Bonn’s new ‘excuse’

Whe the West German government attempted to enact

a twenty-year “statute of limitaions” designed to ex-
onerate tens of thousands of Hitler’s nazi war criminals
still at large from the just punishment for their war
crimes, world indignation and protest put a stopper to that
nefarious scheme.

The Bonn government, its personnel and institutions
still largely made up of ex-nazi, was compelled to suspend
its “statute of limiations” and to proceed, as per the laws
of civilized nations, with the trial and punishment of those
nazi criminals coming within its jurisdiction. World opin-
ion impressed upon Bonn that there’s no “statute of limit-
ations” for mass murder and genocide.

The May 14 edition of “Information” issued by
Bonn’s embassy in Ottawa, contains two revealing para-
graphs of the Bonn mentality. Blocked in its desire to save
nazi killers from justice, it now issues “an urgent appeal . .
to Jewish organizations in all the countries of the Eastern
Bloc to make available the documents still in their posses-
sion, in order that the murderers of yesterday might be
prosecuted, instead of retaining them again and again for
the purposes of political propaganda and blackmailing
manoevres. The whole world ought to rise up and demand
the sealed documents from the members of the Eastern
Bloc, without any conditions of a political nature being at-
tached...”

Bonn’s trickery in this “demand” is patently obvious;
that it cannot now get on with its prosecution of its nazi
murderers, because “Jewish organizations” and others in
the “Eastern Bloc” prefer to utilize the dossiers on the
Hitlerite assassins of their people, as instruments of
“blackmail”, rather than retributive justice.

This coldwar insult to the ravaged states and surviv-
ors of the Hitler concentration and death camps issued by
the West German embassy in Ottawa, is highly typical of
the Bonn mentality, and its retention of the Goebbels’
technique of the “Big Lie’.

Stymied in its attempts to put a “limitation” upon the
trial and conviction of Nazi murderers, it now seeks to put
the onus on those who survived the Hitler murder era, for
the Nazi killers still being at large.

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McEWEN

So the situation comes down fo”
An American Gas trust now conll
the gas situation in B.C. It cont
prices paid at the well head, prices
transmission and prices to wholesd
like Hydro and Inland. No won
Bennett can’t cut gas prices in!
Lower Mainland. And the interior ¢
tributor, Inland Natural Gas, rem!
one arm of the monopoly octopus

That’s why the chances of B.C. ¢
sumers ever getting gas rates !!
compare with Alberta rates are 0
as good as the chances of the pro
bial snowball in hell . . .

—Ma Murray in LILLOOE
NEWS, April 29, '65.

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Will someone please tell the sidney
May Day Committee about the bil

“What're you excited about, sarge, I’m no dirtier than ‘the war
down here.”’ —Nevues Deutschland, Berlin

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An ill-timed visit
T he Queen’s current state visit to the West German Fed-
eral Republic is a disturbing event to millions of Bri-
tons. For the West German government, however, it is the
most important junket of any foreign state monarch since
the end of World War II. It will be a revel in flunkeyism,
conducted with massive Teutonic thoroughness, hell-click-

ing and goose-stepping.

It will also be highly political, and for West German
“prestige”, highly beneficial. For Britain, prestige-wise, it
is already manifesting the opposite effect, at home and
abroad.

Not many city blocks from Buckingham Palace there
is still the untouched rubble left from Hitler’s “blitz on
Britain’’. The dead are covered by the good earth, but in
millions of British homes, not yet forgotten.

Not a few political results are hoped for by the revan-
chist ex-nazis who still rule in West Germany from this
royal visit; that the West German government, like all “‘re-
spectable”’ governments, should have nuclear weapons to

trigger; that in the opinion of Washington and Bonn, Bri-

tain should make more substantial financial aid to “our
main ally in Europe’’,—a revanchist West.Germany. And
of course, that Britain, willy-nilly, should get into the
“common market” to augment its ‘“‘benefits’’, etc.

