‘een - b vittiu Vicky in the New Statesman, London “Well, what’s wrong with it?” ‘Routine maneuvers ? TY MIED so far in their at- tempts to foist a NATO “peace-keeping” (?) force upon Cyprus, and doing their level best to short-circuit any effective Unit- ed Nations mediation, despite the express wishes of the Cypriot gov- ernment and people fer such UN aid, British and U.S. imperialism with their Greece and Turkish NATO allies are stepping-up their war provocations against Cyprus, under the pretext of “maneuvers.” While Britain is continuing tc build up her armed forces in Cyp- rus, now estimated at close to 10,000 men in full battle equip- ment, the U.S. Sixth Fleet has been moved to the Eastern Medi- terranean for “maneuvers”. Greece also has her naval units now in Cypriot waters, allegedly for “maneuvers” also, while Turkish warships are concentrating in the same waters and under the same Editorial comment ITH much of our “sovereign independence” and all that goes with it traded cff to U.S. monopoly for a fast. buck, and cur “unbreakable ties’ with the “Motherland’ ’badly corroded by the same commercial lust, the issue of the Queen's visit to Can- ada, entirely aside from the opinions of Messeures Chaput, Beaulieu, et al, raises ancther valid objection. Why should the common ordin- ary taxpayer be burdened with the unnecessary expenditure ofa royal visit to this “Common- wealth” domain, which the Queen’s most “pay-trotic”’ politi- cians and moncpolists are steadily bartering away for a fistful of Yankee dollars? Why indeed, if not tc provide an expensive royal shot-in-the-arm to dwindling min- ority Liberal government “pres- tige”, a dubious service the Queen, and Canada can well do without. Pacific Tribune Editor — TOM McEWEN Associate Editor — MAURICE RUSH Published weekly at Room 6 — 426 Main Street Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone MUtual 5-5288 Subscription Rates: Canadian gnd Commonwealth coun-: tries (except Australia): $4.00 one year. Australia, United States and all other countries: $5.00 ane year. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa and for payment of postage in cash. pretext. Taken together as a single NATO “whole,” these “‘routine maneuvers’’ spell cut a grave threat to world peace in their com- bined threat tc/and upon Cyprus. Meanwhile Cypriot President Makarios and his government, co- incident with their appeal to the UN tc “assure guarantees of the Island’s independence and terri- torial integrity” is strengthening its own defense forces to meet the growing threat of armed invasion and intervention by ‘‘cutside”’ forces—already manifest in these multiple ‘“‘maneuvers.” What is urgently needed at the moment to avert a bloody NATO intervention in Cyprus is ncta “headless” constitution, but the independence of Cyprus held in- violate to werk out its own des- tiny, peacefully, with the solid backing and support of the United Nations That requires first and foremost the removal of British military bases from Cyprus, and the provocative ‘“‘routine maneu- vers” of NATO powers staged scmewhere else than in Cyprus waters. HEN H. W. “Bert” Her- ridge (NDP-MP Koctenay- West) “leaked” the Jack Davis (Lib. MP Coast-Capilano) letter into the House of Commons rec- ord, something cf a political dither blew up. It appears the Davis letter to senior electrical engineer Richard Deane of Consolidated Mining and Smelting (whe passed it on to Mr. Herridge), cited some horse-trad- ing figures relative to the Cclum- bia River sellout; figures which “jacked-up” the asking price from the U.S. power moguls, in order to later scale these figures down and make the buyer feel he had scored a real bargain. (Most Canadians feel that if the Columbia River Treaty deal gets past the External Affairs Cemmis- sion for ratification by Parliament, that they have been robbed of a vast natural rescurce, regardless of any and all figures cited in terms of dollars and cents). But the Herridge “leak”’ did produce one positive result, a be- lated confirmation of what most Canadians sensed but just couldn’t put their finger on it. Disturbed by the “‘leak’’, Socred Resources Minister Williston, B.C.’s top brcker in the Columbia River sellout, indignantly denies that the U.S. “was duped into pay- ing tco much for Columbia power ... that no high figures have ever been used in negotiations or at any other time...” Then comes the rare Williston “moment cf truth.” ‘They (the Americans) knew more about the situation than we did—they have been working on the Columbia for 20-years. You can’t leak figures to engineers of the stature of the U.S. team.” When the Columbia River “White Paper’ comes before the External Affairs Committee prep- atory tc coming before Parliament, Plug the big ‘leak’ _ render of Canada’s rescure that body should be swam with opposing opinion against! infamous steal. That way biggest .