URING the first world war the
“Wall Street merchants of death
cashed in handsomely, by mostly
staying out of it, and selling their
armament wares to both sides in
_ the conflict.

In world war two Wall Street
aid even better since its financial
and industrial tycoons supplying
the tools of war insisted upon a
“cost-plus” return on their ‘pay-
triotism’. A new crop of multi-
millionaires and fortunes resulted,
and which made the profit returns
from the 1914-18 blood bath look
like peanuts.

But a decade or more of coldwar
“saving” the world for the Wall
Street way-of-life has proved by
far the most profitable. Now a
$50 billion “defense” (read war)
budget, with President Kennedy
steadily giving it a boost upwards
is the mode. Even then we hear
hes Street tycoons howling - it

n’t nearly enough to keep the |

Stree world” free, and are demand-
ing it be doubled?

That’s why, in Wall Street lan- —

guage, Peace is “subversive.”
* * *

ONDAY of this week Krupps

of Essen, West Germany,

celebrated its 150th anniversary
with.a big fanfare in Bonn.

This gigantic steel, coal and en-

gineering cartel, now owned by ex-

tiazi criminal Herr Alfred Krupp, —

has been in the business of German
armaments since the beginning of
the 19th century. It served the war
needs of “Der Kaiser”, of Adolph
Hitler, and now of Herr Adenauer.

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areas neat .

Under the Potsdam Agreement
the Krupp empire was to be broken
up and never again permitted to
arise as a war industry, while an
international court convicted
Krupp as a war criminal.

Now all is “forgiven”, Krupp has
got his armament empire back, and
together with other Hitlerite crim-
inals, has become our indispensible
“ally”. Meanwhile his armament
trust has grown “so big a buyer
cannot be found’ so Krupp’s own-.
ership is no longer disputed.

The main faetor however, is that
Krupps is so essential to the war
plans of the West German revan-
chists and their U.S. and British
NATO backers, that  Krupp’s
“ownership” is and likely will re-

main intact. Hoch der NATO und

Krupp?

HE attempt through reaction-
-ary legislation te ban the Com‘

‘munist Party of the U.S. by

compelling it to “register as the
agent of a foreign power”, and to
“Supply the justice department

~with the names of its members”

is not without historical precedent.

An aggressive foreign policy of
arrogant interference, armed : in-
tervention and war against other
states and peoples is invariably ac-

‘companied by reactionary attacks

upon civil liberties at home. That
is one of the inherent character-
istics of imperialism, - intensified
during periods of crisis and deeay.

Gus Hall, general secretary of

the Communist Party of the
has replied: to this monstrous ¢
cree: “We will not betray the ¢

fidence of-a single member of the —

Party nor a single Party su
porter.”
. Courageous words these, trul

typical of the great Marxist- Len- oe
inist party of the American work- =

ingclass; words of courage. and

defiance which should ring through a
every corner of Canada and the

U.S., to the end that freedom of

speech and opinion and the dignity

- of man shall not~ be destroyee a in
the war conspiracies of. U.S. i
perialism and its “free world” a
men.

NDP vs Tory ‘CD’

“HARGING that the Diefen-
baker government’s. recent
civil defense exercise ‘Tocsin B’
was designed to divert public at-
tention from the government’s lack
of adequate defense, NDP national
leader T. C. Douglas is quoted as
telling an NDP nominating con-
vention in Toronto last week that
“Gf the government believes there
is danger of a nuclear war it should
assist in building public shelters.”

“Shelters” are not a matter of
what a Tory government “be-
lieves”, but what it is doing. Two
billion dollars or more annually
down the NATO-NORAD arms
drain, and which, regardless of
Tory ministerial evasions or seem-
ing contradictions, is based upon
a “nuclear strategy” as laid down
by Washington.

In line with this, the need to
create in Canada a war psychosis,

with CD as the government’s key

instrument. for the promotion of

war hysteria. Hence “Tocsin B

with Dief as top salesman for citi”

zen “fallout shelters” ... at cline
expense on all counts.

