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SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1946

Atomic Imperialism Endangers Peace Of The World

There is now developing, particularly ,
ada, a concerted drive to divide the peoples of t

By TIM BUCK

in Britain,

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the United States and Can-

e United Nations and to destroy

Big Three unity. It is a drive to stop the growth of the Progressive movement and the

growing friendship for the Soviet Union in the capitalist Countries

and to replace it

with suspicion and hostility and—if possible—a spirit °F War directed against the
Soviet Union and the new people’s governments.

On February -15 Prime Minister King handed a statement to the)
press announcing that an unnamed number of persons had been oe
tained for questioning on the charge of communicating confidentia
information to the Canadian embassy of a foreign power. No foreign
power was named, but simultaneously with handing out the state-
ment the Prime Minister allowed it to be known that the country
he was referring to was the Soviet Union. Simultaneously with
publication of his statement there was opened up all oyer the coun-
try one of the most violent campaigns of propaganda ever wit-
nessed in this country. It was obviously prepared in advance.

Right from the time the prime min-

ister handed his statement to the
press there was a studied effort to
make it appear that the Soviet gov-
ernment had been caught doing some-
thing which no decent government
does. Espionage, however, was de-
veloped as an instrument of govern-
mental policies decades—indeed cen-
turies—before the Soviet government
came into existence.

In the New York Times of today,
Hanson Baldwin, its military expert,
who is often quoted in the House of

if is possible to build up an atmos-
phere of sinister mystery and jus-
tify the frenzied press campaign.

Atmosphere Of Mystery
Why is it necessary to hold them
this way? Did they get the secret
of the atom bomb? Obyiously not.
Mr. James Byrnes, secretary of state
of the United States, made a public
Statement Some days ago to reassure
the people of America that Canada
does not know the secret of the atom

Commons as an outstanding author- | bomb.

ity on these questions, has this to
say:

“The Russians haye done in
Canada only what every other na-
tien, im this world of power poli-
tacs, has done and is doing—and
must do—if it is to survive in the
atomic age’

Canada Spied On USSR

Some comrades might say, “Well,
I am sure Canada does not do it.”
But the record suggests that our own
government does it too. The interim
report by the Royal Commission in-
vestigating the espionage case indi-
cates clearly that the Canadian goy-
ermmment was spying on the Soviet
government systematically and for a
long time. The interim report named
some of the documents. They said
they had dossiers from the Soviet
embassy on a whole number of
beople._ They said they had instruc-
tions that came from Moscow to cer
tain people in the embassy over a
tong: period of time. They said they
had writings of four officials of the
embassy spreading over a period
from March 1945 to August 1945.

How the Canadian government
could get all these secret documents
from March 1945 to August 1945
without spying I don’t know. I as-
Sume that our government did it for |
the same reasons that other govern-
iments do it, but let us not have so
much pretence that we are pure and
that only the Russians do such things.

I am mentioning this because the
Soviet government issued a public
statement within a few days of the
prime minister’s announcement. The
Soviet government expressed amaze-
ment that the government of Ganada
Should have adopted the method it
did. The Soviet government pointed
out that there is a recognized diplo-
matic practice for dealing with such
matters between governments which
maintain diplomatic relationships
without creating a situation that en-
dangers those relatonships.

it is evident that the Soviet gov-
ernment was might. For example, a

| create a situation in which the Yalta |

Prominent atomic scientist was ar-
rested in London last Monday after-
noon and he was given a preliminary
hearing with counsel or Tuesday
morning.

You all remember when Tyler
Kent, an employee in the United
States embassy in London, -was
charged with giving confidential in-
formation to the Nazis. He was
brought to court with a lawyer and
given a chance to prove his innocence
without weeks of Star Ghamber
grilling.

When Adrien Arcand and his fas-
cists were arrested in Canada they
were allowed to see lawyers and to
defend themselves in the traditional
Manner.

in the present case, in Canada, the
department of justice adopted a pro-
cedure absolutely without precedent.
The men and women were arrested
at night. They were taken into the
RCMP barracks, denied the right of
a lawyer, held incommunicado. An
Ottawa lawyer has issued a public

Statement today in which he says
that he believes that the RCMP are
planning to hold these men incom-
municado until they can extort con-
fessions irom them.

it is evident that the department
of justice and the RCMP are tresort-
ing to such unprecedented measures,
not only as a means of getting con-
victions against the people held, but
because that is the only way in which

I would urge every Canadian to
read that report and see what in-
formation the Royal Gommission
says the Soviet government wanted.
‘Remember, it was in the midst of a
War for survival against Nazi Ger-

|many and Fascist Japan. When you

read it ask yourselves if we have
any cause for pride that our govern-
ment withheld such information from
the ally bearing the biggest share
of the titanic battles in Europe!

