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ST people experience an unspoken
Sort of fear at the illness we gen-
ey Call insanity. When they are in
© neighborhood of one of our many
‘ental hospitals, their pity for the in-
ates is intermingled with a surge of
4t for themselves, that is, if they
mselves happen to be normally nor-

ete Us who live under this system we
eee Madhouse. The symptoms are
ot us. Some 20,000 or 25,000
oe come to hear Paul Robeson sing,
oa he Vancouver Sun says ‘‘3,000"! A
; tally deranged Yank says ‘‘boo”
sam 1S passing automobile, and the
© Paper reports “Robeson heckled”!

We’re as mad as the proverbial ©

hare. We grow mountains of

» and starve watching it rot, We

hy Msist that it won’t be used to feed

come. People unless they agree to be-
-* a insane .as ourselves!

Rae Tob our children ‘of the oppor-
of a4 of an education and a future, but
cen an attractive educational
and rea if they’ll only get into the army
CEng how to kill—or be killed, Our

ies 4S Who potter around laborator-
vi Ng to discover new methods of
hg and prolonging life, are literally

. iy financially and politically. But
Ods is Who experiment in new meth-
them ti Weapons of mass homicide—for

Unds and facilities unlimited.

gyttena of homes, hospitals, schools or
Sources = Pools, we squander our re-
Pelle, d ‘aii building the latest jet-pro-
the 16x iller, the fastest battlewagon,
“Clete Tanging bomber, Our tax
‘idea ae Sear their tax-gouging to the
Premiy aving us pay the highest tax
We’ e ™ for our own murder. Mad?
“Viton, Cause for alarm when in the
Souls iin, a mental hospital. The poor
8S We a are probably twice as sane
ain

a the Los Angeles Times of July 16
Caligg Paul Barton. of Sherman Oaks,
ational turned the spotlight on this
( insanity gripping the USA, and
St. 7 i to policies being pursued by the
on 4. Bt government) well advanced

Piss Go, a3
B anadian scene. Correspondent
*tton Writes: .

Ve just Mob,’ the headline said,
ting Teturned to the United States

© fan two years abroad, The
antle me. It is unrealistic
~ le to the last degree.

‘ans today are the most feared
People on the face of the
here you look; Europe,
ome st Asia, Southeast Asia.

. cers beaten in Japan? Good
cers ou, Would compile a list of
in «2, GES and civilian officials
Geltst two years in France,
rma) ’ England, the Leb-

Capitalism are actually living in a

anon, Tripoli—and anywhere else we’ve
sur moronic agents of the Ameri-
can way of life.

“What the hell has happened to this

-country? The Soviets are aggressors?

Nobody abroad believes it for a moment
—not even members of the puppet cab-

inets we have blackmailed and set up in ~

France and Italy, and to some extent
Great Britain, which, by the by, is rapid-
ly getting ready to tell us to go to hell.

“Extensive trade agreements between
Great Britain and the Soviet countries
are now in the making and Churchill’s
‘illness’ is going to last a long time.
He’s going to make no deal with Eisen-
hower, and everyone in Britain knows
this.

“Military warfare is the infantile myth
of the: Pentagon. We blithely build
bombs and airfields that will never be
used. If they are used they will be as

futile as our terrible fiasco in Korea.

Our isolated foreign army and air bases,
which would last about 30 minutes in
the event of actual hostilities, are ob-
jects of contempt and derision in every
s-oien country in which I have travell-
ed in the last 25 months.

‘‘And American prestige, once high, is
just about non-existent in Rome, Paris,
London, or any foreign country you
care to explore. Who is the American
press fooling by the ignoring of unpleas-
ant news; by this. insistence that our
national policies are sound, ‘patriotic,’
and supported by ‘right-thinking’ people
everywhere? The cotton wool being
wrapped around the American people’s
eyes by short-sighted politicians and lead
ers determined to do business as usual—
the future, apparently, will take care of
itself—is about the most damaging policy
our press could follow at the present
time.

“As a French lawyer remarked to me

caustically a few weeks ago, ‘You are’

returning to the greatest insane asylum
in the world.’ I protested then. But I
think differently now.”

