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Rie Circulation Manager, ERNIE CRIST : North scription Rate: Conade, $5.00 one year; $2.75 for sx months. Qnd South America and Commonwealth countries, $6.00 one year. | registration number 1560. First things first | When Conservative leader Mr. Stan- field in China publicly defended U.S. aggression in Asia (specifically in re- gard to Korea) and Mr. Trudeau in Canada went out of his way to declare his agreement with him, they were an- nouncing to the world.that whatever changes the defeat inflicted on the American invaders in Indochina and self-interest may have brought in Can- ada’s foreign policy, it was still tied to the Pentagon-Washington war chariot. The Canadian people will have to set that right and settle accounts with Mr. Stanfield, Mr. Trudeau and their bosses. But the immediate task of the people of Canada as of all the world is to do everything to bring the dirty, criminal, genocidal war in Indochina to the speediest ‘conclusion. President Nixon is not ending that war. His peace talk (and all he has done is say that he will visit Peking before next May) has not been accom- panied by a single move that would show that he has changed his policy. Moreover, the Nixon-Mao rapproche- ment has created more apprehension than hope in the hearts of those who are fighting to end the wars and estab- lish a lasting peace on the earth. If some people still may have doubts about Korea — actually it followed the same pattern as other Pentagon-CIA operations — nobody can doubt any longer that the U.S. invasion of Viet- nam was deliberately planned, perfidi- ously provoked and inhumanly carried out. We have the Pentagon Papers themselves to prove it. Canada’s role in NATO, in acting as the U.S. powder monkey in Korea, Viet- nam, etc., must not be forgotten. But that must not obscure the fact that the: main enemy 1S aggressive United States imperialism and the main immediate battle is to get the Yankees to end the war and get out of Vietnam without delay. The youth are OK After dragging it out as long as they could, the Tories that rule Ontario have finally granted the vote and some other adult rights to 18-year-old young Cana- dians. Toronto’s Board of Education also peered out fuzzily from behind the eighteenth century and agreed to abol- ish corporal punishment, as represent- ed by the strap in the city’s public schools (the Separate School Board is still thinking it over). ; Civilizagion is creeping up on darkest Ontario. The arguments that preceded these long overdue decisions were such that they sent you pack to reading Charles Dickens to find the like. Young men and women were represented as some sort of alien tribe of feeble-minded ereatures without character, morals or ideals. And as for school children —_— “spare the rod and spoil the child. was enough to make decent person ce ‘up. to ae the press on that day when the limited 18-year-old rights came into force. First, we were told, there was terrible apprehension — with the right to walk into a bar and order a glass of beer, it was solemnly fore- cast that Young Ontario would in- dulged in a frenzied orgy where almost anaything could happen. . . . When nothing happened except that a few young people had a glass of beer and * behaved themselves, the press, instead of apologizing, expressed “relief” . . . Do the fatted hogs of the Establish- ment hate and fear the youth especially —or is it just that they hate all people? Of course, these are some weirdos among the youth — it would be a mir- acle if this weird system and its pro- pagandists didn’t send at least some inexperienced young people off the track—like they do quite a few older persons who should know better. But the mass of the youth is composed of responsible individuals who are the hardest hit by the blight of capitalism and Tory-Liberal politics and who are earnestly concerned about helping to make this a country and a world worth living in. It’s their detractors, those who are striving to alienate the youth from the people’s aspirations that are the irre- sponsibles. Clean Canada’s skirts Of interest to our readers is the fol- lowing letter by Kathleen Macpherson of the Voice of Women which appeared in the Toronto Globe and Mail on July 23: “Righteen months ago President Richard Nixon announced that the United States would renounce the use of biological weapons and chemical weapons for offensive purposes and would ratify the 1925 Geneva Protocol banning the use of such materials. “Shortly afterwards he made excep- tions for non-lethal chemical weapons, e.g., riot control gases and herbicides. “Today the United States, we read, is retaining its stocks of nerve and mustard gas—being moved from Oki- nawa to Johnson Island—for deterrent purposes. During previous discussions on these materials, said to fill 700 box cars, it was allowed that one drop of nerve gas can kill a man. 2 ee Protocol has still not been rati- ed. “At this time, when the credibility of U.S. official pronouncements is at an all-time low, .it would be encouraging —and useful to the U.S. Administra- tion, one would think—if some of the assurances of the President were back- ed up by definite action.” The Canadian government had better sit up and take note as well. Although Canada has ratified the 1925 Geneva Protocol, she can not be complimented on its application. Chemical and biolo- gical weapons are no stranger to Can- ada’s soil, in spite of platitudes to the contrary. The executive committee of — the Canadian Labor Congress, in its disposal of resolutions from its last convention, has recently called upon the Canadian government.to sto the pro- duction of such weapons in Canada. Mr. Trudeau should both wash Can- ada’s skirts clean and hand the soap to Mr. Nixon. xe |PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1971—PAGE 3