is Trial

qtish espionage system operat-
mside the USSR was suddenly
Sin March 1933- when a group
Titish agents and ten Russians
sanded up im the USSR and
with espionage and sabotage on
f British Intelligence.

suing trial, involying among
‘ljan Monkhouse,-Leslie Thorn-
§ William MacDonald, disclosed
fx formal association with the
foftice of the Vickers Company
freen for anti-Soviet activity. It
» revealed at this trial that
ire the surviving remnants of
Hnet Allied-Toreprom plot for
@ust the USSR.

-hout the trial spokesmen for
ish Government, together with
m@.sh press, conducted a super-
@:ampaign against- the Soviets
attempts to becloud the issue,
‘acts could not be answered.

sy Tukhachevsky
EUSSR, as in ali countries, a
Column had arisen in the years
‘e War consisting of corrupted
revolutionaries, declassed mem-
ehe former Russian rulers, and
mt officers who had penetrated
aunist Party and the Red Army
s. Leading “lights” among these
jineluded. Zinovyiey, Bukharin,
Gen. TPukhacheysky and others.
formed an extensive network
it the USSR, conducted wide-
botage resulting in the deaths
sds of workers, destroyed vast
3, asSassinated leading Soviet
and linked up with the German
nese general staffs in the lat-
for war.
mR roups were eventually gather—
d destroyed, but in the mean-
7 formed an integral part of
tm anti-Soviet military espion-
tm. Their direct contact was
sn High Command, but behind
an command stood the French,
pove all — the British ruling
ho were gearing: for an anti-
ar. Rosengoltz, Rakovsky and
= was discovered later, were
n league with the British in-
service.
‘ement, the instrument whereby
= 2nch imperialism planned to re-
rman militarism to spearhead
Bed war on the USSR, was in
& analysis the foundation stone
® rested the Trotskyite murder
- apparatus in the USSR.
mbetween 1935 and 1937 in a
§ trials the Soviet purged their
#}| administration of these Quis-
2-cry of rage sent up by the
rar-mongers could be heard
@und the world. Every effort
we, in the most fantastic press
© of all time, to distort the true
qj of the trials. But the interna-
Gmifications of the Trotskyites
cleanly from all the lies, and
mmongers stood naked, indicted
=n.

ssement

=:HOUT the appeasement peri-
@1y step taken by the western
gaits to instigate war was fought
@er-measures initiated by the
@ turn, the imperialists through
Horate propaganda devices hurl-
efter wave of scare stories, fake

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revelations, and twisted “facts” against
public opinion in its desperate efforts
toe ward away the truth. ;

When the Soviets sought to build
their socialist economy to brace them-
selves for the coming test, they were
met with economie boycotts, scares
about “forced labor,” Soviet “dumping”
and warnings that the Soviets plotted’ to
dominate the world. “Iron Heel? Ben-_
nett, then prime minister of Manada,
seized an opportunity in 1981 to reduce
trade relations with the USSR to the
vanishing: point; later to break off trade
relations completely.

For years the independent Soviet
struggle against Anglo-French-Ameri-
can appeasement—later on carried on in
the League of Nations — was reviled
as “war mongering.” When the Axis
powers, in rapid succession, invaded
(China, Hthiopia, and Spain, it was the
USSR alone whch fought the suicidal
policies of the big powers. In this, as
in all else, the kept press yapped at

‘Imperils World Unity
Atomic Diplomacy

sabotage, war plots,
slander.

The present case——the smear cam-
paign deriving from a fantastically ex-
aggerated charge of Soviet spying in
Canada—is merely an additional chap-
ter in a long, long book.

Hspionage and counter-espionage form
a deep, ingrained pattern in the tissue
of modern international relations. Any
pretense that any state— Ganada in-
eluded — does not conduct secret in-
vestigations into the political, military
and economic life of her neighbors, is
so much eyewash and hypocrisy.

“There are British spies,” Ernest
Bevin, the present Labor government’s
foreign minister said in 1933, “just as
there are Russian spies, German spies,
and French spies. There is not a nation
which has a clean record in this respect.
In this year’s estimates you will find
$940,000 for secret service. Nobody is
allowed to know how it is spent, or
where it goes. Parliament may not dis-

espionage and

1983:

‘There Are British Spies . . .’

“There are British spies just as there are
Russian spies, German spies, and French
spies. There is not a nation which has a
clean record in this respect. In this year’s
estimates you will find $940,000 for secret
service. Nobody is allowed to know how it
iS spent, or where it goes. Parliament may
not discuss it; the auditor-general may not
It is for espionage and any
other dirty work which the government
dare not openly avow.’’ —

ask about it.

---Bevin

Ernest Bevin in

them every inch of the way. And still
again, when the Russian statesmen de-
nounced the ill-fated Munich pact, the
usual chorus of lies rose up to heaven’s
vafters to drown out the only voice of
sanity.

Coming of War

FTER the war broke out in 1939 the

whole sequence of courageous anti-
Wazi steps undertaken by the Red
Army (the occupation of half of Poland,
the storming of the Mannerheim line,
the cleansing of the Baltic states, the
march into Bessarabia) were branded
one by one as acts of “aggression” in
rabid press campaigns which erupted
with every event.

