An ersatz ‘destiny’

r one of his recent orations on Canada’s “destiny”, Ex-
ternal Affairs Minister Paul Martin declared in Banff
this week that membership in the Organization of Ameri-
can States (OAS) “‘is part of the ultimate destiny of Can-
ada as a country of this hemisphere.”

Knowing that a majority of the Canadian people do
not look with favor upon Canada’s participation in this
OAS “colonial office” for U.S. domination in the countries
of Latin America, Mr. Martin tries out a new pretext. Not
long ago he came up with the idea (under Washington
pressure) that Canada should have “observer” status on
OAS. Now it is “destiny”.

Certainly as a “country of this hemisphere” Canada
does have a role to play in Latin America. The role of a
champion of peace, a defender of the independence and
sovereignty of the nations of Latin America. The role of a
friend and good neighbor, ever ready to help through in -
creased trade and extended credits to combat the hunger,
illiteracy and stark poverty imposed upon these peoples by
U.S. imperialism and its “cannibalistic” native dictator-
ships.

That way lies the “ultimate destiny” of Canada’s re-
lations, policies, and solidarity with the struggling peoples
of Latin America. Our “destiny” must be geared to peace,
to trade and friendship with all the countries of Latin
America and the Carribean; a destiny rendered impossible
by the U.S.-stooge “membership” in OAS now advocated
‘by Washington’s Liberal bellhops in Canada.

Mr. Martin’s OAS “rendezvous with destiny” must
be spiked before it can materialize into another colossal
Liberal betrayal of Canada.

“We shall overcome’

fsa week, August 28, marks the first anniversary of a
: great historic event, the “March con Washington” by
well over a quarter of a million Negro and white Ameri-
cans, demonstrating for civil rights, for equality, for the
elementary right of ‘jobs and freedom” for the Negro
people of America.

Their marching song, powerfully beautiful in its sim-
plicity and strength, echoed in scores of other American
cities by mass demonstrations supporting the Washington
march. And it still echoes around the world.

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“We shall overcome... someday...’

The year that has elapsed since this historic march
has seen untold violence unleashed upon the Negro Am-

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—Sanders in Greensboro News (N.C.)

‘Do not usurp our right to usurp the rights of our
citizens!”’ =

erican people; murder, lynching, burned homes, violence
without equal. The rules of law and order replaced by the
law of the jungle; the “law” of gun, and club and torch,
sparing neither the aged nor the babe in arms. Reason and
tolerance supplanted by an intensified race hate, and state
authorities shouting open encouragement to mob violence
against Americans with Black skins.

Added to this stepped-up saturnalia of race hate and
violence against the Negro people, now the “‘party of Lin-
coln”, captured by the Barry Goldwater-John Birch-Klu-
Klux Klan of ultra-right American reaction and war, util.
izing a U.S. presidential election campaign to drive the
Negro-American back into the foul ghetto of race segrega-

, tion and discrimination.

But the March which echoed around the world one

year ago, will not and can not be halted. Unparalled police
terror and persecution of the Negro people shocks the civ-
ilized world, but it does not halt the marching feet of mil-
lions of Americans, Negro and white. Their goal remains
“equality, jobs and freedom”, and all decent humanity
everywhere marches and sings with them.

Go, too, where brute force
has triumphed

And hypocrisy makes its lair;

And your question will find its

“One flag, one land, one hand,
One Nation evermore”

we. could wind up with a-“flag
election” which will assure that

answer— d we’ll have neither, An easy prey
For the flag of England is for Yankee monopoly, with noth-
theless ing to show for our ever having

a= small “star”

McEWEN

t $18,000 and up per session
for 265 MP’s, tabulated on
the man-hours already spent on
frothy debate on the flag issue,

the bill totals up to quite an ex-.

pensive piece of bunting for the
Canadian taxpayer. And the end
is not yet?

