IN VIETNAM
U.S. losses rise

guerilla forces have carried out
a number of operations against
the Americans and their puppet
forces throughout South Vietnam,

EDITORIAL |

sharply

i
can total of planes lost we a
while North Vietnam put theft
at over 2,100.

Peace the loser

he failure of the United Nations General Assembly

to condemn Israeli aggression in the Middle East
and to demand the withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from
Arab territory is being hailed by the westernpress as a diplo-
matic defeat for the Soviet Union.

U.S. casualties in Vietnam
mounted sharply last week follow-
ing heavy defeats inflicted on the
Marines by the National Libera-
tion Front and its fighting forces
near the Marine base of Gon
Thien, Last Sunday alone the
U.S. admitted to 51 Marines kill-
ed, 170 wounded and 34 missing
in a fierce battle south of the
demilitarized zone,

As a result of these losses

U.S. Command is coming ®
conclusion, according 1 5
reports, that the « seare
destroy” operations i
swamps and jungles of “ih
Vietnam are getting too 0”

Last week’s U.S. casualties,
according to official figures, were.
274 dead and 1,258 wounded,
‘bringing the total to 11,325 Am-
ericans deat, 68,341 wounded and
674 missing,

The scribes of the daily press are so filled with the venom
of the cold war that they can never refrain from fighting it
under all circumstances, The fact is that the failure of the
Assembly to condemn aggression and to demand that the

aggressor return lands he seized is a blow against world peace. waste
It was reported from

ington that the U.S, Joint chide
of Staff had warned Pres st
Johnson that unless Gel fo
moreland’s minimum request et;
another 70,000 troops Was

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the U.S, ran the risk of 108

the initiative, a
TRADE DEAL”

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tail!

It was in the same area that
U.S. troops lost more than 70
dead in heavy fighting a month
ago, Since the beginning of the
rainy season, South Vietnam

The cost to the U.S, of the air
raids over North Vietnam is
also increasing, and with three
more planes shot down over North
Vietnam last Sunday, the Ameri-

a It is also a blow to attempts to lessen international tension
: i and create an atmosphere for the peaceful settlement of
international disputes,

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In the main, it was the United States which prevented the
General Assembly from acting for peace in the present tense
international situation — just as it is the United States which
L blocks the admission of the People’s China into the U.N, and
continues to wage its hot war in Vietnam,

The fight is now expected to shift back to the Security
Council where the U.S, can be counted upon to prevent any
enforcement action, The failure of the U.N, to act has turned
the Middle East into a tinder box where new wrongs have been
piled on old ones,

tages from Canadian
changes,”

At the same time 1ab0P™ gy
in eastern Canada have # aq
begun to express concert all
the new tariff deal, Pa ite
as it will affect JoDS stds |
fight for higher living §

As was to be expected, Canada’s representative again follow-
ed the lead of the U.S, on all major issues and cast its vote
with the American representatives to bring the U.N, to its
present impasse,

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Members of the 80¥6 not!

Where will the U.N. go now? The situation in the Middle
have hinted broadly tH cal"

East cannot be left as it is without more violent explosions

Be in the future, which will endanger world peace, Only a policy manufacturing industries {00
hit } of condemning aggression wherever it occurs, and refusing to 4 11 f stiffer com e
he concede to the aggressor any rewards for his aggression, ae aE Fe arr a
4 can restore morality in international relations, ments, Indeed, there ae wins!
pete fac’
‘ Along with this the U.N, must be made to feel the pressure Bane Ta ae an a t
2 of world public opinion for a settlement of Middle East problems ay: evtonccdiae ut 0 pus {
‘ which would ensure the rights of both Arabs and Jews; altogether . i
and solve the vexing Middle East problems in a way which will . wy P (
ensure lasting peace in the area, This danger was voice pot !
officer of the canadley ti
e Congress who point ois Oe
Bring down rents there is fear for worse !
‘ =e may be displaced bY mer
lderman Harry Rankin is to be congratulated for his which cannot compete (
fight to impose controls over skyrocketing rents, His new tariffs, !
insistence in City Council last week that representation be atot t
made to the provincial government to adopt necessary legisla- Labor will have a call
tion should be backed by the public, affect of these tari . am Ih
8

It?s time the big apartment block owners were brought into
line and made to realize that they can’t get away with charging
everything that the traffic will bear.

