that much debt.”

antagonism and dissent.

WORLD SCENE

THE COMMUNIST Party of Canada sent a cable of greet-
ings to the Communist Party of China and the Chinese
people on the occasion of the 18th anniversary of the
founding of the Chinese People’s Republic.

THE MILITANT CIVIL RIGHTS organization ACT, is plan-
ning a march on the Washington, D.C. bankruptcy court
in an attempt to launch a campaign to encourage bank-
ruptcy filings by the poor. ACT (whose name means little
more than the word act) says its goal is to make “merchants
behave better.” ACT spokesmen feel this campaign will not
harm the national economy because the “poor don’t have

CUBAN FISHING VESSELS WILL SOON be moving in for
full scale fishing operations in the waters of the eastern
Pacific. These plans were being made after the successful
fishing expedition of the 655 ton longliner Bonita in the
waters between Baja California and Equador. The Bonita
is one of a fleet of 10 similar vessels, and nine smaller
ones, built in Spqin and Japan. :

FORMER ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER David Ben Gurion’s
refusal to join a united labor party under Premier Levi
Eshkol, may have wrecked the three party merger an-
nounced last month in Tel Aviv. All three parties have pro-
-posed merger conditions designed to safeguard their parti-
cular interests. One representative of the Rafi party said
on emerging from a recent intra-party meeting, “the only
thing that’s uniting us is our opposition to each other.”
Most Israelis hold little hope for the proposed coalition,
and picture it as just another coalition torn by personal

Ultra right

at U.

HE Edmund Burke Society,

an ultra-right group named

after the 18th century Bri-
tish parliamentarian, claims six-
ty-five activists in Toronto. At
students’ club day at the Uni-
versity of Toronto, the Burkeites
harangued and pamphleteered
students against the impending
dangers of communist take-over
in every major institution, from
the United Nations to the Cana-
dian Union of Students.

F. P. Fromm, one of the three
original organizers, claimed his
group would destroy the materi-
al of their opposition by cover-
ing posters with hammers and
sickles. “We support violence
against communist dictatorships
but whether violence is used
against communist demonstra-
tions here is up to the individual.
This is a private thing,” -says
Fromm.

C. Andrews, another one of
the three organizers and a stu-
dent at Ryerson Polytechnical
Institute, agreed with Fromm
when he said “We support Apar-

of T.

theid as the lesser of two evils.
That Africans can’t rule them-
selves is obvious from the Con-
go,” they said.

“But we’re not racist,” they
argued. “We have a Jamaican
businessman in our group.”

Their purpose, they say, is to
express a right wing voice on
campus to counter the meetings
and demonstrations of the left.
They completely support an ex-
tension of the U.S. war in Viet-
nam and Fromm argued the U.S.
should bomb China now before
“they get us.”

The Burkites program for Can-
ada is to turn the CBC and CNR
over to private enterprise, elimi-
nate the Company of Young
Canadians, cut government bu-
reaucracy, and reduce corporate
taxes. “We need more private
initiative,” said Fromm.

The group claims to have re-
cruited twelve new members
from their booth, but this report-
er only saw students attacking
their position, especially about
Vietnam.

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ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES

A doomed, corrupt alliant

By TOM MORRIS
IKE a bad dream, Canada’s
association with the Or-
ganization of American
States is back. This country’s
membership has been an open
question since the founding of
the OAS in 1948. There is even
a rumor that Canada’s hand-
carved chair is gathering dust in
a Washington, DC, basement in-
dicating that it always was in-
tended that we should become
members.
The OAS, which grew out of
‘the Pan American Union,
(which, in turn, grew out of the

power. The quick and brutal in-
tervention into the Dominican
Republic showed most clearly
that the U.S. will move heaven

-and earth to swing the OAS

members into line. Failing that,
it will send in the Marines uni-
laterally. As U.S. Army Chief of
Staff, Harold Johnson puts it:
“The United States has in a
state of readiness for possible
transfer to Latin America an
armed force which far outnum-
bers the force that was used in
the Dominican Republic in
1965.”

The recent meeting of OAS

5

the infamous Munroe Doctrine)
is the United States’ reply to all
moves in Latin America toward
independence. This fear includes
revolutionary changes, relations
with other countries—any and
all actions which would break
the grip held over 200 million
Latin Americans by American
big business.

The Cuban Revolution in 1959
added a new dimension to the
workings. It no longer simply
became a question of preventing
the inevitable social upheavals.
The United States was suddenly
confronted with the fact of re-
volution. The one country which,
perhaps more than any other the
U.S. has controlled, began to en-
act fundamental social and eco-
nomic changes unheard of be-
fore. In 1962, by a vote of 14 to
1, the OAS expelled the Repub-
lic of Cuba from its ranks. The
blockade was on and, one by
one, member states broke diplo-
matic and trade relations with
Cuba.

Shifting its posture from one
of only preserving the great re-
serve of Latin America for itself,
the United States quickly began
to turn the OAS into an offen-
sive weapon to stop further re-
volutionary movements winning

= ~ ~

Eulenspiegel—Berlin

foreign ministers in Washington
was no exception to the trend.
By a vote of 20-0, the meeting
agreed to tighten the blockade
on Cuba.. The resolution called
upon countries now trading with
Cuba to end that trade. It warn-
ed that continued trade relations
will be regarded as “an unfriend-
ly gesture” and that individual
and collective reprisals may be
forthcoming against nations
dealing with Cuba. The Vene-
zuelans will even consider Can-
ada’s trade with Cuba “trading
with .the enemy.”

U.S. Secretary of State, Dean
Rusk, said: “We can seek great-
er cooperation from our free
world friends in denying to Cuba
resources which will help it to
carry out its subversive. activi-
ties . . .” Rusk, of course, classi-
fies land reform, nationalization
of industry, trade with the so-
cialist and newly developing
world, erradication of illiteracy
and the fantastic rise in living
standards in Cuba as “subver-
sive activities.”

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in the past, show. once again
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