Benefits vs posdia

AVING tucked away some

. $850,000 in a rather shady
transaction just before the B.C.
Electric ‘take over’ by the Bennett
government, the big boys of the
B.C. Power Corporation are new
seeking “leave” to sue the gov-
ernment for an alleged “raw deal”
to B.C. Electric shareholders. In
the language of these “tearful”
power tycoons, B.C. Electric share-
holders didn’t get enough in the
government “take-over”?

One of these whom we men-
tioned in these pages some weeks
ago netted some $16,080 in the
“take-over” on an original invest-
ment of $2,656.50. Others probably
did much better. =:

But apparently that isn’t good
enough for these “tearful tycoons”
of the B.C. Power Corporation who
now seek to ‘sue’ the government
for an upped price of $225 million,
or just over double what the gov-
ernment decided was a ‘fair price’,
viz, $110 million.

Should this attempt by the B.C.
Power Corporation to use the
courts to fleece the people be suc-
cessful, it will simply mean that

another $110 million, more or less,

(and undoubtedly more), of poten-
tial benefits to the people, will be
pocketed by these monopoly leeches
and the interests they represent.

Permission to ‘sue’ by the B.C. -

Power Corporation rests with the
attorney - general’s department.
Such permission in this case should

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be unequivocally and decisively re-
jected.

That amount, and more, should
be promptly earmarked as a first
payment in benefits to the people
from the B.C. Electric ‘take-over’,
and not as boodle to be picked
up (with a court order) by the
B.C. Power Corporation.

Attorney - General Bonner’s
answer must be “no case” gentle-
men.

EFENSE Minister Harkness

doesn’t like petitioning or
any other form of protest by the
Canadian people on the vital ques-
tion of “No nuclear arms for Can-
ada”.

He has said so on numerous 0c-
casions, even going so far as to
urge the armed forces to take a
hand against those citizens who
persist in trying to keep Canada
free of these horror weapons. And
in his periodic spates of frothy

_ demagogy and double-talk, John
- Diefenbaker joins in the Harkness

duet (at U.S. president Kennedy’s,
insistence) for nuclear arms for
Canadian forces at home and in

Editorial comment —

O LONGER able with a
machined “majority” to block
debate in the United Nations on
the seating of People’s China,
spokesmen for U.S. imperialism
are now trying another trick.
Should the present UN Assembly
move favorably for China taking
her rightful place in the UN, the
U.S. plans to scuttle such senti-
ment with an “important question
of China’s representation’; a
“question” which it says requires
a two-thirds majority, and which
the Pentagon hopes cannot be got.
Tne old made-in-the-U.S.A. “two
Chinas” gag, with the UN thrown

West Germany.
Neither of these “honest rok
ers” for U.S. imperialism in Cat
ada like petitions, letters, télé
grams, resolutions or other exp
sions of opposition to their nucleat
madness. They have said so mam
times, even when it meant opps
tion and insult to their cabiie
colleague, external affairs minist®
Howard Green. » :
The answer to these U.S. nuel
salesmen should be patently
vious; swamp them with petiti?
with every form of mass prote
on this all-important issue of SU!
vival — “No Nuclear Arms #
Canada”, neither by the front doo!
nor via the NATO backdoor.

into endless recriminatory debate”
while U.S. imperialism impudentlY J
lectures People’s China as to whom]
its ‘representatives’ should be
meantime insisting that its stoog”
Chiang Kia-shek - yesmen kee?
their UN seats. q

Fortunately for the UN and
humanity, the U.S. no longer calls q
the shots as it used to, despite ©
its howls about People’s Chint F
“imperilling the United Nations “—

The real peril to the UN and
mankind generally, is U.S. 1
perialism, but considerably Je
sened with People’s China in thf
UN. i

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Tom ~
McEwen

VERY time a group of alleged
‘Free West’ diplomaniacs get
together, which often includes such

far ‘West’ nations as Turkey,
Greece, Pakistan, etc., a new ‘pact’
is born. :

Strangely enough, or perhaps not
so strange, all these ‘pacts’ bear
the familiar characteristic of the
powers which sired them; the face
of the mighty dollar superimposed.
upon an H-Bomb, and_ labelled
“Seace.”

