Withdraw from NATO urged at Communist rally Canada needs hospital beds, year, B.C. Communist Party increased old age pensions, new leader Nigel Morgan charged at schools and homes, yet the a meeting in the AUUC hall last Canadian government will spend Wednesday Canada’s withdrawal from NATO was unanimously endorsed by some ninety persons who attended the meeting some $2 billion on NATO this A EDITORIAL Brainwash job for NATO ‘ he Vancouver Sun's editorial director and dean of the most reactionary Liberal scribblers, Bruce Hutcheson, is currently running a series of lengthy articles on the vital “urgency” of Canada’s continuing membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO; a membership which COSK Canadians approximately $2-billion annually, supposedly for ‘defense’. Hutcheson is one of those literary pundits who come under that nebulous classification generally referred to in the sewer press as ‘sources close to the government’. Thus he knows, probably better than most that Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau has no intention whatsoever of opting out of NATO and replacing that conspiratorial war pact with an independent foreign policy for peace, unless and until the mass pressure of the Canadian people compel his, or succeeding governments to do so. This then is the prime intent of the Hutcheson series; to head off the Canadian people from any such pressures to get out of NATO, and to portray all the dire consequences to follow should they become too insistent that the Trudeau government take such a step April 10 is the date set for the NATO war alliance to meet in Washington, and as Hutcheson describes it, ‘‘to mark to 20th year of the most successful alliance in history and plan ahead.’ Aside from being one of that select circle of ‘sources close to the government" Mr. Hutcheson is also very ‘‘close’’ to the NATO war hawks in Washington, and to what he terms ‘‘the greatest editor of the United States’’ without identifying these war alliance ‘‘greats’’. Mr. Hutcheson cites all the ‘disasters’ and reprisals that would immediately follow should Canada opt out of NATO on April 10, thereby ‘‘shattering the NATO. alliance which alone defends Canada’’. This, says Hutcheson adds up to ‘‘knifing our (U.S.) friends in the back’’, reducing Canada to a state of ‘naked impotence’’, endangering our ‘‘moral and commercial’’ ties with U.S. monopoly imperialism, *‘losing our self respect”’, and horror of horrors, standing ‘‘naked"’ before the world as ‘‘a lonely Pariah’. Mr. Hutcheson’s serialized ‘‘disasters'’ are designed to brainwash Canadians into the idea that neither they nor Canada could or can survive without NATO and the ‘‘benevolence”’ of U.S. financial, industrial and politcal domination which already makes Canada appear in the eyes of the world, not as ‘‘a lonely Pariah", but as a ‘‘yesman’’ pawn of an arrogant Yankee imperialism and a resources ‘‘backyard"’ for U.S. industrial and war needs. To be sure, when Canada gets out of NATO as we inevitably must for our own peace and survival and that of other peoples outside the sphere of Washington and NATO, there will be U.S “reprisals”’ against Canada. All kinds of them. For instance the U.S. might cut-off that annual $300-million arms contract we now have with the Pentagon to kill Vietnamese women and children; they might decide to stop ‘investing’ in Canada (which they don't do now, other than the super-profits they extract from Canadian resources, or from Canadian-based industrial appendages of U.S. monopoly. ) We could retaliate by closing off the waters of the Columbia River Treaty deal, which alone could save Canada millions of dollars. We could also, if the necessity arose, clamp a tight embargo on the export of Canada’s raw resources (and jobs) to the USA, thus making Hutcheson’s ‘‘disasters’’ much less disasterous for Canada. Hutcheson conjures up the U.S.-Canada war of 1812 and the Fenian battles of 48-years later as ‘‘disasterous’’ possibilities, should we get out of NATO. If the Vietnamese people can overcome such ‘‘disasters’’— we in Canada can also. To avoid these, let’s GET OUT OF NATO— undeterred by the Hutcheson serialized brainwash job. resolution demanding “7 TIBACIEIG TRIBUNE FEBRUARY, 28; TIAP5-