Brainwashers Inc.

f the whole operation didn’t stink to high heaven there

would be no need for the U.S, Information Agency
(USIA) to explain “who paid for what” for the 27 foreign news-
paper hacks it transported to South Vietnam, among them three
from Canada,

These three Pentagon “guests” were W. T. Galt of the Van-
couver Sun, whose U.S,-mixed whitewash has recently appear-
ed in that paper in a series-of articles; Larry Henderson of
the CTV news, and a “Toronto Telegram” coldwar devotee
with a name that reads like Lubor J, Zink,

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We suspected all along that Galt’s safari and others of his
kidney to South Vietnam to “sell” U.S, aggression in Vietnam
to the Canadian people, was paid for by USIA, Now the Canadian
Press has, confirmed it,

The Toronto Telegram’s Zink specializes in anti-Soviet
cannards and news distortions, while CT V’s Larry Henderson
stars in putting the “slants” inuendos and other brainwashing
stimulants into what otherwise would be straight international
or national news, and manages it all with a well-cultivated
smirk,

These are the three Specimens from Canada approved
(and paid for) by USIA to brainwash the Canadian people out
of their sympathy for the ravaged, tortured and murdered
people of Vietnam; to transform that noble sentiment into
“sympathy” for the U.S, war criminals, Fine specimens indeed
— but not of the Canadian people,

But as Chas, Mohr oftheN.Y. Times charged, U.S. warhawks

are “more concerned with the effect of a story, rather than
its accuracy”, On that basis our trio are eminently fitted,

The Wilson ‘shuffle’

rime Minister Harold Wilson’s cabinet shuffle last week

is well named, According to the British “Morning

Star” that is precisely what it is, just a “shuffle”.

Mr. Michael Stewart who previously held the position of
British Foreign Secretary is now Economic Affairs Minister,
and Mr. George Brown who previously held that post is now
Foreign Secretary,

Hitherto Mr. Stewart was Wilson’s top coldwar man in the
cabinet, who readily “justified every American action in Viet-
nam, however shameful or however barbaric”, Now he takes
over “the operation of the coldwar at home”, against the trade
unions and workers of Britain opposing Wilson’s “wage freeze.”

Now, says the “Morning Star,” “Mr, Brown and Mr, Stewart
will be no more successful as Tweedledum and Tweedledee
than they were as Tweedledee and Tweedledum”, either in
imposing a wage freeze upon the British workers, preventing
the “turn to the Left in Britain and/or the success of the
Struggles for national liberation in other lands”,

t reminds us of the old vil-

lage ‘Gossip’ of our younger .

days. When he wasn’t busy giving
us hell — someone else in the
neighborhood was getting it.

So it is with the literati of ©

the ‘free world’ press, Lately
other targets of their hired ire
have been getting a brief respite
while they turned their vials of
ridicule, cheap satire, cynicism
and stale jibes at Chairman Mao
Tse-tung’s July 16 swim across
the mighty Yangtze River, Even
some leading personnel in the
fiela of international ‘sports’
so-called, managed to get their
two-bits worth in on the Chair-
man Mao swim medley;

Pictures of Chairman Mao and

his companions breasting the

famed river have also been des-

cribed by these trained seals of

the coldwar press as ‘fakes’; the

job of a clever photographer who

ean create a picture from a non-
_ existent subject or event;

While we bow to the superior
knowledge of such ink-spillers to
pose as authorities on fakery —
since most ofthem makea career
out of it or live by it, one must
look perhaps at the broad and
swift waters of the Yangtze for
the cause of their discordant
sneers,.

In their unseemly haste to
portray China’s Chairman Mao
barely able to stand up and totter-
ing towards his ‘deathbed’, it
must be terribly disconcerting,
even to a hidebound coldwater
press hack, to have the 72-year-
old subject of his doleful fore-
casts taking an estimated 9- mile
swim in a world-famed river;

Like as Lenin once said, our
imperialist bourgeois, like hun-
gry chickens, not only “dream of
millet”, but never abandon the
hope that Nature may accomplish
what they couldn’t--remove a

formidable opponent, Now here :

Communists nominate seven

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candidates for B.C. election

The provincial election cam-
paign moved into a new stage this
week with all parties speeding up
nominations to meet the August
29th deadline for closing ofnom-
inations,

