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U.S. savagery

Walter Wiggins, Vancouver,
writes: Regarding the Sun’s lead
editorial of April 25, may I offer
a few thoughts? The turning of
the tide at Stalingrad was the most
important event of this century;
yet I fear there are many in our
midst today who have not grasped
its true significance, That tide
was more than panzer divisions
and Luftwaffe, In fact it began
with an idea,

World War I was ended and
Winston Churchill wrote his
memoirs and dreamed of the
future. He could see that the
Allies alone would not be able
to “liberate” Soviet Russia and
rebuild war-torn eastern Europe;
it could only be done with the aid
of Germany, (The Crisis: The
Aftermath), So Germany was
invited to join the gamble.

I am sure this master of the
epigram knew his Shakespeare
well, It is sad that the ancient
bard was not at hand to warn his
pupil of the perils ahead in his
chosen path, He might have used
the words of the Duke of York
in King Richard II: “What will
ensue hereof, there’s none can
tell: But by bad courses may be
understood that their events can
never fall out good.”

And how short a time it was
from Munich to Dunkirk; from
the tragedy of Ethiopia and the
non-intervention in Spain to the
abandonment of the League of
Nations Covenant of collective
security and from there to the
Russo-German non-aggression
pact, From Poland’s haughty
refusal of Soviet aid against the
threat of Nazi invasion to the
abject abdication of that govern-
ment, Yes, and from the sale of
a British shipbuilding plant to
Germany at scrap prices to the
appearance of the Nazi submar-
ine menace to Allied shipping.

From the visit to London of a
Nazi finance minister, seeking
with utmost confidence a loan for
Hitler’s “Drang Nach Osten® to
the cry that rang across the
ocean, “Give us the tools and we
will finish the job.” Oh, brother!
And some say Stalin made mis-
takes!

And now, 17 years after NATO
was whelped in Rumour’s den,
it starts to fall apart. Howfitting

the lines we find in King Henry

IV: “Upon my tongues continual
slanders ride. The whichin every
language I pronounce, Stuffing the
ears of men with false reports,
Our failure to strangle the Soviet
baby at birth, ..) Right back at
the original dream,

It is said that Walter Lippman
disagrees with LBJ on how to
conduct the war in Vietnam — or
even whether, But the Pentagon
still has the go-go fever, The
U.S. has ordered 100 million

-pounds of a new type of napalm,

one that will stick to the hides
of Vietnamese children much
more agonizingly than the kind
they used in the war in Korea,
Surely: This is the very top, the
height, the crest, or crest unto
the crest of Murder’s arms:
this is the bloodiest shame, the
wildest savagery, the vilest
stroke, that ever wall-eyed wrath
presented to the tears of soft
remorse, (King John).

(P.S. Again Iam sending you
a copy of a letter. to the Sun
editor, They published my last
letter 20 days after I mailed it,
which could mean that they ig-
nored it until it appeared in the
Trib),

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Likes Open Forum

George Collins, Vancouver,
writes: In your last issue you
chose wisely on the selection of
letters for the *Open Forum,”
Also I’m pleased a well-known
progressive chose to expose the
superficial differences between
two politicians, provincial and
federal, He done a job on the
water question better than most
of us,

I would suggest that the “better
versed” should be a little more
liberal in expressing their views
more often, and do a little teach-
ing doing it. Some would say
that it is rather “bureaucratic”
to keep all the information of
the ‘‘brain department to them-
selves.”

We work best in collective
effort and that means sharing
in things informative and bene-
ficial to what is considered in
the best interests of the working
class, Much informationis given
in other pages, but there’s no-
thing like a close attachment with
the people through the media of
the “Open Forum.*’

Now think, '
For child lost?

This is war.

It was a manly art.
And failing this,

Not exploit, steal, maim,

towards our goal,- ;
To see the needs of all,

TIME FOR THOUGHT
AND ACTION

Have you ever heard a baby cry?
Have you ever seen a Mother's tears,

Now multiply these many fold, until the din’s unbearable,

Men though history have warriors been,
But now ittakes a big big Man, to see that wars don't start.

We have to teach man how to live with man in peace,

Now we as women of this world must help in every way,

To make this world for all, not just a few.
Let's link arms with our Sisters of the World, and walk

and human decency prevail,
This can only be achieved through peace, not war,

—Eileen M, Babuick, Mission, B,C.

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