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Not now--or ever!

G tee prime issue facing every:
Canadian today is the “to-be-
or-not-to-be” of nuclear arms in
Canada. The gravity of this issue
can not be over-emphasized.

As a non-nuclear nation Canada
can play g vital role in a global
effort for lasting peace and the
outlawing’ of thermonuclear wea-
pons. As a nuclear-armed nation
Canada’s role is a “front-line” ex-
pendable “Belgium” in the nuclear

war plans of U.S. imperialism. An ';, the editorial columns of the

not to be '

expendable satellite,
“consulted”, but simply ordered.

It is the delay in making a clear-
cut choice on this vital issue by
the Diefenbaker government
which has sparked the arrogant
and unprecedented interference of
the U.S. State Department in the
internal affairs of our country,
with their accusation that we have
failed to “live up to our obli-
gations”.

The rapid'sequence of events in
this U.S. interference serve to
point up one very obvious fact,
viz; that the staged General Nor-
stad “press conference’ on our
“nuclear obligations”, the weasel-
ing about-face of Liberal leader
Lester Pearson in support of
“nuclear arms now and negotia-
tions later’, the impudent “ap-
proval” of the so called “facts”
by U. S. State Secretary Dean
Rusk, now climaxed by the resig-
nation of Defense Minister Hark-
ness, are not isolated events. On
the contrary, they are the compo-
nent parts of a Liberal-Tory-U.S.
gang-up to force nuclear arms up-
on Canada. To impose U.S. nuclear
war policies upon the Canadian
government and people.

In short, through the media of
this conspiratorial gang-up, Can-
ada receives her nuclear “march-
ing orders” from Washington,
bluntly, conspiratorially, and with.

_unprecedented gall and interfer-.

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ence in the internal affairs and
peace desires ot the Canadian

people.

Moreover, and Canadians ignore
the fact at their own peril, Wash.
ington’s tried and tested ‘Man,
Friday’, Lester B. Pearson, is
their man chosen to “get on with
the job” of dragging Canada into
the U.S.-dominated nuclear Club.

This choice finds its ready echo

reactionary press, and in those
Liberal, Tory and Socred circles.
who have-sold out Canada’s econ-
omy and resources to U.S. monop-
oly, and now stand ready and un-
ashamed to turn, Canada into a
U.S. “expendable” in thermonuc-

lear war.

Whatever the outcome in Parlia-
ment during the coming hours or
days on this grave issue, some
basic obligations facing the pres-
ent and future generation of Can-
adians stand out with glaring clar-
ity; the need to cut Canada im-
mediately loose from all U.S. and
NATO military alliances, and to
remove forthwith from Canadian
territory all Bomare or other U.S.
controlled or semi-controlled mili-
tary installations.

And above ali, to demand, to
work and to vote for “No nuclear
Arms in Canada” now or ever, re-
gardless of who advocates their
“need” behind the spacious pre-
text of “defense”.

For. Canada as for the world,
the only defense is Peace — not
thermo-nuclear arms.

‘Eternal vigilance’

B Recs of this age of vaunted
freedoms, inspired predjud-
ices and coldwar hatreds, some
pundits from the seats of the
mighty (or from the gutter) crav-
ing public attention, seek to put a
ball-and-chain on freedom. “Too
much freedom” they say, “let’s
put a gag on it”.

New Westminster’s Mayor Beth
Woods is a recent addict to this
“down-with-freedom” binge. It is
horrible, opines Her Worship, that
“UBC professors can stand up and
talk Communism, something
should be done about it’?

And Socred MLA Matthews
(Vancouver-Centre), burning with
indignation at

istence of God, demands that the
good doctor be charged with “her-
esy”. Perhaps this Socred Holy

An ‘order’

Whether President Kennedy’s
new “order” comes down tomor-
row, next week or next month to
“discourage” the ships of other
nations ‘going to Cuba, such an
order should be unceremoniously
rejected by all concerned, whether
the volume of trade with Cuba be
large or small.

Particularly must this projected
U.S. boycott of shipping to Cuba
be rejected by Canada. The Can-
adian people have no quarrel with
the people or government of Cuba.
In mutual trade and friendship we
have much to gain. In any U.S.
provocation against Cuba (with
acute memories of being dragged
to the “brink” in the recent Carib-

UBC Professor~
Remnant’s dissertation on the ex--

Willie had visions of Dr. Remnant
roasting at the stake, fueled by)
one of Premier Bennett’s “debi
free” bonfires?

Numerous radio commentsiiin
and lay citizenry literally doté
on this curtailment of freedom
topic. And in order to give their
“freedom” thumb-screw an addi-
tional twist, invariably drag in the
harassed taxpayer. “Why” they
yodel, “should the taxpayer have
to pay professors and others for

teaching heresy and communism?

To all such people freedom in
Canada has now become a “feriile,
ground for the growth of the Com-
munist menace’.

