| : : 1 ' : } : : ' The leading capitalist country of the nuclear The word -- and the deed BY LESLIE MORRIS For several years now, since The Bomb, Christmas and New Year greetings have emphasized the word ‘“‘peace.” Even the Royal Bank of Canada, ‘‘our”’ biggest private bank, pays for huge blue billboards carrying the words, ‘‘Peace on Earth.” While some of the New Testament tradition is to be seen in this, it is the devilish evil of The Bomb whch hag brought peace to the forefront in Season’s greetings. The Queen, the Prime Minister, mayors, aldermen, and perhaps even that Member of Parliament who mailed 40,000 cards (without : 8 postage) with the coming election in mind, all talk about peace at Christmas and the New Year. But they do nothing about it. They carry on as usual: with the cold war. - * * * When young Torontonians took the Christmas peace message seriously and did do something about it on Christmas Eve by parading against The Bomb, husky Toronto police hauled them off to jail for ‘unlawful assembly.”’ Who are the best Canadians? * * * The formerly rich Cubans who landed on the Playa Giron and murdered women and children are called “brave young men’”’ by President Kennedy and “‘heroes” by the Toronto Daily Star’s corres- pondent Val Sears—both of whom also talk peace. But Fidel Castro releases the murderous hooligans to get the Medicines for Cuban women and children which the American em- bargo robs. them of. Who are the true advocates of peace and goodwill toward men? * * * Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, from the sunny (and Jim Crow) Bahamas sends a Christmas message to Canadians extolling the story of “the manger.’ Only a few days earlier he had sat’ in, without protest, to hear Kennedy and Macmillan tell about the new plan to make NATO a nuclear force so that millions could, at the American order, be blasted from the face of the earth. Is that the ‘“‘moral of the manger,” John? * * * The depraved military strategists in the Pentagon talk about “peace” via pre-emptive war, that is, striking first at the Soviet Union. The Kennedy government, which was ready to pour parachute troops, tanks and aircraft into Cuba on that never-to-be-forgotten Sunday, Oct. 28, poses as the Christian “guardian of the peace,” On Christmas Day, the U.S. military was busily slaughtering Vietnamese peasants, for “‘peace.’’ ss The Soviet government (against whom the minds of millions of Canadians by ‘peaceful poeple’? have been poisoned) stopped the invasion of Cuba and prevented world nuclear war on Sunday, Oct. . 28. The USSR is damned as the “anti-Christ.” Who is the anti-Christ? The Christian leader or the Communist? “over-kill” or the lead- ing socialist country whose foreign policy is peaceful coexistence and a world without weapons and without war? * * * Peace is a fine sentiment alright, but if it is only a sentimental and a pious wish, it is worthless. : i The unreconstructed militarist can also talk “peace. Herbert Kahn of the Rand Corporation wrote a book whose Message was that world peace can be secured and U.S. capitalism preserved by a nuclear war that would take 60,000,000 American lives and at least the same number of Soviet lives but permit “free egter- Prise” to rise from the ashes. That is the‘ peace’ of the Pentagon. The only sensible peace is: the peaceful coexistence of countries with different systems: no war between the USA and the USSR, be- tween Cuba and the USA, between China and the USA, between China and India, between Canada and the USA, and so on, all around the world. * * * Peaceful coexistence means that nations must settle their differ- ences without resorting to arms—and some of those differences may’ take 50 to 100 years to settle. There is only one alternative to world-wide peaceful coexistence, and that is world-wide thermonuclear war. That is what war and peace means in 1963. Nothing more, nothing less. This is a revolutionary new idea, which expresses modern reality, the reality of socialism and capitalism in the same world and the same thermonuclear age. It hag not yet sunk into the minds of the People of the western countries. = & The people of Russia realize it, as do their fri Socialist countries. But the people of Canada and the USA do not, at least, sufficient numbers to change present government policies. * * * When the world reached the brink of themonuclear war over Cuba millions were shocked into realizing that their monotonous and ordinary life—wofk, home, TV, sport, the car, the kids—was ners to be atomized without warning. Then many of.them acted, in their Own way; they wrote letters to the newspapers, they stayed aes and worried (which is a primitive form of acting); they expresse' their great relief when the crisis was overcome. Then they sank back into passivity. 2 ah Other alee Canadiang supported the U.S. action in Cuba, which meant that they either did not understand the two choices— coexistence or annihilation—or were politically ill enough to prefer annihilation, rather to be ‘‘dead than Red”, as the sick joke goes. As though that was the choice, instead of life or death. : * * * will be required, and how many more ends in other not in How. many more ‘‘Cubas”’ WILLIAM KARDASH, veter- an Canadian Communisi, nar- rowly missed being elected to Winnipeg’s Metro Council in a by-election on Dec. 27. He polled 928 first choice votes compared to 1,062 for NDP candidate Sidney Green who was elected. Kennedy in Orange Bowl zaniest bowl game of all The relief of the entire world at having avoided nu- clear war in 1962 was no- where to be found at Presi- dent Kennedy’s performance at Miami’s Orange Bowl at the yearend. when he emo- tionally embraced Cuban in- vasion leaders. Leading