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‘Momentous
not war, this

Sas prime minister says ‘‘mo-
mentous decisions’ may call
the MP’s back to a session of
parliament at any time in the
next few weeks.

There was an ominous note in
St. Laurent’s remarks. While
most Canadians are thinking of
summer holidays, the govern-
ment is thinking about crisis.
And there can be no doubt it is
a erisis connected with world
war. :

In Britain there is an outcry
against the U.S. bombing of the
Yalu power plants. In France
and Britain the governments
have been compelled to press
the U.S. into proposing a meet-
ing with the Soviet Union about
Germany.

But the Canadian govern-
ment, which ratified the rearma-
ment of Germany with indecent
haste, and was the first U.S. sat-
ellite so to do, accepts anything
the U.S. War Department shoves
down its throat.

This government is the most
servile creature of the whole of
the U.S.-dominated group.

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Right now Defense Minister
Claxton is asking for another in-
crease in the arméd forces. Two
years ago when Korea was in-
yaded by the Yanks, there were
47,000 men in the Canadian
forces. Today there are 97,000.
Claxton is asking that this be
increased to 120,000 under the

_three-year warpreparations pro-

gram.

Formerly the Canadian three-
year arms program was said to
cost $5 billion. It is now hiked
to $6 billion, $2 billion of this
to be raised from taxation this
year. *

This year Trade Minister C.
D. Howe. U.S.-born. Yankee
agent in charge of war produc-
tion, is handing out $110 mil-
lion of taxpayers’ money to en-
courage private industries to
handle war contracts.

So the Canadian arms race
goes on — on Yankee terms.
Every soldier, airman, sailor,
every plane, tank, gun, raised by
Canada is figured in the U.S.
War Department’s plan for full-
seale action.

The Yalu atrocity which threw
the British Tory government in-
to a new crisis, was not protest-
ed by External Affairs Minister
Pearson. He was perhaps the
only foreign minister of the
Yankee bloc who failed even to
say “‘boo” when this provocative
action was taken in the midst of
armistice negotiations.

The Yalu bombing decision
was taken by the U.S. chiefs of
staff without consulting any-
body. ‘The war boss in the U.S.,
Defense Secretary Lovett, said
flatly that the “U.S. can bomb

NEUE EUEE

The cold war press

BERLIN — (AP) — A 300.
pound Russian bomb from the
Second World War was unearth-
ed Saturday by workmen at
spot where State Secretary Dean
Acheson of the U.S. dedicated
the U.S. Memorial Library in
West Berlin a week ago. Beriln
munitions experts, who took
charge of the bomb, said it was
live and could have exploded at
any time. —Vancouver News-
Herald, July 7, 1952. :

Another deep Russian ‘plot —
no doubt the bomb was timed to
zo off in 1952.

_St. Laurent

Chinese Communist
Manchuria without consulting
other United Nations members
involved in ‘the Korean war”
(INS despatch, June 24.)
‘Whilé he was saying this, his
side-kick Acheson was ‘‘apologiz-
ing” to the British for not in-
forming them of the decisions!
This is the pattern of aggres-
sion shaping up which causes
the prime minister to keep par-
liament jn readiness to meet on
twenty four hours’ notice.

That is why the Liberals ap-
parently have shelved a general
election later this year.

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The Canadian people are in
increasing peril. While the
world peace forces have held
back the hands of the aggressors
from launching full-scale world
war, the warmongers are becom_
ing more daring and provocative.

They have rearmed Japan.
They are rearming Germany.
They are blocking the Korean
peace negotiations. They are
cynically brushing aside the ap-
peals of the Soviet Union for dis-
armament and a Five Power
Peace Pact.

They are more determined
than ever to make atomic war if
they get the chance, and to back
up atomic bombs and napalm
with germ weapons.

At the moment the US.,
through the mouth of Britain,
was proposing a ‘‘disarmament”
plan which is intended to reduce
the strength of the Soviet Union
and China. President Truman
asked Congress for $3,341 mil-
lion for a “‘major further expan-
sion” of atomic production.
Earlier the Wall Street Journal
had foreshadowed this program
in the following words:

“We will theoretically hava
enough bombers to wipe out all
of Russia’s major’ industrial
cities’... also . . . sizable quan-
tities of atomic dust. It’s a fine
dust of radioactive materials
that can be sprayed by a plane
over a city and make (it) im-
possible to live in for days,
weeks or months... . :

“The new atom program is
designed for war—not peace.’’

There you have it. plump and
plain.

This is a fateful summer. The
pitch of intensity rises steadily.
Germany, Japan, Korea, are the
danger spots. The Soviet Union
steadily fights for a change in
this awful drive to war. As
steadily, the Tories of Britain,
France and the U.S., backed by
the satellites like the Canadian
imperialists, strive for ‘peace
through strength’’—that is, a
“peace’’ of violence.

Who will decide this contest?
Recent events give the answer.
In the midst of its preparations
for ““momentous decisions’ the
government has
found it necessary within one
week to pay two tributes to the
power of the people’s movement
for peace. ’

First, it declared in effect
that it would not prosecute Dr.
Endicott for his charges that
germ war is being waged by the
U.S. in Korea because the ‘“‘dis-
advantages would be greater
than the advantages’—in other
words, it will not expose these
charges to public trial.

Second, it asked three (Cana-
dian scientists to “investigate”
the charges of the World Peace
Council. not on the spot, as Dr:
Endicott did, but at a safe dis-
tance, and tabled their reports
in the House of Commons.

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bases in.

