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editorial

‘Canadian press have given
plenty of attention to Minister of
External Affairs St. Laurent’s re-
cent foreign policy speech.

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Practically without exception,
the English papers have poured
congratulations upon his _ head.
Party were dropped and
Liberal, Conservative and so-call-
ed independent papers competed
with each other in lavishing

lines

praise upon St. Laurent’s propo- ,

sal to reorganize the UN with
the’ Soviet Union and the Tew
Democracies outside.

However, the French press did
not follow suit, but in a majority
attacked St. Laurent’s policy as
leading to war. The French jcur-
nalists and editors, reflecting the
anti-conscription sentiments of
the French Canadians, used very
sharp words to denounce St. Lau-
rent’s speech—words which were
all the more significant because
St. Laurent is a French Canadian
politician.

It is significant, too, that the
speech given by William Irvine

.

King gov’t acts as ‘wrecking crew’ of UN

TORONTO.

"THE recent foreign policy de-

bate in ;the House of _Com-
mons revealed that the King gov-
ernment “has offered its services
as a wrecking-crew, ready and
willing to help destroy the United
_ Nations. At the behest of Wall
Street, and inspired by their own
greed for corporation profit, Can-
adian big business and .its politi-
cal employees in Ottawa are ac-
tively undermining the founda-
tions of world peace.”

This is the indictment of the
King government's policies made
by Tim Buck, LPP national lead-
er, in a statement issued here this

"week.

Partial text of the statement
reads:

The speech made by External
Affairs Minister St. Laurent was
an open call for the replacement
cf the UN by a war alliance of
Capitalist states, directed against
the Soviet Union, the New Demo-
cracies and the camp of labor
and democracy throughout _ the
world. What Truman and Mair
Shall conspire about, and hatch
in secret, St Laurent publicly
proclaims as “Canada’s mission”:
the torpedoing of the United Na-
tions.

To this has the policy of turning
Canada into a satellite of the Un-
ited States led us: to brazen re-
Pudiation of all the things for
which Canadians fought in the
war against the fascist Axis.

Thanks to the King-St. Laurent
bolicy, this country is being sys-
tematically transformed into a
military supply depot and offen-

_ Sive war base of the power-drunk
American imperialists. Through
the new Industrial Defense Board

‘our economy is to become an ad-
Junct to the U.S. armament trusts.
Visiting potentates of Wall
Street, such as John Foster
Dulles and James V. Forrestal,
lay down the law on Canadian
external and military and domes-
tie policy. oy)

For the Canadian millionaires

(CCF, Cariboo) was not given any
sort of play by the press. Irvine
openly differed with the line of
policy advanced for the CCF na-
tional council by M. J. Coldwell.
Coldwell, who in essence, agreed
with St. Laurent, Angus McInnis
(CCF-Vancouver East) dropped

from his speech even the timid
qualifications which Coldwell felt
he had to put in for party rank-
and-file consumption.

Irvine, however, went all out
for a policy of peace based on
friendship with the Soviet Union.
In that, his voice was the only

The nation’s business

“Monopoly press whoops it up for St. Laurent’s war policy

ane raised in the House of Com-
mons for such a Policy.
e

"THE reaction to St. Laurent’s

speech inside the labor move-
ment has been small, with the
exception of the left. This is un-
doubtedly due to the CCF lead-

Coldwell protests Greek murders

—OTTAWA,

NY EARLY 2,000 men and women
who dared to oppose the fas-
cist regime of Greece, have been
executed since July 16, 1947,
Yet Canada’s minister for ex-
ternal affairs, Louis St. Laurent,
expressed not the slightest con-
cern when questioned in the
House of Commons last week by
CCF leader M. J. Coldwell. The
following is the passage exactly
as it appeared in Hansard:

GREECE
QUESTION AS TO CANADA
JOINING IN PROTEST

AGAINST MASS EXECUTIONS
On the orders of the day:
..Mr, M. J. COLDWELL (Rose-
‘town-Biggar) May I direct a ques-
tion to the Secretary of State for

and the King government, the
U.S.-inspired “Western Union”
war alliance represents. a golden
opportunity: to get in on the prof-
itable business. of arming the
West European capitalist states
—including the German monopol-
ists—for anti-Soviet war.
groggy business economy is to be
given a shot in the arm with the
making of ‘bombs and guns —
while robbing Canadian house-
wives and their families of but-
ter and milk and bread.
e

"THE Canadian people are being

told that the Marshall Plan
will bring untold prosperity. This
is nothing but a _ cold-blooded
hoax. What is being carried
through is not a recovery pro-
gram, but a war program. Not
even Trade and Commerce Min-
ister Howe can altogether conceal
the fact th@t far from expanding,
this Wali Street program will
cripple and distort the Canadian
economy ‘ é
Higher prices and new hard-
ship, subordination to the Amer-
ican trusts, the sacrifice of na-
tional sovereignty: all this is to
be “put over’—if the Canadian
people allow it—under cover of
the synthetic smokescreen of
“anti-Communism.”

This policy of war provocation,
of betrayal of peace, in no way
represents the thinking, interests
or needs of the people of Canada.
The Canadian people were never
asked about it. They certainly
never voted for it in 1945. An ir-
responsible government has ac-
cepted it, on the instruction of a
foreign power. Canadian big busi-
ness has made it its own, in the
interest of capitalist profit and
political reaction.

