No secret deal? ...

By CONRAD KOMOROWSKI
(N.Y. Daily World)

In announcing the return of
President Nixon to the United
States from his visit to China,
the New York Daily News found
it necessary to assure its read-
ers in boxcar type on page 1
(Feb. 29): “Nixon: We Made No
Secret Deal.”

The New York Times was
more discreet. It put the reas-
surance in the subhead. “Presi-
dent Home After China Trip;
Reassures Allies,” was the top
head, followed by “No Secret
Deals, He Says, or Yielding on
Pledges to Any Other Country.”

It is the man who has made
a secret deal who has to over-
protest so much, you might say.

That is especially true of an
Administration and a President
who have been caught in so
many lies that their credibility
is very low.

It is also common knowledge
that the principle from which
the Nixon-Kissinger team never
deviates, no matter how devious
and opportunistic it is on other
matter is deception of the peo-
ple. Nixon is known to be sec-
retive. He is also deliberately de-
ceptive. He believes, as does
Kissinger, that you tell the peo-

ple what you wish, and do
what you wish.
The communique issued at

the end of his trip contains
some very significant hints of

what agreements were reached
(Taiwan, for example) but none
of a secret deal.

That is to be expected. The
communique is for public con-
sumption, not only in China and
the United States, but in Africa,
Asia, Latin America and Eu-
rope, among developing coun-
tries and developed countries.

For that reason, it has to
show that the Nixon side and
the Maoist side disagreed amic-
ably on a number of matters,
that progress had been made
and agreement reached on try-
ing to improve relations.

But the communique is only
a surface statement. Nixon’s
visit had a vastly greater signi-
ficance and importance. Max
Frankel of the New York Times
and head of its Washington bu-
reau, who accompanied the
Nixon party to China, unwit-
tingly revealed it (Feb. 29):

“They (Nixon and Chou En-
lai) found each other useful,
sharing parallel concerns about
the Russians, holding common
concerns about the Japanese,
groping for a new post-Vietnam
balance in Asia and wondering
why they ever permitted them-
selves to become such passicn-
ate and obsessed enemies.”

The key words are “useful”
and “parallel.” This is the basis
of the secret understanding and
secret deal worked out between
Nixon and the Maoists.

The Maoist-Nixonite secret
deal does not serve peace; it will
aggravate tensions.

ase, Pacitic Tribune

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY,, MARCH 10, 1972—PAGE 4. ,

Free Angela Davis!

The winning of bail for Angela Davis
was a big victory. But it should not
blind us to the fact that the enemies
of everything Angela stands for still
have her in their clutches and haven’t
swerved from their intention to kill her.

__Foreed to grant bail, they are still
illegally trying to keep her gagged:
they deny her the right to make state-
ments, to address meetings, to travel
during pauses in court proceedings.
And those proceedings themselves give
no grounds for optimism. It is a racist,
anti-Communist court that is trying

her for her life on trumped-up charges. °

“The only fair trial for Angela in

this country is no trial at all — drop -

the charges!” the National United
Committee to Free Angela Davis stated
in opening an all-American and world-
wide campaign to get the gag removed
from the ardent black woman revolu-
tionary and to collect money for her
defence.

We are glad to see that Canadian

efforts are also contributing to the bat-

tle to free Angela Davis. Those efforts
should be multiplied many times over.
We must snatch Angela from the
Nixons, Rockefellers.and Reagans, the
heirs of those who electrocuted Sacco
and Vanzetti and the Rosenberg’, those
who rained atomic death on Hiroshima,
those who are laying waste the once-
lush fields and forests of Vietnam.
Freedom for Angela!

Test in Manitoba

Several months ago one member of
the NDP cabinet in Manitoba quit over
the abortion issue. On that question he
held purely medieval views and wanted
the government to go along with him.
The Schreyer administration can’t be
blamed in this case.

But there are mounting questions in
which the working people and progres-

‘sives do blame the NDP government.

The entire labor movement has angrily
criticized the provincial minister of la-

bor for his anti-labor bias. NDP rigid- -

ity and opposition to unity resulted in
the old parties taking command in Win-
nipeg unicity elections—preventing the
election of both Communist and NDP
candidates in the great majority of
seats. And now Premier Schreyer’s
divisive and reactionary stand on the
school issue—the decision to finance
private and parochial schools out of
the public treasury, in effect fragment-
ing the public school system — has
brought about another resignation
from the cabinet and placed the NDP

government in peril.

Premier Schreyer’s attitude on this
question is undemocratic and danger-
ous. In the struggle against feudalism,
the separation of the church from the
state-and from the schools was every-
where one of the main democratic de-
mands. Moreover, to split his govern-
ment and the people on such a question
at this time when the utmost unity is
needed to fight the monopolies and
their politicians — is sheer stupidity if
not worse. (Similarly, attempts to split
the workers of Quebec by unilingual-

ism is wrong and dangerous for all.)

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NDP, the trade unions, Comm
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to defeat the old-line parties. J!
wise, we may well see a swing !
right, victory for the forces of ré
in Manitoba.

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up for a new attempt to foist 47
freeze on Canadian workers.

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Social Credit regime headed by,
nett in British Columbia via legisl#
denying the right to strike to W
in public services, has been fold
by a concerted campaign acros*
country demanding a freeze on
and incomes.

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for inflation, which had been PY
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the “6% limit” guidelines, is noW iy
ted out again in editorials and Puy
speeches. The discrediteed Mr. 19)
himself broke a lengthy silence
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controls are “unrealistic”, but the} )
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to stop them. ae

There is as much scary talk #
pollution as there is lack of meat?
action to deal with it. And yet the
1s very real. Our atmosphere,
and soil are being poisoned so Ve
that this is as great a peril to

earth as are the nuclear, bactel™
cal weapons.

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rivers by dumping the wastes Ont
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