‘Patriotism,

T IS no accident that at this

precise moment of history when
mankind is striving to make the
fateful choice of peaceful co-
existence in one world, that the
sinister agency of “Moral Re-
Armament” (MRA) should add its
sanctimonious croak in a renewed
effort to stir up hatreds, national
prejudices, and conflict between
peoples with differing social sys-
tems. :

That, and only that, is the prime
purpose of the latest anti-Soviet

* MRA booklet, now being spread

among the peoples like a bubonic
plague under the misleading title
“Ideology and Co-Existence”.

Worse still, being put into
“every Canadian home” with the
connivance and approval of the
Diefenbaker government, whose
finance minister “Flim - Flam”
Fleming has apparently ruled that
Canadians helping to finance this
MRA diatribe may consider their
donations “deductible for income
tax purposes.”

MRA and its founder, “Dr.”
Frank Buchman, are not a new
phenomena to Canadians or other
peoples. Buchman and his MRA
have been in the business of build-
ing up clerical-fascist reaction and
ideology (and getting fat on it) for
several decades.

During the Hungry Thirties the
late “Iron Heel” tory Bennett was
a devout apostle of MRA’s “Oxford
Brotherhood” and its High Priest
Frank Buchman. In those days it
was customary for all such
“Statesmen” to be ardent devotees
of Buchman’s “anti - Bolshevik”
bogey, and particuiarly since the
High Priest himself, a close con-
fidante of Hitler and Mussolini,
touted these nazi criminals and
their “anti-Communist Axis” as
the great instrument of Buch-
man’s “god” in his so-called cru-
sade against the Communist “anti-
Christ.”

In later years Buchman’s MRA
clerical-fascism managed to infil-
trate the European and _ inter-
national labor movements, so much

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so that it became necessary for
international labor bodies and con-
gresses to publicly reject MRA,
and to dissociate themselves from
its insidious anti-labor and pro-
nazi influences. Influences which
MRA. has skilfully managed to
cloak with the thin veneer of an
ersatz “religion’’.

This latest MRA coldwar dia-
tribe is supplemented by a full-
page advertisement, carried in a
score or more Canadian papers,
lauding MRA clerical-fascist “‘ideo-
logy” (with an “exclusive” mes-
sage from West German chancellor
Konrad Adenauer). These adver-
tisements tell us, among other
things, that they are being paid for
“as a national service by a group
of patriotic citizens,’ presumably
also with the blessings of Flem-
ing’s “deductible” grace?

Such “patriotism” is destructive
of Canadian independence, secur-
ity and peace, aimed primarily at
consolidating the warmongers’
dreams. In this Buchman’s MRA
and his NATOized “god” has ren-
dered a signal service to coldwar
reaction, but a very ill service to:
millions seeking international
friendship and peace.

“Ideology and Co-Existence” be-
longs in the pages of Hitler’s
Mein Kampf. —

| EDITORIAL PAGE

MRA style Peace can won |

HE GENEVA disarmament
talks opened Tuesday of this
week. Ten principal nations are
taking part in this historic event.

five from the coldwar-christened.

“Free West”, and five’ from the
Socialist sector of the world.

The issue before this conference
is a momentous one for all man-
kind; finding a common path to
total disarmament and peace, and
an end to the fear, tensions and
threats of nuclear destruction.

This Geneva disarmament con-
ference didn’t come about because
all participants wanted it to. The
prime cause of its being stems
from another source: the united
will and determination of count-
less millions of the world’s peoples,
in socialist and capitalist countries
alike, to have done with war and
its consequent horrors, suffering
and destruction. That mankind
must find other more civilized and
peaceful methods of settling inter-
national disagreements.

Standing against the attainment
of lasting peace, except upon their
own terms, are the sinister elem-
ents of monopoly imperialism, and
which, while compelled by the
“magic” of the people’s will and
desire for peace, continue their
coldwar conspiracies, basing their
“positions of strength” upon nu-
clear bomb stockpiles in preference

to civilized morality. ie
While pretending to W®
the Geneva’ talks the spokesmet
for aggressive imperialism ae
to every ‘ruse, conspiracy “tol
canard to obstruct the danger A
them) of the success of pears
“Nothing will come of the es
talks,” they scream through ful
editorial pages of their powe
press, as they plan new obs |
tions in an effort to make SUS
“nothing will come of it.”

