Quotable quotes THE SAD FATE OF LORD STAMP—"Just before the Second World War. Lord Stamp( with that provision which ‘rarely distinguishes econom- ists, ordered for himself at his London house a super-shelter. It was deeper than any bomb could possibly penetrate at the time and decorated, to his own taste, in a style something like the interior of the old Cafe Royal. Deep, and bombproof indeed, was this provident banker’s hideaway. Alas, it wasn’t proof against the waters of a flooding sewer that had been punctured by a bomb rather nearer the surface. drowned.” (Financial Post). *% * Lord Stamp. was % ADEQUATE REASON—"We don’t claim to be better magazines than the American magazines. We just claim to be Canadian. But I think that’s an adequate reason for our continuing to exist.” (Blair Fraser of Maclean’s), *® ® * BILL OF RIGHTS—"This country, with its. institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it... ”. *% EY IF PEACE “BREAKS OUT’’— “ (Abraham Lincoln, Mar. 4, 1861). ~w “There's so little chance of peace break.’ ing out, but in the unlikely event that it should—well, it would pull the tug out from under our economy and everything would go smash. The only hope would be to divert some of the $55 billion allotted in this fiscal year for defense into other channels, such as a vast public works program. The alternative is even worse.” (Prof. R. Carey, Columbia University, USA). Editorial comment , | S. CRIME expert Daniel P.organizations. Moynihan figures that crime is one of the largest and most profitable “industries” in the United States. Last year a special group set up by the justice department studied the crime “in- dustry” and came up with some revealing facts. “The underworld gets about $9 billion of the estimated $47 bil- lion spent annually ‘on illegal gambling.” The experts also opined that “fully half of the ‘syndicates’ income from gambling is earmarked for protection money paid to police and ec tians.” Moynihan says there is now “a new type of criminal, living in luxury, flanked by expensive at- torneys and advisors. These ap- point judges, make police chiefs wealthy, and finance local elec- tion campaigns to get people of their choice voted in.” This “industry” of uppercrust gangsters and crooks have no fear of hindrance by the FBI, say the experts, since that organiza- tion mainly busies itself persecut- ing Communists, peace fighters and other democratic causes and Pacific Tribune Editor — TOM McEWEN Associate Editor—MAURICE RUSH Business Mgr.—OXANA BIGELOW Published weekly at Room 6 — 426 Main Street Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone MUtual 5-5288 Subscription Rates: One Year: 4.00 — Six Months: $2.25 Canadian and Commonwealth coun- tries (except Australia): $4.00 one year. Australia, United States and. all other countries: $5.00 one year. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Deparfment, Ottawa, eand for payment of postage-in cash. *% *& % “Christmas cheer” a la “Free World” recipe. Ten American students spent Christmas Day in jail for holding a sit-in demon- stration against racial segrega- tion in a resturant in Crisfield, Maryland on Christmas eve. Now more students are on the way to Crisfield to protest the arrests— and the racists. Demos-we the people URING ‘the recent popular “elections” in Greece, con- diiéted under the most extreme government intimidation and terror, the common people man- aged to be heard. When the ballots were in, the Greek Resistance fighter and hero who tore down the Nazi! flag from the Acropolis and hoist- ed the flag of Greece under heavy enemy gunfire, Manolis Glezos was elected Member: of Parlia- ment for Athens with over 66,- 000 votes. This, despite the fact that Glezos has been in prison for over two years under close con- -finement by the Greek ruling class. : Now this reactionary Greek - government, which came to power with the aid of British bayonets and Yankee dollars, and which ;exists as a subsidized pillar o the U.S. “free world”, is seekin to unseat Manolis. Glezos on th zepunds that a “prisoner” canno “constitutionally” sit in parlia ment? : World protests demanding that | Manolis Glezos be given his free- | dom and his parliamentary seat has stymied Greek reaction for the moment, as has the powerful voice of Glezos himself, speaking | through the columns of Avge, _ organ of the Union ef the Demo- cratic Left with its 200,000 cireu- lation, and of which Glezos is nom- + inal editor-in-chief. : The election of Glezos and other. victories of the Greek people in | the recent restricted election set- up, may be the harbinger of an | early return of Democracy to its ancient cradle? One message only - N HIS quiet. and dignified mes- # sage to the Canadian people on New Year‘s day, Governor- General George Vanier urged a daily ten-minute absence from the mad scramble of the atomic- machine age to “meditate” and work for the great and sacred ’ objectives of universal peace and brotherhood. Down in the U.S. a another “message”, neither quiet nor dig- nified, burned up the ether. U.S. state secretary Dean Rusk, echo- ing the “brinkmanship” of the late John Foster Dulles, also spoke” of “peace”, but had it nailed firmly on the end of a “big stick.” Rusk served notice on the “en- emy” that the U.S. possessed the — biggest stick, and stood ready to use it in any situation not to the liking of the Pentagon. Two messages for 1962: ond with majestic modesty expressing the crowning hope of Canadians for 1962. The other — a tragedy for America and a world, in an — age in which Peace has become the only path to human survival and brotherhood. af Tom — McEwen ORD has gone out from Tory headquarters that the Dief- enbaker government has now ful- filled the bulk of its 62 pre-election “promises”. Just where the mon- opoly press, which grinds out political grist for the Tory mill got the figure of 62, we’ll never know, but there it is, and all (or “almost all’) fulfilled? election political marathon of ,1958 we recall the figure was sev- eral times that total. However, for the moment we’ll settle for 62, just as we hope in our New Year’s resolution that ’62 will settle with the political ‘‘promisers”, but good. “targets” achieved is also an indi- cator that a federal election is not far off, hence the urgency for a spate of noisy Tory fencemending. In the old days elections were invariably heralded by an extra spurt of road-building. As the late Dr. Lyle Telford used to remark, “the sound of the shovel is heard plained, inter alia, as the lawyers say, why we never had any roads. Now the shovel is buried in the Looking back at the Tory pre- . This Tory boast of pre-election — ‘in the land”, and which also ex-- new monopoly partisan technique of “promising”. In the last ‘Follow John” circus all things were prom- ised to all men; peace to the peace- “makers; jobs to the jobless; pros- perity for the farmers; arms con- tracts to the armament profiteers; a Bill of Rights which assures Can- adians of everything except rights. (See Bills 42-43, or the box score of RCMP invasion upon the rights of citizens for confirmation). Yes sir, Dief just about promised everything to everybody. (If we — miss anything in the Dief list of promises don’t hesitate to write us about it. We’d like to get that 62 figure doubly checked.) _ Exactly one City block from where this paper is produced there are anywhere from one to four hundred of Dief’s “promises” lined: up every morning for a cup of “charity” coffee and sandwich to keep body and soul together. Multi- ply that by several hundred thous- and across this broad land, lined up in front of Mission flop houses and Sally Anns for a bed or a bowl of “crisis” soup, then chalk the total against the ironic Tory boast of “promises fulfilled’? - But that is not all. In the realm of foreign policy the: Dief “prom- ises” present an equally sickly hue. - Canada’s independence, resources, jobs, industrial potential, markets, ‘etc., are now largely subject to the “promises” but rather the end re-. sult, which now sees Canada cast in the role of a subservient “yes- man’ stooge to U.S. a In the United Nations, in NATO, in the councils of -the world where the vital issues of peace and war are debated, official Canada now speaks with the bilingual accents of a US. McCarthy, and with Dief as the Pentagon’s chosen “front”? man to shoot its “free world” demagogic bull. Year’s people should adopt one, with a single and united determination to see it fullfilled; viz, to bury Dief’s 62- pre-election gether with the professional prom- ing as a Tory broker for Wall |) Street and the Pentagon. In polite language this situation is described” as “integration”, begun by the Lib- erals (with CCF support) over a decade ago, and now carried for- ward with disastrous results to Canada by the Tory “promisers.” So much so that the “sovereign in- dependence” spouted by Dief dur- ing the last federal election has now become the epic sellout in all Canadian history — and we have had some good ones under succes- sive Liberal and Tory rule since Confederation. It wasn’t exactly one of Dief’s imperialism. “Joe” or a “Charley” This being the period of New “resolutions’, working “promises”, to- dictates and demands of U. S. im- perialism, with a powerful U.S.- Canadian financial oligarchy act- January 3 196 isers in an avalanche of votes. Canada deserves nothing less than E just such a burial. PA a ie BUN 5 age 4