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Peace policies

XTERNAL Affairs Minister
Lester B. Pearson received
tullsome praise last weekend in
the columns of the cold war press
lor his “‘great’’ speech at Geneva
in defense of U.S. H-bomb poli-
Ces,
_. Stanley Burke, writing from
eneva, commented on Pearson’s
Speech: “‘So highly is it regarded
_ 4 US. headquarters that the en-
Ure text has been transmitted by
teletype to Washington.”
€ question that immediately
comes to the minds of most peace
Oving Canadians is: whom is
ter B. Pearson speaking for at
eneva?
_Earlier, Burke reported that
representatives at Geneva

-- not apologies

- were chagrined when ‘British and

Commonwealth countries refused.

to support Dulles unquestioning:
ly in his efforts to involve them
in a war of intervention in Indo
china.
ing they thought they had the
Commonwealth in their pocket.

Such speeches as Pearson made
strengthen this arrogant assump:
tion. -

The Canadian people do not
want ‘‘other Koreas.” They look
to the Geneva Conference as do
millions of other peoples with a
fervent hope that it will lead to
peace in Indochina and through:
out the world. And they expect
Pearson to express their will.

A Fraser Valley Authority

FTER the devastating floods
~~ Of 1948 in the Fraser Valley
there was a widespread demand
for a Fraser River Authority em-
Powered to undertake a program
Which would end the recurrent
thteat of floods for all time.

_Tt was a worthwhile and prac-
Heal idea, but it got no farther

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old saying that “crime does not
thie” has taken an awful beating in
1S day and age. The boys who make
the homily a theme on the radio and in
ae Slicks know a good thing when they
litt it, but their dramatized pifflé has
€ in keeping with reality.
tnohoula a working man be forced to
. extreme of having to steal a loaf of
sient OF a bottle of milk to keep from
Ving, that is a terrible crime, of

St

pat Penalty—if caught. We recall a

Hus from a Toronto stgre during the
call Sty Thirties, Having what the police
Yea 4 Tecord,” he served exactly seven
Sie S in the bastille for those socks. Such
Imes” certainly do not pay.
jolumbia, a Yankee hydro-electric gang
mine set to pull off a real big haul;
tea of dollars worth of the great
4 th potential of the Columbia River
mi € B.C. interior and in the B.C.-
On northland.
aes Some time back, as the boys in the
eo say, these power-hungry Yanks
they been “casing the joint,” and, if
re ae aided and abetted by a Social
the it government, as~ appears likely
pul. have every hope of being able to
D Off “an inside job.”
chunke = the past several years great
hyd, of Canada’s mineral, timber, oil,
have “lectrie power and other resources
ee been criminally sequestered by
fiden, Yankee war trusts and their “con-
at ee men in Canada. A brief glance
these. annual balance sheets of some of
resources rustlers will show that

®ourse, and one for which he will pay a

acing plug who once stole a pair of

t the moment, right here in British ”

than government desks. at Vic
toria and Ottawa.

During the
years some patchwork .dyking of
the Fraser and other flood hazard
areas has been undertaken. And
now that a new flood threatens,
there is a question as to whether

the dykes will hold.

crime not only pays, but the bigger the
crime the greater the payoff.

The advantage such criminals have
when compared to an ordinary plug
snitching a loaf of bread through sheer
necessity, is that they are outside the
law. In fact they are the “law,” since
the extent of their stealing the birthright

of the people is equalled by their execu-

tive and administrative power to make
the people like it! ;

We are taught that “to steal’ is to take
something that belongs to some one else.
’ One of the old commandments also in-
structs us, “Thou shalt not steal.” All
this has become very old fashioned in
these hit-and-run days of monopoly grab-
bing. Alcan stole an empire of timber,
water and mineral wealth, right under
our very noses, and is now a law unto it-
self, superceding the laws of British Col-
umbia. If anyone doubts this let him
try and make a tour of that area of
British Columbia—without Alcan’s per-
mission. !
Crime pays off in big profits—provided
the crime is sufficiently big. The Yankee
war trusts give us their Hollywood ver-
sion for “entertainment”—and pull the
ground from under our feet for their
super-profits.

When Hitler. came to power in the
year 1933 his Nazi regime required that
all’ sciences taught in German institu-
tions of learning must conform to the
Hitlerite race cult of “Aryanism.” Those
scientists, educationalists and teachers
who refused to conform to this biologi-
cal travesty soon found themselves head-
ed for the concentration camp, the exe-
cution squad and the death oven.

