Hypocrisy Vs. guns i

ORMAL protests in the United
Nations against the ruthless
ssacres of African people in the
Portuguese colony of Angola by
the Salazar fascist government
ay have embarrassed “Free

est” diplomats, but it didn’t halt_

ef even slow up the bloody hand
ef Portugal’s act of genocide in
Angola.

'Tens of thousands of Angola
natives fleeing across the Congo
border to seek refuge from the ter-
ror of Portuguese troops, relate
harrowing stories of the cold-
blooded murder of whole commu-
nities and villages given to the
flames. '

Protests are daily voiced by the
governments of. Afro-Asian na-
tions, by the peoples and govern-
ments of the socialist world, and
by progressive peoples everywhere.
Seemingly these protests fall on
deaf ears, or on those who weigh
up the interests of their war al-
liance (NATO) as against the
wanton murder of tens of thous-
ands of Negro peoples, men and
women, old and young. Seemingly

also, in view of their silence, they
acquiesce in this fascist genocide
in order to preserve the “unity” of
their NATO “alliance’’.

In the UN Security Council vote
protesting Portugal’s blood bath in
Angola, the “Christian” spokes-
men of Britain and France “ab-
stained”. This is not hard to under-
stand, since both have been sup-
plying their NATO “ally” Portugal
with arms to do this precise job.

That is shameful indeed, but for
Canadians doubly so, since the
Diefenbaker government has been
doing exactly the same thing; sell-
ing arms to the ruthless dictator
of Portugal with which he can
crush the struggles of the Angola
peoples for independence and self-
government. To crush a_ people
struggling for the right to freedom
in their own country.

A naked image of Tory dupli-
city; demagogic speeches against
racial persecution in Verwoerd’s
Seuth Africa; guns to Salazar to
crush the right of racial equality,
dignity and self-government in
Angola.

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Our destiny—peace 4

N this Canada Day, marking

the 94th birthday of our
nation, never was the sovereign
independence, peace and well-being
of a people so gravely threatened
as at this milestone of our brief
history. ;

Going on two decades under suc-
cessive Liberal and Tory govern-
ment, the rich natural resources of
this country, the fate of its indus-
trial development, its military
command and its very skies, have
been alienated and brought under
the dictates and domination of
U.S. imperialism. Under the smoke
sereen of so-called U.S.-Canada
“integration”, Canadian sovereign-
ty has been treasonably subverted.

On this 94th birthday the bal-
ance sheet of this “integration”
stands out with stark nakedness.
Chronic unemployment and lower-
ing wage standards affecting mil-
lions of Canadians. Rising taxation
and living costs, accompanied by

‘reckless “defence” spending, total-

ling $2 billion annually. Stationary
cr declining social services, with
education and other recreational
and cultural opportunities for the
nation’s youth, facing its greatest
crisis since Confederation in 1867.

While Canada’s people urgently —

seek disarmament and peace and f
an end to coldwar insanity, the —
Diefenbaker government commits”
Canada to nuclear bombs on Canay —
dian territory, by squandering —
-pillions for ~ high - priced _ U5:

warheads.

On-this 94th birthday Canada §

deserves a better fate than mem
bership in Washington’s “nucleat
club” with its staggering 4
wasteful cost, its degrading d@
pendence (for Canada) upon t

will of U.S. trigger-happy nuclear
maniacs, implicit in the “Kennedy”

Doctrine” usurpation of sovereig™
authority.

Canada Day this year shoul@”

sienalize a renewed dedication
win independence,

and peace. To project Canada aS *

leader and inspiration to neutral
and “uncommitted” nations ear |

estly seeking a like objective.

On that path alone, the fu
ment of Canada’s true destiny, 2%
the vision of Confederation can P®
attained. In Washington’s “nuclea®
club” our independence, our dS

nity, the livelihood of our peopl F
and our hope for peace is irreV? —

cably lost.

