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HE great American “image”
of Liberalism (with a lowéer-

THE TWO NATIONS
(A British view of Britain’s “independent nuclear deterrent”)

Editorial comment...

Be that as it may, we’d just as

A roaring anti-Tory hurricane is
blowing up in Britain since -

“Santa Claus” Macmillan return-
ed from the Bahamas with a bag-
ful of “polaris” rockéts, described
by many Britishers as a “Non-
British Dependent Nuclear Non-
Deterrent.” These ‘“non-deter-
rents” to be fired from a £45-mil-
lion submarine — which Britons
haven’t got but must build — a

minimum of ten of them?

In all facets of British life, in
ithe field of health, hospitals
homes, jobs, a bit more in the
family pot, the British people are
figuring out just what this extra
five - hundred million pounds

O most people. regardless of
their political views, the
Christmas reunion of 1300 Cuban
prisoners of the Pentagon’s ill-
fated Bay of Pigs invasion was
seen as a heart-warming event, a
fitting component of the “Christ-
mas spirit.”

The millions of dollars raised to
effect this rehabilitation by U-S.
government personnel and U.S.
monopoly, posing as “private citi-
zens” serves as one more proof
(if such were needed) of respon-
sibility for that reckless counter-
revolutionary war adventure
against a peaceful people. That,

soon see Dief out-on-a-limb for however, is now “water under the
uncorking “state secrets’, than bridge.”

see several hundred jobless work- It is already disturbingly ob-
ers lined up around a city mission vious that the “Christian spirit”
waiting patiently in the cold and of the Cuban ‘repatriates’ was of
wet for one of Dief’s “promises” short duration. Some of these
to materialize. counter-revolutionaries has scarc-

case “l”) Adlai Steveson, hasn’t
shown up too well as U.S. ambass-
ador to the UN, and especially dur-
ing the Cuban crisis. There Adlai
demonstrated he could anti-Sov-
ieteer and red-smear with the best

of them.

Apparently, however, that. is
not good enough for the “hard-
line” boys of the Pentagon. They
want .a “brinkmanship” ghoul of
the Dulles type, one ready to push
the nuclear button at the drop of
a hat.

An so, alas, the great‘ ‘Liber- ?

al’ Adlai is having his throat cut,
politically that is. and may .soon
be retired to write his memoirs on
the pitfalls of pretentious “liber-
alism.”’ And without much hope of
its being a “best seller.”

: * x * *

While cavorting in the Baham-
as it seems Dief has goofed again.
This time, according to “well in-
formed sources” (?) by giving
out to the press boys a bit of ‘‘in-

side” stuff on U.S. and British
“aid” to India’s frontier war on
China.

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A'Dunkirk’ for Mac

(added to the millions already be-
ing squandered on useless “de-
fense’”’) would provide if put to
good practical use?

This “diplomatic Dunkirk’ as
the Kennedy-Macmillan confab
has been dubbed, ‘not only spells
utter ruin by this suicidal pile-up
of nuclear armaments, but makes
the British people an early “ex-
pendable” in a U-S.-provoked ho-
locaust of which Kennedy - said,
“the first 18-hours of a nuclear
war there would be 150 million
fatalities.”

No wonder the British people
are emphatic when they say “the
Tories must go.”

for peace

ely got off the ramp at Miami.
Florida before they started boast-
ing and calling for “another in-
vasion to liberate their homeland
from Fidel Castro,” a sentiment
repeated daily by some Pentagon(
brass or other, despite the
“pledges” given during the fate-
ful days of October 1962 “not to
engage in military aggression
against Cuba.” In point of fact
U.S. war provocations against Cu-
ba have never ceased, with Ken-

nedy’s speech to these counter-
revolutionaries the latest confir-
mation- .

There is only one answer to

these Cuban counter-revolution-

ary firebrands and their U.S.-pay-
masters; a greater peoples’ vigil-
ance everywhere to assure that
the U.S. “pledge” is kept. To make
“Hands Off Cuba” a top resolu-
tion for 1963.

