Review

No ‘permit’ needed

| N its sale of some $12 million
worth of passenger buses to Cuba,
the Leyland Motor Corporation of
_England has let the U.S. know
that Leyland’s and not Washing-
ton runs its own business. “I have
no knowledge,’ stated Leyland
manager Donald Stokes, “of hav-
ting to go to America for permission
ito sell buses...”

Immediately following an-
nouncement of the Leyland bus
contract with Cuba, (similar to
previous contracts between Ley-
land’s and Cuba) a howl went up
from Washington about Britain
“breaking the U.S. economic
-blockade of Cuba,” about selling
“strategic materials” and “trading
with the enemy,” etc.

Even the Vancouver Sunina
January 9 editorial was compelled
to ask: “If the U.S. is sincere in
desiring an end to the cold war it
ought to give up futile campaigns
of this sort as impediments to good
understanding. It -may be argued
that buses are strategic goods.
But what goods aren’t?”’

Recently Soviet Chairman N.
Khrushchev gave a more illustra-
tive definition of this absurdity of
“strategic” materials. “Trouser
buttons,” said Khrushchev, ‘“‘can
be classified as such, since with-
out them soldiers would have to
use one hand to keep up their
trousers and wouldn’t be able to
use a rifle.”

Overseas Canadian trade with
the Socialist world has also had
some sorry experiences as a result
of similar U.S. interference in Can-
ada’s trade exports. The incident
of the Ford Motor Company of
Canada, prohibited by its parent
U.S. organization (read Washing-
ton), from filling an order for sev-
eral thousand motor vehicles to
People’s China, This, with thou-

sands of Canadian auto workers
jobless.’

Nor has our now booming wheat
sales to the Soviet Union, China
and other Socialist countries
escaped the howls of “disapproval”
emanating from Washington.

Hence the Leyland Motor Cor-
poration provides a good lesson
in stiffening-up in the defense of
our own industry and trade oppor-
tunities. In the words of Leyland’s
manager, Canada must call a halt
to having to “go to America for
permission to sell” our products to
those countries, Socialist or others,
who seek wider trade beneficial
to both.

Let’s advance the cold war
“thaw” with more trade and less
“strategic” bans from Washington.

Get rid of

W ITHIN the first two weeks
of 1964 four loads of.U.S. nuclear
bombs have been ‘delivered at
North Bay, Ontario, and probably
by the end of this week at least two
loads of this concentrated death
at La Macaze, Quebec.

Soon we will probably see a few
loads being delivered at Comox,
enough to blot out Vancouver
Island and half of British Colum-
bia.

’ A “Happy New Year,” chirrup-
ed Prime Minister Pearson out of
one side of his mouth; out of the
other to give his approval to a
secret deal with Washington, a
deal transforming Canada intoa
nuclear dump for U.S. “‘defense.”

In this Pearson- Washington
deal, flouting the existence of

Parliament and the peace aims of |

the Canadian people, Canada is
now a full-fledged member of the
U.S.-designed “Nuclear Club,” en-
dowed with all the risks and haz-
ards —but not the fateful decision
as to their use.

Now that these U.S. horror
weapons are on Canadian soil,
sneaked in by the criminal action
of a minority Liberal government,,
what is to be doneto get rid of

Arizona ‘fallout’

S ENATOR Barry Goldwater
of Arizona has announced he will
seek the Republican nomination
for president. The senator is al-
ready etching out an ultra-right-
ist Birchite program which, among
other things, would spell sure dis-
aster for the peace of America—
and the world. =

Goldwater, who has numerous
admirers in Canada among the
ranks of Social Credit, plans to
throw all efforts towards peace
and peaceful coexistence in re-
verse.

- both—the Liberal conspirators and
the U.S. bombs? : . 7
There are many things that can ©
yet be done. A visit or a strong let-—
ter to your M.P., protesting this
crime against peace; registering 4
strong protest, individually or en”
mass with the Pearson govern
ment, a condemnation of it
“agreement” to permit these hor
ror weapons in Canada. A steady _
and growing demand for an im-
mediate cancellation of all ‘‘agree- —
ments” with Washington on th
storage of nuclear weapons in Can~
ada, and toreturn the nuclear
warheads we have with all pos- ~
sible speed; to insist that Canada _
be declared a “Nuclear-freé Zone.

That’s the least the Canadia

people can do to win some assur
ance of survival and independence
survival to speak as a nation hon-
estly and genuinely dedicated to
peace and independence.

The Pearson minority gover:
ment has no mandate from th
Canadian people to sneak U.
nuclear bombs into Canada. Hav-,
ing done so it has now no mandate”
to exist—except by getting rid of ©
these U.S. nuclear bombs with all.
speed possible.

The senator would also rever
the trend toward civil rights and
equality for American Negroes, -
and restore the “white supremacy ~
of the Deep South. And as for
Cuba the senator would support
and mobilize ‘‘Cuban exiles” for
another Bay of Pigs invasion, with
“U.S. air cover” to assure success
in bringing Cuba “to its knees.”

The best we can hope for in
Canada is that the people of th
USA will squelch this fascist
plague, before it destroys them—
and us.

Tom é
McEwen y

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F rom a reading of Peter C. New-
man’s book on John Diefenbaker,
‘Renegade in Power’’, students of the
Canadian political scene draw one fair-
ly obvious conclusion; viz, that the New-
man panegyric on John Diefenbaker
can apply equally to any prominent
Liberal or Socred the reader cared
to hit on, including Prime Minister
Lester B. Pearson.

Several centuries ago the classical
pretext given for the ‘‘grievous” as-

sassination of Caesar was that ‘‘Caesar.

was an ambitious man’’, but if we read
history aright, so too were: his
assassins,

To this reader ‘‘Renegade In Power”’
comes very close, if not actually a
libelous compendium directed against
a prominent figure, inspired (and quite
probably financed) by equally ‘‘ambit-
ious’’ Liberal medioctrities, in an at-

tempt to politically assassinate their

Tory opposition.

We venture to say, the ‘‘majestic
equality of the law’’. being what it is,
that had any Communist author pro-
duced such a book on -Diefenbaker,
Pearson, Bennett, Manning, or any of
a score of similar political tubthump-
ers, he would already be headed for
‘‘durance vile’’ under our highly flex-
ible slander and libel laws!

While we have no desire or intent
to champion the cause of Dief's pol-

itical integrity (or lack of it), his.

charge that ‘‘Renegade In Power” is
Liberal-inspired was fully vindicated
only last week when Pearson attempted
in a TV news flash to ‘‘explain’’ how
he had come to ‘‘autograph’’ a goodly
number of copies of this ‘*best seller’’
for his Liberalcohorts. In Pearsonian
double-talk, to ‘‘autograph’’ a book
smearing your political opponent is not
necessarily to ‘‘approve’’ of its con-
tent. That's like saying you can put
your signature to a filthy document
lambasting your next-door neighbor,
then expect him to believe you didn’t
see or mean any offense by doing so.

However, it must be said that on
this job of ‘Renegade In Power’’ Peter
C. Newman has certainly proved, to
the Liberals at least, that ‘‘the labour-
er is truly worthy of his hire’’. That
they got their money’s worth for Lest-
er B. to ‘‘autograph’’.

Now, with ‘‘Renegade In Power’’ as
a first edition, if Mr. Newman would
just take on another such assignment
with his characteristic vigor, but this
time for the Tories on the Liberals,
or both on the Socreds, Canada’s pol-
itical archives on Tweedledee,
Tweedledum and Tweedledam_ could
be fairly well brought up-to-date come
the centennial of Confederation. Then
the ‘‘postscript’? would certainly be
up to the people.

* * *

Back in 1941 the King-St, Laurent
Liberal government were just itching
to get Canada into the ‘‘Pan American
Union’’, better known as the Organ-
ization of American States (OAS). But
“Uncle Sam’’ said ‘‘No’’, definitely
**No"’, opining that Canada was much
too much closely ‘tied’? to British
imperialism to be of any service to

_the U.S. in its ruthless exploitation

and aggressive wars in Latin Amer- i
ica, ;

Now however, as the saying goes, |
**tempus fugit’? and with it the changes —
in .time’s flight. Canada is no longer }
‘tied’? to the British lion’s tail as ]
firmly as hitherto, but our ‘‘ties’’ with |
U.S. imperialism, politically, econom- }
ically and militarily are as tight as

a strangler’s knot on our necks, thanks

to a monopoly-dominated Liberal and |

Socred phalange, who would sell their

own mother as well as their country —

for a quick Yankee dollar.

Today U.S. imperialism in all the
countries of Latin America is finding
the going hard. Its ‘‘alliance for prog-
ress”’
Its hand-picked Latin American ‘‘gov-
ernments’’, with or without U.S. Mar-

ines, are having much difficulty holding —
their people in check in their fight

for freedom, food and independence.

Hence comes the urgent U.S, need

for a stooge, an ‘‘intermediary’’, anew ;

OAS member ready and willing to pull
“Uncle Sam’s’’ chestnuts out of a hot-

ting-up-Latin American fire. Hence |

comes the old call ‘‘come over and
help us’;

ica,

For Canada the danger is that-we i

have still more than enough U.S.-
indoctrinated Liberal bellhops in Ot-
tawa, ready and eager for this OAS

job. By filling this *‘ vacancy’’ in‘‘Uncle

Sam’s’’ Latin American ‘‘colonial of- |
fice’’ Canada has everything to lose and

nothing to gain—except the contempt
of Latin America’s sorely oppressed
millions,

is pretty well on the rocks, —

the now warmed-up in- —
_ vitation and welcome to Canada to
“take a seat’? in OAS andhelpto ‘‘sell’’
Pentagon ‘‘progress’’ in Latin Amer- —

SR I TE

January 17, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Pag

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