Tom

McEWEN

he theory and practice of
“quiet diplomacy” as tout-
ed by Messrs, Pearson and Martin
as government policy on the vital
issues of peace and war, is as
phoney as a three-dollar bill,

What it actually means in prac-
tice (as on U.S. aggression in
Vietnam), is quietly placing a
knife in the back of another while
pretending friendship, or to put
it another way, demonstrating
Liberal government friendship
with the people of Vietnam by
supplying the U.S, with hundreds
of millions ef dollars in arms to
kill them with; a form of neutral-
ity or friendship which pays off
in big profits,

When training our famed Com-
mandos during World War IT in
the gentle art of placing a stiletto
between the ribs of anadversary,
“quiet” was and is an important
essential of training, but the
Commando was under no obliga-
tion to add any pretentions of
diplomacy or friendliness in “do-
ing-in” his victim,

July 7, 1967—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 2

In that respect at least the
professional militarized killer
is much more honest than the
professional politician, who seeks
to hide his complicity inthe mass
murder of Vietnamese behind the

silken curtain of “quiet dip-
lomacy.”
The Pearson government,

highly sensitive to the growing
demand of an_ ever-widening
strata and numbers of the Cana-
dian people for Canadian inde-
pendence and the need to break
the grip of a U.S, financial plun-
derbund on the economic,
industrial, social and political
affairs of their country, resorts
to its “quiet diplomacy” as a
handy cover-up, Then we are
treated to a noisy show of how
the government takes the preser-
vation of Canadian sovereignty
and independence under its pro-
tecting arm,

But just let a Canadian citizen
of some note, or an organization
of some standing voice a protest
against U.S. aggression in Viet-

SOVIET SHIP ATTACKED BY U.S. PLANES. An officer of the Soviet freighter
“Turkestan” is shown pointing to damage done by U.S. planes June 2 while
loading coal gt Cam Pha near Haiphong. First denying it, the U.S. later ad-
mitted and apologized for the attack. Last Thursday U.S. planes hit another
Soviet ship during an attack on Haiphong.

nam, Latin America, the Middle
East, Africa or elsewhere, and
see how speedily the Pearson-
Martin “quiet diplomacy” addicts
jump into the fray as apologists
for their U.S. confreres,

When Privy Council Chairman
Walter Gordon recently branded
the U.S, aggression in Vietnam
as “a bloody war which cannot
be justified on either moral or
strategic grounds”, Pearson call-
ed his cabinet together poste
haste and laid down the law of
“quiet diplomacy”, In essence,
Pearson literally told all cabinet
members that those who shared
Walter Gordon’s views had better
quit their posts right now and
get out, The very idea of a
cabinet minister publicly speak-
ing his mind if his thoughts
extended beyond the policy corral
of “quiet diplomacy” was abhor-
rent to its most confirmed
addicts,

Thus, gentlemen, you are free
to. speak your minds on U.S.
genocide in Vietnam, providing
you don’t say anything to em-
barrass the aggressors, That’s
what our “quiet diplomacy” was
designed for,

Yes, we are “friendly” to the
people of Vietnam, We demon-
strate the quality of our “friend-
ship” (at government level) by

very closely, and i
gram to defend the inter ai
the working popu
any new inroads 02
of living.

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the sale of hundreds of millions under the 1954 Ge nse
of dollars of armaments to help ment, we must aS a + nel ;
kill them, but we cannot be held don the robe of stric ;
responsible if it was a Canadian- : io
made grenade in the hands of an in sthat roles shore! oth
American GI that obliterated a «quiet diplomacy” we ae é

Vietnam hospital, or blotted out s.5m the crime, se

Oe
a little schoolhouse with its apologist for the cri
complement of little children Qjare our «friends git
learning their A~B-C’s, or turned victims of the oe iy
a humble Vietnam village into an yithout running the scors”

inferno of raging flames and
napalm, After all there’s big
profits in war contracts and if
we are to keep our economy
buoyant we must sell, without
being too squeamish about what
or to whom we're selling,

ing branded an acc®
crime,
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whether it be “quel i
wise, in the words ©
Goldberg (1887—)

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Moreover, let’s not forget that = is to do
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as a member of the International Pinto F
Control Commission, assigned pie

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The nastiest thine> y
way”,

the task of safeguarding Viet-
namese peace and independence

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