HE foreign policy resolution of
the recent CCF national con-
vention calling for the withdrawal
ef Canada from NATO and
NORAD is a heart-warming de-
cision to everyone honestly seek-
ing peace and an end to a suicidal
arms race.

That decision however did not
deter newly-elected CCF national
leader Hazen Argue from announ-
cing that the CCF national council
and- CCF parliamentary group
“will not be bound by the conven-
tion decision.”

This is the kind of “democracy”
the CCF high command seeks to
impose upon the trade unions with
their “new party” setup; the
unions to supply the votes and
finances and the CCF leaders to
determine policy. No one ever put
this more clearly than did David
Lewis, CCF national president, on
a CBC-TV panel program last
Sunday evening. Mr. Lewis made
it crystal clear who the policy-
makers are going to be, and it
wasn’t CCF or trade union rank-
and-filers.

There is little doubt, of course,
where the majority of CCF sup-
porters stand on the vital issue of
disarmament and peace. That
much the CCF national convention
confirmed. The stumbling block to
unity lies with the CCF top brass
who pay profuse lip-service to
rank-and-file demands, but vote
consistently in parliament for bud-
gets and policies designed to per-
petuate and extend the NATO and
NORAD madness of imperialist
aggression.

The political gyrations of Harold
Winch (Vancouver East) _ illus-
trates the point. With tory
“Blimp” Pearkes’ contention - that
only an all-out “missile deter-
rence” will provide an effective
“defence,” Winch agrees _ that
“makes sense,” rather than wast-
ing money on a useless Bomare.

In his latest “report” from Ot-
tawa in the Hastings News of
August 17, Winch made clear he
doesn’t want Canada to “with-
draw’ or scrap NATO, but simply
to remodel its strategy, so that

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“any aggression with conventional
weapons can be repulsed with con-
ventional weapons.” ‘To preserve a
“conventional” NATO, which in
the final analysis means a nuclear-
armed NATO; the kind of NATO
which Messrs. Pearkes and Winch
agree “makes sense.”

CCF provincial leader Bob
Strachan and his colleagues in the
legislature were noisily vocal in
their denunciation of Socred cu-
pidity and giveaways, but found it
no great strain on their “con-
science” to vote the Bengett:bud-
get to a man,

Among other things Strachan is
now promising “if elected to
power,” to bring the BCElectric
under public ownership. If Strach-
an would consult the legislative
record of a few years ago, he
would find Harold Winch voting
with a Tory-Liberal coalition to
extend the BCElectric franchise
for another 25 years; this at a
time when public sentiment (in-
cluding CCF rank-and-file) was at
its highest peak for BCER public
ownership.

It is time the electors on the
hustings, like the CCF national
convention delegates, began to in-
sist that CCF top brass say what
they mean — and mean what they
say, where the people’s welfare
and survival is at issue.

‘Help wanted , not guns

HEN Congo Premier Patrice
Lumumba visited Prime

Minister Diefenbaker, he made
one reasonable and. practical re-
quest: that Canada aid his young
republic by sending a number of
bilingual ‘technicians, doctors and
educators to the Congo.

Responding for Canada, as a
partner of Belgian imperialism in
NATO and a satellite of U.S. im-
perialism, which uses the United
Nations as a coverall in the same
unholy alliance, Diefenbaker didn’t
send technicians. Instead he sent
Canadian troops.

Diefenbaker is now “deeply
grieved,” “shocked,” “astounded”
and what not, because these Cana-
dian troops are alleged to have
been “roughed up” by Congolese
troops.

Meantime some things are be-
coming painfully apparent, viz.:
that the U.N. and its chiefs are
not in the Congo to assist the
establishment of its sovereign in-
dependence, but to “run interfer-
ence” for Belgium and other im-
perialist interests seeking to sink
their claws more deeply into the
rich resources, physical and mat-
erial, of the Congo republic.

