FTER much hesitation, an Eng-

lish mystic by the name of ©

Margaret Fulller once declared:
“T accept the Universe!”

And-the witty Thomas Carlyle,
author of The French Revolution,
is said to have retorted: “By gad,
she’d better!”

John Foster Dulles, U.S. sec-
retary of state, has not yet seen
the light that Margaret Fuller
saw. He refuses to accept the
facts of life.

“There are none so blind as
those who will not see,” goes the
old saying. And Dulles is the
blindest thing that ever walked
on two legs. é

When’ President Eisenhower
told an astounded press the other
day that Dulles was “the greatest
secretary of state in living mem-
ory,” some people were heard to
ask whether Ike had a memory.

This year, both before Dulles
crawled away from the confer-.
ence table at Geneva to lick his
wounds in Washington, and since,
up to the time he publicly chortl-
ed over the U.S. aggression
against Guatemala, Dulles has
committed enough blundering
idiocies to alienate even his clos-
est friends. ,

At Berlin a few months ago,
like an ant at the foot of a moun-
tain that sees only the pebble on
which it is sitting, Dulles shout-
ed: “Who is this Chou En-lai?”

At Geneva, where he found out
who Chou En-lai is, Dulles was
heard to mutter that he would
meet the great Chinese leader
“only if our cars collide.”

As Dien Bien Phu fell, this
“greatest secretary of state in liv-

By BOB WARD

Asia no longer ‘rickshaw boy’

JOHN FOSTER DULLES
ing memory” is reported to have
declared that in any partition of
Indochina he would “leave the
Comunists ‘the space of a small
room in which to be locked up.”

But the bluff and bluster has
a hollow ring. The bluff has been
called too often, and the ant at
the foot of the mountain is being
made to feel how small he really
is.

After Geneva the U.S. maga-
zine Time,.one of the more vic-
ious organs of big business, wrote
in pained annoyance:

“They (Chou En-lai and the
other Chinese leaders) now de-
mand a voice in the affairs of the
Europe that a generation ago was
sure that it ordered the affairs of
China as surely as it ordered
about its rickshaw boys.”

“Yes, gentlemen,’ one might
reply, “the world moves and it
sticks in your throat, doesn’t it?’

The days of ordering about rick-
shaw boys are over.”

Perhaps the most interesting
comment on Dulles and his re-
fusal “to aecept the universe” is
provided. by some of his best
friends. Among them, and the
more pro-American section of
the British press, are the Econ-
emist, which has begun to pour
salt on Dulles’ wounds and add
insult to his injuries.

In a leading article entitled
“Alliance in Danger’ the paper
wrote:

“Bluff plays a proper part in
diplomacy if it is not tried too
often and is never called. Un-
fortunately too many of Dulles’
bluffs have not worked. ... The
result has been to frighten Am-
erica’s allies much more than to
impress the Communists.”

Referring to the rift in British-
US. relations, the Economist
said: ms

“Tt must frankly be stated that ©
most of the present appearance
of crisis has been manufactured
ty wild and irresponsible talk in
Washington.”

Yes, the rift widens between
the rival imperialists, the thieves
are falling out .— and all be-
cause of a refusal to accept the
facts of life.

Among the hard facts that stare
them in the face today is a re-
surgent Asia, which can no long-
er be ordered about like a rick-
shaw boy.

The more the imperialists and
“the greatest secretary of state
in living memory” refuse to “ac-
cept the universe” the more
soundly they will be thrashed.

No punch clocks for politicians:
lots of MP-tee seats in house

We see by the papers where
only 21 of “our” members of

parliament were in the House
Vother day. And when you fig-
ure there are some 265 MPs who
were all elected “to fight in the
best interests of the people” this
kind of news is quite disturbing.

However, our readers will be
cheered to know that there were
enough Liberal MPs present to
win whatever it was that might
happen to be voted on.

One little aspect of the MP-
teeism which is also worth taking
a look at is that a quorum of 20
is required in order to conduct
“our” business. So if two of the
MPs ‘had suddenly developed a
kidney ailment we wouldn’t have
had any legislation passed at all
that day.

In the light of some recent
legislation whether this would be
a good thing or a bad thing is, of
course, a moot ‘question.

Another little angle to the mat-
ter is that the MPs are very well
paid (much of it tax-free) by the
taxpayers (that’s us) supposedly
to look after our interests.

Now most working people don’t
get paid at all if they aren’t on
the job. But with politicians there
are no punch clocks and there is
anparently no public record kept,

But it would be interesting to
find out just how many of our
MPs are absent more often than
-they are anything else. Because
from ali accounts a hell of a lot
of money is being squandered on
non-present-nor - productive _ poli-
tics. If these boys were on an
hourly rate they’d most likely end
up owing parliament a. lot of
money.

Then again maybe we shouldn’t
be too hard on the MPs. After
all they do have to sit on those
hard wooden seats and listen to
long speeches about all kinds of
important things. Take this re-
cent exchange between a group
of “our” MPs.

Hon. Sinclair (Minister of Fish-
eries): “Your talking would make
anyone go to sleep.”

Hon. Pickersgill (Secretary of
State): “It sometimes is very dif-
ficult to say awake... .”

