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1 don’t want to set the world on fire,
| just want to start a flame in your heart.

Editorial comment ....

cE ha London Daily Telegraph re-
ports special groups of Cuban
mercenaries (20 to a group) being
trained in the Florida Everglades
“in the arts of sabotage, radio com-
munication, guerilla warfare, and
the handling of explosives.”
These groups are regularly
briefed by U.S. personnel on the
task of “infiltrating into Cuba” to
carry out hostile acts of sabotage

and violence against the Cuban:

people.

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The Canadian Press banquet in
the Toronto Royal York Tuesday
of this week with Britain’s Harold
Macmillan as the guest speaker,
got a “softening up” lecture on
the United Kingdom’s entry into
the European Common Market
(ECM) and its possible effects on
Commonwealth countries.

In a_ world of “change” Mac
spoke feelingly of the British Em-
pire, “won so gloriously, and lost
so ingloriously.” No doubt the
ghosts of Suez and a waning col-

onial empire weighed heavily on]

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the Macmillan nostalgia.
And who do you think is to

blame for all this “change” which
now seeks a “New Common-

wealth” in ECM? You guessed it
—Russia.

armed aggression

of North Vietnam
their own form of government and
society — not to the liking of US.

.»S. “gunboat diplomacy” does
not change much with the
years. All that changes is the “‘ex-
cuse”. Hitherto it used to be
“American interests” that. were
threatened, as a pretext for land-
ing U.S. Marines. These “inter-
ests” were invariably big U.S. oil
monopolies, the United Fruit Com-
pany and so on. Now it is to “pre-
serve our free-way-of-life from
Communism?”

Behind this flimsy pretext for
in Southeast
Asia, thousands of U.S. Marines
are now being landed in Thailand
as a “build-up” of U.S. armed
forces now at war with the libera-
tion forces in Laos and South Viet-
nam.

Having kicked French imperial-
ism out of Indo-China the people
established.

imperialism. In Laos a “coalition”
form of government including neu-
tralist., pro-West and Communist

eleme::t:; was set up, with a UN

commissic~ established to assist.
Canada is (or was) a member of
that Commission.

But U.S. imperialism had other
plans. By and through its domina-
tion and control of its puppet, the
South East: Asia Treaty Organiza-
tion (SEATO), it has pursued a
consistent. policy of obstruction
and provocation in Laos. Through,
its stooge “Prince” Boun Oun, an-
other profligate playboy with the
avarice of a Syngman Rhee, it has
promoted disorder and civil war,
thereby providing an excuse for
open armed intervention.

Hence the landing of thousands

‘No more Koreas’ |

Comment:

of U.S. Marines in Thailand, wi
in striking distance of South Vi
nam, Laos and Peoples Chi
under the pretext of “restorl
order . .. and driving back !
Communists”; in reality, to esta?
lish another permanent U.S. W®
base in Southeast Asia from whett
new provocations and aggression
can be launched against any Asia!
country not conforming to Wash
ington dictates. :

(Aside from this marine force
now in Thailand, it is known tha!
hundreds of U.S. armed forces 2™
U.S. war material is now bell
used in support of the Boun Oum
“royalist” forces against the Viet
namese people.)

The landing of U.S. Marines
Thailand closely follows the Kore
pattern. Already a “call” has gon
out from Washington to SEA 0
‘and NATO member countries
“come over and help us” with
“token” expeditionary force? —

Canadians should make the hu®
tings ring with the demand
Washington— “Get’ the Mariné
and U.S. naval forces out of Asia
“Canadians want no more Korea
and no more U.S. interference 4%
aggression against any people any’
where, struggling for the right °
self-determination and freed
from imperialist oppression.”

Canada must speak out against
these adventurous “brush wal®
of U.S. imperialism; wars whi
could ignite a world conflagratio™

“No more Koreas” and no “t
en” forces. Make these demalt
break the studied silence of ¢
Diefs and Pearsons.

ANY well-meaning people
declare themselves against

nuclear arms in Canada and else-
where. The use of such destruc-
tive weapons they say, “is mor-
ally wrong.’’ They also support
the almost universal idea of gen-
eral world disarmament.

But, and it is quite an import-
ant “but,” they flatly contradict
their own efforts by continuing to

‘insist that the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO) be
“maintained.” That ‘deterrents”
against the spread of Communism
must be preserved; that withoui
the “deterrent” of a strong NATO,
Communism would over-run the
“Free World.”

Just a few. days ago an eminent
church dignatory, the Archbishop
of Canterbury, gave voice to such
views. In fact this church leader
demonstrated more confusion than
most, by proclaiming himself in
devout favor of world disarma-
ment, but opposed .to Britain’s
peace marchers in their demand.
that Britain should “renounce
nuclear weapons?”

Thus Britain’s leading church-
man, like scores of hundreds of

other seemingly well-meaning peo-
ple, in essence says: “let’s have
world disarmament, but let’s hold
onto NATO and the H-bomb.”

Now of course this holy man
should know (from his own scrip-
tural teachings) that “man cannot
serve two masters”; that one can-
not serve the cause of peace and
total disarmament which is the
cause of all decent humanity, and
in the same breath serve a cold-
war monopoly conspiracy, which
finds its highest expression in de-
fense of its class interests through
the media of NATO; an instrument
designed to plunge the world into
a flaming nuclear hell, ‘“deliber-
ately—or accidentally.”

Nor does it lessen the arch-
bishop’s responsibility (or streng-
then his pleas for disarmament) to

apologize for NATO as “a regret-

table necessity?” His Eminence
could well leave that kind of Mc-
Carthy language to the Pentagon
generals, to the neo-fascist Konrad
Adenauer, or to the Diefs and
Pearsons now juggling nuclear
arms for Canada and NATO in,
their campaign for votes.

General world disarmament
means, if it means anything at all,
the destruction of all nuclear weap-
ons, plus a speedy dissolution of
the imperialist war center of
NATO by its member countries;
in our own case, by Canada get-
ting out of NATO and terminating’
all the U.S. war alliances and ‘‘in-
tegration” policies such member-
ship involves.

Thus while every new voice for

peace and general disarmament
is to be welcomed, it must also in-
clude the scrapping of nucleat
arms and NATO to have any sem
blance of reality or honest intent.
This has been the position of the
Communist Party of Canada ever
since the formation of NATO, and
it is the key issue in this federal —
election; the issue of survival, and
the speedy termination of those
policies upon which NATO is!
built as a standing threat to sur
vival. a
Like the archbishop, the Diefs
and Pearsons spout about peace
and disarmament, but theif
double-talk on the issue of nuclear
arms for Canada does not hid@
their readiness (after June 18) tO
comply with U.S. instructions for |
nuclear stockpiles in Canada,
their readiness as in past years, t0 ie 7
pour more billions of the peoples
resources down the NATO arms
drain. he
Like the archibshop too, the
spokesman for the NDP speak —
earnestly for peace and disarma-
ment, but keep on insisting, as at
the NDP founding convention, that
Canada “retains its membership i? —
NATO”, and advocate the impos
sible; that of making a peaceful
“silk purse’ out of a nucleal |
armed NATO “sow’s ear.” It just —
cannot be done, and the sooner thé
NDP leadership grasp that impo
sibility, the sooner it will be able
to serve the Canadian people as #
genuine alterative to the Diefs a
Pearsons of the NATO conspiracy: _