No wonder millions of Britons in all walks of life re-
gard the Queen's Tory-designed visit to West Germany
with mixed feelings of apprehension, disaproval and dis-
gusti. :
percent,” but it has been of suf-
ficient proportions to show up
Bennett’s cheap contention as a
shoddy piece of political trickery,
This Socred tub-thumper speaks
for himself and not British Co-
lumbia, in his plea for support
of Yankee killers and arsonists,

road “citizens” are truly “hor-
rible,”

These well-meaning skidroad
“clean-ups” do become a bit
tiresome, if for no other reason
than the fact that they never get
below the surface, never probe

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It was also quite natural in the the economic and social“ causes

P remier W, A, C, Bennett has
added another political
laurel to his Socred crest last
week by publicly announcing his
unqualified approval of U.S, ag-
gression in Vietnam, the Domin-
ican Republic and elsewhere,

Officiating at the initial con-
struction of a new provincial
archives building in Victoria,
Bennett took time out to exhort
his audience to give whole-heart-
ed approval and support to the
U.S. warhawks, now spreading
death and destruction ‘on three
continents,

“I’m sure,” orated Mr, Ben-
nett, “every citizen of this prov-
ince backs the United States 100
percent, because they are bear-
ing the cross of freedom for us,
We should at this hour lend sup-
port to them when they are carry-
ing such aterrific burden, instead
of joining those who think it is
great sport to pluck at the feath-
ers of the American eagle,” __

Coming from a premier whose

government has served for over
a decade as the “honest broker”
for the give-away and sellout of
British Columbia resources to
U.S, monopoly for a fast buck,
Bennett’s appeal for aid and ap-
proval to the war-mad arsonists
of the Pentagon is (for him) a
natural follow-up.

However, while Mr. Bennett
may be something of an expert
in certain areas of fast buck per-
centages, his assertion that
“every citizen of this province
backs the United States 100 per-
cent” proved him either a-liar
or a fool or both,

Tens of thousands of citizens
in this province, individually and
collectively, through their varied
organizations, have, in their own
way, stated just the opposite—
that the U,S, war gangsters “Get

out of Vietnam,” “Get out of the”

Dominican Republic,” “Get out of
other people’s territory and af-
fairs,”

That sentiment, as yet, andre-
grettably so, has not been “100

scheme of things that the Gold-
water “Province” should pick up

‘this piece of Socred warmonger- .

ing with which to prod Liberal

Prime Minister Pearson andEx-.
ternal Affairs Minister Martin, -

in their failure to come up to
the Bennett standards “to defend
the leader of the free world. ...”

British Columbians should
hasten to tell Mr, Bennett that in
his defense of U,S, war and ag-
gression upon the peoples of
Asia, Africa and Latin America,
he speaks only for himself and
the small percentage of B,C,
citizens who think like him, those
to whom war (any war) and ex-
ploitation and profits have be-
come synonymous,

Hees ok

Spring cleaning time is here
again, that is, on Vancouver’s
world-famed Skidroad, City Hall
and welfare organizations are re-
discovering for the umpteenth
time that moral turpitude and de-
generacy is rampant; that con-

which produce -Skidroads in an
allegedly “dynamic society,” The
best they manage is to stage a
noisy alarum on the “effects”—
then hasten to apply a goodly
coat of conscience- relieving
whitewash,

When these recurring Skidroad

and the bees?

The Committee's one-eyed mons
have, apparently without feminine’
operation, spawned a May Day Pe
depicting ‘‘men only”’ as bearers °
followers of the standard of fi

Where are the underpaid wom
garment-workers who made the ™
suits worn by the poster’s marche

Where are the Mothers who 5°
and reared these neat young P®
marchers, then went out to work
earn the money for schoolbooks °
shoes which their husbands’ w99
could not afford?

Someone please tell them the fads
of life...

—AUSTRALIAN TRIBUNE, —
April 13, ’65.

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The Johnson policy, in the opif!
of American labor, as express®
the Executive Council of the Ari-clO
is in keeping with our Ameri¢
tradition... i

Anyone with the slightest bit”
common sense must know tho!
South Vietnam is allowed to go, %
Southeast Asia goes next, an
Philippines follow...

—AFL-CIO president Georg?
Meany in AFL-CIO NEWS,
May 8, '65. :

“clean-ups” are over, «every

body that is anybody” sleé
easier; the incidence of “crimé
is presumed to have been niPP
in the bud, “welfare” expendi
tures reduced, prostitution atl
drunkenness “well in hand
civic conscience assuaged,
the unemployed and «unemploy
able” Skidroad “citizen” back’
his bug-infested rathole — pe
dering where the next “C0?
and” or the next half-filled glas
of “suds” is coming from,

“Onward Christian soldier
Skidroad “spring cleaning
here,

, alfa ume
n

ks

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