yican imperialist policies. * That is} given an opportunity ‘to work for world friendship, ‘the Canadian government chose ‘instead to promote a policy /which would restriet the num- » ber of Our country’s friends and, -qneidentally, to rebuff exactly -those—the Soviet Union, Po Jand, Yugoslavia and other Huropean states and the masses in the colonies—which ‘offer to Canadian industry and agriculture the greatest field in postwar markets. Such statesmanship than questionable. ‘Helped Argentina ' AT the San Francisco confer- ence, our government con- sistently clung to that policy. Ganada opposed recognition of the International Trade Union Federation, favored inviting fascist Argentina to UNO, etc. This could only be interpreted as not only an attempt to form an Anglo-American bloc but to /seek alliances for such a bloc from among the remnants of fascism in the world. Then came the atomic bomb and atomic diplomacy. The Ca- ‘madian government, of course, knew abcut the atomic devel- opments all along; Canadian money, Canadian uranium and Canadian scientists went into the makings of the bomb. And the Canadian government took the initiative in forming an Am- erican-British-Canadian bloc to keep the “know-how” of atomic bomb production a secret from the rest of the world and par- ticularly from the Soviet Union. | What many people over- looked, however, was that the “egreement also kept the “know- now of atom bomb production a Secret from both Canada and Britain! In other words, our government, which indignantly | opposed the Big Power veto in the security council of the Unit- ed Wations, voluntarily handed “the secret of atomic bomb pro- | duction to only one power, the “United States! | What Kind of statesmanship “is that? Of course, atomic diplomacy was beund to fail. It could not “persuade” the peoples of liber- ated Murope to vote in right- wing governments, It could not halt the development of the struggles of colonial peoptes for independence. The result is that Canada has fost friends without even get- tings the doubtful benefit of the possession of the atomic bomb. Statesmanship “in reverse.” ~ is more ; e Feature Section riendshi A STUDY of Canada’s foreign policy since the war’s end fails to reveal signs of outstanding statesmanship. Canada went to San Francisco, where the UNO was founded, with a fanfare announcing our government delegation’s intention to battle the Big Power veto and stand as the champion of ‘middle nations.” The world judged cor- ectiy, however, that the purpose was to split the United Nations into blocs, and to set up an Anglo-American bloc m opposition to the Soviet Union, to the states friendly to the USSR, and to those peoples who fear British or Am- Our Future Depends On Soviet On Foreign Credits ipa Same policy has been carried out by our govern- ment in regard to the question of foreign credits, the key to postwar trade and, consequently, to better relations with other countries. At the last sesszon of the House of Commons, the govern- Ment clearly demonstrated what policy it pursues. The Soviet Union had been reported nego- tiating the purchase of one bil- lion dollars’ worth of goods in Canada if proper credits and prices could take an almost un- limited volume of agricultural and industrial goods from Can- ada, to prevent starvation and to rebuild their shattered coun- tries — provided they could get the necessary long-term credits. Yet the USSR was granted a mere $25,000,000 credit, other countries ignored altogether, while the government of the Wetherlands was given five times the credit granted to the USSR ! Why the Dutch deal? - The USSR and other liberat- ed countries in Hurope wanted to purchase from Canada ma- ehinery, industrial products and food—that is, the things on which our reconversion to peacetime economy depends. And the Netherlands primarily wanted our already produced War equipment in order to sup- press the struggle of 72,000,000 indonesian people for independ- ence. Thus the Dutch deal is not connected with postwar develop- ment of trade between our two eountries; it is only a tempor- ary transaction. And that trans- action is directed toward sup- pressing Indonesia which, if it were free, would offer large and lasting markets to Canada. Canada’s “statesmanship” in regard to foreign credits, then, leads not to an increase but to a decrease of our foreign trade, not to winning but to losing friends for Canada among the nations of the world. The result has been that or- ders for the Soviet Union, on _ which Canadian plants had al- ready been working, have been stopped. Peculiar statesmanship, that! This survey could be greatly enlarged, but it all falls into the same pattern. And that pat- tern revolves itself to this: SUMAN SEE... Peace and Security Pages 10-11 Canadians Must Unite Page 12 Against Our Interests ANADA’S postwar foreign policy has not been based on the interests of Canada, on enlarging the number of our friends and the volume of our trade among the countries of the world. Canada’s postwar foreign pol- icy has not been based on the perspective of world amity and lasting peace, on which Cana- dian security itself depends. The policy of the Canadian government since the end of the war can make sense only if that government has decided that a third world war is in- evitable, that it should be pro- moted—and that the enemy against whom it must be di- rected has already been desig- nated. : S And the identity of that “en- emy,” taking into consideration PRIME MINISTER KING . .. case is sub-judice’ Ces a In an hour and a half report to Parliament on March 18, Prime Minister King outlined details leading up to the espion- age scare. “My hope has been” stated Mr. King, “that it might be possible to make an inquiry which would attract as little public attention as possible un- til those guilty had. been brought to trial.” The press and radio hysteria.of the past month, directed against the Soviet Union, and the “unimpeachable sources” of information in Ot- tawa, London and Washington, are strong indications that Mr. King’s “hope” was not intend- | ed to be realized. In making his report Mr. King stated, “he was under a serious handicap” that he had “very much to impart,” but could not do so until those charged with implication in the espionage ‘“‘plot’” had been tried before the courts. Current legal opinion on Mr. King’s report is that his speech, which has nei- ther added nor detracted any- thing from what has already been screamed from =the com- mercial press and radio, is in itself an infringement of the presumed ethics of “sub-judice.” all the implications of Canadian state policy, the newspaper and radio propaganda since V-E Day, the nature of “Exercise Musk-Ox and the manner in which the current “spy scare” was engineered and handled is not difficult to guess. It is the Soviet Union. Does the USSR threaten Can- ada’s security? A glance at his- tory shows that neither old Russia nor the present Soviet Wnion has threatened Canadian security. To the contrary, since the Russian™ Revolution it has been Canada which has been guilty of aggression against the USSR. The Red Army has never in- vaded Ganada, but after 1917 Canadian troops fought on So- viet soil in an attempt to re- store the Czars to power. The Soviet Union never sev- ered diplomatic relations with Canada, but the Canadian gov- ernment first refused to recog- nize the Soviet government, then. broke off diplomatic rela- tions in 1927, then launched the ill-fated campaign against “So- viet dumping” under R. B. Ben- nett’s regime in the 1930's, re- sumed friendly relations only