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Jewels of inconsistency

OEVER it was that said, in the dim past, “Consis-

tency, thou art a jewel,’ may not have had much
knowledge of the dialectica] process of history and its
effect on individual members of society, but he must
have taken careful stock of the actions of the people
around him.

This may be proven without much argument by a4
comparison of the stand, at different times, of some of
the outstanding figures in history of our own times by
taking their own words for it. +3

“Blood, sweat and tears” Churchill; made a speech in
the British House of Commons last week, endorsing
the foreign policy of the allegedly “Socialist” government
of Attlee, Bevin, Morrison, et.al, that policy which had
been accepted on the previous day by the other Tory par-
ty leader, Eden, as quite acceptable:to his: party.

The whole foreign policy of Bevin. has won the plau-
dits of the Tories but Churchill’s oratorical spate was
a specific endorsement of the Labor government’s pro-
posal for the unification of Western’ Europe as a barrier
against the spread of Communism.

.. The. press reports of his speech credit him with the
following words which come after a reference to the atom
bomb, “I cannot think that any serious discussion which
it may be necessary to have with the Soviet government
would be more likely to reach a favorable conclusion
if we wait until they ‘have got it” (the atom bomb),

From these words it is easy. to see that Churchill
does not place much faith or confidence in the Soviet
leaders nor does he show any great desire to reach a
friendly accord with them in spite of his blather about
“my comrade-in-arms’ Marshal Stalin.” The speech is
just a war-mongering blast worthy of taking its place
alongside of the frothy vaporings of the most imperial-
istic lout in the Rankin-Thomas anti-communist un-
American Committee,

It is a reversal of the attitude to the Soviet leaders’

he expressed in another speech in the same House of

Commons on another occasion. On his return from the

Crimean conference at Yalta, he made a report to par-
liament -At that time he said: ;

“The impression I brought back from the Crimea,
and from all my other contacts, is that Marshal Stalin.
and the other Soviet leaders, wish to live in honorable
friendship and equality with the Western Democracies.
I feel also that their word is their bopd. I know of

no government which stands on its obligations more sol-
idly than the Russian Soviet government.” (Vancouver
Province, February 27, 1945),

These two statements, made at the short interval
of less than three years would lead us to believe that
the poet at the beginning of this column had a Church-
ill in mind, and that the words were spoken in irony.
If Churchill meant what he said on both occasions,
he is a poor stick for a crippled nation to lean on, a
witless oaf not to be trusted to juggle with the des-
tinies of even the littlest and most modest of nations.

If he did not mean what the said in either of these
speeches, no matter which of them expresses his real
attitude to the Soviet leaders, then he is a scoundrelly
hypocrite. And if he thinks he can win the support
of the workers of Britain or any other part of the Em-
pire by such double-tongued deceit, he is, as we say in
the woods, a part-of a horse and we don’t mean a horse’s
neck.

That changes have taken place in the handling of the
peace terms and the methods of dealing with fascism,
since the Yalta agreement. was made, may be seen from
another passage in that speech of February, 1945, “But
for the prodigious efforts and sacrifices of Russia,” he
said, “the Poles as a nation and as a race, were doomed
by Hitler to be destroyed or reduced to a servile state..
This new Polish frontier will not sow the seeds of future
wars.” oa

But the change is a one-sided change. The Soviet
Union is quite satisfied with the decision of the Churchill-
Roosevelt-Stalin conference at Yalta, It is Bevin and
Marshall who demand the reopening of the Polish fron-
tier question. This, in spite of that decision, made while
the war was still being fought and “the Western De-
mocracies” as they now call themselves, knew how great.
were the possibilities of defeat if they lost the help of
the Soviet Union’s Red Army. :

Besides confuting the contentions of Bevin and Mar-
shall about the Polish frontier question, Churchill’s state-
ment is an answer to the syndicated lying slanders of
Mikolajezyk now being printed widely in North Ameri-
can papers, including the Vancouver Sun, about the part
played by the Soviet Union in liberating Poland, not only

from Nazi rule but from long-standing Prussian dom- .

ination.
Regarding the applause of the Tory leaders for the
anti-communist policy of Bevin and the Labor govern-

_ ment, I would like to draw the attention of their friends

whom we have in our midst, to a statement made many
years ago by August Bebel, one of the best leaders of

A welcome resignation

by OL’ BILL

the German socialists: “When I hear that a reactionary
press, controlled by the big bosses, givés praise to our
labor leaders, I at-once ask myself the question, ‘What
crime have I committed against my fellow-workeérs that

the enemy should praise me?”

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NOTHER in the pack of anti-Communist beagles whose:

baying disturbed the quiet of our orderly Jives. last
week, was our well-known grandson of the “Little Rebe}”’.
who has acquired fame by staying in office. longer than
any other British statesman (pardon, politician), the Rt.
Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie King, one-time adviser
on labor problems to the Rockefeller interests in the U.S.
(during the years when Canada was.in the throes. of the
First World War), and later prime minister of our un-

_ fortunate country.

Addressing a banquet’ of 800 Liberal guzzlers, he pro-
pesed the formation of an international army ‘to: “hold in
check” the dangers of Communism, He told his audience,
many of them members of the CMA just what they want-
ed to hear. ? ;

“Communism is no Jess a tyranny than Naziism,” he
told them. He is another who has revised his estimate of
the Nazis and their political program. ‘The change. in
his case is not a progressive one either, but reactionary.

