JAPAN AND CHINA STRENGTHEN MILITARY LINKS

PEKING — A group of former Japanese generals were welcomed in
Peking last week, by Defense Minister Hsiui Hsiang-chian of the
People’s Republic of China. The Japanese delegation includes General
(ret.) Kenjiro Mitsuoka, former commanding officer of the 9th Division
of the Japanese Self-Defense forces (Army). The Chinese Defense
Minister praised the military ties between Japan and the U.S. and Gen.
Mitsuoka proposed further talks on Japan-China military cooperation.
Both sides agreed on the need for secrecy.

Meanwhile, the Gifu (Japan) City Council voted to refuse a Chinese
invitation to send a delegation to China when China refused to issue a
visa to a Communist member of the City Council

- A MILLION DUTCH SAY ‘NO’ TO N-BOMB

AMSTERDAM — An anti-neutron bomb petition, with more than a
million signatures, was presented to the Netherlands’ parliament April
18. The petition was given to the president of the States-General
(parliament) by Nico Schouten, head of the ‘“‘Stop the Neutron Bomb”’
campaign. A. mass demonstration and rally was held outside the
States-General building after the petition was handed in. Representa-
tives of the more than 250 working groups that took part in the nation-
wide campaign addressed the rally. They condemned president Car-
ter’s decision to ““defer’’ the production of the N-bomb as a manoeuvre
designed to play down the huge wave anti-N-bomb protests that is
sweeping the world.

INDIA CONDEMNS ISRAELI AGGRESSION

NEW DELHI — At a dinner honoring the visit of Syrian leader,
Hafez el-Assad, Indian president Neelam Sanjiva Reddy condemned
Israeli aggression in the Mid-East. Speaking about Israeli violation of
Lebanese sovereignty, Reddy said, “‘India is following with deep con-
cern the development of events in the Middle East. Israel’s actions are
increasing tensions in the area”’ he said. ‘India is for implementing the
United Nations’ resolutions, for withdrawal of Israeli troops from all
occupied Arab territories and for restoration of the legitimate rights of
the Arab people of Palestine.”’

CHINA STILL COGPERATING WITH CHILEAN JUNTA
SANTIAGO — The fascist daily El Mercurio, of Santiago, Chile,
reported that as of March, 4,500 tons of Chilean copper had been

shipped to Shanghai and that the Chinese national basketball team has’

completed a “‘friendly”’ tour of Chile. The Chinese leadership has been
collaborating openly with the fascists beginning a few days after the
coup, granting them generous credits as well as supplying weapons.

ZIMBABWEANS PROTEST ‘SETTLEMENT’
SALISBURY — Hundreds of Africans took part ina protest demon-
stration in downtown Salisbury, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), April 17. The
demonstration was against the so-called ‘‘internal settlement”’ and in

support of the Patriotic Front. Hordes of police were rushed in to break
up the demonstration. Many people were wounded or injured and
wholesale arrests were made.

Jill E.. mictie last week became the | first Black woman to eacaive her
pilot’s wings from a major U.S. commercial airline. Ms. Brown, 27, a
native of Baltimore, will become an active co-pilot on Texas Interna-
tional DC-9 passenger jets.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—May 5, 1978—Page 6

By TOM MORRIS

No sooner had the Toronto-
based Western Guard Party lost
its leader who is in jail for illegal
possession of explosives, the
ultra right comes forward with a
new political cover — the Nation-
alist Party of Canada which is at-
tempting to register in Ontario as
a legal party.

This effort has raised a political
storm in the province with demo-
cratic opinion strongly opposed to

the ‘legalization of an avowedly ©

pro-fascist group. Sadly, some
13,000 people signed the form
(mainly in Toronto) to make the
Nationalist Party ‘‘official’’, al-
though many now claim no prior
knowledge of the group’s aims
and others say they didn’t sign the
forms at all.
x ke *

Following the TV showing of
‘*‘Holocaust’’, pickets appeared
before television stations and at
stores selling the book version of
the crimes against the Jews in
Nazi death camps during World
War Two. The protestors were
led by a Toronto man posing as a
‘*spokesman for the
German-Canadian community”’
and something called ‘‘Concern-
ed Parents of‘German Descent’’.

Under the cover of objecting to
the stereotyping of Germans and
German-Canadians, Ernst Zun-
del, who describes himself as an
‘‘artist and writer’? received
heavy media coverage. _

Zundel turns out not only to be
a “‘writer and artist’? but a neo-
Nazi who writes under another
name and has had one of his
books ‘‘The Hitler We Loved and
Why” reviewed in the U.S. Nazi
magazine ‘‘The Liberty Bell’’.

The same Ernst Zundel was
permitted to speak before a joint
meeting of the Boards of Educa-
tion of Metro Toronto a week ear-

lier and distribute an eight-page
sheet regarding ‘‘discrimination
in textbooks’’. The document is a
thinly-disguised argument for
re-writing history, especially
since World War One, to expunge
the Nazi period. He was listened
to with care.
* * ok

In the Chicago suburb of
Skokie, the American Nazi Party
readies itself to march through the
streets June 25 in an act of sup-
reme provocation. Skokie’s citi-
zens include some 7,000 sur-
vivors of Nazi concentration
camps and their families. The
Nazis are getting their banners
and jackboots ready despite a
growing outcry to have the march
stopped and the American Nazi
Party banned.

And who. is defending the

‘‘right’’ of the Nazis to march -

through Skokie? The American
Civil .Liberties Union lawyers’
who, under the guise of “‘freedom
of speech’’ have misguidedly
taken up the Nazis’ case. -

On April 21, under the slogan
‘‘The Nazis Must Not March in
Skokie’’,
turned out in Chicago to pay tri-
bute to the heroés of the Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising 35 years ago.
Speaker after speaker pointed to
the alarming increase in fascist
groups and activity and the
spread of racist, anti-labor and
anti-communist propaganda.

* * *

Britain’s National Front and its
racist platform receives growing
support — especially in its anti-
immigrant positions. Tory leader
Margaret Thatcher and other
Conservatives if not in word, then
in deed, support this position.
Open street fighting is seen over
and again in Britain as the NF
thugs are met by citizens who re-
fuse to allow fascism to parade

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Above: Hate message by the National Socialist Movement in Canada.

Below: a goon squad of American Nazis. A bunch of kooks? Not so, they
are. part of the whole anti-labor, anti-communist attack in its more violent
orm.

some 700 persons

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