Review ‘Si, senor, you give us the money and we'll give you the coup.”" * In South Ameri EDITORIAL PAGE ca Brazil-ClA ‘victory’ T HE military coup in Brazil last week and the ousting of the progressive Goulart govern- ment, is another of those U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) “victories ‘for which that sinister agency has become notorious in Latin America, Asia and elsewhere. President Joao Goulart’s govern- ment, dedicated to policies of pro- gress and advance for the sorely explointed people of Brazil, was increasingly becoming an obstacle to U.S. monopoly exploitation and corruption in Brazil, not only to U.S. monopoly, but to its corrupt- ed Brazilian landlords, militarists -and parasitic hangers-on. Hence, the CIA-conspired coup, under the pretext of “saving” Brazilian “democracy” from the “pro-Com- munist” Goulart government. The job undertaken by the Goulart government was a titanic one; to teach an illiterate 60-mil- lion in a population of 75-million how to read and write. To extend the right of voting to 60-million proval of the conspiracies of its CIA in the internal affairs of other countries. Meantime, the Brazilian mili- tary coup and the ousting of a pro- gressive government in Brazil con- tains another salutory lesson on why Canada should determinedly avoid membership or involyment in the Organization of American States (OAS). Functioning solely as the “colonial office’ of U.S. imperialism in Latin America, any membership or other relationship with OAS would simply place Can- ada in the role of a U.S. apologist and stooge in Latin America. In the OAS we would already have been ‘obligated’ to follow suit with similar “recognition” of a CIA coup against the government and people of Brazil. Without membership in OAS, that dis- honour can at least be avoided. N the wake of the Alaska earth- quake and the disastrous tidal wave it unleashed, Prime Minister L. B. Pearson let it be known that the government of Canada stood ready to render substantial aid to the stricken people of Alaska. A sum of $8-million was mentioned in the “aid” proposal. Compared with the U.S. govern- ment’s disaster aid to its Northern state of $50-million, (not very much when one compares it with the $125-million a day which the “ U.S. pumps into its “dirty war’ in South Vietnam), the Pearson offer was quite magnanimous. It is also one form of government expendi- ture with which every decent Can- adian will agree; to aid and succor those who become the victims of devastating natural calamity when such terrible events occur. It is regrettable, however, that the Alberni and other Vancouver Island victims of the destructive tidal wave are not the recipients of such prompt concern and offers of aid by the Pearson government. Regrettable that their plight should become another of those federal-provincial wrangles about “which” government should as- sume “responsibility” for the re- habilitation of tidal wave victims, for the restoration of their destroy- ed homes and their means of liveli- hood. In some matters of fiscal policies there may exist ‘“‘constitutional’’ _ grounds as between federal-provin- cial “rights” and responsibilities, but in face of such disasters these arguments are something less than academic. Prompt aid in such events is a humane duty of gov- ernment at all levels, and above | all, of the federal authority. As yet there is no complete picture of the total wave losses in x, ‘A disaster area’ Comment Alberni or other coast commun ties. In Alberni alone there is estimated loss of over $2-milliO® | in destroyed homes, while indus trial losses may run well over $37, million. Homes, fishing boats 40" gear losses in other outlying com munities is also enormous. In Be West Coast village visited by ® NDP-MLP, of its sixteen hom@ 7 only two are left; a fair indicatol | of a similar situation in mary Oe west coast fishing hamlets. Against these colossal losses ce : Bennett government has “don# ed” a miserable $50,000, while th promptness seen in Pearson's 0% a of $8-million to the Alaskan tims of the earthquake, is still in evidence as far as the Vancouve= Island victims are concerned. _ Clearly the situation does not permit of inter-government hage ling between Ottawa and Victou® as to who should do what. we the insurance adjustments 4? “clean-up” may move in low ge" no government worthy of the nam can shirk its responsibilities in face of such a disaster. The telegram forwarded t Prime Minister Pearson from thé -18th National Convention of & Communist Party of Canada plac: ed the issue clearly and directly” : “ The national convention of t Se Communist Party urges your 800 i ernment to proclaim all commun” ities struck by the tidal wav@ vr be national disaster areas, and that” the Federal government assume | responsibility for full indemmly ~ for all property lost or damage That estimation still holds goods 2 and permits of no moral, ethical! ® fs political grounds for evasion © federal government responsibility” We share Mr. Pearson’s sympathy for our stricken neighbours Alaska, but not at the expense ® our own sorely stricken commu” ities. instead of an exclusive 11-million; to restore Brazil’s vast and rich natural resources (now almost completely owned or controlled by U.S. imperialism) to the Brazilian people. Hence, the CIA need to short - circuit the democratic struggle for the independence of Brazil. No sooner had this CIA-inspired military junta declared itself a “government” than Washington extended its official “recognition”’ and President Johnson his ‘“‘con- gratulations” on this victory for democracy.’ Hven our own mon- opoly press found it difficult to ex- plain away the indecent haste of this “recognition,” a fact which underscores Washington's ap- Pacific Tribune Editor — TOM McEWEN Associate Editor — MAURICE RUSH Published weekly at Room 6 — 426 Main Street ~- Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone MUtual 5-5288 Subscription Rates: Canadian gnd Commonwealth coun- tries (except Australia): $4.00 one year. Australia, United States and all other countries: $5.00 ane year. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa and for payment of postage in cash. . Sie t foo) be ieee es | RAD? 2 apod —-3hsGIAL SIDA I--bOR! Tom McEwen he frequently corresponded, the im- mortal Voltaire once wrote: the heaviest battalions’’. occasion he observed that, ‘‘If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent one’’. in the middle of the 18th century. lot since then, but in the art of in- crime, or inventing a ‘‘divinity’’ for the same end, the change has not been too marked. : In World Wars I - II, the imperial- ist and Nazi legions of Kaiser Bill and Adolph Hitler marched forth on their missions of mass murder, each with their own boasted assurance that ‘God is with us’’. With Kaiser Bill it was ‘‘Gott Mit Uns’’, and with Hitler ‘Me Und Gott’’. ) Of course, ‘‘our side’’ isn't back-' ward’ either when it comes to claim- ing that *‘God’’ is with us also. We ‘*thank’? Him fervently for all the victories we scored (or score) against the ‘‘enemy’’, invoke His ‘‘blessing’’ ‘on all the latest gadgets in our arsenal of mass murder, and ‘‘pray’’ that He will confound: our enemies no end. 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