Cyprus and Vietnam JHE Turkish rocket and napalm attacks on Cypriot men, women and children are acts of barbarism that shock decent people everywhere. The Turks have lost no time in following the ex- ample of the Americans. The Vietnam bombings were the signal for the Cyprus attacks. President Johnson said that “aggression unchallenged is aggression unleashed.” : How true! His aggression in South - East Asia un- leashed Turkish aggression in the Mediterranean. The present Turkish regime is the first to follow the path of international crime blazed by Washington. We pre- dict it won’t be the last. In both cases the forces of reaction resorted to open, | illegal, ruthless acts of violence because they were desper : ate. Just as the U.S. and their puppets face defeat in South Vietnam, so the Turks realize that their Cyprus policy is bankrupt. i PRISONERS DOCK 7 tee ime Fred Wright in UE News ... And then the accused conspirators were observed Signalling to each other, like this...” “Worth | ‘Quoting The United States market absorbs the bulk of British Columbia's lum- ber, pulp, newsprint, crude petro- leum, natural gas, lead and zinc om and ingot. It is also one of the major purchasers of many of our other pro- - ducts such as fish products, steel pros” ducts, asbestos, aluminum, and apples. An estimated 70 per cent of British Columbia product exports are sold in the United States. Corporate profits (U.S.) in the first quarter were greater than in the same period of last year. Profits in 1963 at 27.1 billion dollars were 10 per cent above those in 1962, which in turn was slightly above the tw? previous peaks in 1959 and 1956. Profit margins customarily narrowing as recovery matures, have been W®! maintained if not increasd in 1964- —BUREAU OF ECONOMICS At STATISTICS, Victoria, B.¢ * The First Lady of the British stog® Dame Sybil Thorndike, was asked by a journalist, what was her greatest ambition. She replied: ‘‘To live to 56° a world which is free from the horror of war and which can go forward A greater things in peaceful security- “No, no,” said the journalist, “yo Pearson ‘“‘yes-man”’ Wuo gave our Prime Minister the right to commit Canada to “fully support” the U.S. in its wanton act of war against North Vietnam? misunderstand me. | mean a Pe I ambition.” They have been repeatedly offered full safeguards for Sone een the rights of the Turkish minority in Cyprus by the Cy- Fixing him with a steely, yet still prus government. kindly look, Dame Sybil ans Wie “‘What,. young man, could be way personal than an ambition for world without war?"’ They have repeatedly turned these offers down. Encouraged by the Americans and the British, Ankara has stirred up strife in the island between the two com- munities and kept it constantly under the threat of invasion. : The Prime Minister did not consult the people of Can- ada. —WOMEN OF THE WHO / ~ WORLD, Journol — * : I should like to give wider pa é Where would that attitude have taken us if U.S. Jation to a new anecdote now 9 . Cuban . oa . ia? th rounds: Two anti-Castro ‘ actions had precipitated a war that involved all of Asia? Silloe wersthaving thal: shows ie ed in Miami, and di ing the i Mr. Pearson’s statement was harmful to Canada’s pects. One was looking forwanaae interests and to peace. It represented the interests of the taking over his (afer eee small but powerful group whose economic fortunes are A duit bii wees aking plans closely tied in with U.S. corporations and the cold war. It Z ar % Z for resuming control of his s¥9 | hurt Canada’s reputation throughout the world. plantations. They noted that the shoe-black was roaring with levels and asked him why. ‘I am Czar’s nephew,” he replied. But he did get a phone call from. Washington, after which he made his announcement supporting the U.S. We : h t th i i : Its air attacks are a direct threat to the United “© 2° doubt that Washington told him what to do Nations. Canada is very much involved in Cyprus. Our interna- tional reputation is at stake. Our position should be made clear. We condemn Turkish aggression and we fully sup- port the right of pecple of Cyprus to conduct their own af- fairs, free from foreign interference. Canadian troops in Cyprus must not be used to dis- arm Cypriots in the face of Turkish attacks, or to take any actions which infringe upon the sovereignty and in- dependence of the democratically elected government of Canada’s role should mediator in