Thus we have a whole swarm
of alphabetic abbreviations known
as NATO, SEATO, NORAD,
CENTO, etc. and so on, to say
nothing of the lesser breed of
‘pacts’ spawned by the big ones, all
designed to ‘‘preserve peace” a la
the ‘“‘free world.”

Every now and again the un-
-published purposes of these ‘pacts’
come to light, and when they do
they make all the wanton carnage
of all past history look like a Sun-
day school picnic. There the avow-
ed purpose is ‘one of murder, mass
murder on a truly gigantic scale;
how to obliterate, effectively, de-
cisively and completely, whole na-
tions of people with bigger and
better H-Bombs.

This horror was recently exposed
by the publication of secret CENTO
documents, plans and maps by the
Soviet Defense Ministry newspaper
Krasnaya Zvezda; documents out-
lining plans submitted by CENTO

military chiefs, and generally ap-
proved by the military “experts”
in Washington, London and Bonn.

This CENTO (Bagdad Pact)
“peace” plan lays down some key
steps for the obliteration of the
Soviet Union. First is a ‘‘Nuclear
Target Study” (approved by the
U.S. chiefs of staff), aimed at re-
ducing all Soviet cities and key
centres into blazing Hiroshimas.

Second, a “nuclear interdiction”

plan to head off retaliation or block
the line of Soviet defense. How
is this to be accomplished? Accord-
ing to CENTO strategists and their
Washington directors, quite easy.
Just drop a few score big H-Bombs
on some forty chosen ‘“‘nuclear in-
terdiction” targets in Iran, Turkey,
Pakistan, Afganistan and India,
thereby creating a vast nuclear ‘no-
man’s-land’ through which Soviet
or other “enemy” forces cannot
pass. :
The millions of people of those
“forty chosen targets” in four or
five countries whom CENTO has
decided are to be nuclear barbecued
are of no account. What are the
lives of millions of Turks, Iranians,
Pakastanis, Afgans, Indians or
other neutrals or allies, compared
to the “peace” these CENTO mani-
acs hope would result from their
planned destruction of the Soviet
Union and the Socialist world.

As may be noted, CENTO’s “nu-
clear interdiction targets” show
little concern either for neutral
countries or the colonial and semi-
colonial peoples they have ruth-
lessly exploited and pillaged for
generations. To the CENTO mili-
tary planners and their “expert”
advisors in Washington and Lon-
don, such peoples and their lands

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have now only one ultimate use;
to serve as a contaminated no-
man’s-land of-death and devasta-
tion, through which no “enemy”
may dare pass. :

The CENTO plans for mass muIr-
der, now exposed by the Soviet |
press (with illustrated .authentic |
photostatic documents) should not
be regarded as the isolated ravings
of madmen. On the contrary these
are tied in very closely with over-
all NATO “strategy” in its con-
tinued war provocations against
the USSR and the resurgence of
Hitlerite militarism in West Ger-
many now evident in the present
made-in-the-USA ‘Berlin crisis”.
In fact they are part of NATO
“strategy” and plots.

Of course the U.S. state depart-
ment, running true to form,
promptly branded the Soviet ex-
pose of these CENTO horror plans
as “forgeries”, even before (on its
own admission) it “hadn’t seen the
documents’’?

The CENTO expose drives home
a terrible lesson, so well outlined
in New Times: “... Since the U.S. ||
dropped the A-bombs on Hiroshima 4
and Nagasaki without any military
necessity, solely out of political
considerations, it will certainly not
hesitate to do the same to any tow?
or country, neutrals and allies in-
cluded, if it suits its strategi¢
objects.”

In CENTO - NATO - SEATO-
NORAD language, to preserve the
rule of a ruthless U.S. monopoly; FE
the earth and its peoples are “ex —
pendable’”. But the job (of course)
must always be done on the pre-
text of “peace”, thereby giving
their saturnalia of death and des-
truction a “moral” excuse?

September 29, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page ~