By FILS DELISLE

BERLIN — The GDR will con-
tinue to work for the further
development of normal relations
with the FRG. That was a policy
statement of Erich Honecker,
general secretary of Socialist
Unity Party, this week as reac-
tion in Bonn and_ elsewhere
launched new scandals in the

“wake of Chancellor Willi
Brandt’s resignation.

The scandals were seen by
observers as an attempt to bring
the CDU-CSU closer to power at
home and to blacken the GDR
internationally by allegations it
is opposed to normal relations

to develop its crusade against
the policy of detente, of peace
and social progress.” :

The West German Communist
statement warned that Brandt’s
resignation solved none of the
problems confronting the coun-

try and working people. On the

contrary, it said “We Commun-
ists warn that powerful circles
of big capital as well as right-
wing forces in all Bonn parties,
intend to use Brandt’s resigna-
tion to drive political develop-
ments in our country further to

| the right.”

with the FRG. Without mention- |

ing the scandal mongers, but giv-
ing them the lie, Honecker said:
“We have not only stated our
‘readiness to develop normal rela-
tions of peaceful coexistence
with the FRG, but thanks to our
initiatives and constructive atti-
tude, have made possible the
agreements on the setting up of
permanent representations (in
each other’s capital) and other
agreements.
Much yet to be done

“We have thus come a certain
distance in normalizing relations
between the GDR and FRG. But
much remains to be done. Even
what has been achieved must
constantly be defended against
enemies of the agreements. It is
-in the interests of the people if
political Jeaders are guided in
this matter by realism. We, in
any case, as in the past, will seek
to carry forward our construc-
tive policy based on peace and
relaxation of tensions, a policy
which in future will also exercise
a positive influence on further
normalization of relations . be-
tween the GDR and FRG.”

West German media, reaction-
aries and even a few SPD peo-
ple have gone to fantastic
lengths to make it appear the
GDR forced Willi Brandt out of
office through the supposed spy
in Brandt’s office, Guenther Guil-
laume, even though who or
what Guillaume was remains
shrouded in mystery. Typical of
the primitive lies bein® used in
this campaign are those-launch-
ed by the Hamburg mass circula-
tion magazine Stern. Stern
stated that GDR radio networks
have lauded Guillaume as a GDR
“hero on the silent front” and
that Party leader Honecker

_ boasted Guillaume was his finest
superspy.
Primitive inventions

In actual fact GDR radio has
carried no such stupidities and
Honecker has not uttered a
single word on the subject. Such
primitive inventions have helped
the public understand that
Brandt’s resignation was not
brought about by the Guillaume
affair but by a long-developing

- and deep-going political crisis in
the FRG. The background of
this crisis has been analyzed by

Former West German chancel-
lor Willi Brandt. :

the West German Communist
Party (DKP), which declared in
a statement issued in Duessel-
darf: “The ‘resignation of the
Federal, Chancellor Willi Brandt
is an expression of the sharpen-
ed crisis caused by the capitalist
profit system, which has emerged
ever more forcefully in all areas
of social life.

“Against this background,
there developed an unholy alli-
ance of reactionary circles of
big business and munitions mak-
ers and their political represen-
tatives in the CDU-CSU, along

with top level state inStitutions _

whose machinations were facil-

itated by the anti-communist and.

anti-democratic actions and in-
trigues of right-wing SPD lead-
ers. This alliance joined in an
offensive against the policy of
detente, against democracy and
against the demands of the
workers. That led to an eruption
of the. government crisis publi-
city and to ‘the resignation of
Brandt. :
All stops pulled out
“The CDU-CSU, with big busi-
ness circles apd munitions mak-
ers behind them, have pulled out
all the stops in order, with anti-
communist incitement, with lies
and slanders, to set up obstacles
to implementing of the agree-
ments of our country with the
socialist states, to block detente,
to prevent Europe from being
transformed into an area of
stable peace and of fruitful co-
operation between all countries.
“Because the government led
by Chancellor Brandt ignored the
expectations of its electors, be-
cause it subordinated the inter-
ests of working people to profit
and the power interests of mono-
polies, because it did not take
up the demands of trade unions
but came out against them, be-
cause it contributed to shifting
the results of the capitalist crisis

on the shoulders of working peo-

ple, because it went along with
anti-communist incitement, it
made it easier for the CDU-CSU

~ GAULLISTS

PARIS — A National Com-
mittee of Gaullists for the
Candidate of the Left (Fran-
cois Mitterand) has been
formed. It has sent out an ap-
peal, and published a list of
the initial signatories.

“Against the representative
of the reactionary and conser-
vative forces”, the appeal

_ Stated, “to remain faithful to
_ | the spirit of June 18, 1940, to
| the ideal of the Resistance

VOTE LEFT

and to the vision of the future
_ held by Charles de Gaulle, the
Gaullist signatories will vote
for the candidate of the left.”
Among the initial list of
names appear those of Jean-.
Marcel Jeanneney, a former
minister in Gaullist govern-
ments, Jacques Debu-Bridel, a
founding member of the Na-
tional Council of the Resist-
ance, Father Albert Finet, and
Col. Albert Lecrivain-Servoz, a
former deputy. :

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MAY 17,

RAGE, § i

Onslaughts and intrigues
. In the first hours following the

dramatic events at Bonh, there _

was as yet no time to unravel
all the factors involved in the
crisis gripping the Federal Re-
public. But experienced observ-
ers were already putting toge-
ther some of the main elements.