A little over ten years ago he visited Hitler. When he
came back he was quite enthusiastic about the way Hitler
was solving Germany’s.problems. He was sold on Hitler.
He did not seem to think Naziism was a tyranny. ~ .

_.Later, when his government broke off relations with
the: Soviet Union, he personally delivered the message to
the Soviet trade commissioner in Montreal. During the
conversation he tried to collect some credit for the his-
torical fact that his “grandfather had been a rebel.”

King’s best contribution to the Canadian people will
be his resignation. ee

Morgan outlines policy at
Lenin Memorial meeting

An audience of more than a thousand people crowded

iy aie

LOT eR OE

the Hastings-Odeon Theater here last Sunday to attend a
a Lenin Memorial meeting, one of many held across the
Dominion. After an appropriate musical program highlighted

with people’s songs by Pete See-
ger, national director of People’s
Songs Ine. selections by the
Ukrainian Mandolin Orchestra,
the beautiful “Hymn to a Fallen
Comrade,” sung by John Goss and
Margaret Davies, the enthusiastic
audience heard Nigel Morgan, LPP
provincial leader, call upon the
people of B.C. to rally around a
program of united action to de-
feat both. the King government
and the Johnson-Anscomb provin-
cial coalition government,

Despite all the problems before
us, Morgan said, “these are not
days of sorrow. We have a great
heritage left to us by such people
as Karl Leibknecht and Rosa Lux-
embourg who lived more than a
hundred years ago, by Marx, En-
gels and Lenin. We have little
time left to apply the readings and
teachings of Lenin, and the men
of Wall Street would like nothing
better than to erase from the
minds of working people the
name of Lenin and the memory
of what he has done.”

Morgan declared that the most
important issue facing Canadians
was the defeat of the King govern-
ment and its provincial counter-
parts. .

“It is quite obvious that those
sections of the Liberal Party who
stood for reform are making for
cover,” Morgan declared, “and
there is no real opposition to the

program of reaction. As a result,
neither of the old-line parties are
acceptable to the majority of the
people. Because the CCF party
vepresents the largest single group
of people opposed to the reaction-
ary policies of the King govern-
ment, opposed to the Marshall
plan despite what their leaders
say in support of it, we are call-
ing for the election of a CCF
government nationally and elec-
tion of a CCF-Labor government
in British Columbia,”

Similar meetings were held in
Nanaimo and Victoria.

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Prizewinners
Editor, Pacific Tribune: :
We wish to inform all those
who bought tickets at the Yugo-
slav Bazaar in December that the
winners were: ist prize, mantel
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those who helped to make this
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M. DRAGICH.
Vancouver, B.C.

Farm protest

Editor, Pacific Tribune:

Poultry farmers throughout the
Fraser Valley are going broke by
the thousands through the pres-
ent policy of the federal govern-
ment in removing farm subsidies.
The once-flourishing $15,000,000 in-
dustry is facing complete ruin be-
cause of constantly increased feed
grain costs.

Eath day many truckloads of
healthy, highly productive birds
are leaving farms for slaughter.
Some day packinghouses, which
are at present buying this poultry
up at very low prices, will be
able to sell this stored and pro-
cessed meat at a tremendous pro-
fit. ‘

Farmers who cannot sell out are
producing with a neglible margin,
as a thousand top producing birds
will only return about $20 a week,
and those who are getting out
are seeking work in industry,
where jobs are already becoming

scarce. Hatcheries that formerly

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had high sales at this time of
year report very little business,
and many are not operating at
all.

Outside of sending a few sound
resolutions, nothing constructive
has yet been done by the farm-
ers’ organizations, and farmers are
beginning to demand more drastic
action, such as mass protest meet-
ings, delegations to Ottawa and lob-
bies to Victoria. They are begin-
ning to see the need of progressive,
militant organization if they are
going to maintain the farmers’
right to live and obtain a decent:
return for his labor.

AN LPP FARMER.
Cloverdale, B.C,

Open [etter |
Editor, Pacific Tribune:

I would like to address the fol-
lowing open letter to Prime Min.
ister Mackenzie King:

Sir: As a citizen of Vancouver
I have witnessed the loading of
of a munition ship destined to
Chiang Kai-shek’s discredited re
gime.

'I wonder if Canadians know the
real meaning of this? Did’ your
government not do the same’ thing
in the late thirties when you
allowed the shipment’ of scrap iron
to: Japan which later helped kill

four Canadian boys, :

Can you tell me then, why your
government allows the sale of
arms to a government that will
use them to make war on its. own
people when you might better use
your government’s good offices for
a just democratic and peaceful
settlement which would earn our
country the gratitude of the. Chi-
nese people. *

Deeds such as this will earn the
undying hatred of the people of
the. world.

How can we proudly: hold up
our heads as Canadians by plac-
ing guns in the hands of fascists?

Don’t forget, sir, there are
crosses throughout the world
where Canadian boys lie buried.
They died to destroy fascism. Shall
we. continue shipping arms to
China?

J. R. BH. TANCHE:
Vancouver, B.C.

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