IRISH PROTEST BRITISH TORTURES
ONDON—Political prisoners interned by the British in North-

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< eam are being tortured in a way which can only be com-

Irish he methods of the Gestapo in World War Il, charged
5 De aces and former prisoners in a statement appearing
nis F ee Morning Star. Two Roman Catholic priests, Frs.
itis ts and Raymond Merrey, who had been interned in a
itement on in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, drew up the
all ae upich was signed by 30 prisoners. :
© British errey wrote that British soldiers and detectives from
ainst the Special Branch” practice brutal forms of torture
thout tri > ae political prisoners, who are held indefinitely,
lests ea? under the notorious Special Powers Act. The two
id were ee prisoners were blindfolded during interrogations,
ic gen en beaten with iron rods. Wires from hand-cranked
3’ ies €rators were attached to sensitive parts of the prison-
isoners peach were given repeated electric shocks. When
et and inted, the priests said, they were doused with cold
Fake @ tortured again.
tmer ens are a favorite device of the British, the two-
ish ee said. A firing-squad is assembled and then the
© is goin $ is shoved face-first against a prison wall and told
Uniticg, bebe shot. The firing-squad, however is issued plank
luad fired of ts. Fall and Merrey said that generally, after. the
he Mornin its volley, the prisoners fainted from nervous shock.
titain, Saad Star, daily newspaper of the Communist, Party of
hose of t Mented on the statement that such practices were like
Meanwhile Gestapo, the secret political police in nazi Germany.
Shed te? the British Parliament for the’ first time in 40 years
land coy nen a bill in one sitting. The bill, overruling a Northern
ons in Rosie removing any restrictions on British Army ac-
the arme, ‘ie Ireland, said: “The law, so far as the powers
Was hith orces are concerned, is and always has been what
€rto believed to be.”

SAYS LONDONDERRY LIKE MY LAI

Nixon, Mao—no secret deals?

President Nixon has returned from
China where he held heart-to-heart
discussions with Chairman Mao and
Premier Chou and is assuring the U.S:
public that there were no secret deals
made at the talks. Nixon has not been
noted for telling the truth in the past.

And the U.S. war in Indochina goes on.

Separate communiques pay lip ser-
vice to peaceful coexistence, a principle
neither side of recent years adhered
to. Nixon’s communique was silent on
Vietnam, Chou’s briefly repeated sup-
port of the peoples of Indochina. Both
sides declared that their agreement.
was not aimed at other states.

On his way out of China already,
Nixon said that U.S. troops would be
withdrawn from Taiwan, but just as
on Indochina, no date was set for the
withdrawal. The press speculates that
Peking will enter into negotiations
with Chiang Kai-shek, at which U.S.

monopoly interests on the island will

be preserved.
The Peking

Review of April 2, 1965

carried the following excerpt from an
address by Chou En-lai:

“Peaceful coexistence with U.S. im-
perialism is absolutely impossible. Does
one oppose U.S. imperialism or not?
Does one oppose it. in earnest or by
pretense? This is the main criterion
for distinguishing between the Marx-
ist-Leninists and the modern revision-
ists, and it is also a basic question in
the struggle against modern revision-
ism.”

That was only seven years ago...
The U.S. imperialist tiger hasn’t
changed. The question is this: have
Chou and Mao changed? And in what
way?

If they have seen the light and now
espouse the policy of peaceful coexist-
ence, why are they still fighting “mod-
ern revisionism” (that’s what they call
the peaceful policy of the USSR and
other socialist countries and the world
movement for peace) ?

Or what is the “coexistence” with
Nixon all about?

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try ster is Britain's Vietnam”, Senator Kennedy said, “so
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por Allen O—The Popular Unity government of President Sal-
‘Hon Bovernn: Says it will pay back only $84 million of a $92 mil-
Eclat t-guaranteed loan made by Kennecott Copper Corp.
ident Allende invoked a clause of the copper national-
east year by the Chilean congress, authorizing
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By MELOR STURUA.

The sharp deterioration of the
economic and financial position
of the Western world on the one
hand, and a fresh aggravation
of the contradictions between
the main capitalist. countries: on
the other, are putting in jeopardy
the very existence of the so-call-
ed “Club of 10”.

This “club” is a group of the
wealthiest capitalist states which
in effect controls all transactions
of the International Monetary
Fund (IMF). The members of
the club are thé United States,
Britain, France, Western Ger-
many, Italy, Canada, Japan,
Sweden, Belgium and Holland.
Switzerland, which is not in the
IMF, is invariably present at
club sittings as an observer. The
club came into being and_ be-
gan functioning in 1961 when
its future members dragged the
international monetary fund out
of another of its crises.

