mM _ FOREIGN AFFAIRS US. rearming of German fascism 1 creates threat to Europe HAT would have been dismissed as impossible 4 couple of years ago, a prospect it was considered “irresponsibly alarmist” to warn of, is actually happening: The United States, supported by Canada, is talking of re-arming the Nazis, not just Germans, but th for\the “defense of western democracy”. The question Was formulated this way in the New York Times of. December 1: “Can western Europe be defended without using its best soldiers, the Germans?” The same ques- tion is the main point of discussion in the current North Atlantic Pact conference in Paris. Why do we mention Nazis when the Times speaks only of “Germans”? The group which it is proposed to arm is the new West German government at Bonn, set up by the U.S., Britain and France and already admitted to Marshall plan councils and penefits. This is the same regime which the U.S. high commissioner in Germany, — John J. McCloy, has accused of being influenced by “Sinister nationalism.” - A : whose press Drew Mid- It is the regime concerning cs in Munich, said _dleton, New York Times correspondent in a disaptch on November 24: “The newspapers of Bav- aria, once relied upon to. speed democratization, today reflect its renazification ... Many of them (are) owned "and edited by the same men who owned and edited then under Hitler.” .One Such paper, Middleton tells us, is engaged in “absolving the German General Staff of guilt for World War II and in general tending to .-- main: ‘tain the myth of German invincibility.” Another is “Published by a Dry Kurz, who “was on the staff of Dr. Goebbels.” All publish material “in defense of the Hit- lerite past” and aimed at intensifying anti-Semitism.” Germans or Nazis? It is the regime concerning which official U.S. re- ports have made the statement that over 90 percent of its civil pfficials are former Nazi pseicabeld oi) eo ‘diplomatic adviser of this regime's Ghanoelior Bon ee “Adenauer, a man named Herbert Blankenhorn, has ae been exposed as a top Nazi agent in ae ee yet Pearl Harbor. His job is the delicate one of getting quick authorization for Adenauer to acquire an army. _ Defense of democracy? i es ; : { = Who are the Nazis really to be armed eee ne ne _ die-hard Republicans like John Foster rede he ie tified repeatedly that they see no signs of Sovie Se a ation to invade western Europe. The Russians selves have proposed evacuation of al aor own included) wei ad ; ew York Times’ own Moscow : , -) Son Salisbury, has reported that ‘the Russian us deity desire for peace colors the whole Russian aa we Bedell Former U.S. ambassador to: Moscow, General W. Smith, talks in his i, ie ec aeen Cated throughout the U.S. — Te apes Session paps acne he observed in the USSR, testi fying that Soviet military defense, 7° ay ‘ Perhaps, then, the idea is to arm palsies oh : “against communism?” Communism soniye hist Many? It was the suppression of Pay ee I. In and unions in Germany that led to World War) the Soviet Union and east Huropean BBLEe yo, tos an admission that the Nazis are to be used in né ‘invasions. In countries like e Nazis, — “already strong ticles now being syndi-. a of the “ob-— thinking is concerned with France, where communism | ‘How doth the little : \ cf nf om he ca ‘ |, busy bee ties oe Bee ons, . ne ee o | 66 AMILTON, Ill—Scientists have used t oe H ‘test tube’ method to produce a busier bee, 5 | Geneticiss G. He Gale Jr. reported today.» - + GN. “el, He paid” the new type bees were more In- ' dustrious than their ancestors, scurrying More rap- “idly from one flower to the next to gather nectar. 1. As a result, t he said, they produce more money a ‘than their. forebears.” —British United Press dis- | patch to the Vancouver Sun, December 6. : Some employers we know of have. the same | : idea about their workers. c By ISRAEL EPSTEIN. - Tito’s new admirers ‘ srt. for Moscow’s ‘p. In particul communism. This call to use Titoism as a torch for war was contained in the Toronto Star for November 16, the day after External Af- fairs Minister Lester B. Pearson's foreign ~ _ policy speech in the House of Commons. is strong? This would mean a new occupation. No ’ wonder the reasons for re-arming the Nazis are ex- pressed only in generalities, o : During and immediately after the fighting phase of World War II, any proposal such as is now made would be. condemned, rightly, as’ treason. It is still treason. Even legally, the war is not. over. There is no peace treaty. But legalities are not the main thing. If fascism was the enemy which the sol- - Once rearmament became the issue, ‘LABOR FOCUS diers of World War II fought to wipe out, its en- couragement is treason now and always. will be. Today, however, it is the opposite of fascism that is called “treason” too often. What passes brazenly for democratic patriotism is support for a course defined, with customary frankness, by the Wall Street Journal of November 29. “Western policy was not content with the Atlantic pact,” the big business paper said. . It ap- parently regarded that as a mere stepping-stone to the rearmament of western Europe at American expense. the rearmament of western Germany, sooner or . . logi- later, became . cally inevitable.” ; 4 ~ y : $ 8 a a U.S., British unions a : : SES clash in new body ee LONDON BATTLE over the admission ‘of Catholic unions featured the opening of the international labor con- ference called by the AFL, CIO, British Trades Union Congress and other right-wing labor groups in oppos- ition to the