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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
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