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reedom’ -to kill
hate groups should be permitted to freely peddle their

nazi poison by virtue of our “democratic freedoms” is not

exclusive to Canada.

In the United States, Britain and Wie countries of
the socalled “Western Alliance”!a similar debate is in pro-
gress on this malignant “hate” cancer, now seeking to fast-
en itself upon society; openly, arrogantly, and with an ef-
frontery born of the knowledge tliat its purveyors have the
financial and “moral’’ backing of sections of big monopoly.

Forgetful of the “high ideals” of certain allied states-
men at the end of World War II “to extirpate Nazism root
and branch”, we are now permitting its disease carriers to
invade the public arena, to utilize every media of public
information to spew forth their poison. Even sections of
the socalled “Christian” church lend their sponsorship in
this.

All this in the name of “free speech”. Democracy, we
are told, cannot prevail if we deny those “with unpleasant
ideas” the right to express them.

On this concept of “free speech” we provide an audi- ~
~ence for imported and home grown racists, anti-Semites, —

fascists, “John Birchers”, Negro haters, rabid anti-Com-
munists, discarded police stools, every specie of anti-social
psychopath spawned from the Hitlerite gutter.

There’s just one very important factor that the advo-
cates of “free speech” for this conglomeration of well-fin-
anced racist and fascist hate-peddlers overlook, viz, the
open (or covert) advocasy of violence against individuals
and groups, which their hate literature and their harran-
gues clearly set forth. Their threat to rebuild the Hitlerite
death oven, if, as and when their “right of free speech”
reaches its objective—the power to transform their “ideal”
of race hate into a “material force.”

What we need to combat this Nazi and racist hate,
declare some of our defenders of the right of ‘free speech’’,
is not restrictive laws, but more “education”.

The Hitlerite war crimes against humanity, well es-
—_tablished at Nuremberg and since, was an “education’’. Its
monumental “education” record is still available to all who
care to read and learn from it. The mountains of dead, mil-
itary and civilian, the ashes of six or more millions of Jews
-because they were Jews, that too is an “education,” un-
surpassed in all human history for its horror and bestial-.
ity. Just how much of such “education” does society need,
in order to stanip out the poison which produced | such
crimes?

The organized peddling of race hatreds and the ex-
termination of peoples does not come under the heading
of an “ideal’’ nor the “right” to spread it. On the cont-
rary, it constitutes a crime for which humanity already.
paid a heavy price for neglecting. Let’s not make the same
fatal mistake twice.

he ‘‘debate”’ as to whether fascist, racist and similar ~

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Tin cup government |

ast week’s ‘Speech from the Throne’ at the opening ot
the B.C. Legislature was unique in one respect,—not
what was in it, but what wasn’t.

That ommission, very much in the plural, fits into the
national scene with startling similarity; the utter and cal-

lous disregard for the needs of the people regardless of the

partisan label of the “party in power’’. Those engaged in
“selling Canada short” to U.S. monopoly, whether Liberal,

Tory or Socred, are not moved by compassion or concern :

for the needs of the people.

Last week’s Socred “program’”’ as it applied to the
people’s health and needs, was fittingly described by NDP
leader Bob Strachan as “tin cup medicare”. That apt des-
cription can well be applied to most other areas of Socred

“concern” for the people’s wellbeing.

Whatever the current session of the Legislature may .

bring forth, one fact already projects itself, viz; that a
golden opportunity obtains for the NDP to unite and rally

the people in a mighty crusade to sweep out the Bennett

government and bring into being an NDP-people’s anti-
monopoly government—serving the needs of the common
people . ... first and always.

and emerges as “Lord
Doakes of Doaksville,” wears
knee-britches and does the bulk
of his snoozing in the House of

The epuRttiEs of Europe, to-
gether with old Tzarist Russia
were rotten with it, Among the
tens of thousands of “freedom

__Report, Nov. 27, '64.

sea washing machines.

‘in to buy the week’s groceries.

ism is held up as the partner of th!