The Communist Party’s pro-
vincial campaign manager,

Charles Caron, announced this
week that seven candidates have

MAURICE RUSH
North Van-Seymour

ERNIE KNOTT
Victoria

we have Chairman Mao in the
‘fullness of his years’ swimming.
the mighty Yangtze, instead of
oblingingly returning to his an-
cestors, It’s enough to give any
brainwashed ‘free world’ press
hack or ‘fake expert’ an epileptic
seizure;

Without going into the fulsome
political adulations of the Chinese
press on this historic swim, not
a little tinged with that human
weakness sometimes referred to
as the ‘cult of the individual’,
the Chinese people have every
cause to feel a deep pride in the
strength, stamina, prowess and
achievements of their leader and
chairman, Mao Tse-tung, It cer-
tainly doesn’t help to bridge the
ideological gulf, implicit in such
adulations, to join in the cheap
sneers and jibes of the kept
press hacks;

It is already well known by all
who have interested themselves
in the epic history of the Chinese
revolution, that its leaders and

_ fighters endured many hardships,

accomplished many matchless
feats of human endurance, and
which
things,
country’s
rivers,

Chairman Mao Tse-tung is

the swimming of their
mighty turbulent

included among _ other:

been nominated and additional
nominations are being consi-
dered. He said the election pro-
gram and other campaign ma-
terials are already at the
printers.

Already named to carry the
Communist banner in the Sep-
tember 12th election are the
following: Vancouver East,
Homer Stevens; Vancouver-
Little Mountain, Harold Pritchett;
North Vancouver-Seymour, Mau-
rice Rush; Vancouver Centre,
Jim Beynon;
Knott; Surrey, Jeannie McLaren;
Shuswap, Orville Mowers.

Prominent trade unionist
Homer Stevens told a nomina-
tion meeting at the IOOF Hall on
Kamloops Street last Thursday
that he was honored as the repre-
sentative of the Communist Party
in the working class riding of
Vancouver East,

Stevens said that the attack on
the labor movement by the B,C,
government and the courts in
recent labor disputes was a threat
to all working people in B,C, He
urged the abolition of those sec-
tions of the labor act which make
it possible to attack unions by
injunctions.

He also attacked the Socred
government for the sellout of
Canadian resources, Stevens said
the giveaway of our water, natu-
ral gas, fisheries, oil and forest
resources was of paramount im-
portance to B,C,

North Vancouver - Seymour -

candidate Maurice Rush charged
last Thursday at a meeting of
election workers that Premier
Bennett wants to get the election
out of the way “before the full
impact of the Columbia River
scandal breaks on the public.”

Rush said that.all signs point
to the fact that the people of B,C,
will have to pay a $150 million
bill to build the storage dams on
the Columbia to store the water

known at home and abroad as a
powerful swimmer, not in the
sense of ‘sports’ competiticn,
but in the liberation of his coun-
try and people from the yoke of
foreign imperialism, exploita-
tion and intervention.

Chairman Mao has swam the
Yangtze River many times, no
less than three times in 1956;
and again in July 1966 — when
the ‘Free West’ hacks, like *your
friendly undertaker”, had himall
but laid out for the final obsequies,.

Hence the spate of chagrin-
charged ridicule and sneers when
Chairman Mao proved them dead
wrong — with a nine-mile or so

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MAURICE RUSH
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Shuswap

for U,S, use, ‘‘We are not only
giving them the river, we are
also paying for the storage dams
out of our own pockets,” charged
Rush, ©

Orville Mowers, Communist
candidate for Shuswap, said last
week that the failure of the Ben-
nett government to provide ade-
quate financial aid tofarmers for

See CP CANDIDATES, pg. 8

swim across one of the world’s
greatest rivers;

What we’d really like to See to
round out the story and ‘hit the
headlines’ and it certainly would
be ‘news’, is a boatload of ‘free
world’ press hacks, with a

sprinkling of ‘fake’ authorities ©

and ‘experts’ on swimming, en
route to Wuhan to try their luck
with Chairman Mao ina Yangtze-
crossing swim.

While our readers may form
their own opinions as to the end
result of such a swim, we can
quote from Washington’s daily
stock communique from Saigon
and say — without a hint of a
sob, “OUR» losses were mod-
erate”,

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