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Here’s how British Daily Worker cartoonist Eccles sees the stand of
British Labor Party leader Hugh Gaitskell on the nuclear arms issue.

U.S. madmen again

Comment)

- Dief’s great hoax

hroughout .the whole recent
election campaign, right
down to the last hour before June
18, John Diefenbaker and his Tory
cohorts boasted the “unparalled
prosperity” of Canada—-a “pros-
perity” due entirely to Tory “wis-
dom and achievement”.

Liberal and Socred politicians
noisily countered this boasted
Tory “prosperity” with promises
of a still greater “prosperity” if
given enough votes to demon-
strate.

Five days after the election, on
June 24, came the “moment of
truth”; a revelation of one of the
greatest political hoaxes ever per-
petrated upon an _ unsuspecting
people. The admission of the re-
elected Diefenbaker government
that its “prosperity”? had become
a nightmare of “austerity”, an
economic crisis far-reaching in its
effects and burdens upon the
common people. The “prosperous”
Tory Canada of pre-election days
had suddenly become a Tory Can-
ada begging for national “‘coop-
eration” and international “aid”
to save her from economic dis-
aster?

“Canada now has a_ surging
economy as a result of Conserva-
tive policies”, warbled Justice
Minister Davie Fulton in one of
‘his pre-election spiels, ‘“and the
future holds ever-growing pro-

nomic decline and eventual bé
ruptcy”. a

Thus the Diefenbaker electi
hoax stands out in all its 8¥
nakedness.

Like a  monopoly-subsidi
high pressure salesman S®
phoney stock in a “salted”
mine, Dief now brings his boast
“prosperity” stock down to
“austerity” payoff. While ™m®
comparisons may be odious th
one isn’t, the only difference ”
ing that the phoney stock sale
man (if caught) risks a spe?
the clink, while Dief “sobet™
pleads for “cooperation” from
people to swallow the hoax al
with the “austerity”. os

History has saddled Can@
with the Diefenbaker governm®
for another term, but history do
not require from the people
Canada either “cooperation”
or respect for this governmeé
As the Vancouver Sun so 4P
put it, “For this deceit—and #
is the only name for it—Mr. ™
enbaker has lost all moral 18
to govern’.

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phile the Tory governme |
_ was rushing to up the inl
est rate to encourage U.S. caP

to buy up more of Canada,
while “official” Canada virtU

H”™ mad can the U.S. atom-
maniacs become?

This question is prompted by
the recent speeches of Defence
Secretary McNamara who has re-
cently been laying down the
“new” nuclear strategy of the
US.

McNamara is said to be seek-

large cities would remain intact.

The result of McNamara’s stra-
tegy, explains Hoffman, would be
“the hoped-for effect of a swift
and devastating strike at Rus-
sia’s missile and bomber bases,
to knock Russia out... .”

Here is “preventative

gress”.

On June 24 Prime Minister Dief-
enbaker (in a new role of con-
. triteness), pleaded for “co-opera-
tion . . . to save the nation”, with
the Tory Globe and Mail filling in
the chorus; “every section of the
community must be ready to dc
its part. The alternative is eco

ignored the Canada Day nolid#
the B.C. Communists gave 4 #
phic example of who really st
for Canada.

The 1000-mile cavalcade to ™
the Columbia was an example

war” true patriotism.

ing an agreement with the Soviet
Union under which both sides will
undertake to spare the large cit-
ies in the event of a nuclear war.

Explaining the thinking behind
McNamara’s “new” strategy,
Washington correspondent. Fred
S. Hoffman wrote last week that
the U.S. believes that the major
Soviet missile and bomber bases
are located away from its cities.

He says that McNamara’s stra-
tegy “envisions a brief war in
which U.S. nuclear might would
concentrate on pulverizing Soviet
nuclear might .. . .”

Presumably, since there will
be an agreement (according to
McNamara) not to bomb cities,
the U.S. would be able to wipe
out the Soviet bases while the

U.S. bases, which are located near

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McEwen ,

he Geneva Agreement “of 1954
was created specifically to

‘normalize’ peaceful relations in
Vietnam, both North and South,
following the ousting of French
imperialism from Indo-China.

No doubt at that time (and
since), thousands of Canadians
have shown more concern about
the outcome of the Grey Cup, or
trying to find one of Dief’s “‘prom-
ised’? jobs than about happenings
in North or South Vietnam?
- But the braintrusters of US.
imperialism and its_ self-styled.
“free world’ coldwar allies have
not been idle. Like the late Kaiser
Bill, they regard all such agree-
ments, treaties or protocols as
mere “scraps of paper’’, to be used
or ignored as imperialist policies
dictate. To these pirates ‘“interna-
tional law’ is something to be
quoted when it serves their pur-
pose, or scuttled and ignored when
it doesn’t.

But Vietnam has come, to Can-

- ada whether Canadians like it or

not, and, under successive Liberal
and Tory misrule, has come in the
worst possible way. For Canadians
the age-old question, “Am I My
Brother’s Keeper’, may be purely
academic, but the ignominious role

- coming a

of “I am my brother’s perjurer’”
in Vietnam has become an ugly
reality. :

Under the Geneva Agreement
of 1954 an “International Commis-
sion for Supervision and Control”’
was set up to assist the Vietnam-
ese people in the work of peaceful
reconstruction and_ self-govern-
ment. This commission consisted
of ‘personnel from India, Canada
and Poland. Its ‘‘terms of refer-
ence” consisted among other
things, that decisions of the Com-
mission on all internal Vietnam
problems must be unanimous,
thereby providing a guarantee
against the commission itself be-
prejudiced factor in
North versus South Vietnam ‘“‘dis-
agreements’”’.

The Indian-Canadian “report”
now peddled by the U.S. and its
Canadian ‘“yesman” Howard
Green, accuses the Democratic Re-
public of Vietnam (North) as ‘‘car-
rying out aggression and subver-
sion’ against South Vietnam.
Stressing the illegality of this
“report”, the Polish member of

the Commission has condemned

the report in its entirety.
Disregarding the Geneva. Agree-
ment terms, U.S. imperialism has
poured in “advisory” military
forces, vast quantities of arms, and
millions of dollars to prop up its
South Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem

“governing” clique, conducting 4,

long and sustained campaign of
military intervention,
and obstruction, in violation of
the Geneva agreement.

sabotage

Repeatedly the people of south
Vietnam and their patriotic fore
have routed the U.S. interventio® |
ists and their stooge Diem merce?
aries. It is this fact, together
the Indo-Canadian fabricated “T~
port’ which provided U.S. impr :
ialism with its excuse for rece?’ |
large-scale military concentratio®
and build-up in neighboring Th 4
land, in preparation for open W@
fare against the people of Vietnam?
— and later to serve as a “a
“peachhead” against
China. -

Such are the sordid realitl
and for which the sameful India”
Canadian “‘report’”’ was specifically
designed — to further U.S. ag8t"
sion’ in Asia. ;

feel proud. Not a few of our ®
tary personnel on the commission
are now being court
for opium, gold and other £0
of “across-the-border” smug&
Now with Canada as a ~
tory” to a false (as well as i
“report” slandering the people
North Vietnam, and with Exter? 5
Affairs Minister Howard Gre
boasting of the feat over CBC
Canada’s ‘‘prestige’ hits 4
low. We are now seen throut
Asian eyes not only as a Chat
McCarthy for U.S. imperialist!
but as a “perjurer’” to boot, tb
an aptitude for extending
Geneva Agreement of 1954 105
clude a spot of narcotic and
profitable smuggling?

July 6, 1962-—-PACIFIC TRIBUNE