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fan

-surren

| ge

- national sovereignty and re-

“position of the government -
-- espédially with the stated pos-
-itioh of the minister of finance,
What Seemed even more if
‘portant ‘was that the proposi-’

) to ea ‘measure of agreement

sudden radical change of

rt Government towards severa
. rs : jwolicy. ;
a aan Gn*these key issues the bud:
Betis such a complete reversal;
hhat“it is in fact a repudiation
- Of the policies advocated by.
John. Diefenbaker in the fed-
eral élections and which his.
fovernment has sought to iden-
tify “Siself with until a few,

weeks AZO.

with ‘the
quitkly forgotten — at least

by the «gevernment. ;

The promise to restore effec-

“five ‘control of all Canadian |
| = armed forces to Canada was
| by action which has |!

replaced
put. them even further away
from Canadian control than the
St. Laurent government had
Succeeded in doing.

- DIEF’S IMAGE ;
But the Diefenbaker govern-
ment “had kept alive the idea
~ that # leaned in the direction |
of action to re-establish Can-
adian sovereignty. It continu-
ed toimply that it intended to
take<action to counteract the
inc¥easing domination of this
coutitty “and the lives of its
people by the United States,

One thing that helped to
keep this idea alive was the
fact that -the James Coyne,
Bovernor of the Bank of Can-|
ada,.a very highly placed ser-.
vant ‘of the government, was
addressing meetings of Cham.
bers of Commerce, Boards of
Trade, Canadian Clubs, ete. all
over the country, urging pub-.
lic support for measures which, .
if they had been adopted,
Would have put flesh and blood
on the scintillating generali-

_ties.ih ‘which John Diefenbaker,
had created the image of him-
self as a man who would stop
the sapping away of Canada’s

éstablish. our own distinctive.

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it js qhite true that Prime:
inister Diefenbaker ‘has not
lived*up to the election prom-’
. isesade' by Mr, John Diefen-|-
baker. "The promise to ‘adopt:
measires to reduce Canada’s’
suffocating deficit. on trade:
United States was’

Mind so radically? Could it |
have been the discussions with ime e ; ad
‘President Kennedy and _his of- | are 3 the abject sumenver off
ficials during recent months?” | the Diefenbaker BOWEL REE.

AFTER KENNEDY'S VISIT

Pa er 4 commitment to U.S. fighter’
attitude by i: he pangs Planes which aré used only tor |.
wets Beer ne OF smational aa ic armament, right up}

ewere fhe key . proposals ‘of
‘Coyne’s overall policy,

The so-called “Baby Budget”
strengthened still further the
‘widespread opinion that the at-
titude of the ‘government cor-
vesponded rather closely with
the-general aims of-the policy
| being advocated by the gover-.
‘nor of the Bank of Canada. In
fact, a staff correspondent of
Maciean’s Magazine forecast,
only a few months ago, that
Prime Minister Diefenbaker
was planning to win the next
general election by assuming
the role of the Canadian Paul
Revere in the historic struggle
fo save this country from
the

baker ‘meetings,

Diefenbaker government

4 complete subjugation © to
United States,

this country

ponsibility-to~ the

moved directly to an

ic and political interésts.

OFFER COYNE’S HEAD

feature of this
surrender

by trying to display to the US.
government the political head

i
Finance Minister Fleming's
budget in fact repudiates the
policies advanced by Diefen-
baker in the last Federal elec-
tion, -says -Tim -Buck in this
article in which ‘he explains
how if -happened. ;

ald Fleming, cast lugubriously
in the role of Salome.

Wide circles of the capitalist
interests which can still. be

| comed the proposals of the gov-
The retreat from, indeéd the | Tnor of the Bank: of Canada.
repudiation of, the previously As the Financial Post pointed
held attitude ns the Diefen.|.0ut, they were related’ so inti-
baker Bovernment poses the | Mately to’ the-future. of. this
question: country and its people | that

they could not be brushed
“What made him change his aside,

This remains true today in

It must be added that it re.
mains true also in spite of the

national development.
ROLE -OF PAUL REVERE a

forward by Coyne correspond-
ed ‘elosely with the implie

‘iors ‘on which there seemed |

.It appears now to be a cer- | short-sighted pro-United States

y tainty that this “change of | attitude of the leadership of |
‘pmind’! was the main result of | the Canadian Congress of La-|
i ft Is “wie ee ‘two: brief gonferences hbe- ;
Some of the proposa S_ but tween Prime Minister Diefen-
‘baker and the President of the eee amore:
United States. This is suggested | 25Sert itself: Those who are be-
wery strongly, as well as ob- | *taying the true national ner
viously, by the timetable of the | ests of eS aE ina each
events in Which the change has and ‘repudiated.-This.most:r 4
{been registeréd. igs F

bor and the New Party.

