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onday’s speech by U.S. Presi-
dent Kennedy with its 7-
point “program” brought the
world to the brink of war. On that
there should be no idle specula-
tion.

Never since the end of World
War II has the grave threat of
devastating thermonuclear war
been greater than it is at this mo-
ment; and upon U-S.-created is-
sues, every one of which could be
settled by. peaceful negotiation
were the ruling circles of the U.S.
so inclined?

Only a bare week prior to Ken-
nedy’s fateful speech, President
Dorticos of Cuba, addressing the
United Nations General Assem-
bly, appealed for just such peace-
ful negotiation of differences be-
tween his country and the U.S.
For American war-mad_ circles

the Cuban leader’s appeal fell on™

deaf ‘ears.

But the core of the Kennedy
“brinkmanship” ultimatum is not
Cuba but the Soviet Union. Cuba
is only “incidental” to the virtual
declaration of war against the
USSR, implicit in point 1 and 3
of the presidental “ultimatum”.

These and other “points” in the
speech assume that it is “lawful-
ly” proper for the U.S. to have
“defensive” missile and other
bases scattered around the world
within easy striking distance of
the Soviet Union, but highly

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‘no war’

“dangerous” to “the U.S. and the
Western Hemisphere ... ” for
Cuba to have similar weapons of.
defence, [assuming that such
weapons do exist?].

It is clear, of course, that in
the Kennedy masterplan of “brink-
manship” in the tight naval block-

ade of Cuba, that another attempt.

is also planned for the ultimate
smashing of Cuba. Otherwise why
the massive build-up of US.
Marines at the U.S.held Guantan-
amo base in Cuba?

All - else aside however, the
prime and central concern of all
peace-loving peoples in Canada,
the Americas and elsewhere at
this decisive and grave moment,
is NO WAR, and again NO WAR.

The utilization of every facility -

of the United Nations, of peace-
ful- negotiations, of the mass will
of the common people through
their governments, their MP’s,
their trade unions and every me-
dia of expression and protest; de-
claring unitedly and with grim de-
termination — NO WAR

In this perilous moment in his-
tory, world peace is infinitely
more important to humanity than;
the partisan fortunes of Republi-
can or Democrat, or the reckless
ambitions of a self-appointed U.S.
gendarmerie to rule the world.
Hence the clarion call for NO
WAR and peaceful negotiation
transcends all else.

Next stop-Victoria

HE signal victory of NDP na-
tional leader T. C. Douglas in
the Burnaby-Coquitlam federal
byelection Monday of this week,
projects many important lessons
for B.C. working people.
Not the least of these is the
realization that given the need-
ed unity and determination to

face up to the vital issues of the -

moment, peace, jobs, resources,
labor legislation, etc., the NDP-
Douglas victory can be repeated
tenfold in the next provincial
election—and the Socred Bennett
government “retired” for good.
The Douglas vote was double
that of all his other four oppon-
ents lumped together, a fine ex-
ty of “no confidence” in
iberal, Socred and Tory alike.
That perspective should be
carried forward by the NDP—to
oust the political partisans of
monopoly and win the _parlia-
ments of Canada for the people.

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EDITORIAL PAGE

‘Dope’ and H-bomb:

ANADIANS who have swal-

lowed the “no nuclear arms”
sophistry of External Affairs
Minister Howard Green got a
rude awakening last week when
Defense Minister Douglas Hark-
ness tossed Green’s transquilizers.
aside and laid Canada on the
thermonuclear chopping block,
“committed” in advance to any
and all U.S.-NATO war adven-
tures and provocations.

“Canada is heavily committed
in maintaining Western rights in
Berlin” quoth Harkness, and
Canadians must be “willing to
accept their share of the common
burden”?

All the Tory talk and evasions
on and about nuclear arms in
Canada is now seen for what it

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Editorial comment...

WO months ago several hun-
dred people in certain areas
of West Bengal, India were sud-
denly stricken with a deadly
paralysis. The government imme-
diately set its medical and scien-
tific machinery to work in search
for the causes.

Finally the Calcutta School of
Medicine came up with the an-
swer: ‘“‘triorthocrecyl phosphate
[TCP-JBM], a chemical agent
largely used as a lubricant in the
paint industry and the industries
associated with plastics.”

Obviously “foreign aid” had
not confined its TCP-JBM to
lubricants but had got a lot of it

Commen!\

is—a piece of shameful Tory
ceit. Unlike the Tory “tranql
izer” Green, Harkness not o
“commits” Canada beforehand
any NATO-NORAD nuclear
which such “alliance” may
leash, but makes it obligato
that Canada “must be prepared
participate in any one of —
various types of warfare in W
the Western alliance might
come involved.”

