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F Dean Acheson ever achieves fame, lasting or fleeting, it will be

as the greatest forecaster of events, after their occurence, who
ever occupied the post of secretary of state in the most reactionary
section of the U.S. government. The White Paper submitted by the
state department to President Truman on August 5 along with a cov-
ering letter that went with it, is a document which proves this. It is
the most damning confession of the failure of the policy of the state
department in foreign affairs that could possibly be made even in
this era of colossal capitalist failure: the most
naked and unashamed admissions of failure ever
to be made by that department or any other de-
partment of the U.S. ‘government.

In admitting the foreknowledge, which it does,
of the character of the Kuomintang Nationalist
Chiang Kai-shek ex-government in China, its
agent there for American imperialist expansion,
and bemoaning the loss of over four billion dol-
lars of American money it donated to that govern-
ment, it is compelled to place the state depart-
ment in the same category as the gang of re-
actionaries it denounces, Chiang Kai-shek and
his grafters. :

In this official White Paper, the nationalist

: regime of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (gen-
eralissimo without an army and soon without a country) is described
as hopelessly corrupt, reactionary, stupid, inefficient and incompetent.
Knowledge of these characteristics of the Chiang Kai-shek govern-
ment was, according to the White Paper and the letter to the presi-
dent that went with it, in the hands of the state department for ten
years “through the reports of military and diplomatic officers.”

The ex-Nationalist government of China is admitted to have been
a@ one-party dictatorship, not a democracy as it is understood in the
Western sense. (Just what the Communists have been saying for ten
years and more.) People with a modicum of brains must ask them-
selves: “Since Acheson and the state department knew this right
along, who are really the ‘hopelessly corrupt, reactionary, stupid, in-
efficient and incompetent?’ The hirelings or the Wall Street agents
of American imperialism who hired them; who thought they could
“save” China for American imperialist exploitation; make it into an-
other satellite nation to be welded into a ring of aggression against
the Soviet Union, the people who today are in the lead in opposing
aggression and war?

If Acheson and his state department knew all they confess to
knowing in the White Paper, is it not rather they, as tools of Ameri-
can imperialism, who should be described in the terms used about
the Nationalists? They; who poured billions of dollars down the sewer
in the hopes that the squandering of that money, wrung from the
sweat and tears of the American workers, could combat an idea that
has thoroughly taken possession of the minds of four hundred millions
of people. And only fools would attempt to maintain such a policy
as the state department still seems to be bent on, if press reports are
reliable.

On the day following the publication of the White Paper a news-
paper item announced the arrival-in South Korea of Chiang Kai-shek
with a gtoup of his aides to confer with Singman Rhee, president
against the wishes of the people of that American satellite state, on
the setting up of a Pacific pact. This will no doubt be a fellow to
the malodorous Atlantic pact. :

Another story on the same day says that the puppet president,
Elpidio of the Philippines, another American satellite state, left that
country with his advisers for Washington to visit President Truman.
Undoubtedly the business of their discussions will be the same as
‘that of Chiang Kai-shek, aggression against the Soviet.Union and the
new democratic China. The state department may furnish another
four billion to equip Chinese hatchet-men, as Senator Styles Bridges
suggested, with small arms and ammunition to make trouble for the
Chinese People’s government as they are doing today in the countries
of the new democracy in Europe. That is going hand in glove with
assassination. That would suit the Al Capone mentality of American
big business. :

But whatever steps they may take to foster a Pacific pact, the
day is gone when foreign imperialist bullies can lord it over the
Chinese people. Two or three of these bullies have learned that al-
ready and their squeals don’t worry me any. When they land in jail
for refusing to pay Chinese workers their wages they holler. about
diplomatic immunity. But no American in China has diplomatic im-
munity for the simple reason that the American government does
not recognize the Chinese government. The sign that used to stand at
the gate of the public park in what used to be known as the French
concession in Shanghai, which read, “No dogs or Chinese allowed,” is
gone and with it everything it stood for, and no Pacific pact can bring
these conditions back to China in spite of Dean Acheson and the
state department. And as he admits his failures, soon another White
Paper will admit the failure of the iniquitous Marshall plan.

