Action-not advice-needed

HEN Mrs. Mary A. Endicott telephoned External Affairs
Minister Pearson during a recent Padlock Law raid on
a group of Montreal citizens meeting to help save world
peace, the minister sent a message suggesting that the Civil
Liberties Union of Montreal be asked to do something
about it. :
What is this admission by a senior cabinet minister that
the fascist Padlock Law of Quebec is a violation of civil
liberties? Y
Are Canadians committing a. crime when they support
action for world peace? If they are, then is this not
further proof that the government is preparing for war?
Are peaceful citizens to be raided, women to be searched by
male policemen, and their possessions seized, with impunity?
Let Canadians take Pearson ‘at his word. Violation

_ of civil libertes must cease, in Quebec as elsewhere.

_ The Dominion government should denounce the Pad-
lock Act of Quebec and declare it ‘to be a violation of
the common rights of freedom of speech. In Australia
the courts so treated the infamous Menzies anti-Commun-
ist, anti-trade union legislation. ’

Fine words butter no parsnips. Pearson has said in
so many words that the Duplessis fascist raids are against
civil liberties. Haw about some action at Ottawa? Let
the government quit hiding behind the British North
American Act, and introduce a Bill of Rights. }

Demand peace in Korea

N June 25 it. will be one year since the Korean war broke
out. Over ‘a million Korean people are dead. Cities are
_in ruination.
It is well on this first anniversary of the bloody
slaughter to recall some facts about Korea.
_ The UN, set up to mediate disputes, never submitted
the Korean question to mediation.

_ The People’s Republic of Korea was never allowed to
present its case to the UN. ae
_,.. President Truman ordered the Seventh Fleet to Taiwan
‘and pledged U.S. military aid hours before the UN majority
rubber-stamped this one-government decision. Because of
‘Truman’s action, Canadian naval, air and ground forces
were sent later.

The UN Security Council acted in the absence of two
anlar of the Big Five permanent members of the
Ouncil, the USSR and People’s China.
= People’s China did not permit Chinese volunteers to
‘enter until MacArthur’s armies were on the Chinese border
and had frequently bombed Chinese towns and villages.
_ Peace in Korea can be established, a) by calling a
conierence of the powers interested. b) ceasing fire, c)
withdrawing all non-Korean troops*from Korea.
». The St. Laurent government, which called the US.
motion to condemn China as an aggressor “unwise and
premature”: (and ‘then voted for it!) has followed U-S.
policy throughout. ©
« - Peace ‘im Korea can be obtained
‘he government to act in the UN

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As We See It.

by TOM McEWEN

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; (Guest column by Leslie Morris)

EACE. threatens, nobody’s security. Conversely,

no country is secure ,which follows the policy

of arming to the teeth, for that path leads to world
war, the real threat to national security.

Joseph Stalin’s remarkable interview with Pravda

on February 16 put the questions of Korea, world —

peace, and Soviet policy squarely before the govern-
ments and peoples of the world.

Two of his statements should be committed to
memory:

“Peace will be preserved and strengthened if the
peoples take into their own hands the cause of the
preservation of peace and defend it to the end.”

“War may become inevitable if the warmongers

succeed in enmeshing the popular masses in a net of

lies, deceiving them and drawing them into another

”

tar.

Stalin’s remarks exposed the lies which are now
being increased in fury to bring the breakdown of
the Four Power agenda conference in Paris, to use
the defeats of the interventionists in Korea to ex-
tend the war and to further the rearmament of
Western Europe, Germany and Japan.

The leader of the Soviet Union said flatly that
the Soviet Union had affected its demobilization in
three stages, hence. the yarn about the increase of
Soviet military strength is a brazen lie. In a subse-

quent note to the British government the USSR went
into detail showing that 33 successive groups had

been demobilized. The note was ignored by the

press and it has not been answered by Attlee.

On Korea, which is being used by the U.S. to
extend the horrors of. the Korean war to China and
the world, Premier Stalin was explicit: “If Britain
and the U.S. finally reject the peace proposals of
the People’s government of China, the war in Korea

can only end in the defeat of the interventionists.”’ ’

Plain talking, which Stalin elaborated in his next
statement that no matter how good soldiers may be,

they cannot win if they “consider the war imposed

on them as highly unjust.”

Since Stalin’s interview the U.S. has refused to
consider new peace proposals and Truman is striv-
ing to extend the Korean war to China.