L Xmas “message’”’ of our gracious

Tom
McEwen

ELL, here we are at the be-
ginning of a brand new
New Year. Things being as they
are in this tensed-up world, the
top question still remains; will
1963 bring all humanity a little
closer to the idea of peace and
peaceful coexistence — or univer-
sal nuclear cremation?

That, unfortunately is not an
academic question. Neither is it
one to be left to the ‘diplomats’.
the “statesman”, or the trigger-
happy military -brass, who draw
their pay for scheming how to kill,
and their ‘honours’ for killing.
It is a queStion for the people and
only answerable by the people. It
iS top priority for 1963. Failure to
face up to it could see 1963 “the
year to end all years?”

During our all-too-brief season
of “peace ang goodwill,” our rul-
-ers spent most of their time down
in the sunny Bahamas, discussing
‘how best to atomize humanity; de-
ating whether ‘“Skybolts” or

“Polaris” were the ‘most effective _

means of nuclear delivery?” A
queer subject for Christmas, but
then we live in queer times.

Just recall for a moment the

x

Queen to her far-flung shrinking
empire. In words and sentiment its
beauty is unsurpassed, but it was
just about as remote from reality
as the “polaris” Kennedy stuffed
- in Mac’s duffle-bag is a memento of
“peace and goodwill” to anyone;
and least of all the British people,
who will pay through the nose for
such Yuletide “defence” gifts. |

The Christmas and New Year
“sreetings” of our leading” states-
men” have been well shored-up
with the urge for more “nuclear
deterrents”, ‘conventional’ wea-
pons and se forth, probably to
keep mankind from taking “Peace

- On Earth” to literally. The gross
indecency of such “statesmen” is
only equalled by their insanity.

Also by a neat bit of capitalistic
semantics the change-over - from.
«“_ . . Goodwill to Men” to “All
Men of Goodwill’ serves to put
nearly half of all mankind outside
the pale of ‘Western civilization,”
behind some “curtain” or other,
thereby providing the ‘moral”
basis for including ‘‘nuclear deter-

_rents” in their Yuletide ‘mess-
ages?”

True, we've had a couple of
weeks or more of a ‘‘Merry Christ-
mas and a Happy New Year’”’ cli-
miate, since people, and especially
the common people are inherently
human and peace-loving. But this-
also has largely been turned into

a seasonal mumbo-jumbo, geared 3

as it is to the -high-pressure com-
mercialized tinkle of a ‘sales’
cash register. How prophetic Karl

Marx described the process one
hundred and fifteen years ago when
he wrote, “The bOurgeoisie has
stripped of its halo every occupa-
tion hitherto honoured and looked
up to with reverent awe.-. .”

Today Handel’s Me§Ssiah on the
family TV would be regarded as a
total loss were it not interspersed
with the superior quality of Sor-
gam’s soap detergent or the long-
range striking power of Cape
Canavarel’s latest warhead carry-
ing rocket Both of which spell
out gigantic pTofits, — the last and
only remaining symbol of monop-
oly ‘‘reverence’’.

How could it all happen? Well
that’s a long story which we won’t
go into here. “News” said Arthur |
‘Sylvester, U.S. assistani-secretary
of defense, “is a weapon in the
American arsenal. I think the in-
herent right of the Government to
lie to Save itself when faced with
nuclear diSaSter is basic.”

That’s part of the story, but

only a part. Throughout 1963 with
the banner of Peace on our mast-
head, the Pacific Tribune will con-
tinue the struggle to make the
“peace and goodwill” of one day
of the year stretch to the other
364 days. And unlike the U.S. auto-
maniacs and their echos in other
areas of the so-called ‘‘free world,”
we won’t claim the “right to lie”
to do the job. Truth is a much
better weapon.
, Let’s make 1963 the year of
Peace, by imposing it upon those
who make a “virtue” of lying in
order to foment war. _

and for payment of postage in cash —

~ Jan. 4, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 4

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