> aI , Property ‘rights’? ho hasn’t heard of that fine old yarn about “An Eng- Jishman’s home is his castle’ guff, or its twin encore about the “sacred rights of private property”? In the not-distant past both were sturdy props in our “free en- terprise” society. Today in our dynamic way-of-life, both have become badly soiled and shop-worn. With or without warrant or “due cause” the sanctity of the family ‘.castle” can be (and often is) trampled upon at will by “constituted authority”; and as for the “sacred rights of private property”, that all depends upon whose property. : _ Today, as an aftermath of the Columbia River sell- out to U.S. monopoly, there are hundreds of families in the Arrow Lakes area, Castlegar, Nakusp and other dis- tricts of the Columbia River power project, who are faced with a virtual ultimatum by Bennett’s Hydro Power Authority; either take what “compensation” we offer for your homes, your properties,—or leave it at the bottom of what will soon be a gigantic water-storage lake — for U.S. use. In the Arrow Lakes district, property owners banded themselves together in a Property Owners’ Protective As- sociation back in August, 1965, in an effort to secure a just compensation for their homes and properties from Hydro. In this, the first barrier they ran up against was an almost complete press blackout on their efforts. Hydro assessors, of course, don’t and cannot know, or even care to know what has gone into the building of a home in these pioneer communities of British Colum- bia; the toil and hearbreaks and hopes, yes, and even love that went into the building of many of these homes, many as long as 75 years ago. With Hydro it is just a matter of we want your home and property at our “com- pensation” figure; take it or leave it—and see it sunk. A writer in the “Bridge River News” of January 13 states in its new “townsite” plans for relocating “compen- sated” property owners, Hydro has “cleared and prepared a graveyard in the proposed townsite of Burton”, no ae “1€ we don’t hear from that dove real soon, we're dispatching another bird.” —Courtesy Prince George Citizen Guns with butter? Py week the U.S. Congress is confronted with the biggest budget in its history; the call for $112.8-bil- lion dollars to finance LBJ’s Great Society at home, his “foreign aid” (with strings) abroad, and to beef up his es- calating war of aggression upon the peoples of Vietnam and Southeast Asia. ° Demonstrating that he can go Hitler one better, both as to criminal war atrocities and providing the American people with “guns and butter” instead of Hitler’s “either —or’, the recoil from this colossal budget, even if pared down a little by Congress, will eventually cancel out the “butter” in LBJ’s Great Society. Already there is a mounting world opinion, and in America itself, that intensify U.S. aggression in Vietnam and Southeast Asia as he may, there isn’t the ghost of a_ doubt for the “accommodation” of semi-dispossed property owners. It is high time this Hydro-loaded expropriation of - settlers’ homes and properties in velopment areas got a full the Columbia River de- country-wide airing in the press, and especially in the ranks of progressive Labor and Farm organizations in B.C. The giveaway of the Columbia River to U.S. mono- poly was bad enough, but it Hydro to expropriate the is compounding a felony for “hearth and home” of B.C. citizens as a climax to a notorious “deal”—and to watch it in silence. nuratateteTeTeTeleteteteTere’s Tom McEWEN uring the past federal elec- .tion campaign when the old- line politicians were in their most expansive mood tossing their explanations and promises around, much like the playful seals in Stanley Park with their newly- acquired ball tossing, some irate electors demanded something more than mere vote- catching political hokum, For instance an elector up Powell River way wrote a letter to ‘Water Boy’ Jack Davis, Lib- eral M,.P, (Coast Capilano) pro- testing the presence of West German troops in Camp Shilo, Manitoba, Probably more conversant with B.C, water resources giveaways (mee Columbia River) than the _ desecration of Canadian soil by West Germany’s_ refurbished Nazi ‘herren-folk’ testing their weapons in preparation for World _ War Ill, Mr, Davis addressed a’ ‘confidential’ billets doux to the Hon, Paul T, Hellyer, P.C,M.P., quiries from the Department of. Minister of National Defense, asking for some enlightenment on the matter, “I am enclosing a copy of a letter which I have just received from a constituent of mine... Mr. . «. e » e, alleges that our government is making prepara- tions to have the facilities of Camp Shilo Manitoba placed at the disposal of troops from West Germany, Is this true? *If so, I would like to have some additional information so that I can reply to this gentle- man in an intelligent manner,” ‘In due course’ as Mackenzie King used to say when in a tight spot, the “intelligence” forward- ed by Mr, Hellyer was relayed by letter from Mr. Davis to his _. Powell River constituent, “ . «concerning the possible ‘use of Camp Shilo by troops from West Germany, I have made in- chance of U.S. “victory” in