Review Where’s the ‘blame?’ ag the Diefenbaker fiasco at, Exhibition Forum the “who- dunit” question has been having a wide play. The Tories have “blamed” the Liberals, the unem- ployed, the NDP, and of course, the Communists. . The Liberals, like a street pros- titute defending the “virtues” for the profession, have loudly “de- plored” the Dief blow up, then played it for all it was worth — for Liberal votes. The NDP also came in for a spot of “blame” in the “whodunit” game, but, like Ceasar’s wife, held itself to be “above suspicion”, but not wholly uninterested. And that crotchetty old lady of Cambie Street, The Province, is positively sure that the Pacific Tribune and its editors were the instigators of the Dief fracas, while another doughty news com- mentator and professional “finger man” (no relation of Daniel Web- ster) laid the “blame” squarely on the Kremlin doorstep. This business of everybody blaming everybody else is prob- ably considered a good way in which to detract from the real source of blame — the Tories themselves. The Tory propaganda machine shouted long and_ loudly, (“the prime minister wants to meet you.” The unemployed, with the organized labor movement behind them, obliged. They wanted to ask “John” just where are those jobs that were “promised?” Another body of electors, people deeply concerned about peace and keeping nuclear arms out of Can- ada, also demonstrated with their banners in the Forum, seeking as- surances, (for what they are worth from a Liberal or a Tory) that nuclear arms would be kept out of Canada. The conduct of both bodies :of demonstrators was orderly and dignified in every respect and fully in keeping with Canadian democratic tradition; a tradition which scores of young Tory strongarm hooligans and_ their Tory leaders on the platform indi- cated they had little or no knowi- edge of when they launched their violent attacks upon the unem- ployed and anti-nuclear demon- strators, Therefore to assess the “blame” correctly as to “whodunit”, a cur- sery glance at Tory policies and Pacific Tribune Editor — TOM McEWEN Associate Editor—MAURICE RUSH Business Mgr.._OXANA BIGELOW Published weekly at: Room 6 — 426 Main Street Vancouver 4, B.C. ; Phone MUtual 5-5288 : Subscription Rates: One Year: $4:00—-Six Months: $2.25 Canadian and Commonwealth coun- tries (except Australia): $4:00 one year. Australia, United States and all other countries: $5.00 one year. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. June 8, 1962—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 1 EDITORIAL PAGE “promises” since Dief took- over from the Liberals, and whose poli- cies he has continued, if albeit, at a more accelerated pace, will suf- fice. : The sellout of Canada to U.S. monopoly; the surrender of our independence, our resources, our industrial development, our mar- kets and jobs to a U.S.-Canadian financial plunderbund. The men- ace of a thermonuclear war hang- ing over Canada, a direct result of Liberal-Tory policies of “inte- gration” and its costly NATO- NORAD war alliances dictated by Washington. There, Messeaurs of the gutter press, is where the “blame” for the Dief fiasco must be looked for — if such “seekers for the truth” really want to find it? Not the NDP, the labor move- ment, nor the Communists, but in the Liberal-Tory sellout to Yankee imperialism which has_ brought. Canada into a morass of economic crisis, and made our country an “expendable” in the Pentagon’s nuclear war conspiracies. There is where the “blame” rests, and there only. It may be added en passant, that at a previous and similarly stormy “welcome” for a Tory prime minister 27-years ago in Vancouver, “Iron Heel” R. B. Ben- nett also required a strong cordon of “Vancouver’s finest” to “pro- tect” him against the just wrath and indignation of the common people. That too we recall, was cred- ited to —who else — the “Krem- lin?” .S. atmospheric nuclear bomb tests at the Christmas (?) and Johnston Islands in the Paci- fic continue with fearsome regu- larity despite world-wide protests. Touching off H-bombs one-hund- red times or more the destructive power of those which cremated Hiroshima and Nagasaki are now almost daily occurances according to AEC announcements. These tests however, have an- other danger in which the element of “accident” and miscalculation. comes into the picture. Last week a U.S. attempt to explode a high altitude nuclear bomb at Johnston Island illustrates the point. The missile carrying the bomb went out of kilter and had to be de- stroyed a bare few seconds before: the H-bomb was set to explode. The H-bomb, we are told “drop- ped harmlessly into the Pacific and sank”. U.S. spokesmen, who never care to be “identified” on such matters have ‘expressed themselves as