PENTAGON PROGRAM FOR WAR By LESLIE MORRIS William S. Schlamm is “an Austrian by birth, an ‘American by choice.” Recently he published a book which rivals Hitler’s Mein Kampf as a program for war. Its title is, Germany and the East-West Crisis. It has been trans- lated into German and widely publicized in West Germany. Schlamm’s mission is to con- ! vince the governments of West Germany and the U.S.A. that the West must always be prepared to “wage one war after another” and “if it really wishes to remain alive, must be resolutely determined to wage war.” He criticizes U.S. policy as one of “wasted op- . portunities” and attacks Eisen- hower’s statement that “war is unthinkable” because “it rep- resenis nothing else than a re- nunciation of foreign policy.” The president’s words are “moving . .. without clear logical content, morally inde- -fensible and politically suici- dal.” ee eee In an article in the West German magazine Speigel on Aug. 5 last, in reply to the question, “Would you respond to every change in the status quo with the destruction of the world?” Schlamm replied: “Yes, exactly.” Schlamm’s book makes the following main points: 1. Socialism would be able fo prove its superiority in ‘peacetime, it can ‘flourish in peacetime and triumph in peacetime’’—therefore it must be destroyed in an atomic war. 2. A durable military alli- ance must be forged between the U.S.A. and West Germany in order to regain the frontiers of-1933 for German imperial- ism. 3. Psychological warfare di- rected against the socialist countries must give wav even more than hitherto to prepara- tions for a hot war. 4. Everyone who opposes these plans must be morally — and when that does not suc- ceed, physically—destroyed. Schlamm’s policy is not without its opponents in Ger- many. Herman Werner wrote, in.an article, From Hitler to Schlamm, that Schlamm “lets the cat out of the bag’ and “the cat grows from page to page until it has turned into the most terrifying monster ‘Castle Jewelers _590 WEST GEORGIA Vancouver, B.C. : PHONE MU 5-5014 Watchmaker & Jewelers Special Dis- count fo all Tribune Rea- ders. Bring this ad with you. |we have seen since the days of Hitler.” reat se Prof. L. I. Matthias wrote a letter to the West German press pointing out that Schlamm’s warmongering was similar to lectures being given in the U.S.A. by a Hermann Kahn, “In both cases,” wrote Matthias, “the gentlemen rep- resent the same interests. Her- mann Kahn is a member of the Rand Corporation, which pro- duces largely for the American Air Force. “It is common . knowledge that Schlamm is closely con- nected with Henry Luce (pub- lisher of Life, Time and For- tune—L.M.) who supports the aggressive ‘now or never’ pol- icy of the American Air Force. The connections of both these verbal magicians therefore, projected backwards, converge at one and the same point — in the Pentagon building. De- partment of the Air Force, Chief of Staff.” * * * This is the background to the U-2 espionage over the icy to which the Canadian gov- ernment is logically commit- ted by its military alliance with the U.S.A. As we have said all thr ough the years, NATO is not 4 ‘‘de- fensive alliance.” It is an ag- 8ressive military alliance dir- .ected to war — to destroy soc- |ialism, restore colonialism and iestablish U.S. imperialist rule | over the world. Schlamm’s. book says in blunt words what the U.S. mil- itary thinks. And you cannot separate the government of the U.S.A. from its generals or its ‘corporations’ hungry for war orders. This is the insanity from which the government of Can- ada must be compelled to ex- tricate our country. ‘ UFAWU fights slash in herring earnings Slashing of the earnings of B.C. herring fishermen to en- able fishing companies to un- dersell their Peruvian com- petitors on {vorld markets is not the solution to the prob- lems of the B.C. herring in- dustry. This was the stand taken by the UFAWU in a letter to James Sinclair, president of the Fisheries Association, this week. U.S.S.R. It is the sort of pol.. LONDON, Eng. — Lord Montgomery said here last Wednesday: “The thing which upset everyone was the flight by the American plane. The President of the United States, having said at first that he knew nothing about it, made a 180 degree switch saying that the flights were major practice and they would con- tinue, “From that moment I don’t see how anyone could expect phe conference to be a success.” Walter Lippmann raps Eisenhower Here’s what Walter Lipp- mann, one of America’s lead- ing commentators, wrote in the New York aes Tribune last week: “We must remember that when the plane was captured, Mr. K. opened the door to the President for a diplomatic exit from his quandary; he .did not believe, said Mr. K., that Eisen- hower was responsible for the flight. “The diplomatic answer would have been to say noth- ing at the time, or at the most to promise an adequate inves- tigation of the whole affair. In- stead Eisenhower replied that he was responsible, that such flights were necessary, and then let the world think, even if he did not say so in exact words, that the flights would continue. “This avowal was a fatal mistake. For it made it impos- sible for Mr. K. to by-pass the affair. Had he done that he would have acknowledged... that he had surrendered to the US. the right to violate Soviet ‘territory. “No statesman can live in any country after - making such an admission.” Bill 43 used against workers at Mc & Mc's” The strike against F. C. Myers and the lockout be x McLennan, McFeely Prior Ltd. and Marshall Wells, has entered its third week. The anti-union bias of these com- ~ panies led to their rejection of a conciliation board award, . to open attempts to coerce their employees to vote against _ strike action, and finally to locking out their employees - while the union was making earnest efforts to find a basis ° for settlement. The rigid determination of the employers to hold out against the legitimate request of the 600 employees involved was strengthened this week by the granting of an injunction by Justice Manson prohibiting picketing of. the F. C. Myers premises despite the fact this is a “legal strike.”’ In an unprecedented judge- ment under the provisions of Bill 43, Manson has retrained any of the defendants (union) “or any substitutes and any person or persons acting on their behalf from inducing, persuading or endeavouring to induce or persuade custom- ers of the plaintiff to cease do- ing business with the plain- {nba eX (It will be recalled that it was Justice Manson who last year sentenced Ironworkers of- ficials for refusing to order their members to work on the Second Narrows Bridge while a strike of their members was in progress. These sentences were later dismissed by an ap- peal court.) A letter sent out to all te ‘ filiates of the B.C. Federation of Labor under the signature of Pat O’Neal states: “The application of Bill 43 in the matters of unions on a legal strike gives the lie to the Minister of Labor’s statement when he said that no union on a legal strike had anything to fear from Bill 43.” - The Retail Wholesale Union are in for a tough struggle. The strike and lockout has now been in effect for ¢