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U.S. crimes that
history will judge

’ As one of the delegation of
the International Commission of
Inquiry into U.S. Crimes in In-
dochina, which on June 20 sub-
mitted a detailed report to the
Commission’s second session in
Oslo, V. Mayevzky writes that
“the world does not know by
far all the horrible cruelties” of
the U.S. military in Southeast
Asia. This is part of his story
about his recent visit to the
Democratic Republic of Viet-
nam:

The Pentagon strategists have
realized long ago that destruc-
tion of cities, the bombings of
roads and blasting of bridges in
Vietnam by no means signify
bringing “victory” nearer by
even one step, and they are con-
centrating all their attention on
destroying the people, the civil-

.. jan population. The Pentagon
“has made genocide a strategic

doctrine by which privates and
officers of the American army
are guided, as has been done by
the Song My cutthroat, Calley,
or the so far undiscovered pilot-

_ murderer of the Hong Tae in-

habitants. (On April 22 of this
year a U.S. warplane fired a

guided missile into the hamlet -

of Hong Tae in North Vietnam
—Ed.). The science and technol-
ogy purchased by the Pentagon
are perfecting the arms of mass
and individual destruction ap-
plied in Vietnam.

Two days we studied the en-
tire arsenal of American perfid-
ious arms collected by the
Vietnamese. Monstrous —high-

_ explosive bombs, instant and
delayed-action bombs, napalm, —

phosphorous, orange bombs,

pineapple bombs, plastic revolv-
ing bombs, butterfly bombs,
chemical bombs, bombs stuffed
with different sized steel arrows,
announced by American military
as the weapon of the future,
tree bombs, and all kinds of
mines—the American scientists
and engineers have invented all
kinds of things for the murder
of perfectly innocent people!

Here, for instance, is a booby
mine. It is a small flat rectangle
in a textile, khaki-colored cas-
ing, with an explosive and a
plastic plate inside. These
mines are planted on roads and
paths, they are practically un-
noticeable. If you step on it
with a heavy army boot of the
type worn by Americans, an ex-
plosion will take place but it
will do no harm. But if you step
on it barefoot or with thin san-
dals, your foot will be shattered.
This mine is intended for no one
but a peacefui inhabitant, a
farmer. And many people have
suffered from it.

The bombs and mines drop-
ped by American pilots several
years ago still bring death and
injuries to the Vietnamese in
rice-fields, thickets, and road-
sides. We spoke to a number of
witnesses—victims of the Amer-
ican annihilation war—and we
had the chance of seeing for
ourselves how treacherous the
American “gifts of civilization”
to Vietnam have proven to be...

The trial of history is an in-
evitable trial, and the American
murderers and butchers in In-

dochina will sooner or later |

have to answer for their evil
deeds.

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People’s victory —
Thatcher's Waterloo

The people of Saskatchewan are to be

heartily congratulated for ousting the.
reactionary Thatcher Liberal govern--

ment. In the overwhelming victory they
accorded the New Democratic Party,
the Saskatchewan people totally repu-
diated Thatcher’s strategy of setting
farmers against workers.

Before he was collapsed like a prick-
ed balloon, the former Liberal premier
had deliberately tried to misrepresent
the main issue in the election. Up and
down the prairie province he had blus-
tered that for Saskatchewan’s citizens
the “life or death” question was free
enterprise versus socialism.

Seeing through his bluff, the majority
of the electors kept their eyes on the
ball. The main election issue they saw
clearly was the necessity of defeating
Thatcher as the political representative
of big business which was selling out
their province to American monopoly
interests.

Given this situation, it was obvious
the NDP was to be the main recipient
of the Saskatchewan people’s desire for
change. The NDP was compelled to
recognize that desire in part in its elec-
toral program.

The result of the Saskatchewan elec-
tion indicates there is a deep ground-
swell of opposition to the policies of the
old-line parties. The Communist Party
of Saskatchewan was correct in calling

for the election of an NDP govern-

ment, and in giving critical support to
that party. oe
Now that an NDP government is in
power the labor and farm movements,
indeed all the democratic forces of
Saskatchewan, need to unite their ef-
forts to make sure the NDP carries
through its election pledges, and to de-
fend the people’s vital interests against
monopoly’s attacks. :
There is no doubt the Communist
Party in Saskatchewan will do every-
thing in its power to unite these forces
in order to prevent reaction, as well as
the right wing inside the NDP itself,
from paralyzing the people’s will.

The word is action,
Mr. Trudeau, not election

Rumors are circulating of a possible
federal election next fall. Certain Pro-
gressive Conservatives, whistling by
the graveyard of their former power as
monopoly’s other government at Ot-
tawa, generate many of these specula-

tions. The Trudeau government re- .

sponds with cat-and-mouse tactics —
dropping hints here, denials there.
With regal condescension the Prime
Minister of Canada congratulates his
own cabinet om the recent budget. The
rumors of a fall election flutter about.
In a rush of police cycles and squad
cars, retinues of cabinet ministers and
Liberal party hacks surrounding him,
Mr. Trudeau makes an “unexpected”
appearance in Toronto’s Kensington
Market, ablaze in a summer morning’s
sun. As he pumps hands, signs auto-
graphs, panics old market ladies with

threats of prime ministerial embraces,

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snap fall election? “a
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Last week’s NDP Conferel igi
Ontario and Canadian Indepe™ ji}
was addressed by, among other,
Abraham Rotstein who is a mer
the Committee for an Inde
Canada and a University of “|
political science professor. The Fig
Toronto reports Mr. Rotstel “
audience that Canadians fail Ou
the “gigantic proportions” of *
threat.

This paper has long understt if
threat, and continually fights? nd
interests of our country’s indePe
and of peace. What we have sone
culty in trying to grasp ar€
gantie proportions” of Mr. Re
ignorance. nd

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to have estimated “that within “its
U.S. corporations inside and ole
the United States will conte
thirds of the world’s wealth. _ spi”
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years they will control 75%. ,

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some facts about U.S. contre ig
Canadian economy. Of world © ro
however, it appears he is padly
formed. d of

Has Mr. Rotstein never hea! o
role of socialism in the Wr 1,
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conveying the impression that
not know that between 1951 of
industrial output in countries |, f
world capitalist system Y0S€ got)
average by 5.6% annually, DUY co t
entire world it rose 7%, £ :
average annual increase in the ©
countries reached 10.5%. ‘ft

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stood? Did he mean to say Da
20 years world socialist econ a
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that of the U.S. itself, by, 54%

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