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“IT SAYS HERE THE ECONOMY NEEDS COOLING OFF”

of war and Nuremberg law,
and beat the Nazis to atomic
war, making Hiroshima a land-
mark and Nagasaki a noncha-
lant gesture. The spreading of
disease can repress people
and control populations, pow-
ers no imperialist government
can willingly forego.

J.B.C. Woods, New York

FALSE ECONOMY

Slow spending on education
in the ’70s is false economy. It
is digging up the young plants
to keep the garden trim, in-
stead of tackling the weeds
that run wild, for instance mili-
tary waste. . :

New Republic

EVEN A BURGLAR...

Remember? ... Back in 1901,
when the U.S. was crushing in-
surrection in the Philippines,
Mark Twain wrote: ‘This Re-
public’s life is not in peril. This
nation has sold its honor for
a phrase (My country, right or
wrong.) This stupid phrase
needed help and it got another
one: ‘Even if the war be wrong,
we are in it and must fight it
it out; we cannot retire from it
without dishonor.’ Why, not
even a burglar could have said
it better.”

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GET OUT OF THERE!

When the Ist Battalion Royal Cana-
dian Regiment conducted manoeuvres
in Jamaica last March, the Jamaican
people asked angrily why they were
there. Wasn’t Canada acting as an im-
perialist state in the Caribbean, they
asked? Was there a secret agreement
that Canadian armed forces should
keep the reactionary. Shearer regime in
power against the people’s will?

Now the 2nd Battalion of that Regi-
ment, consisting of 600 men, has been
airlifted there, Chief of Staff Gen.
Sharp is flying to inspect them, a real
military “show of force” is being put
on.
Observers can’t help noticing that
this is in line with what the U.S. has
been doing, in the Dominican Republic
for example, and with Nelson Rocke-
feller’s plan to “Vietnamize” the West-
ern Hemisphere.

“What are Canadian troops doing in
Jamaica?” Communist Party leader
William Kashtan has asked in a public
statement. “Is it to protect the Shearer
government? If so, against whom? Or
is it to protect the U.S.-owned Alumi-
num Company and the Bank of Nova
Seotia?

“This is the third time Canadian
‘roops have undergone tropical train-
ing exercises in Jamaica. Obviously
they are not being trained to defend
Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic.
One must therefore draw the conclu-
sion they will be used in warm climates
—against whom and for what purpose?
Are Canadian troops to be used as a
catspaw for U.S. imperialist aims?

“These are legitimate questions the
Canadian people and. Members of Par-
liament should be asking. the Govern-
ment.”

Stop the criminal imperialist designs
in the Caribbean, in which Canada is
being groomed for a killer’s role. Cana-
dian troops should get out of there—
and stay out!

FRIENDS AND FOES

Imperialism with its policies of ag-
gression is so exposed and despised
across the earth that its protagonists
find it very hard indeed to defend -it.
But they do the best they can by trying
to tar the anti-imperialist countries
with the same brush. The most glaring
example is Vietnam, where apologists
for brutal U.S. aggression denounce the
U.S.S.R. for helping the Vietnamese
people to defend their country.

Another example is Nigeria. It is’an
independent country, a member of the
United Nations. UN secretary U Thant
proclaimed support for its territorial
integrity, and the black African states
stood solidly behind it against the crim-
inal and tragic secessionist “Biafra”
civil war. No government, ene
that of Canada, openly dared to bac
the secession. The Soviet Union’s help
to Nigeria, was eloquently described by
the Lagos newspaper New Nigerian:

“We are living witnesses to the fact
that during our darkest hour when the
battle raged, countries that had earlier

_ posed as friendly suddenly became bur-

dened asses.
“They faltered, wavered and stum-

bled. But the Soviet Union, without
any commercial or economic interest in
Nigeria, pitched its tent with us and
without any fuss steadily supplied us
with the military equipment we needed
to crush the rebellion.”

Yet some. circles that claim to be
anti-imperialist seek to place the Soviet

assistance to Nigeria on the same level:

as that of imperialist powers to their
puppets who organized the bloody civil
war!

Or take the tragic and extremely dan--

gerous situation in the Middle East. The
rulers of Israel launched a war of ag-
gression against their Arab neighbors,
seized portions of their territory and
are holding it. Their aggression was re-
peatedly condemned by the United Na-
tions and they were ordered to with-
draw their forces from the occupied
territory. After “hiding in the bushes”
and even “rebuking” the Israeli rulers,

_ President Nixon has now openly given
them a blank cheque to continue their

aggression. Yet some people who claim
to be anti-imperialist find it in them to
blame the Soviet Union for supporting
the victims of aggression!

One Toronto paper which promotes
the black liberation movement even had
the temerity, born more of ignorance
than malice, we expect, to liken the Ni-
gerian secession with the Spanish Civil
War of 1936-1939, “while the gold of
Spain still, to this day, rests in Russia
—ransom of the Spanish people” (!!!)

Yet the mention of Spain is apropos. ~

The Soviet Union assisted the legally
elected Spanish Republican government
in every possible way to defend itself
against the combined onslaught of
Franco, Hitler and Mussolini. Britain
under Tory Neville Chamberlain and
France under Socialist Leon Blum de-
clared an arms embargo “on both
sides,” thus preventing Soviet support
to the Republic while Hitler and Mus-
solini were pouring in everything they
- to the fascist legions of Franco.
In this way — “treating both sides
equally” — they throttled Spanish de-
mocracy and went on to unleash World
War Two.

When you place the gangster and his
victim on the same level you are in fact
backing the gangster. When you place
imperialists and those who are helping
people to defend themselves against the
imperialists on the same level, you are
actually lending your support to the
imperialists,

Is it so hard to grasp that simple
truth?

DISASTER WARNING

The Liberian tanker Arrow (real
owner billionaire Onassis) ran aground
on a shoal off Nova Scotia last week,
split in two and is pouring its cargo
of bunker oil into Chedabucto Bay. The
damage that it will do to marine and
shore life in the Maritimes is not yet
known. In the meantime the U.S. super-

- tanker Manhattan is preparing to

make its second trip through the
Northwest passage, where reefs and
ice are a much greater peril than the
waters off Cape Breton. So would the
consequences be — the destruction of
all the sea and land animals of Can-
ada’s Northland . . . We have beer

warned. ;
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