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CANADA DAY EDITION

By TIM BUCK
OMENTOUS events are
making history _ while

We celebrate Canada Day this
Year. These events have a pro-

foung meaning for us, particu-
larly for those who look for-

“Ward to celebrating the -cen-
. tennial of Confederation seven
' years from now.

Even more tremendous
ehangés, and -more’ welcome

Ones, are going to take place
‘ during the coming seven years

if civilization survives. ‘These
are indicated today in the new
bossibilities being opened up
by science and technical de-

_ velopment. That the changes
Must take place if civilization
, Survives is proved definitely
by ‘the deepening contradic-
_ lions between the new possi-

bilities and the standards of
life, conditions of work, and
towards leisure,
Which are traditional. in Can-
ada and the United States.

If war is avoided this con-

‘tradiction will have -to be

Overcome. If we live ‘to cele.
brate Canada Day in 1967, we
Shall do so in a Canada whose

People will be ‘fulfilling man-

ind’s dream of the golden

"age,

WE ARE AT THE TURN

HERE is ground for confi-
& dence that our country
"Nd her people will survive to

_ Selebrate Canada Day seven
. Years hence—the centennial of

Onfederation. Contradictory

. 88 it may sound, this ground

°r confidence is precisely in
he fact that the interests
Which endanger the world by
; lr drive for war are becom-
4g more and more reckless.
Opposition to nuclear war
become world-wide and ‘is

rT oa "
-7Sceiving active support from

“UNGreds =f yaillions <of amen

20d women in all walks of life.

ne is foreing the «interests
_,_Jth-fight against policies -of
Meaveful ‘vo-exristence-ito come
ere and .more -out cinto ‘the
3 intensify -their .em-

asis on preparations: for' war.
the =f recklessness increases
a mMmediate danger: that, ‘by

&1, by miscalculation, or
¥ accident, we may be plung-
ine ‘nto .war, But, along with

Tease in {he immediate

danger this impels millions of
democratic people in all coun-
tries to overcome their. pre-
vious passivity and take their
places in the _ struggle for
peace,

The strength of the develop-
ing. world-wide popular strug+
gle to prevent world nuclear
war was emphasized by the
mighty demonstrations of stu-
dents and workers in Tokyo
which, on June 16th, forced
the Kishi government to with-
draw its invitation to the
President of the United States
to visit Japan.

This was a great deal more
than a Japanese phenomenon.
It has profound significance
for world politics in general
and particularly for Canada.

CRUMBLING
U.S. ALLIANCES

HE FORCE which compel-

led the Kishi government
to withdraw its invitation to
President Eisenhower is, fun-
damentally, the same force as
that which overthrew the U.S.
puppet regimes .of Syngman
Rhee in South Korea and Men-
deres in Turkey, namely; the
profound revulsion of the
more alert among the peoples
of those countries against the
integration ‘in United States
preparations for world nuclear
war.
In country <after country
military alliances were. ar-
ranged by John Foster Dulles.
Nearly all of them were built
on the quicksands of United
States support to reactionary
regimes, several of which had
been repudiated by the people,
bribery of the militarists of
those countries by giving them
new and extensive power in
domestic politics, and direct
bribery. of corrupt politicians
with millions of United States
dollars.

Because of the purpose: of
these alliances they. contradict
the real national -interests.:in
every -country. The regimes
which depend on such alliances
with the United States -have
become recognized increasing-
ly as governments in office in
defiance of the people’s will.

Experience shows: the people
that the real purpose of the
so-called alliance with the
United States is to make their

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U.S. aggression. The conse-
quence of this is the destruc-
tion of their national independ-
ence as part of preparations
which, if they are put into
operation, will ensure that
they and their countries will
be, reduced: to radioactive dust.

There is rising-a democratic
determination to correct this
intolerable situation. The over-
throw of the Rhee and Men-

opposition to the proposed
U.S.Japanese military treaty
are all expressions of this.