A few weeks ago a “personal order”
from U.S. President Adolph Eisenhower
to his Atomic Energy Commission, bar-
red Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer “as a
security risk from all access to secret
data.”

Such an “order” is equivalent to a
small-town Al Capene “ordering” the
stars to cease in their course, and just
as ridiculous. As with Galileo, who

He quoted them as ‘say- |

intervening six,

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fer

The B.C. Snow Survey Bul
letin of May 1, issued by the

- Water Rights Branch of the De-
‘partment of Lands and Forests,

shows the flood potential in the
Columbia River basin as being 55
percent above 1948 and 58 per-
cent above average. In the Koot-
enay River area the flood poten-
tial is even greater, 64 percent
above 1948 and 73 percent above
aerage. And in the Fraser River
area the flood danger is extreme-
ly grave, government figures listing

the water content in the Peso.
fields as being 128 percent great-
er than 1952. :

This again points up the need
for long-range agencies and plan-
ning to cope adequately with the
annual flood hazard. The poten-
tial danger facing many areas of
B.C. within the next few weeks
should also serve to drive home
the lesson that the “‘hopes’’ and
“assurances’’ of petty politicians
are a sorry safeguard against
rampaging flood waters.

RL
sought after and spoke veritable truths,

and whose disciple he is, Professor Op-
penheimer, the scientist, is unable to fit
his science into a McCarthy straitjacket.
So, like the world-renowned scientist
Albert Einstein, Professor Oppenheimer
must go, but not before he has been
properly smeared in preparation for a
final crucifixion. |

While a number of other leading U.S.
scientists say in unison “without Dr.

‘Oppenheimer the United States might

not have had the atom bomb,” the sen-
atorial muck-raker McCarthy howls his
congratulations to Eisenhower: “The Op-
penheimer suspension is long overdue—

_it should have been taken years ago.”

“Teach the superiority of the Germanic
race,” screamed Hitler to the Science
faculty of Heidleberg University — or
“raus mit.”

When the news of Hiroshima first
reached him, that the atom bomb his
genius had helped to create had destroy-
ed a living city, Professor Oppenheimer
became disturbed and ill. In this ter-

. rible act, said Oppenheimer, “the physi-

cists have known sin and this is a know-
ledge they cannot lose.” , But he opposed
any proposals that scientists should cease
their explorations in such lethal sphere,
declaring that “the world cannot turn

-its back on knowledge.”

'‘Haled before one of McCarthy’s witch-
hunting sessions over two years ago,
Professor Oppenheimer told that gang
of thought-controllers some basie truths.
One was that “scientists must be left
free to think those essential, dangerous
thoughts which are the true essence of
science.” In short, to seek and speak the
truth, irrespective of how unpalatable
that truth might be to certain interests
or class ideologies!

As a scientist, Professor Oppenheimer

- laid down two basic rules for human

progress, the “minimization of coercion”
and the “minimization of secrecy.” Liv-
ing and working in a den of hysterical
war-mad criminals, such concepts for
human behavior are more dangerous
than H-bombs, so, as with Hitler, it is
“raus mit” top scientist Dr. J. Robert
Oppenheimer.

Forty years ago

(From the files of the B.C. Federationist,
May. 15, 1914)

“The decision of the U.S. government
to interfere in the Mexican situation was
made at the instruction of the capital-
ists, who have large vested interests
there,” wrote the B.C. Federationist.
Noting that the number of American
newspapers which had dared to tell the
truth about Mexico “is less than few,”
the B.C. Federationist quoted the San
Francisco Bulletin to the effect that U.S.
vested interests were “responsible for
the agitation for war which has been
carried on in this country (United States)
ever since the Madero revolution.”

Fifteen years ago

(From the files of the People’s Advocate,.
May 12, 1939)

Documentary proof of collusion between
William Green, president of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, the National
Association of Manufacturers and anti-
labor corporations in the preparation
of proposed amendments to the Wagner
Act was offered to the U.S. Senate labor
committee. by, CIO president John L.
Lewis. : :

Ten years ago

(From the files of The People,
May 13, 1944)

Asked to aid Vancouver’s homeless by
finding some solution to the worst hous-
ing crisis ever to hit the city, Coalition
Attorney General R. L. Maitland refused,
stating, “There is no law which puts re-
sponsibility on any government, local or
federal, to provide houses for other than
indigents. It’s up to other people to find
their own homes.”

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