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statistics, and this
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you're still there, you
the newspapers that
people were killed.
at isn’t the way it hap-
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-fashioned uranium
that we dropped on
and_ Nagasaki,
same number of
were maimed, blinded,
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omed. A lot of them
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the way it would be.
bang and a certain
bt of corpses to bury, but
filled with millions of
maimed, tortured and
Persons, and the sur-
huddled with their fami-
shelters, with guns ready
off their neighbors try-
it some uncontamina-
Od and water.
Months ago, Senator
ussell, of Georgia,
Speech in the Senate
words, “If we have to
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Americans; and |
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That was a United States
senator’ making a_ patriotic
speech. Well, here is a Nobel
Laureate who thinks that those
words are criminally insane.

Harvard Biology Professor

George Wald.
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NIXON THREATENS
INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM

The Nixon Administration is
going for the jugular vein of
American democracy and intel-
lectual freedom with speed
and total commitment.

In the same week as the
President confessed that he
had vetoed an appointment to
the directorship of the Natio-
nal Science Foundation be-
cause the prospective appoin-
tee opposes the ABM scheme,
it became known that the Ad-
ministration is pushing propo-
sals for narrowing the protec-
tion which the Bill of Rights
gives to defendants in crimi;
nal cases.

Two central pillars of our
democratic structure are thus
under simultaneous attack,
That there is alarm in the
scientific community and
among civil liberties groups is
reassuring, but only slightly so.
The question is: Can the alarm
be made loud enough and
wide enough, soon enough?

In the last days of the Wei-
mar Republic, when the nazi
subversion of civil and cultural
freedom was already far along,
comfortable citizens had a
fondness for such phrases as
“It's only talk” or “They
wouldn't dare,” or “These
things are sacred.” Later the
phrase became “'It's only a
little change,” or ‘Maybe it’s
necessary,’ or “‘Let’s see how
it works ‘out.” Still later, the
phrases were, ‘| never dream-
ed,” or “Really | didn’t know
what was going on,” or “What
could | do?”

American imperialism is in
crisis. The wave of opposition
to its crimes abroad and at

home rises higher. In response; . |

ews and comment ..

the ruling class seeks new re-
pressive devices. But it puts
first things first. It seeks to
make science subservient to
militarism. It moves to give ar-
bitrary power to the police
whose power democracy al-
ways seeks to limit.

The fabric of freedom is a
seamless fabric. The right of
scientists to pursue their work
without consideration of the
narrow aims of a faction, and
the right of any accused per-
son to face his accusers, have
expert legal advice, and say
nothing against himself—these
are fundamentals of the free-

doms of all of us.
New York Daily World.

OVERDUE STEP

Prime Minister Trudeau's re-
fusal to send greetings to the
Ukrainian nationalist ‘“Cana-
dian League for Ukraine's
Liberation” anniversary cele-
bration indicates hopefully a
long overdue step towards es-
tablishment of a normal, com-
mon courtesy approach by our
government to the Soviet
Union, by indicating at least
an element of sincerity behind
our diplomatic relations with
that country.

The affording of official
sanction to the boastfully es-

pionage-oriented, hate-filled —

League by past prime minis-
ters ran directly counter to Ca-
nadian majority opinion for the
need of increased economic
and cultural ties with the Soviet
Union, in the interests of both
countries and world peace.
William Harasym,
President, AUUC.

GREETS TRIBUNE
From the newspaper, “‘Scin-
teia”, organ of the Central
Committee of the Communist
Party of Romania, the follow-
ing message has been receiv-
ed by the Canadian Tribune:
“On the occasion of May
First we send you warm greet-

ings and our wishes for new

successes in your activity.”

AID FOR VIETNAM

The Diesel ship Lazarev has
just delivered gifts from Soviet
women to the heroic women of
Vietnam. Included in the ship-
ment were 50 tons of sugar, 25
tons of rice, 18 tons of powder-
ed and condensed milk, 60
thousand yards of cloth, drugs,
school books and other goods.

William Beeching, Editor
of the Canadian Tribune
was injured in an automo-
bile accident in Saskatche-
wan last week.

Mr. Beeching fractured his
hip and is recovering in
hospital in Regina. He will
be at his post as soon as
recovery will allow.

The Tribune staff wishes
him a speedy recovery and
expresses to him and his
family our regrets over his

Get off it, Pierre

Prime Minister Trudeau dropped off in Mont-
real last Sunday to inform the people of Canada
that we don’t have any housing crisis.

Canada will build 225,000 housing units this
year and that means we don’t have any crisis,
he elaborated over the CBC French language
program Deux plus Un.

Meanwhile back in the world of reality, more
than two million Canadians live on in broken
Na unsanitary and overcrowded accommoda-
ions.

Quite aside from the accuracy of Trudeau’s
rosy predictions of 225,000 starts, and experts
aay that he is probably overstating the case

y 50,000, the thorny question for which he pro-
vides no answer is, who is going to buy them?

Sixty percent of the people now seeking homes
do not have the money for one at current prices,
according to Dennis R. Stewart, president of the
Canadian Real Estate Board.

The actions of the government last week to
increase the National Housing Act mortgage
ceiling from $18,000 to $25,000, and to allow
mortgage rates to find their own level without
state intervention, subject to five year review,
will not put housing any closer to that sixty
percent.

Canadians now earning less than $7,500 annu-
ally are literally priced out of the housing mar-
ket. The recent decisions of the government will
not offer them any solution but will increase the
flow of money into the pockets of the money-
lenders and jack up the indebtedness of most

Canadians.

Even those now enjoying the security of long
term mortgages which protect them against the
rise in interest rates will face five year hikes in
accommodation costs as long as interest rates
continue to climb.

The cynical refusal of all levels of government
in Canada, with the Federal government at the
lead, to undertake a massive public housing
program is the root cause of the housing crisis.

In the United States, where public housing re-
presents about 15 percent of the total, this is
considered the minimum requirement. In Eng-
land it stands at about 50 percent and in most
European countries somewhere around the same
figure. In socialist countries all but a small
portion of housing is public. In Canada, public
housing represents only five percent.

The housing crisis in Canada will continue to
bear unpardonably on millions of Canadians
until the federal, provincial and civic govern-
ments undertake mass public housing programs.

No glib assurances from Mr. Trudeau will get
around that stark truth.

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