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Lust said he had personally
known Nazi organizers in his
home town of Nuremberg in the
early 30's. On his recent visit to
Bavaria he said he was shocked
to find that the very same peo-
ple are now organizing Von
Thadden’s neo-nazi party.

The resurgence of neo-nazism
in Germany is not surprising,
said Lust. It began as far back
as April 18, 1945, when Hitler
was already surrounded in his
Berlin bunker. On that date a
group of nazi leaders met and,
realizing that the war had been

lost, drew up a document known ~

as the Third Reich’s “last will.”

The essence of that document
was that in order to come to
power once more the nazi lead-
ers must split the western from
the eastern allies and keep their
key men at the municipal level
of administration.

“It is frightening to see how
successful this strategy has
been,” said Lust. :

Ald. Zuken sharply criticized
Canadian news media, especial-
ly the CBC, for providing a plat-
form for neo-nazis and other ra-
cists, such as Von Thadden and
the Toronto publicist Ron Gos-
tick. This distorts their image,
he said, and makes them appear
like “innocent misunderstood
doves” in the eyes of the pub-
lic.

He charged that the recent
wave of swastika-smearing on
Jewish synagogues, cemeteries
and businesses in Winnipeg was
the work of organized racists
and terrorists. He added that the
Winnipeg police commission will
soon receive a request for re-
newed action to clean up this.
plague.

A reward for information
leading to the arrest and con-
viction of those responsible for
the desecration of synagogues
would be provided, he said.

In calling for a “fight back”
against the rising forces of neo-
nazism, Ald. Zuken said he
found it surprising that no
stronger voice of protest had
been heard from the Ukrainian,
Polish and Russian — ethnic
groups. Like the Jews, these
nationalities were regarded as
“inferior races” by Hitler and
suffered just as much as or even
more from his regime’s mass
murders, he added.

He said he would like to see
an educational campaign “to
strike down complacency and
silence in our own circles.”

PRAVDA CHARGES:

ao inciting racism

to hide his failures

By BERT WHYTE
Tribune Staff Correspondent

MOSCOW

jhe time has long passed
when the policy of Mao
Tse-tung’s group could be
seen ag an expression of ideolo-
gical differences, says a long
article in the Feb. 6 issue of
Pravda, organ of the Commu-
nist Party of the Soviet Union.
Having led China into an im-
passe and seeing no way out,
says the article, Mao and his
group rush from one ven-
ture to another. Anti-Sovietism
is precisely one of such ven-
tures. The aim is to aggravate
Soviet-Chinese relations “to the
limit, and in the final count, to
bring them to a complete break.”
Says Pravda: “Why does the
Mao group need this aggrava-
tion and what goals is it pursu-
ing? The answer should be
sought in the entire nationalis-
tic, great-power policy of the
present Chinese leadership ...
Mao desires to divert the atten-
tion of the Chinese people from
the privations and difficulties
they are experiencing, from the
numerous mistakes and failures
in the domestic and foreign pol-
icy of China . . . Soon Chinese
propaganda began to ring of
pure nationalism and even ra-
cism.

About 75 Torontonians turned out to show solidarity with the struggle for freedom of the nesble

“By advancing _ territorial
claims against the Soviet Union,
the Chinese Communist Party’s
leadership set before itself the
goal for further inciting chauvi-
nistic moods in the Chinese peo-
ple.”

The editorial article says that
Mao’s group need to slander the
Soviet Union in the interest of
the power struggle now taking
place in China.

“Mao could not have remain-
ed in power without such slan-
der ... The bigger the econo-
mic successes of the Soviet
Union, the better the life of
Soviet people, the greater is the
fear of Mao and his group for
the destinies of their special
line, the bigger the opposition
to his line in China itself.”

The editorial notes that “Mao
Tse-tung’s personality cult has
reached the absurd, has become
real idolatry .. . The-routing of
party organizations, the hound-
ing and annihilation of party
cadres is in full swing and is
being carried out by detach-
ments of Mao’s storm troopers
with the support of the army
and security service.”

Noting the great scope of
dissatisfaction among workers,
peasants, intellectuals and even
among the army and youth,
Pravda says the events of the
so-called cultural revolution
“have actually developed into a

flerce struggle to retain power
by Mao and his followers. Their
policy shows that for the sake
of power they are ready to sac-
rifice everything — the interests
of socialism, the interests of
their people and the interests of
the revolution.”

As to what Mao and his group
will do next, Pravda _ says:
“Everything shows it is -pre-
paring the People’s Republic of
China for further adventuristic
actions in the field of both do-
mestic and foreign policy, not
excluding also new  provoca-
tions against the Soviet Union.”

Pravda concludes on an up-
beat note: “There is no doubt ~
that the Mao group will not be
able to deceive endlessly the
Chinese people and Chinese
Communists. The Peoples Re-
public of China has objectively
a prospect of. improving rela-
tions with the CPSU and the
Soviet Union, with all socialist
countries and Communist par-
ties, a prospect of joint struggle
against imperialism, a prospect
of- economic development and
raising on this basis the peo-
ple’s living standards, a pros-
pect of asserting Marxist-Lenin-
ist norms in the life of the Com-
munist Party of China. This
Marxist Leninist prospect meets
the cardinal needs of the Chi-
nese people, Peoples China and
the Chinese Communist Party.”

of Spain last Saturday. At a picket in front of the Spanish Consulate a leaflet, handed out by the Spanish
Canadian Democratic Society, sponsors of the demonstration, pointed out the growing militancy of the
Spanish people against the fascist dictatorship of General Franco. It said: “The world will come to
know of this situation and of our demands for democratic, freely elected government, and an end to
Franco's dictatorship. The Spanish people have a right to be free, to live a life with dignity and

integrity.”

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