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he announcement last week that Federal ex-Finance

Minister Walter Gordon had been welcomed back into
the Pearson cabinet as a Minister without Portfoliothrew some
Western Liberal associations into political turmoil, Much like
a weasel in a chicken coop, productive of a wide variety of pro-
test squawks,

B.C. Liberal leader Ray Perrault, who led the right-wing
Liberal foray against Walter Gordon and his “economic nation-
alism” policies during last summer’s national Liberal conven-
tion, was one of the first to loudly sound off, “warning the
Pearson government against taking any economic advice” from
Walter Gordon.

For this unsolicited “advice”, unauthorized by any Liberal
body in B.C., Perrault was slapped down bythe Surrey Liberal
Association, and sharply rebuked by others. A Coquitlam Asso-
ciation spokesman stated Perrault “had no business” making
such statements on Walter Gordon’s return tothe federal cabi-
net.

It may be recalled during the national Liberal convention
that Perrault led the attack on Gordon’s “ economic nationalism”
policies, which warned Canadians of the dangers of a complete
“take-over” of the Canadian economy by U.S, interests, and
to some extent implicit in his book “A Choice for Canada,”

During the last B,C, provincial election campaign, Liberal
leader Perrault tried hard to prove that he and his party could
do a much better job of. giving away B.C, to U.S, financial
and industrial interests than the Bennett government had done,
In this chosen role Perrault sallied forth to the national
Liberal gathering, to lead in the gang-up against Gordon and
turn Liberal policies (such as they were— and are) in a “right-
face’’ direction, That is, to subordinate Canada’s destiny to
the needs and aims of U.S. monopoly, The people’s heritage
for Yankee dollars,

Now of course, the unheralded return of Walter Gordon to
the federal Liberal cabinet fold has jarred provincial leader
Perrault no end. So much so that he “blasts off” without even
-the formality of consulting either provincial or constituent
associations on the nature and content of his “blasting”.

The quick (though varied) reaction and criticisms of many
of these associations contains a double-barelled“ message” for
Perrault, providing he has any aptitude for learning; one, that
his “leadership” is suspect and that he could be on “the way
out”, Second, that all Liberals (and others) are not so hostile
to Walter Gordon’s ideas on “Canada’s Choice” as U.S, Liberal
broker Perrault may think they are,

Now that Prime Minister Pearson has assigned Gordon to
do a study of “foreign control of the Canadian economy” for
the government, we may expect tosee Perrault go into political
“rigor mortis.” ;

M6 eP ote tet eMete tate”,
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he controversial book as history. Even the staid New
-“Death of a President” by York Times was compelled to
William Manchester,aclosecon- declare that ‘‘History is no one’s

fidante of the late U.S, President personal property”.
John F, Kennedy, has stirred up
quite a furore in U.S, political

and social circles,

This book had something of a
“Caesarian” birth, At the in-
sistence of the late president’s
wife “Jackie” Kennedy, the Ken-

nedy family and others, the au-

thor had been pressured into
agreement to delete quite a chunk
of the book, because it was much
too personal, much too cruel on
the emotions of the Kennedy
family circle — and on some of
his political colleagues,

In other words what now re-
mains of the book, already being
published in serial form in other
U.S, publications (and probably
soon in Canada), is an “author-
ized” edition on the life anddeath
of John F, Kennedy, And every-
one knows — or should know,
that “authorized’’ books in which
the element of censorship pre-
vails, are pretty much worthless

Thus anyone now desirous of
reading the unexpurgated edition
of “Death of a President” will
have to do so in German, since
a West German publishing house
is running the book regardless
of the Kennedy family authoriza-
tion or not; and perhaps, as far
as we know, regardless of any
or all U.S. copyright provisions.

“Death of a President” adds to
a growing volume of books pub-
lished in the U.S, and abroad on
that fateful assassination on No-
vember 22, 1963, when President
John Kennedy was gunned down
in Dallas, Texas, a state noted
for its gun-toters, and as the
home state of Vietnam’s execu-
tioner, U.S. President Lyndon
Baynes Johnson. :

Nor is it any accident or mere
coincidence that this growing
volume of books stand as anopen
challenge to the voluminous find-

ete ee

‘Senior governments must
give more education aid”

James MacFarlan, the young
school teacher who broke the
NPA grip on Vancouver’s school
board this year, and-emerged as
the lone independent to be elected,
was sworn in Monday night at the
inaugural meeting of the 1967
school board, ©

On the eve of the inaugural
meeting, MacFarlan said he will
fight for implementation of the
seven-point program on which

he campaigned in the Dec. 14,

election, “The major issue,” said
MacFarlan, “is to end the situa-
tion under which the local rate-
payer pays too much and the
federal and provincial govern-
ments pay too little of the cost
of education.”

“One of the first things the
trustees must do is to examine
the whole question of federal-

' provincial aid to education,” said

MacF arlan. “The costs of educa-
tion are rapidly rising, and will
continue to rise, and we must find
some relief for the local tax-
payer,” he added,

MacFarlan said the school
board should press the provincial
government to take over the full
cost of elementary schooling,
while continuing to pay about half
the cost of secondary education.
He urged this as the first step
toward negotiating greatly ex-
panded federal aid to public
school education.