We were told in the press that
Canada was giving all available tech-
nical information to her allies. If
that propaganda had been true the
Dominion~ government would not
now be charging that the Soviet Zov- |
ernment was seeking information |
that might prejudice the safety of |
Canada.

It certainly seems that such in- |
formation should have been exchang- |
d_between allies in a war for sur-
al. One is compelled to
“Was Mackenzie King treating the
Soviet Union as an ally?” It appears
now that the attitude of the Kang
Zovernment towards the Soviet
Union was that of an enemy, or at
least of anticipation of being an
enemy, even while the war against
Hitler was going on. That is made
quite clear in the interim report.

A cool and objective study of the]
facts shows that this campaign is a
calculated diplomatic offensive. It is
not only against the Soviet Union, it{
is above all against the fundamental
concept of Big Three Unity and the
line of postwar development agreed
upon at Yalta and Potsdam. To

and Potsdam agreements can be!
broken, this international campaign
is launched to stir up Suspicion, dis-
trust, and even a war spirit.

Mr. King discussed the present
espionage case with President Tim-
man and Prime Minister Attlee last
October. The order-in-council under
which it was carried out was adop-
ted in October. An article in the
Montreal Herald said it was signed
by only four out of nineteen mem-
bers of the government. Although
this was done in such a hurry and
such secrecy in October, action was
timed to coincide with a whole series
of offensive actions. These various
parts of an inter-national diplomatic
offensive were all tied together yes-
terday by the speech of Mr. Winston
Churchill at Fulton, Missouri.

Declaration Of War

That speech was no more nor less
an ideological declaration of war
against the’ Soviet Union. Even in
the midst of the war Churchill never
proclaimed ideological hostility and
antagonism toward German fascism
in the manner that he proclaimed

hostility toward the Soviet Union
and Communism in his Missouri
speech. The News Chronicle of

London said today that the declara-
tions of Mr. Churchill are liable to
confirm the worst fears of General-
issimo Stalin and his associates as
to what are the real intentions of
the capitalist world.

If one has to say what was the
meaning of Churchill’s speech, one
must say that he called upon Britain,
the United States, Ganada and the
other English-speaking nations to

Prepare for War!
He declared quite bluntly that his
call for war preparations js directed

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forget to indicate that the United
States now enjoys a tremendous ad-
Vantage in’ that they have the atom
bomb and the Soviet Union has not.

‘He pressed his appeal for action
{to Stop the growing influence of the
Soviet Union and the Spread of Gom-
munist ideas as though he were
Pressing for a “holy war’—in fact,
he declared it to be needed to “save
Christian civilization.”

It is a terrible thing that within
less than half a year after the vic-
tory of which he was one of the
Principal architects, Winston Chur-
chill’ should be agitating for prepar-
ations for a third and even more ter-
tible world war instead of harness-
ng his genius and his prestige to
the task of making the peace se-
cure.

What would Mr. Ghurchill’s pro-
Posals mean for Canada? The pro-
Posal for a military, naval and air
alliance of Britain, Canada and the
United States, directed against the
Soviet Union, could do nothing for
Canada except involve us in destruc-
tion.

Canada A Battlefield

It is now quite commonly discussed
im the United States as well as
in Ganada, that Canada’s position
would make her a_ battle ground in
the event of such a tragic possibil-
ity as war” between the United
States and the Soviet Union.

Right now there is an expedition
in the north called “Operation Musk-
ox.” Recently the United States press
has been discussing this operation
aS an operation to prepare against
the eventuality of war between the
United States and any other country.

It is declared quite freely by mili-
tary authorities in the United States
that “any invasion of the United
States will come across the Arctic.”

| That can, with complete. truth, be
ask, [tuned around to mean that Amieri-

can military men believe offensive
actions on the part of the United
States will also have to be across
the Arctic. Z

Tt can easily be understood, there-
fore, that “Operation Muskox” is not
an academic exercise for the Gana-
dian high command, but is part of
actual war preparations in which the
United States is the senior partner
and Canada is merely the field of
operations. It is unquestionable that
in the tragic event of war in which
the United States is involved with
any enemy across the Arctic Ocean,
Ganada will be the field on which
the great battles would be fought.

Any action which tends to set the
United States and the Soviet Union
in military opposition threatens the
security of Canada.

