t pada’s postwar foreign policy and miships must be based squarely up- | imterests. needs and ideals of the gan people: lada’s foreign policy must origi- Canada. Canada’s Postwar poli- ust give full expression to the fact = Canadian people detest war, will : united democratic action to pre- gression or to stop it if it is start- will cooperate loyally with all oth- @eoccratic people to maintain stable uring peace as the indispensable br the building of a happy, pros- em lemocratic world. To this end the fogtessive Party pledges its mem- fight for the following policy in affairs: ‘da must demand peace condi- aich will uproot the Nazi-fascist Janese military slave Systems. © ist be completely destroyed so as sre the main source of the danger '- British Commonwealth, Can- continue to pursue the policy | by Prime Minister Mackenzie ‘¢ 1944 conference of Common- ime-Ministers. Canada, a mem- '= British Commonwealth, is a Pier own right, a- North Ameri- -. next-door neig¢hbor to both © States and the Union of Soviet S i and cooperation, foreign policy aim relationships and economic with all democratié countries, the Pan-Amer in’ all its conf A are inseparab of the wester accordingly. m Federal Election Platform Wake Canada A Force For- ocialist Republics. Canada should become a member of ican Union and Participate erences and other activities: s a North American nation, our interests le from the broad interests n hemisphere. We should act Canada must share the ad- vantages and responsibilities, the consequences, of being one.o People of the Americas. at of of th riers nomic coOperation, through the joint ef- Our Dominion government should aim the largest possible measure of freedom trade between Canada and the rest € world, the reduction of tariff bar- &CO- and other obstacles to world forts of the United Nations. cooperation with and Rehabilitation Canada maintains relationships. indicated Party is prepared democratic forces in the country and to support a coalition of democratic forces. upon all Canadians to join in the struggle now to make the forthcoming Dominion election a turning point in our country s history. Canada must continve whole-hearted United Nations Relief Administration and in the international] monetary fund and con- ferences of the United Nations. ; The Department of External Affairs must be elevated to a full Minist government, Foreign Affairs. We should extend full diplomatic re- presentation to all countries with which trade and diplomatic To carry through policies such as those above, the abor-Progressive to cooperate with all government representing a We call FORWARD TO A PROSPEROUS AND HAPPIER CANADA! Peace And Security : AS a great trading ation and an advocate of world peace Canada must pursue a ed at direct and friendly intercourse as well as f the com- unity of nations which constitute the ty of the headed by a Minister for epee eee tsraeesrassrosesharnssssressassyreisest iis; Short Jab ERLIN has seen many Such as the one it will International, at its f day of the workers. Not a holiday in the sense of eration from labor, toil for the purpose of to make fresh efforts for further No May Day, even from th committed by the Social Democra equivalent of the CGP here in Cana Such tactics as the Soci to the temporary victory of Hitle;- German workers. appeal the Sugar-coatine of anti-c ultra-reaction. from the workers. He wanted to way of life. But he failed! workers by the armies SAN FRANCISC CONFERENCE ACE REPORAER: Te difference in these twe order. May Days fraught with me Witness this year, irst Congress in Paris, de but a day in which the worker. casting up their £ains and los To make his regime more secure, Hitler unions, their political parties and everything On this May Day, freedom is bein trugele for democracy alive even in the hell € a good augury for the future. April 23/945 2 Page 5 PESUAStevevanstersasesserevesseressarazyeas S by oF Bill aning, but none 55 years after the Second creed May Day as the holi- a rest period for relaxation and recup- S should refrain from Ses and gird their loins victories. or the workers of Red Wedding fought » that treason against them tic Party of Germany which was the da. es made the way their program of demagogie apitalism covering the hard kere] of attempted to steal May Day — destroy it as he had destroyed their that helped them to a better & brought back to the German of a people who have ordered their life in the In fascist Russia; workers were sh 2 S may be seen by even a blind man re of occupation in both cases. When the Nazis i i i invaded the Soviet Union, Russian artists was treated wit museum. In it were housed manuscripts of his wonde of him as a great musician and a great Russian. one of the greatest literary geniuses h the slightest respect. no monument to great or famous e lived had been converted into a rful music, relics The memory of Tolstoi, of all time, not of Russia alone but of all lands; was kept green in the Same way. When the bestial swarm of Naz invaded the Soviet Union, they destr . Invalua e Russian people. When they. were driven out, what they did not loot they wrecked and destroyed. So they conform to the concept of “the When the Red Army occupied Vienna, did the for the desecration of the museums According to the London Times, “The Red Army soldiers tidied Beethoven and Johann Strauss and 1 mark of respect.” These honors were not paid to th were Bolsheviks. Although Beethoven hater of tyrants and imbued with the Strauss took part in the 1848 Revoluti done them because they were among the world’s ere other reason. No race hatred preve great artistry in any other people. The Red Army could not pay such honor to Moza link with Beethove new order.” y take revenge in kind of Tchaikovsky and Tolstoi2? No! graves of aid wreaths on Strauss’ grave as a That’s a different kind of new order, isn’t it? ese two great Viennese because they was a republican, a thorough-paced spirit of the French Revolution and on in Austria, this signal honor was at artists and for no nts the Soviet people appreciating rt, whom TI like to the world has yet en was saved from a like fate by the re- which drew from “New order.”