As We See It

OT being a physician, eminent or otherwise, we

cannot offer any simple diagnosis of this new
Monamania (insanity upon a single subject) that
is now sweeping leading ‘American colleges and
Universities. The symptoms of this epidemic are
Not new; they consist of mobs of male aa
Taiding women’s dormitories and stripping tt =
Sirls of all available “nantieand-bra” lingerie,
Whether on their person or in the linen closet.

From newspaper reports it is evident the
epidemic has hit every university and college of
any standing from Maine to California. — many
f these institutions of “higher learning the stu-
dent raids upon the female population have as-
Sumed riot proportions, with police and state
forces called in to quell the sex-crazed demon-
Strators. -

In one of these paranoic outbreaks the stu-
den mob temporarily halted their foraging for
Women’s under-garments to molest
People’s artist, Paul Robeson, and\a reporter from-
the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, seizing and
tearing up films and seeking to provoke violence
®ainst Robeson. ° :

Some chests of the press have ascribed this
Sex-mania sweeping US. universities to “spring
fever,” whatever that may be? Others have cata-
-logued the disease as just the usual “studerit
Pranks.” In Louisiana and Tennesee universities,
the authorities have threatened students with the
“army draft,” (apparently \recognized (by youth-
Ul bourgeois America as the worst possible punish-
Ment) unless they “cooled off.”

In the annals of Canadian crime, the record
Shows that the foulest and most barbarous mur-
ders and killings have beer committed by SeX-
Perverted criminals. The recent Ducharme case
iN Vancouver provides a fitting study of the pro-
8ress of this disease, as it applies to an individ-
Wal. The mania to possess (and even wear wo-
™en’s garments) was in this case the prelude to
Tape and murder. Now we have the disease
Sweeping U.S. universities with an intensity that
Mdicates a national dementia! : ‘

This outbreak of sex-dementia in America unk
Sersities is not unrelated to the war hysteria and
Worlddomination psychosis that grips official
America, The man who “master-minded” ‘the
old-war with its plans to bring the world under

© hegemony of Yankee imperialism, James V.

orrestal, himself took a header out of a 16-storey
Window, when he mistook the noise of a-fire
ngine for “a Russian invasion.”

From the day when Harry Truman got SA
Ston ‘Churchill to publicly launch Wall Street's
“old war in his Fulton speech, the moral fibre
°f official America has rapidly deteriorated. The

€ep freeze, mink coat” ‘Truman regime has re-
Vealed unprecedented corruption, graft, double

mediate troubles.

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crossing and falsehood, in the ‘highest executive
and administrative councils of the land.

In the old days of the Roman empire, when
the people clamored against oppression and tyran-
ny, the ‘Caesars resorted to the tactic of giving the

rabble a “circus” to take their minds off their\im- -
In the cold-war “culture” of
Wall Street. Hollywood now provides the “circus”

and the theme is a glorification of sex mania,

gangsterism. and historical distortion. Hence the

people of America—and ‘Canada—are subjected to

the moral poison which now hangs over USS. uni-

versities like a creeping mist of poisonous gas.
Fascism came to Germany in 1933 with the

gun and club of Hitler's Brownshirt legions In.

America its advent is more variagated but no less
sinister. The hooliganism of the “panty-and-bras”
raids is but another expression of its paralysis of
everything held to be decent and progressive.
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News of air battles over Korea (as featured
by our. “free” press) generally wind up with the
misinformation ‘that the enemy suffered “severe
losses” while all “our” planes “returned Safely.”

This kind of “objective reporting” is aimed at.

keeping the truth from the people.

Every so often however, something closer to
the truth has to be told, otherwise how else could
U.S. ‘top brass explain away the steady disappear-
ance of their super-bombers and-super-jets? An
‘Associated Press tally, as handed out by official

‘ washington last week, gives the total losses of

“allied” aircraft since the beginning of UN “police

action” in Korea in June of 1950. These figures |

reveal that “allied” losses total more than 1400

‘aircraft of all design, while the socalled “enemy”

losses are “about 400.” :

Speaking of official lying, we were glad to
read last week, in reply to the U.S.-inspired can-
ard that the Korean people burn captured Ameri-
can pilots, that Canadian Brigadier J. M. (Rocky)
Rockingham has branded the story a lie, and ex-
pressed a desire to “get his hands on the person
who started Such a lie.”