From Barton’s observations on how

the outside world looks upon this conti-

nental insanity, one great hope emerges,
expressed by Robbie Burns over 150
years ago: “Oh wad some power th’
giftie gie us, to see our ‘sels as ithers
see us... .” We'd probably get over
this cold war madness and once again
act like normal people, ;

Last. week two business men were
swapping ideas on the growing depres-
sion. One of them was quite modernis-
tic and insisted that it was a recession
rather than a depression. Finally they
got around to probable causes. “The
trouble,” said one, ‘is the Russians, they
are taking away our markets, We've
got to compete or go under. Wages
here are too high and the unions be-
come too strong.”

“No sir,” says the other, “in my opin-
ion it’s those g--d--- Reds; too much
pampering to communism. Just look
at this Korea business now. Who won?
The damn Reds of course. We gave it
to them; and now we get nothing but
a slump. Sfar’s I'm concerned we
should have cleaned the whole damn

bunch up, then we wouldn’t be faced

with periodic depressions.” °

Don’t get alarmed when you’re in the

neighborhood of Essondale. As. Barton’s
French lawyer observed, you are now in
“the greatest insane asylum in the
world.” And the standard of sanity
could be higher in Essondale!

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Chinese cartoonist Ying Tao comments on U.S. embargo

A bold and decisive policy

i les Soviet note on Germany cuts through the tangle of argument on
this issue like a knife through butter.

It proposes that a peace conference to discuss the problem of a peace

treaty on Germany be held within six months.

The Germans should

participate in the conference and in all the preparatory discussions.

The unity of Germany on a democratic and peaceful basis, the note
continues, should .be brought about by forming a provisional all-German
government based onsthe parliaments of East and West Germany with
the democratic organisations participating.

This government would replace the two existing governments in
East and West. Should this prove too difficult, the two existing govern-
ments could continue, the provisional AllGerman government in this
event confining itself to strictly limited functions,

The chief of these would be the participation in the peace conference
and the preparation and carrying out of all-German elections.

In such free elections, the note declares, “‘the German people them-
selves will solve the question of the social and political reconstruction of
democratic Germany without any foreign interference.”

This is a bold, simple and straightforward solution to the German
problem which will be welcomed by all who desire peace.

What is the alternative?

The American ‘‘solution’’ of a divided

rearmed Germany, a new centre for a war of revenge, a menace to man-

kind.

.

The so-called European Defence Community is the “‘front’’ behind

which a powerful West German Army, under Hitler’s generals, is to be
recreated. This rearmed West Germany of Adenauer is to be part of the
North Atlantic Treaty and the shock force for the U.S. war plans.

This ‘conception is a blueprint for the third world war.

That is why not a parliament in Western Europe, with the excep-
tion of the servile British Tory House of Commons, has ratified the EDC

treaty.

This Soviet note is a profoundly important move to solve peace-

fully the outstanding problem in the world today. Its proposals are far-

reaching but practical.

It would be fatal to expect that they will be received by the war-

mongers with the serious attention. they deserve.

Only action by the

people can force the government to react favorably to this note and thus

take a decisive step to world peace.

Crisis hits Canadian wheat

Se Ean Wheat! Pool presi-
dent J. H. Wesson, on August 1 de-
clared: “Wheat export will continue
strong in the new crop year, with a.con-
siderable degree of stability in price.”
Thus did he act as a bellwether for the
Liberal Party.

On August 11 the day after election
the capitalist press told how the Wheat
Board had reduced domeStic, and Class
2, wheat prices by 11 cents a bushel. The
Canadian Press was forced to admit: “A
heavy barrage of selling sent the price
of wheat to new lows at Chicago, bring-
ing the drop here.” .

The Yankees have robbed us of our
traditional wheat markets; they block
us from selling wheat to the world; now
they are smashing down wheat prices
here before the ink is dry on the Interna-
tional Wheat Agreement. (It came into
effect on August 1).

Canada faces a grave crisis in regard
to wheat markets and prices.

On July 1, DBS reported: “Wheat
stocks for export and ‘carryover in Can-
ada the U.S., Argentina and Australia
total 1,118,500,000 bushels.” This is
twice the figure of a year ago!

Almost half of this huge pile of wheat
is in the U.S.—578% million bushels.
Canada has over 404% million bushels
to sell . . . and a big new crop ripens —
for harvesting.

The election is over but the battle

every bushel of Canadian wheat. We
can and will achieve this in the days

~ ahead.

Great storms are on the horizon
around this wheat issue. .

The LPP will be in the thick of it
carrying forward the struggle for the
new national farm policy that this coun-
try needs.

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