In brief, nuclear arms for
ada_and “committal” in adv
to “any type” of war decided ¥
by NATO [read U.S. impel
ism]; both at terrible cost
Canada in terms of world P
tige, material resources,
human life.

mixed up in wheat flour. ~
West Bengal Government’s t@
announcement added “the fl0
came from the USA.”

Another “Soviet invasiot
Hungary has donated the ft
equipment for a modern 100-P!
hospital to Algiers. Carried ’
chartered planes the load consi
ed of X-ray and _ electro-car
graph apparatus, medical
surgical instruments of all §
100 beds, 300 mattresses, 4
stock of bedding, and clothing
both doctors and nurses.

The Hungarian Internatio
Solidarity Committee final
and sponsored the project. _

"oryism and “empire” are syn-
ae onomous, Demagogue or
dumbell or combination of both,
every Tory we ever knew could
always work himself into a fine
hysterical lather on the “glories

of empire’.
To suggest even mildly that
their “empire” would inevitably

have its ‘sunset’? was akin to high
treason. Countless thousands have
been “democratically” hanged,
shot, tortured and imprisoned for
harboring just such “dangerous
thoughts.”

Liberalism too, regardless of
whether it sported an upper or
lower case “L” has been equally
noisy on the subject of ‘‘empire”’,
The only difference between these
sturdy props of ‘empire’ has
generally gravitated around the
issue of high tariffs, low tariffs, or
no tariffs at all as such might ap-
ply to maximum exploitation and
profit.

For the student interested in the
“evolutionary” process from “em-
pire” to “Commonwealth”, volum-
inious materials are readily avail-
able. Suffice it to say here that
the corroding processes of two
world wars, plus a whole series of
lesser ones, have accelerated the
shift from “empire” to “Common-
wealth,” the latter an “entity” re-

ball of wool after a couple of play-
ful kittens have finished with it,
rumpled, ravelled, and for the
most part, disreputable.

Perhaps we of this generation
probably live too close to History
to savor its full impact, but Tory
Britain’s insistent entry into the
European Common Market (ECM)
(at U.S. prodding), in spite of
“Commonwealth” fears, alarms
an opposition, heralds the final
twilight of our “glorious Empire
and commonwealth,”

Who woud have dreamed that
we would live to see that “true-
blue-empire loyalist’ Toryism in
its present-day crisis of class des-
peration, pulling the rug out from
under the “Commonwealth” and
all that it is supposed to represent,
with an ECM hook supplied by

Washington stamped with an
Adenauer-de Gaulle ‘“trade-
mark’?

Who indeed? And what of that
centuries-old parasitic appendage
of “Empire and Commonwealth”,
to wit, royalty? Can it survive in
an ECM-ized “Commonwealth”
with an Adenauer, a deGaulle, a

' Kennedy or their successive car-

bon-copies calling the shots for
the new ECM ‘“super-state’’?

No doubt the Tory ‘experts’ on
royal prerogatives, status and so
on, as in the days of Stanley
Baldwin on the “romantic” abdi-
cation of a king, will search dili-
gently for ‘solutions’ to perpetu-
ate this last symbol of “empire.”
But it will be a fruitless quest. '

An ECM-ized “United States of
Europe,” built as an economic
buttress under a nuclearized NA-
TO, will have its own brand of

. bound with many democratic.

reme rule of the  internatio?
monopoly cartel, directed —
Bonn, Washington and Paris.

In the stout and time-tested
ditions of the British monar¢

(if albeit illusive ones) with *
British people, it has often bé ;
said that the staid British w
ingclass might one day “march ©”
the barricades” for a Social
Britain singing God Save T
Queen instead of the Red Flag
Be that as it may or “migh
have-been”, the British Tori
caught on the horns of a dilem™
of their own making, are ne
working overtime to barter away
the Commonwealth as the a
of entry into ECM. Should i:
Tory ECM-NATO deal be cons
mated, the “hide” of royalty mus
inevitably go with the comm?
wealth “horns”, and the embi€”
of a new “sovereignty” fly from
the British masthead — a "© B
“Star Spangled Banner” with a z
H-Bomb and the $ sign super?”
posed. i
We have never lost any SIé
when any of old Europe’s “crow,
ed heads” have been reduced ie
a stint of honest work for a liv@
hood, but an old and fittin8
descriptive question, once pose"
by the Bard of Avon on the
mise of a former great ‘“emP
comes to mind: eh,
“Are all thy conquests, triumphs
glories, Ps
Sunk to this small measure?
One fortunate aspect of
ECM insanity — its the Tories

ire’

is”
and
re

not the Communists wh?
“liquidating” the “Comm
wealth.”

sembling nothing so much as a

‘ruling monarchs’ — the sup-.

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