No H-arms for Bonn ON Wednesday of this week the first ship of the multi- lateral force of nuclear rocket firing vessels is to be launched “experimentally”. This is the first of a fleet of 25 ships with 200 Polaris rockets which are to be manned by NATO countries, including West Germany. The MLF is being sponsored by the U.S. and pushed by the Bonn government. The West German contingent will be the second largest in the fleet, next to the U.S., and Bonn is putting up 40 percent of the cost. It’s an open secret that the MLF is the means devised by the NATO countries to answer West Germany’s desire to get its finger on the nuclear trigger. The MLF is the opening wedge to arm Hitler’s ex-generals with nuclear weapons. The Soviet Union, in a note this week to NATO powers, warned that these moves will have “undesirable consequences’. The note pointed out that the MLF isa flagrant violation of the international commitments enter- ed into after the surrender of Hitler. Nevertheless, the U.S. appears determined to go ahead. Canada cannot sit idly by and allow nuclear arms to fall into the hands of the revenge-seeking clique in Bonn. We should speak up now by demanding that the MLF be scrapped without delay. Goldwater threat THE eyes of all the world will be on San Francisco’s Cow Palace this week where the Republican Conven- tion is in session. At the time of writing all signs point to the nomination of extreme rightist Barry Goldwater as ~ presidential candidate. The fact that a man of Goldwater’s pro-fascist and pro-war views could go as far as he has is a shock to all peace-minded and democratic people everywhere. His nomination will mean that the ultra-right has. captured control of the Republican Party. Seg “Let me show you how Ike won in ’52!”” Only a few years ago he was dismissed as having no chance, much as Hitler was dismissed in pre-war Germany, as a mad-man. But Hitler became a threat to the world forces made him their man. and Germany when powerful industrial and reactionary Likewise, Barry Goldwater is today a threat to the world and the U.S. because the reactionary forces in the U.S. have united behind him and made him their man in the drive to war, against civil rights, and to curb labor and the democratic forces in the U.S. Canadians will watch the results in San Francisco with a little more than interest — they will watch it with grave concern. The case against Archie Brow under the Landrum-Griffin law real meant the rank and file of a ¥™ couldn’t choose their officers thro 4 democratic procedure and unt rules of their own constitutio Appeals Court held that this Pl vision of the law was contrary !© Constitution of the United States When the International Exe Board decided to contest thet Brown case, the Board decided that the question of Brown's member of the Communist Party not the real issue. The union’s Per was that we could not let this prive the rank and file of the to select people as officers OF to the rank and file to amend th laws. Of course, it makes se” those best able to decide wh make good union officers ' F workers who work with peoP the job. They are in a better P ~ to judge than some outside 4 —HARRY BRIDGES, The DisP' Note these facts from the o” human idiocy. The U.S. navy he nuclear - powered, nuclear~ or submarines in operation. Some more are being built which m 88 nuclear subs will soon be Pl the seas with a total of at least Polaris missiles. - Each missile has the dest power of all the bombs dropP® _all combatants in the last war the realities of military comP® we can be sure that the ® either have, or soon will havé least as much underwater nuclear pacity as fhe Americans. continental missiles, as W® nuclear bombs at this mln _borne in U.S. bombers and piled at airfields. : Land, sea and air are now than overloaded with nuclear © kill. If the human race surviv' people of 2064 and 2164 @ to look back on us as cra ages.—FINANCIAL POST. | Nazism, He told me howDresden _ had hardly been touched by bomb- ing raids during the whole of the Those people who thought the ‘ : cold war was first launched by _ od : ~ Later, when I toure@ Tom McEwen is away on hojiday for a few weeks. In place of his regular column the PT will, over next few weeks, bring our read- ers guest columns. This week’s column is by MAURICE RUSH, PT Associate Editor. ~ Py cading a review of a recent book by David Irving entitled “The Destruction of Dresden’? brought to mind some long chats I had with the editor of one of Dresden’s largest newspapers a few years ago, while visiting the Soviet Union, Dresden is one of the largest cities in the German Democratic _Republic and lies not far from Leipzig in south-east Germany, In the closing days of the war a massive air raid was carried out by allied bombers which de- stroyed the city and killed 135,000 men, women and children, The massacre of Dresden was “carried through with great ~ secrecy andthe details surround- ing the attack have been kept under wraps, David Irving’s book, according to the reviewer, brings out some aspects of the massive bombing attack which have never hitherto been known, He tells how the British air command carried through a deception so that the air crews, chosen to execute the German populace when the war was virt- ually over, would not know the true nature of the attack — which was the destruction of this large - city and the decimation of the population, - The crews were told that their target was variously a ‘German army headquarters,”’ ‘fa main supply centre,’’ ‘‘a large poison gas plant,’’ ‘‘a Gestapo head- quarters,’’ and ‘‘a vital ammun- ition work,’”’ When one briefing officer told his crews the truth— - that the attack was to wreck the city and kill as many people as possible — there was consider- Rem R as ae The editor of the Dresden newspaper, with whom I spent a few days in a holiday centre a few miles from Moscow, lived in Dresden throughout the war and during the terrible raid, -working underground against war because it was not considered an important military target, However, it was a large and -important administrative centre in east Germany, Just a few days before the Red Army entered the city, when the Russian army was actually on the outskirts, hundreds of allied bombers came over onenight and carried through indiscriminate bombings which completely de- © stroyed the city. The population was totally unprepared for the attack because it was known by everyone that within hours, or days, the city would fall to the Red Army, Its capture was a foregone conclusion, When the Red Army entered the city hours after the bombing, it was a ruined shell; in addition to mountains of dead, hundreds of thousands were left homeless and destitute, Smoke was still rising from the ruins as the Red Army marched in, ~ able dissatisfaction among them, — My friend told me that the only logical explanation for destruc- | tion of the city was that the al- © lied command knew it would soon fall into Russian hands and that the -city would be one of the major centres of population in the Eastern Zone of Germany left ~ intact, Winston Churchill’s speech at Fulton, Missouri in 1946, should’ ponder the fate of Dresden, The fact is that long before the war ended the western military, and some political leaders, were al- ready waging the cold war, The long postponement of the Second Front was one aspect of this, the decimation of Dresden was another, A few weeks before I met the editor from Dresden I spent a short while in Prague, and here _I found out how, in the closing days of the war, the giant Skoda_ _ works, which were hardly damag-- ed during the war, were viciously bombed and virtually wrecked by allied planes, Here again the aim was to prevent this industrial, 'Paci il Omak