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CASHINGTON—Senator Joseph Mc-
satthy (Rep., Wis.) said Monday the re-
Bisa) escape of Lavrenty Beria, de-
folie: boss. of the. Kremlin — secret
ec begins to appear like a hoax.”
McCarthy said he expects the Span-
ia ay ment will release a statement
; aed about a man who resembles
So Wee oe who claims to be the former
Pen secret police boss.
ea a source identified with
eebaa Senate committee had de-
Bhan McCarthy as strongly inclined
eve the mystery man was Beria.
—Associated Press Report,
September 29.

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ye. well, well! So now the ineffable

sy enator McCarthy admits what he
ONG all along. But this most recent
4 Be ncless provided the fascist-
é ‘d senator, who has been slipping
tions} of late, with plenty of the sensa-
; ive heey on which he thrives and
Of its g hoax-loving daily press some
even pp eSest_ and wildest headlines of
: Mtthvs tye years. But for Me-

en h, ittle joke, the daily press might

Union’s had to headline the Soviet

War “R Proposals for ending the cold
by - aaa at the United Nations
Vishinsky, Foreign Minister Andrei

: made fing though, McCarthy certainly

Amoss peonkey of his friend Col. Ulio
of Strat ormer officer of the U.S. Office
2 ®Sic Services, who now runs his
: Amosg eeiational ‘intelligence’ service.

hoax. ey all prepared to carry the

Spain st, and swear that the man
and : Was the one and only Beria
Poster. asa else was strictly an im-
backed mee would the daily press have
Coupe, M up? Not a shadow of a

One paper that called a hoax a hoax
was the London Daily Worker. Its is-
sue of September 24 carried this intrigu-
ing headline: Beria Pops Up Among the
Spanish Oranges. And beneath it was
this story, which is too good to keep

« emt) myself:

The Beria hoax continues. Lavrenti P.
Beria has now been seen in Spain. The
Madrid paper ABC said so yesterday.

It went further. It stated that over
Spain he and the crew baled out of a
plane and left the empty aircraft flying
with automatic controls set and with the
fuel supply calculated so that it would
fall into the Atlantic “‘and leave no
trace.”

Equipped with this interesting account

“and surprised that the strict Spanish cen-

sorship should allow such a report to
be printed, Jean Creach, the correspon-
dent in Spain of the French. paper Le
Monde, yesterday made a. few inquiries.

He found that the source of the ABC
report was a wealthy Nicaraguan named
Falla.

Falla, he said, was known in Spain as
a multi-millionaire. He claimed to have
met Beria in a Gibraltar-registered car
(color green) near Malaga. ak

Falla also claimed very close connec
tions with Richard Nixon, the United
States vice-president, and Senator Joseph
McCarthy. .

“Beria was said to have told him that
he landed in Spain on September 10 and
that he possessed the names of all Com-
munists camouflaged in the services of
the different Western nations,” Le Monde
said. ;

Falla even claimed to know. where
Beria was—‘‘in the little port of Torro-

. molinos, near Malaga.”

Since a third person (apart from Beria
and Falla) had seen a green car near
Malaga that day, how could the story
be anything but true? '

The Le Monde correspondent also
mentioned that an American aircraft-
carrier was anchored off Malaga last
week. He went on:

“Perhaps it was there on an ordinary
mission and was to join other vessels
taking part in NATO exercises off Portu-
gal in a few days—but Spanish imagina-
tion quickly made of it Beria’s ‘personal
transport’.”

Sentiment for labor unity

Te tira World Trade Union Congress

t

Meets af Pe2 in Vienna on October 10

@ ta,;. 2 time when profound changes

ion place _in the international

s Le executive bureau of the

® statem ation of Trade Unions said
ent issued recently.

. Citing
tice ag a epee of a Korean armis-
or working people, the
St ; !
Me een said: “If it is possible
ach 2 vernments to negotiate and
inttle Sita why should it not be
ti © organi € workers and their trade
n action ations to agree on com-
Ore tiene basie condition for a
rightiss, a fight for their demands,
a for Sye8 ate and democratic
e Wo <
dial ‘iad in the capitalist, col-
trite With coe onial countries are
Thee’, COnse Ourage against the disas-
ment | pavences of excessive arma-
On t, SUpererni heavy taxes, unemploy-
at aM Untin oitation, encroachments
colg® same tj gia democratic liberties,
ea Profits, as the monopolies make

Teg}. Sh Ow):
aging shes ‘Numbers, the workers are
~ On iy it is necessary to unite in

ne ord .
<a their living

standards. The development of United
action will make it possible to secure
better conditions for achieving organ-
izational unity.”

