By WILLIAM KASHTAN

National leader
Communist Party

The Canadian government has
been twisting and turning on U.S,
intervention in Vietnam and the
Dominican Republic, It has tried
to create the impression that it
is in favor of peaceful solutions,
while making it clear to the John-
son administration that it fully
supports U.S, aims,

When Prime Minister Pearson
proposed a “pause” inair strikes
against North Vietnam the capit-
alist press created the im-
pression that Canada was critical
of U.S, policy, s

But the press played down
Pearson’s actual proposal — *a
pause at the right moment,” What
is the right moment? Pearson
did not say, One must conclude
that it would be when North
Vietnam and the Vietnam people
accept permanent U,S, division
of the country,

As in the report of Canada’s
representatives on the Inter-
national Control Commission,

- the government acted the part of
a willing catspaw for U.S, im-
perialist aggression,

Further evidence of the Pear-
son government’s subordination
of national interest to U.S, im-
perialist policy can be seen in
the government’s attitude to the
Johnson administration’s crude
intervention in the Dominican
Republic,

Here, as in Vietnam, the U.S,
government violated an inter-
national agreement, this time
with the Organization of Amer-
ican States, The Johnson ad-
ministration replaced Roose-
velt’s “good neighbor” policy with
a policy of open, military inter-
vention t.o suppress the sovereign
rights of a people to decide on a

apology for U.S,

Where is Canada’s voice?

government to represent them,
The U.S, openly declared it had
the right to make and break
governments,
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What was the Pearson govern-
ment’s reaction to the Johnson
Doctrine? Spineless acquie-
scence, They did not repudiate
or even question it, Yet that

doctrine spells danger not only: °
to Latin American people, but:

equally to our own country,

Pearson’s support of U.S, ag-
gression in Vietnam blackens
Canada’s name in Asia and Africa
where the people are striving for
liberation, sovereignty and inde-
pendence, It makes Canada an
accomplice of colonialism and
neo-colonialism, Support for the
U.S., in face of its policy of
escalation, endangers the sur-
vival of our country,

Spineless acquiescence to U.S,
armed intervention in the Dom-
inican Republic creates the image
among Latin Americans that Can-
ada is nothing more than a tool
of U.S. imperialism,

The Parliamentary debate on
Canada’s foreign policy, limited
as it was, did nothing to dispel
that image, New Democratic
Leader T.C, Douglas criticized
U.S. policy and the Canadian
government’s support of it, But
the remarks of Minister of Ex-
ternal Affairs Paul Martin, and’
of Opposition Leader John
Diefenbaker, were a complete
aggression.
Word for word they echoed lines
given to them by the U.S, state
department,

“Highlighting” the debate was
the Liberal — Tory bi-partisan
agreement, despite some tactical
differences, on foreign policy.”

Pearson and Diefenbaker are
committing the country to support
a Goldwater policy pursued by

the Johnson administration — a
policy which repudiates peaceful
coexistence, replacing it with a
“holy war” against Communism,

This policy isa cover for crude
interference in the affairs of
other countries, It undermines’
the possibilities for disarmament
and threatens the world with nu-
clear war,

U.S. policy also undermines
the United Nations, creating a
crisis in the body. Intervention
in the Dominican Republic by-
passed the people of that country,
the OAS and the U.N, Where
was Canada’s voice?

The U.S. is finding that its
huge majority in the U.N, has
disappeared. To some extentthe
U.N, is now a hindrance to the
U.S. imperialist dream of world
domination, Thus, the U.S, is
seeking new ways to achieve its
aims,

Adlai Stevenson put it bluntly
in Toronto, where it was reported
that he “defended the attempt of
the U,S, ‘to fill the peace-seeking
vacuum in face of what he sug-
gested is a new style of ag-
gression by the Communists in
the post-colonial world,”

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According to Stevenson, the

danger is that “so-called wars of
national liberation, supported by
Communist powers, will re-
create and perpetuate a system
of colonial control,” He added:
“The powers of the U.N, Charter
could not foresee the threats to

peace inherent in modern day

self-determination, and as are-
sult, U.N. peace-keeping ma-
chinery is not constructed to
handle them, Herein lies the
greatest danger to the future,”

Stevenson’s statement, without
the mumbo-jumbo, says that no
people have the right to social
change, to self-determination, to
national liberation; that such
change is a threat to peace; that
the U.N, Charter must be changed
to give it the right to prevent
social change or national liber-
ation,

Failing the latter, the U.S, will
try to exercise this right, as it
is doing today. . Or it will seek
to interfere with people’s sover-
eign rights. by armed force
through regional setups such as
the OAS,

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In face of this dangerous new
direction of U.S, policy there is
need for a reassessment of Can-
adian foreign policy. It is not
true that there is no alternative
except “me too” in such a

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A MEXICAN VIEW OF THE JOHNSON DOCTRINE

(The letters OEA are Spanish initials for ‘Organization of American States’’).

