Time to make a break Missiles make sense ?

T WAS hardly surprising that
H the Chicage Republican con-
vention should “hail” eight years
of the Eisenhower government as
a “stroke of genius, unegualled in
the history of America,” and
whoop it up for more of the same.

There’s a lot of truth in that
“unequalled” boast.

It was also evident in the noisy
anti-Soviet sabre-rattling that the
“spectre of communism” in the
image of Nikita Khrushchev (who
is certainly no “spectre”) haunted

the ringmasters of the Republican

circus. So much that it became
the centra! theme song of “Tricky:
Dicky” Nixon and “Dodger”

Cabot-Lodge, the Republican gold-
dust twins chosen for the coming
presidential elections.

What was indeed unique, if
somewhat belated, was the Eisen-
hower boast at the convention,
that the U.S. under his adminis-
tration, was the prime instigator
of the 1956 counter-revolution in
Hungary.

That fact was made crystal-
clear by leading communist
spokesmen at the time and since,
but it took “a wildly cheering
Republican convention” plus a
ae amp president to clinch
ae.

_“The government,” boomed Ike,
“is thinking of stirring up new
ideas of revolt among the Russian
Satellites such as the 1956 Hun-
garian uprising.”

: In other words the foreign pol-
icy of U.S. Republican leadership
is (and hopes to continue) to
interfere in the internal and dom-
estic affairs of other states, up to
the point of fomenting counter-
revolution and civil war.

With Ike’s boastful admission
of counter-revolutionary intrigues,
Wwe are reminded of those pseudo-
communists, revisionists, right-
Wing social democrats and labor
misleaders of one sort or other,
who shed an ocean of crocodile
tears for the fate of Ike’s “Hun-
garian freedom fighters”, and
cutstripped John Foster Dulles in,
venting their vilification ~ and
Slanders against the USSR for

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coming to the aid of the legitimate
Hungarian government. -An aid
which effectively blocked U.S.
imperialism in its attempt. to
restore a fascist Hungary in the
heart of Europe.

Now, booms Ike, echoed by the

cheers of Republican hysteria
and the plaudits of “Tricky
Dicky” and the “Dodger”, we

must think “of stirring up new
ideas of revolt among the Russian
satellites”, as the keystone of U.S.
foreign policy.

Our problem as Canadians lies
in the fact that, thanks to Liberal
and Tory betrayal, we are tied
hand and foot to this arrogant
and reckless adventurism and
provocations of U.S. imperialism.
An alliance through NATO and
NORAD which grows daily more
dangerous to Canada as a satel-
lite of U.S. war gangsterism.

Eisenhower’s admission (and
beast) of counter-revolutionary
activity abroad as an_ integral
part of their nuclear war plans,
leaves Canadians with only one
choice, neutrality; to get out of
this provocative gangster alliance,
and assert our =ndependence, our
sovereignty, and our determina-
tion for peace.

The Republican “keynoters”
gave us the alternative in Chi-
cago; that of remaining a pawn
of U.S. imperialism with its in-
trigues for counter-revolution and

R. HAROLD WINCH, MP
M (Vancouver East), in his
July “Report from Ottawa” to his
constituents, expresses some wor-
ry about our “parliamentary
democracy” falling into disrepute.
This danger it seems, is due in
large measure to the “ridiculous
and farcical manner” the Diefen-
baker government conducts “the
people’s business.”

Mr. Winch’s chief worry,
should. this Tory irresponsibility
continue, is that it “. .. opens the
way for irresponsible people, fun-

damentally based in their thinking:

ona dictatorship complex of fas-

- cism or communism,” etcetera and

so forth. Therefore let us preserve
the purity of our “parliamentary
democracy” lest the communists
“obtain a receptive hearing’ be-
cause of tory bungling.

As if that weren’t bad enough,
Mr. Winch has another worry. As
a member of a_ parliamentary
defence expenditure committee he
has discovered that Canada spends
some $1 billion annually, but
what for? “We do not know much
more than when we started,” says
Mr. Winch, now firmly convinced

devastating nuclear war, or mak-
ing a clean break with these crim-
inal war conspiracies, once and
for all.

There is not much time left to
choose!

ance oe cabelas

that the “government is confused
on defence policy . .. does not
“know where it is going, nor why.”

