The people will stop war’ 1 latest edition of Bressey’s Annual Armed Services Year Book will provide a fillip to the warmongers in Washington, Ottawa, London and Paris, and to the lesser sattelites of dollar-imperialism in other war-minded centres. ~ Brassey's is a British publication of long standing, whose military ~“experts” delve into the respective armed and potential strength of Various countries, strategic theories, figures, etc. This year Brassey’s has come up with the prediction that war with the Soviet Union is “inevitable.” 2 ; __ As a sort of shot-in-the-arm for greater ‘defense’? expenditures and a stepping up of cold-war psychology, Brassey’s tells the world that within 60 days Russia can put approximately 15 million well _ armed troops in the field. Major General John Charles Fuller, one of Brassey's top “experts’’ gives added zip. to this wild calculation by opining that “the present psychological war will give way to physical _ war’; in other words, “‘let’s get hot’’! oy Most year books treating with the social’ and material factors of life make a point of trying to remain factual, even if, like our own - Dominion Bureau of Statistics, they do play fast and loose with figures. But it would appear that Brassey’s assembles its ‘‘facts’ and figures to suit the tastes of its imperialist patrons, and tosses in’a bit of shoddy ‘ . . “Te anti-Soviet propaganda here and there to garnish its military dish. This edition of Brassey’s comes at a most appropriate time. It is already on the cards that Winston Churchill, in his new capacity as Britain’s prime minister, is to pay another visit to pawnbroker Uncle Sam in ‘the near future. The prime purpose of this visit is to get another loan to help Britain’s austerity become more austere, this time in the neigborhood of four or five hundred million dollars. 3 An Associated Press news dispatch quotes Churchill as saying, apropos of this hoped for loan: “‘It must.not be forgotten that under the late Labor government we took peculiar risks in providing the princi- _ pal atomic base for the U.S. in East Anglia, and in that consequence we placed ourselves in the very forefront of Soviet antagonism . . . therefore . . . we have every ‘right to seek and receive the fullest consideration from Americans. . . .” ; ew With Brassey's statistics and military strategems, and plenty of Yankee dollars and domination, Churchill could succeed in obliterating Britain from the map ef the world. There is only one power that, - ¢an stop him, and it is inevitable that they will. Not Brassey’s propa- ganda army of 15 million Russians, but the British people themselves, who do not regard all the gold in Wall Street equal to one square’ _ foot of East Anglia, when a people’s freedom is forfeited with their lands to serve the interests of atomic madmen. - : ater: and er wie a clearcut case of criminal price-fixing before it, established in the trials of the baking and match cartels, that the public had been mulcted ‘of millions ‘monoply racketeers, Canadian citizens had a right to expect that the St. Laurent government would act with speed and detisiveness to put _an end to this barefaced robbery through price-fixing and manipulation. In this however, as in other things, the people have been cheated by the government. The recommendations of the MacQuarrie Com- mission that resale price-fixing practices be made illegal are to be given an indefinite hoist, by the time-worn procedure of setting up another Parlimentary-Senate committee of well-tried and trusty politi- cal wheel-horses to “study” these recommendations! : 2 “That could mean, and undoubtedly does, that the MacQuarrie recommendations for putting a crimp in. monopoly price-fixing and i are destined for the parliamentary limbo of. forgotten At the opening of parliament the throne speech indicated that the St. Laurent government planned some action against this vicious practice of monopoly price-fixing. In the meantime however, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce (CCC) and the Canadian Manu- facturers Association (CMA) got their “pay-triotic” machinery in operation from coast to coast, urging the St. Laurent government to exercise “‘restraint”” in going after these monopoly ‘“‘free enterprisers,” and advising that ‘‘no action” be taken at this session of parliament.’ ' This betrayal of the people’s needs is not without its lessons. Obviously the real rulers of Canada are the CGC and the CMA; the boys who make millions in price-fixing and inter-combine racket- ~ _eering; the lads who tell governments to “‘lay off” when the sources of their criminal profits are exposed. : Emboldened by their successes in bringing the government to heel on the matter of price racketeering, new raids on the people’s living standards can be expected of Al Capones of “free enterprise,” while a parliamentary-senate committee “studies” the matter without reference to the clock! where it was shown) of dollars by these PaaS ME B GINIBE (Ua 4 h , aAltssusazvenncatl weet toot | Samael |e Published Weekly at Room 6 - 426 Main Street, Vancouver, B.C. By THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY LTD. Telephone MA. 5288 ; Tom McEwen Subscription Rates: 1 Year, $2.50; 6 Months, $1.35. Printed by Union Printers Ltd. 650 Howe Street, Vancouver, B.C. _ Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Dept., Ottawa ‘ ° UU ETT ST Te eT ESSE OY Ny TO TO Ta Ti Ta Tt Yd TT US Ue TT eee eee ETE ETE 0D de As We See It by TOM McEWEN CUTE TE Te eT Te se | ETE Ut Te te ee Tt eee Tr Ta Tt nT 1} N THE FACE of widespread public opposition, the St. Laurent government has released the Nazi general Kurt Meyer, murderer of Canadian prisoners of war, serving a life sentence in Dor- chester Penitentiary. Of course there were profuse “explanations” in the House of Commons. Meyer had not actually been “released,” just transferred to a*German prison in the British zone, and was still under the authority of the Canadian government! -*In our opinion, which is that of thousands of Canadians, these explanations are not worth the paper they are recorded on in Hansard. But they do throw-the spotlight on official thinking in Ottawa —thinking that stems from war psychosis and the need to lend every facility to make the enemy Nazi butchers of yesterday our “allies” of tomorrow. ‘ More than once Churchill has waxed eloquent on the “great military genius” of the Nazi general Rommel, and Hollywood has now cast him in The Desert Fox in order to make these fascist bar- barians more palatable to our present-day cold-war “way of life.” i The release of Kurt Meyer from Dorchester penitentiary is only another step in a Washington- planned war, in which all the Nazi generals regard- ed by Yankee top brass as “military geniuses” are to be integrated into Eisenhower's “North Atlantic” army to police Europe. Kurt Meyer, the murderer of Candian soldiers, the Nazi fiend who instructed his troops to “take no prisoners” is one® of these “geniuses” now being salvaged from a Canadian prison to save “democracy” for Wall Street, with the blessing and cooperation of the St. Laurent government! Doubtless the St, Laurent government would have liked to have managed the Kurt Meytr “trans- ‘fer” without any public clamor. Its explanations in Hansard underline this desire for. secrecy in such odious matters. This desire for secrecy also under- lines a current fashionable trend in official think- ing. But in such matters even the dead protest, and the voices of murdered Canadian soldiers can-_ not be stilled. The Kurt Meyer business is only one expression of official thinking—or should we say, lack of thinking? On the eve of Remembrance Day whén all Canada pays homage to her soldier dead; when widows, sisters and sweethearts caress the picture of a soldier who did not come back; when fathers and brothers blow their: noses with unnecessary vehemence to hide the gathering tears, Dr. Werner Dankwort, the first German ambassador from the Wall Street Republic of West Germany, presented his credentials at Government House. Most decent Canadians think that the St. Laurent government’ could well have postponed this piece of diplomatic flummery until a more appro- priate time; that it could have advised the am- bassador-designate to keep his credentials in his diplomatic pouch until the sharp pangs of Remem- brance Day had lifted. But official “thinking” doesn’t proceed that way. How could it when its « ’ prime purpose it to transform the Junker and Nazi enemies of two world wars into its allies in a pro- jected third world war? , A sharp contrast indeed. The veterans of two world wars against German militarism, their Wives, friends and organizations, selling the symbolic poppy on Canada’s streets, a \reminder that we should “. . . not break faith with those who sleep, in Flanders’ fields,’ and at Government House a frock-coated protege of the double-crossing diplo- matic school of Ribbentrop and Von Papen, epre- senting his credentials to other frock-coats, re- splendant in their Yankee-inspired unanimity to “let bygones be bygones.” Eiven Peter Ingles of the CBC in a recent broadcast gave voice to the rising disgust of Canadians at the readiness of their government to jelevate Nazi gangsters to the emin- . ence of “democrats.” It is obvious that Canadians are not prepared to abandon common decency for cold-war -.expediency. Dr. Werner Dankwort is reported as “a career diplomat” who servéd Hitler’s Reich in Sweden through most of the war years, lent neutrality” during that epic struggle of free -men against the barbarous forces of fascism, may be regarded as something of a tribute to the West German ambassador’s , versatile abilities., As am- bassador-designate, not the least of -his “achieve- ments” already scored in Canada, was the release of his Nazi colleague from Dorchester: penitentiary. - Ottawa “thinking” has