—Vadilla in Siempre (Mexico)

Race-hate groups spread across

Encouraged by the swing tothe.
right by the U.S, administration
and the support of U.S, policy by
the Canadian government, ultra-
Right and fascist groups aretak-
ing advantage of the “favorable”
climate to crawl out of the wood-
work,

In Toronto a week ago last
. Sunday the Canadian Nazi Party
headed by self-styled feuhrer
John Beattie, attempted to hold
a rally in Allan Gardens in cen-
tral Toronto. More than 5,000
irate citizens poured into the park
to stop the fascist rally.

One nazi was arrested along
with eight anti-nazis. Some were
charged with assault, others with
causing disturbances, But the
lesson was clear: the people of
Toronto have no room for nazis.
And the handful of nazi follow-
ers found out how the Canadian
people feel about nazism.

Mayor Givens, who belatedly
denied reports that a permit had
been, granted for the advertised
nazi meeting, will certainly avoid
issuing any permits inthe future,

Among the people who flocked
to the park to stop the rallywere
members of the N3 Fighters
Against Racial Hatred (many of
whom had first-hand experience

of Hitler’s concentration camps),’

Canadian World War II veterans
(who had fought the nazis in fierce
battles), and hundreds of ordin-
ary citizens determined that the
poisonous weed of nazism would
never take root in this country’s

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NO ROOM FOR NAZIS IN TORONTO. Photo shows some
of the 5,000 people who gathered at Allan Gardens in
Toronto recently to protest an attempt by fascist groups

‘isolated

As the crowd’s temper rose, a
few innocent bystanders were re=
ported punched and beaten, These
incidents inspired all
three Toronto daily papers to
shriek “mob rule” and deplore a
“disgraceful exhibition.”

propaganda.

They missed the real point

‘of the demonstration—the deter-

mination of democratic Canadi-
ans that nazism in this country
will be nipped in the bud.

“The true criminals at Allan
Gardens were the nazis, not the

‘to hold a meeting. Nazi activities are spreading across
Canada with little action by the authorities to stem racist

.from strength,

‘magnificent display of ant

A new foreign policy neede

dangerous course, :
- There is an alternative; butt
Canadian people, above all ™
labor movement, will have
fight for it, International evel
call for a fully independent
adian policy aligning itself W"
countries that base themsel
on peaceful coexistence, on
spect for the national sov®
eignty and independence of eVé
country and on non-interferen®
in the internal affairs of otf

‘countries,

The place to start is in V
nam, a

Canada’s independence 3”
survival are buttressed by ©
heroic struggle of the View®
people against U,S. armed 4
gression, Canada ought to SW
port the Geneva Agreemeé
urge the withdrawal of U.S, trool
and support the right of the peOh
of Vietnam to settle theil
affairs, ;

Canada should extend s0¥
arity to the Latin Ameri
people defending their nati
independence and sovereie!
repudiate the Johnson Doctrit!
and urge withdrawl of U.S, tr0o

from the Dominican Repub

We need a good neighbor
for Latin America and its pe?
and Canadian labor ought to 1ea
the fight for it, d
The adventurous policie®
U.S. imperialism do not §
but weaknes*
This does not make themes
dangerous, But it doés show’
possibilities of their defeat.

Rising opposition throughol!
the world and in our own cout
shows that if the people take
cause of peace in hand,
imperialism can be checked 2%
defeated, F)

Now is not a time for doubl
but of confidence based on a¢

‘to compel a change in Cana’ so

policy, to compel the Peat <
government to speak UP
Canada and for peace,

anti-nazi citizens who were 2

rested,” said Max Chikofsky:
executive member of N3.

“The best way to end violent
would be for Ottawa to lee o
curb the spreading of hate
ature and prevent the holdiné
hate meetings,” said Rabbi AP”
ham Feinberg. %

Phyllis Clarke, chairmat oft
Metro Committee of the ©?
munist Party, blamed ce
Givens for failing to anne
that no permit was given fo “4
nazi meeting, She said it ie

cist feeling.”

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Meanwhile, a noted white a
premacist and leading offi¢ tis
the racist States Rights
J. B, Stoner, arrived in vera
ver this week to hold talk® ade!
local racist and fascist J¢
David Stanley. :

Stanley’s “Natural orga
group is closely linked with
U.S. fascist group, Local Ts ; it!
newspapers gave wide publ
to Stoner and his viewS
meeting of the two came at ‘6
when the. local fascist tga
stepping up its racist prop cot!
without any hinderance al of
civic, provincial or fedet® —
ficials.

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“June 11, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PO?

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