Vietnam. U.S. military might can, of course, inflict a terrible toll of death and destruction, as it has already done in Vietnam. It can also provide a vast graveyard for many young Americans in Vietnam. But the taste of its “vic- tories” will be the taste of ashes. And for its “Great Society” at home, ashes without “butter”. While high-salaried eunuchs of the AFL-CIO “see no overheating of the economy” the 1966 budget already indicates more than enough “heat” to eliminate the “butter”. National Defense, As a result, I am now informed as follows. “Although agreement has been reached between the Canadian government and the Federal Re- public of West Germany to make facilities in Canada available for the testing of West German equip- ment during the winter of 1964-— 65, this has subsequently been postponed, “You realize, of course, that Canada is not only a member, but took the initiative in the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, The Feder- al Republic of West Germany is now one of our NATO partners, “Tests in Canada under cold weather conditions of certain German equipment were planned for this winter. They have since been postponed due to the timing of other tests, The Minister of National Defense made a state-- ment to this effect in the House of Commons on November 6, | 1964,” Yours, etc., Jack Davis, M.P. From the above. correspond- ence between two Liberal stal- warts there is nothing of an **intelligent manner” in evidence, There is however much which would indicate adeliberate policy of hoodwinking the Canadian people by sheer falsehoods, Note the date of the above correspondence, from mid- November to December, While thousands of indignantCanadians, as individuals and through their many organizations were pro- testing this West German insult to Canada’s war dead, and to the living, the revanchist goose steppers of Bonn were already installed in Camp Shilo—even while the Minister was advising his Liberal under-strappers that the West German testing had been “postponed”! And the sorry and flimsy im- plied ‘excuse’ of the Minister, roe Editor — TOM McEWEN Associate Editor — Circulation Manager — JERRY SHACK Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St. Phone 685-5288 Subscription Rates: Canada, $5.00 one year; $2.75 for six months. North and South America and Commonwealth countries, $6.00 one year. All other countries, $7.00 one year. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. ; Worth | Quoting | West German newspaper “‘National- Zeitung”, Munich, wrote in its issue of November 19th on the Smith regime's coup d'etat: "More than four million blacks and 200,000 whites live in Rhodesia; the white of course from the upper strata . . « Only the dominance of the white man prevents them (the coloured population—Ed.) from attacking each other and literally eating each other.” The “‘Industriekurier”’, leading West German industrial paper, stated on Oct. 16 in connection with the situation in Rhodesia: ‘‘Here at last a white leader- ship has made up its mind not to re- treat and not fo lower its flag before the black flood”’. (INFORMATION bulletin of the Peace — : Movement, GDR., Dec., 1965) << Like the folk song Sixteen Tons puts — it, we keep getting ‘‘another year older and deeper in debt"’. At year's end the Canadian people step into our nation’s 99th birthday — deeper in debt than ever before. The bureau of statistics totals up the amount of consumers’ debt at $5,564- millions owed to banks, small loan companies, department, furniture and appliance stores. This is an increase of | q ' 16.5-percent over one year ago. Dur- ing the same period total wages paid to Canadian workers climbed less than than 1 1-percent. (UE NEWS, Jan. 3/66) *- And so today a young American marine exclaims in glee. ‘‘Whoosh. I'm a killer today. | got me two Viet — Cong”. And from the village air raid shelter, into which he had hurled his grenade, the bodies of two children are dragged forth. : Such is the legacy of collective re sponsibiilty and such, in a larger sense, the legacy of the events that led to Nuremberg and from there to Viet- nam and the United States. : (U.S. FARM NEWS, Dec., 1965) * ‘ Who heats up the world’s hot-spots? Certainly not the USSR. Or the Left political parties in the many troubled — lands of Capitalism. Monopoly Capitalism burns in its own fever. And main focus of the deadly infection is the USA. Clearly the only possible prognosis is . . . crisis after crisis. (NORTHERN NEIGHBOURS Jan., 1966) : that West Germany is now one of our NATO partners hereby entitling the dregs of the Hitler Reich to again ‘tool up’ in pre- paration for once again drowning Europe—and the world, in blood. If the above ‘confidential’ cor- respondence is an example of *in- telligent” Liberal answers to the vital question of war or peace to a Canadian constituent, then it — is high time Canadian constitu- ents in their millions gave the Pearson government another in- telligent answer to its lying evasions: Get West German troops out of Camp Shilo—and Canada out of NATO! “Tncbune MAURICE RUSH ~ January 28, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 4