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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.

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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,)
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| 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! |

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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!

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ne _, March 6, 1964—PACIFIC, TRIBUNE—Pa