Bonn creates new phony crisis [/\}==° Ree Eig ~ Native people to remal! By FILS DELISLE BERLIN—The propaganda ar- tillery of the FRG is pounding away to scare the world into thinking that there is another Berlin crisis underway, but even Western diplomatic circles are not buying the myth. As a result of Bonn’s incredible attempt to start operating in West Berlin, there is indeed a nasty and even dangerous political djspute de- veloping in connection with Bonn’s governmental decision to set up an environmental protec- tion agency on territory that does not belong to it, namely, in West Berlin. But that is not the issue about which Bonn’s propagandists are making a great din. What they _are shouting about is the legiti- mate and rational response of the GDR to the FRG’s provoca- tion: the refusal of the GDR border officials to allow members of the so-called environmental agency to cross transit roads of the GDR from West Germany to West Berlin to take up their il- legal posts in West Berlin. The propaganda barrage in West Germany that the GDR is hold- ing up traffic between West Ger- many and West Berlin is foolish nonsense. It is also a lesson in how to create a phoney crisis. The scenario, as I have fre- quently reported, began on the West German side when. Bonn began talking of setting up an environmental protection agen- cy for the FRG. Incredibly, the agency was to be, not in the In- terior Ministry in Bonn, but in West Berlin. The GDR, USSR and other countries pointed out that the Four-Power Treaty on West Berlin forbade Bonn from governing or establishing goy- ernment agencies in West Ber- lin. Bonn loftily took no notice. Despite strong criticisms of this zany plan even by respectable elements inside the FRG, and warnings from the GDR that Bonn would have to bear all con- sequences for such an illegal and provocative move, the new Helmut Schmidt-Genscher gov- ernment had the Bill estab- lishing his orphan agency out- side FRG’s borders passed through the Bundestag with the hearty approval of the so-called Christian opposition parties. The GDR immediately responded by announcing that 250 employees of the agency, along with all its property and documentations, would be barred from transit routes betwéen West Germany and West Berlin on GDR terri- tory. This attempt to persuade the world there is a feverish crisis in West Berlin again has been escalated by a Washington an- nouncement that mutual diplo- matic recognition between Washington and socialist Berlin is being delayed over this sup- posed issue and so-called protest by West Berlin occupation pow- ers — Britain, France and the USA — to Moscow. Washing- ton’s deferment of mutual diplo- matic recognition is seen as a feeble and ineffectual gesture to Bonn in diplomatic circles. Every Western diplomat in Europe knows that all agreements and documents concerning Washing- tion-Berlin diplomatic relations have already been drafted and signed by representatives of both ‘parties. They will be an- nounced publicly as soon as the current dispute over the home- less environmental agency is set- tled. What, then, lies behind this crude provocation and attempt to escalate it into another “Ber- lin crisis’? Here in Berlin the dangerous comedy. is seen as something more than blundering impertinence by Bonn, It is considered to be a conscious provocation, an ob- vious effort to expand Bonn’s presence in West Berlin in vio- lation of the Four Power West Berlin Treaty, an attempt to pre- pare the way for further infiltra- tion into West Berlin by Bonn government agencies, anda di- versive operation against the trend to coexistence and norma- lization between the two Ger- man states and in the world at large. CSU chief Franz Josef Strauss, in fact, is already clamoring at Bonn for reduction of trade with the GDR and torpedoing of the European Security Conference. As far as the GDR is concerned, Cyprus truce falters : Continued from page 3 detente, take a forthright posi- tion for the withdrawal of all foreign troops, the restoration of the legitimate President, and the preservation of the indepen- dence and territorial integrity of Cyprus. It is not enough for Ex- ternal Affairs Minister Sharp to keep boasting about what good “peacemakers” we are, when the government fails to speak out for the only policies that can restore peace for the Eastern Mediterranean, Greek Communists Speak In Greece, the country from which the intervention against Cyprus was launched a month ago, the people continue to struggle for the full restoration of democracy. Appearing at an historic press conference on July 31, were members of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Greece including several just released from prison—Tony Am- batielos, N. Kaloudis, G. Farakos and A. Yannou. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1974—PAGE 6 The Greek Communists wel- comed the change to civilian government. from the military dictatorship as a major success for demoracy, but also said that the changes do not meet the de- mands of the broad anti-dicta- torial movement or offer suffi- cient guarantees of democratic change in Greece, Democratic change, they said, require elimination of all anti- democratic laws, punishmene of those guilty of torture and other crimes, restoration of all politi- cal, trade union and other liber- ties, freedom of- action on the basis of equality for all political parties, including the Communist Party of Greece. Settlement of the Cyprus crisis was described by Tony Amba- tielos as “of paramount import- ance. The Communist Party of Greece is proclaiming the need for unity of all popular demo- cratic forces in the struggle for the independence and territorial interity of the Republic of Cyp- rus and the restoration of its constitutional order.” even many Western diplomats are impressed with its calm, clear and consistent attitude. Its representatives have repeatedly made it plain they do not wish to escalate the issue of the home- less environmental agency into an issue of world discord. On the other hand, they have made it equally plain that the GDR will under no circumstances permit the unilateral changing of the Four Power Treaty on West Ber- lin and of the whole body of treaties between Bonn and s0- cialist Berlin by the FRG. The approach here is that it has been traditional German imperialist policy in the past first to dis- mantle