We're giving J. S. Wallace double billing this issue. Here is his
“Street Scene”, written in 1936, and terribly appropriate today
(World War One, World War Two, Korea):

He stood beside a window of remembrance
(“We have but tears to match the blood they shed,
And sheltering arms for all who are survivors,
This much we pledge our dead.”’)
He stood behind a window of remembrance,
His body bent as, with an old war pain,
He stooped to pick a stub from off the sidewalk, —
Then stumbled on again.

* * *

War is terrible, Lenin remarked during World War One, but it is
at the same time terribly profitable for the warmaking capitalists.
US. billionaires are reaping fabulous profits out of the blood and
sufferings of the peoples of Indochina (and American GI’s too). For
capitalists there never is such a thing as enough profit.

However, even some capitalists (especially those who aren’t di-
rectly at the war profiteering trough) have become apprehensive.

Reporting the immediate reaction to Nixon’s escalation of the

war full force into Cambodia, Harlow G. Unger wrote to the To-
ronto Telegram from New York: “On Wall Street, investors listened
to details of the Pentagon plan with disbelief. — disbelief that the
military should consider the U.S. public so stupid.”

As far back as February 19 a San Francisco dispatch to the
Wall Street Journal reported that the Bank of California denounced
the Vietnam war as “ a costly involvement in lives and money which
could and should have been avoided.” The statement appeared in
the annual report of the bank which also called for “an early and
honorable cessation of our role in this conflict (which) will enable
us to rechannel manpower and financial resources into sorely need-
ed domestic ” Another financial institution, Crocker-
Citizen’s National Bank, the’ 13th largest bank in the U.S.A. is offer-
ing cheques with a peace symbol to its customers — a green peace
symbol against a yellow background.

* *

But stark madness rules the desperate men in the Pentagon and
the White House. They are on the verge of crossing the brink . . -

* * *

* ‘

Over 30 years ago the people of Germany didn’t find the strength
to put their rulers in a straitjacket, so after 50 million deaths and
terrible destruction (including German dead and Germany destroy-
ed) the people of the world did the job just 25 years ago.

Will we, the people of North America—that’s where the new
peril comes from—find the strength to stop the plunge to disaster—
or will hundreds of millions of lives have to be sacrificed and the
planet lie in rubble before a Nixon, like Hitler commits suicide in
the ruins of the White House and a Spiro Agnew is hung by the
heels like Mussolini was?

* * *

While the Special Senate Commission on Mass Media sits wor-
shipping at the shrine of abstract “freedom of the press”, the
owner of Maclean’s magazine sends the editor packing (we had
noticed that the magazine had taken a strong progressive stand on
a mumber of key questions in recent issues) and thereby under-
scores that the freedom is exclusively his.

7 * a

Browsing through the Encycloepdia to see whether “media” was
already included as a proper term for public means of information
(press, radio, TV), I stopped at “Medea” of Greek mythology.

Describing the play of that name (by Eurepides in 431 B.C.) the
chorus is quoted as singing: “The old order is upturned; piety and
fear, religion, justice, truth, loyalty all decline to their contraries,
and naught but confusion lives.”

Soviet premiers warning

Soviet Premier A: Kosygin
warned that the expansion of
aggression by the United States
was fraught with grave con-
sequences which would worsen
international relationships, wor-
sen Soviet-U.S. relations, and
make more difficult negotiations
to soive pressing international
problems. He said that the ac-
tions taken by the U.S.A. raised
doubt about Nixon’s sincerity
in claiming to seek negotia-
tions to settle issues.

Mr. Kosygin pointed to the
contradiction between werds
and deeds in President Nixon’s
policies. Everything Nixon says
about ending the war and bring-
ing U.S. troops back to the Unit-
ed States are rendered mean-
ingless by the U.S. govern-
ment’s intensification of the

war in Indo-China, he said.

Canada’s external affairs min-
ister Mitchell Sharpe also had
some words of caution.» He
stated that the spread of the
fighting creates a great risk
that the war could involve the
Chinese People’s Republic, and
it also is likely that what he
termed “unrest” will increase
inside the United States itself,
in protest. Mr. Sharpe said he
was concerned that instead of
winning a peace, the expansion
of the war will widen and draw
in other participants. He said
that Canada was opposed to re-
newed bombings of North Viet-
nam by the United States.

No Official protest has been
sent by the Canadian govern-
ment to the government of the
United States.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1970—Page 10

their ow

(Recently the capitalist papers have been buzzing again
about “a major shakeup in the Kremlin” and similar wishful
thinking speculation, often based on dispatches by their cor-
respondents.in the U.S.S.R. This was evidently already too
much for Henry Shapiro, correspondent of the New York Times
and dean of foreign correspondents in Moscow, never particu-
larly friendly to the Soviet Union, who felt compelled to write
a protest. We are taking the liberty of reprinting it here.)

MOSCOW-—A routine periodic
“shakeup” in the Kremlin lead-
ership is gathering momentum
—on the pages of some news-
papers abroad.

This is an anniversary year —
the 100th birthday of Vladimir I.