Stalin’s words about the effects of rearmament on
the economy of countries are being graphically borne
out. Bevan’s resignation in Britain has highlighted
the fact that Britain can only starve if it spends $13
billion on war. No state, said Stalin, “‘can develop
to the utmost its civilian industry” and “‘at the same
time, parallel with this, increase its armed forces and
expand its war industry.”” He said this includes
the Soviet state. a)

Proof of the peaceful intentions of Soviet policy
is the mighty construction of socialism, which has
fulfilled in less than five yeats its first post-war plan.

Arg, not Stalin’s words known to be true by every
Canadian worker and farmer: “. . . the increase of
the armed forces of a country and an armaments
drive lead to the expansion of war industry, to the
curtailment of peace industry, to the suspension of
great civilian’ construction projects, to an increase in

taxes, to a rise in the price of consumer goods’’?

Stalin listed Canada in the 10 countries of the
North Atlantic Pact group which comprise the
“aggressor nucleus of the UN.” “It is the repre-
sentatives of these countries that now decide in
the UN the destinies of war or peace.”

We Canadians must realize that if our govern-
ment were compelled by public opinion to take the
side of peace and proposed in the UN the con-.
clusion of a Pact of Peace between the Big Five
the “aggressor nucleus,”’ in the UN could be broken

“and the path of peace opened up. It could well
win a majority for such a motion.

Stalin answered the question which millions of
Canadians are asking, How will it all end? Peace
can be preserved if the people take the cause of
peace into their own hands. War may become in-
evitable if the people are enmeshed in a net of lies.

This advice, from a friendly socialist state which
in the UN as in the League of Nations has fought
unswervingly for peace, has been borne out brilliant-
ly in the three months since it was given. Stalin
is right today, just as he was when he warned the
Men of Munich that their plans for a Hitler war
on the USSR would end in fiasco.

Journalists to

HE meeting of the executive committee of the

International Organization of Journalists (IOJ)
held in Budapest May 10-12, constitutes another
important step in the gradual process of awakening
journalists’ consciences to their social responsibili-
ties in a world poised between war and peace..
During the period that has elapsed since the third

IOJ congress which met last September in Melsinki, |

the division of journalists into sections, a small but
influential one serving the warmongers and @ large
section, still far from being fully mobilized, fighting
for peace, has become more pronounced.

Probably the most important outcome of the
Budapeest meeting which was attended by repre-
sentatives from 21 countries, was in strengthening
the determination of those present to unmask war-
mongering in the press and: thus reveal to the public
the methods whereby they are being deluded and
misled in preparation for a new world war.

Delegates from several countries, including
France, Austria, Switzerland and Holland, were able
to lay before the meeting material showing how
certain warmongers of the press have, especially since
American intervention in Korea began, raised the
note of urgency in their advocacy of war to the

pitch of a high scream of hatred and contempt for

truth,

In his report on the journalist’s role as a fighter
for peace, Derek Kartun, foreign editor of the Lon-
don Daily Worker cited a. telling example of this,
not from the mighty Hearst or Kemsley newspaper
chains but from a modest newspaper, the Press Ga-
zette of the little town of Green Bay Wisconsin.

“How many atom bombs have we?” this paper :

asked editorially in a recent issue. “If we have suf-

ficient of these, bombs to reduce Chinese cities to
ruins and kill off 50 to 100 million of their teeming

list warmongers

_ population and therefore paralyse the Chinese Sov-
iets, the use of this extraordinary weapon may be
considered in a practical light,” the paper added.

It was with the aim of combatting more ef-
fectively such propanganda for aggressive war that
the journalists unanimously approved the text of
the preamble to lists of warmongers which the IOJ
will henceforth publish periodically, taking all pos-
sible steps to bring the lists tg the attention of
newspaper readers in all parts of the world and
especially to those journalists who continue to take
a neutral position in the struggle for peace.

: ‘ j
The feeling was general at the Budapest meet-
meeting that the work of the IOJ for peace would
be effective only if it succeeded in drawing into
the struggle all honest journalists, irrespective of
their political or ideological outlook, religion, nation-
ality or race. In a world situation where by terror

or persecution in some countries, and by economic

pressure in others, the forces working for war are
‘compelling thousands of journalists to participate
in warmongering, often against their will, many

o have hitherto regarded the struggle for peace
as “not their affair,” are, now. beginning to realize
that it in fact concerns them in every way. It is —
touching their pockets, removing prospects of ad-—
vancement, lowering their standards of work.

Many have long realized that neutrality in the —
struggle for peace is inconsistent with responsibility
of citizenship, at atime when the journalist has
great power to shape people’s minds. Today thou-

sands more realize that their very livelihood is)

threatened by continuation of the present tensions
in international affairs and if only for reasons of
self-interest are beginning to range themselves on
’ the side of peace. }

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