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CRUCIAL U.S. ELECTION DRAWS NEAR

By JOHN WILLIAMSON

ith less than a week left

before election day in the
U.S,, the presidential campaign
is now in high gear,

As all polls put Lyndon John-
son out in front by substantial
majorities and life-long Repub-
lican newspapers and magazines
announce support for him. the
great danger is that the anti-
Goldwater forces will settle back
to await his automatic defeat on
Nov, 3,

Each day Goldwater becomes
more irresponsible and dema-
gogic, Before the American Le-
gion convention he declared that
“merely possessing the weapons
of strength is not the same as
being strong, We need the will
to be strong,”

He then made it clear it was
against the Soviet Union he was
itching to demonstrate the
strength,

Hitting out sharply against
those who wanted to cut’ military
spending, he said they would use

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the money “for handouts here and
subsidies there” andthus “fritter
away taxable capacity in do-
gooder schemes,”

Striking back, President John-
son at the Steel Workers Union
conference blasted Goldwater as
a “raving, ranting demagogue.”

He declared: “We are going to
seek peace in every capital, with
every person who will meet us
half-way, We know the price of
destructive war, We hate it, We
love peace,”

In Mississippi, while the rac=
ists accompany their frenzied
support of Goldwater by dynamit-
ing more libraries, civil rights
centres and churches used for

5 Notes-registration, the Freedom

Democratic Party announced it
will campaign for the Johnson-
Humphrey ticket,

Making clear this was a prin-
cipled position, it accompanied
its announcement by reiterating
its rejection of the Johnson-
Humphrey-Reuther compromise
concerning the seating of Mis-

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cratic Party national conference,

In every hamlet, city and state
where the Negro has the right to
vote, they are overwhelmingly
anti-Goldwater,

In contrast, the racialist Goy-
ernors Wallace, of Alabama, and
Johnson, of Mississippi, both
Support Goldwater. while the vi-
cious, reactionary Senator Thur-
mond of South Carolina has joined
what he calls “Goldwater’s Re-
publican Party,”

All the pro-fascists are rally-
ing to Goldwater’s support, in-
cluding the John Birch Society,
the Minutemen, White Citizens’
Councils, Christian Crusade and
others,

Under the threat of a serious,
pro-fascist development if Gold-
water was elected , there have
been some important develop-
ments in Negro-trade union
united action,

On the trade union front, never
since the 1936 Roosevelt cam-
paign has there been such unity
as there is today in calling for
Goldwater's defeat,

The AFL-CIO executive coun-
cil and its 166-member board
acted unanimously, including
those few long associated with
the Republicans. Even the reac-
tionary, cold war-warrior, pres-
ident George Meany, likened
Goldwater to Hitler,

Goldwater lagging - but there's dan

Now the one man who comes nearest to meagyr=

ger

ing up to all the needs and qualifications, whom we

see on the political horizon at the present time, i8_—

Bawry Coldwater. I know Barry fairly well.

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a great American.

As IT foresaw a year ago how the

WELCH ENDORSES BARRY. The above is taken from Robert Welch's ‘Blue Book 2
Welch, the founder and leader of the John Birch Society, discloses his association ;
with Goldwater. It has been revealed that he personally got Goldwater to func :
tion on some “‘front’’ organizations set up by the Birchers.

Welcome of cosmonauts

described by PI writer

illiam Devine, who for many.
Wears was an editorial staff
writer for the Canadian Tribune,
has taken up his post as Moscow
correspondent for the Canadian
and Pacific Tribunes, He re-
places John Weir. Both Devine
and Weir have contributed many
articles to the Pacific Tribune
in the past,

Devine was in Red Square re-
ently when the three Soviet cos-
monauts were honored for their
historic flight, He wrote:

~ “The flag-bedecked crowd ap-
plauded the three-man crew of
the Vorshod (Sunrise), the first
space ship to carry more than
one cosmonaut aloft, The three
were awarded the titles Hero of
the Soviet Union and Pilot Cosmo-
naut of the USSR,

“Colonel Vladimir Komarov,
pilot of the craft, told assembled
Muscovites that all systems of
the craft had worked perfectly
and that the flight opened a new

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chapter in the conquering ° —
space, :

“Echoing this sentimell
scientist Konstantin Feoktist!
said the flight was more oC
tifically productive than prepee
ones, The crew’s doctor, Boe if
Yegorov, said the bodily tute
of each had performed perfe®
throughout the flight.”

WILLIAM DEVINE

CANADIAN TRIBUNE EDITORIAL

THE SOVIET CHANGES |

Last week’s issue of the Canadian
Tribune carried the foliowing editorial on
the changes in the Soviet Union.

Nos of the changes in the leadership
of the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union and of the Soviet government came
as a shock to most Canadians and gave
rise to considerable anxiety. For at least
two good reasons: (1) Because to most or-
dinary Canadians, as indeed to millions
throughout the world, Nikita Khrushchov
symbolized the Soviet people’s desire for
peace and his government’s policy of
peaceful coexistence; his sudden removal
from leadership aroused momentary fears
among many as to whether that policy
would be continued. (2) Because they
found it difficult to understand the man-

ner in which the changes were announced

and explained.

While these changes are an internal
matter for the Soviet people, they are of
concern to people everywhere. This is so
because of the great role and influence of
the Soviet Union and of socialism in the
world. For this reason particularly it is
understandable that questions are being
asked about the way the changes were
made. All those who look to socialism as
the beacon-light of progress cannot be in-
different to the way socialist democracy
operates and advances.

We do not intend to join in the orgy of
speculation which has surrounded these
changes and the manner in which they
were made. We are confident the Soviet
leaders will take note of the impact these
changes have had on world public opinion
and of the questions and criticisms raised

in connection with them.

What IS of the most vital significan a
is the declaration of the Soviet gov® h
ment that it will continue along the tei
of struggle for peace, peaceful coexisten
the prevention of nuclear war, for diy fs
ament and the settlement of dee fot
questions by negotiation, and supp?
the national liberation movements.

What IS significant is the statement Hh
the leaders of the CPSU that they 4
persevere in their efforts to restor ont
consolidate the unity of the world
munist movement.

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What IS significant is their pledge
they will “continue irreconcilably and ac’
sistently to oppose the ideology and aT ow
tise of the personality cult” and to f? and
firmly Leninist principles in party
government leadership.
n
Peace and disarmament and the pre in8
tion of nuclear war remain the bh :
task of our day. The imperialists are ”* «+
ulating about “the disarray in Comm tue
ranks” and hope to use the present oA
tion to weaken socialism aad he of
eace and democracy, wit. ou
Ree heck their positions throug will
the world. But their hopes and pl@

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The latest affirmation of the ote!
party and government leaders tha pus
will continue the policy of relentless = ce
gle for peace and peaceful co-e%!§
gives mankind reason to be confide?
the cause of peace will triumph.

age
October 30, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE P