Review EDITORIAL PAGE * You mustn’t kick a man when he’s down. (British Daily Worker cartoonist Eccles comments on the current ECM negotiations). Liberal li ne of the more contemptible features of the Bennett-Dief- enbaker “disagreement” in hand- ing over the Columbia River to the U.S. power trusts has been the weasel role of the Liberals. They have pretended to be “against” the Treaty unless cer- tain “modifications” are made. But no Liberal spokesman from Mike Pearson down has as yet spelled-out these “modifications”. That is easy to understand. There are none. On the hustings the Lib- erals boasted that had they been in power the Columbia River Treaty sellout would ‘have been signed “a long time ago”. Of that we are fully convinced. But to “cash-in” on the Bennett- Dief “disagreement” on how best to deliver the waters of the Col- umbia to the U.S. monopolists, the Liberals now seek to sponsor the “McNaughton Plan” and its auth- or, hoping thereby to gain a few votes by fooling the electorate. This while Liberal leader Ray Perrault in the Revelstoke byelec- tion, weeping crocodile tears for the unemployed, wanted to “get- on-with-the-job” right away. And Pacific Tribune Editor — TOM McEWEN : Associate Editor—MAURICE RUSH ‘Business Mgr.._OXANA BIGELOW Published weekly ai: Room 6 — 426 Main Street - Vancouver 4, ’ Phone MUtual 5-5288 Subscription Rates: ‘One Year: $4:00—Six Months: $2.25 Canadian and Commonwealth coun- tries (except Australia): $4:00 one year. Australia, United States and all other countries: $5.00 one year Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage: in cash. service getting-on-with-the-job in weasel - Liberal language means getting on with the Treaty sellout, with tthe “McNaughton Plan” merely serving as electorate sucker bait to obscure a gigantic Liberal-So- cred-Tory betrayal of Canada te the U.S. trusts. als Dief’s ECM ‘orders’ Woe even bothering to call * or consult Parliament, Prime Minister Diefenbaker goes to the Commonwealth prime min- isters’ conference in London, this month to “confer” on Britain’s entry into the European Common Market (ECM). The gravity of ECM, insofar as Canada is concerned, cannot be over-emphasized, and while Dief may “represent” a Tory “minor- ity” government of Canada, he cannot speak for Canada on the issue of ECM. Boiled down to simple essen- tials, the prime ministers’ confer- ence is faced with a choice be- tween the Commonwealth and ECM; between the preservation of the social, economic, trade, “defense” and other ties upon which Commonwealth relations . have evolved, and a powerful ECM economic-military ,trade bloc un- der West German and De Gaullist suzerainty, with U.S. imperialism calling the pressure shots for an ECM-NATO juggernaut, directed against the Soviet Union and the socialist countries. Had Dief consulted the Cana- ‘dian people through Parliament on this vital issue of ECM, he would have found a steadily- mounting opposition; one calling for the need of new trade and peace policies. The need of strengthened trade relations with the Commonwealth; of reaching out for the vast new markets available in the Socialist and newly emergent independent countries of Africa and Asia, of — getting out from under the cold- war lid of Liberal-Tory U.S ada “integration”, which prov for the economic rape of Cana’ by U.S. imperialism. i But Dief goes to London, with the opinion of Canadi with Washington’s instructi0t his briefcase. These call for ECM-NATO alliance under ‘Adenauer-De Gaulle mat ment, with Britain as a key E in the game—and the Com! wealth “be dammed”. Never was Canada more pe “Tepresented’. DR.SOBLEN se which outrages the science of decent mankil not the guilt or innocence ® U Robert Soblen, but the lust of) imperialism for the blood % - hapless victim, already mark for death by the dread disea*? lukemia. fe That, and the cringing — which compels the Tory 8° ments of Britain and Israel become willing accessories : “judicial” murder of 4 man, manifested by their et excuses and studied refusé provide him with a brief asl from the political persecution coldwar anti-Soviet hysteri@- With such servile allies thé ture beats Death to the f i (At press time it was re that Dr. Soblen’s final appeal asylum and freedom had ae jected by the British author d Before this reaches our ae Dr. Soblen will probably bé@ in a U.S. dungeon to live last days.) Tom McEwen VERY “virtuous” American with more mazuma than grey matter, deeply outraged at Mother Nature for not properly conceal- ing the sex of her children, is heading up a nation-wide cam- paign to have all our four-footed domestic friends ‘‘decently” clothed. Pants for Fido, Dobbin and Bossie, the monkeys at the Zoo and all such who/or which dis- play their “persons” in public. and oh, those udders on Bossie; that’s going to take a deal of cloth? We can just see Fido at his favorite hydrant looking plead- ingly at some passer-by to ‘“un- pant” him in that dire emer- gency. And the old bull down on the farm, all his symmetrical con- tours of strength and beauty hid- den by a pair of cast-off overalls. But alas, “virtue” a la Americana must be safeguarded and Nature’s “indecencies” properly clothed The idea has one small merit. Like the “Davy Crocket” caps it could produce a boom in the cloth- ing industry, here and abroad. An Israeli lass now sweating on a Ben Gurion contract to supply uniforms for the West German Wehrmacht, the same gang that murdered six million of her pes- ple), might feel a bit less indigant working on a contract to supply U.S. “Bull” pants. Especially if the contract provided for union- standards and wages? Anyhow forgetting the ‘“vir- tues” of Hollywood for’ the moment, the drive is on to have Fido and company all ‘decently” clothed, in keeping with the high standards of bourgeois “morality,” Over in Merrie England this sex and ‘nude’ controversy also rages, even if the staid British bourgeois hasn’t as yet caught up with his American prototype in demanding pants for Fido, Bossie and the Bull. The directing committee of Bradford’s famed Art Gallery has been in a hassel for some weeks over an Arts Council exhibit of three famed ‘‘nude”’ paintings on display. The “virtuous” chairman of the committee ruled that the said “nudes” were “indecent” and. had to be removed. Whereupon the Arts Council threatened to close down the whole exhibition unless the “nudes” were restored to their appointed ‘places. The committee capitulated, but the Holy Willies continued their wailing about “in decencies” much along the same. ‘Writers’ Congress held last wee lines’ as the “virtuous” U.S. PE” moter of pants for Fido. But the battle for “virtue - didn’t end in Bradford. During ¢ tht in Edinburgh, Scotland, Po? graphic and sex literature h@ fl field day, that is by ~ we writers. The writer delegates #2 es the political and geographic remained silent on the su probably out of pity for Western brothers? But the writers’ debate 0? a Nd subject wasn’t all a dead loss: are reported in the Daily Wor Henry Miller, author of Trople Cancer stripped bourgeois «more ity and virtue” bare when he’ es € “what we’d like to do whe? see an interesting good- -looki, woman is to sleep with het ' Bourgeois ‘‘morality” operas a similar mental plane as it 87 with lecherous eyes upon the mortal ‘‘nudes” of a Rembra' Michaelangelo, the while ass€ ing its “virtue” with the racuo™ howl of “indecent.” ot “Honi soit qui mal y pense” (evil to him who evil thinks) © ch still a trusty yardstick by WO) to measure such Philistines ney sweat “virtue” every time oe see a “nude”, whether it be VE ;do de Milo without her robe, °F and the bull sans pants. rh Karl Marx had them proP® catalogued over a_ century oa —and they haven’t improved time.