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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).

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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),

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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... ”.

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IF PEACE “BREAKS OUT’’—

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(Abraham Lincoln, Mar. 4, 1861).

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“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

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“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-

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isers in an avalanche of votes.
Canada deserves nothing less than E
just such a burial.

PA a ie BUN 5 age 4