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How ‘the West was won’

A” sober analysis of the recent national Liberal confer-
ence must of necessity discard a lot of the froth which
claimed a “creat victory” for the party and the leadership
of Prime Minister Pearson; to look a bit below the surface
for the real stresses and strains in Liberal policies and
leadership, which were temporarily ‘‘smoothed over” — but
not solved,

Presumed to represent “the West”, B.C, Liberal leader Ray
Perrault returned home wearing the halo of a conquering hero,
while Liberal ex-finance minister Walter Gordon and those
supporting his policies for a greater measure of economic,
financial and political independence from the domination of
U.S. imperialism, are reported to have been “utterly routed”.

Perrault’s “heroism” rests largely upon his noisy advo-
cacy of a North American free trade area resolution, which
would not only be a further extention of the Bennett-Bonner
“customs union” with the U.S., but would remove all existing
obstacles to greater U.S, penetration in the economic and in-
dustrial life of Canada,

Instead of merely giving the U.S. continental rights to Can-
ada’s water and other basic resources, the Pearsons and Per-
raults have now resolved to give away virtual continental
domination of Canada’s domestic and foreign trade (raw and
manufactured), under the guise of a continental free trade
area. And of course in the process, to gang-up on the Gordon
“left” forces striving to retain a semblance of national inde-
pendence, :

Other rifts in the Liberal conference lute on which Perrault .

and company from “the West” were less vocal upon include
the side-tracking of Medicare until 1968-or later; Mitchell
Sharp’s “inflationary”tight-money squeeze in which prices
and profits continue to soar, with only wages and low-bracket
salaries consigned to the deep freeze. Moreover, scarcely
a word about all the grandoise pre-election promises for
senior citizens, widows and war veterans pension increases,
at this national Liberal seance,

Nor were any voices heard speaking out against the crimi-
nal extravagance of $1}-billion down the arms drain annually,
or the rich harvest of “blood money” profits being garnered
from the sale of Canadian-made arms to the U,S, for use
in Vietnam. On all such matters vital to the peace and well-
being of the Canadian people, the Liberal conference drew a
silent curtain,

From start to finish of this Liberal confab it was “the party
first” — and a salesman’s approach to the pressing needs of
the nation. This week Jack Davis, MP, echoing the conference

“victory”, hopes the ultimate sellout of Canada to the U.S,
will be “fully completed by 1980”.

Some “victory” conference,

his “potpouri” opens with

the tale of a “pot”, an old=-
fashioned pot which the more
vulgar amongus sometimes refer
to as a Gerry, a Mick, a Chanty
or other less cultured nomen-
clature.

In this case however, it is not
some uncouth proletarian “pot”
but one of royal vintage, used
by Her Royal Highness, Queen
Katherine Parr of England, one of

. the eight wives (or was it nine?)
of good King Henry the VIII,

Queen Kate’s “potti” (in Ye
Olde English), and we have it
on no less authority than the
British Morning Star, is a Vene-
_tian glass work of art, a thing
of exquisite beauty and delicacy,
worthy of any royal posterior,
and valued in the neighborhood
of fifteen to twenty thousand
pounds; roughly close to$50,000,

As might be expected, when
good Queen Kate’s “potti” hit

the auction block, doubtless to aid
in stiffening-up the sagging pound,
some affluent Yank topped all bids
and got the “pot” — then promptly
ran into difficulties in securing
an export licence permitting him
to take it out of the country.
(Canny chaps those British when
it comes to disposing of their
royal “pots”),

Now it appears that in the
event that this Yankee connois-
seur of “pots”, royal or other
cannot cart off Queen Kate’s
‘potti’, the London Victoria and
Albert Museum is ready to come
across with the fifty grand or
thereabouts to keep th® “potti”
at home, Not bad for a country
which seeks to beat inflation
with a tight wage freeze on its
working people, but with the sky
as the limit where profiteers or

royal “pots” are concerned,

For ourselves we have long
held to the opinion that it is not

FREE TRADE SCHEME:

‘Fatal for Canada
if plan adopted’

Warning that the policies adop-
ted by the recent Liberal Party
convention would, if acted upon,
be fatal to the national interests
of Canada, the Communist Par-
ty’s central executive this week
released the following statement:

The adoption by the Liberal

- Party Convention of a resolution

calling for the formation of a
North American Free Trade
area, and its rejection of poli-
cies which could strengthen the
economic independence of Can-
ada, emphasizes the fact that the
Liberal Party has now officially
embraced the policy of contin-
entalism long advocated by Prime
Minister Pearson and thrown’
overboard any pretense that it

_—- NO TAKERS

stands for policies of independent
national development.

