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Atlantic pact seen as capitalist
security’ against the people —

SID- ZLOTNICK, Vancouver
B.C.: Professor F. H. Howard of
the UBC is reported in the March
i9 issue of the Vancouver Sun
to have said about the North At-

» lantic pact, “It is quite consistent

with the United Nations’ articles
on. regional’ organzations.” What
is Consistent with the United Na-
tions’ articles are regional defence
pacts. But the North Atlantic
pact is neither regional nor defen-
Sive. ?

Could the erudite director of in-
ternational studies tell us to
what geographical region the ex-
pected signatories of the pact be-

LETTERS DIGEST

long? Do Canada and the United
States belong to the same region
as Norway (a part of Scandina-

via, I always understood), or do '

either of them belong to the same
region as Italy (a Mediterranean
country)?

If the Soviet Union were to
sign a so-called regional pact with
Mexico and Liberia we would
have no greater cause to scoff
at the term regional. than it now
has to dismiss that term in ref-
erence to the Atlantic pact. Fur-
ther, the North Atlantic pact is
to be supplemented by a Mediter-
ranean pact, a new world anti-

Protests rocket range

ISABELLE KISELICH, Van-
couver, B.C.: It seems to me that
in order to hold a job today
you have to love up the boss.
While working in the kitchen of
an East Hastings cafe the boss
came up to me and told me that
I “had a nice bust.” I didn’t hit
him, but I should ‘have... And
that’s not all. For the two’ and
a half hours that I\ worked, I
didn’t even get paid. I would
like to see this in the Pacific

Tribune for people to see what
kind of bosses we are slaving for.

T. G. CLUETT, Penticton, B.C.:
Press reports indicate that the

Australian government is con-
templating allowing the U.S. the
use of barren areas in Australia
for atomic bomb and rocket ex-
periments. I think the progress-

ive forces of the world should put

pressure on the Australian gov-

ernment to flatly refuse any more
imperialist expansion moves by
U.S. military circles,
nursing the Hitler
world domination.

who are
dream of

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communist alliance replacing Hit-
ler’s anti-comintern axis. Region-
al indeed!

As to the “defensive” nature
of the pact, Dillon O'Leary in his
“Report from the Capital” in the
same issue of the Vancouver Sun
in reference to clause 4, says,

“This raises a nice point as
to what constitutes aggression.
If the Italian Communists and
their left-wing Socialist allies
won the next election, is this
tantamount to aggression by
Russia?”

This question by O’Leary and
the many authoritative comments
already made in the press make
it abundantly clear that the signa-
tories to the pact would regard a
democratically achieved change in
the government of Italy or France,
if the change was toward social-
ism, as “internal aggression.”
Thus the signatories, under the
pact, by an arbitrary definition of
aggression, » would attempt to

' erush socialism by means of war.

This is the essence of the pact,
“defensive” in this sense only,
that it defends the right of cer-
tain capitalist governments to
launch an aggressive war in “de-
fence” of the capitalist system and
against rising socialism.

In such a situation it is under-
standable that certain professors
and university presidents depart
from well known facts and suc-
cumb to the government’s pres-
sure for the rubber-stamping of
its military aggressive policy.

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HAVING SLIGHTLY recovered from a bad bout of spring
fever, an annual event barely tolerated by the rest of the family when
they watch me feverishly burying assorted daffodil, bluebell and other
unknown species of bulbs in every available spot in the garden, I

can now sit down once more to
enjoy a bit of chin wagging.

No doubt some of you have
been listening to the CBC School
for Consumers, a series of week-
ly cqgmmentaries on where our
dollars disappear. I found the
talk on the housing dollar very
interesting and would like to pass
on some of the facts presented by
Dr. Albert Rose of Toronto Uni-
versity. ;

He pointed out that although
two out of three families can-
not afford to be home owners,
many have had to buy to get a
roof over their heads. In so doing
they have mortgaged their future
so heavily that it’s doubtful if
they can keep up their payments.
An estimated 260,000 families are
sharing accommodation with other
families, but this does not include
vast numbers of others crowded
together in small places of in-
ferior quality. or those living in
basements, garages and sheds.

Experts say that no more than
two years’ total income be spent
to buy a house, but on this basis
most families should spend no
more than $3.000 to $5,000. Even
if homes were available at this
price many families haven't the
necessary down payment.

Dr. Rose’ conclusions about the
situation were that the supply
of housing is too important to
be left to the free market. “It
has become obvious, that the free
enterprise system will never be
able to provide all the housing
we need at the prices we can af-
ford.”

He held that home ownership
should not be the basic goal to
citizenship and that tenants are
not “some form of second class
citizen.”

And finally, Dr. Rose stated,
“I believe we should press for a
vast program of public rental
housing, to be provided through
the cooperation of the Dominion,

provincial and municipal govern-
ments. Such homes should be
rented to families at rents which
are a proper proportion to their
total income. . . . The difference
between what families can pay.
and what’s needed to cover costs
would be made up out of general
tax funds. This is what we mean
by subsidized low-rental housing,
and in this respect we’re up to
25 years behind the Scandinavian
countries, the Netherlands. the
United Kingdom and the U.S.A.
When these changes occur then
I think each of us will be able
to decide how we'll spend our
housing dollar. Right now we
haven’t much choice.”

* * *

I WAS LOOKING through a
seed catalogue and came across
a rose bush called “Peace. It
was described as_ sensational.
“One marvel of it is the range of
colors through which it passes.
Though the bloom is unusually
large and long-lasting and con-
stantly fresh looking, its effect is
that of a.delicate and almost eth-
ereal loveliness.” Whoever wrote
that description must have been
following the daily press closely.
As soon as war ended, peace was
wonderful, now if you say you
want peace it’s treason. A rose
by any other name. . —B.G.

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