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Peace—not ‘accor o sale—‘I’m busy
‘HE New Year of 1965 faces Canadians with the need
to do some searching below the surface; to probe
deeper for the truth, which, now freely admitted doesn't
always emanate trom offiiial Ottawa.

In a general way we know the “role” our country is
playing in troubled Cyprus, so far a modestly “neutral”
one of “peace-keeping’’ between Turkish and Greek
Cypriots, and at some considerable cost to the Canadian

taxpayer.

In this “role” however, fhe key issue of the indepen-
dence and peace of Cyprus is lost sight of; that of the re-

moval of all foreign armed forces and war bases from -

Cyprus. Were Canada speaking up for that objective, that

would be truly ‘“‘peace-keeping,”’ and the cost in dollars —

well merited.

The picture of Canada’s “role” in South Vietnam and
the Congo is less clear, and hence much more suspect, It
is known, of course, that Canada is “‘in full accord’ ’ with
Washington's war in South Vietnam, now spilling over
into North Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, with the periodical
provocative foray upon the territorial sovreignty of

People’s China.

And in the Congo, where only the death of a few
Whites would appear to “shock” a so-called “civilized”
world, while Negro and Colored peoples can be lied about
and massacred by the tens of thousands, without a gov-
ernmental whimper being heard from Ottawa.

Again we hear that crawling word “accord” with,
Belgian paratroopers and Yankee planes, swooping down
upon the Congo to “‘save” a motely assortment of “hos-
tages,” few of whom were in the Congo for the good of the
Congolese people. Lurid tales of “Cannibalism’,, the “rap-
ing of Nuns’ the “killing” of priests, serve as lying pre-
text to cover up this 20th century Torquemada “exercise”

against the Congolese.

Doubtless a government which owes its being to the
pressures and dollars of Washington, finds it easier to
voice its ‘accord’ with naked aggression than to protest.
the atrocities such aggression spawns in its drive towards

-resurgent colonialism.

The year 1965 must see Canada move over from ser-
vile “accord” with U.S. war adventures to a position of
active protest and opposition. That way lies peace—and
respect—the true path to Canada’s destiny.

Tom

McEWEN

s the year 1964 passes into

the eternal limbo of time,
this Yuletide season presents
Mankind with a full bag of ‘‘mix-
ed blessings’’,

Hopes for ‘*Peace On Earth’’
there are, since more and more
people are steadily grasping the
fact that ‘‘peaceful coexistence’’
among nations, like an extra
dollar in the pay envelope, won’t
“come on a platter’’ by simply
‘twishing’’ for it, but must be
fought for.

One has only to look at the
cruel war barbarites in Vietnam,
the Congo, Cyprus, and at the
nuclear-mad NATO war instigat-
ors, who touch off these atroci-
ties, to realize just how much
peace must be fought for tomake
it a universal ideal.

When these NATO morons talk
about ‘‘deterrents for peace’’
what they really mean is violent

actions of war, True, they can
mouth phrases about ‘*peace on
earth’? with the rest of human-
ity, but the blood on their hands
is scarcely symbolic of‘ peace’’,

Their latest ‘‘peace’’ plan,
aside from giving their nuclear
war plans new ‘‘names’’ in an
attempt to hoodwink the people,
now projects a new ‘‘nuclear
peace wall’’ in the heart of Eur-
ope; a ‘‘wall’’ of nuclear lanc
mines constructed along the en-
tire frontier between East anc
West Germany, A monstrous pro-
vocation, but in the language of
imperialist banditry, a ‘*peace’’
wall,

So the fight for ‘*Peace. On
Earth’’ must go on in 1965, more
united, more determined, greater
than ever before, It can be won,
It can also be lost, by too much
reliance on the double-talk of

ayors and civic heads-

of-state from several Vancou-

M2 Island centres, Vancouver and the Lower Main-

land, planning to interview

Grand Potenate of Socredia,

Premier W. A. C. Bennett on the B.C. Hydro bus fare
hoist okayed by the Public Utilities Commission, were
curtly told, “I’m busy.”’ Even a police messenger from
Victoria’s chief magistrate failed to impress “His Royal

Highness.”

“Took, Messieurs le Mayors, I’m busy getting ready
a Speech from the Throne. I’m busy concocting a contin-
gent liabilities budget. I’m busy working day and night.