Thus the Geneva talks ope is
an atmosphere of high hopes 4
great dangers. High hopes 0”
part of millions of people
their representatives at Gene
will find the path to disarmame
and peace, and an end to WY
menace of nuclear devastation
great dangers in that the im
ist war conspirators, who still .
low the Dulles mania of univer
nuclear devastation, may succé
in rendering the Geneva ‘€
barren of results. =

The success of Geneva st
rests upon the vigilance and alert
ness of the world’s “commo!
man”; upon the millions of peopl
desiring peace making their deter
mination known in Geneva eV@l
hour of the day, and insisting theit
desires be realized. That Wad
Geneva will score a major victory
for disarmament and peace.

as

Tom
McEwen

N their varied definitions, mod-
| ern dictionaries define the
word deficiency as ‘a falling off,”
“not sufficient or adequate,’ and
so on. Applied to farm income, the
average farmer defines the term as
political trickery of the cheapest
grade. :

Thus ‘‘deficiency’”’ payments a-la-

; Diefenbaker to the primary pro-

ducers of the nation’s ham and
eggs are clearly “not sufficient or
adequate” to provide minimum
safeguards from the vicious cost-
price squeeze of modern monopoly.
The results of this ‘‘deficiency”
are inevitable. Scores of hundreds
of small and middle egg and hog
producers, often referred to as the
“family farm,” will walk the “not
sufficient” plank to extinction,
thereby leaving the field open to
the big monopoly chains and their
“integrated” ‘farms to cash-in on
the Diefenbaker “deficiency.”
Instead of giving encouragement
to hard-pressed egg and hog pro-
ducers to grow more food, with the

guarantee of a parity floor price
to ease their cost-price squeeze,
“Farmer” Dief gives them a homily
on the $350-million or so required
to meet minimum farm demands,
declaring it to be “ruinous” to the
nation’s economy. To organized
labor he gave a similar line of
tory bilge, declaring it would re-
quire ‘‘a. king’s ransom”? to meet
labor’s needs.

Many Canadians hold different
views. They think that the nation’s.
ham-and-eggs and _ other foods,
given a fair break to producer and
consumer alike, is a much sounder
economy than $400-million down
the drain for a jet plane which
never flew higher than a setting
hen, or the annual $2-billion or so
which the Diefenbaker govern-
ment (and the Liberals before

~ them) poured down the NATO

sinkhole.

In sharp contrast to the uncon-
cerned sink-or-swim attitude of
classical monopoly-dominated gov-
ernment towards its primary pro-
ducers, is that of the government
of Peoples’ China.

In the February 23 edition of
the Peking Review there is a fea-
ture article by farmer Ho Shan en-
titled National Drive For More
Pigs. This article goes into some
detail of governmental encourage-
ment in hog production, and shows
the phenominal increase in this

_ cause of central government ei-

field of animal husbandry since
1949, the year of Liberation and —
the founding of the Peoples Re
public of China. Just to quote one
factor in this interesting survey;
in 1949 China had just around 57-
million porkers. By the end of
1959, in one decade, the number
had reached 180-million, with the
figure rising rapidly precisely be

couragement and agricultural com-
mune initiative.

At the risk of some tory red-
baiter telling us that small farmers —
in China’s peasant communes are
“not free,’ and hence drfven into
greater hog production against
their will, we can 6nly ask—since
when has an. abundance of pork-
chops, with the belly-robbing’ mon-
opolist removed from between pro-
ducer and consumer, been inimical
to. or at variance with freedom?

Nor in Ho Shan’s National Drive

For More Pigs is anyone contend-
ing, like our own “Farmer” Dief, —
that such production is “ruinous”
to the nation.
_ There is just one final point, not
implicit in Ho Shan’s article, but
very much so in Diefenbaker’s
“ruinous” outlook; the steady and
consistent sabotage of Tories and
Liberals alike to the great market
potential in People’s China for
Canadian products — including
pork. In this the Tories have been
all ‘‘deficiency.”

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March 18,

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