sieve eee flyblown rhetoric ~ _ By LESLIE MORRIS e Minister rose in his seat on Sept. 11 to speak on liey and for an hour or more gave us tattered logic wn rhetoric. His was the official voice of Canada ed world. God help us all. lored with weasel words the disarmament “idealism” Green, his foreign minister, which has not been Me by the Kremlin” and was interpreted by it as a “sign akhess.” Of course, “idealism” has its place, but not in °N with disarmament. ‘Some say he is too idealistic,” iefenbaker of Mr. Green. So, away with disarmament Berlin and nuclear strategy made-in-the-U.S.A. We Xamine some of the principles of Canada’s foreign * % % in this windy argument is the political decision to leven the puerile efforts Canada has made to help to about disarmament. Howard Green, the “idealist,” is -sacrificed to that very militant fellow Col. Harkness, minister of defense, Col. Put- Nuclear - Warheads - in - Bomarcs - Voodoos - and - Honest Johns and let us be Modern Soldiers, Sir! Blame the failure of disarmament on Mr. K., and let’s get.on with the job of “planning against various contingencies which might arise in the Berlin situation,” which, said the PM, Canada insisted on long ago in NATO. So says the lawyer from Prince Albert, Sas- ts katchewan who, we are told, gets up at 6:15 Orning to think out our problems for us. 2 % * * “Y is Mr. K. to blame for the failure of disarmament? lie in proposing to the United Nations that the nations Join in complete and general disarmament, he said: Seek seriously, and in good faith, a solution of the ques- Concluding a German peace treaty so as to arrest in Me the sliding of states into the inferno of a rocket- War,” €r good sense, that. And why does. our prime minister this? Because “in other words” what Mr. K. really is is, “T believe in negotiation. I will keep what I have and vill take what you have or part of it.” dear header, remember that these words are taken . D’s speech. We have spent an unhappy hour in read- arefully, Can ‘you find in it any logical deduction from Proposed disarmament and a German peace treaty? learned language this is a nOn sequitur; in plain Belass talk it has an affinity with members of the family, . * x *% ‘ourse the prime minister did not remind us that only ays previously Mr. K. had said in words so plain that Would find it hard to understand, that if the West ac: idea of complete and general disarmament, the Soviet Would accept, in advance, any Western proposals for To have quoted the truth would have punctured John er’s rhetoric. Better to drown his hearers i a sea on dnd entangle them in’ the seaweed of his own ‘lin offering Adenauer a coali- By MAX Pacific Tribune Union lose its parliamentary negotiations.” Final official returns gave the Christian Democrats 243 seats in the new 499-seat Bun- destag (lower house of parlia- ment) — six fewer than neces- sary for a majority and a loss ef 27 from 1957. The Social Democrats led by West Berlin Mayor Willie Brandt, won 190 seats, up 21. The main winner is the Free Democratic Party, which in- creased its vote by 57 percent to win 66 seats, up 25. (The FDP is a party of Ger- man capital but less sabre- rattling and more realistic in its policy than Adenauer and Strauss). In contrast to the Social Democrats, who in their elec- tioneering put no conditions tion government, the Free Democrats gave the ~appear- ance of an alternative, stress- ing the promise of a new policy. The Free Democrats prom- ised that if the Adenauer ma- jority was broken, they would join a coalition only; if Aden- auer were replaced by Econo- mic Minister Ludwig Erhard, whom they presented as being more ready for a new ap- proach in West German policy. Willie. Brandt’s chauvinistic pronouncements during the campaign made him attractive to the extreme rightists. This was reflected in the fact that the neo-nazi All-German Party lost the equivalent of five per- cent of the total vote cast, that party’s bankrupt policy of “strength” and REICH Correspondent BERLIN—The West German election results, which saw Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s Christian Democratic majority, are a defeat for “no cratic Party gained five per- cent of the total vote. The German Peace Union, a middle-class party of intellec- tuals, professionals and trades- men, which campaigned hero- ically under the heaviest