— Tom McEwen ULI Lee Me mee Te LE Tt TH Higgs Puc tt) T was a trick, a rather cheap trick, but it worked — temporarily. President- elect Kisenhower’s pledge to go to Korea Stew out of the widespread desire of the American people for peace—to have done With the tragedy of Korea. - Eisenhower went to Korea, but obvious- Y to plan further war strategems, rather than to seek peace. That was the trick, and it is the kind that cannot be played _ twice—successfully. Neither the Ameri- Can people who stand for peace, nor any- (One else with a grain of sanity, accepts © warmongers’ idea that the way to Peace is to foment more war. The opin- ions of General Douglas MacArthur (“Home by Christmas”), now sought by Isenhower as an “expert” on Asia, or ‘ny others of Wall Street’s top brass, ‘ren’t worth a plugged nickel as far as Peace is concerned. How could it be in “ government of financial buccaneers whose creed is confined to profits, plun- er, and lawless piracy? * In the throes of the current McCarthy- “acCarran “un-American” witch-hunt, the United Nations, under the presidency (at the moment) of a Canadian, con- inues on the path of moral bankruptcy. The ‘French imperialists tell it to keep nose out of Tunisia, on the grounds that the exploitation and murder of Tun- isian natives is strictly a private affair of the money-changers of the Quay d’ Or- Say. The suave Britons of the old-school- tie breed don’t want any discussion of eir terror against the people of Kenya. lat too is a private affair for the dollar- “gry panhandlers of The (City. ut Korea, the Russians, the Chinese? Ah, that’s different. That isn’t a private attair +. . except when Yankee atrocities *Bainst the Korean people cry out in a Million-fold voice that cannot be stilled. x €n some of them! look a bit uncomfort- le, dismiss it from their consciences as re “impossible,” and then acquiesce b Neir cowardly silence. : wh. Tene, is it not, that the Report of for International Scientific Commission the Investigation of the Facts Con- ing Bacteriological Warfare In Ko- and China should be shelved so ey by those “Christian” custodians uman rights and decencies? How is €y cannot act upon the testimony of iM. ffean Malterre ); Dr. Joseph Needham (Britain) ; Olivero Olivo (Italy); Dr. Samuel Soa (Brazil); Dr. N. N. Zhukov- zhnikoy (USSR); Dr. Franco Grazi- aha (Itay); Dr. Tsien (People’s China), « % Score of other scientists and educa- ae of world-renowned integrity and rs 10nalj ute ay doesn’t President-elect Eisenhower Sig, "the personnel of this commis- for advice on ‘Asia, instead of iat You’ve guessed it. Be- “aah Eisenhower as the choice of Wall ig doesn’t want peace in Korea—but an ee in the growing desire of - ; g desire of the Ameri Ple for peace an opportunity to the votes needed to score a GOP Ly. That settled—on with the war! Tq i dollar-branded solons of the UN 1 ‘ant to get too involved in the ‘Manities by giving some heed to the ss i Canada and British ; One Year $3.00 . . One Year $4.00 caer A - undefended towns and villages, the de- _ acter of the crimes revealed, the commis- damning report of the International Sci- entific JCommission, how have they reacted to the report of another import- ant international body, the Commission of Enquiry of the International Associa- tion of Democratic Lawyers, which early last summer submitted its report on its investigations in Korea and China? One would be excused for thinking that if the UN was already dead to all protests against barbarities practiced against the Korean people, at least it would show some respect for the opinions of eminent ‘ jurists and lawyers! Aren’t these the people who are always lecturing us on respect for law? This commission consisted of Heinrich Brandweiner, Professor of International Law (Austria); Luigi Cavalieri, advocate of the Supreme Court of ‘Rome (Italy); Jack Caster, QC, London, England; Mare Jacquier, advocate of the Appeal Court, Paris (France); Ko Po-Nien, director of research, Institute of Foreign Affairs, Peking (China);° Marie-Louise Moerens, advocate, Brussels (Belgium); Letelba Rodrigues De Britto, advocate, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Zofia Wasilkowska, judge of the Supreme Court, Warsaw (Poland). This Commission of Democratic Law- yers (to the warmongers that word “de- mocratic” is synonomous with “commun- ism”) studied such matters as bacterio- logical warfare, chemical weapons, mas- sacres, murders and other atrocities uponi the Korean people. In its report the commission lists ten war crimes, covering germ warfare, pois- on gas and other chemical substances against civilian populations, the mass mur- der of civilians without charge, trial, or other preliminaries; the seizure and tor- ture of civilians, the bombardment of o Hot -- and cold -- war scandals ; DURING the First World War we had the “war scandals” in which good Tories and Liberals, wedded together in the Union government of Sir Robert Borden turned a fast “patriotic” buck in war contracts. We had the Sam Hughes “per- forated spades,” shoes made of not so durable paper, canned jam that would take the galvanizing off a sheet of tin. And we had horses. __ The horses were the moneymakers. Government horse doctors well equipped with the taxpayers’ cash and their own keen sense of partisan loyalties went out to buy horses for the cavalry. Any horse that could stand up, provided his owner voted the right ticket, was a good army purchase. The “war scandal” pages of Hansard record that in the Maritimes, horses that had been turned down for Boer war service fourteen years earlier, were snapped up by these “patriotic” buyers. All of which brings