By WILLIAM BEECHING

There’s a Lenin Centennial,
€xhibition of books and posters
-™ Toronto’s Public Library, ar-
Tanged by Progress Books.
_ The holding of the exhibition
1S outstanding news in itself, in
line with similar exhibitions tak-
ing place at universities and
libraries across our country.
UNESCO opened 1970 by de-
Claring it a year to honor V. I.
Lenin, this century’s most out-
Stancing human being_

As was to be expected, the
ultra-Right typically reacted
Viciously and violently. At first
Officials of the Toronto Public
ibrary received intimidating
Phone calls. When this failed,

~ Jeff Goodall, spokesman for the

dmund Burke Society, issued
4 press release, calling the exhi-
Ition a “gross insult” to thou-
Sands of “new” Canadians who,
cording to him, had suffered
Under Communist regimes.

Let’s add up a few things and
See what we get.
aoe some Esthonians com-
ee about what they call So-
et harassment from Ottawa.
his is followed by a sympathy

Statement from Mitchell Sharp.

puter this staging, a near riot
curred at the Canada-U.S.S.R.
Mlendship Society’s banquet in
Sronto, precipitated by the
ae Burke Society along
C some individuals from
anada’s national minorities.
pw the phone calls and the
*'€ss release. What next? What
oe the Edmund Burke Society
li N now? Who is next on the
St?

a Goodall undertakes to
se for a rabid group repre-
eg a minority opinion
‘5 hg the national minorities
anc, These groups are so
rin Ng in influence they had to

th 8 in supporters by bus from

© United States.
_ ir aim is clear: destroy
r .
eeeship between Canada and
the peeolist countries and stoke
4 ‘ for a world war. To do
aa z tack the foundations of
lan democracy—by using
wide €nin Centennial and its
: Popularity, and the grow-
is Tejection of anti-Commun-
» as the excuse
anadian workers and_pro-

the ves must ask what links
in ee ound Burke Society has
they United States. It is clear
Birch oe linked with the John

Ociety, for their line is

Neo-nazis coddled
by Establishment

identical. But who are the un-
named persons in the _ back-
ground, in both Canada and the
United States?

They obviously carry out the
propaganda line of Senator Ra-
rick, who is campaigning against
the UNESCO Resolution on Len-
in, and against the UN itself.
But who are the people in Can-
ada, in the political arena, and
among the civil service, who
protect the Edmund Burkers,
and the fascist elements sur-
rounding them? Obviously they
couldn’t get away with it with-
out backing and protection.

For example, the authorities
have not challenged, or acted
against them, because of their
actions on April 3. The capital-
ist press, after licking its chops
with relish over the incident, has
remained silent. Perhaps the
same people who financially
back the Edmund Burke Society,
are also the financial backers,
advertisers and even owners of
the capitalist papers?

The RCMP have remained
silent, although one suspects
they know a great deal about it.
Toronto’s police chief, Harold
Adamson, condemns _ students
for holding a sit-in to win child-
care nurseries, but made no pub-
lic pronouncements against the
Edmund Burke Society. He sug-
gests arresting students, but
doesn’t call for the arrest of
these neo-nazis.

The Globe and Mail comes
out with a sanctimonious, self-
righteous editorial, condemning
student sit-ins. No doubt, some
of the students’ actions are far
out, and even trivial But the
Globe. and Mail can find no
space to defend democracy by
condemning the actions. of the
Edmund Burke Society.

Silence of this kind is actual
endorsation of the actions of
these fascist elements. It is. but
a short step from attacking the
Soviet Ambassador, to attack-
ing the picket lines of workers
and farmers.

The pattern can be seen. Who
is pushing the buttons? The
same pattern was followed in
the late forties and early fifties,
during the infamous days of
Senator Joe McCarthy, when
even students were successfully
mobilized for reactionary activ-
ity

The 1970’s are different, but
is time to recall the old*saying:
“Eternal vigilance is the price
of liberty.”

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World demand on Nixon: Stop!