the cold be that of a force for peace, of a ~ Cyprus. es Tom McE WEN Tom McEwen is away on holiday for a few weeks. In\ place of his ‘regular column the PT is publishing Suest columns. This week’s column ts by JOSEPH NOR TH, well-known U.S. author and columnist in The Worker. nly those who reach for their gun when they hear the word “culture” (like the late critic, Herr Dr, Joseph Goebbels) can dislike Charlie Chaplin, whose works are enjoying a revival to- day, I took the occasion in the current torrid spell to re-seehis- “Modern Times,” I can only say that it remains a masterpiece of art, and a profound comment on contemporary life in these United States, I recall no author of novel or treatise, or for that matter, no sociologist, historian or journal- ist or labor figure, who captured SO memorably the condition of his time as Chaplin did in this film, Since it has become fashionable in many circles to deride the Thirties as an era of literary and cultural renaissance, one must add Chaplin’s works as refuta- tion, The apex of his career can be found in that period, for he, the prescient artist, involved with mankind, reflected the power of the people’s resistant will with which he identified himself, * * OK This film of ironic genius por- trays a time of unemployment and simultaneously, the march of the machines, His hero, the hapless vagrant, is fired by the resolve to earn a living ~» help the child of a workingman shot dead in an unemployment demonstration, In his inimitable “lat-footed way, Charlie races- through a vast crowd of desperate jobless seek- ing work in a newly-opened fac- tory, After screwing the bolts onthe ever-faster belt, which attains a Washington. lunatic speed at the bidding of the polished, well-clad gentleman in the executive’s office, Charlie “goes aS -crazy as the tempo, Wrench in hand, and obsessed by the need to fasten all bolts tight, he goes after anything that looks like a bolt, And this to the con- sternation of several ladies adorned with large buttons in delicately strategic spots, * Ok Ok There are many delicious, yet profoundly pertinent moments, like his natural desire to snatch a moment’s respite from the belt and steal a smoke in the men’s room, The televised image ofthe scowling man in the front office flashes on the wall with a com- mand to drop that cigarette and get back to work, Remember this film was made in the mid-Thir- ties, the use of television as a tyrannical spy awaited full com- ment for nearly thirty years in the current best-seller by Vance Packard, He is caught up in a demon- stration of the jobless and is mistaken for a“Communist lead- er” by the police, Again the clubs descend, again there is jail, and he makes the acid comment of | contrast between his life behind bars and the roaring hunger out- side, There is the dream of the good life he describes to the discour- war, not a suppliant yes-man for aged and lovely waif whom he aspires to help, It is that of a rose-covered cottage with fruit trees growing outside the kitchen, He can pluck an orange from the window, milk a convenient and congenial cow for the breakfast coffee, all is clean and brilliantly cheerful in this imaginary home- stead where his lunch is packed with eclat and abundance, The security of love and ample food reigns over his household, A dream, ; * OK * Whatever the vicissitudes and thwarted aspiration, this under- dog is indomitable, There is that ultimate fade-out that can be translated as corn, as he and the little lady finally proceed up the road into the dawning sun, The scene can be interpreted other- Vancouver 4, B.C. -00 one year. of postage in cash. 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Democratic German Rep? y wise, Though there is no ay harbor, they have eluded the a: and survived the clap of desP4 Gs and they go on anew, and ¥ daunted, It is a tale worth telling, Wo" hearing, and seeing, Certainly is one of the best products of ‘4 Thirties, or for that Wo modern times, certainly the est in cinema, To the cave-men at the nee of society, Chaplin is of conte dangerous man, Thus they on a the finest artist of our age, ™ him go through the paces 25" paris ‘taire did who had to flee the is of his time, or Zola afte? “J’Accuse,” or Brecht atlene critics came to power who eee for their gun when they hea? damnable word, the Phone MUtual 5-5288 lia): fo A 4 e 5 ugust 14, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Po9!