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U.S. POST ELECTION COMMENT SAYS—

Johnson must act on vote mandate’

VIETNAMESE INTERROGATION: South Vietnamese
W! soldiers lower a Communist guerrilla, his hands tied be-
hind him, into a water pot. The prisoner was one of four
taken in Mekong Delta town where bloody battle occurred.
The ducking was one method of persuading men to talk.

Associated Press

day took p

TORTURE IN SOUTH VIETNAM. Government soldiers submerge a captured guer-
rilla head first into a water jar in an attempt to force him to betray his comrades.
This barbarism, condoned by U.S. military authorities, is similar to that practiced
by Hitler's regime. The above picture appeared in newspapers all across the U.S.

and Canada.

No election on flag
urged in editorial

A debate on the flag would not
be so bad if after a reasonable
period it resulted in a new flag,
Says an editorial in last week’s
issue of the Canadian Tribune,
“Like most Canadians,” it says,
“we are ready to settle for either
the single leaf or the three-leaf
design as long as we can have a
distinctive flag and get on with
other important matters,

“The danger, however, is that
the leaders of either the govern-
ment or the opposition may force
an election on the issue of the
flag, Nothing would be more ca-
lamitous, Bypassing the many big
problems facing this country,
such an election would instead
place before the people an issue
that cannot be decided simply
by a majority vote, thereby deep-
ening the divisions that exist and
aggravating our already grave
constitutional crisis,

*, .. Diefenbaker’s bull-head-
edness should not be an excuse
for the Pearson government to

dissolve Parliament and ’call an
election, It would be the height
of irresponsibility and political
immaturity if this country were
forced into an election this win-
ter simply because the leaders
of our two old-line parties re-
fuse to back down from their
positions,

“The flag issue has been ban-
died about long enough, Every
MP knows where he stands on
the matter, It should therefore

be settled forthrightly by a vote.

in Parliament. But if it cannot
be so settled at this moment,
then let Parliament put it aside
for the time being in order to
tackle a number of urgent prob-
lems on which the people have
been awaiting action far too long,

“,.. The patience ofthe people
is wearing thin, An election called
on the flag issue may just about
be the last straw,” concludes the
editorial,

“The thunderous NO which the voters gave to Goldwater and Goldwaterism was their
answer to what they feared Goldwaterism would bring. The voters have made their choice,
overwhelmingly and unmistakeably. It was a thunderous repudiation of the. program and
policies of the ultra-right Dixiecrat-fascist forces’? These were the opening lines of a front
page eaitorial in this week’s issue of the U.S. Worker which analyses the results of the U. S.

election.

The editorial goes on to say:
“This was no ordinary election,
This was no mere contest for
office between the Democratic
and Republican parties, This
election was actually a great
people’s referendum on the basic
and urgent issues of our time,

“It was a referendum for peace
and against the reckless policies
of brinkmanship,.. It wasa sharp
repudiation of those who continue
to resist the legal, the political
and moral rights of our 20 mil-
lion Negro Americans to full and
unqualified citizenship, ..

“It was a decisive defeat for all
those who have contempt for ord-
inary people and a heartless dis-
regard for the welfare and se-
curity of the working people, for
the fate of the aged andthe future
of our youth,

“This election, because of the
pledges made by the victorious
candidate is a mandate to the
President and the new Congress
to carry out these proclaimed
policies, The mandate calls for
an end to the cold war, for get-
ting on with the urgent job of
disarmament and the scttlement
£ all disputed questions through
peaceful negotiations,

“It demands an end to the war
in South Vietnam, the establish-
ment of normal relations with
Cuba; recognition of the Chinese
People’s Republic and its ad-
mission to the U.N.; and an end
to intervention in the Congo and
elsewhere, ..