We are next-door neighbor to each
of those great powers. We can pros-
per as a nation and grow strong by
sharing in their mutual cooperation,
but only a madman would argue that
Canada could survive as a free sov-
ereign people if by tragic or criminal
folly those two giants should become
involved in war. The fight for a
happy future for our children, the
fight for Canada’s future as a na-
tion, is the fight for a secure and
lasting peace. z

Our admiration for Churchill the
War leader is undimmed, but the
Churchill who spoke at Fulton, Mis-

ouri, was not the Churchill who led
the British people through the dark
days of war. Britain’s wartime lead-
er was able to command the Support
of democratic peoples throughout the
world because he recognized, as a
Statesman, that fascism could be de-
Stroyed provided there was united
action by the capitalist democracies
and the Soviet Union. But the Ghur-
chill who spoke in Fulton was the
Churchill who in 1927 praised Mus-
solini’s blackshirts, who in 1931 de-
fended Japanese aggression in the

Far East, who in 1936 supported
Franco’s counter-revolution against
the constitutional, democratically

elected government of Spain.

Churchill’s Backers

Of course some people wil argue
that Churchill only spoke as an
individual, but consider some facts.
President Truman allowed it to be
Imown he had read Churchill’s
\speech before it was made and ap-
Proved of it. President Truman in-

jfroduced Mr. Churchill and was at

solid unofficial endorsement by the
president of the United States.

Did the British government ap-
prove of it? The Canadian papers
carried a story to the effect that it
had been approved semi-officially by
the British government through its
ambassador in the United States,
Lord Halifax. The text was distri-
buted in London by the government
through its ministry of information.
What about the Canadian govern-
ment? Winston Churchill put into
oratorical phrases what the Gana-
dian government has been doing dur-
ing the past three weeks. All these
things have been well planned and
in advance. “Operation Musk-Ox”
must haye been planned even while
the war was still going on.
“What is behind it all?” you ask.
The real issue is to be seen in the
deepening crisis of imperialism, the
widening struggles for colonial free-
dom, and the rising consciousness of
the people of Europe that their only
hope for peace and progress lies in
Socialism which they are determined
to build. That is the real issue and
the imperialists are ready to gamble

TIM BUCK

National Leader, Labor-Progressiye Party

with the dynamite of war hysteria

in their reckless desire to stop the
march of progress. They are playing
with powerful and terrible forces.
Dr. Edward Condon, director of the
National Bureau of Standards, ad-
dressed a conference of Science Tal-
ent institutes in Washington yester-
day and he urged the students to
work hard to prevent an atomic armm-
aments race.

Every supporter of progress in
Canada agrees that the fight for in-
ternational cooperation must not be
dropped just because of a reckless
and frantic campaign to create an
atmosphere of ill will, hostility, sus-
Picion and war. Rea] loyalty to Can-
ada today is the loyalty of those who
will continue to fight against that
campaign the success of which would
drag Canada into a third world war.
Outlaw The LPP?

There is a rumor, according to
the capitalist press, that the spy
Scare may be used as an excuse to
outlaw the Labor-Progressive Party.
I hope earnestly that there is no basis
for the rumor but I must say, to
whomever it might concern, that if
that should happen we would have

no road open other than to keep on

return from Poland.

Returning 12 days ago from a
fact-finding: tour under the auspices
of the Canadian Jewish Congress and
other Canadian organiza-
tions, Lipshitz “brought with him
photographic evidence of Nazi cruel-

several

ty, sadism and horror, levelled at the
Jewish people. Looking over these
pictures in his room at the Van-
couver Hotel, it was easy to agree
with him when he said: “It is hard
to believe that a civilized people
could perpetrate such atrocities.

Questioned as to the possibility
of exaggeration, Lipshitz pointed
out that he had talked with thous-
ands of people in Poland. “T spent
eight days of listening to such
stories and each person had his own
individual experience to tell. You
must understand that out of three
and one half million Jews in Poland,
only 75,000 are alive today, and of
this number not one has survived
normally; all bear the marks of
their terrible experience. Every Jew
In Poland was sentenced to death.
Those who survived lived for years
hidden—some in underground holes,
from which they ventured only at
nights in search of food. I thought
I had some idea of what had hap-
pened before I went, but now I can
only say that I had little realization
of the real horrors.”

jPains to explain that he was respon-
jSible for getting him to make the

against the Soviet Union. He did not

ispeech. That constitutes a pretty

}

I asked Mr. Lipshitz his opinion
of Dr. Wiseman’s statement (leader

y

of the Zionist movement) to the
effect that “for the Jews, Hitler had
won the war.” He was emphatic in
his contradiction. “One of Hitler’s
expressed aims was to wipe out the
Jews of the world. This he failed to
do and in the prisoners’? dock at
Nuremburg stand Goering and Hess,
not the Jews. The Jews, in common
with all other democratic and free-
dom-loving peoples—the Greeks, the
Yugoslavs, the Poles, the Russians,
Britons and Americans—made tre.
mendous sacrifices to win the war.
The yictory over fascism was the
victory of all democratic people. To
make such a statement means con-
ceeding a partial victory to the thor-
oughly defeated Hitler.”

