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ORLD public attention
has lately been attracted

to two events in Canada’s politi-
cal life; the campaign for peace
conducted by the democratic
circles of Canada, sand the prep-
arations for a military “Atlantic
bloc” conducted by General Mc-
Naughton, the chiefs of staff,
Lester B. Pearson, Brooke Clax-
ton, and other members of the
government.

The elaborate preparations for

this bloc are shrouded in strictest |

secrecy. The inspirers of the At-
eatin. bloc have been trying very
hard to prove the “defensive char-
acter” of this bloc, but the truth
will out. It is now perfectly clear
to the most objective observer
that this “bloc” is being knocked
together-not for the purpose of
‘defense, but for offensive pur-
poses, and ‘that it is part of the
expansionist plan of the U.S.

The American reactionary press
no longer conceals the fact that
this “bloc” jis directed against Can-
ada’s northern neighbor, against
the Soviet Union and the people’s
democracies which, through their
representatives in the UN, are
consistently expressing their de-
sire to maintain peace and co-
operation with all countries.

It is, however, not difficult to
see that Canada itself is becoming
the first object of U.S. expansion,
and‘ that the “Atlantic pact” is
designated to justify the intensi-
fication of this expansion.

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On the. pretext of “defending”
Canada, the U.S. general staff,
with the full consent of the Cana-
dian government, has drawn up

a plan for Canada’s militarization

at the expense of her taxpayers.

It is clear that this policy has not —

the slightest chance of winning
the support of the Canadian
people. The Canadian rulers are
therefore trying to divert the at-
tention of the people by the hue
and cry about the “aggressive
aims” of the Soviet Union in order
to force upon them a number of
far-reaching military and politi-
cal commitments of the “Atlantic
pact.” ‘

- The nature of these obligations
may be judged from a number of
statements made by Canadian
and American eo represen-
tatives.

The creation of an Atlantic bloc
will imply primarily the expan-
sion of the U.S.‘military bases on
Canadian territory. Even Claxton
does not deny this. U.S. soldiers
already behave on Canadian ter-
ritory as masters, defying Cana-
dian laws and customs. It is not
difficult to see that the establish-
ment of new military bases will
lead to an increase in the number
of American soldiers in Canada,
and to their still more outrageous

. conduct on Canadian territory.

But the establishment of a

- North Atlantic bloc will lead pri-

marily to an inflation of Canada’s
military budget and increase in
her war production; the latter will
be achieved by curtailing peace-
ful production, and this will im-

pose a heavier taxation burden

upon the ~population, forcing
prices up and ruining small and
medium enterprises. |

The envisioned standardization

of armaments and military train-
ing methods is dictated by the de-
sire of the U.S. monopolists of
arms production to sell arma-

By |. KUPIDONOV

ments and military equipment to
Canada and other countries of
the Atlantic bloc in order to en-
able American war industry ‘to
keep up uninterrupted production
and broaden its production poten-
tial.

Canada will also have to invest
considerable sums into research
in aircraft construction, into pros-

pecting and mining of uranium ~

ore for the U.S. atomic industry,
into the construction of Arctic
bases, and so on. All these ex-
penditures will be forced upon the
Canadian taxpayers.

Canada’s military expenditures
have already taken a sharp up-
ward trend in connection with the
preparations for signing . the
“North Atlantic pact.”

The conclusion of this pact will
subordinate Canada, entirely to
the U.S. in the economic, military
and political respects. The rich
natural resources of Canada will
be used to a still greater extent
than at present for military pur-
poses, to secure greater profits
for the American monopolies.

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Trade and Commerce Minister
Cc. D. Howe confessed on Decem-
ber 28, 1949, that never in its

What can Canada gain
from the Atlantic pact?

Two of the builders of the Atlantic pact, which threatens, to
embroil their peoples in a third world war, Henri Bonnet of
France and Eelco N, Van Kleffens of the Netherlands, leave the
State Department building in Washington after conferring with
U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who Sneaks for the Wall
Street architects of the pact.

history has Canada’s prosperity
depended on foreign trade to such
an extent as today, but her main
clients lack the capacity to pay.
Howe made no mention of the

fact that Canada’s foreign trade
is being increasingly subordinated

Labor ‘double-ta

By GEORGE LOHR
YING to be all things to all
men is -proving to be more
and more difficult for the British
Labor government.
It takes a great deal of deli-

cate juggling to please an elec- .

torate desirous of social reforms
with words while at the same
time accommodating Washington
with reactionary deeds,

With general elections set for
next year, the need for such
double dealing is becoming more

' intense.

- A case in point was the state-
ment made recently by British
Foreign Undersecretary Chris~
topher Mayhew that British re-
covery was just about complete.

This statement was aimed at
the British voters in an effort
to prove that the Labor govern-
ment with its Marshall plan
policy had put British economy
on the high -road to imminent
prosperity. -

It came on the eve of an im-
portant byelection and it might
have helped the Labor party to
win the contest.

But Mayhew’s remark boom-
eranged in the U.S. Congress
where some isolationist legisla-
tors immediately raised doubts
whether there was any need to
give Britain more Marshall plan
fund.