D... mit, can’t you see
about Hydro fares. If the
walk; sbut:.!

I'm busy. I don’t want to talk
Hoi Polloi don’t like it, they can

“Ah yes, I’m not too busy to talk with you — or at
you, about selling you the buses, ahem .. . yes, without
the power. You'll run the buses, we'll sell you the power.

How’s that?
‘No! Well, I’m busy.”

!

those \. - foment nuclear war
behind the guise of ‘*peace’’,

This Yuletide season, interms
of profits will also doubtless
score anew high, ‘*Drink up and
be merry’’ . .. the bills won’t
come due until ‘‘next year,’’
‘*Buy now—pay later’’ keepsSan-
ta on the hop, The ‘spirit of
Christmas is streamlined to fit
in with the ‘‘changing’’ times,
and the ‘‘no down payment’?
serves as a ready aid to the ob-
literation of what little meaning
is left to the beautiful story of
the Nativity,

The nuclear war-toy manufac-
turers, taking their cue from the
Pentagon and the big H-bomb
monopolists, find much more
profit in Junior’s marked-down-
to $16.98 plastic nuclear gatling
gun than in a pair of measly
roller skates or a servicable
baseball outfit, ‘‘A Merry Xmas”’
e« « « bang, bang, you’re dead,

* *. *

Yes, the Yuletide season this
year does present much ‘food
for thought’’, Just last week the
versatile columnist of the ‘‘UE
News’’, Bob Ward, presented an-
other problem, something in the

nature of a protest,

Scanning the Unemployment In-
surance publication entitled a
‘Dictionary of Occupational
Titles’’, Bob discovered thatSan-
ta Claus is listed as ‘‘unskilled’’,
Santa’s job is listed as ‘‘ Playing
with and amusing children at
Yuletide and distributing gifts,’’

Undoubtedly speaking from ex-
perience, and which we heartily
confirm, also from experience,
Bob makes it emphatically clear
that the ersatz Santa Clauses,
hired by the big chain and other

- stores to fill this ‘‘unskilled’’

Worth
Quoting

The recent military intervention
mounted by the U.S. and Belgium,

with collaboration of the United King-
dom, constitutes unwarranted inter-
vention in African affairs, a flagrant
violation of the United Nations Char-
ter, a threat to the peace and security
of the African continent and a calcu-
lated attempt to undermine African
unity and frustrate the efforts of the
Organization of African Unity to re-
solve the Congo crisis peacefully . . .

We do not want to see another act
of self-assumed international police-
manship. We do not want to see the
United States interfering in the in-
ternal affairs of another country . - .

—JOSEPH MORUMBI, Foreign
Minister of Kenya, speaking
in the UN.

New planning methods in the %
Soviet Union will not provide a pana-
cea for all ills. Certainly, they will
lead to new problems not yet clearly
foreseen. But | think they will prove
a step forward towards a stronger and
more socialist society at this stage of
economic, social and political develop-
ment.

—VICTOR PERLO,
note” U.S. economist.

The Canadian government has
rather timidly expressed reservations
on the Multi Lateral Nuclear Force. It
is a matter of self-preservation for
Canadians to put starch into Ottawa,
by demanding that the Pearson Gov-
ernment speak out with vigor against
the MLF, and the implications of @
nuclear-armed West Germany.

—GEORGE HARRIS, US News,
December 14, 1964.

*«

Planning is not putting down jus!
as you want; planning is not merely
giving priority to all things which you ~
wish to do. Planning is something
wider and deeper...

I wish to lay stress on that. The —
Planning Commission is of no use af
all if it has a static outlook. That way,
we sit, we sleep, we rest. One must
have a dynamic outlook of change,
change of every kind — political, of
course, economic and social.

—JAWAHARLAL NEHRU, late Indian
leader, Jan. 1956, at
National Development Council.

role (at sub-standard wages),
requires the utmost in skill to
survive a 9 or 10-hour day ‘‘Ho-
Ho-Ho’’ ordeal with junior en
masse,

Bob’s column conjures up 2
horrible picture; the possibility
in this age of automation and
‘¢nuclear deterrents” of a‘‘skill-
ed’? automated Santa Claus, That
will be the final touch,

So, before that happens. wé
hasten to say to all who agree
with us, and all who don’t, avery
Merry Xmas and a Happy, Pros=
perous and Peaceful 1965, :

i mpr i
ith

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