Despite Mr. Winch’s apparent
ignorance of Pentagon directives
on “defence” and other policies,
the “Socialist” MP from Vancou-
ver East has a solution.

“The Minister of Defence time
after time,” says Mr. Winch, “has
reiterated that the only defence is
the power of a missile deterrent.
That being so, only a policy of
deterence, pending complete and
universal disarmament, makes
sense.” In short, until we have
universal disarmament, let’s blow
the works. on bigger and better
missiles. That way, says Mr.
Winch, “makes sense.”

The “defence” policy makers of.
the Pentagon who set the tone for
their yes-men in Ottawa, London,
Bonn, Paris and elsewhere, are in
complete agreement with Mr.
Winch, and vice versa. They all
mouth fine phrases about univer-
sal peace and disarmament, but
... “pending” that desirable goal,
speed up their war provocations
and their nuclear missile produc-
tion.

We'll concede that Dief and his
tory cohorts may be “confused”
but not more so than “socialist”
Winch, since both derive their
confusion from the same _ ideo-
logical source. That much, at
least, “makes sense’.

M* Henry Cabot-Lodge is Un.
ited States representative on
the UN Security Council. A scion
of that old Bostonian aristocrasy
of whom the poet John Collins
Bossidy (1860-1928) wrote —

“This is good-old Boston,

The home of the bean and cod,

Where the Lowells talk only to
Cabots,

And the Cabots talk only to
God.”

In the UN deliberations, partic-
ularly when these touch upon af-
faires Soviet, Mr. Cabot-Lodge ad-
heres strictly to the old Bostonian
snob code, but in the century since
his ancestors conversed only with
the Diety, their offspring has mas-
tered the fine art of fabrication
and ‘falsehood.

With the U.S. U-2 spy plane in-
cident still fresh in our minds and
its spate of lying denials, then
arrogant admissions by Mr. Cabot-

Lodge and his Pentagon partners,
it is not surprising to find these
holier-than-thou dollar diplomats
fabricating bigger and better false-
hoods on the. ‘mission’ of the
U.S. - RB-47- spy bomber,.-- shot
down in’ Soviet territorial waters
on July 1.

Nearly .a full month after this
‘incident?’ Mr. Cabot-Lodge — pre-
sents a wad of maps, charts and
other “scientific” data to the UN
Security Council, along with a
spiel in his best Bostonian vitipur-
ation, all aimed to show that he
and his. co-forgers in U.S. war
provocateur circles, knew exact-
ly the minute, the area, and the

‘circumstances’, when the Soviet
Air. Command shot down the
RB-47.

“An act of piracy’ yelps Mr.
Cabot-Lodge, hoping to involve
the UN in another U.S. war provo-
cation against the Soviet Union.

One would have thought that as
soon as the RB-47 had its ‘“mis-
sion”’ abruptly ended, Mr. Cabot-
Lodge and his coldwar map-mak-
ers would have immediately pro-
duced their ‘charts’, at least long
before 24-days after it happened.

Obviously, of course, they
couldn’t, since no such maps,
charts, or other Cabot-Lodge-Allen
Dulles fabrications existed or had
been thought of at that precise

time.

Instead, the U.S. with other
countries aiding, instituted a ‘“‘mas-
Sive air search” for the missing spy
bomber. In the extensive coverage
given this “air search” by the daily
press, we learn that even Soviet
fishing vessels took part.

Just think what a lot of trouble
and expense could have been sav-
ed, had Mr. Cabot-Lodge produc-
ed the ‘precise’ maps, charts and
other fabrications he, Mr. Allan
Dulles, and the Pentagon generals
had cooked up to slander the Sov-
iet Union with — and hide their
own aggressive policies of espion-
age and invasion of Soviet terri-
tory.

As the British Daily Worker
neatly put it, Mr. Cabot-Lodge and
his colleagues were—

“Faced with overwhelming evi-
dence that the U.S. had once
again been caught in the very act
of aerial spying, and with the
knowledge that members of the
crew had themselves made state-
ments to the Soviet authorities,
Lodge had to produce some sort
of story before the Security
Council.” ‘

And to think that this is the
‘story-teller’ chosen by he Reptub-
lican convention last week to be
‘Tricky Dicky’ Nixon’s_ vise-presi-
dential running mate. Yoicks?

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