World Federation of Trade Unions. AFL and CIO spokesmen, who are committed to “free enterprise” capitalism, pushed hard for the admission of even the smallest European Catholio unions. They did this not only to accentuate the anti-Communist character of the new international body but also to prevent it from being “dominated” by the socialists, who lead most of the European national federations already represented. The admission of Catholic unions was sharply op- posed by delegates of Belgian, Dutch, Swiss, Danish and Luxembourg labor bodies, who condemn the or- promise. ganization of workers by separate religions as dual -unionism, British * The conflict that has now broken out in London was foreshadowed in the first international meeting of right- -wing unions held in Geneva, Switzerland, last June. \ Differences also developed at Geneva over the claims ‘of rival federations to represent their countries, and over CIO delegate James B. Carey’s demand that the - policies and elected officers of applicant groups be _ “sereened” for political reliability. Always close to the “ab surface were the rival claims of U.S. and British groups for paramount leadership over unions in continental Europe. : : ~ Born of a breakaway from the WFTU, the right- wing labor international bids fair to create further splits ‘even in its own minority segment of the labor move- ment: Political, national and religious differences, rather than international solidarity for labor’s common ~ goals, are taking up most of the discussion. ; Tory members indulged in some fancy legal argu- delegates tried to introduce a com- PARLIAMENT HILL : Abbott sneers at rent hardship OTTAWA ROWDED public galleries in the House of Com- mons gasped audibly as Finance Minister Douglas Abbott, waving his arms and shouting, declared that he could see no reason for retaining rent controls in the argument that tenants would have to pay higher | rents, in most cases more than they could afford. * - “Everyone has said there is going to be hardship . involved if the apparently large number of tenants have to pay higher rents, but that is no answer to me,’; he stated. In a government less confident of its ability to steam- roller any measure through parliament, its spokesman might have couched his defense of an order as unpopular as that authorizing rent increases of 18 to 22 percent, . effective Decémber 15, in more politically considered terms. But not the St. Laurent government with its huge Liberal majority. : The election is over and the demagogues of the election campaign feel they can dispense with demagogy on such domestic issues, although the pressure of the people’s sentiment for peace still forces them to cover up their war preparations with demagogic statements about “defense” and “‘security.”’ For Abbott the insistent demands of the real estate lobbyists were far more important than the telegrams and letters of protest which have been pouring into his office ever since the rent increase order was announced. He sneered at opposition MPs, dismissing their objections as “‘a lot ‘of demagogic appeals about the hardship that is going to be involved.’ Only the trusts and the big landlords could derive any satisfaction from his attitude, which he summed up himself in an earlier speeeh, on November 8, with his remark: “IT am aware, of course, that there are a great many more tenants than there are owners in the country. But I have never felt that mere numbers justified the perpetuation of unfairness or injustice. . . .” For Abbott, obviously, the injustice lies not in the fact that thousands of families still lack the decent hou- sing they were promised, and by the same Liberal Party, but in the fact that big landlords, those who will benefit most by removal of controls, are hampered in carrying through an unrestricted rent gouge. o Half of the 262 members, were absent from the House during the debate; the only ones to be permitted before the government’s order goes into effect next week. No Social Credit member took the floor to at- tack the order — most of the Social Crediters, in fact, were among those absent from the House. : ¥ ° : CCF opposition to the government was weak con- ' sidering the widespread protest for veterans’, trade union, women’s and other, organizations, indicating the strength of popular opposition to rent increases. ments which did not, however, indicate any real dis- agreement with the government’s policy in relaxing con- trols as a preliminary to removing them entrely. The government’s callous attitude was revealed in a heated exchange between government front benches and CCF leader M. J. Coldwell when Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, Abbott, and James Sinclair (Lib., Coast-Capilano), Abbott’s parliamentary assistant, pre- peace Coldwell from reading a sample letter to mem- Ss. . Coldwell said the letter was written by a veteran of both wars, a man wth a large family, who wanted » his name withheld for fear of losing his job or being — discriminated against ‘by his landlord. St. Laurent demanded that Coldwell make the writer's name public before reading the letter. The CCF leader refused to do so. The government has succeeded in disposing of the issue in the House over a weak opposition. r jt can so easily dispose of the issue in the country, in view of the protest coming from every city, depends upon every, popular organization making its demand -known and uniting to force its recognition by the gov- “ermment. SPAM cin a PACIFIC TRIBUNE — DECEMBER 9, 1949 — PAGE 9