The clearest proof of the guilt
of US. imperialism in stirring
up war hysteria, and the fact
that ‘the socialist Soviet Union
stands firmly and honestly for
peace, has been provided in the
recent Molotov-Bedell Smith ep-
isode. The offer of the Soviet

Our,

External Agairs? Has the govern-
ment of Canada instructed our
ambassador to Greece to join the
United Kingdom in _ protest
against mass executions, intim-
ating that if it wishes to be con-
sidered a democratic government
it should adopt civilized behavior
appropriate to a democracy?
Right Hon. L. S. ST. LAU-
RENT (Secretary of State for
External Affairs): The govern-
ment has received no information
from any Official sources whatso-
ever about the matter referred to
in the hon. member’s question,
nor taken any action about it.

Mr. COLDWELL: The British
government took action yesterday
on the matter,

Union to open discussion with
the U.S. on outstanding inter-
nationah differences has thrown
the American—and Canadian—
warmongers into a panic. But
it has called forth among the
peoples a great upsurge of en-
thusiasm—and of hope.

Labor and the farmers of Can-
ada want peace, and a return to

the policies of friendship and co-.

operation with our allies and
neighbors to the North. The vast
majority of Canadians would
eagerly support such policies. The
time for a great, united crusade
for a genuine Canadian peace
policy is NOW!

The winning of a new foreign
policy for Canada—a peace policy

—demands the ousting of King, —
St. Laurent, Duplessis, Drew — .

and their replacement by govern-
ments responsive to the will ,of
labor and the democratic major-
ity.

e

"THE leaders of the CCF in the

foreign policy debate did grave
disservice to the people’s cause, to
Canada, and to peace. They plac-

‘ed themselves—by their open ad-

herence to the King-St. Laurent-
Wall Street policy—in the camp
of the would-be wreckers of the
United Nations. They endonsed
the “Western Union” war alliance.
They endorsed Canada’s commit-
ment to the American program
for the colonizing of Europe,

Their criticism of imperialist
policy in Greece and China was,
assuredly, a welcome reflection of
the pressure of popular senti-
ment, among the mass of CCF
supporters in particular. In cer-
tain speeches of CCF MP's this
became a dominant note. But the
substance of CCF foreign policy

-as set forth in their national

council statement, and in the
speeches of Coldwell. MacInnis
and others, was in essence: full
support to the program of im-
perialism—a united front with

Mr. ST. LAURENT: We have
received no such information.

Mr. COLDWELL: Will inquiry
be made by our ambassador?

Mr. ST. LAURENT: I inquired
from ‘the office just before I came
into the house and was assured
that no information had been re-
ceived from any | Official source
whatsoever about this matter.

Mr. COLDWELL: Will the
minister make inquiries about it
from our ambassador?

Mr, ST. LAURENT: I will in-
quire whether any communica-

tion is on its way to us. I know .

of none,

Mr, COLDWELL: I had hoped
that the government might seek
to get the information.

Mr. SPEAKER: Order.

imperialist reaction in the world
arena.

Not on this path will warmon-
gering reaction be defeated by
labor and the people’s camp in
Canada. The rejection of the par
ties of big business in Canada
cannot be effected on the basis of
acceptance of the policies of big
business reaction.

Red-baiting, in foreign as in
domestic matters, reflects accept-
ance of reactionary policies.

The fight to defeat Drew and

King, Duplessis and St. Laurent
is a fight to unite labor and the
people for democracy and
peace. That fight must include,
in vital measure, a fight to win
supporters of ‘the CCF for unity
around qa genuine, democratic
policy for peace. :

To save Canada from betrayal
and disaster, there is need for
vigorous action, outspoken resist-
ance. The defeat of the King-St.
Laurent war program requires its
rejection, first and foremost, by

‘the labor and farm movements,

united in a mighty movement of
concerted action for peace.

To this end, the Labor-Progres-
sive Party will redouble its ef-

ership, which has succeeded in
putting over among top trade
union circles much of its Marshall
Plan, anti-Soviet policy.

A re-reading of St. Laurént's
speech proves ence more how fa-
tal it is for labor to be tied to the
Liberal tail on foreign policy mat-
ters.. The Liberal crown prince,

in a cold, hard manner, outlined
a policy of a world anti-Soviet,
anti-Communist power bloc which
actually went farther than Mar-
shall and Truman dare yet to go,
in a public way.

For example, a few days after
St. Laurent proposed the total re-
organization (read—the death) of
the UN, Marshall was compelled:
to tell the press that such a pol-
icy was not advisable.

Apart from the fact that the
momentum of U.S. policy leads in
the same direction as that pointed
out by St. Laurent, it is significant
that it remained for the Canadian
to put into words what Marshall
and Truman are thinking. :

All of which, constitutes a dan-
ger signal for Canadian labor,
which cannot be ignored save at
the cost of labor’s own skin.

forts. We call upon all peace-lov-
ing Canadians to unite in support
of a new foreign policy, one which
shall truly express the interests

and needs of Canada: :

peoples of Europe and Asia,

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