TURN TO BOOKS

‘Why did you let me be born?’

There have always been griev-
ances, and youth has always
been the agitator. Is today then
different?

Yes! answers. William O.
Douglas, Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States since
1939, in a compelling book,
Points of Rebellion (Random
House, 1970). The book traces
the right to dissent in the
U.S.A., illustrating vividly and
factually the “legions” of dis-
sent today, and concluding with
a remarkable estimation-.of for-
ces that pits the Establishment
(both major political
with their bureaucracies) against
the many areas of dissent, iden-
tifying these latter as the real,
organized government | opposi-
tion.

“George III was the symbol
against which our Founders
made a revolution now consid-
ered bright and glorious ...a
vast restructuring of laws and
institutions was necessary if
the people were to be content.
That restructuring was not
forthcoming, and there was a
revolution.

“We must realize that today’s
Establishment is the new George
Il. Whether it will continue to
adhere to his tactics we do not
know. If it does, the redress,
honored in tradition, is also
revolution.”

This is a book that draws un-
der one umbrella many areas of
protest: the blacks, a seeming
millenium away from achieving
equality in practice; the poor,
doomed by laws, education and
economic status, without spokes-
men, and without redress; the
liberal, hounded by ‘psycholo-
gical’ tests, and the impersonal-
ity of the industrial machine.

One chapter, indeed one third
of the slim volume, is entitled
“legions of dissent” and cata-
logues the areas of oppression.
It shows succinctly how prac-
tices mitigate against the poor,
who are entitled to “free enter-
prise,” while providing more
than adequate social services
and backing to the rich.

In the technological age and
the age of the computer, ideolo-
gical data, subjective opinion,
and chance impressions, sudden-
ly become fact when. the button
“subversive” is pushed, and the
names tumble out of the com-
puter.

Consumer credit charges for
the poor have been known to
rise to 1000 percent a year.
America got rid of debtors’ pri-
sons in the last century. But to-
day’s garnishment. proceedings
are as destructive and vicious

parties

last three decades when drastt
changes, if not collapse of SOW’)
communism, have not been
dicted.

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Lenin and the 25th anniversary
of victory over Germany. And a
congress of the 13-million mem-
ber Communist Party is to be
held in the fall.

There has been no anniversary
year in the memory of this cor-

as the debtors’ dungeons. In
many states the percentage of
wages garnisheed has been so
high that a man and his family
are often reduced to a starva-
tion level.

wes
SENS

An overwhelming sense of
futility overwhelms the young-
er generation. The matter was
put by a 16-year-old boy who
asked his father, “Why did you
let me be born?”

“Youth caught in a pot of
sticky glue from which he can-
not emerge.” People march and
protest, but they are not heard
. and frustration too often
erupts. Douglas supports the
need for cries of protest. He
sees the university protest as
more sustained, more organ-
ized, and lasting over increas-
ing periods of time, as youth
finds that only in this manner
can they speak out.

Early in his book, he showed
that historically the avenue of
the expression of opinion has
been that of the pamphlet and
the march; the media belongs
only to the affluent.

Points’ of Rebellion drama-
tically illustrates to youth and
to any in dissent the magnitude
of their struggle. Many deeply
involved in their particular in-
dividual protest can learn of
the all-pervasiveness of dissent
as the pressures converge on
the powers that be.

Harriet Sanger

Soviets export machines

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to over sixty countrié i
There is a high demand abr
for Soviet electronic an
ning engineering equip™ se
The new laser-bas wy
automatic production plan “eh ay
2-M and UL-20M and #7

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MOSCOW — The All-Union
Association Techmashexport of-
fers its foreign partners more
than 20,000 kinds of export
goods, supplied to over 60 coun-
tries.

Over 450 large Soviet plants
are delivering world-standard
equipment on contracts signed
between Techmashexport and
foreign firms.

Techmashexport organizes af-
ter sales services, and helps for-
eign buyers in assembling, ad-
justing and running-in the equip-
ment supplied, in training local
technical personnel and in pre-
ventive maintenance. Spare
parts are exported and the as-
sociation organizes production
training of foreign specialists at
Soviet plants.

' Some of the machines export-
ed by Techmashexport are uni-
que pieces that have no ana-
logues throughout the world,
such as the turboair refrigera-
tor Tkh-300, and the spinning-

» and-twisting machine PK-100M.

- novelty

in Soviet elect! vl
the quantum opthalmoc™™y)
tor OK-1, called a “mash” pi.
geon” have many markets
other Soviet development,
electronic plant A-207-2 io ‘
quick precision metal-woF iif —

A novelty in Soviet “iol)
machine building is ee fol
morapier loom ATPR-}2
producing cottons and

Milling and baking eq? ig)
is being supplied to the \s
food industries, Today >it
milling equipment is °P- pel!
sucessfully in Pakistan, ~Goyi
Turkey and Australia. —g!
printing machines are TU" oof? |
60 countries, with thei.

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growing annually. yo
Techmashexport, last pes.
alone, exported 66 new Be |
equipment. p