ITH the election hubbub end-

ed, the votes all in, and the

Soereds back in Victoria with a

slightly reduced majority, a little
sober reflection is in order.

Among its three “free enter-
prise” parties, big business backed
the Socreds to the hilt, with un-
limited election slush funds, spe-
cious promises of industrial “pros-
perity” and jobs, plus a grotesque
“socialist” scarecrow to frighten
the electorate into support of
Social Credit.

The election results show some
interesting indications of the
“shape of things to come”. The
Tory party was quietly buried
without mourners, a fact which
should not be overlooked by John

Diefenbaker. The Liberals fare a,
little better. Together with the
CCF, they took seven seats from
the Socreds, two for the Liberals
and five for -the CCF. Premier
Bennett’s cabinet members, Labor
Minister Lyle Wicks and Agricul-
ture Minister N. P. Steacy went
down to defeat, indicating strong
public opposition to Socred anti-
labor and farm policies.

All the vital issues upon which
this election should have been
fought, particularly that of jobs,
peace and security, were either
avoided or wordily disposed of by
all. parties except the nineteen
Communist candidates.

These issues still remain. Had
they been tackled by a_ broad

Give them a break

ANADA’S athletic showing at.
Ee; the Rome Summer Olympics
hit a new low. Not because, as
some coaches contend, our athletes
“do not work hard enough.” Nor
as the U.S. coldwar commentators
say, because athletes from Social-
ist or other countries are “sub-
Sidized,” and thereby “academical-
ly” superior.

The biggest hurdle Canadian
athletes in Rome had to face
wasn’t the prowess of Russian or
other national competitors. To lose
in the face of superior competition
in the spirit of the Olympics is no
more dishonorable than to win.

The prime hurdle facing- our
athletes in Rome was (and is) the
callous and cynical unconcern of a
Tory government back home. A
government ready to bask or cash-
in on any Canadian Olympic vic-
tery, but consistently adamant in
making any provision towards
sports and training facilities in
Canada.

A government which, on in-
structions from Washington, pours
$1'% billion down the armament
drain annually, but doesn’t spend
the price of a bag of peanuts to
assist the finest of our young men
and women meet their fellow com-

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petitors from other lands on an

equal footing.

Don’t pan our athletes who
didn’t do very well in Rome, and
don’t pull any punches on a Tory
government which hogtied them
before they got there. Rather
begin the job of assuring that
adequate sports and training facil-
ities are available to our athletes
in readiness for the next Olym-
pics.

EDITORIAL PAGE *°

DDRESSING the annual gath-
ering of the Associated
Boards of Trade of Central B.C.
and the Alaskan Chamber of Com-
merce in Prince Rupert last week,
External Affairs Minister Howard
Green came up with a new Tory
alibi on Canada’s non-recognition
of the People’s Republic of ‘China.
It would be “unwise at this
time” quoth the minister, to rec-
ognize People’s China, because
“that country will not accept rec-
ognition unless the Communists’
right to Formosa (Taiwan) is also
recognized-”
This latest Tory excuse for non-

united labor-farmer-peoples move-
ment as an effective alternative to
Social Credit, the results of this
election would have been vastly
different. The “go-it-alone”’ ref-
ormist policies of the CCF-BCFL
leadership, barely distinguishable
from that of the Socreds or the
others, assured the re-election of
the Social Credit majority.

The CCF expresses “satisfac-
tion” with its five extra seats.
Having “paid the piper”, big busi-
ness will seek “satisfaction” in
more Socred giveaways.

The prime lesson of the elec-
tion: the broad united alternative
advocated by the Communist can-
didates must still be built.

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recognition of 650 million people
-in Asia has no foundation in fact.

“At no time .during or since the
founding of the Republic of China
has any such condition been laid
down by the government of that
country. Nor have tie most anti-
Communist coldwar maniacs in
Washington, who dictate Canada’s
foreign policy. formulations, found
it necessary to resort to such
cheap subterfuge.

(Green knows as does every
Canadian, that the Island of For-
mosa, held by U.S. imperialism
through its stooge Chiang. Kai-
shek, belongs to the Republic of
. China. He also knows that formal

recognition of this fact has never

been made a condition of “recog-
nition” by the government of Peo-
ple’s China.)

Probably -the fact that Vancou-
ver Board of 'Trade president E. T.
Harrison, whooping the Chamber
of Commerce fat boys up to de-
mand the banning of the Commu-
nist Party of Canada, “inspired”
our aging minister to come up
with this latest Tory alibi for not
“recognizing” a mighty nation of
650 million builders of a new Com-
munist society.

In any case who does Green and
his Chamber of Commerce pundits
think they are fooling?

Tom
McEwen

HE mandate of the Security

Council, authorized on July 14,
to send United Nations troops to
the Congo covered two main
points, nothing more.

To facilitate the speedy with-
drawal of all Belgian armed forces
from the Congo, and for UN Sec-
retary -General Dag Hammarsk-
joeld, “in consultation with the
Government of the Republic of the
Congo, to provide the Government
with such military assistance as
may be necessary until . . . the
national security forces may be
able, in the opinion of the govern-
ment, to meet fully their tasks.”

That was all, A legitimate func-
tion within the Charter -of the
United Nations.

What is taking place in the
Congo today goes far beyond the
range of that specified task. The
UN and its general-secretary and
the forces under UN command are
openly and flagrantly interfering
in the internal affairs of the Congo.

UN forces are openly. prevent-

ing the legal government of the
Congo from the use of its own air-
fields, telegraphic and radio com-
munications, and giving active aid
to seperatist and sessionist
elements in the mineral-rich pro-
vince of Katanga.and other Congo
areas.

Not only -is the Belgian puppet,
the self-styled ‘‘president”’ of Ka-
tanga, Mr. Tshombe being “built-
up” as a UN “front” against the
legitimate Lumumba government
of the Congo, but permitted with
UN approval to receive all the
arms and other war equipment he
required from western imperial-
ism, particularly from Belgium,
France and the USA.

To put it briefly, the UN, far
from carrying out the provisions
of its mandate to assist the legal
government of the Congo, is active-
ly engaged in promoting civil
‘war, by throwing its full weight
behind the stooges of Belgium and
other Western powers, and by
denying the rightful government
of the Congo its authority to
govern.

John Foster Dulles is dead, but
his war arsonist conspiracies are
being ably carried out in the
Congo under’a UN flag. The re-
sult is that civil war and a “new
Korea” is in the making... And’
Belgian imperialism and its forces
are still in the Congo, acting. out

its final role as a conspirator and
oppressor against the Congolese
people.

One has only to listen for a few
minutes to any one or group of the
trained television and press seals
of the Pentagon, to realize. what
is taking -place. Congo Premier
Patrice Lumumba is _-everything
that is “bad,” while the Tshombe-
Kasavubu pawns of Western im-
perialism are portrayed as true
Congo “patriots.” And of course
in this medley of imperialist propa-
ganda, aimed at keeping their
claws firmly embedded -in the
backs of the ‘Congolese people and
their resources — rich land, the
usual gobs of anti-Soviet cold 'war
is served up to hoodwink the pub-
lic on the real situation in the
Congo.

Our job in Canada, if we don’t
want to see the Congo turned into
another Korea, is to demand of
Diefenbaker that all Canadian
troops. now in. the Congo, be
brought out immediately. Premier
Lumumba. asked Canada for tech-
nical, medical and other skilled
aid. Dief, at the command of Wash-
ington, sent troops; troops who
now deny the Congo government
the right of its. own communica-
tions system. -

Bring the Canadians home be-
fore .worse befalls us. Hands off
the Congo.

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