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«| WHAT is described as John Foster Dulles’ first major 4
¢- foreign policy speech of the second Eisenhower ad-

d| Ministration has properly drawn condemnation through-

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di| alike. ~The speech showed that the U.S. secretary of w
State who, by his own admission, has recklessly taken

the United States — and the world — to the “‘brink of
War’ over the past four years, is still following the

»| ame policy.

"| , His statement that the U.S. does not seek ‘‘to encircle
| \Ussia with hostile forces’’ is a masterpiece of hypocrisy,
| cond only to the late unlamented Sir Neville Chamber-
)8in’s solemn pronouncement after Munch, ‘‘Peace in

4,| OUr time,”’

ali » Every move of US. diplomacy, in the Middle East,

| Europe, in Asia, brands Dulles as a liar. What is

¥| he intent of U.S. intrigue in Jordan, if not to thwart the

y Popular will, divide the Arab states and bring that coun-

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A suigtior for CCF delegates

x "Y into the Bagdad Pact? What was Dulles’ hope at HEN they meet in provincial conven: For the CCF, as for the LPP, the big
h| the resent SEATO conference if not to exploit the tion this weekend CCF delegates will question in this election is uniting that
0 ttoubled politics of Indonesia-to bring that country into \be preoccupied with the forthcoming fed- considerable section of the electorate

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: . neSEATO es hi h , b aaa ae eral election and their chances of adding which has not been deceived by the illu-
1 4; ee Peete ay Ble mords tones abour SPRME Sirs: te the. seven Jay seats they now hold in — sions of boom-time prosperity, which sees

iberation of the captive nations’ of eastern Europe
#) NOW creating their own socialist future. He says the
it) “5. “‘wants something better than a brief twilight pre-
®eeding the blackout of Communist despotism’’ for the
New nations of Asia and Africa — and he says this to
Peoples who have struggled to the dawn of independence
rough the long night of imperialist exploitation!

So throughout history those whose sought to suppress
y) “Nd exploit have cloaked their intentions with the noblest
4/ motives, But Dulles’ cloak is threadbare.

the dangers of Liberal foreign policy and
spurns Social Credit demagogy.

parliament.

Those chances will be brightest if the
policies decided by the convention are The greater the measure of unity in
such as to offer the greatest possibility - this election campaign, the greater the op-

of inspiring and uniting the 120,000 portunity for the people to win more than
people in B.C. who voted CCF in 1953 the grudging reforms offeréd by the Lib-
with the many thousands more whose  erals and to make social advances com-
votes can be won for CCF candidates in mensurate with the great wealth the Can-

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: The question his speech poses Saoirse ia J
| = Canadians is how much long- : PEEL = a
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5: | shall oo foreign policy be boasts are less extravagant — Except that in the 1952 elec- =

Shaped to suit the imperialist

| ambitions of the U.S., to the
_.“timent of our own national

| Mterests, so that we must be

uly grateful to the U.S. even
Or permission to extend our
Made with China.
It's time we had a foreign
Policy of our own, dictated by
© overwhelming desire of our

People for peace and friendship

With other nations and shaped by

| Ur own national need for trade

\
ith all countries.

Pacific Tribune

Published weekly at
Room 6 — 426 Main Street
Vancouver 4, B.C.

_ Griffin

Hal

BULLIENT, brash and boastful
as ever, Premier W. A. .C.
Bennett is leading the Social
Credit crusade against the Con-
servative strongholds of Ontario
and the Liberal entrenchments
in Quebec. And like the Crusad-
ers of old, he is finding that the
political heathen of this eastern
holy land are somewhat hostile
to his mission.

There was a time, Jess than a
year ago, when Bennett envis-
ioned himself leading a trium-
phal Social Credit march on

he predicts only that Social Credit
will win 40 seats and hold the
balance of power in the next
parliament — he doesn’t seemed
to have learned much from his
experience in Saskatchewan.

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As skilled a politician as he is,
as adroit an opportunist, Bennett
is premier of this province today
less as a result of his own abili-
ty than as the outcome of a re-
markable concatenation of cir-
cumstances that thrust him into
that office.

In 1952, the Liberal-Conserva-
tive Coalition that had governed
this province since 1941 had for-
feited all popular support. Neith-
er Byron Johnson, the Liberal
leader, nor Herbert Anscomb, the
Conservative leader, appreciated
the extent of the voters’ disgust,
or they might never-have dis-
solved their partnership. Nor

tion Social Credit gathered in
the protest votes of thousands of
disgruntled Liberals and Conser-
vatives and received thousands
more second choice CCF votes,
this province would have had a
CCF government today, for when
the first choice votes were count-
ed the CCF led in 21 seats and
Social Credit in 14.

xt bes go

Social -Credit has consolidated
its position since by doing what
the Coalition failed to do and
what every other provincial gov-
ernment has been compelled to
do by the country’s economic ex-
pansion — embark on a program
of road and school building. If
Premier Bennett-. claims the
credit for “prosperity” in B.C.,
so does-every other premier for
his province.

What Bennett will find it
harder to live down is the ex-

Y Phone: MArine 5288 Ottawa, rolling up the provinces would they have so blandly as- treme rightist stand taken by

4 Editor — TOM McEWEN in his carpet bag as he went. sumed that the device of the Social Credit in parliament, the

$ Associate Editor — HAL GRIFFIN That was before the Saskatche- single transferable vote ~ would orstwhile pro-fascist ranting of 7
1) Business Manager — RITA WHYTE wan election last June showed return one or the other of their Anthony Hlynka and John Black- i
A Subscription Rates: his boasts. to be so much wind parties to power. more. r
5 | One. Year: $4.00 over the prairies, : Social Credit then was the Before he can lead a crusade, /
4 Six = ae thee $2 95 Rebuffed. in Saskatchewan, he smallest of the minor — parties Bennett needs more than a bag-

anh san Canadian and Commonwealth returned to British Columbia to without a seat in the legislature. ful of promises of what Social

d “Ountries (except Australia):, $4.00 get another mandate from \the It had only one attribute, a phil- Credit will do when it captures F
| One Year. Australia, United States voters and rally the Secial Credit osophy, long since abandoned for . the national treasury. He needs :

: : forces for another crusade. a policy of expediency and a plea a program.

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