Review

ollowingthe federal elections in
&— Canada, U.S. newspapers and
other publications have been full-
some in their praise of the Liberal
“victory” over John Diefenbaker,
describing our new Prime Minister
Lester B. Pearson as a virtual “Jack
the Giant Killer’?

Magazines like Time, the U.S.
News & World Feport, the’ Wall
Street Journal and others have
really poured it on. But underneath
all this U.S. editorial hoopla there
is a note of regret that the Liberal
“majority” for which the USS.
trusts contributed millions to se-
cure, was not forthcoming.

At that however, they are all
“optimistic” that better U.S.- Can-
ada “relations” will result than un-
der the Diefenbaker government.
Or, to put it more bluntly, that U.S.
nuclear weapons or other coldwar
policies dictated by Washington will
be more readily imposed upon Can-
adians with their choice of a “Jack
the Giant Killer” in the driver’s
seat, even with his “minority”
handicap?

There’s no doubt about it, Can-:

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Whose ‘giant killer’?

ada could do with a doughty “Jack
the Giant Killer” at the head of
affairs. There is the “giant” (or
ogre) of chronic mass unemploy-
ment to be disposed of. There is
also the “giant” of mass give-aways
of natural resources, the foreign-
control of Canadian industry and
trade to be overcome. And not the
least of these “‘giants” is the U.S.
financial domination of the Can-
adian economy, moving towards
political domination, which requires
to be laid out for good if Canada’s
independence, sovreignity and
peace is to survive.

Obviously plenty for a good “Jack
the Giant Killer” to do, but unfor-
tunately there’s nothing in the past
record to show that the one so des-
ignated by the U.S. coldwar press,
can or will measure up to the job?

On the contrary, unless the Can-
adian people remain vigilant and
determined on the basic issues of
peace and disarmament and an end
to the threat and horror of nuclear
weapons and thermonuclear war,
the U.S. “Jack the Giant Killer”
for Canada will remain just that —
with Canada the continued victim?

The man for the job

uring the course of his elec-

Diicn campaign Liberal Jack
Davis (Coast-Capilano) described
the Columbia River Treaty “most
favourable to the United States”
and strongly urged a “‘re-negotiat-
ed” treaty more in line with Cana-
dian interests.

Other Liberals, less explicit, ex-
pressed themselves in favor of speedy
implementation of this treaty, with
some “modifications”, which they
didn’t attempt to spell out. Others
again, ever ready to knuckle under
to U.S. “impatience’’ demands, de-
clared bluntly that given a “stable”
Liberal government the Columbia
River Treaty would be “ratified”
with a minimum of further argu-
ment or delay; utilizing this gigantic
sellout as a pertext for getting the
unemployed “back to work ... and
the economy back on its feet?

Premier W. A. C. Bennett and
his Socreds, in and out of govern-
ment have also repeatedly urged
consummation of the Columbia
River sellout, with little or no con-
cern for this priceless Canadian re-
source they are ready to surrender
to the U.S. trusts—for a fast buck.

On the other hand prominent
Canadian engineers, hydro experts
and technicians, leading Canadian
trade unions and central labor bod-
ies, the NDP, the Communist Party
and other wide sectors of the Can-
adian people have opposed this in-
famous sellout.

Ever since the inception of the

_ Treaty sellout the Communist Par-
ty has voiced strong opposition, and
have advocated the adoption of the
“McNaughton Plan”; a plan aimed

at a new treaty which would put
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the interests of Canada first and
foremost now and in the future, in
Columbia River development.

In the dangers now evident since
the emergence of a Liberal govern-
ment, the urgency for a new draft
treaty becomes patently obvious.
What better for the immediate and

‘long-range interests of Canada than

the reappointment and assignment
of General A. G. L. McNaughton
to renegotiate a new treaty NOW;
a treaty designed for the present
and the future, in the interests of
the Canadian people?

‘Who better, to do another big job

~for Canada?

Keep chair’ empty

macy, politely labelled an “Alliance

T here are already ominous signs
emanating from Ottawa that one
of the early measures‘ of the Pear-
son government will.be to induct
Canada into membership in the Or-
ganization of American States
(OAS). *

During-recent years, and’ particu-
larly since the 1961 U.S.-sponsored
Cuban invasion of the Bay of Pigs,
Washington has been pressing more
and more for Canadian membership
in OAS. To serve as a “Joe Boy” for
pulling chestnuts out of Washing-
ton’s “‘Alliance for Progress”’ fire
in Latin America?

Placed in its real context, OAS
is nothing more or less than the co-
lonial arm of U.S. imperialism in
Latin America. In the early days
of Latin American exploitation by
the big U.S. trusts, any opposition
by the peoples of any of these bit-

terly exploitedcountrieés was.

promptly crushed by a landing of
U.S. Marines—all of course in the
interests of ‘peace, order and good
government’’?

_ Inachanging world this direct
interference by U.S. armed forces
is no longer popular or permissable,
hence the resort to a mass form of
bribery and.slick top-level diplo-

Bastian in the San Francisco Chronilce
“Quick—more Band-aids!”

for Progress”; the prime policy of
which is to subsidize and maintain
by huge financial “aid” unpopular
and ruthless dictatorships in Latin
American countries.

Needless to say, such “‘aid” never

_ seeps down to the impoverished

masses of Latin America, but is used

up by grafting military dictator-

ships and juntas to keep the people
subdued and oppressed.