us back to the noble role of Dobbi even in thtse cold war days. It appears that at Camp Petawawa the business of war graft still retains its 1914-18 flavor. The report of George A. Currie on army irregularities shows among other things, that the names of horses have been listed as persons on the army payroll, indicating that somebody has been pocketing the “patriotic” ‘boodle on the strength of Dobbin’s innocent impersonation, Whatever else may come from the Currie Report, one thing stands out. Come cold war or ‘hot, the big brass never passes up an Opportunity of turning a fast buck. Even Old Dobbin cannot escape their “pay-triotic” free-enterprise endeavors! © : NPA craniums empty too struction of schools, churches, hospitals, museums, etc.; the brutal murder of POW’s; the pillage of historic works of art, science, ete. “Having regard to the extent and char- sion is of the opinion that the American forces in Korea have been guilty of crimes against humanity . .. the American forces are guilty of genocide as defined by the Genocide Convention of 1948.” The commission points cut also that in committing these war crimes against the people of Korea and China, the U.S. has not only violated the Geneva. Protocol of 1925 prohibiting germ and chemical war- fare, but has violated innumerable sec- tions of the Hague Regulations govern- ing the conduct of war. _ Pacific TRIBUNE Published Weekly at Room 6 - 426 Main Street, Vancouver 4, she GAGA 3 Phone: MArine 5288 oe Tom McEwen, Editor — — Hal Griffin, Associate Editor % Subscription Rates: 1 an seen countries (except Australia) Ps . Six Months $1.60 Australia, United States and all other countries uthorized as second. class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa ' Seemingly the UN, mesmerized by the. glitter of the mighty dollar, and anxious to have itself politically purged by the Yankee witch-hunters, turns a deaf ear to the lawyers’ indictment as it does to the accusations of scientists and human- ists: “In the light of these conclusions, the commission must name those who should be brought to the bar of world justice to answer for these crimes. The commission has no hesitation in saying that many of these crimes could not have been. com- mitted without the fullest knowledge of and planning ‘by the leaders of the gov- ernment of the USA and of the high command of the U.S. Forces. It there- fore indicts these people and all officers commanding in the field who are respon- sible for these crimes, together with all individual soldiers who accepted and car- ried out orders contrary to international law.” , As an election trick, Eisenhower went to Korea. He now wants to hear Mac- Arthur’s plan on how to get “peace” in Korea? Such a conference will be on a par with Al Capone consulting with Jack Dillinger on ‘how to end crime in Chicago! — Six Months $2.50 Printed by Union Printers Ltd., 550 Powell Street, Vancouver 4, BC. T° the average citizen what passes for political wisdom on the part of our NPA city fathers makes less sense than nonsense. On matters of ° pressing public urgency and need they often behave like half-witted Polly- annas, while on other matters which the citizens regard as an integral part of our social and economic develop- ment, these NPA solons behave like so many ‘small-time Duplessis’s. The latest example is their new sub- urban closing bylaw, which requires that all gas stations, with the exception of an exclusive down town zone, must close at 7 p.m. |Already a dozen or more gas stations in the “prohibited” ~ Eisenhower's TPH cold-blooded murder of Korean POW’s is no longer “news”; rather it has become almost a weekly chron-— icle of U.S. atrocities in the Korean theatre. It is a chronicle that should outrage all decent public opinion in this and other Western countries. This past Sunday another 84 POW’s, this time civilian internees, were shot to death by U-S. and Rhee troops in the Pongam camp near Koje, and another 120 were wounded. This time the stock excuse for the massacre in an , Official communique says: “. . . this up- rising - . . was part of a Communist mane Nazis also had a stock argument, “shot while trying to escape”! Korean POW’s have been shot down _ for singing, for parading inside their Beease PACIFIC TRIBUNE — DECEMBER 19, 1952 — PAGE 5 _ . for a mass breakout.” The” suburban areas are ‘compelled to break this bylaw openly in order to render an essential public service. The main question is, just what sort of NPA reasoning leads its civic “lead- ers” into such crass stupidities? Is there an eng rakeoff from the gas stations in the n zone, or has NPA become eats Picasa: ; se ideas as the gas tanks of scores of motorists at 7 p.m. as a result of thi NPA gas fan. hen: Perhaps our NPA “labor” represen- ‘tatives will oblige by explaining. Mean- time we recommend them to Dickens’ __ esteemable Mr. Bumble, who described _ such law as “a h’ass.” real meaning prison compounds, for protesting brutal _ treatment. And all their efforts to win — justice and treatment specified by international law have been met with inhuman treatment and death. ae _ This latest massacre of defenseless Korean POW’s serves to emphasize president-elect Eisenhower’s statement on his recent trip to Korea: “We face an Sai? Mote we cannot hope to im- press by words, however eloquent, but only by deeds — executed under cir- cumstances of our own choosing.” These last seven sinister words un- _ derscore the kind of “peace” the U.S. _ war incendiaries seek. The growing number of murdered POW’s and civ- ilians show how efficiently this branch of genocide is being “executed under circumstances of our own choosing.”