Tom
McEwen

N CASE our readers are unaware
j of his identity, Mr. Bruce Hut-
chison is editor of the Victoria
Daily Times. With some literary
monuments to his credit, notably
his book on the late Mackenzie
King, The Incredible Canadian and
later The Mighty Fraser, Mr. Hut-
chison is often mistakenly referred
to as the “dean” of Canadian let-
ters.

_. Be that as it may Mr. Hutchison
has a free and easy style of writing,
often informative but seldom pro-

books a few years ago Stanley
Ryerson of Toronto described the

but a poor historian’, which just
about sums it up.

that Victoria’s two daily papers,
the Victoria Daily Times and the
Victoria Colonist are both pro-
duced in the same _ institution.

ois partisan politics, the one churns
out a daily diet of Liberal pablum,

same. In one a_ pate-de-foie-gras
journalese, in the other goose liver,
both with ample helpings of cold-
war salad.

found. Commenting on one of his -
Victoria editor as ‘“‘a fine journalist »

It may be mentioned in passing”

“Typical of the elasticity of bourge-

the other a Tory mixture of the

‘Now back to the “dean”. In the
June 6th edition of the Victoria
Daily Times is an editorial page
feature entitled “Loose Ends...
Copy of a Secret Report to Mos-
cow”’, by Bruce Hutchison.

It seems that during some four
political by-elections (probably the
most recent ones) a “Russian Spy”
was in our midst taking volumin-
ous notes and making some fore-
casts on the inevitable (but not so
soon?) collapse of capitalism in
Canada. This particular “Russian
spy”, obviously an extremely
obliging chap, according to editor ©
Hutchison, “has kindly given me a
copy of his report to Moscow,
which is reproduced here without
comment”’, ee

A most unorthodox -procedure
for a ‘‘Russian” or any other “spy”
to engage in. After all what’s the
use of “spying” if the data so col-
lected is going to be “kindly”
handed over to the newspapers of
the country where the “spying” is .
done? First thing you know the
CIA, FBI, OSS; RCMP and all the
other professional snooper outfits
would be out of a job,

However, there it is, 20 column-
inches of pure unadulterated tripe
which Hutchison claims a “Russian
spy ... has kindly given me”, Had
any Times or Colonist reporter left
such infantile bilge on the editor’s
desk, the poor lad would have been
out on the street looking for an-
other meal ticket,

Let’s put the record straight. The
Hutchison “Copy of a Secret Re-
port to Moscow” is an obvious

erude forgery. No ‘Russian’ or
Canadian taking a gander at “the
political system of Canada’’, what-
ever his or her intellectual rating,
could come up with such a mess Of
political borscht as Hutchison’s
“kindly Russian spy’. Not even
with the latest Fleming budget
thrown in to accentuate the mess. —
The coldwar punchline is given —~
in the concluding paragraph. It
also “gives away” the HutchisoP
forgery.
this alleged report that “... even -
in a revolutionary situation the
collapse of Canada should not be ~
immediately assumed. But I am i0-_
clined to oppose. direct Russia!
intervention since the Canadia?

government and its people, if left |

alone tinder present methods, will
certainly accomplish the desired
result without our assistance’* —
(Emphasis ours.) a
Bravo, Ivan Ivanovich Hutch
sonovsky, a neat trick in your e%”
tremely “Loose Ends’, to include ~
the sly insinuation that Russia. has
been contemplating “intervention”
to help things along, but is noW
advised in “Secret Report to Mos —
cow” that the Tories, Socreds and ia
ourselves are doing very ‘nicely, —
thank you. ae
There is one gem in your “ad
vice” to Moscow to which we are
sure Canadians will add a fervent .
“amen”, Where your “kindly” RUS —
sian spy says: “I must warn the —
Russian government not to be mus |
led by the national budget of Ca —
ada”, You might have added: |

”

“Neither are most Canadians. ” ae

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