National» consciousness.--will

“| cent. betrayal~ is -.one -more-
‘ ‘ proof of.the necessity. for the
‘From the action: by the: Dief. | working class: to take ovér the

of James Coyne — with Don-

‘teming budget: ‘abject
der to the U.S.’

By TIM BUCK

bars British ships from traffic
inance Minister Flenting’s budget demonstrated 2a.

on the Upper. Lakes, through

to the dramatic replacement of
talk: “about ‘protecting , Canad-
f ian industry -from- absorption |
‘by the U'S., to action whieh ¥g} >

easier for the US. to absorb]
any Canadian industry, the én.|”
tire surrender of Canada’s in.
terests has been in the brief
‘period of the Kennedy-Diefen:

. Whether the change‘ was-ae-4
complished by: President..Ken.:
nedy is not the essential point. | _
The essential fact is that the:
has
“changed its mind.” From fa-
voring -the pose of a patriotic:
defense of Canada to stop U.S.
domination, it has Switched to
the policy of granting even
more facilities for the United
States to secure’ complete ec-
onomie and political control of
without ‘any ‘rés-
Canadian
people. From ‘the pose of a-
Canadian Paul Revere it ‘has

abject
surrender of. Canada’s econom-

Perhaps the. most cowardly
whole abject
is the manner in
which the Diefenbaker £0vern-
ment is seeking now to prove
the “sincerity” of ‘its conver-
sion to the Kennedy doctrine

described as: Canadian, ° wel.

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NEWS ITEM —

sovernment now has to make preparations in the ep Ae
tion that Canada, and North America, ‘will be the ™
target for nuclear attacks in the next war...

and could be
feel we have t
basis,” — -

. 1 told the
Robert B. Bryce, clerk of the Privy Council, to ‘a the
committee on the War Measures Act that the

“Tt is clear that we will be very severely damaged:

e
practically obliterated,” said Bryce. Beh
0 make preparations on this specula

ad ai?

_ The dail
by Soviet Pp
teference w

are so shori of food. that Khrushchey has advocated the
eating of h i

the facts we repri
It was made ai A
during a meetin
republic,

branches of agriculture in
tinued:

I want to repeat what I Said at the meeting in the Tselinny
(Virgin Lands territory) last March. ee
~~ * Comrades,

“breeding in-an al ¢
I do- not have to tell you that horse-flesh is a tasty and
nourishing meat.As
What of ‘a Kazakh.” (Applause.)

Asian’ peoples, hav

*- “Westerday you treated me here to ‘horse-meat, I liked
it — it’s tasty but very fat. Of course, maybe it just seeme@’ E
that way to me, ‘because when. I judge the fatness of meat.
‘I take into account my own constitution. (Animation in they
oS RI thre IR Pe cae aie

“a Nourishing,
‘republic; ‘yes, and in many other republics, there. are many.
people ‘who are ‘used
continue eating it, ‘in good health! (Applause.) 2 saan
*°“ANl the more so, since this is entirely a voluntary mat- | ;
“ter if you don’t want to eat it, don’t. In our-country there}
‘are Very tmahy people who like this meat.and eat it with
vgreat relish. Therefore I‘call on you to pay. greater attention

‘enbaker

government

“which | political leadership’ of Canada. !

to'the ‘development of horse-breeding.”.

KHRUSHCHEV |

and. what he really said about

HORSE MEAT

Y Press has made a big play of a recent relerae
Temier Khrushchey to horsemeat as a food. THs
as played up as indicating that the Soviet peop

orsemeat as a desperate measure,
w how brazenly the Capitalist press has distorted
nt here that section of Khrushchey’s speech.
Ima Ata, capital city of Soviet Kazakhstat™.
g celebrating the 40th anniversary of that

To sho

e
Speaking about the Problems of the various
Kazakhstan, Khrushchev c0D”

After

“So that the herdsmen won't throw it up to me later;

it -is necessary that you develop horse ee
Lround way as a source of meat. T believe}

you see, I am presenting myself as some

Editor’s “note: The Kazakhs, fiké inddt of the Central.

€ been eaters of horse-meat for centuries.)

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“But T-want to say in all seriousness. that horse-meat .
high-calorie ang economical food. In your]

to this meat, who like it. May they j

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