‘There's no hiding
place down there”

: By LESLIE MORRIS

' Someone with a gift for putting words to tunes should make
a peace song out of the old Negro spiritual whose title graces
the head of this column. Truly ‘“‘there’s no hiding place down
there” in the atom bomb shelters the government is now push-
ing on a very skeptical and reluctant -public.

New’ has it that building contractors, eager as ever to make
a fast dollar out of the people’s desperation, are giving up their
plans to get rich building shelters. There are no. buyers for John
Diefenbaker’s pet scheme to panic the Canadian public into ac-
cepting Yankee nuclear bombs. |

* * *

The public has more sense than the government. Not even

Diefenbaker’s touching announcement that he and Mrs. Diefen-

: baker will not take advantage of the govern-
ment’s posh dugouts but will suffer with us all
in a cramped little shelter, melted the public’s
heart. There are still no takers.

And for good reason. The government is
hoist by its own petard. Having for years (and
Messrs. St. Laurent and Pearson before it)
pumped the public full of “nuclear deterrent”
propaganda, which has for its theme the fright-
ful destruction that would descend upon the
wicked Russians should they refuse to be
blackmailed s the West, Canadians cannot be blamed for draw-
ing the conclusion that if nuclear bombs can destroy the Soviet

Union they can destroy Canada too.
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John Diefenbaker and his assorted Civil Defense or “Opera-
tion Survival” bureaucrats can’t have it'-both ways. What
Litvinov once said about guns (“No one‘has yet invented a

_.gun that can fire only in one direction’) can be said equally
about nuclear weapons — they can fall on the just wad aaush
alike.

If Canadian workers are expected to continue paying billions
of dollars out of their wages to help to frighten the ‘Russians
with the threat of nuclear destruction, then it must be equally
expected that they must accept the same proposition in revense.
Why, then, take out another mortgage on the house to buy a
shelter?

Tf the bomb can destroy Soviet civilization (and that’s what

Jack Kennedy and Canadian satellites say) then it can destroy |

American and Canadian civilization too.
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Bae pp a kept popping into the newspapers about the
government's “survival” program. ne
Will the. assessment: go up if ‘a citizen’ ‘builds a shelter?
. —Can he claim the cost of the shelter as: ‘exemption when he
fills out his income tax form? :‘~':
—Where willa bomb-shelter farhily, in’ ne event of war, get
fresh air to breathe after their oxygen supply has run out, pre-
suming they can afford to buy expensive tanks of oxygen in the
first place?

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. —What about the roomers in the big cities and the people in
apartment houses? Not every Canadian lives in Mortgage
Heights (In fact there now is a natural flow back to the cities
from that cultural wasteland, Suburbia).

—wWhat if the bomb comes when people are at work and the
kids in school?

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Of course, it is a hoax from beginning to end. There’s no
defense in $500 or $50,000 bomb shelters, presuming Canadian
families can afford them, which most of them cannot.

There’s no hiding place down in the basement or ina dugout
* in the back yard.

John Diefenbaker’s “army of survival’ is just another dodge
_to spread war fatalism and to give some unemployed and able-
bodied citizens a few weeks’ “work” at $42 a week instead of
the jobs they are entitied to.

As a matter of fact, as a down-to-earth Communist pointed
out at the Metro Toronto Communist Party convention the other
day, there is more than a possibility that the “army of sur:
vival” and the assorted generals, colonels, police chiefs and
what-have-you who make up Canada’s Last- -Hope-in-the-Event-
of Nuclear-War, are an embryonic fascist outfit.

There is more than one anti-social element in the bureauc-
racy ready and willing to turn compulsory take-shelter warnings
into compulsory something-else. And what a field day for

police rule this “‘civil defense’’ nonsense is,
* BS *

So the Canadian public is voting with its feet. It is aris

away from the bomb-shelter builders by the million.
With their customary good sense and practicability, the
people know “‘there’s no hiding place down there.”

The students who organized the Vigil at Ottawa on Thanks-|

giving week-end have the right line, and more real patriotism
than the politicians.

Meanwhile, while Weekend Magazine tells us that at least|.
one U.S. airforce general is always flying around over our |:
heads ready to give the signal for thermo-nuclear war, and|:

on the ground the politicians, led by John Diefenbaker, are

running interference for the Yankee general with their]
softening-up, build-a-bomb- shelter line. Mr. and Mrs. Canadian |‘
look on it ali with a skeptical and ornery eye and in greater | |
numbers all the time are’ voicing their belief in peace, disarma-|

ment, no nuclear weapons for Canada, no war over Berlin and
the detachment of our country as quickly as possible from the
wild-eyed brasshats in Pentagon. ~

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The OTHER Germany

12 YEARS AFTER FOUNDING OF THE GDR ©

By MAX REICH
N October 7 the German
Democratic Republic cele-
brated its 12th anniversary.

More than ever before this
was an occasion of rejoicing
for all who cherish peace.

At a time when through
German imperialist aspirations
war and peace are again in the
balance, and the West German
government is doing its utmost
to tip the scales in favor of
war, the new German state of
anti-militarism and anti-imper-
ialism is a most important ally
in the battle for peace.

There are the many stories
of the relief being felt by rep-
resentatives of European, par-
ticularly British, capitalism at
the blows
dealt by the
state of Ger-
man workers
and farmers
under Wal-
ter Ulbricht
to the state
of German
militarism
and imperi-
“alism under
Konrad Ade-
nauer since > August 13. ;

As. a grudging gift on its
12th birthday comes the ad-
mission of its enemies: The
growing strength of the GDR
in tipping the scales in favor
of peace.