“One of the outstanding fea~-
tures of the outcome was that it
was achieved by the independent
activity of the masses who did
not wait for, or merely rely

on, the old Democratic Party
machine, This grass roots ac-
tivity, in its many forms, prov-
ided the ideas, the initiative, the
enthusiasm, the crusading spirit
and persistent organizationalac-
tivity that gave this campaign
its popular character andassured
its outcome, ,,

“Goldwater has been defeated,
Goldwaterism has suffereda sev-
ere blow, But the menace of

Goldwaterism has by no means
disappeared even though not all
who voted for Goldwater were
consciously voting for the Gold-
water policies, .,

“There is only one way tO
undermine the basis for the ultra-
right in the country, .. That is to
carry out the mandate for peace,
for equality, for democratic lib- _
erties and for social and econo-
mic advance,” says the editorial.

No German troops in

The Vancouver Section of the
United Jewish Peoples Order last
week protested against Canadian
government arrangements to

. train West German -troops at

Camp Shilo, Manitoba,

Stating that the “resurgence of
Germany is a source of great
concern to all who suffered at
the hands of German militarisits
in the last two wars,” the letter
States:

“Canadians have not forgotten
the wanton execution of our fellow
countrymen taken prisoner by
the Werhmacht, nor will Canadi-
ans and particularly Jewish Ca-
nadians, forget the murder by
the Nazi Germans of six million
European Jews,”

Recalling that the armies of
Germany have twice» in this con.
tury despoiled Europe, the letter
States that “to allow troops in
German uniforms to come on to
Canada’s soil cannot be excused
by any expediency, or by the
needs of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization,”

Canada, says UJPG

The letter calls on the Federal
government to cancel the plans
for the arrival of the German
Army elements, The Vancouver
UJPO letter is signed by chair-
man Harold Berson and states
that further action is planned.
Petitions are being circulated to
organizations across Canada and
individual citizens are urged to
write their MP’s and Minister
of National Defence,

Also, recently, the UJPO Na~
tional Board in Toronto “em-
phatically protested” to the CBC
over “the interview with George
Lincoln Rockwell, U.S, Nazi
leader,

Asking the question: “Does the
CBC really believe that a man
who openly advocated the mass
murder of Jews and Negroes,
qualifies in the category of ‘4
man of diverse political views’?

The UJPO urges that the radio
2nd TV facilities are never again
misused by allowing “the appear-
ance of people who cannot be
considered a part of civilized
mankind,”

Disarmament talks must include
China. declares Peace Congress

The explosion by China of a
nuclear weapon underlines the
necessity of that country being
included in international regotia-
tions on world disarmament, the
Canadian Peace Congress said
last week,

A statement issued by its
chairman, Dr, James G, Endi-
cott, on behalf of the national
executive of the Peace Congress,
said in part:

“Some 14 years after the
launching of the Stockholm Ap-
peal for the prohibition of nuclear
weapons, an appeal which was

signed by over 800 millionpeople,

the testing and manufacturing of
nuclear weapons is still contin-
uing,

“Plans have been under way =

for some time to spread nuclear
weapons to all members of the
N.A.T.O, alliance, including West
Germany, Francehas developeda
‘striking force’ of nuclear weap-
ons and now the People’s Repub-
lic of China has made a test in

the atmosphere and announced -°

its intention of preparing a nu-
clear defense,

“The Canadian Peace Congress
from its inception has always
opposed the testing of nuclear
weapons with the consequent
poisoning of the air, It has at
all times opposed the spreading

of nuclear weapons, and hascon-'

sistently called for their total
abolition in an agreement for
complete world disarmament,

The Congress has always stated
these objectives, so urgently
needed by mankind, can be
achieved through international
negotiations leading to interna-
tional agreement, :

*The explosion by China of 2
nuclear weapon underlines the
necessity of that country being
included in all such negotiations.

“The Canadian Peace Congress
welcomes the fact that Pr ime
Minister Pearson now recognizes

4© pelatedly that China can no long-

DR. JAMES ENDICOTT

er be excluded from the councils

_ of the nations, It is high time for
*: the Canadian government to 2°

on this understanding and end the
farce of non-recognition.~ It is
high time for Canada to press
and vote for giving China its
rightful place in the United Na-
tions and for China’s inclusion?
in all negotiations for world dis-
armament,

*The world’s scientists have
warned us: mankind mustabolish
nuclear weapons or nuclear
weapons may abolish mankind.

November 13, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 12