HO CHI MINH’S LAST
WILL AND TESTAMENT

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- Following is the text of the
testament of Ho Chi Minh.
Written last May, it was read
at the funeral ceremonies for
the late president of. the Demo-
cratic Republic of Vietnam, by

In_ the patriotic struggle
against’ U.S. aggression, we
shall indeed have ta undergo
more. difficulties and sacrifices,

but we are sure to win total -

victory.
This is an absolute certainty.
It is my intention, when that
day comes, to make a tour of

the North and South to congra- .

‘tulate our heroic compatriots,
cadres and combatants, to pay a
visit to our old people, our be-
loved youths and children.

Then, on behalf of our peo-
ple, I will go to the fraternal
countries of the socialist camp
and friendly countries in the
whole world, and thank them
for their wholehearted support
and assistance to our people’s
patriotic struggle against U.S.
aggression.

Tu-Fu, the . well-known Chi-
nese poet of the T’ang epoch,
wrote: “In all times, few are
those who reach the age of 70.”

This year, with my 79 years, .

I count among those ‘few’ peo-

-ple. Still, my mind is lucid, -

though my health has some-
‘what weakened in comparison
with previous years. When one
is on the wrong side of 70,
health deteriorates with age.
This is no wonder.

But who can forecast for how
long I can continue to serve the
revolution, the fatherland and
the people?

That is the reason why I leave
these few lines in anticipation
of the day when I join venerable
Karl Marx, Lenin and other re-
volutionary élders.

In this way, our compatriots,
the whole country, the com-
rades in our party, and our
friends in the whole world will
have no surprise. .

First I will speak about the
Party: Thanks to its close unity
and total dedication to the
working class, the people and
the fatherland, our party has
been able, since its founding, to
unite, organize and lead our
people in an ardent struggle,
and conduct them from victory
to victory.

Unity is an extremely pre-
cious tradition of our party and
people. All comrades, from the
central committee down to the
cell, must preserve the union
and unity of mind in the party
as the apple of their eyes.

Within the party, to achieve
broad democracy and to prac-
tice self-criticism and criticism
regularly and seriously is the
best way to consolidate and de-
velop the union and unity of
mind in the party. Genuine af-
fection should prevail among
all comrades.

Ours is a party in power.
Each party member, each cadre
must be deeply imbued with re-
volutionary morality, and show
-industry, thrift, integrity, up-
righthess, total dedication to
the public cause, exemplary
selflessness. Our party should
preserve its entire purity. It
should remain worthy of its role
as the leader and a very loyal
servant of the people.

The working youth union
members and our young people

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as a whole are of an excellent
nature, ardent to volunteer for
vanguard tasks, undeterred by
difficulties, striving for pro-
gress. The party must give
much attention to their educa-
tion in revolutionary morality,
and train them into continua-
tors of the building of socialism
both “red” and “expert.”

Training and educating the
revolutionary generation to
come is a highly important and
necessary task.

Our laboring people, both in
the plains and in the mountain
areas, have for ages suffered
hardships, feudal and colonial
oppression and_ exploitation.

-Furthermore, they have exper-

ienced many years of war.

Yet our people have shown
great heroism, great courage,
ardent enthusiasm, and _ are
hardworking. They have always
followed the party since it
came into being, and they have
always been loyal to it.

The party must work out a
good plan for economic and cul-
tural development with a view
to ceaselessly raising the living
standard of the people.

The resistance war against
U.S. aggression may drag out.
Our compatriots may have to
undergo new sacrifices in terms
of property and human lives. In
any case we must be resolved
to fight against the U.S. aggres-
sors till total victory.

Our rivers, our mountains,
our men will always remain.
The Yanks’ defeated, we will
build our country 10 times
more beautiful. No matter what
difficulties and hardships may
lie ahead, our people are sure
to win total victory. The U.S.
imperialists will have to pull
out. Our fatherland will be re-
‘unified. Our compatriots in
the North and in the South will
be re-united under the same
roof. Our country will have the
signal honor of being a small
nation which, through an hero-
ic struggle, has defeated two

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HO CHI MINH—1950

big imperialists—the French
and the American—and made a
worthy. contribution to the na-
tional liberation movement.

About the world Communist
movement: having dedicated my
whole life to the cause of. the
revolution, I am the more proud
to see the growth of the inter-
national Communist and work-
ers’ movement, I am the more
deeply grieved at the dissen-
sions that are dividing the fra-
ternal parties.

I wish that our party will do
its best to contribute effective-.
ly to the restoration of unity
among the fraterrral parties on
the basis of Marxism-Leninism
and proletarian internationalism,
in a manner consonant to the
requirements of heart and rea-
son. I am sure that the frater-
nal parties and countries will
unite again.

After my passing away, great
funerals should be avoided in
order not to waste the time and
money of the people.

Finally, to the whole people,
the whole party, the whole
army, to my nephews and
nieces, youths and chidren, I
leave behind my boundles af-
fection.

