‘One and the same’ Two moves, one aim —

A the federal election campaign
gathers momentum, the cen-
tral issue of nuclear arms for Can-
ada and U.S. interference in Can-
adian affairs, are coming into
clearer perspective; not as two
separate issues, but one and in-
divisable.

Stemming from the restrictive
policies of U.S.-Canada “integra-
tion” first introduced by the Mac-
kenzie King-St. Laurent-Pearson
regime, and carried forward by
the Tories, the economic domina-
tion of the Canadian economy has
gradually evolved into a political
domination by billionaire govern-
ments of the U.S. trusts.

From there on it was only a
matter for Washington to chose
the right time (for it) to “tell” the
government of Canada with braz-
en impudence, “get busy and live

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up to your obligations,” which in
this instance meant the acceptance
of nuclear warheads for Canada’s

armed forces at home and abroad.
“American defense’,
“demands no less.”

they said,

__So, were not “interfereing —

we’re just telling you.”

It is therefore, the duty of ev-

ery Canadian, with an ounce of
independence and _ national pride
in his veins, not to let any candi-
date (regardless of party) weasel
out of this issue by attempting to
separate the US.
nuclear arms on
U.S. open interference in Canad-
ian affairs.

imposition of
Canada from

They are one and the same, and
Canada will be best served by

an overwhelming recognition of

that basic truth.

Editorial comment.

“F’ some years the Sun has

been suggesting the possibil-
ity of eventual conflict between
China and Russia.” So rambles a
Sun editorial in its March 11 ed-
ition.

The Sun, of course, is not the
only commercialized organ that
induges in such _ political pipe-
dreams. The malady is widespread
in all the upper layers of capital-
ist society and its monopoly-dom-
inated governments.

They all “see” and hopefully
speculate on such “conflicts”, hop-
ing that in the outcome they will
be around to “gather up the piec-
es” and find the process highly
profitable?

True, at the moment there are
some deep ideological differences
between the Soviet Union and.
China on the revolutionary path
of Marxism-Leninism just as with-
in the world Communist family
ideological differences do and will
arise, probably for ‘some decades
to come.

But unlike monopoly-dominated

states, Communist, Socialist and
Workers’ states do not resort to
the madness of war to resolve dif-
erences. Instead they become the
world’s most dynamic force for
universal peace and peaceful co-
existence. .

That granite-hard fact seems to
have bypassed the Sun’s wishful

_ “thinkers” by a wide margin?

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Aircraft Corporation has stirred
up sundry U.S. senators to a fever
pitch. “The Russians couldn’t
catch up with ‘the planes we’re
scrapping“, boom these Klaghorns,
“but they’ll have no ‘difficulty
shooting down the ones we are
now going to build.”

The Klaghorns have a_ point,
better illustrated by an ordinary

John Doe who puts it this way:

“Why build armaments that are
useless? Why not put the thous-
ands of Boeing aircraft workers
on that $6-billion payroll and let.
them stay at home and draw their
pay until something worthwhile
building comes up? That way we
can avoid and over-touted “dislo-
cation” and build homes instead
of H-bombs?

A splendid idea, and _ highly

‘practical and desirable.

A’ might be exp€cted the U.S.
have come out with a empha-
tic “denial” of the use of poison
gas in its undeclared war upon the
people of South Vietnam. Such de-
nials however, don’t hold up
against the wanton evidence of de-
stroyed feed crops, dead cattle,
and hundreds of human beings,
the mute victims of a poisonous
rain of deadly gas spray.

“We only used weedkiller,” ex-
plains the Pentagon brass, “to
clear the jungle which gives cover

' to. the enemy?”

In their use of deadly bacterial
warfare in the Korean war, Wash-
ington produced similar “denials”
when confronted with this crime,
but the weight of world science
and widespread public indignation
exposed their denials for what
they. were — blatant falsehoods.
And Washington has since claim-
ed the “right to lie’ as a measure
of “security”?

There exists, of course, in our
civilized society certain interna-
tional covenants prohibiting the
use of poison gas and deadly bac-

teria in war, but U.S. imperialism _

for its own specific interests, is
not a signatory to such civilized
prohibitions, which even Hitler
felt compelled to respect. But if it
were, the cuban “crisis” of last”

Comment

year precipitated by Washington,
in violent abandonment of inter- —
national law on the high seas,
shows how little respect the Pen-
tagon has for international law
and protocol — when such stands
in their way.

