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Murder must not go

HE conspiratorial move now on foot to re-
lease Nazi SS General Kurt Meyer from
Dorchester Penitentiary, does not stem from
any high motive of justice or human decency.
Quite the contrary.

Having dragged Canada (that is the cor-
rect term) into the aggressive war adventures
of Yankee imperialism, top political and mili-
tary brass in Ottawa and other dollar-domin-
ated centres find. themselves desperately in
need of “allies”, Any kind of “allies” so long
as they subscribe to the cold-war doctrine of

‘hate for all who do not join in Wall Street’s
‘war dance.

Hisory leaves the war incendiaries small
choice in the matter of-allies. At every step
on the way to the global war they seek to
launch against the people, they are compelled
to pick up the very dregs of fascism, and lab-
el this human carrion as “democrats.”

Eisenhower's infamous formula for “un-

ity” with the remnants of Hitler’s and Hiri- .

hoto’s generals — “Let bygones be bygones”
— puts a Yankee trade-mark of approval on
the selection of “allies”. Under this formula
Canadians face the prospect of marching in
“distinguished company”... with the confess-
ed and convicted murderers of countless thous-
ands of Canada’s best sons.

A few short days ago a Yankee-domina-
ted tribunal released the top Junker munitions
maker Krupp. A famous British newspaper
carried a half-page cartoon on the event, show-
ing the great killer leaving prison, with the
caption: “Collect your cash and guns on the
way out.” '

Cynical? Yes, but it didn’t tell the whole
story, the story of powerful Yankee and Brit-
ish financial interests which collect vast divi-
dends from Krupps, gloating over the pros-
pects of new pyramids of blood money,

Francisco Franco, the butcher of Repub-
lican Spain, at the insistence of war-mad
Washington, has also been, admitted into the

free

“democratic community of free nations’!

’ Franco comes into the dollar war camp with

splendid credentials. Nor should one forget
that U.S.-anointed “democrat,” Chiang Kai-
shek, in Formosa, from whom great things
are still hoped in the battle for “our free way
of life’; Chiang, together with his horde of
Soongs, Kungs and other kindred leeches who
have amassed huge fortunes from the murder
of their own people, have done very well by
themselves. As new “allies” of Western im-
perialism, they. hope to add materially to their
hoard of wealth —- and to their staggering
total of murder.

The Nueremberg trials were “all a mis-
take,” according to Yankee warmongers and
their punch-and-judy yes men in London, Ot-
tawa and elsewhere. . The warmongers are
now busy correcting this “mistake” by the
wholesale release and arming of the foul rem-
nants of German Nazism and Japanese fase-
ism, to swell the ranks of our “allies”.

Now they are considering adding Nazi
SS General Kurt Meyer to their list of “al-
lies.” Scores of Canadian prisoners of war from

noted Canadian regiments were murdered in

cold blood on Meyer's orders.-Hundreds of
Canadian homes moutn a lost father, son or
brother because the risks of war threw ‘them
into the hands of this bloody Nazi. Yet Ot-
tawa, under the Eisenhower “let bygones be
bygones” formula to “win allies,” is consider-
ing the release of this convicted murderer of
Canadians!

Protests are rolling in to Ottawa from
many organizations and individuals. But these
protests must become an avalanche, so. power-
ful that Ottawa will not only not dare to free
this Nazi fiend, but will take those steps nec-
essary to mete out the full measure of justice
he so richly merits. To give Kurt Meyer his

freedom is to outrage the living and the dead, -

not only in Canada but in all lands where men
and women fought and died to end the scourge
of fascism imperialism.

— The saboteurs are known!

OME three weeks ago the Duplessis Bridge
at Thre Rivers, Quebec, collapsed, carry-
ing several carloads of persons to injury and
death. Had the bridge collapsed during the
daily rush-hours of heavy traffic, the death
toll would have been considerably higher.

Premier Maurice Duplessis issued a state-

ment on the disaster. Screaming press head-

lines gave wide prominence to his blast. “Red

sabotage destroys bridge,” “Communist sab-

otage causes bridge collapse,” and so on. In
his message of condolence to relatives of the

_ bridge victims, Duplessis promised a “full

investigation of Red sabotage.”

The Duplessis Bridge was sabotaged all
right — but not by the “Reds”, The real sabo-
teurs were the Duplessis contractors. who
pocketed millions of the taxpayers’ money to
build a bridge of concrete and steel but who
built it mostly of sand and water!