I also convey my fraternal
greetings to the comrades,
friends, youths and children in
the world.

About personal matters: In
all my life, I have, wholeheart-
edly and with all my forces,
served the fatherland, the revo-
lution and the people. Now if
I should depart from this world,
there is nothing that I am sorry
to have done. I regret only not
to be able to serve longer and
more.

My ultimate wish is that our
whole party and people, closely
united in the struggle, build a
peaceful, unified, independent,
democratic and prosperous Viet-
nam, and make a worthy con-
tribution to the world revolu-

tion.

Lawyers for all

By Alderman HARRY RANKIN

As a lawyer of 20 years’ expe-
rience whose practice has been

‘mainly criminal’ law, labor law,

civil liberties and divorce and
matrimonial cases, I’ve been in-
creasingly concerned about the
so-called liberalization of the
Criminal Code by the present
federal government. One of the
reforms made permits homosex-
ual relations between consenting
adults. Attempts are now being
made to deal with wiretapping.
These are middle and upper class
attempts to deal with abuses of
the law as they see them.

But from where I sit, these
changes and other similar pro-
posed changes make little differ-
ence to the average man on the
street. While I do not want to
deprecate the reforms that have
been introduced, I must stress
that they do not deal with the
basic problems of the law as
they affect the average citizen.

Based on my own experience
I would say that priority should
be given to measures that will
guarantee legal counsel to every
citizen in order that he may ex-
ercise his legal rights. How im-
portant this is can be illustrated
by a few examples.

When a person is charged
with impaired driving, a quite
common occurence in our soci-
ety, the likelihood is that unless
he is well to do he will be shoved
into a prison cell. What if he
has no lawyer to call or no
money to call one even if one
is available? The best Criminal
Code in the world will not help
him one little bit. That sinking
feeling that takes over when he
is taken into custody remains
until something happens to get
the wheels of justice rolling.
That something is usually a re-
tainer fee paid to a lawyer.

Some months ago I went out
to Crease Clinic, a large mental
institution not far from Vancou-
ver, where I spoke to 40 or 50
patients. I went there on the in-
vitation of social workers who
saw the problem of the civil
rights of patients as being close-
ly connected with their recovery.
They had real problems. Every
one of these people had been
taken out of society and placed
into an institution. Yet they had
the same problems, the same de-
sires and worries that you and
I would have in similar circum-
stances. But all of a sudden they
no longer had any civil rights,

USSR-GDR trade
up 879% since 1950

The German Democratic Re-
public’s economic plan far 1970-
71 calls for a six percent in-
crease in national income and
an 11 percent increase in invest-
ments.

New industries in the G.D.R.
on which the estimates are
based include oil and gas refin-
eries, steel, brown coal, a five-
fold expansion of the chemical
industry, seven-fold increase in
machine building, a substantial
rise in auto production, and a
highly mechanized agriculture.

A decisive factor has been the

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wives on the outside, WOM,
about their children, worry
about their cars, worrying abov
their homes, worrying #
their bank accounts. Yet
had no one to turn to t0 °
advantage of the laws We pre

ently have on our statute b0oP

_ What is the good, thet
producing more and more ~
lightened laws for people ie
mental institutions if in T6)
they have no opportunity % ~~
ercising these rights?”

Or take another examp Maly
of people on social welfare. : ce
of us hailed the new div)
laws as a great improveMe
They improved an intolerable ef
uation. I have dozens of WO”,
on social welfare coming '?
me. On each and every 00% ey
the magic word of “mon,
comes along. Some Of.
cases our firm takes 0M any
public service and without ns
charge because we consider;
a social obligation. In othet @
the social welfare authoh™
will provide enough mon is
cover the cost of disburse™ ay
by the firm. But what is Ty,
needed for wives on social 7 i,
fare who are deserted by the
husbands and who have # ve
miseries of social welfare if
under, is the opportunity 9° oq
plementing the laws. already a
the statute books for thelf fig:
tection. Unfortunately th@ ©
that implements the law '§ he
ney. This is true not only, Met
legal profession but in all © a
professions.

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These examples illustrat)
believe, that the right righ! ‘
counsel should be a social i
just like medicare or hosP: Mi Ae
surance and available ©
regardless of ability to PY” He

Until this becomes aval¥
to all, too many people 4” ye
on their own withdut beiNé
to exercise their rights OF rake
their conditions. They are navies
person in a position OP aojh
to use a sharp knife oF 4 qf
yourself kit to take out his pe
appendix. This is something ag
yond the powers of the 4” |
person.

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extensive trade with thé Ne P
Union and other Socialis R jp
tries. Trade with the V-"" abo
1968 was 879 percent

1950. ibe /

Between 1960 and 197 af
G.D.R. will have recel¥ 5%
the U.S.S.R. 54 million ;
gas and oil, 65 million
anthracite coal, 13 0
of iron ore, 23 million
steel, besides lumber 2
materials. tra

Of the G.D.R.’s foreiBt cig
75 percent is with the ae
countries.