The conscience of the world
must cry out against this latest
outrage upon the people of South
Vietnam. For Canadians now en--

- gaged in a major election to call

a halt to U.S. interference in Can-
adian affairs and the imposition

of U.S. nuclear arms in Canada, _
the use of “weedkiller” in South. —

Vietnam holds a sinister signifi-
cance.

While the margin of difference:
between the U.S. “telling” Cana-

dians how to “live up to their ob-

ligafions” and the application of a
deadly “weedkiller” in South Viet-
nam is wide, both converge on a
single purpose; that of reducing
each to the servile status of vas-
sals, readily reponsive to the whip;
of Yankee imperialism.

In South Vietnam it is the US.-
Ngo Dinh Diem clique and
“‘weed-killer”. In Canada it is —

Lester B. Pearson and his pro-
American Liberal party, fronting
for U.S. H-bombs in Canada. That —
fact must not be forgotten on
April 8.

ECCLES In British Dally Worker

“It’s Perkins! He stopped to blow his nose.”

anti-Semitism in Canadian com-
munities break through our curtain of
smug complacency in acts of vandalism
many leading Jewish citizens of our ac-

W':: outward manifestations of

quaintance say, “let it pass, it is noth-
ing, pay no attention’”’ and so on.

To remain silent on such anti-Semitic
hooliganism, as happened recently in
Vancouver, or on racist outrages any-
where, is scarcely the way to meet and
expunge this social evil, and least of all
by Jewish-Canadian citizens.

When however, these same Jewish
citizens, through the media of their
right-wing press and organizations, howl
to high heaven about ‘‘anti-Semitism in
the Soviet Unon’’ and other sectors of

_ the Socialist world, seizing onto every
morsel of slander and fabrication they
can get their teeth into, even after such
slanders are exposed as deliberate

falsehoods, then their localized ‘‘it-is-

- nothing-let-it-pass’’ silence takes on an
entirely different significance.

Briefly it means let’s ignore anti-
Semitic hooliganism — and vandalism at

home, lest it embarass the powers that
be; but abroad, make all the ‘‘indig-
nant’’ noise posible about ‘‘anti-Semi-
tism’’ in the Socialist world — as a
contribution to anti-Soviet coldwar?

In words they do not forget the Hitler
death ovens, but their silence-cum-
noise helps to fan the spark that lit
those ovens. —

Mee re

Into the brainwash tub with you. An
American worker decides he likes what
he reads in the Pacific Tribune and
sends in a year’s subscription.
paper goes forward as per request, in
accordance with Canada-U.S. postal
regulations. South of our “‘friendly bor-
der” the U.S. Customs whacks on a big
rubber stamp with the legend ‘‘Passed
Free’’ at point of entry to the “‘Land of
the Free.”’

: Fine, but our American reader hasn’t
got his paper yet, not by a long shot.
Somewhere along the line the U.S.
postal delivery ceases to function and
the FBI takes over.

John Doe is notified that there is a
paper addressed to him and will he
please advise whether he desires to
claim it in person, or have it destroyed?
Not an easy decision to make. If he
claims it in person, he immediately be-
comes a candidate for the ‘“‘Un-Ameri-
can” brainwash tub, with his job, his
family, and his future in jeopardy. If
he says ‘‘destroy it,” don’t blame him.

His —

Like you, dear reader, he probably feels :

like telling the brainwashers to ‘‘go
plumb to hell,” but just can’t afford to
do so — yet.

It is a far cry from an American
worker deprived of the press of his
choice and 18 million Canadians deter-.
mining in an election whether they shall
be ‘‘Masters in their own House’’—and
keep that house free from nuclear
bombs. But the billionaire cabal that
operates the brainwashing machine and
chooses Lester B. Pearson as its Cana-
dian “Man Friday’ is one and the
same. The moral is clear and simple;
to stop brainwashers abroad, see to it
that we don’t elect U.S.-selected brain-
washers at home. fe
. * * *

The news that Mrs. Lester Pearson
has quit the Voice of Women (VOW)
because that courageous body of Cana-
dian women had ‘‘become too belliger-
ent in their opposition to nuclear arms,”
isn’t surprising.

With husband ‘‘Mike’’ as Kennedy’s
choice to smuggle nuclear arms into
Canada under cover of a barrage of
American-Liberal double-talk, it is typi-
cal of the ‘‘stability’’ aimed at that
Mrs. P. should also get into ‘“McNam-
ara’s band” with her re-nuclearized
“better-half.”’ 3 :

In Washington no “philosophy” holds
a higher priority than that illustrated
in an old political cliche; “Gentlemen,
if you don’t like my ideas — Tr change
them?” :

March 25; 1968 PACIFIC CHES UNE_Pre hel