Some snappy comments were unloosed by
(Canadian troops last weekend as they docked in
Vancouver. Perhaps the statement most express-
ive of the sentiments of all the boys returning from
Korea was that of Private iS. S. Munemori: “The
only way they’ll get me back to Korea is with
handcuffs.” Another Canadian lad, E. R. Paulson:
of New Westminster is quoted as saying of Can-
ada, “It’s good at last to stand on some nice clean
earth.”

Tt is, very good! it is also good to Keep it

that way, so that the tértured people of Korea can

also stand on their own “good clean earth,” still
saturated with their own blood and crying aloud

for peace.

‘HE BIC. election campaign has now entered the “front page”
editorial stage. ‘Alarmed at the resentment of the people over
government policies, and their insistence to get at the facts of Tory
and Liberal maladministration, the political weathercocks of the
daily press are now proffering what they consider sage advice. The
burden of this “Fourth Estate’ political sagacity is to vote the Lib-
erals back into office. ;

The Vancouver Sun on May 20 featured a front-page editorial
entitled “Chaos or Party Government” and lectured its readers
'that the only way ‘to avoid “chaos” is to vote Liberal, and thus
«|. give B.C. a good sound government that would satisfy any
reasoning voter.”

A week or so later the News-Herald followed suit with a front-
page editorial blurb on the subject: “What B/C. Needs”, says the
News-Herald, is “.. . a new and strong government that wilc work
for the good and the progress of B.C. and all its people.” That much
we are all agreed upon, but when the News-Herald tells us that
the “only party that can give such a government . . . is the Liberal
Party,” that is presuming a public gullibility somewhat less than
flattering.

Despite the oracles of the kept press it is becoming obvious to
a growing number of people that what B.C. needs most is to free
itself from the curse of ToryLiberal partisan government, thus
permitting the people a larger voice in the formulation of policies
governing the peace and welfare of their province. _

It is no exaggeration to say that so far in this election cam-
paign, the Liberals and Tories have studiously avoided debate on
tthe vital issues of peace, markets and jobs. Wordy promises! Yes,
jn unlimited number. But on their “give away” policies; which has
resulted in the alienation of British Columbia’s natural resources to
the Yankee war trusts, thus endangering the peace and prosperity
of the people—scarcely a word, and then only in the form of an
apologia, rather than an analysis of selling B.C. down the river to
the Yankee war monopolists. es

In our opinion what B.C. needs most of all is the widest pos-
sible people’s unity in every constituency around the issue of peace
policies, translated into the every-day needs of the people; a unity
to assure the decisive defeat of ‘the old-line parties of big business,
to end narrow partisan government in B.C. and give the people an
opportunity to express their hopes and aspirations in the building
of an economy and a social order dedicated to genuine peace and
fraternity among nations.

That is impossible under Liberal and Tory government. It is-
only possible under a government representative of and responsible
to the people. A united front between the CCF, LPP, trade unions.
farmers and progressive middle-class peoples in inumerous con-
stituencies. could still head off narrow partisan government, chaos.
and the threat of war.

Let’s make the best of the time left between now and June 12
to minimize the danger!

Canadians and Koje Island

RES Canadians who have followed the disturbing events at the

Koje POW camp during recent weeks, will feel gratified that
the St. Laurent government thas at last seen fit to protest the
arbitrary dispatch of Canadian troops to ride herd on this Korean
POW camp under U.S. command.

This action of top Yankee brass in assigning Canadian troops
to participate in an unsavory mess of their own making, serves
‘to point up the satellite role into which Liberal policies have sub-
ordinated ‘Canada, where ‘Canadian troops can be kicked around
by Yankee war maniacs without so much as a “by your leave.”

Under U.S. command of Korean POW camps, every clause of
the Geneva Protocol governing POW camps has been ruthlessly
violated. The Geneva ‘Convention of 1929 declares that “POW’s
shall be freed without delay upon cessation of ‘hostilities, and that
they, may not renounce their right to repatriation.” In Koje camp
Yankee brass has tried every technique of gangsterism and worse
to achieve such renunciation from Korean POW’s.

Into this mess, and undoubtedly with the ‘purpose in mind of
shifting some of the odor of their maladministration, US. brass
now tosses Canadian troops — without even going through the
formality of consulting: Ottawa!

To the protests forwarded by the St. Laurent government
must be added the protests of the Canadian people—the prompt
withdrawal of: all ‘Canadian troops from Koje and similar U.S.-
run compounds, and the immediate withdrawal of all Canadian
troops from Korea. ‘Canada*must no longer permit her armed

“forces to be used as pawns in-the dirty business of Yankee war

gangsterism.

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