Since VJ Day—-with the consistency
of pyromaniacs—lying press campaigns
have dogged the steps of every Soviet
move made in the interests of interna-
tional amity. The trial of the Polish
saboteurs; the Soviet demand at San
Francisco for a boycott against fascist
Argentina; her indomitable stand at the
UNO conference in defence of the Greek
and Indonesian peoples; her insistence
that Franco be permanently blacklisted
from the councils of civilized nations—
each of these in turn has been fought
with lies, scares, alarms and wholesale
slandering.

Present Spy Scare

goss ey and uniformly, the
yecord is clear throughout: In their

relations with the Soviet state, the

Canadian, British, and American capi-

talists have pursued a reckless policy of

scares, intrigues, political and economic

cuss it; the auditor-general may not
ask about it. It is for espionage and any
other dirty work which the government
dare not openly avow.”

This is a bald statement of a well-
known fact. To believe otherwise is to
be branded politically naive.

The present issue, however, is not one
of espionage or counter-espionage. It is
a first-class political issue.

In normal circumstances, whatever
differences may have developed between
the Soviet and Canadian governments
would have been solved through ordin-
ary channels. The Soviet note replying
to Ottawa’s charges stated: ‘““The extra-
ordinary fact that the Canadian gov-
ernment published its statement on
February 15 instead of — as is expected
of countries maintaining normal rela-
tions—previously asking an explanation
from the Soviet government, causes
amazement.”

The undoubted fact emerges that
Prime Minister Mackenzie King deliber-
ately thrust aside normal diplomatic
procedure to force a crisis in the rela-
tions between the two governments.

The fact emerges that King’s arro-
gant behavior was not dictated by the
needs of Canada’s national security but
was a political manceuvre timed poli-
tically to serve an ulterior political
motive!

The purpose dictating the spy-scare
provocation—as it has always been in
similar cases—-was to dicredit Soviet
statesmanship the better to conceal the
hand of reaction. It came at a time
when the UNO conference in London

had ruthlessly torn the mask from the
face of “British colonial exploitation;
when the dangerous game of United
States atomic dpilomacy had become
apparent to the whole world.

The crisis in Canadian-Soviet rela-
tions was blueprinted in Washington
and london, and manufactured in Ot-
tawa.

“Russia in self-defence has every
moral right to seek atomic_-bomb secrets
through military espionage if excluded
from such jnformation by her former
fightine allies,” Joseph, E. Davies, form-
er United States ambassador to Russia
declared in a statement in which he con-
demned C@anada’s spy seare. “Such ex-
clusion is by inference hostile.”

“We can’t have it both ways. Hither
we obtain full confidence and co-opera-
tion among. the large nations, or we
shall find ourselves playing the old
game of power politics.”

The Path Before Us

{ete path before every decent Cang—
dian interested in the welfare of his
country is lear.

He must spurn the irresponsible mo-
tives which dictated the present spy
seare. He must urge his government to
demand that atomic energy be shared
with the Soviet people and thus destroy
the spreading. cancer eating at the heart
of international relations. We must in-

»Sist that relations between the Soviet

one-sixth of the world and the capitalist
five-sixths be based on open diplomacy,
on goodwill and friendship, and that
nothing be allowed to destroy the mu-
tual trust and confidence which six years
of war had brought bloodily into birth.
The King government has jockeyed
itself into a position where it has be-
come — in this instance — the mouth-
piece of the atomic imperialists who

-wish to shatter the unity of the peace—

loving world.

The cornerstone of international peace
is the unity between the Socialist world
and the capitalist world. In the terrify—
ing years preceding World War II, Hit-
ler smashed that unity. Today the same
imperialist elements, in preparing them-
selves for future international conflicts,
are out to restore the same tragic divi-
sions which in 1939 opened the doors of
hell.

And, be it noted, they are adopting
the same strategy of provocation.

“The King government’s action can
only be characterized as an adventurist
provocation on an interational scale,”
Tim Buck said last week. “All the ele-
ments are being prepared out of which
an international crisis could easily de-
velop. The entire perspective of inter-
national cooperation between the Social-
ist and capitalist sectors of the world is
endangered.”

The King government must undertake
immediate steps to repair the damage
its provocation has done to Canadian-
Soviet relations and to the goal of per-
manent world peace. The whole sordid
history of international anti-Soviet
provocation has shown—and six years
of war has confirmed—the one unbreak-
able fact that the peoples of the world
stand together. Mr. King should remem-
ber his own words to the House of Com-_
mons last year in which he warned the
nation against “reviving the bogey of
Bolshevism.”

“The coming of the atomic bomb,”
said Prime Minister Mackenzie King in
a recent speech, “has opened our eyes
to the appalling possibilities which will
face the world if the United Nations
should fail to achieve effective interna-
tional cooperation.”

Miz. King should follow his own ad-
vice.

There is no room in (Canada for the
“Reichstag fire” mentality.

FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1946