By BERT WHYTE DRIEN ARCAND, Can- ada’s No. 1 fascist and rabid follower of Adolf Hitler in the thirties, is reviving his Hit- lerite “National Unity Party” in Quebec and seeking notoriety again as a federal election can- adidate in Richelieu-Vercheres. That an avowed fascist such as Arcand can run for public office in Canada just four years after a world-wide war against fascism ended in victory and the death of Hitler in the rubble of Berlin is a shocking proof of the rapid- ity with which this country is sliding down the blood-slippery road which Hitler trod. Arcand never made any bones about his Nazi beliefs back in the thirties, but after his war- time internment as an enemy agent, the wily “fuehrer’ from Quebec went into temporary re- tirement, to await a turn towards reaction and fascism before offer- ing his wares once more to the Public. It is both ironie and tragic that the man who unmasked Ar- cand in 1988 and showed Cana- dians the role this Canadian traitor was playing in acting as a Hitler agent, should now be imprisoned on a phoney “spy charge” used to unseat him from the House of Commons. I refer of course, to Fred Rose. Mean. while the real spy and traitor, Adrien Arcand, resurrects his fascist platform and boldly seeks a federal] seat. Arcand’s party has changed its mame over the course of years, but never its aims. Right from its inception it was linked with Nazi Germany. As far back as 1933, the year Hitler seized power in Germany, Arcand was peddling the fascist line. On September 28 of that year he wrote a letter to Major Frank Pease, an Amer- ican Nazi agent, visiting head- “Fry and see my good friend Kurt G. W. Ludecke, Kaiserhof Hotel, Berlin. He is a friend of “We are know at the follew- img papers: Volkischer Beobach- ter, Munich; Die Sturmer, Nurnberg; Hackenkreuz, of H. Pudor, Letsig-Connewitz; Ham- mer Verlag of J. Mannecke, Leipzig; Flammenzeichen, of Dr. Miller Calw. “If it can help you, you can act as correspondent of Le Patriote (Arcand’s paper) which is know by Hitler and which is very well appreciated ° the Nazi propaganda bureau. “Faithfully yours, in our The Kurt Ludecke referred to was at one time chief Nazi agent and recruiter of fascist spies on ‘the North American continent. He broke with Hitler after the Nazi purge of June 30, 1934, and later wrote a book called I Knew Hitler which mentioned Arcand. On page 541 we read this: “We were in a happy mood when we drove to Montreal to keep our appointment with Adrien Arcand, the fiery leader of the Ordre Patriotique des Goglus. He (Arcand) was very pleased when I gave him an autographed photograph of Hit- ler. We understood each other perfectly, and agreed to cooper- ate in every way. I appointed several representatives to serve as contacts and to. supply me with material.” In 1938, dreaming of a “putsch” in Canada similar to Hitler’s in Germany, Arcand boasted that he would have’ 20,000 men “or- ganized and drilled” within a few months, and divided into “com- panies, sections, brigades and divisions.” A certain Major Scott, ex-army officer, headed the military section of Arcand’s or- ganization. e In the fall of 1938 Arcand spoke in Toronto and I attended the meeting as a reporter for the Daily Clarion. Arcand’s speech Adrien Arcand: Hitler’s disciple red to as “the crooked-noses.” A few weeks later I managed to bluff my way past two guards and watched Arcand’s Toronto followers drilling with broom- sticks in a Ukrainian “Hetman Hall” on Queen Street. Only about 40 black-shirted members were present; the drill sergeant was obviously an army-trained man. Following the drill session . Arcand’s organizer in Ontario, Joseph Farr, gave a short talk on the Munich crisis and pre- dicted complete, bloodless victory for Hitler over Chamberlain, “who isn't really against us.” Premier Duplessis’ application of the Padlock Law paved the way for the rise of Arcand’s fascist movement in Quebec. For Many years Arcand was editor of L’Illustration Nouvelle, the un- official organ of Duplessis. The attacks on labor at that time by ' Duplessis burn say: ; : ‘“Duplessis and Hepburn are the forerunners of fascism. We are fortunate to have men in two key offices in Canada to- day under whom we can ade- quately lay the foundations for our final victory.” Duplessis is still premier of Quebec, and now Arcand has an- otherspowerful ally in Colonel George Drew, head of the Pro- gressive Conservative Party and aspirant for the premiership on June 27. “The evil in Quebec and Hep- in Ontario led Arcand to that men do lives after them,” said Shakespeare. Hitler is dead, but the fascist seeds he helped to plant are flourishing on this continent to- day. Arcand’s brazen re-entry on the political scene is a warning to the people of Canada ‘that it is later than we think. A third. world war, this time against the socialist Soviet 'Union, is possible only if reaction is first able to impose a fascist re- gime on the peoples’ of North America, The present blows against all militant sections of the labor movement and the re- vival of Adrien Arcand are an Gazctte Stronaet Than Ever Here’ Is Arcand’s Fascist Boast) His *Attitade Supporting Anti-Semitism Not Damp- ened By Internment During the War; Claims Contact With Groups in Other Nations “= (Following is the f Gazette staff writer,:on y r five years.) was interned for five y ‘Copyright 1947) : Party headed by “Adrien Arcand, who as a ponent 4eThe National Unity wugy anti-semitic ¢ n om « peliefs are. pry fo after for them. is he : cnitive action agains wwers: : nine Claims Party Legal remember phe newspepermare same pechis confreres a Tyear cree pow for many yé «elagticag ts P We ays, in 1929, for helping. Banize a professional syndi newspapermen, an examp \early leanings to corpora Corporate Viev : Today he believes newsp should be a group in the ‘ ict : fit ol a rdands Canedtian Fascist leader who her © q afraid of any saris t him or es by Kenneth G. Wright, of Canadian Fascism was interned s'stronger than ever, Arcand declared ’ who think as I do in Great Pee United States and other n tenfold. i bea we are going tactica) question.” Re when, in the, coug Blames Jews : holds his internment agains er the eens of Canada nq ‘overnment. . shold it only against the Jews know whexe the pressure which "y penny came from.’ Q Dp quarters in Germany, in which was largely a tirade against the integral part of the campaign to = state, electing one or more ater ee stONESK ol - he said: : Jews, whom he constantly refer- bring fascism to our country. , fellows to a parliament atggre. ¢ thal, and WIS. an 0N Oslin 2 Eee ‘ ; : —— Coldwell is still hurrying just a more fitting way to open this . OD By H. G. FTER the voters have had their opportunity to deter- mine who is the greater Liberal and a gentleman, M. J. Coldwell or Louis St Laurent, we sug- gest. that these two gentlemen should open the next parliament by leading the singing of The Red Flag—in English, of course, because we have it on no less an authority than Dorothy Steeves, CCF provincial president, that this working-class song has never been translated into any foreign language and therefore eannot be considered commun- istic. However, we are sure that Louis St. Laurent, having made the happy discovery that the CCF leaders are only “Liberals in a hurry,” will overlook this Slight to French Canada. Who knows, he might even remember that the Liberal party had its beginnings in the Parti Rouge and claim that The Red Flag is a Liberal song sung loudly. Some Liberals, like Clarence Decatur Howe, accustomed to the gentlemanly atmosphere of , St. James Street, may feel that little bit too much to be a really good Liberal and insist on de- letion of all mention of work- ers from the song. But they have been referring to the Senate as the Red Chamber all these years without looking for a hammer and sickle embroidered on a wheel chair, and it shouldn’t be too difficult for them to mumble | a refined version of The Red In fact, they may as well get used to the idea now that Cold- well has come out for reform and not abolition of the of the Senate. In a few years, per- haps, the Senators will be wel- coming into their midst some of their fellow “Liberals in a hurry,” slowed down, of course. to the traditional crawl consider- ed appropriate to the decorous proceedings of the Red Cham- ber. This is the wonderful per- spective opened up for the working people as a result of the Singing of The Red Flag at the CCF rally addressed by M. J. Coldwell and Harold Winch in Vancouver last weekend. Winch, indeed, thought there was “no meeting,” and if Dorothy Steeves is now having fits over the possible political conse- quences of the action, it is be- cause she has not fully consid- 2red the opportunities it opens ap. There was really no need for her to blame it all on “the work of an irresponsible employee of the auditorium,” or to claim as she did that “the playing of The Red Flag was at no time au- thorized by the CCF.” If she didn't put her copy of the CCF Official Handbook in the fire with the Regina Manifesto, she will find The Red Flag there. She should remember that in the Carleton federal byelection last December, the CCF in On- tario was able to make quite an‘issue of The Red Flag in the campaign against Col. George Drew. In fact, Dr. Eugene For- S€y was prepared to make it the issue, M. J. Coldwell, ob- sessed then as now with his pas- sion for reforming the Social Register as, well as the Senate, “being preoccupied with the problem of whether or not George Drew was more of a gentleman than the late R. B. Bennett. Dr. Forsey compared The Red Flag to My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose and refrained, need- less to say from inviting his au- dience to sing either one. But this would never do in British Columbia where a great many CCE members and supporters not only insist on singing The Red Flag, they sing it with the pride of workers who fight for an end. And their end being radically different from the ends of some of their leaders as pronounced in this election cam- paign, it creates a problem. Mrs. Steeves feels, no doubt, that she has solved the prob- lem. Henceforth. if her inter- pretation is accepted, the RCMP will no longer compile dossiers on people who’ know The Red Flag. It will have to be shown that they know The Internationale too. this won’t apply to Hon. Gordon Wismer who insists that The Red Flag is really The Inter- nationale because the only song he knows is I Love You Truly, sung by the Coalition mixed quartet of Liberals and Conser- \ (Naturally , vatives—before elections. . the other side of the battered old record carrying this sope — is You’re Nothing But a Noth- ing, authorized by both partie? for federal playing only). ‘Here is Mrs. Steeves’ interpre- tation: e It is an old British Labor party song and has been BOE : at the opening of the Britis House of Commons. (As every one knows, the Rt. Hon. Ernes — Bevin is now as great a gent man as the Rt. Hon. Wink i Churchill. He is really a Conse vative who looked ahead). ts @ It has “never been transla ed from English into a tore language and has no connect!O if whatever with any communis group.” If Louis St. Laurent has ger pletely recovered from his Kf a tack of laryngitis he pel have! no difficulty catching “i they might sing an ol ite, Charmaine, which begins: ” wonder why you keep me WS” OI a — a