Ultimately, he said, Ottawa
should be responsible for all
costs of elementary education
under a basic national program
of education, The provincial gov-
ernment would then be able to
move out of the elementary edu-
cation field and assume about
80 percent of the cost of sec-
ondary education.

ings of the Warren Commission
set up by presidental decree to
bring “the truth” of this dastardly
act to the American people, in-
stead of a volume of conjectures,
suppositions, low-grade “red-
herring” propaganda, etc., as a
substitute for ascertainable
facts; much of which was deli-
berately evaded or suppressed by
the Warren Commission,

“Death of 2 President,” even
in its “authorized” conformity,
will serve at least to open the
door still further upon well-
founded suspicions, all of which
challenges the Warren Commis-
sion contention that Lee Harvey
Oswald was the assasin who did
the killing alone and unaided,

Prior to the death of Jack Ruby
who gunned Oswald down in a
Dallas prison, ten other deaths
preceeded Ruby’s, The US,
magazine “Ramparts” listed
some of these in arecent edition,

A young Dallas reporter writ-
ing a book on the president’s as-
sassination, was found deadinhis
apartment, the victim of karate
chops. Another Dallas reporter,
Bill Hunter was “accidentally”
shot by a policeman, after it be-
came known that Hunter had
*“covered” a meeting in Ruby’s
apartment prior tothe assassina-
tion. The cop got a suspended sen-
tence for disposing of Hunter.

TRUSTEE MacFARLAN

MacFarlan said that regard-
less of the present BNA Act
which makes education a pro-

Communist Party plans
legislative campaign

A democratic plan to ensure
sustained economic expansion,
full employment and rising living
standards will top proposals of
the Communist Party for the
forthcoming session of the B.C,
Legislature,

Emphasis will be placed on
action to curb and break the grip
of the monopolies on the econ-
omic and political life of this
province, the B,C, Committee of
the C,P, decided at a weekend
meeting in Vancouver,

Demands for return of all for-
est lands to public ownership
and operation through a crown

corporation;. and for govern-

ment takeover of all natural gas
and oil, and hydro companies,

Then the well-known columnist
Dorothy Kilgallen; the talkative
Dorothy, one of the few permit-
ted to interview Ruby after he had
murdered Oswald declared after
that interview: “I’m going to bust
this case wide open”, Obviously
certain interests who didn’t want
it busted “wide open” arranged
an early demise for Dorothy.

One of Ruby’s legal “mouth-
pieces”, immediately following

the shooting of Oswald, diedsud- .

denly of a ‘‘heart attack... not
verified by an autopsy”, whiletwo
of Ruby’s female entourage, Ear-
line Roberts, also died of “an
unverified heart attack”, while
a Ruby stripper, Nancy Jane
Mooney, who had provided an
alibi for those involved in the
shooting of policeman Jefferson
Tippett, (and for which the War-
ren Commission “assumes”
Oswald to have been the killer),

‘program, MacFarlan said the

vincial responsibility, the federal
government can find ways of pro
viding such help, just as it noW
finds ways of aiding vocational
education,

Turning to another point in his”

new school board should immed=—
iately join with other school
boards, the B.C, Teachers’ Fed-
eration and the B.C, Parent —
Teacher Association in pressur=
ing the provincial government tO —
remove its restrictions on schoo! -
construction. Unless we act fast
we will be hit with overcrowdiné

and shift classes nextSeptembe!s |

MacFarlan said he will als0_
press for provision: of pre-kin-
dergarten schooling for childrel —
in areas where there are large
numbers of working mothers; —
and for reduction in class sizeSe

by a new B.C. Energy Board

with democratic control and la-

bor and peoples representation

will head a long list of demands

for improved social and labor
legislation, said B.C, Party

leader Nigel Morgan.

“Repatriation of our re- —
sources, regaining our national —
heritage — that’s the way to make
Canada’s Centennial a year to —
remember,” he added,

Among plans for the campaign,
which include delegations to
MLAs, meetings and newspaper —
ads, will bea weekly radio broad-
cast “The Legislature and You”
which will be heard over CKW%
every Saturday at 10:10 p.m.
commencing January 29,

conveniently hanged herself while
in the Dallas county jail, Hank
Killam, the husband of a cigar-
ette girl in the Ruby dive, dem-
onstrating too much interest in
the JFK assassination, failed to
wake up one morning, His throat
had been cut from.ear to ear.

There were others in this long
trail of “bump-off” cited by
“Ramparts” and other public”
sources, and the question readily —
comes to mind; how many more-
are slated to be “rubbed out”
before the American people — and
the world, get the whole truth of
the “Death of a President?” In
this latest book on that shocking
tragedy, there is even a faint
hint that the presidental execu-—
tioner of Vietnam might know,

hense the need of a “silence” as
tight as the grave. ‘

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