It is the heads of such “govern-
ments” which (with Washington)
comprise the OAS. And for them,
as for Washington, the emergence
of an independent and free Social-
ist Republic of Cuba, which cannot
be subdued by threats or bribery
poses a new challenge—and a new
need; to drag Canada into this U.S.
Latin America OAS “‘Hell’s Kit-
chen” to serve as an apologist and
“fixer” for U.S. oppression in Latin
America and the Carribean.

Both Prime Minister Pearson
and the new Minister of External
Affairs Paul Martin, are reported
to be in favor of Canada’s member-
ship in OAS. That should be suf-
ficient warning to Canadians that
their friendship and sympathy with
the struggling peoples of all Latin
American countries, including Cuba,
stands in grave danger of being jeo-
pardized by membership in OAS.

A nation, as with an individual,
cannot safeguard honor and inte-
grity by voluntarily joining a den
of thieves, which is precisely what
OAS represents at best. Nor should
the fact be overlooked that Cana-
da’s “chair” in OAS, so long kept
vacant by U.S. approval, should not
only remain empty, but returned
to Washington with a decisive “no
thank you.” It’s too much of a “hot
seat” for the integrity of Canada
and the progress of the Latin Am-
erican people.

Tom
McEwen

writer for the Victoria Colonist
A recently interviewed “Der
Feuhrer” of the American Nazi

his Washington office. The story of
this interview may be found in the
March 17 edition of that journal.
Some of Der Feuhrer’s. views
~ on Canada and Canadian politicians
are of more than: passing interest
in these times of pro-American lib-
eralism.

For instance Rockwell tells us
that most of “this” people in Canada
want an “anschluss’”’ with the Unit-
ed States. This ‘‘anschluss’” or an-
ynexation of Canada by the USS.
‘would “bring all the white coun-
tries, including Britain together’

* under the leadership of a Nazi Un-
ited States. And of course, ‘Der
Feuhrer” Rockwell as ‘president’?

' With that chore completed
Rockwell’s program will get well
under way with “all the American
‘Negroes . . . exported back to Af-

erican Jews convicted as traitors
and gassed?”
Having thus. disposed of two

tion, “Der Feuhrer’” touches upon

some Canadian problems, personal-

ities and parties.
Rockwell thinks

of Socred

party, George Lincoln Rockwell at —

rica, and about 70-percent of Am-

great peoples of the American na-

Real Caouette as “my kind of man”,
with Hitler and Mussolini as mu-
tual ‘heroes’, although says Der
Feuhrer ‘I’m not so strong on Mus-
olini. I’m a racist rather than a -
Fascist’’. That’s like saying there is
a “difference” between Hitlerism
and Hitlerite death ovens?

According to Rockwell his Am-
erican Nazi party is the “advance . .
echelon” of anti-Semitism and ra-
cial purity, a Nazi ‘“‘echelon”’ that is
“Spreading all over the world and
Canada is one of its main pulses.
Social Credit is the main element
in Canada. It is part of the world-
wide reaction to Marxism — in
Canada that is centered in Social
Credit. I think they‘re the greatest’’.
(Emphasis ours).

“Der Feuhrer’ Rockwell feels
he’s “got a damn good bunch of
people in Canada, but I haven’t yet
found a leader that I can personally
set up and indoctrinate’? Since So-
cial Credit is Rockwell’s ‘‘main ele-
ment in Canada” his “leadership”
problem shouldn’t be too difficult
to solve?

Colonist readers or others
should not pass this off as the rav-
ings of an American crackpot. A
little excursion back into the files
of our daily newspapers for the
years 1932-33 will find similar ‘‘es-
timations” of Hitler as a crackpot,
but a crackpot, aided by the leaders
of Western imperialism, who set
the torch of a devastating war upon
humanity a few years later.

The fact that Rockwell’s Nazi
party and his storm troopers, fully
armed in their Washington office,
not only enjoy full legal immunity

‘worse to lose our human dignity to

‘Russian author Count Leo Tolstoy

in the United States, but ideologic- —
ally are not too far apart from offi-
cial Washington on Marxism, Com-
munism and the brutalities of rac-
ism in the U.S., is not something to
be laughed off. And _ especially
when this U.S. Nazi disease-carry-:
ing carrion boast of their “ele-
ments” in Canada. It’s bad enough
to lose our independence, but much

the bestiality of fascism.

* * *

All books in South Africa or
‘other writings which depict Black
Africans favourably” are being de- -
stroyed under a “censorship” ord-
nance passed in February of this
year by the racist Verwoerd gov-
ernment.

The librarian of the Cape
Town Public Library is quoted as
saying that “banned lists are com-
ing in fast. We get two, three or
four such lists a month.” Libraries
in other centers report similar lists
of books ordered to be “sent to the
municipal incinerators’ for °*dispo-
sal. Even the works of the great

are consigned to the flames.

Since this book-burning decree
hit South Africa, some fifteen thou-
sand books, including some of the
great classics of literature, have
been burned, while hundreds of
other periodicals are banned out-
right, or prohibited from entry.

Racism, book-burning and
death ovens do have a close rela-
tionship, regardless of whether the
promoter is a Hitler, a Verwoerd, a
Rockwell, or just a “my kind of a
man” Social Crediter?

April 26, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 4