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and democratic liberties,” declared

Labor Picnic last Sunday. ‘We

U.S. state department and _ local,

authorities because he stands for-
progress. The shadow of Hitlerism
is reaching into every facet of our
cultural, educational and profes-
sional life.”

Martin's appeal against the rul-
ing of the Benchers of the B.C.
Law Society, which refused him
admission to the bar because of
his political beliefs, goes to the
Court of Appeal in September.

International interest —
aroused by Martin appea

“My case is only one of many which points up the dangerous trend towards the destruction of

berta and other centers being dismissed because of: their real or alleged. political beliefs.
case of John Goss, noted Vancouver artist, suffermg discrimination and victimization at the hands of

‘

This court, the highest legal au-
thority in the province, has the
power to reverse or confirm the
decision of the Benchers, or to

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refer the matter to the Benchers
for further inquiry.

Martin was barred by the Bench-
ers in the fall of 1948. Since that
time his case has aroused national
and international interest.

A recent meeting of the executive
vf the International Association of
Democratic Lawyers, largest or-
ganization of lawyers in the world
(the Haldane Society and the Am-
erican Lawyers’ Guild are affiliates)

cavil .
Gordon Martin,young B.C. law student, in addressing the Unit
have leading educationalists from the universities of Washington, -

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cant that special legislation for one shows that the Benchers are badly 3
individual was passed by the legis- ‘out of step with developments i :
lature, and indicates that a major- their own profession nationally
ity of MLA’s favor Martin admis- internationally. The biased decision :
sion to the bar. received adverse comment in the
Barring of Martin by the Bench- |editorial columns of virtually evely —
ers on purely political grounds (newspaper in Canada. |

U.S. paying

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free press
‘NEW YORK

The United States government
paid the huge sum of $853,000 1?
Heny Luce’s Life magazine and
$369,000 to Time as payment for
the special propaganda in Eu t
about the Marshall Plan, Paymée?
was made out of ERP funds: —

This sensational revelation Wy
made last week in George selde®
authoritative paper In Fact. a
ments to other papers includ

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passed a resolution on the case
which condemned the B.C. Bench-
rs’ decision as “undemocratic and
contrary to the independence of the
lawyer which is essential to civil-
ized states.”

W. Harvey Moore, KC, distin-
guished British barrister and act-
ing president of the Haldane So-
ciety, had a letter on the Martin
case published in the London Times,
in which he hit at the discrimina-
tion shown against Martin, “a com-
munist law student who had fought
against Naziism for four years.”
Moore commented that in Britain
“political exclusiveness is instinct-
ively disliked.” ‘

In Canada scores of trade unions,
cultural and political organizations
have condemned the action of the
Benchers and are continuing their
fight for the young ex-RCAF law
student to have the right to enter
the vocation of his choice. A Gor-
don Martin Defense Committee,
formed in Vancouver a few months
ago, is circularizing lawyers and
professional people seeking further
support for Martin.

During the last session of the
provincial legislature a special am-
endment was enacted to the “Legal
Professions Act” by which Martin
is given the right to carry his case
to the Court of Appeal. Before this
special legislation was introduced,
any recourse which Martin might
have had to the courts had been
exhausted.

TORIUM

$110,000 to the Sunday New
Times; $827,000 to the Paris
tion of the New York Herald TH
pune; $395,000 to the Readers’ Dr
gest for publication of Frep®
and Italian editions. ‘i
. These are the papers that pr

tle so frequently about the “7
trolled press’? of the Soviet unio®
and the New Democracies.

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GORDON MARTIN

“Independence of the lawyer
is essential to civilized states.”

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“I contributed my fair share to the building of oN ;
Province, and I worked there long before the Southams ©,
Montreal moved into Vancouver with their millions 97°
bought the paper. There never was any trouble until ine et
Southams took over, Soy
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months on the picket line, obtained a court injunction, oP
members of my union for damages in the Supreme COW |
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printers. We will be there until the Southam Co. fi

abandon its union-wrecking policy and sit around the
ference table in good faith.” )

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