Duplessis wants no “investigation” into
the fall of this Quebec bridge. He knows why
it fell. All-his kind seek is a cover up for the
numerous crimes of their regimes. The brok-
en bridge at Trois Rivieres with its toll of
dead is a fitting reminder that the real sabo-
teurs of Canada continue to go scot free,
their crimes hidden behind the current hys-
teria of cold war propaganda.

TOM McEWEN

As We See lt

VERY now and again some correspondent writes us objecting to
the use of the term “Yankee” in our columns. Apparently we
are not alone in this During the deliberations of the recent national
convention of the Labor-Progressive party, a similar “criticism” was
brought to. the delegates’ attention. Such criticism is based on the
erroneous assumption that the use of the descriptive word “Yankee”
refers to the AMerican people as a whole. Nothing could be further
from the truth.

The term “Yankee,” originating inthe early days of the Ameri-
can revolution, and flowering in the rough and tumble of the growth
of a great nation, epitomizes everything that is
reactionary, rotten and retrograde in the historical
development of America. Originally the term was
applied to New England manufacturers. Now it
has become synonymous with American imperial-
ism.

Perhaps a few illustrations will underscore
the point. The notorious Al Capone was featured
by sections of the American press as being “a
great Yankee, ready to defend America against
Bolshevism,” but the same press displayed a dis-
creet silence on Al’s other “Americanisms.” The
Same press has slandered and baited William Z.
Foster, leader of the U.S. Communist party, for
almost half a century, yet Foster stands out and will stand out—as
a great American . :

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That cigar-maker, the late Sam Gomphers of the American Fed-
eration of Labor, was frequently (and correctly) referred to as “a
typical Yankee product,” but Sacco and Vanzetti are remembered by
world labor as great Americans. Today we revere the memory of
Franklin Delano Roosevelt as a great American, although any Gal-
lup poll would have little difficulty in designating Harry Truman as
“a little Yankee haberdasher from Missouri.” :

The aggressiveness of American imperialism is accentuated by

its Yankee complexes of bluster, arrogance, bluff, “bull” and brutality. -

Its-powerful propaganda machine—press, film, radio, television—con-
veys the disease.
“know-how” and the mighty dollar are the standards of the values
it seeks to impose upon other nations and peoples.

Today Yankee imperialism resembles Hitlerism, pin-pointed to a
single theme, kill, kill, kill! Its propaganda agencies gloat over
mounting totals of dead. Yankee “Mikado” MacArthur and Yankee
Truman, now joined in an unholy trinity with Yankee Hisenhower,
shout for more and more human cannot fodder with which to feed
the guns; to kill, to produce mass death by lines.of planes as Ford
used to produce cars. “Our mission” they say, “is to kill Reds”!

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This, while good American mothers write their congressmen_ their
press, their president, appealing for an end to the killing. * Here:
are some extracts from the’ letters-to-the-editor columns of a Tacoma
newspaper. “Why not pull our boys out of Korea and let them come
home where they belong? They don’t know why they are there, I
don’t know, do you? Why don’t the people have a chance to vote
on whether they think it necessary that we go to war. ... Surely
using the ballot on such an issue is more important than voting some
politician into office.” Yankee reaction replies with the demand for
more blood. “Kill!” /

Another mother writes, and we give it in full because it shows
a great American mother saying what many Canadian mothers are
thinking. “I cannot sleep. Will you listen to my plea? TI don’t want
to be a Gold Star mother. That is scant salye on a wound too deep

in the heart to ever entirely heal. Wife of a veteran of World War I. °
Mother of a veteran of World War II. Mother of a new inductee of”

World War III. Grandmother of three little grandsons, For what?
For what? I don’t, want to be a Gold Star mother. Vain futile
words when parents say they’ regret they have no more sons to give
to their country. I don’t want to give my sons to their country. I
want a country to give to my sons, a country they can be proud of,
a country they can strive and work for. A-country where the blood

and limbs and lives of its youth are of more value than dollars and
grepd and. graft. . i. ‘

: A good Canadian lass, now resident in the 'U.S, ,wrote her mother
in: B.C No wonder foreigners think Americans are crazy. Last
week a fire siren in our big plant jammed and rang for 20 minutes.
Everyone thought it was a bomb warning! They jammed the tele-
phone lines, rushed down in the basements, and in general acted like
a bunch of hysterical war-crazed people. . . . Most Americans are
afraid of themselves, not Communism! I am sure this whole pro-
stam of hysteria is planned—so that we all become so tense and

emotional that we will have to explode and sa ‘
war and get it over with.” t ae

But there is a paragraph in this American mother’s letter’ that
breaks through this steel curtain of war hysteria. “According to

The example of peace-loving American men and women voicing
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