow, that his “anti-American” at-
titude was allegedly angering
Washington, that deGaulle wanted
to be post-war dictator of France.
Simultaneously, the Fighting
French paper in London, La Mar-
seillaise, was shut down. And when
a London Daily Worker corres-
pondent went to Algiers, with per-
mission of the British Ministry of
Information, his cables were sud-
denly blacked out, and facilities
for news transmission denied him.

National

Ontario Provincial Elections

As the Ontario provincial elections got into swing this week,
Signs multiplied that the popular turn to labor-farmer repre-
Sentation was deeper and broader than even appeared at first.

With trade unions across the prov-
ince actively entering the cam-
paign behind CCF and other labor
Candidates, indications grew that
a large number would be elected
on August 4. :

But while unity was being forged
in numerous ridings, a split labor
vote was threatening the campaigns
in the strongly progressive St.
Andrew, Bellwoods, and Hamilton
East constituencies. Scores of Tor-
onto trade union leaders have
signed petitions supporting Alder-
man J, B. Salsberg in St. Andrew.
Similar support is rallying around
A. A. Mact.eod, former editor of
the Tribune, in Bellwoods.

In addition to the public demand
for the withdrawal of the CCF
“spite” candidates in these ridings,
the labor movement in other parts
of the province was urging that

unity be established in Toronto.

The St. Catherines Trades and
Labor Council (AFL-CIO) has
passed a resolution urging Murray
Cotterill, CCF, to withdraw from
St. Andrew. At the same meeting
the council urged affiliated locals
to participate in the campaign to
elect Allen E. Schroeder, CCF, in
St. Catherines. Other unons if
Ontario haye protested the action
of the CCF in nominating candi-
dates to run against Communists.
In Hamilton East a serious situa-
tion has arisen as a result of CCF
nomination against Peter Dunlop,
union leader, in this strong labor
and left-wing riding. Before Dun-
lop was nominated, the CFF was
asked to agree to a meeting of
the labor electorate to nominate
a common candidate. They re-
fused.

American artillery units and bombers are dropping a
steady rain of steel on Munda Point on New Georgia in
preparation for the drive to take the Japanese base. This
photo, made from a US Navy plane, shows smoke rising
(center) from enemy installations.

St. Laurent Under Attack

Writhing under denunciation by Mrs. Dorise Nielsen, MP,
and Angus MacInnis, CCF MP, for maintaining the ban on the
Communist Party of Canada and other organizations and for

burning the libraries of the Ukrain-
ian Labor-Farmer Temple Associa-
tion and selling its properties to
pro-German organizations. Justice
Minister St. Laurent hedged but
continued to hold to his anti-dem-
ocratic position in recent House
of Commons debates.

Both St. Laurent and Secretary
of State McLarty said they didn’t
know anything about any book
burnings. St. Laurent also stated
that in his opinion the Commun-
ist Party is illegal, whatever Brit-
ish common law exists, because,
supposedly, it favored force and
violence.

Laurent admitted that this charge
had been repudiated by Commun-

CBC Should Study

ists but insisted that they spoke
only as “individuals.”

In an impassioned speech, Mrs.
Nielsen produced and read affi-
davits from caretakers of ULFTA
halls in Toronto and Windsor, who
related how they had been ordered
to burn the libraries under police
supervision. Mrs. Neilsen also cas-
tigated the minister for permitting
freedom of speech to be throttled
in Montreal.

He had explained previously, in
reply to a petition from Montreal
citizens protesting {he ban on a
meeting at which Tim Buck was
to have spoken, that “the depart-
ment of justice has nothing to do
With the according of freedom of
speech, press and assembly to the
people of Guebec.”

Geography

Vancouver war workers, BC loggers and men in the huge
coastal fishing fleets wondered this week once more at the beauti-
ful inconsistency of their federal government which apparently

believes that a-zigzag line is the
shortest distance between two
points.

Cause of this was the announce-
ment of the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation that a series of broad-
casts to be called “Production
Front” was being presented, and
that during the summer months the
writer, Allen. May, will visit factor-
ies, dock yards and mines in al}
parts of Canada as the CBC's re-
porter. He will talk to workers,
union leaders and management, to
find out what their problems are
and talk about them frankly over
the air. Funny part of it is, point
out unionists, that while May will
discuss shipbuilding, fishing and
logging, he will not visit the great
center of the three industries—the

city of Vancouver. The broadcasts
on shipbuilding will originate in
Levis, Quebec, and Esquimalt and
Prince Rupert in BC. The Prince
Rupert broadcast will also feature
the logging industry, though there
is no logging near there.

Ever since BC first became
known for its two main industries,
fishing and logging, and later when
the war brought on the BG ship-
building boom, Vancouver has been
the natural centre for preduction.
Not only have the actual operations
themselves centred around the
city, but headquarters for the huge
unions to which the majority of
men belong have been housed in
Vancouver buildings.

All of which would make this
city the logical place to come for
information, believe workers, who
feel that a properly conducted CBC
tour could be a morale builder, as
well as a production builder.

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