TWO GERMANYS —
The .-words ae

-Ger-

“| many call fant: REA NS

feelings:> °°
Goethe; Kant—and ‘the Brug:
. Bismarck,

Engels .. . Krupp, the Kaiser
and his generals, the war of:
1914-18—and Karl Liebknecht
and Rosa Luxemburg . . . Hit-
ler, Himmler: and _ concentra-
tion camps, the slaughter—and
Ernst Thaelmann and the mar-
tyred anti-fascists ...

It is not something new,
something that is only a result
of Germany’s recent defeat;
throughout its history there,
have always been two Ger-
manys.

This record of the two Ger-
manys shows that the Ger-
many that dreamed of ruling
and exploiting the world, al-
ways had first to beat down,
by physical force and also by
bribery and corruption, the;
other Germany that wanted a

changed social order and
peace. £

| feelings

Bismarck, on the road to the
mastery of Europe took’ first
the step of outlawing the revo-
lutionary workers’ movement
by the Anti-Socialist Law and
of bribing Lassalle.

In 1914 the Kaiser and the So-
cial Democratic leaders em-
braced; Karl Liebknecht, ex-
pelled from the Social Demo-
cratic parliamentary group in
1915 for his stand against the
war, and Rosa Luxemburg,
were imprisoned by the legal
arm of German imperialism
and finally murdered in Jan-
uary 1919 by its military arm.
In 1933, history repeated it-

self. As a first step to conquer!

the world Hitler physically ex-
terminated the opposition: of
the - other Germany. Ernst
Thaelmann, who had warned
that Hitler meant war, was ar-
rested in 1933 and murdered
in a concentration. camp in
1945.

DIFFERENT TODAY
Was history going to repeat
itself again, when in 1949 Uni-

ted States imperialism revived

defeated German militarism?

_. This time it wasn’t. No long-
er could the other Germany be
outlawed, imprisoned and mur-
dered. It had found powerful
allies in the Soviet Union and
the other socialist states.

On October 7, 1949, the
other Germany established it-
self as the first German state

‘in. history whose policy was
not: war. and...

conquest. but
peace and. the building. of a

‘new: life on the moral ruins. of

nazism ‘and the physical ruins

of a war-devastated Germany.

‘What. Liebknecht and Lux-
emburg and Thaelmann had
lived and died for is today be-
ing carried out as the_official
policy of the state of the other
Germany, the GDR, by its gov-
ernment and its people.

“At the same time, however,
the state of German militarism
also re-established itself, with
the help of its allies—U.S. im-
perialism and the other West-
ern powers.

FOURTH REICH

What were the objectives of
the Fourth German Reich?

Now that U.S. imperialism is
being pressed into making con-
cessions—due to the aiffirma-
tion of the real relationship of
forces—by clipping the wings
of the aspirations of the Fourth
Reich, a move vehemently re-
sented and resisted by German
imperialism, Bonn’s ruffled
over Washington’s

STRAUSS:

“Hurry up. with the rohan, Messrs.
passengers!”

October 20.

“given, as its mission, 4

JOG AICHELC

“treachery” are coming a
into the open.

On September 24, B®
ambassador to Washint
Grewe, in a TV intervie
an American network;
illuminating disclosure
quoted in "Die Welt” of +
burg:

"In 1954 the Federal Ny
lic (West Germany) wa ant
to become a member of NAW
which we did. Substantial
ficulties had to be ove?
and it wasn’t easy at all 107
pare German public et
that ecreiaox was to”
armed again.”

Grewe then. blabs out
the price paid by U.S. imp
ialism to West Germany
joining NATO war allia”
was this definite obligation |
the Western powers:

“The non-recognition °
present German  borde®
non-recognition of East
may as a separate state
was not only German
but it was the common Foy
of the West, at least sinc®
or 1954... If the two
are offered as conce:

a

future negotiations, ©
should clearly real
what is offered w:

mental in the agreem
the Alliance of the yea!
Grewe then speaks
bitter feeling this “petraye
provoking in Germany:
GERMANY’S NEW RO#
After its defeat in -
when German imperial sm
too weak to stand on its
feet, it had to accept.
dinate role, where U.
ests were concerned at

hand” in the East.
Assigning this role io
man imperialism, U.S
ialism at last could fu
old aim: to make a G
under U.S. control,
against the socialist ¢
specially against the
Union.
When Adenauer stated
September 7, 1953, “I?
there is to be no more
reunification of Germ?
of ‘liberating’ of Hast
many,” when West Ge
State Secretary Hallstei? im
in Washington, on ye
1952, of “integration up }
Urals”; when Adenauet
in Bonn, on March 16, }
the “new order in the
that Germany woul Fe
when provocations i0@
of old and new nazis;
ing under slogans of
up Cvech~slovakia, Polan
Soviet Union—these wer ;
pronouncements of
nor the aims only of
imperialism. They we! 4
arations to carry out the |
mon policy of U.S. 2
man imperialism. é
SOCIAL DEMOCRAT?
In order to go aheé on?
the common plan, the
first had to eliminate
position of the other Ge
Inside West Germ i
task was increasingly
by the leadership of the
Democratic Party—alt® e°
Communist Party h# 966:
banned on August 17, “9
The original resista” io?
the SPD to remilitariza™ ;
been replaced meanW

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