This is turn produced howls of
anguish in the offices of London’s

- government leaders and bankers

who together have so betrayed
Britain’s sovereignty to U.S. big
business that its economy is now
completely enmeshed in the Mar-
shall plan.

_ Conservative London papers gave
Mayhew an_ editorial spanking
and the Labor party press cried
profusely that their man had
been misunderstood.

_ Marshall Plan Administrator
Paul Hoffman showed his devo-
tion to the “Socialist” British
government by rushing before a
congressional committee to undo
the damage done. by 3 apa Me
statement.

Another instance of Labor par-

.ty double talk were the dope
.Stories “leaked’’ to the

press
about the decisions reached at
its Isle of Wight conference.
Associated Press was allowed
to state that the Labor party
was “reliably reported to have
decided to continue and expand
its program for government
ownership of basic industries.”

Chiang Kai-shek plays

—NORTH SHENSI

bY HAS become increasingly
clear that Chiang Kai-shek

laid careful plans for continued
civil war before going into “re-
tirement.” Reports reveal that
these plans include the military
defense of Nanking and Shang-
hai and the intensified evacuation
of material from Shanghai or
their destruction where this is

_ deemed necessary. : “e

Since the eight democratic
peace conditions were announced
by Mao Tse Tung, chairman of
the Chinese Communist party, on
January 14 Chiang has been in
conference with several of his

close collaborators and fellow war.

criminals including Chen Li-fu,
Ku Cheng-kang, Peng Chaohsien,
Li Wei-kuo, Huang Shaoku and
Tso Hsi-sheng.

It was agreed that the peace
maneuvers already started would

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to the aims of the U.S. monopolies.
In fact, Canada has been almost
completely ousted from the mar-

kets of Western Europe and

Latin America.

In the Atlantic bloc, Canada will
be allocated the role of a supplier
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of raw materials for the U.S. and
a market for U.S. commodities.
The American monopolists do not

need the finished products of Ca- _

nadian industry; on the contrary,
they regard the latter as a com-
petitor and a “senseless duplica-
tion.”

There is no doubt whatever, that
the introduction in Canada of

compulsory military service for —

the training of military reserves,
as insistently demanded now by
the Canadian generals, will not
only be facilitated but determined

by the Atlantic pact which is

designated to carry out the will
of the American militarists to
convert Canada into a strategic
bridgehead and field of battle in
the war that is being prepared by
the U.S. monopolies—the new pre-
tenders to world supremacy. >
With the aid of Canada’s rulers,
the American militarists are draw-
ing her into a military gamble

and propelling her towards na-—

tional disaster. This is all the
more tragic, since the very coun-
try that is represented as an al-
leged menace in order to justify
Canada’s “defense” necessities
and the establishment of the At-
lantic bloc, the Soviet Union, is
offering to Canada and to all the
other countries peaceful coopera-
tion for their mutual benefit» and
general progress.

k’ nationalization

That was intended to satisfy
those people who [follow the La
bor party because they think it
is Socialist. :

But there was another, more
accurate version, to reassure free
enterprise in the U.S,

This hqnor fell to United Press,
which stated that the Labor
party conference was understood
to have reached a decision to “go
slow on nationalization in the
1950 general election campaign.”

As far as the British people’s
welfare is concerned, it really
doesn’t matter whether the top
leadership of the Labor party
has decided to speed up national-
ization of slow it down.

be continued in the hope of a
three months’ breathing space to
train another 500,000 trdops in
South ‘China, that Chiang Kai-
shek would maintain

command of the “peace moves”
and the. Kuomintang secret police
would. undertake the protection
of all those on the inside of
the scheme.

The “Central Bureau of Inves-
tigation and Statistics” (the sec-
ret police) was empowered to
punish those who refused to toe
the line. Fourteen special de-
tachments have been organized
for this purpose.

On January 19, under this
scheme, the Kuonmintang police
carried out fresh arrests in Shang-
hai, and when the “acting presi-
dent,” Li Tsung-jen announced
the abolition of the notorious
“special tribunals” and release of
political prisoners, the principals

over-all.

The Labor government’s efforts
at nationalization so far, not to

be confused with expropriation, |

have only resulted in loading the

taxpayers with the expense of —
modernizing decrepit industries —

while their former owners sit
back in comfort and clip their
profit coupons.

Nationalization has brought no

benefits to the British people.
Living standards are still low,

in spite of hard work and in-.

creased production.
All the frenzied doubletalk by
these union bureaucrats turned

government leaders cannot hide
‘the fact they have sold out their -
reform promises of 1945 for a.
‘mess of Marshall ia pottage.-

for time

were orale removed from Shang’
hai .and Nanking into South

‘China to be disposed of later

when the occasion arises,

Meanwhile an

squad” of 150 special agents has
been organized to kill democrats.
Sabotage acts against foreign na-
catia yand cet ae have also.

nee Kai-shek, in fact, re-

mains the dominant personality —

in the disintegrating Nanking
government even in small affairs-
The Kuomintang Central News
Agency in a Nanking dispatch,
reported that the Standing Com-
mittee of the Kuomintang in-
structed its Secretariat to trans-

mit the resignation of the Ku0-

mintang propaganda chief Kuang
Shao-ku “for ratification by the

party director General . Chiang

Kai-shek.” |

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