At first the members of the
club acted on the principle of

everybody for himself, but then
a bloc began to take shape in-
side it, covering countries with
membership of the European
Economic Community. Despite
the contradictions existing be-
tween. them, -these countries
more and more often came out
in a united front when it was
necessary to give a rebuff to
Washington’s expansionism. The
U.S.-West European strife flared
up with special force over the
recent monetary crisis, the de-
valuation of the dollar and the
subsequent talks of the ‘10Y.
When the U.S. held unchallenged
sway in the Western world, it
could dictate its will in the club
as well. But as the economic
positions of U.S. imperialism
weakened, so did its grip with-
in the club. That is why- Wash-
ington has been of late giving
more thought to its reorganiza-
tion.

The first sign of the U.S. at-

tempts to modify the “10” was
its refusal to appoint even ten-

The issue that will not stay hidden

By WILLIAM KASHTAN, leader Communist Party

All these and other manoeu-
vres suggest that the old-line
parties—and for that matter,
the NDP—have not yet chosen
the issue and are still “feeling
around” for the winning one.

Charles Lynch of the South-
am Press, writing in the Ottawa
Citizen of February 12 doesn’t

take that position.
He claims that “whether by

accident or design events seem
to be carrying us toward a Can-
adian election that would be
fought on the issue of economic
nationalism, with inevitable
overtones of anti-Americanism.
A trend of retaliation has set in
between our twO governments
that may lead Prime Minister
Trudeau to feel he has no choice
put to put the issue to the Can-
adian people in jingoistic terms,

despite his expressed distaste

for such a course.

“If that happens, he might
win the election but he also
might split the country. He al-
most certainly would split his
own cabinet, some of whose
members, and conspicuously his
new Finance Minister John
Turner and External Affairs
Minister Mitchell Sharp, have
washed their hands of anti-
Americanism and argue that it
would be bad politics for Can-

ada.

“if the Liberals go off on a
nationalistic kick, the New De-
mocrats would have no option.
but to follow, even though it
would mean having Trudeau en-
velop them again by occupying
d they have been tilling

roun i
for years. The Progressive Con-

rvatives would be put in a
difficult position unless they

wanted to plump for a continen-
talist line, which seems incon-
ceivable.”

Mr. Lynch is close to mem-
bers of the government. One
may assume, therefore, that he
is doing some loud thinking for
some of them, who may be re-
soning that if John Diefenbaker
could carry the country around
the slogan of “Put Canada
First,” why couldn’t Trudeau
carry it around something simi-
lar?

Time will tell.

In any case whether the Lib-
erals, Conservatives or New De-
mocrats decide to make “econo-
mic nationalism’ or Canadian
independence the issue or not, it
will in fact be the central issue
of this election, and of others,
until the battle for genuine Can-
adian independence is won.

tatively a date for its next meet-
ing. At the end of the club’s
last session, the American re-
presentative said significantly
that he was present at the “last”
sitting of the group of 10 coun-
tries. Treasury secretary John
Connally, speaking of the. club,
invariably adds that he is sick
and tired of it.

According to press reports,
Washington is gradually prepar-
ing a reform to turn the 10 into
four. The New York Times, for
instance, writes that Connally
would like to see only four
chairs around the table — for
representatives of the U.S., Ja-
pan, the European Economic
Community and a person speak-
ing on behalf of the developing
nations. (Evidently Connally
takes it for granted that the U.S.
will represent Canada!—Ed.)

Since the question of Britain’s
entry. into the Common Market
was solved, Washington’s acti-
vities towards this reform have
become more persistent. The
idea of including a person
speaking on behalf of the deve-
loping nations into the club is
double-barreled.

First, it is a propaganda man-
oeuvre the United States
wants to show that it is ready
to open the doors of the club of
the IMF’s “have” members also
to “have-nots”. Secondly, it ex-
pects to seat a puppet in the
fourth chair, thus making the
club into an additional instru-
ment of its economic expansion
in the less developed countries.

As a result of numerous up-
heavals, the monetary-financial
mechanism of the Western
world, which was established at
Bretton-Woods, can no longer
function normally. The USA’s
European competitors are press-
ing the International Monetary
Fund with proposals for a new
mechanism which would take in-
to account the changes that have
taken place in the world — the
disappearance of U.S. hegemony
and the greater role of the
Common Market countries.
Washington, for its part, is de-
laying the revision of the Bret-
ton-Woods system in an attempt
to gain time. Manipulations with
the “10” and the “four” also
serve this purpose.

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