A grim reminder

otsdam Agreement, August 2, 1956: ‘‘The purpose ofthis

Agreement is to carry out the Crimea Declaration on
Germany, German militarism and nazism shall be extirpated
and the Allies will take into agreement together, now and
in the future, other necessary measures to assure that Ger-
many never again will threaten her neighbors or the peace of
the world, , .”

November 21, 1966, just 21 years after Potsdam, the news
flashed around the world of nazi victory at the-polls in
Bavaria, Key centers of that state, written in blood upon the
history of mankind — Munich, Bayreuth, Nuremberg — the
eradle of Hitlerism, gave Nazi ultra-right wing candidates
of the National Democratic Party (NDP) a 7.4 percent of the
votes, assuring them a minimum of 15, and perhaps more of
the 214 seats in the Bavarian Landtag (parliament),-

Should ex-nazi “feuhrer” Herr Kurt Keisinger now manage
as a result ofthis victory todon the mantle of ousted Chancellor
Ludwig Erhard, the notorious Nazi Joseph Strauss, ex-
minister of war in the Adenauer government will resume his

- Old job, with his finger much closer than before to a NATO-
ized nuclear bomb — by the grace of the USA,

In the wake of the Bavarian elections NDP leader Fritz
Thielen already boasts that his neo-nazi party “will supply
the German chancellor by 1969,” while NDP vice-chairman
Adolph von Thadden declares that if an election for West
Germany’s Bundestag were held now, his party could “win
half or more of the seats,”

These election gains for a resurgent nazism in 1966isa
grim reminder of just how certain of the Allies of 1939-45
have “extirpated” nazism and militarism in West Germany,
The West German army (Bundeswehr), by the grace of U.S.,
British and Canadian imperialism is today the largest, most
powerful, and most highly-equipped military force in Europe,
with a bloody-handed ex-Nazi General in command of it and
all NATO forces,

Those who may feel inclined to “laugh off” this NDP right-
wing nazi victory in Bavaria, should recall that in the early
days of the Hitler Brownshirt goose-stepping hooligans who
crushed the German people and their multiple organizations
at the murderous will of ‘‘Der Feuhrer,’’ there were others
also who attempted to “laugh it off” as the ravings and actions
of *crackpots,” Only too late when Hitlerism had lit a world
conflagration in which untold millions suffered and died, was
the lesson learned — or was it? That “never again would
Germany be permitted to endanger the peace of the world, . .”

The results of the Bavarian elections are a warning that
peace-loving people cannot afford to pass unheeded. To do so
is to give moral sanction to betrayal and treason — against
Peace,

Tom .

- Mc EWEN

here was no jovial singing

of *He’s a Jolly Good Fel-
low”, no oratorial effusions on
“Hail to the Chief”, The old tory
“true blue” banner had turned
a dirty rusty red, and leadership
was weighed on the scales of time
rather than events, It was forty
or under, versus seventy.

The Torynational convention in
Ottawa didn’t end, It simply ex-
pired, The chef at Ottawa’s posh
Chateau Laurier, his kitchen
loaded with gastronomic bon mots
plus half-a-ton of choice dressed
turkey, all in preparation for a
big Tory hoop-la banquet — which
didn’t come off, left le grand chef
more wilted than a plateful of
over-aged tripe,

Following two days of good old
Tory “caucusing” on how best to—
or not to “Follow John”. the dele-
gates had lost their appetites,
together with that highly-sus-
pect “unity of interests” which
holds the Tory conglomeration of
opportunists together,

As might be expected the Lib-
erals were jubilant with smug

satisfaction and glee at the out-
come ofthenational Tory conven-
tion fiasco, happily forgetful that
they too face asimilar crisis, viz
the fragmentation and break-up of
the old-line political parties of
Big Business, which have sought
—and still seek to meet the issues
and events in a rapidly changing
world with out-worn mid-Victor-
ian panaceas, platitudes, and a
slavish obedience to the will of
Big Business,

Moreover in the process of
doing so both old-line parties
have contributed equally towards
turning the Parliament of Canada
into an “Augean stable” of poli-
tical and moral corruption, pri-
marily aimed at winning partisan
“prestige” and gain, rather than
serving the economic, social and
peace needs of the people — in
whose sole interests Parliament
is presumed to function.

Thus the Tory: convention to
“Dump Dief” may well serve as
a preview of a like effort —
already ripening in the Liberal
mash barrel to “Dump Mike”;
a harbinger of the shape of

J. S$. WOODWORTH, founder of the
CCF, will be the subject of a docu-
mentary to. be heard on CBU Radio
(690) on Sun., Nov. 27 at 11:03
p.m. Among those taking part are T.
C. Douglas, David Lewis, Tim Buck
and Grace Mcinnes, MP.