In their view Brandt’s resigna-
tion was a culmination of a
ruthless five-year campaign of
CDU and associated reactionary
groups in the FRG to hold up
and reverse the policy of dé-
tente with the socialist -coun-
tries, and to bring reaction back
to power again: In this, it is
pointed out, they were aided by
right-wing elements in the So-
cial Democratic Party leader-
ship who ever more openly
fought for their own personal
political advantage and were
more interested in subduing
progressive elements in the
SDP than in defeating the pow-
erful onslaughts and intrigues
of the CDU-CSU. .

Chancellor Brandt himself
yielded to this pressure. Thus,
he won broad electoral support
in 1969 and the Nobel Peace
Prize with his “Ostpolitik’, the
policy of détente with the GDR
and other, socialist countries,
but by last year there was a
discernible loss of momentum
in this policy by his govern-
ment.

Again, in his first prograni-
matic speech as Chancellor he
attacked anti-communism as
government policy and declared
that what the FGR needed was
“more, not less, democracy.”

Isolated from people

But by this spring he was
condoning anti-communist dis-
crimination, anti-communist leg-
‘islation, expulsion of honest
socialists from SDP organiza-
tions, denying the class nature

- of West German society,

approving capitalism and saying
there was agreement on basic
principles between the SDP and
CDU-CSU movement, which
was in fact working to destroy
him. ~ :
While in France socialists
allied behind a common pro-
gram with the French Commun;
ist Party, while in Portugal his
personal socialist friends were
calling for a vnited struggle

_ With the Communists, while in

Scandinavian countries it was
clear Social Democratic rule was
no longer possible without Com-

munist support, Brandt moved |

under right-wing pressure in an
Opposite direction. He thus
found himself more and more
removed from the progressive
masses on which alone he could

have relied to continue pushing -

through his originally promised
program and to defeat the
powerful attacks of reaction.
Guillaume time-bomb

The so-called Guenter Guil-
laume espionage affair turned
out this week to be a time
bomb used to demolish what-

ever was left of his position.
Whatever the truth may be
about Guillaume, who is accused
of having ‘worked in Chancellor
Brandt’s office as a GDR spy,
the spy scare has turned into
a fiasco for everyone trying to
manipulate it for their own pur-
poses inside the Bonn govern-
ment and opposition. Practically
the entire media in West Ger-
many has turned into ‘a free-
for-all between those in power
at Bonn and those seeking power.

By last weekend, -all sides had
enmeshed themselves in. such a
net of contradictions that it was
clear there is more here. than
meets the eye. It has been
revealed, for example, that
Guillaume’s entire past was sup-
posedly an open book to West
German intelligence and coun-
terspy agencies. In 1956 they
had reports from spy groups
operating in West Berlin that
Guillaume had supposedly
worked for GDR _ intelligence
in West Berlin and West Ger-

“many for ‘two years.:

In 1970 when. Guillaum
given a_ post fn
Brandt’s office, all these
about his backgroum
available. If Guillaum! i
given a clean bill of h
can only mean, in the &
objective observers,
West German  intellig
was a double agent wi?
in their view really wae
Bonn and against the G a
theory has been put forW’
some commentators - is
Germany. Whether this i
or not, what is true A
Brandt and other cabine
isters knew all of this
not hesitate to keep

“as a trusted aide.

A deep-going crisis
What happened to
picture is something
will. reveal. No me
will reveal, howevel
is that what was supposed
a pretext for a propae
slaught against the
ripped open a deep-8?
in West Germany. —

Where aft

‘The 22nd Convention of the

Communist Party will take place -

in Toronto May 18-19-20. The

Tribune asked Alfred Dewhurst, -
‘ Organizer of the Party what the

main tasks of the Convention
will be and to describe the func-
tions and methods by which
Communists debate and adopt
policy.
* * *

The convention will examine,
particularly in light of the fede-
ral election campaign, where we

stand and what advances have

been made in the Party’s work
among the. Canadian people and
the working class to advance
what we describé as an alliance
of the working class and demo-
‘cratic forces against ‘monopoly
policies.. We believe we are in
the process of trying to form
this alliance as a first stage on
the road to socialism in Canada.

We see this road to socialism
as being, roughly speaking, in
two stages—and we -feel that
we're in the beginning of the
first stage now — that of the
anti- monopoly, anti - imperialist
alliance, democratic and _na-
tional in content. This will open

the way for the second stage ~

—the elimination of .capitalism
as such and the establishment
of working-class power, support-
ed by its democratic allies. who
are those sections of the popu-
lation who benefit from the
gains of the working class and

are closely allied in their de-

sires, aspirations- and needs
with the needs and aspirations.
of’ the working class. Today
Masses of people are, in fact,
Waging the  anti-monopoly
struggle as we Can see by the up-
Surge in the strike situation.

A Unity Policy

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the aim of trying to move this
whole process ahead and have
developed a plan of action, a
policy that is aimed at uniting
these forces. As we see it, the
weakness of the present-day

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unity and solidarity among all
the forces fighting against mon-
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