Never more true than today,
“eternal vigilance is the price of
liberty”. To neglect this vigilance
is to be gagged by brainwashed.
scoundrels and ignoramuses.

to ignore |

ean crisis) Canada has everything
to lose, including our national hon-
our and our peace.

Kennedy’s new attempt (despitel
all pledges to the contrary), to
harass and destroy the Cuban peo-
ple and their government and re-
store the riches of that heroic
Island to some new Batista of the
American monopolists, only serves
to point up the intransigent ar-
rogance of U.S. imperialism, al-
ready well demonstrated .in its
application to Canada.

As anation with a common goal

of peace and friendship let us tell —

Kennedy and company; Hands off
all shipping to Cuba.

as second class mail by —

very so often we run across
FE some old dog-eared book or
pamplet setting forth the impres-
sions and opinions of Canadians
who had visited the Soviet Union
in the early years of Soviet power.
’ For some of these authors such
a visit served to elevate them into
something of the status of an “ex-
pert” on affairs Soviet after a 10-
day safari. Others, more modest,
simply jotted down their impres-
sions with their common-fraternity.
Others again, like a specialist dis-
secting an organism to discover
what makes it “tick”, came up
with some remarkable deductions,
some of which are still religiously
repeated today.

For example, _a writer in the
current edition of the NDP organ
The Democrat, who has just com-
pleted such a visit tells us “I knew
that the Russian system was not
communism, but _ state-planned
capitalism; that at present it is not
even approaching that condition
of communism which has become
almost a legend—either of heaven
or of hell ..

A small dog-eared brochure of
‘approximately 33-years ago by a
like visitor expounds an almost
identical impression, a sort of

of postage ‘in ‘cash

“planned state capitalism’ power-

- Vienna”,

ed by a “dictatorship’’. The same
visitor had taken in Vienna en
route, and in his ‘‘report-back”’
meetings, dwelt glowingly on the
glories of “socialist Vienna’’ and
the “drabness’’ of the Soviets?

How times do change—or do
they? Well the Soviet Union, what-
ever its ‘condition of communism”’,
is still around, while “socialist
“Socialist New Zealand’,
“Socialist Scandanavia” etc., are
somewhat like the Scots pastime of
“srippin fleas’, a bit difficult to
put your finger on?

Just about the time the Cox-
Strachan controversy was getting
the full treatment in the monopoly
press a “PT” reader presented us
with another of these valued dog-
eared editions of an earlier day.
It is a charming story of man’s
quest for truth.

A young lawyer, then serving
on the junior defense team defend-
ing the leaders of the Winnipg Gen-
eral Strike of 1919, (among whom
was the founder and leader of the

CCF, the late J. S. Woodsworth),

was deeply intrigued by the
-Crown’s ‘‘case” against the strike
leaders.

With much histrionics and ora-
torial boom-boom, the Crown legal

- beagles sought to “prove” that the

Winnipeg General Strike wasn’t a
strike at all to win wage increases
and the elementary right of collect-
ive bargaining, but an attempt by
“Bolshevisis”, under “instructions
by Moscow”, to set up Soviet rule
in Canada. A most hair-raising per-
formance (at the taxpayers’ ex-
pense), as any brief persual of the
official ‘court records will show.

_ forts and experiences, never will

Terms like ‘Bolshevism’, “red
revolutions’, ‘‘Moscow”’ etc., were
tossed around that Winnipeg court-
room with unrestrained abandon,
with RCMP stool Sergeant Zaneth
heroically standing alone against
those ‘“‘Bolshevist’”’ hordes whose
leaders were in the prisoners’ dock.

Curious about all this ‘“Bolshe-
vism” and ‘Red Terror’ being
heaved around by the Crown, and
later in the Privy Council in Lon-
don, this young lawyer took off for
the Soviet Union to see for him-
self. Then the USSR was only three
years old, beset by foreign inter-
vention, blockades disease, hunger,
famine and civil war. Yet he shar-
ed their hunger, took his place in
“Subotnyk” teams (voluntary labor) |
and wrote when he returned to
Canada;—

ing the price exacted from the pi-
oneer. The debt already owing
them by the world proletariat, who’
cannot help profiting by their ef-

be paid”.

That was 48-years ago. The }
“debt” has grown, and so also has ©
the mighty invincible ‘‘pioneers”
of Socialism.

In the concluding pages of ‘Win-
nipeg, London, Moscow” by Wallis
Walter Lefeaux, published by the
Canadian Workers’ Defense
League, Winnipeg in 1921, any
“similarities” between the Winni-
peg General Strike and- ‘‘Bolshe-
vism” are not even ‘‘co-incidental”’.

“The workers of Russia are pay- !

But that didn’t (nor doesn’t) stop
the watchdogs of capitalism and
their misguided followers from
ears them.

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