The impression is being crea-
ted that Western Liberals forced
these policies through, However,
it was not the West alone or even
mainly which did so: what carried.
the day was the unprincipled
alliance of Western and Eastern
Liberals led by Finance Min-
ister Sharp, all representing
monopoly interests allied with
U.S. interests,

These policies if acted upon
could be fatal for Canada, .

Economically it would strenth-
en U.S, control over the economy
and open Canada’s doors to U.S,
manufactured goods, injure Can-

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adian industry, drastically cur-
tail job opportunities for our
young people, and lead to rising
unemployment, One way trade
will inevitably place Canada at the
mercy of the greedy U.S. mon-
opoly interests,

Politically such a course would
lead inevitably to Canada’s loss
of sovereignty and independence.

Canadians who want Canada to
pursue a truly independent course
in economic development, in for-
eign trade and in foreign policy,
and want Canada to remain a
sovereign state cannot possibly
support such disastrous anti-
national policies,

These must be rejected. None
of the old line parties, wedded
as they are to monopoly, are able
to defend the national interest.

The way to defeat such poli-
cies is by the formation of a
national and democratic alliance
of labor and farm organizations,
the NDP, the Communist Party
and- all those in English and
French Canada who place the true
national interests above that of
monopoly.

This is the most urgent task
facing Canadians today.

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the material or craftsmanship
which goes into the making of
‘pottis’ for ‘My Lady’ or plain’
Judy O’Grady which emphasizes

their class distinctions, but the -

common denominator deposited
in the ‘‘pot”, On that sound evalu-
ation we’d have let any pot-loving
Yank take Queen Kate’s “potti”
away for the standardized $1.49

‘bargain day tag — and looked for

other ways to shore upthe pound,
or enhance Britain’s cultural at-
tainments with something more
edifying a royal pot.

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When the much-photographed
Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr,
Michael Ramsay was touring
Canada recently, spreading his
message of “love” and tolerance
among all peoples, he found it
necessary to do some secondary
explaining of just what he meant
in previous utterances,

For instance on the issue of
U.S, barbaric aggression in Viet-
nam, the Archbishop is reported
to have declared “the Americans
have a moral right to be in Viet--
nam”, a strange brand of ec-
clesiastical morality indeed. This
the venerable Archbishop had to
explain and modify considerably
in later encounters with indig-
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rors being perpetrated upon the
peoples of Vietnam,

The Archbishop had also to do
some back-peddling on some of
his comments on the U.S, evan-
gelist Billy Graham, Quoted by
Canadian newspaper reporters,
the Archbishop is said to have
expressed the view that Billy’s
“type of evangelism ...is not
what we really need”, that

“Christianity is a life of sacri-

fice — nota way of being cosy”,
etc, and so forth. In short, the
Archbishop was alleged to have
put quite a dent in the Graham
image.

Far be it from us to become
involved in debating the types
of dogmas of their respective
callings, but from the outward
and visable appearance of both,

we’d say offhand that they were
both relatively “cosy.”

Long ago the Graham evangel —
setup was rated well above the

millionaire brackets, while
others of an earlier vintage who
came out of the U.S, bible belt
also did very well. Billy Sunday,
who mixed his evangelism with
the jargon of the baseball field;
the glamorous and curvacious
Aimee Semple Macpherson, and
numerous others got wellinto the
multi-millionaire brackets
before leaving this sinful world.

We don’t know how ‘cosy’ the
Archbishop may be with “this
world’s goods”, but we do know
that while “ ... they toil not,
neither do they spin, yetSoloman
in all his glory, was not arrayed
like one of.these.”

Editor—TOM McEWEN

~ Pacific Tribune

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Associate Editor—MAURICE RUSH

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