hat’s Behind Our
UNO Policy?

Secretary Byrnes and Ernest Bevin,

Britain’s Foreign Secretary, working out the strategy

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id that “the UNO is not a
“@ cient answer to the prob-
of peace,” and in its place
fd the need for “a measure
‘orld sovereignty.”

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q Mr. St. Laurent declared:
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and leadership of the Big Three
in the postwar world.

At San Francisco the Tory
imperialist Eden, with Cana-
dian and Australian!’ support
waged an unsuccessful fight
against the principle of great
pewer unanimity (the ‘“vete-
power” of the permanent mem-
bers of the Security Council),
which is the very core of the
United Nations’ effectiveness
as an instrument of peace.

In its place, the opponents
of Angio-Soviet-American unity
would restore a League of Na-
tions type of “democracy,” in
which the manipulation of
small nations’ votes by imperi-
alist. powers would give the
latter free rein to pursue their
selfish ends. This has been the
prize formula of world reac-
tion, trom “little Finland” and
the fascist Folish “govern-

ment in exile’ to Ivan.

The “world government” slo-
gan means: negation of world
democratie unity under the
mask of “ultra democracy.”

‘Federal Union‘ Fraud

Concoct:? by Toryism, with
its point of departure in
Clarence Streit’s “federal
union” plan of uniting British
and U.S. imperialism in a
closely knit bloc, the “world
government” ballyhoo has been
taken over — naturally! — by
Bevin, King, who has long
cherished dreams of a world-
dominating Anglo-American
bloc, has made its advocacy a
policy of the Canadian govern-
ment.

The aim that underlies it, as
a policy of imperialist sabotage
of the peace, has been revealed
by the “liberal” Manchester
Guardian, in an article by Bert-
rand Russell. Russell advocates
an alliance headed by the USA,

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reserving exclusively to that
power the right to manufacture
atom bombs. “It is to be pre-
sumed,” he observes, “that all
the other powers would join the
alliance—except Russia and her
satellites.” He then goes on to
reveal the fullest implications
ef the plan:

“Tf Russia decided to risk
war, her defeat might still

ST. LAURENT

Jeave civilization intact in less
populous regions of the West-
ern hemisphere, even if Rus-
sia had atomic bombs. If war
came soon the damage might
be much less than if it came
later.”

‘World Socialism’

HIS insane criminality 4s

what really underlies the pious
professions of the adyocates of
“world government.” Their
proposal is not only utopian, in
that it pretends to “overlook”
the “detail” of deep-going con-
ttradiction between monopoly-
capitalist, imperialist states on
the one hand, and the Socialist
state of the USSR, and the anti-
fascist peoples governments
and liberation movements, on
the other. It is basically reac-

tionary, in that its ill-concealed

aim is support for Anglo-Am-
erican imperialism as the force
which is to “govern the world”
—hby subjugating it!

There will be world govern-
ment when there is world So-
cialism ,and the rule of mono-
poly capital has been abolished
everywhere. But in the present-
day world, such a slogan is
nothing but a fig-leaf for “lib-
eral”? support to imperialist re-
action.

Imperialist Policy
CEN foreign policy in

practice — as distinct from
the platitudes in whieh it is en-
shrouded by Ottawa — is an

imperialist policy. It is dictated
by the anti-labor monopolists
who on the home front are try-
ing feverishly to scuttle post-
war reconstruction.

The drive to undermine unity
with the Soviet Union, and to
align against the democratic
forces an Anglo-American
bloc; expresses the aims of
Ford, International Nickel, the
CPR (whose new member of
the board of directors is the
infamous man of Munich, Sir
John Anderson). George Drew
desn’t only crusade against na-
tional health insurance; im his
recent New York speech he
once again called for an ag-
gressive, Big Business Angle-
American bloc.

‘The. King government is ob-
sequiously carrying out the
policies dictated by imperialist
Toryism. It is working to make
Canada at once an accomplice
and a satellite of the American

imperialist drive to forcibly
dominate the postwar world.

And the C€F unashamedly
aligns itself with the same
camp of monopolist reaction.
Coldwell, as soon as the first
atomic bomb was dropped on
Hiroshima, hastened to pro-
elaim: “The United Nations
organization is obsolete!”
Knowles, CCE member of the
Canadian delegation to UNO,
echoes St. Laurent on “world
government.” In ‘Toronto, the
CGF-dominated CCL lLabor
Council endorses “world gov-
ernment” as publicized by Mr.
Lewis Duncan.

Fight For Security

ABOR’s battle for jobs, de-
eent wages and security
eannot be won without defeat-
ine the would-be wreckers of
the peace—the monopolists and
their political spokesmen. The
fight is on foreign policy, as
well as on the domestic issues.
@n the one as on the other,
it is urgent that we cut through
the foe of confusion and unite
the people in the fight for
security and peace.

The Labor-Progressive Party
is campaigning for the halting
of arms shipments to the Dutch
imperialists, for genuine inter-
national control of the atomic
bomb, for fulfilment of the
United Nations charter, for the
maintenance of Anglo-Soviet
American unity.

In fighting for these aims,
our party is defending the most
vital interests of the working
class and the nation,

The Geneva Ghost

HE Russians had abundant reason to distrust the old League,

which Lenin called “the robbers’ den.” For nearly 15 years
Russia watched its weakness from outside. Then, after changing
policy on Mr. Litvinov’s suasion, Russia had to see the League
mute and ineffective against Japanese or Italian aggression. The
villainous fascist attack on Republican Spain produced no action.
Action only came when Russia was the “offender’—in the case
of Finland. The expulsion of Russia, incidentally, was the death-

rattle of the League.

Naturally the Geneva ghest haunts the Russians on the door-

steps of UNO. The Russians continue to observe that the small
nations on Russia’s border attract more attention than small
nations elsewhere. They recollect some armed “interventions”
of America in China, of Britain in Greece, and conclude that
the interveners are more interested in old regimes than in new
democracies—as they understand that much-vexed word. The Allies’
attitude on atom-bomb secrets is born in mind. Neo-fascist trends
appear. Rehabilitation of Germany is discussed with favor. Russia,
with her ruined cities and her tens of millions homeless, is less
remembered. Observer, London, Eng. eee

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1946

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