It is noteworthy that,
Japan,.when. one of the leaders
of the students was asked:
“Does - withdrawal of the in-
vitation to President Eisen-
hower mean the end of the
current actions?’ his answer
was: “No, there is still the
treaty with the United States
and the necessity to force the
Kishi government. to resign.”

He. wasn’t kidding, the ‘next
day .°300;000 people demon-
strated. .against ratification of
the treaty. and called upon the
Kishi government to. resign.

THE BOURBONS OF 1960
HE immediate answer of
the imperialists to the up-
surge of the popular demand
for peace is to step up their
military preparations and in-
tensify the danger of war. The
reaction of U.S. senators and
the official spokesmen for
Président ‘Eisenhower to the
dramatic developments in
Japan, coincides exactly ‘with
the description that was ap-
plied to the hereditary Bour-
bon monarchs during the: lat-
ter days of their despotic rule
in France: ‘‘They learn’ noth-
ing and forget nothing.”

Two weeks before the Kishi
government. withdrew. its in-
vitation. to President . Hisen-
hower, the-U.S. Secretary of

-State agreed with -the mem-

bers of. the Senate Foreign

President’s: state visit to Japan|
must not..be called: off because,
to- back. down. before .the pop-,
ular protests. .of. the Japanese
people, would.-tend. to. weaken

war alliances.in the Far East.

The plan: to defy public.
opinion in Japan was proceed-
ed with therefore; with fantas-
tic.preparations to) protect the
president, -even to the. extent
of planning to have Emperor
Hirohito sit beside him in the
automobile as he was driven

deres regimes and the popular |

in |

Relations. Committee. that the |.

the . whole. ‘structure of U.S-). :

| ity of the U.S. embassy.

dent of the United-States was |
already-on his way to Tokyo. |

The men who decide what |
President Eisenhower says on |
|such occasions arranged so}
that. he gave a classical illus- |
tration of the Bourbon tradi-|
tion of learning nothing.

His public response to the
nationalist sentiments of the
students and workers of Japan
was to denounce them. He
labelled them as anti-Japanese,
| misguided tools of foreign in-
terests, as communists.

Apparently Mr. Eisenhower
thinks that what the majority
of students and workers do, is
quite different from’ what their
families think, quite separate
from what is desired by the
| social circles whose ‘interests
they share and quite contrary
to the real opinions of the

Japanese. people.

It is doubtful now if the
President of the United States
will learn that, the studentry
is in fact the most spontaneous
representative of the prevail-
ing sentiment of the circles to
which the students belong. It
appears. more likely that he
and his advisers will continue

most patriotic circles of the;

Tokyo's Lesson
For Canada Day

countries expendable bases for ;from -the -airport to the secur-; ories of omnipotence.

Therein lies the‘ intensity of

But, in spite of ‘Mr. Herter |the danger of nuclear war.

and the Senate Foreign Rela-| . The press and radio reports
tions Committee the visit was! ©NOrmous increases in U.S. ex-
called off —- when the Presi-}|Penditures for armaments in-

cluding some that previously
they had- voted against. Ap-
propriations for the discredited
Bomare missile are restored
with an additional $75 million
over and above what the Air
Force was asking for. A crash

| program to build a whole fleet

of supersonic bombers is being

considered and the total ex-

penditures will exceed $40
billion, again the first time for
several years.

DISENGAGE CANADA FROM
THE DRIVE TO WAR
HE LESSON for Canadians

T as. we celebrate Canada

Day this year is to take Can-

ada out of the war camp.

Let us in Canada unite a
mighty country-wide move-
ment to free our land from the
grip of the war-mad imperial-

|ists to the South.

In our desire to reassert the
independence of Canada we
stretch. out our hands in frater-
nal -congratulations to the
youth and the -workers of
Japan who are fighting so val-
iantly for the independence of
their own land.

We celebrate Canada Day by
strengthening the demand on

the Diefenbaker government:
to be guided, as their Bourbon | “Proclaim Canadian Neutrality
ancestors were, by their mem- Now!”

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