Peace drive escalates
as U.S. spreads war

As the Nixon Administration desper-
ately strives to stave off the inevitable
defeat of the U.S. aggression against
the Vietnambese people by embroiling
the whole of Indochina in a holocaust,
the worldwide campaign to compel an
end to war in Vietnam is reaching new,

unprecedented heights.

In the United States great pu

By JOHN WEIR

blic

“Aw don’t be scared. By the time the damned doves hear about
this one it'll jest be another Viet Cong lie!”

Call worldwide protest

against U.S.

The following resolution, Pro-
test Against U.S. War Crimes
in Vietnam, was adopted unani-
mously by the 5th Stockholm
Conference on Vietnam:

We, representatives of Move-
ments for Peace, National Inde-
pendence and Freedom, have
come to Stockholm to express
our growing concern and indig-
nation and to protest energeti-
cally against the war crimes per-
petrated by the U.S. army in
Vietnam.

Before the whole earth, the
United States of America—one
of the strongest states on earth
—continues its massive bomb-
ings of Vietnam, massacring
the innocent.

The American invaders com-
mit the worst of atrocities in a
cold-blooded and methodical
way, even using toxic gases, a
crime which even Hitler’s armies
did not dare to commit,

Genocide, a hateful inheri-
tance from nazi days, has once
more: become a sinister reality

_ since. we. have .naw -seen such

war crimes

mass murders as those at Song
My, Balangan, Kon Tring and
many others not reported.

These acts of cruelty are not
isolated incidents, as President
Nixon pretends.: They are part
and parcel of the policy of ag-
gression carried out by the U.S.,
a policy now called the Viet-
namization of the war.

Conscious of our responsibil-
ity to human civilization, we call
for an end to the aggressive war
carried on by the United States
in Vietnam, and for the imme-
diate, unconditional and _ total
withdrawal of their troops and
those of their allies. This de-
mand stems from the fact that,
according to international law,
a war of aggression is a crime.

We call on all the peoples of
the world to protest against the
war crimes daily perpetrated by
the U.S. in Vietnam. We sol-
emnly warn those guilty of the
death of innocent victims that
they will be held responsible
for the acts in which they have
co-operated.

~*~ “BACIFIC TRIBUNEAPRID T7, 1970—Page 5

anti-war rallies in all the major cities
and towns this week demonstrated the
popular temper which has already re-
sulted in serious cracks in the Estab-
lishment, such as the unanimous vote
of the Senate Foreign Relations Com-
mittee to recommend the repeal of the
1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution that
gave Preside

nt Johnson unlimited pow-
er to prosecute the undeclared
U.S. war in Vietnam.

The governor of Massachu-
setts signed into law unprece-
dented legislation, adopted by
majority vote of both state
houses, which challenges the
constitutionality of the Vietnam
war and authorizes Massachu-
setts servicemen to refuse com-
bat duty in the absence of a
Congressional declaration — of
war.

Similar legislation is being
pressed in the New York, Rhode
Island .and Illinois state legis-
latures. The City Council of in-
dustrial Gary, Ind., adopted a
motion calling on President
Nixon to take steps for an imme-
diate end of the war in Vietnam
and withdrawal of all U.S. forces
from Southeast Asia.

The Canadian peace support-
ers added their voice to the glo-
bal struggle for an immediate
end to U.S. aggression — and
Canadian government complicity
in the criminal war against the
Vietnamese people.

By special train, buses and
cars contingents of demonstra-
tors were converging on Ottawa
from various Ontario and Que-
bec points on Saturday, April 18
to confront Prime Minister Tru-
deau and parliamentarians with
proposals to cease giving aid and
comfort to the U.S. imperialists
and stand up for immediate
peace in Vietnam as the great
majority of Canadians wish.

A candlelight march and
teach-in in Vancouver on April
17, a demonstration winding up
at the City Hall Plaza in Win-
nipeg on April 18, and a car ca-

‘valcade led by the Thunder Bay

Peace Counci] to meet with U.S.
anti-war demonstrators at Pigeon
River on the Canada-U.S-; border
on April 19 were among the ac-
tions planned this week.

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