ts Nixon:

“Ailis ic 4 Great vicLory for
the foviet and American

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Sout Stone

-Crazy—like a fox

The greatest woes visited on
the peoples in our century were
perpetrated by evil men with
the aid of the big lie, particular-
ly the anti-Communist lie. Let’s
recall some of them.

Hitler oiled the wheels for the
Nazi regime by burning the
Reichstag and blaming it on the

Communists. Dimitrov exposed -

that frame-up at the Leipzig
trial, now the whole world
knows the evidence and who
was guilty. But it served Hitler
at the time . . . and the world
paid in 50 million dead and tre-
mendous destruction.

The immediate pretext for
Hitler’s attack on Poland was
a supposed attack by Polish
soldiers—now it has been prov-
ed that they were Germans
dressed in Polish uniforms.

The lie that the atomic de-
struction of Hiroshima and Na-
gasaki was necessary to save
U.S. lives has been completely
exploded. Japan was on the
verge of surrender and President
Truman knew it. The U.S. inva-
sion of Vietnam was supposedly
triggered by the Tonkin Bay in-
cident—now it is conceded that
there never was such an inci-
dent. And so on.

Mr. Paul Hellyer, one-time
Liberal cabinet minister, then
an “independent” and more re-
cently chief of Action Canada!
(the name was probably bor-
rowed from Gen. Franco’s Ar-
riba Hispania!) has cooked up a
“red plot” allegedly having to
do with Communist infiltration
of a federal youth project some
years ago. Naturally he is given
headlines in the venal dailies.

The Toronto Sun, illegitimate
offspring of the defunct Tele-

gram and the CIA, is laying for
blood. The right-wing crazies
are whipped to a frenzy —_ by
coldblooded big business _ in-
terests.

Mr. Hellyer made his revela-
tion at a Lithuanian ultras’ ga-
thering in Toronto (how these
right-wing politicians, Health
Minister John Munro too, love
those “ethnic” Hitlerites!) sup-
posedly called to mourn the
suicide of a young “patriot” in
Soviet Lithuania. As it happens,
we have some of the facts about
that. case.

Yes, 20-year old Romas Kal-
anta committed suicide by self-
immolation in Kaunas city park
recently. The tragedy was
thoroughly investigated. Mem-

- bers of the forensic commission,

distinguished medical people,
examined the evidence, inter-
viewed parents, teachers, friends.
They found that Kalanta was
mentally ill and committed sui-
cide in a fit of depression. There
was no hint of “nationalism” or
anything of the sort.

For the Hellyers, the Lithuan-
ian ultras and the venal press
this makes no difference, of
course. They hold that all men-
tal cases in the USSR (of whom
there are not very many as com-
pared with North America) are
really “dissidents” anyway. So
the big lie marches on. It will
later be acknowledged as a
falsehood, but by that time new
big lies will be disseminated.

There’s one thing about Mr.
Hellyer: he won’t be adjudged
insane if and when he has to
answer for his lies. Just crazy
like a fox—a fat big business
fox. (J.W.)

Editor — MAURICE RUSH

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1972—PAGE 4

The drive continues

Tremendous events are taking place
and still greater ones are shaping up.
On the world scale the drive for peace
and freedom of peoples is gaining
ground. In Canada a mighty labor and
democratic upsurge is rising to beat
back the onslaught of monopoly.

To throw light on these events and.
to help those who are for peace, for the
interests of the working people, for
democratic rights and social progress
for Canada’s future — that is the task
of our paper, continuing the fine tradi-
tion of 50 years of the workers’ press
in our country.

Our readers and supporters have
provided us with the funds that will
guarantee our publication and carry us
into the greatest election debate, the
other battles that lie ahead. They have
supplied the sinews of war. The task
now is to bring the Tribune to thous-
ands of new readers.

Thanking all those who so loyally
and generously heiped to put our fin-
ancial campaign over the top, we urge
them to continue the drive — for new
subscribers, for wider distribution of
their paper.

Only you can do it!

Victory for peace

There is not a decent human being
on earth who will not be glad that the
Soviet Union and the United States
have signed an agreement which limits
the arms race in the most fiendish of
weapons ever devised, the weapons of
nuclear war. :

We are far yet from the establish-
ment of a stable peace in the world.
U.S. imperialism continues to devastate
Indochina. War is still smouldering,
threatening to break out in consuming
flames in the Near East. It is still a
long way to total disarmament and win-
ning of a world in which international
conflicts are resolved by peaceful nego-
tiation alone and each country is free
to settle its own affairs without outside
interference.

But another important breakthrough
na. been made on the road to that
goal. .

There is no mystery about the reason
why the man who heads U.S. imperial-

ism has gone to Moscow and signed -

that agreement. It is not because the
hawks have become doves, but because
their wings have been clipped by the
resistance of the Vietnamese people,
the pressure of world public opinion,
the anti-war struggle in the United
States. It is because the forces of im-
perialism and war today are weaker
than the forces of socialism, national
liberation and peace. It is because the
U.S. has been unable to enforce its will
on the world and is torn by crisis at
home.

The ultra-hawks are already rallying
in the U.S. to prevent the ratification
of the agreement. They did the same in
West Germany, trying to prevent rati-

fication of the treaties with the

and Poland, but had to back

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face of the peopie’s pressure. #
fate awaits the opponents 0
ment in the U.S. if the Ameridil
ple rise to defend, the road ®

and security, if the peoples of t

increase their pressure. Th
government must get off
which it is straddling but
war-makers side, and add
the peace call.

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helpers from the “left” are oa
about “collusion” of two “Ssup@,

ers” and mumbling that
Union should not deal with

he is conducting aggressiti

china. These are the ones

fortnight ago were blaming
for not accepting a militar

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of North Vietnamese harbors: —

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emerging victorious. They do”
imperialism can and will be ©,
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ence; to the contrary, they

a “hoax.” They don’t want pe4
want a Soviet-American wal. :
the USSR which they regard

enemy.

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force in Canada today whe
from the shackles of the

Trotskyite, Maoist and anarchl

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dermine it.

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and U.S., between all the count

us have more of it if it is

that puts brakes on the arm

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change, places roadblocks
to nuclear war, and when
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the valiant peoples of Indo¢e the

feat aggression and restore

pendence, to compel the pro?
the’ Provisional Revolutionaly,
ment of South Vietnam at

talks, to compel Israel to obe!
UN resolution on withdraw4

Arab lands, to compe

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linquish their colonies in

forward to new victories fOF ”

general disarmament.

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into and swelling the
people’s movement in
cent months we have W!
many-sided struggles of

peoples, the rise of the an
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