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The Toronto Star of May 15
carried a report of Nixon’s war
from Kontum in South Vietnam,
in which the following “homey”
bit appeared:

While American Phantoms
dropped flaming napalm on the
invaders. American officers took
in the scene from a veranda
overlooking the battlefield.

The advisers were in a good
mood. “This is better than the
movie last night, isn’t it?” one
said.

“Care for a beer while you
watch the air strike?” said
another.

Nice people, aren’t they?
Beats all the stories about Brit-
ish pukka sahibs in the colonies
of yesteryear . . . It makes one
sick to the stomach, but then
you can’t wage an inhuman war
without those who wage it los-
ing their humanity, can you?

In that same issue of the
Star there was an AP report
from Hollywood on the death
of Dan Blocker. It contained the
following paragraph showing
that not all is hopeless in Holly-
wood (Blocker was talking about
why he moved to Switzerland
last year):

Denying that the move above
saved him taxes, he added: “My
only objection is how my tax
money is being used. Instead of
going for highways and the
environment and the social pro-
grams we need so badly, it’s be-
ing used to drop napalm on peo-
ple in Southeast Asia.”

We phoned a friend to read
these items, interesting each in
its own way, but he had a later
edition of the paper and couldn’t
find them. They weren’t there
any more.

Maybe this was done in the
normal shuffling around and

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cutting down stories during the
switch from one edition to the
next. Maybe the editor didn’t
actually cast an eagle eye on
the first edition and roar out,
“Out with this!” Maybe some-
body (publisher, advertiser?)
didn’t phone to say, “Who is
responsible and when does he
get the axe?!”

Maybe so, but there is a de-
finite pattern in the Star and
some other papers. For example,
that same Star in its issue of
May 6 carried a lengthy letter
from Emil F. Fackenheim, an
apologist for Zionism, in which
the following appears:

And why accept, of all au-
thorities, that of Alexei Kosy-
gin and deny that Soviet Jews
are persecuted? (In Russia,
where every language is encour-
aged, Hebrew alone is illegal.)

This man, trying to pin the
label of anti-Semitism on the
United Church Observer, per-
mits himself to utter a most
blatant lies and the editors of
the Star publish it as a gospel
truth. Prof. Fackenheim is not
only bigoted but extremely
ignorant (the two usually go to-
gether) or he would know that
there is no state language in the
USSR and no banned languages,
that Yiddish is a spoken and
written language in the Jewish
Autonomous Region of Birobi-
jan and there is a Yiddish pub-
lication in Moscow, that Heb-
rew is the language of the syna-
gogue and at the same time
there have been outstanding
studies of it made and pub-
lished by Soviet linguists, that
no one is prohibited from speak-
ing in any language bar none.

Isn’t it time that every time
a falsehood appears in the Cold
War press it is immediately ex-
posed and challenged? (1.F.V.)

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The task is to save
the world from war

At a moment of grave danger to world
peace, when in addition to the escalation
of the dirty U.S. war in Indochina
Nixon ordered the mining of North
Vietnamese harbors and was provok-
ing a military confrontation with the
Soviet Union and other socialist coun-
tries, we saw the hawk ultras egging
on the “mad bomber” to go over the
brink, while from the opposite side
“leftist” elements were “disappointed”
that the Soviet Union didn’t “take the
dare” and “blast the U.S. pirate ships

_ and planes” from Vietnamese air and

waters.

The Peking leaders in a despicable.

diatribe chose this moment to call both
the USSR and the USS. “arch-crimin-
als’—in the context of the fight be-
tween the side that is waging war and
that which is opposing aggression and
seeking. to restore peace, this can only

mean support for the war-makers, Nix-_

on and the U.S. military-industrial
complex. This is cause for both pro-
found sadness, and anger.

The Soviet Union in this crisis has
acted with the calmness, level-headed-
ness and decision that it has displayed
all along. While condemning the out-
rageous and illegal U.S. action, it has
repeated that it will continue to give
all the support required by the peoples
of Indochina to defeat aggression and
compel peace.

The task of all those who want peace,
all who would put a halt to present ag-
gressions and ward off a third world
war, which would be a nuclear holo-
caust, is not to fall for “confrontation”
provocations by the desperate imperial-
ists, but to bend all efforts to defeat
their machinations, both the frenzied
brinkmanship and calculated attempts
to split the forces for peace.

Humanity owes the Soviet Union a
great debt of gratitude for its firm pol-
icy that has saved us from the brink
of world war and will yet help to strait-
jacket the war-makers and allow the
peoples of the earth to breathe in peace
and freedom.

Blow hot, blow cold

When David Lewis criticized the out-
rageous sentences passed by an Estab-
lishment judge on the Quebec labor
leaders, the hounds of reaction began
to bay at him in earnest. When he re-
duced his criticism to a discussion of
partisanship of individual judges —
what a chance he missed to lash out at
the whole anti-labor and anti-democra-
tic set-up! — they let up on him.

At the CLC convention he similarly
balanced valid criticism of the govern-
ment’s economic and Canadian jinde-
pendence policies with a lecture for
unions to be “moderate” in their de-
mands! One for the saints and one for
the devil? ...

Anybody still wonder why it’s @&
tial to have Communist candidates
to elect them to the House of U
mons?

ers, who were given vengeful sentell
for defending labor rights, has a!
ed “alarm” in reactionary circles:

It was the ruling provincial Li
party that called for the army @
sent to occupy Quebec in October
And it was the same party thal
structed its local organizers to esta?
detachments of civilian “special pa
(the Hitlerites in Germany calle fi
“storm troopers,” while racist and #
cist-minded groups in the United

Globe and Mail carried a long Tey

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“How the vigilantes took Sept-Iles |

from the unions” which describe¢ =
“a group of businessmen, lawye!®
representatives of the Chambée?)
Commerce” had all weapons ##
stores seized by the police and !
vigilante troop of 70, which has #
other duties the task of keept
“anybody who might be a revol
ary.’

That’s storm troopers!

And in another locality—Baie ©?
—it was confirmed that 125 such
lantes were recruited and given the,
of special constables under a pre
in the Quebec Police Act that For
municipalities to take on special ™
during emergencies. That was 7 4
transparent fig leaf of legality t0 i
the organization of armed group)
civil war against the working pe

It has been demonstrated a thou
times that when the powers that ©
their rule challenged or thell, (9
thwarted by the workers, they fot!
democratic processes and legal fo!
for naked and brutal extralega! ™
and violence.

That’s what fascism is.

The hurried drive to establish,
lantes in Quebec, even if pushe@
the background at the moment “is
serve as a warning. The way t0 **
can be blocked by the united st!
of the workers and all dem
forces to beat down both the “leg@
assaults on labor’s rights and th
to resort to direct extralegal actl
the reactionary forces. .

The fact that the Ku Klux Klay
John Birch Society have invade
tario from the U.S. and the ne
surge of the homegrown Hitlers
their associates from among the
of Europe who fied their homel@%
evade trial as war crimina S; ‘
ae the situation is not limited

ec.

The time to stop it is now, pefo?
too late.

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