also boasted that “25,000 German immigrants will arrive in Canada in 1951, and hopes the trend will continue.” Something .of this boast is already manifest in British Columbia. Press reports tell us that a number of these German immigrants are being housed by our immigration department, pending the finding of jobs-for them. This of course means that these “desirable immi- grants” are a direct charge on the Canadian tax- payer, and will remain so until suitable employment can’ be found for them. Secondly, and of equal ‘importance, their presence here constitutes a stand- ing government-sponsored threat against the econ- omic and social standards of Canadian workers, and first and foremost, of organized labor. Canadian labor is not opposed to immigration, | whether from Germany or elsewhere. But it is opposed to this method of immigration whereby the government becomes the central agency to flood the country with surplus labor, carefully .screened for social outlook, which can only be absorbed by breaking down hard-won social and economic stand- ards. There may *be some exceptions among German immigrants to Canada, but among the top-brass military, diplomatic, and financial circles, their chief “dislike” of Hitler, now profusely: expressed, is not because they disagreed with his “world con- - quest” policies, but because he lost the war. The “banker Schacht now vehemently “disagrees” with Hitler, but he manipulated the finances that made Hitler’s rise to power possible! The Prussian gen- erals and Junkers, now drawn into HEisenhower’s North Atlantic army, conveniently remember that they disagreed with, Hitler, while they stoked his death ovens across the face of Europe. « The Dankworts, Ribbentrops and Von Papens— those who escaped the just fate of Nuremberg, all voice their “disagreements” with Hitler, as they tender their services and experience in return for a warm welcome and sizeable remuneration from their new paymasters in Washington. Yes, they are all “against” Hitler, cold-war art of labelling their Hitlerism as “de- mocracy.” So much so that the technique now dominates official “thinking” in Ottawa, and Nazi gangsters get’ more consideration than the people of Canada seeking peace, freedom and security. ALOPND the Yuletide season, Scotsmen’ used to have a very friendly greeting for their neighbors, summed up in the words, “Lang may ye’r lum reek” —Long may your chimney smoke. The idea behind this greeting is simple and down to earth. A “reeking lum” symbolized a comfortable and moder- ately prosperous home. Last Saturday; by special proclamation at Van- couver City Hall, Mayor Fred Hume declared No- vember 11 to 17 to be “Smoke Prevention Week.” The same ‘day a civic body calling itself the “Smoke Advisory Board” ran a big advertisement in the daily papers, under the catchy caption: “What’s The Difference Between Vancouver And St. Louis?” It contained no less than twenty-one helpful hints on. - how to light your furnace. It may have been an 6versight, but these big ads, which must have cost Vancouver taxpayers the price of a carload or two — of coal, didn’t have a word of advice for the citizen who has nothing to light his or her furnace with, and nothing to keep it going when lit. Assuredly we have “smoke” nuisance. We have also an “obnoxious odor” nuisance in the residential vicinity of certain large industrial enterprises Added to this we have a Non-Partisan “smoke” nuisance, which has gassed this city politically for — a couple of decades or more. Worst of all perhaps There's a lot in this smoke nuisance! is the cold-war nuisance “which sends everything up, like our smoke, and drives economic, social and cultural standards of living down. Assuredly we have a smoke nuisance, and it should be remedied to the greatest extent possible. But Vancouver’s air would be healthier and ever so much more purified if all its citizens knew. where - their winter’s fuel was coming from; if they could afford to eat meat instead of ersatz boloney; if their children could get milk to drink at prices commen- Surate with parents’ ability to pay; if they could look forward to tomorrow with the certainty of | lasting peace, in place of the fear of atomic de- struction. ‘ In wartime our military men lay down smoke barrages to hide our movements from the enemy. In cold-war peacetime, our politicians put up smoke barrages to take the people’s minds off cold furnaces, Sweden’s “benevo- ' and very adept at the empty milk bottles, lack of sanitary, modern hous- — ing, and ersatz diets. In this “smoke prevention week” the main thing to keep in mind, together with the Smoke Advisory Board’s 2 rules on how to light the kitchen stove, is that all the smoke around doesn’t come from chimneys. couver and St. Louis,” but from through the smoke, we prefer. Vancouver. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 16, 1951 — PAGE 8 We don’t know the “difference betWeeen Van- ; where we look