treaties bit by bit and then to throw them out entirely. The GDR will not allow that traditional German imperialist policy to be carried into agree- ments it has entered into with Bonn, even when the latter has a Social Democratic chancellor. Again, everyone in the GDR is quite certain that acceptance of, the preposterous environmen- tal agency of Bonn’s in West Berlin would only bring a further barrage of similar Bonn laws and similar Bonn _ intrusions into West Berlin in the future. This view has already received sweep- ing confirmation in columns of the Social Democratic newspaper Vorwaerts, in Bonn, which has published the information that the FRG already has blueprints for hundreds of other Bonn gov- ernmental agencies which, it is planned, would also be set up outside the FRG’s borders in West Berlin. Next week, a Letter from Ber- lin by Fils Delisle on Who is violating the GDR’s transit highways, and why Bonn’s en- vironmental agency is destined to die on the vine. Continued'from page 3 park and government intransi- gence reduces the possibility of such an outcome, and increases the likelihood that somebody is going to get hurt, or killed. Communist Party supports Native people's demands" The Ontario Executive of the Communist Party has thrown its support behind the legitimate aims of the Native people’s in Kenora. : A statement issued by Wil- liam Stewart, Ontario Leader of the Party this week, called on. Premier Davis to place the en- tire weight of the Ontario cabi- net behind the demand that Anicinabe Park be returned to the Native people who are its rightful owners. ~The occupation of the park the Communists state is just the visible fire which has long been smoldering in Kenora and else- where across the length and breadth of Canada where Native people live, on and off the reser- . vations. The demands of the Warriors Association for employment op- portunities, decent housing, equality before the law and end to the barbaric discrimination which‘ continues to be practiced against them, is at the heart of The underlying issues in Impeaching the Preside" Reading and listening to the vast flood of words coming out of the United States on the im- peachment of Richard: Nixon, it is all too easy sometimes to lose sight of the essential underlying issues at stake. Such questions as these need answering: Is Nixon the sole villain, or who _ Stands behind him? What is this whole struggle doing to the pro- cess of detente with which Nixon has tried so hard to per- sonally identify himself? _ The Tribune would like to share with its readers two re- cent editorial from the Daily World which put forward the viewpoint of the U.S. Commun- ists: Broaden the e impeachment Narrowing of impeachment charges against Nixon pleases conservative circles like those around the Wall Street Journal. They cannot stop the impeach- ment process because Nixon’s high crimes and misdemeanors have aroused anger too great to be stilled. Deep reserves of demo- cratic sentiment have come to the fore, and that flood of senti- ment is too wide and strong to be dammned. But some conservatives strive to limit the charges and the im- pact of the impeachment pro- cess. They are more concerned about the expansion the im- peachment process. They are more concerned about the expan- sion the impeachment process can give U.S. democracy than by Nixon’s crimes. Some Congressmen want to narrow the charges because they shared, and still share, Nixon’s views and voted for his policies. For example, Nixon is respon- sible for the criminal bombing of Laos and Cambodia, but some Congressmen supported it, and do not want it included as an impeachable offense. Some Congressmen refuse to challenge Nixon's police-state policies. That is why so far his approval of the Huston plan for a White House super-spy agency has not been included in the roster of charges against him. But in the public view, more than Nixon as President of the United States is being impeach- ed. His repressive policies — which are his high crimes and misdemeanors — are being im- peached. The public wants the impeach- ment trial and conviction to be more than the conviction of a person, even a President who violated his Constitutional oath. It wants to convict also hateful fascistic policies. July 30, 1974 Detente and impeachment There are ultra-rightists who are ready to dump Nixon with the idea that this is one way also to dump detente. There are liberals who are timorous about Nixon’s impeach- ment because they fear it will mean impeaching detente too. There are middle-of-the-road- ers who do not want to do any- thing at all about detente, and - mocratic opinion. ho the Kenora dispute and Ontario. Government Department of Indian must immediately agree down with the organiza™ the Native people and a in good faith a solution basic questions. The Native people right to take drastic 4! as the occupation © Park, and other forms tical and militant action | redress to their imp th ditions. In this action serve the full support ized labor and all ‘At the same time, the Communist Pa against the danger ° a ist groups of the vl ing to use the legiti yi mands of the Nate (0 provoke struggles W tive F serve to isolate the 1@ ples from the broad ie pe them and needed tO "4 are trying to insin - selves into the st : Kenora and it is a that local Native peoP ‘1 Fi ing them the cold shov deserve. eee ITS FROM THE 14 The word “rape” if comes from the | : tables, such as turmlp> brussels sprouts a oa close relatives of ¥ tine seed species, ji now 8" 3 Zae Polish types, Canada. : thus give its enemies a tage. e Us. workers need increased trade with, st Union and other SC tries can readily ped er Nixon or bee Perhaps even are Administration policies tinued and the eco” ‘i nues to slide. U.S. corporations just as hard to BY with Nixon in office ~~ Above all, the ber ; a whole, and aS hu ra require the certain peace and secu ret come only with- : detente and ma mn sible. Detente springs needs of the U.S: U.S. capitalism alsiot the remarks of © ney tor” 44 S. a sect fae is sible transition ia 0 leadership, continu tia for the principles: ident emphasis of Pres vet foreign policy 35 award probable.” Sen. Mass nedy, (Democrab © recently said thee Detente can on ened in an atm e the Constitution it rights are maint@’ tended. And the 1” Nixon is an eXP™- strengthening of t nal process.