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decisions’ - peace,
fateful summer

While it rejected Dr. Endi-
cott’s request to be heard in per-
son and took, refuge behind three
scientists, the government was
compelled to take official note
of the charges (the only govern-
ment of the West to have done

- 0) and by this token revealed

its sore sensitivity.

As for the scientists’ reports
as published in the press, they
are pitiful efforts and would not
convince anyone. If this is all
the government had to bring into
a publie hearing in rebuttal to
the charges against the U.S.
military, no wonder it backed
down from its thunderous
threats!

Meanwhile, ‘Dr. Endicott has
followed up his great Toronto
Maple Leaf Gardens meeting
with public meetings of thou-
gands of people in the western
cities, despite the summer heat
—larger meetings than either
Mr, St. Laurent or Mr. Pearson
could hope to get.

Only the people, fighting for
peace, is the force than can halt
the rush to war. Let the Can-
adian people face these ‘‘mo-
mentous decisions’ by making
momentous decisions of their
own—to fight ten times harder
for a five-power pact of peace,
general and controlled disarma-
ment, to stop the rise of a re-
militarized Germany and Japan,
and peace at once in Korea.

Best paper in B.C.

ANGUS PARENT,
Lake, B.C.: I sent the money to
renew my subscription in April
but the receipt I received is
dated April 14, 1952. Please
check the receipt to make sure
I won’t miss a single issue of
the. Pacific Tribune, which is
sure the best paper printed- in
B.C.

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The receipt is dated April 14
but the subscription runs_ to
1953.

Not moral or legal

MARY PHILLIPS, Lemont, I-
linois; On June 5 an Associated
Press dispatch from Koje Island
revealed: “Bags of sand instead
of food were delivered in ration
trucks to Compounds 85 andi 96.

. Reduction of rations is a
means of discipline permitted
under the Geneva Conven-
MAO 3 ke

Thus we use the Geneva Con-
vention to discipline prisoners
with short rations (sand diet?)
because it suits us; we violate
this Convention, Section MII,
Article 118: “Prisoners of war
shall be repatriated without de-

lay after the cessation of active

hostilities,”’ because it does not
suit us.

The June 13 AIP dispatch that
prisoners, ‘‘cowed by the new
Allies’ policy of stern discipline
backed by force, submitted
peacefully’’ is not surprising, as
starvation “‘backed by force”’ as-
sures amenability. Nor am [I
surprised by ‘‘the tendency, in
Great Britain to suggest that the

Douglas ~

HEN the Nationalist gov-.
ernment of Prime Minis_

Guardian, militant South Af-
rican progressive weekly, be-
cause it opposed his racial
policies, the editors prompt-
ly started a new paper —- the
Clarion, Already the circula-
tion of the new paper is 8.000
weekly higher than that of
the banned Guardian.

“For the first time since
Thomas Pringle’s day 130
years ago. a Newspaper in
South Africa has been banned

. for saying things a govern-

Banned Goardion replaced
by Clarion in South Africa

ter Daniel Malan banned the ~

- banned the Guardian.

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ment does not like.’’ the Rand
Daily Mail editorialized whe?
the Guardian was banned.
The Cape Times followed with
similar comment: ‘For the
first time in the history of 4
non - totalitarian country 4
newspaper has been put out
of existence by the edict of #
party politician: :

In this picture, Sam Kahn.
MP deprived of his seat 1?
parliament, is shown selling @
copy of the Clarion: to Justice
Minister Charles Swart, the
“party politician” whose edict

U.S. Army used pressure to in-
duce Communist prisoners to say
that they did not want to-go
home” and “in Burope high of-
ficials do not believe that only
70,000 out of 170,000 expressed
a willingness to go home.” (U.S.
News and World Report, June
6).

Since Chinese-North Korean
authorities declare that we fore_
ed prisoners to express unwil-
lingness to go home, they could
not logically punish these ‘‘un-
willing’ prisoners. To do so
would deny they had been forc-
eat: *

Thus we have neither moral

_hor legal grounds to refuse re-
patriation —- the only unsettled
issue in the truce negotiations.

Let us cease-fire and repatri-
ate all prisoners NOW!

Now we are confused

E. R.- ALDERMAN, Vancou-
ver, B.C.: My idea is, that un-
der the impression that you
were doing something else, you

have been arousing Anglo-Saxon -

racism in Canada, It works OK
up to a point. Then the Scottish
or English individual takes fire
and moves to the extreme right,
where he belongs. My idea is
that this is the main reason the
Tories are in solid in Ontario.
You are moralizing reaction
right across the continent; and
that reaction, as soon as you put
it firmly in the saddle, will turn
out troops as good as any Prus-

sians, But not to fight the
Yanks. Saskatchewan does not
apply. Saskatchewan is south

of the border.

As closely as I could, from the
outside,

‘Labor Monthly, the doubt 48°"

“without the price of a mer rite

I have been watching
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your line for some time. It P
me, I finally decided that ©
any reasons I could think up
it were pretty thin. I must
be very bright.

But after watching you tony
away a real and increasin® ab
vantage in the grammar bai
ness, exchanging effective eR
nacular. for a “writing-down
grammatical baby-talk, ! nee
to doubt: You-should up Bam
done that, even if it was ae
Which it was not. Aside i
being an undercover for
elitism, it was wrong

After falking to English ant
Scottish plain folks, pefore ts
elections, my doubt greW-
yesterday, after reading i
mander Young’s article

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people would call, ‘“divel®
ary.”’

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up against can best be fowea
the mind of Arland U") of
author of The Face and Min x00
Ireland, with the Anglos ih
element dominating, 97 — 4-
sides of the water, in
ternal reality, as in him.

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