Tom

“McE WEN

he aversion of most Cana-

dians to“titles” is fairly
widespread, The average citizen,
whether in big business, moder-
ate business, or no business at
all, takes a dim view of this
medieval hangover from a dead
era, ‘

But not all of course, The wor-
ship of “titles,” of being dubbed
a “Sir? a “Baronet,” “Duke,”
“Lord” or what have you, still
retains its ardent devotees in
Liberal and Tory ranks,

Even in the ranks of labor,
The founder of the British Labor
Party, Kier Hardie, would prob-
ably turn over in his grave were
he able.to look over the sw:.. m
of “Sirs,” “Lords” and other
titled gentry who now dominate
the fighting party he created,
“Titled” socialists who, if they
have failed miserably to eman-
cipate the British workingclass,

have at least managed to “eman-
cipate” themselves,

Generally speaking the art of
coralling a*title” is fairly simple,
A “deserving” politician of’old-
line party vintage, manages to
get—and keep himself elected for
a couple of decades or more, He
also manages to pocket amoder-
ately high (and steadily spiral-
ling) parliamentary stipend in
the process, But the mythiscre-
ated (and unfortunately too wide-
ly accepted) that some kindof a
“sacrifice” is involved in his
parliamentary career, “distin-
guished service to his country,”
or some similar balderdash!

This in turn promotes the con-
cept. of “reward,” Thus when the
common electorate terminates
this “distinguished service” with
a paucity of votes, plain Joe
Doakes is headed for the “peer-

Lords—with a comfortable life-
time stipend (at the taxpayer’s
expense) to help along the
“cause,”

In Canada, of course, as has
been mentioned, with our broader
concepts of “democracy” we send
our most “deserving” politicians
and “elder statesmen” to the
somnambulent Senate for life,
also with a comfortable stipend
(again at the taxpayers’ expense),
so that his sleep may not be
disturbed by economic, social or
orther trivial worries, But no
“titles,” please, Perhaps an
“Honorable” but nothing more,

In point of fact, over the years
since Confederation we in Canada
have sent many such “deserving”
politicians to theSenate, “Honor-
able” and all, when, had they got
what they really deserved, should
have been sent to the nearest
penitentiary instead,

Let us not, however, discount
the value of “titles” to a social
order already in its twilight era,
nor get the idea “titles” are an
exclusive Anglo-Saxon institu-
tion,

fighters” or so-called “refugees
from socialist tyranny” coming
to Canada in recent years, there
is a goodly percentage who seek
to identify themselves—and ele-
vate their social “status” with
some fancy “title” or other,

“Doctors” among this type come.

as thick as mosquitoes
stagnant swamp,

in a

Moreover, even at this late
date, there is no scarcity of old

faci: iene imme Sv as

el iy, VPLUE

a ta Af Rip
nm t Ni! i

Recent West German plays h
shown an intense interest in the d
mentary records of recent history.

In the interests of expanding ff
new documentary theatre we sugg
a few more subjects; the transcript °
the Nuremberg trials, for one; a drat
atization of ‘Mein \ampf’’ for
other.

Finally, perhaps we might ha
chronicle play about Alfred Kri
called ‘‘How | Made Millions on Slav
Labor, Beat the Rap, and Becami
Great Democratic Statesman.’’ Tht
title may be a bit long. But then, ‘
is the story.

— WASHINGTON STAR, Nov. 17,
reprinted in Democratic German

During 1964 world arms expendi
ture amounted to about $120, 000
million. This sum is the equivalent ° fe
10 million 3-room flats; 2 million
contained houses; 20,000 10-
schools; 10,000 200-bed hospital
10 million television sets; 10 milliol ;

—Bulletin of World Council
Peace, August, 1964

You've probably all read the P
Association report of the Lancas
engineer who was dragged int
huge machine and came out the oft”
end unhurt—but naked. We coulda!

help thinking that just about the s
thing happens to us every time w

—PEOPLES VOICE,
New Zealand, Dec. 2, % r

*
Religious groups in the West art
rapidly being held in contempt ‘

many parts of Asia, Africa and Lalll
America, where the flag of imperia!”

Bible under the title Staff of Freed

An African chief once said to ©
Canadian church leader. ‘‘When yo!
came to Africa, you had the Bible an
we had the land. Now, we have
Bible and you have the land.”’

—PEACELETTER, Canadian Pe:
Congress, Jan. 1965.

Russian Pebarons count
“dowagers” and what not, wie
still walk the boulevards of Pari
London and New York, dreamilh
of the day when they can “ré
turn,”—to batten on the labor@ 0
others. :

A pipe-dream; but then so ¥
the tinselled status of a “titled
parasite, basking in the glitt@
of his symbol of exploitation al®
reaction, No wonder the majoril!
of Canadians have ahealthy ave!’ i
sion to having an outmode®
“handle” clamped onto thel
plain-but-honest “John Henry

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