‘leak” in the abject U.S. monopoly can be decisl¥ plugged. And if “20-years of Woe (ably assisted by Liberals aul Socreds) goes down the drain, & pecple of B.C. and of Canada © be the gainers. “Leaks” are contagious. u Herridge “leak” brought on # Willistcn “leak” —and (unint@? toy tionally) the people got one M% ce] good argument to pass on to of MP’s as to why Parliament shoul Wo reject the Columbia River Treat : sellout. That way, in Willisto? ne own words, Canada can rise #0)) and probably exceed “the statu | “ of the U.S. team,” without jue i. ling with horse-trading figures) the projected development % 7 j,) mighty life-giving river. tha fic. Ser : Wo) Ee ne | NTERVIEWED by the Cal wo dian Press, national Soc!™ | Wo leader Robert Thompson declat@ | of himself in favor of “compulso! | ma military training, and would n® | be opposed to the adoption 9 i ‘ billin Parliament which woul ui require men between the ages if a 18 and 21 to undergoa yeal® military training. a “The policy of our group in i tis House of Commons has not Y®" 4, been laid down,” said Thompso but added “‘he personally woul We not be opposed to its adoption. rj With the proposed compulsoly | Ti military training bill coming fro™ | Mx a Liberal MP in a French-Can@ | Sto dian constituency, Thomps? opines it “will help promote bet relations” between French a English-speaking Canada?” Tom — McEwen Davia Orlikov, M.P, (NDP Winnipeg- North) has announced he will introduce a bill aimed at putting teeth in the Post Office Act, thereby empowering the Postmaster-General to clamp down -on the tons of nazi, racist, and anti- Semitic literature now going through the Canadian mails. Perhaps such a bill will help, but a widespread opinion obtains that were the government’s postal and justice authorities so minded, they could shut out this growing volume of nazi filth from the mails without any additional statutory amendments. Meantime, one U.S. fascist outfit calling - itself the ‘‘National White Americans Party’’ boasts it will dis- tribute over one million anti-Jewish leaflets in Canada during 1964. A good deal of this racist filth has already crossed our ‘‘undefended’’ border. Just last week we got two publi- cations, one entitled‘‘Common Sense”’, the other ‘*The Coming Red Dictator- ship’, Both are produced in New Jer- sey, U.S.A., and both are loaded with anti-Jewish sewage and race hatred. The one portrays ‘‘ Jewish Communists and Zionists’’ as an ‘‘invisible gov- ernment’’, plotting the destruction of ‘*Gentile humanity’’, while the other sees the U.S, state department taking its orders from this ‘‘invisible gov- . ernment’’, Fantastic, but deadly fatal, if ig- nored! 2 Closer to home the poisonous symp- toms of this creeping American fas - cism with its racist and anti-Semetic disease carriers is becoming much in evidence. In its February (1964) edition ‘‘The Groundsheet”’, official organ of the Westminster Regiment Association (New Westminster) has also ran into some of this nazi muck. : Under the caption ‘‘Adolph Must Be Smiling’, the WRA editor says—‘‘If it were not for the sinister and deadly seriousness of the message, it could almost be dismissed as comic opera stuff, but History has alerted us, and we can ill afford to ignore the prattl- ings of seemingly deranged minds,’’ The WRA editor continues— ‘‘They are, according to the literature, ex- ceedingly well organized and are ex- panding, universally, on a wide scale, They embody the use of the old fam- iliar nazi swastika and lurking eagle as official insignia for the group, and sprinkle their correspondence, liberal- ly, with Heils, Sigs, and much refer- ence to the infamous former leaders who were dispatched at Nuremberg so many years ago. “The insignia of the WUNS (World Union of National Socialists—another nazi outfit with headquarters in Brit- ain,) shall be the swastika with a small globe in the centre, in the color of the Jewish and United Nations blvé flags, signifying the White Race crus! | = ie r ] hi e ing and eliminating these foul and alié”| bodies’’, Literature from this out is also coming into Canada in volum® The editor of ‘The Groundsheét_ concludes with a timely warning to nis regimental buddies; ‘‘It seems alm0> beyond comprehension that this type of group could get established any” |7 where... but . . . Remember, if WY ignore this type of rot, our complac” | ency could mean our disaster.”’ vl “Tf ye break faith with us who die, | wrote Colonel John McCrae of the dead } of World War I, ‘*we shall not sleePs | - though poppies grow in Flandef? |) sa, Fields’, A generation later his deatl” || 4, less poem could have embodied thé \(ji, mute appeal of six million torture 7 Jewish people destroyed in the death camps and ovens of the Hitlerite er an era that still lives in the ne07 nazi government of West Germanys | nurtured by U.S. and British imperial” sim, and spreading its deadly racist and anti- Semitic poison around thé world—and through the Canadian mail® and into many Canadian homes 4? communities, | &, Yes, a new bill to help strength? | the Post Office Act would-help, DU! what would help much more would Pf |}, for every Canadian to heed, and act | C upon the warning sounded py: THE Th Groundsheet’’ editor—‘*Our compla& | dit ency could mean our disaster’’, Wh# |i needs to be done is obvious—to stall on racist and anti-Semitic nazi pois? as one would stamp on a poisonoU® ip insect. 3 a yb pay! i Pict ane 6 ne _, March 6, 1964—PACIFIC, TRIBUNE—Pa