An editorial in an August WFTU bul-
letin noted that the main characteristic
of the present period “‘is the irresistable
growth in the ranks of the working class
of the determination to unite.”

It said an ever-growing number of
unions affiliated to the, British Trades
Union Congress are “going on record for
international trade union unity, and at
the same time for a lessening in inter-

national tension, unrestricted trade be- .

tween East and West and the complete
independence of their country. .. -

“In the Scandinavian countries, in
Western Germany, in India, Japan, In-
donesia, Canada and even in the USS.,
organizations separated from the WFTU
by the split are not only forcefully de-
manding the restoration of unity, but
are also establishing contact with the
WFTU, taking an active part in the con-
ference of its trade departments and
making known their warm approval of
the appeal issued for the Third World

Trade Union Congress.”

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Step in the right direction

Co should welcome and support: the provincial government's bills
to slap a 10 percent tax on profits from logging operations in excess
of $25,000 beginning October 1, and to raise from four to 10 percent
the tax on basic mine profits above $25,000 after October 1, with new
mines exempted for three years.

The bill providing for a school levy on $150 million worth of
machinery installations to be added to assessment rolls is also a step in the
direction of lightening the tax load now borne by the people and placing
a fairer proportion of that load on the shoulders of big business.

It was only. to be expected that B.C. division of the Canadian

- Manufacturers’ Association, the voice of big business, would hasten into

print with a bitterly-worded brief opposing these government moves. “The
shoulders of industry are no broader than those of the people who work

in industry,’’ complains the brief.

The point is, the pockets of big business are well-lined with profits
garnered from the workers in industry—while the pockets of the workers
have been cleaned out by high prices and heavy taxes. The government
bills do not basically change this situation, but at least they remedy it to
some slight extent. For that reason labor should press for the immediate
enactment of these bills.

BMA refutes Dr. Burns

1 NCREASING public pressure on the federal government to introduce
a long-promised national health scheme found an expression in the
proceedings of the B.C. division of the Canadian Medical Association in.
Vancouver last week. Dr. Charles W. Burns, of Winnipeg, president of
the Canadian Medical Association, felt it necessary to state that doctors
are not opposed to any scheme “‘which will be beneficial to the Canadian
people.’’ But, having said this, he utilized the occasion to deny or distort ©
many of the facts which make such a scheme a national necessity.

For Dr. Burns the decisive argument was what he described as the
“fabulously expensive and unhappy experience’ with stich schemes in
Britain and other countries.

By the sdme token, the best answer is that given by the British
medical profession itself—and this without minimizing in ‘any way the
weaknesses and shortcomings of the British scheme. ;

Before the National Health Service went into effect in 1948, the
British Medical Association claimed that the overwhelming majority of
doctors were bitterly opposed to it,

But in a report made public last week, Dr. Stephen J. Hadfield,
assistant secretary of the British Medical Association, states:

“Forty-five percent of general practitioners applaud the fact that

‘their scope in practice has been widened by the introduction of the

National Health Service.

“Not all of these applaud, or even like, the NHS itself, but on
one point they are clear—they can do more for their patients.

“They speak with relief of being able to prescribe what the patient
needs and to visit him as often as the condition requires, free from the
inhibitive consideration of the patient's purse.” . :

Dr. Burns still speaks of a national health scheme ‘‘if and when
it becomes a necessity.’ He still argues that “no Canadian is denied -
medical treatment be he rich or poor... .’’ The fact is that thousands of
Canadians are struggling to pay doctors’ bills beyond their means and
thousands more are com to defer needed medical treatment be-
cause they cannot afford it. For them a national health scheme is already
a necessity. And doctors, who are in the best position to know these
facts, should be the first to demand an end to the federal government's
procrastination. , .
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