The difference on this vital is:

sue between NDP leader Douglas

and Tory Dief is merely one of |
degree: the Tory “deplores” nue |
clear war, but does his best tO ©
involve Canadians in the accept; ]
The NDP |

ance of such horror.
leader is. mainly concerned with
_its prepatory hysteria and calls for

“public” shelters instead of private —

ones, aS a means of providing
adequacy for Tory . “defense”
policies?

The NDP leader should know!
from observation if nothing elsé¢
that Canadians want no shelters,
private or “public”. What they do.
want, and what is most disturbing
to Dief. and his U.S. and NATO
bosses, is NO- NUCLEAR WA
Period.

Tom
McEwen

ing commission in the Congo
has just tabled its report on events

golese President Patrice Lumumba

ice Mpolo.
_ It is an interesting report and
what we have seen of it makes
pretty horrible reading. This dast-
ardly act we are told, was com-
mitted “in the presence of high
officials of Katanga province,” in-
cluding Katanga “premier” Moise
Tshombe. Two Belgain
aries” are also mentioned, a Cap-
tain Gat and a Col. Huyghe.

The real killers of course are

A UNITED NATIONS investigat-.
surrounding the murder of Con-

last January, together with his two -
_ministers Joseph. Okito and Maur- °

“mercen-

not mentioned, the leaders and
stooges of Western imperialism:
Just a couple of Belgian ‘“mercen-
aries’ and their native _under-
studies.

In a burst of honesty (or was it
fear that history would ultimately
eatch up?) the UN commission
opines that Congo “‘president’’ Jos-
eph Kasavubu and -his aides, as
well as Moise Tshombe “‘should not
escape responsibility for the death

of .LLumumba and his two associ-
ates.”

- No one would quarrel with that —

peatirendation: were it not for:
“the probability that it is designed
»for an -all together" ‘different pur-
pose; to serve as a cover-up of the

- real killers, and to provide “moral”

sanction for more violence against
the Congolese people.

Back in*July- of 1960 the UN-
-Security.. Council adopted a two-
fold resolution: to give every aid

to the legitimate Lumumba. gov-

ernment of the newly independent
‘Congo Republic in order. to estab-
lish itself in all its many functions
and no less important, to help clear
the Congo of its erstwhile Belgian
and other imperialist exploiters.
It is already known how the
late secretary-general of the UN,
Dag Hammarskjold executed the
orders of the Security Council by
doing just the opposite. By mak-
ing it impossible for the Lumumba
government to function; by utiliz-
ing UN armed forces, not to create
central government authority, but
by making the Congo and its prov-
inces the centre of Western im-
perialist intrigues, plots, provoca-
tions and violence. By promoting’
provincial secession and giving ‘“‘de
facto” recognition to the Tshombe,
Mubutu, Kasavubu “strong men”
of the Congo? “Strong men”, ready
and willing to do the bidding of
this or that bloc of Western im- -
perialism, up to and including cold-

=in a plane “accident” in Rhodesia, -
a couple of months ago, and the

-murderers ‘“‘should not escape re~

blooded murder and massacre.

It was in the promotion of such
imperialist conspiracies that the —
UN. secrétary-general met his death.

civil war and imperialist interven-
tion which now dominates the
Congo scene is one unquestionable
“memorial” -to his prowess, aS a
willing tool for the colonialist and.
expansionist intrigues of U.S. and
Western imperialism.

The fine words of bourgeois “‘in-
dignation” now heard in ‘the press
and elsewhere since the UN report:
onthe foul murder .of Patrice
Lumumba. and its desire that the

sponsibility”. are quite touching,
but nothing else.

Least of all do they mean that.
Western imperialism and its forked-
tongue spokesmen in the UN or
out of it, will now contritely ac-
cept “responsibility” for their
crimes in the Congo.

Tt could be said that “‘if? the UN,
working for world disarmament
and peace, and free from U.S. and.
Western imperialist domination,
could fix “responsibility” and end
foreign-promoted civil strife, dis-
unity and violence in the Congo;
could restore the Congo Republic
and its legitimate government to .
the eminence of independence it
won from Belgian imperialism, that
would be responsibility.

But that is still a big “if.”

—

November. 24, 1861—PACIFIC TRIBUNE 4