Greenwell
parks plan

Vancouver Parks Board candi-
date Donald “Dusty” Greenwell,
past president of the Hastings
Community Centre and president
of the Metro Community Council,
said this week he will campaign
for equal treatment for the East
End and for immediate action on
a major park for the East End
of the city,

Other points in Greenwell’s
program call for retention of Cal-
lister Park for recreation pur-
poses and for defeat of plans to
turn it into a parking lot; im-

mediate completion of the New

Brighton Park extension: greater
co-operation between Parks
Board and School Board in de-
velopment of facilities,

Greenwell also urges protec-
tion of Stanley Park from com-
mercialism and highway plan-
ners; and calls for larger per
capita grants from theprovincial
and federal governments, He
also proposes a_ Botanical
Gardens at Shaughnessy Park,

things to come ‘in a Canada
already awakening tothe idea that
its Manifest Destiny can better
be realized without either — or
the Big Business political hier-
archies they represent,

Since the days of Tory leader
R. B. “Iron Heel” Bennett back
in the 30’s (and even before) down
to the present, Tory leadership
has gone through one crisis after
another,
Manion to “Honest John” Bracken,
each with their own specialized
bombast and catchwords to fool
an unwary electorate, and each
heading deeper and deeper into
the political wilderness,

Even ‘‘Honest John” Braken’s
insistence that the misnomer
“progressive” be added to the
official Tory moniker as the price
of his acceptance of its national
leadership, didn’t .pan out, “A
rose by any other name would
smell as sweet,” said the Bard
of Avon, and adding the word
“progressive” did nothing to ob-
scure the reality that a Tory “by
any other name’’ still remains
a Tory.

Then came the small-town
lawyer from Prince Albert, Sas-
katchewan. the stormy petrelofa
decadent, isolated and rejected
Toryism, John Diefenbaker: a
man with the reputation of a good
neighbor in his home commun-
ity. a well-developed ego, and
a healthy liking for a goodscrap,

From “Iron Heel” to .

Process ore in Canada,

Mine Mill urges Ottawa

The Mine Mill Union of Canada
has opened a national campaign
to halt the cutbacks in zine pro-
duction and for more processing
of ores in Canada, This action
followed a meeting of top union
executive members on Nov. 9
with ranking federal cabinet min-
isters,

Heading up the delegation was

“ national vice-president Harvey

Murphy who charged that “the
cutbacks are the result of so-
called ‘continentalism’ at work.”

He said the cutbacks are the
direct result of “self-imposed
quotas by the industry and arise
from their decision to increase
shipments of raw concentrates,
while cutting back on shipment
of slab or ingot form zinc to the
U.S. market.”

“The effect of this,” said Mur-

phy, “is the injuring ofour Cana-_

dian smelter operation while our
raw concentrates increasingly
feed the U.S, smelters.” He added
that unless this situation was cor-
rected there would be more lay-
offs in the industry,

At the Ottawa meeting, the union

delegation called on the Canadian
government to make clear to the
U.S. government their vigorous
opposition to any placing of im-
port quotas arising from tax or
tariff provisions on slab zinc
or lead while permitting the entry
to the U.S. of unlimited quanti-
ties of raw concentrates,

The union’s position on the cut-
backs is that they are a result
of existing tax provisions that
provide a three year tax free
period for newly developed mines.
“The result of this is that new
mines are being opened and older
ones closed despite many years
of productive life still in them,”
they said.

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RICH ios

ORE if Tp:
FIELDS

are CREEPING COLOSSUS

Like the “tiger” tracks leading
into the gas stations of a grasping
oil monopoly, urging all and
sundry to “put a tiger in your
tank”, Dief’s “Follow John” foot-
prints covered every sidewalk
across Canada leading straight to

Ottawa, in one of the greatest °

“victory” hallucinations the
people of Canada ever succumbed
to, Dief had extricated his party
from the political mothballs back
into the seats of power, and him-
self the acclaimed unchallenged
leader of the herd,

Now only a few short years later
in the thick-carpeted lobbies of
the Chateau Laurier — the herd
turns on its leader with all the
charm and culture of a ravenous
wolf pack, ignorantly venting its
spleen against a changing world
in which its bankrupt ideologies
and policies, as well as those of
its Liberal twin, no longer mea-

sure up to the needs of todaye

To find a “solution” to its par-
tisan ills — by throwing the one
whose deimagogy rescued it from
pélitical oblivion — to leave
‘the door wide open for its early |
return to obscurity. While Dief
isn’t finished yet, his final round —
will probably mark the death-
rattle of his party which char-
acteristically knifed him in the
back. “Et tu Brute.’’

Let us hope the next national
Liberal convention will accom-
plish a like achievement, Then 4
new and younger generation, not
burdened with the dead weight of
partisan tradition, corruption and
slavish subservience to bloody-
handed profit-mad monopoly, may
transform Parliament to what it
was originally designed to be —
a tribunal dedicated to serving the
needs and interests of the com-
mon people,

Editor—TOM McEWEN

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