By
Prof. A. SHPIRT

HE ruling circles of the

United States. seeking «to
draw the largest possible number
Or states into the aggressive blocs
Mey are creating, resort to rude
Pressure and intimidation of other
Counties with a non-existent dan-
Ser on the part of a “potential
aggressor.’’ At the same time, the

etican imperialists are not
Sparing of lavish promises to
Mprove the economic situation
2 countries which, at the same
time,under pressure of the dol-
at policy’ are falling into ever
NEw economic difficulties,” as the
‘Viet foreign affairs ministry
Pointed out in its statement on
the Notth Atlantic pact.

Thus, of late, an intensified

Campaign has been waged in the -

Meritan and Canadian press
With the aim of persuading Ca-
Nadian public opinion that Can-
ada, having joined the aggres-
‘lve North Atlantic bloc, will re-
tive big military orders and
Will be more than compensated
for the loss of markets incurred
realization of the Marshall
Plan,

It is easy to become convinced
°f the absolutely ungrounded na-
mae of. this propaganda by con-
Sidering the present economic
Situation in Canada and also by
*stablishing who, among Cana-
lans, is interested in the North
Atlantic pact, which is an _ in-
Strument for the unleashing of
& New world war.

Foreign trade plays an excep-~

Onally important role in the
onomy of Canada because she
*Ports approximately one-third
%f her output. ;
sae the same time, figures
RE the foreign trade of the
Untry after the first year of
s © Marshall plan are arousing
ver-greater anxiety among the
ce public as markets for
ustrial goods decrease and ex-

Ports of agricultural produce are\

Teduced. :

ae increase in the foreign
igag turnover, observed in 1948,
4S explained by the rise in

pees, purchases of strategic
“Ww materials by the United
_ States,

i and financing of pur-
ases in Canada under the Mar-
Shall plan.
fro € lion’s share of the profits
™m these purchases,. however,
8S been flowing and continues
© flow into the pockets of the
Ercan monopolies which con-
ae the extraction of the ma-
Y of strategic materials in
anada, For instance, the output
aluminum, asbestos, nickel

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benefits
from the
Atlantic pact?

Who

and copper is almost wholly con-
trolled by American firms. And
it is a well-known fact that the
American atom monopoly con-
trols the extraction of uranium
ore in Canada.

From the outset of the Mar-
shall plan, American monopolies
established control over Cana-
dian foreign trade, defining the
amounts and directions of Cana-
dian exports. As a result of this
control, Canada has become still
more unilaterally dependent up-
on the U.S., while trade relations

@ A group- of stud-
ents at the Cana.
dian Army Staff
Coege, ‘Kingsten,
visit the plant at
Longueil, Que.

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with Britain and the Dominions
as well as with the countries
of Europe have decreased.

Thus, in 1948, Canadian exports
to her traditional markets were
reduced: to New Zealand by 51
percent, to the Argentine by 48
percent, to Sweden by 60 percent.

Intensified transformation of
Canada into an agrarian appen-
dage of the U.S. economy is
fraught with serious conse-
quences as the economic crisis
approaches in America. Export
of the crisis from the U.S. to

Canada has already commenced.
e

During the period the North
Atlantic pact was being pre-
pared, the ruling circles of the
‘U.S., hinting at the danger of a
crisis threatening Canada, pro-
mised to make up for the mar-
kets of which they had deprived
Canada by placing military or-
ders in that country. That is
why Canadian ruling circles were
so eager to ratify the pact.

These military orders, however,
can enrich only an insignificant

handful
turers of war materials.

of Canadian manufac-

former
head of the department of naval
armaments and equipment, who
owns the largest wharves in the

These are Ross, the

country; Carmichael, who held
the post of director-general of
the department of armaments
manufacture and is one of the
heads of the Canadian branch
of the American monopoly, Gen-
eral Motors; Cross, a banker and
owner of metallurgical enter-
prises,

These and a few other leaders
of the Canadian plutocracy hope
again, as in the years of the
Second World War, to make mil-
lions on war orders. A large
part of the profits from military
erders, however, will neverthe-
less flow into the pockets of the
American monopolists, Melon,
Rockefeller, Ford and _ others,
who own the lion’s share of the
five-thousand-million-dollar Am-
erican capital investments in
Canada.

On the other hand, the posi-
tion of the Canadian people will
become still worse. Inclusion of
Canada in the North Atlantic
union means a mad drive for
armaments, paid by increasing
taxes and a further lowering of
living standards. The fact that
the data on the number of un-
employed in Canada is no longer
published cannot hide the in-
crease in unemployment, just as
silence on the growing problems
of farmers cannot conceal from
them a process that threatens
them with ruin.