of terror for a peaceful, neutral Germany and against the H- bomb, received nearly two per cent of the vote but no repre- sentation. tered logic and |W. German election result blow to Adenauer policies tinual detriment of the Ger« man people ... “Tf we had a leader of the opposition, he would point out to the German people that the inaction of a government, which at last became cautious in its oratorical eruptions, was bound to ‘lead either into a hopeless war or a profound defeat. The mayor of Berlin however — neither holding office nor in opposition — is incapable of opposition by con- viction and disposition.” The Communist Party is banned: in Germany, but in- dividual Communists retained the right to exercise the active and passive right of voting. (West Germany’s undemo-| That means, not only to vote cratic election law requires! ;, an election, but to stand as that a party receive a mini- candidates. ’ mum of five percent of the| [py breach of the constitution total vote before it can be and in breach of the law, West represented in parliament). German authorities gained The widely read West Ger-! their objective where no in- man magazine “Der Spiegel” | gependent. Communist candi- is as anti-Communist as any West German paper, with this date remained. Step by step election ma- difference: it has retained _4/ terial was confiscated, election sense of reality that has dis-| meetings forbidden or broken appeared from even the “ser- up. ious” West German papers. In its issue of Aug. 23, “Der Spiegel” scornfully indicted 1 ,000 SIGN AT the so-calleq “opposition” of the Social Democratic Party VALLEY FAIR in these words: The Surrey Peace Commit- “Tf there was an opposition| tee announced that it had col- in the Federal Republic (West| lected 1,000 signatures on the Germany), this would be its| “no nuclear arms for Canada” hour .. . If we had an opposi-; petition at their booth at the tion it would nail down the| Annual Fall Fair at Clover- head of the government on] dale, which wound up last having acted and behaved as| week. if there was no West Berlin; In addition to their booth, no at present cut-off East Ber-| the Surrey Peace Committee lin, and no Soviet . Republic} distributed leaflets to those at- named the GDR. Only the ter-| tending the three day Fair op- ritories to the East of the Oder| posing nuclear weapons. Offi« and Neisse — now empty of} cials reported that they were Germans — interested Aden-| particularly gratified with the auer, because by them hej response of young people to while Brandt’s Social-Demo- could catch votes, to the con- the petition. lations, and so uphold the grand tradition of the bour- th is a bore. ) Z * % * Pare you further examples of the leadership Canada is this fateful hour. But, if you. want to see Mr. D. With Mr. K. on matters of high principle write for Han- Sept, 11, where our Windy John tilts with the Draft. Pro- the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and adds amendments, daring chap that he is. In fact, his copious ns from the Draft, which, in a moment of wisdom, he ad- tyone to read (available at Progress Books, 44 Stafford to 3) are the only sensible parts of his speech. Even “Taft doesn’t please Mr. D., as you can well imagine. He it to Hitler’s Mein Kampf, which, he says, took 1,000 iy Sive the nazi program for the ensuing 20 years while they takes less than 50”. What a dirty dig at the Soviet | “0 million of whom died to destroy Hitler’s insane ambi-| Or which he was armed by the pious hypocrites in the *§0vernments, as they are arming the West German mili- “day! Wy. 88 Canadians should know, too, that patriotic Canadian es refused to make armaments for Allied troops un- Were guaranteed at least five percent profit). * * * rime minister’s version of the Draft Program of the ‘that the USSR wants to “puild a house for all the Mankind, with the USSR having the only key to the Did he read the Draft himself or did a rather sleepy Nnunist dwelling in the USSR. Other peoples will have heir own communist houses—how and when they want, Ussr will not do it for them, neither will it pocket Ne US pockets the key to the Canadian house. Self ion is a basic principle of the Draft Program. But jamentary Talking Shop, where words are the thing | | ean quote the Scriptures. \ Tead it for him? 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