Mr. Fulton (MP, Kamloops):
“Has the Minister ‘of Fisheries
some comment to make?” —

Sinclair: “Yes, I have.”

Fulton: “Then, will the Min-
ister get to his feet and say
them.” :

Sinclair: “Yes, I will. I would
say that the Hon. member for
Kamloops would make anybody
in this House go to sleep except
himself.”

(At this stage a whole flock of
MPs got in to the act — a sort of
a junior donnybrook). Then...
_ Sinclair: “How silly can you
gel eae i

Fulton: “When answering at-
tacks of the Minister one has to
descend tp his level.” ~

Sinclair: “That would be very
easy for you... .”

Fulton: “I will leave it at that

th

Point of order
By ALAN MAX

The Soviet Union has built the

first atomic power plant in the

world. What will they originate

next to steal?

and return to the Secretary of
State.”

Sinclair: “An easier target.” -

An Hon. Member: “Oh, no!”

Pickersgill: “The Secretary of
State has no desire to descend to
the level of the member for Kam-
Woopsee5 3

Mr. Herridge then spoke on the
amount of money being spent by
Turkey on public libraries; but
before he was finished Mr. Ful-
ton said, “10 o’clock,” (time to
edjourn). |

Mr. Macdonnell (Greenwood)
thought it wrong to “cry 10
o'clock when people were talking
about libraries.” y

Then Mr. Fulton finished the
debate on this high level. “If I
am uncultured and uncouth”
(hear, hear, said the Fisheries
Minister), “if I have not benefitted

by the education to which I was
exposed overseas, I do ask my
hon. friend not to lay the blame
on Cecil Rhodes but to lay the
biame right here... .”

x x *

And this type of exchange, citi-
zens, is most likely the reason
why less than 10 percent of the
“our way of life’ upholders up-
holster their seats in Commons.

For how can our MPs find time’
to deal with such mundane mat-
ters as unemployment, national
health, trade, civil rights, hous-
ing, etc., when there are these
loftier matters to-take up their
time. : '

We think that come next elec-
tion time we should tell quite a
few of them that it’s later than
10 o’clock as far as they are con-
cerned.

@ This article is reprinted from
the UE News.

. democratically

Oppose fare hike

DONALD GUISE, business
agent, Vancouver Civic Em-

. ployees Union: The members of

this union are definitely opposed
to the granting of a fare increase
to the BCER. The company 1s
already overcharging the public.

In its last financial statement,

» the BC Electric showed an over-

all profit of more than $12,000,-
000. us

On top of that, we are inform-
ed that the top executives of the
company have just made a neat
bonus of $875,000 in share op-
tions, as against the $750,000 yer
year the company is seeking in
new fares. d

All this adds up to a convinc-

ing argument for public owner-
ship of power and transit utili-
ties.
_ The sooner the trade union
movement unites solidly around
a demand for public ownership,
the better for the public. In the
meantime, labor must go all out
to defeat the present application
for a fare increase.

UN or United Fruit ?

READER, Vancouver,
like that crack I read in a US.
labor paper last week: “USS.
State Department theory is that
the Eastern Hemisphere comes
under the United Nations and
the Western Hemisphere comes
under the United Fruit.”

U.S. foreign policy

A. CORDONI, Haney, B.C.:; How
the U.S. can persuade anyone on
this earth of their benevolent and
democratic intentions is beyond
my understanding, especially as
the Guatemalan government was
elected. whexeas
many of the South American
countries are controlled by Am-
evican-sponsored dictators.

The U.S. has amassed surpluses
of food products which they can-
not get rid of. The thought strikes
ore of the incongruity of a rich
and prosperous nation with moun-
tains of food, using force of arms
to keep a small and intensely

PACIFIC TRIBUNE

BCs: 31.

poverty-stricken people| i? of
petual poverty and slavery:

the communists are

poverty to advance thei
political interests.

If they don’t want to feed ne
brave people with some ? they
own surplus food, why oe ut
not let them try to work ! cost
themselves, which is all the not 4
munists were showing the™
to do?

| Flashbacks

40 years ago.

(From the files of the BE
Federationist, July 17, 9 ett
B.C. Federation of Labol | ned

ing in a special conventio? yslost
to discuss the Vancouver 4g
coal miners’ strike, voted in
to take a referendum vote if ao
affiliated unions “as to ¢ oa
visability and possibility ° mote
ing a general strike to foreé ine
equitable terms for the "pe
than those contained 7 jth |
wretched offer of the ope re
recently received throug 4

‘ier McBride.”

I5 years ago

(From the files of the
Advocate, July 14,
Protesting in their
manner with nude par 3 fa
demonstrations, Doukhober pot
‘ilies in Winslow and slom 9 be
districts were being force cell jos!
back their own foreclos®” sit
and property from the 5¥ del
Assurance Company oF
' “As long as I am sel a
there will be no evictlOM, sf

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clared R. N. Wilson, sun Li si
resentative. “But whet inv?

buying evictions will cont

10 years ago

(From the files of The y

July 15, 1944) «sted

Tom McEwen was 10M ay)
stand as Labor candidater
kon in the next federa
the first Labor candid@

contest the northern cos

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