Moreover should this flag be-
come a federal election motif, to
the exclusion of other and more
pressing problems, it will be-
come considerably more costly
to Canada, both in terms of dol-
lars and bi-national unity,

Entirely aside from the un-
challengeable right of the Cana-
dian people to have a flag of
their own design and choosing,
we couldn’t care less about the
current flow of parliamentary
oratory and plain hot air on the
subject of English “heraldry” or
the “British ties,” portrayed in
bunting, which reminds us,
French and English alike, of our

own unmourned colonial past,

A fair sample of this oratory
presently filling the pages of
Hansard and the monopoly press
is that of Mr, John Matheson,
M.P, (Leeds). This M.P. is allin
favor of a distinctive Canadian
flag, embodying “this long-
established sprig of sugar maple
-to portray us to ourselves and
to the world.” With that we can
heartily concur, But the Hon,
Member could have cut his long-
winded dissertation on the ins and
outs of English flags and heraldry
short, by simply referring to the
noted British politician and jour-
nalist, Henry Labouchere (1831-
1912) who demonstrated a much
deeper knowledge of English
heraldry and flags when he wrote:

“Where is the flag of England?

Go sail where rich galleons
come,

With shoddy and ‘loaded’
cottons,

And beer and Bibles andrum,

Labouchere lived in the days
when Britain “ruled the waves,”
when our “far-flung Empire” was
in its heyday, when colonialism,
the English “remittance” man
and the “Anglo-American con-
flict” were tolerably bearable,
and the need to “waive the rules”
hadn't as yet fully emerged, But
Labouchere did know his flag and
the purpose it served inthe ruth-
less game. of “empire building;”
a purpose which should be erased
‘for good in any final choice of a
Canadian flag!

Yet this is precisely the danger
the current debate on the flag
issue is heading into; that of a
rabid Tory jingoism which ob-
structs reasoned debate on a
vital issue which could serve to
unite the Canadian Confederation,
or vice versa, totear itirrepair-
ably asunder, Moreover in the
process, to enable the govern-
ment of the day to sidestep all
other pressing issues of social
security, progress and peace,

Thus instead of Oliver Wendell
Holmes’

been, except
squeezed into an alien constella-
tion!

It might be a good idea, and
we tender it absolutely free of
charge, if our $18,000 MP’s were
to cut down their costly gab on
British heraldry, flags and all
the other resurrected “gran-
deurs” of a dying empire, and
get down to the job of agreeing
upon a distinctive Canadian flag,
symbolic of Canada in its design
and purpose,

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The June 13, 1964 edition of
A.F.L.-C.1.0. News carried a sto”
the effect that Soviet coal expel”
Franco Spain “‘are helping the Spor
Falangist dictatorship to brea
brave fight put up by Spanish Ww
ers.’’ (In this case the striking Ast
miners). The A.F.L.-C.1.O. News $9
is reported as coming from “Oe
underground labor movement. —

In Moscow ¢ Soviet Trade and
merce official stated: ‘‘This is n&™
us. We have no record of any
shipments to Spain, now OF Lis

past.”’
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~ I like international tension. We!
learnt much from Foster Dulles: bn
is our teacher. His policy of brink
ship is directed precisely agains
But we have also learnt the Pp? jh
brinkmanship and we are using
the conflict over Quemoy - - -

I believe that none of you ein
fear international tension. As fo.
like international tension . - -

MAO TSE-TUNG in an inte
with a group of Latin AM
Communist leaders.

(From New Age, India).

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Now, what is happening haunts
entire free world’s conscience
Africa proclaims democracy:
its arms around democracy t? the
barrassment of every America®
Canadian who urges genuine %
racy on the world as a way fons
peace. Almost every Americ
Canadian.

Last year, General Motors di
decided to invest another $30
in South Africa to make more ef
and accessories. Ford added a
$11 million to the invest
Chysler last year increased its P
tion by 80 percent.

Business is booming and that
the segretionist (apartheid) g°
ment rich and popular with its
million whites who elect the 9°
ment. Only whites can vote inne
elections.

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Yankee stars,

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long. ago: “The thingS ~
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written by their lives
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