If the U.N. were genuinely in-

terested otherwise, the first rule
to be applied under the strictest
observance, would be to get, all
keep, all white troops out of the)
Congo, as it now belatedly prom
ises to do. :

Against a long background al
Belgian tyranny, exploitation 2”

and in uniform, can only :
garded with suspicion and hostit)
ity by the Congolese. Undoubtedy
that was how Canadian troop
were regarded.

Technicians, medical personnel
helpers from many nations regal
less of color, would find the Cons”
lese people friendly and eager
learn the modern art of sell
sufficiency and self-governmel™
But white troops symbolize
tyranny of a century upon the
backs, and they want no more of ™

When we show by such actiom®
rather than by tory demagogy au
double-cross, that we support tH
Congolese in winning what Y
seek for ourselves, independen
neutrality, progress and pea?
there will be no danger of Cal”
dians being ill-treated.

The first step in this directif
is to bring the troops home—@!
send the kind of help request”

——

Tom
McEwen

ITH the opening of the Fran-
W cis Powers U-2 spy trial in
Moscow last week, we of the “free
world’ will be heading into an-
other big “brainwash.”

Whatever the U.S. U-2 pilot may
say in his own defence or other-
wise, the coldwar press will howl
to high heaven that the Russians
have “brainwashed” him. In fact
they are already churning out this
hogwash in U.S. and British jour-
nals. That it’s all a big ‘Russian
propaganda show,” and that the
Russians have “sinister” methods
by which they compel victims to
say what they want them to Say.

This “brainwash’ soap opera has
a twofold purpose. First, to dis-
credit in advance anything Powers
may say in court, on the grounds
that he has been “brainwashed”’
and therefore not responsible for
what he says. Second, and most im-
portant, to brainwash the gullible
among the millions who may read
this “brainwash” guff.

Let’s skip this “brainwashing”

washing machine for a moment and
look at the facts.

The U.S. government was caught
redhanded in. its U-2 espionage
provocation. At first Eisenhower
and his Pentagon pontiffs flatly
denied the U-2 incident. When solid
evidence closed off all such denials,
Ike and his cohorts later admitted
U-2 espionage, publicly boasted
about it, and threatened the USSR
with more of the same.

That being the case, U-2 pilot
Powers is hardly in a position to
plead “‘not guilty’. On the other
hand if he pleads “guilty” that
will be a sure sign that he’s had
a Russian “brainwash.” Thus any
evidence or statements Powers
may submit in the Moscow court
relative to his aerial missions over
Soviet ‘territory can scarcely be to
the credit of the U.S. government,
but that won’t throw the Western
“brainwash” experts off beat. To
them it will simply show that the
Russians have “brainwashed”
Powers—so they must ‘‘brainwash”’
their readers.

But there’s always some compen-
sating factor somewhere along the
line. As the British Daily Worker
said of ‘“Brainwasher’’ Cassandra
of the Daily Mirror, “our profes-
sional brainwashers are in no dan-
ger of being brainwashed. They

have no brains to wash.”
* * *

We just can’t forget that mag-
nificent Peking Opera. For a brief
hour it lifted us out of the miré
of coldwar threats and excursions:
It also helped us forget (moment
arily) current political stockmarket
quotations on the value of our vote;
as expounded by Socred Liberal
Tory-CCF hucksters. But not for
long.

It is known, of course, that i
order not to allow the U.S. gov
ernment to be “overthrown” bY
the Peking Opera, the U.S. state
department rejected any and all
ideas of its visiting the U.S.

What we didn’t know was that
U.S. embassy officials in Canada
were working overtime trying to
intimidate U.S. residents or tourists
in Canada against attending thé
Peking Opera performance, threat
ening all kinds of dire conse
quences should they do so.

But, like the Vancouver Kuom
ingtang “picket” line to frighte®
Canadian-Chinese, such intimid@
tion had less effect on America®
in Canada than Ike’s latest gol
score. :

And speaking of golf, we are
debted to columnist Rex Chipma?
of the Australian Tribune for ¢O™
rectly diagnosing Ike’s current
ailment. “Too much Castro oil
says Chipman, adding the after
thought that it is fortunate “thet
are 36 holes on a golf course.”

August 26, 1960—PACIFIC {RIBUNE—Pas®

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