The military orders with which
Wall Street is attracting the Ca-
nadian manufacturers will en-
rich only the owners of arma-
ments and aviation plants and
owners of strategic mines. Among
these “death traders” in Can-
ada there are not a few Ameri-
cans who own the controlling
shares in some of the largest
military enterprises of Canada.

Only this handful of Canadian
and American monopolists is in-
terested in the North Atlantic
pact, the authors of which are
seeking to turn the territory of
Canada into a- military spring-
board, and the people of Canada.
into cannon fodder for Wall
Street.

Dollars won't save Greek fascists

By PAT SLOAN
LONDON
NIXTY-TWO executions were
perpetrated in Athens alone
during April this year and 145 in
the whole of Greece.

In an attempt to save the lives
of their comrades there has been
a heroic wave of hunger. strikgs
among the imprisoned democrats.

The executions were those of
men who were involved in the
historic battles of December, 1944
who had been held in prison for
more than four years before the
authorities dared to execute them.

The British foreign office has
received so many protests against

the executions in Greece that it.

now circulates a whole bunch of
duplicated “explanations” — to
working-class organizations that
protest.

Its main defense of the Greek
judicial murders is that a civil
war is raging.

The foreign office omits to men-

tion that it was the judicial mur-.

ders that gave rise to the civil
war* and not the other way
around,

In the middle of 1946 there was
no Democratic Army in Greece,
there was no Provisional Demo-
cratic government.

At that time, ording to the

and ‘Tiffany, there was a “uni-
lateral. ciyil war” of the Right
against the Left.

In October, 1946, a British par-
liamentary delegation, led by
Seymour Cocks, MP, and includ-
ing Labor, Tory and Liberal
‘members, drew attention to the
special security decrees that had
been adopted in June of that year
and -urged that they be cancelled.

©

That was in October, 1946.
There was as yet no talk of a
civil war “aided by Greece’s nor-
thern neighbors.” But between
July and September, 1946, more
than 40 democrats were executed
under these so-called “security
decrees.”

Is it surprising that others, to
avoid exile or execution, fled
again to the mountains where
they had fought so _ heroically
against the Nazi invaders?

Is it surprising that they arm-
ed themselves, as they had
against the Germans?

Is it surprising that a new Re-
sistance developed to fight the
new British and American-subsi-
dized fascism in Athens.

If the recommendations of the
British parliamentary delegation
had been carried out, there would
have been no need for democrats
to flee to the mountains, no need

British Labor MPS, Dodds, Solley for a new Resistance, no need for

‘proposals,

a Democratic Army, a Provisidn-
al Democratic government, or
civil war.

But Athens ignored the MPs’
and Bevin ignored
them too, though the délegation
was unanimous in its recom-
mendations.

And so fascism has spread in
Greece.

From July to September, 1946,
there were just over 40 execu-
tions of democrats in the whole
of Greece.

But in April, 1949, there were
62 executions in Athens alone.

This is called the Western Way
of Life, the Truman Doctrine, the
Defense of Democracy, and a lot
of other things.

It is naked judicial thuggery,
black murder, fascism.

It is becoming more and more
widely realized that the Demo-
cratic Army cannot be defeated.

In the first four months of this
year the monarchists suffered
30,000 casualties; 15,000 of them
as a result of the great spring of-
fensive of the Democrats in
Mount Grammos.

The archives of the 5th Brig-
ade, captured by the Democratic
Army, reveal a sorry picture of
discipline in the monarchist
ranks.

Again and again the Provision-
al Democratic government has
proposed peace negotiations.

The Soviet proposals for the re-
storation of peace, democracy and
Greek independence have enor-
mously strengthened the struggle
to end the Greek fighting.

The New Statesman and Na-
tion recently warned Bevin that
what Britain was doing in Greece
“is not the defense of democracy
against totalitarianism but the
bolstering of a regime which has
enacted a new and bloodier ver-
sion of the Metaxas dictatorship”
and called for “mediation through
the United Nations or some other
qualified body.”

Protests against the executions

. continue from all over the “world

. . but the Athens rulers fear
peace and democracy like the
plague.

For their prestige, their power -
and their profits depend on a
permanent state of war, the per-
manent presence of foreign
troops, and permanent subsidies
from the U.S., even though this
means the complete wrecking of
the Greek economy and perman-
ent servility to a foreign power.

Dollars and terror have not
saved Chiang Kai-shek. Dollars
and terror cannot save, Chiang’s
brothers-in-crime in Athens.

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