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vative party to become Social Cred-
iters is now stained by graft, cor-
ruption and betrayal of the people’s
interests. They changed their
names, but not their spots, when
they became Social Crediters. And
some of them are now ready to
change their names back again.

It is therefore no surprise that
the word has gone out to Social
Crediters to vote Conservative if
they are not prepared to vote Social
Credit. ae

All this should be warning aplenty
to those who may be tempted by
Diefenbaker’s plea to “give his gov-
ernment a chance,” that the old
political shell game between the
Conservative, Liberal and Socred
parties can only end with the vot-

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EDITORIAL PAGE

It's a falsehood

URING his. recent visit to Van-
couver, Federal Works Minister
Gordon Churchill stated there is
“nothing to prevent Canadian busi-
ness men from dealing with Red

China.”

That is a brazen falsehood!
Since the People’s Republic of
China was established in 1949, both

Liberals and Tories have religious-

ly followed U.S. dictates to Cana-
da’s detriment: ‘No truck or trade
with Communist China.”

At U.S. dictation, both Liberals
and Tories have consistently refus-
ed to accord diplomatic recognition
to a nation of 600-million people,
itself a restrictive factor in trade
relations.

There are letters on file in Van-
couver export and business offices
from former Trade Minister C. D.
Howe, vetoing exports of lumber,
copper, small coast-wise craft and
other items, on the grounds that
these were “strategic” materials.

During last year’s federal elec-
tion campaign the same brand of
Tory and Liberal humbug was
handed out to the electorate. Speak-
ing at Gibsons, Liberal stalwart
Jimmy Sinclair opined there should
be no difficulty in getting the “first
steps” to trade with China under
way, “if the Chinese behave them-
selves with respect to international
conventions.” That is on a par with
Churchill’s falsehoods of a “no
ban” on trade with China.

Meantime a great potential mar-
ket for Canada in’ People’s China :
is being lost by Conservative and
Liberal default. Mass unemploy-
ment and industrial stagnation now
demonstrate how greatly Canada
needs this market, now withheld
by Conservative and Liberal subor-
dination to U.S. cold war policies,
foreign and domestic — a fact
which can no fonger be covered up
by Tory lies and demagogy, or by
Liberal strictures on Chinese “‘be-
havior.”

Tom
McEwen

N ONE of his many excuses
as to why the U.S., Britain
and other “God-fearing” states
should not participate in any
summit talks with . Soviet
leaders, President Eisenhower

opined that “...the future
belongs, not to the concept
of the regimented atheistic

state, but to the people—the
God-fearing people of all the
world.”

Addressing a farm confer-
ence in the Byelorussian Re-
public a few weeks ago, N.S.
Krushchev, first secretary of
the Soviet Communist party
had some pointed things to
say about these “God-fearing”
spokesmen of the “free” West.
Being a frank blunt man,
Krushchev stated the case
without any pretensions to
righteousness.

It is not generally known,
and if it were there would be
small chance of our “God-
fearing” monopoly press or our
pious politicians publicly ad-
mitting the fact, that the per-
centage of church-goers in the
Soviet Union is probably a
good deal higher than in this
country. But it is part of our
hypocritical heritage from cap-
italism to be experts in spot-

“ting the “mote” in our broth-

er’s eye, but blind to the can-
ting “beam” in our own.

“Apparently,” said Krush-
chev to the _ Byelorussian
farmers, “Mr. President wants
to discredit us somehow in
the eyes of public opinion. He
wants to emphasize that you
cannot come to terms with
the Soviet leaders because
they do not believe in God.
He seems to imply that a
government with atheistic
views does evil, while a gov-
ernment’ that believes in God
allegedly does good.

“The men who say they be-
lieve in God and are guided,
allegedly, by the principles of

. God started the war of ag-

gression against Egypt. It was
not the godless people, not the
Soviet government, that be-
gan the war, but Mr. Eden,
the British prime minister,
and Guy Mollet, the French
premier, who, after genuflec-
tions before the cross, ordered
British and French troops to
Cairo and to slay peaceful
people women, old people,
and children.

“Or take this issue. Govern-
ments who declare that they
believe in God are going on
now with the blood-spilling
war in Algeria. The troops of
these governments, composed
of people who ‘believe’ in
God, also have in their midst
priests who bless the killing
of people and pray for the
victory of the weapons being
used to slay the defenseless
Arabs in Algeria.

“British aircraft bomb the
villages of the small Yemen-
ese state and kill children and

old people, but this is not
counted a violation of religi-
ous morals, because it is peo-
ple with dark skins who are
dying from the bombs.”

Kruchchev said much more
about the “God-fearing” peo-
ple President Eisenhower ex-
tols as the custodians of his
“future.” He drew attention
to the fact that it was “God-
fearing” Harry §S. Truman,
then U.S. president, who ord-
ered atom bombs dropped on
Nagasaki, killing countless
thousands in one_ blinding
flash of utter destruction, and
condemning others to years of
agonizing suffering and slow
death. All done by a “God-
fearing” haberdasher.

This pretense of “godliness”
by H-bomb capitalist govern-
ments and their hangers-on,
is by all counts the most hy-
pocritical and contemptible.
Krushchev could have gone
much further and told his
audience that every atrocity
committed upon defenseless
people everywhere by capital-
ist governments, is done with
the “moral” pretense of “god-
liness” to cover up their in-
famies.

When the imortal Bard of
Avon wrote into one of his
great dramas that “the devil
can cite Scripture for his
purpose,’ he probably didn’t
know just how accurately he
was describing the “God-fear-
ing” missile-minded charlatans
of today, who put the stamp
of their “religion” and their
“God” upon every nuclear
warhead they plan to use just
as they do upon their currency.

March 14, 1958 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 5