news services and papers openly questioned the wisdom of the U.S. president giving open support to these reactionary forces. The Times-Post Service said his participation ‘‘was one of the most unusual spectacles a President of the U.S. has ever taken part in. There was no official explanation of why the President decided to take part in a meeting that was . Was supercharged with appeals ECCLES (British Daily Worker) “This talk about unemployment seems greatly exaggerated— my staff are all working overtime!” young men and women must be arrested by an officious police, be- fore Canadians wake up to their present peril? If Canadians permit the government of Canada, by using the trick of smuggling through the nuclear armament of Canadians overseas before getting at the Bomarc question, to put over the American policy of nuclear arms for Canada, we may pay dearly for such stupidity. If Canada becomes a nuclear appendage of the USA history may exact a terrible price. If U.S. bases remain in our country, themonuclear fire. we are in the line of * * * Communists are often accused of exaggerating. Perhaps, in our zeal we do, sometimes. : But is there exaggeration here? Is it not an understatement t say that Canada will be in even greater danger if she becomes an unsinkable (but explodable) nuclear platform for the USA? Wht would it mean? The next time the President of the USA bows to the ultra-Right and the Pentagon, and there will be a next time, the telephone will be lifted and the instructions given (by an American) to Canadian air crews and the men who man the Bomarcs in Ontario and Quebec. From the first screaming moment of such a crisig Canada would be directly entangled as a North American nuclear satellite of the USA, right next door. And this without a ‘‘by your leave’’. It is all very well for Prime Minister Diefenbaker to mumble about ‘‘consultation’’ before action. That is poppycock. The logic of the situation would supersede any such niceties. : If an underling lifted the red. telephone in John Kennedy’s, hideaway and announced the need for action, that would be con- sultation, American style. The biggest event of 1962 was Cuba—the grim determination of the USA to invade Cuba and the compromise initiated by the Soviet Union, which stopped world war and the invasion of Cuba, and gave peace a new breathing space,—but only a space. Cuba at a flash showed the truth about the world crisis. The best resolution we can make for 1963 is to be ready for new crisis. We understand that the Soviet Union and its socialist partners cannot by themselves save the world from war. The people of the West must save themselves. This requires more action for peace in Western countries like our own, more demonstrations against nuclear arms in Canada, more propaganda for peace, a bigger peace movement; a change in foreign policy towards disengagement and neutrality. Either peaceful coexistence or thermonuclear war. The word has to become the deed. The desire for peace, so widespread, has to become public action for peace. There igs still time, although the hour is late. for war on Cuban Premier Fidel Castro.” Hearst Headline Service’s _ Marianne Means wrote from Florida, “President Kennedy treading on _ sensitive ground ... as he spoke to the Cuban revolutionaries. By his presence at their ceremony, the President gave tacit sup- port to the Cuban Revolution- ary Council, and all that it stands for. And what at least a large group of these Cuban leaders now stand for is an- other invasion.” The San Francisco Chron- icle expressed editorial con- cern: ‘Without calling for a war of liberation to begin on any named day, the President managed to convey a certain warlike feeling.” The editorial pointed out that while “no one reading the speech . . . would find in it any precise commitment (and) the words did not actu- ally go beyond the conven- tionalities of post-1961 Am- erican policy looking toward the downfall of the Castro re- gime .. . the mood did, and it is a good bet that the 40,- 000 exiles who were in the stands have taken it as an explicit promise of American help in the physical over- throw of the Castro regime by revolt.” The Chronicle ended with the warning: “It is notorious- ly unwise of statesmen in a host country to what the ex- pectations of exiles for a triumphant return to their home'cnd . . . The day may come when President Ken- nedy will regret his fiery ex- uberance in his speech to the Cubans.” Leading clubs announced The Press Committee has announced the winning clubs in last fall’s circulation drive. Leading club in the proy- ince was South Surrey, which achieved 28 subs on a quota of 15 (187% of their objec- tive). Runner-up in the prov- ince was Kamloops, with 20 subs on a quota of 15 (133%). Both these clubs deserve a hearty vote of thanks from all for their outstanding, ex- emplary work in building the press. In the city, the committee felt it would be impossible to declare a winner because Vancouver East and Edmonds were so close that being plac- ed second would have been unfair to either of them. Al- though Edmonds raised 39 subs on their quota of 30 (130%) to Vancouver Easi’s 102 on 90 (113%) there were other factors to consider, such. as collectivity of work, num- ber of members in club, age of members, and so on. North Burnaby (61 subs on 50, for 122%) and North Shore (82 on 75, for 109%) also had excellent showings, but these were due more to the work of some individuals than to club work generally. In next week’s issue of the PT. we will announce the winners of the prizes award-, ed to the best individual press builders during the annual circulation drive. > TJah? 1; -1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7