IRISH PROTEST BRITISH TORTURES ONDON—Political prisoners interned by the British in North- 1 | : < 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? WASHIN er attack GTON—Senator Edward Kennedy has unleashed a bit- tholicg os the British government, labelling 5 tediate iraoonderty. as Britain’s My nee ee drawal of its troops from 4 Tesolution ’ €ctic ’ Be facut s Abraham Ribicoff, calling for a Pe without trial, the dissolution parliament) and the eventual unification of 0 intern tthe Ment tan. Treland i Ust as 4. donde ul serve 967, p tion bit} © presi 8 Ont or | ) Anibal Pa ae which were ‘not invested usefully in Chile”. ay Chilean undersecretary of foreign ge) Ment nde had signed a decree disallowing 1967 Kennecott loan for the expansion of El jpae Co, aq te mine was then owned 49% by the U.S. Braden ‘Nalized | 51% by the Chilean government. fee ident 4 ‘ "Niente sate ao , ast year. ile 3 auey seem fully agreed capit Ction is in the offing Una P alist r i ; OUS wi Press is not so 4 a cae Tespect to what a mirror Ought around. This ‘ e uncertainty in parties and the i © Parliame . . ntary de- meyine ae the Tories are a ing ao With the idea of t 4 issue. s Montreal Mafia” Hon t turning the elec- into one of eae: Others are Ssue Passport case, 0 a RC of Wy Monarchy and es 0 focysi, 2 Stanfield has Pent, Sing on im... vith whi eatee Ment , Ch to hit the Gov- arth n Ub » Wi 20 i Outlinin ot at the same wh pee’ ing & a comprehensive y" with Set of measure s to ‘nemployment. ; as a congressional sub-committee opened hearings co-sponsored by Kennedy and another Democrat, try ster is Britain's Vietnam”, Senator Kennedy said, “so . a Britain’s My Lai, and killings on Bloody Sunday Nsuring hace and fullest investigation, f ‘at such a tragedy will not recur”. | Ace ULE WON'T SUBSIDIZE US. FIRM 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 emmined partigtn weold_ payments contracted Y ment f ially by private companies and partially by the gov- the killing of Lai and calling for the Ulster. The Senator’s British pull-out, an of Stormont (the in an inquiry capable by copper compan- relations, said $8,125,000 re- It was totally 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. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1972——PAGE 5