The new Polish government is
Ziving “vigorous” aid in rehabili-
jtating Polish Jews and defeating
every attempt to revive anti-Semi-
tism, according to Mr. Lipshitz. Re-
cently the government passed a de-

cree making anti-Semitism a crime.

Questioned regarding the stories
of Russian influence in Poland, he
pointed out that during his stay, he
was allowed to travel and interview
people absolutely unhampered, and
he never saw one Russian
official capacity. Everything is ron
by the Poles. ‘The only Russians
left are the Red Army men guard-
ing the transportation lines between

Russia and Germany.

fighting for the things we know are

right. Sates
I want to warn those people who

are flirting with the idea that Com-

munism can be stamped out by law. —

Even when the Soviet Union “was
struggling for its very life, when
it looked as if imperialist schemes.
were prospering, they ~ could "not.
stamp Communism out by law. Cer
tainly they won’t Stamp Cormmun7ism_
out now, when Socialism is “tztumph-
ant and is spreading in Hurppe’ es-
pecially when the policies being ad-

vocated by those who want to outlaw =

us are policies that would throw a
million, perhaps two million, Cana-
dians on the breadlines withm three
years. spats

We have nothng to fear! We have
proved our devotion to the imterests
of the people of Canada! Woe invite
everybody to read the record: It was
the Communists who fought for and
succeeded in winning. the progressive
sections of the labor movement to
Support national unity, and Jabor-
management cooperation to help; win
the war.

Tt was the Communists who pro-
posed to the labor movement that the
trade unions should voluntarily ac-
cept the no-strike pledge to help win
the war.

Thousands of members
party enlisted and served
seas; some of them like Dick
Steele and Muni Erlich went
Straight from the concentration
Camp into the Ganadian army and
fought and died on the battlefield in
Normandy. Those of our comrades
who, like Joe Levitt, Jack Seott, Gui
Caron, Lazar Peters and scores of
others who won citations and decora-
tion for heroism, fought as they did
for Canada to defeat fascism.

In 1942 when the British and Gana-
dian high commands wanted men
whose devotion to the war: against
fascism was such that they were
willing to learn to jump frem para-
chutes into territory occupied by Hit
ler to establish communicatien with
the British and American forces and
with the underground sxesistance
movements, where did they. go? We
are proud that they came te the
Communist movement in Canada. And
we are more proud that oar com-
rades were ready to meet the need.

Wo! We do notvhave to upelosize
for our role in the war. Our devo-
tion is to Canada and the people of
Canada. As we served during the war,
so shall we contihue to serve the
people of Ganada. We shall strength-
en the struggle to re-establish Big
Three Unity as the core of United
Nations Unity.

The fight for effective United Na-
tions unity is the essence of the fight
for jobs and security in Canada
through cooperation for peace m the
world. :

ef our
over-

Courageous Polish People Begin
Tremendous Task Of Reconstruction

Sam Lipshitz, editor of the Canadian Jewish Weekly, brought
back a picture of a people who, having undergone unbelievable hor-
tors and hardships were courageously tackling the problem of re-
building their country, when he visited Vancouver this week on his

“The Polish people have a warm
and friendly feeling toward the Rus-
sians,” Mr. Lipshitz continued. ““This
feeling is not a leftst fesHng, but
one which cuts across party lines;
they recognize the Red Army as
their Jiberators ang are grateful
for assistante rendereq by the
Russians since liberation» §
~ The Polish government is & coah-
tion representative of the main pol-
itical thought. In it are the two
leftist parties, the Communists and
Socialists, along with the Tightist
Democratic party, the Christian La-
bor Party, the Peasant League
and the Polish People’s Party.

The government has made Tadical
moves in two directions. First, all
industry employing over 50 people
has been nationalized and secondly.
the great estates have been divided
among the peasants. “Don’t you think
this shows a leftward trend?” asked
one reporter. “Yes, all of Europe is

in any

moving to the left,” Lipshitz replied.
| “This is what seems to be perturbing,
| Winston Churchill so much.”

| “Although developments in Poland
| are opening up new possibilities for
| the Jewish people there, it must be
| Understood that scarcely one family
remains intact. These people have a
terrible loneliness; they want to join
- their relatives, to get away from the
;Scenes of terror and torture.” Sam
Lipshitz concluded: “Some want to
|g to Palestine, some to the United
States—to Ganada and SO on, wher-
,€ver their relatives may be. They
should be given every assistance to
forget the horrors they have en-
dured and to retum to 2 normal
life.”—G. AS.

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