be- ing ignorant of what may happen with (or from) this powerful nuc- lear warhead now presumed to be lying on the ocean floor. However, the announcement that they will try another high-altitude experi- ment is the measure of how little they care what the dangers may be. It is interesting to note that while the Diefenbakers, Pearsons, Greens and company were “pro- foundly shocked”, “horrified” and what not at the Soviet tests, and predicted all kinds of dire calami- ties for Canada as a result of Don’t know, or care “dirty” Soviet fallout, there h not been nor is their likely to ! one peep of protest against th U.S. atmospheric tests and dang erous “bloopers” in the Pacifi from these political salesmen ° U.S. imperialism. On the contrary, they seek } every sort of specious coldwar cuse to “justify” these tests, al to echo President Kennedy’s bit tant claims that such tests a “necessary for the defense of th free world?” During the remaining days: the election campaign the peoP of Canada should utilize the ® portunity, face to face with aspl ing parliamentarians, to demal\ they take a stand against the U.S. tests — as an important st towards keeping nuclear weap out of Canada — and ultimate out of the world. To make such demand their answer to the ign? ant “assurances” of Yankee nu! lear maniacs. EDITORIAL COMMEN! Av Vancouver rally Liber leader “Mike” Pearson unt burdened himself of one evide truth, viz; “If a Liberal gover™ ment had been in office the C umbia River Treaty would ha” been ratified long ago.” j That should settle any doubts the minds of the electors about * Liberals being less able or willl than the Tories or Socreds to % Canada’s resources down the Ti¥ to the U.S. monopoly for a 4 profit buck. hd | nti-communism is a cover-up, a mask on the face of ignorance, a destructive subterfuge behind which reactionary individuals, groups and organizations attempt to hide their own bankrupt and barren policies and ideas. This ‘“‘Red bogey” isn’t new. All that is ‘new’ is the multiple uses it is put to in a changing world; uses aimed at the destruction of an individual, a movement, or in- deed — a world. In terms of export indices of the so-called ‘Free World” with the U.S. leading all of its satellites, the “Red bogey” is the highest item. Billions of dollars are spent on the export of anti-communism and its corresponding political pro- paganda machinery. Anti-communism provides the sole basis of coldwar and its objec- tive target of nuclear war against a rising Socialist world. Without this “Red bogey” the coldwar and its consequent suicidal nuclear arms race, costing humanity a terrible price in resources and lives, would be utterly meaning- less. Anti-communism — provides U.S. imperialism and its satellites with the excuse for their threaten- ed nuclear destruction of civiliza- tion — under the pretext of “‘sav- ing” it from Communism? So on all down the line. The trade ‘union faker, serving as the agent of the bosses in the ranks of organized labor, explains away his. trade union policies of cannibal- ism, disruption and betrayal as “saving” the unions from “com- munism’’? : So also with the right-wing so- cial democratic lackies of big busi- ness. They too make anti-Commun- ism and its “Red bogey” a standardized cover-up for political opportunism and working class be- trayal. Today we have not a few of them declaring themselves against the deadly menace of nuc- lear arms in Canada, the while insisting that Canada remain at- tached to the foul incubator where nuclear war is hatched, NATO, to prevent “any further Soviet ad- Vance’. Ss Even in the ‘contending’ old- line parties of monopoly, anti-Com- munism plays an important role. The Pearsons accuse the Diefs and vice versa of being ‘‘soft on com- munism,” while Social Credit, after the fashion of the John Birch- ers, brand the most rabid Tory a “eommunist” when occasion seems opportune. Even Dief and his Tory cohorts, squirming under the deb- ris of their bankrupt policies, seek to pose as the “liberators’ of all “capitive’ mations under Social- ism? Actually there’s no limit to the uses of anti-communism. A few days ago in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Don Gillis, one of Steel’s top raid- ers on the Mine-Mill union was publicly denounced as “a Com | munist”. In this case the Tor union-wrecking candidate describ’ | ed his accusers of “being New Democratic Party supporters”, ® charge which the latter promptly Just imagine what a pickle the monopoly gutter press would be in without anti-communism and the “Red bogey”. A good sixty pe cent of the content of any bigi | monopoly journal is given over Wy a “news” coverage that is basil ally anti-communist. This is mane aged by the modern technique 9 slanting, twisting, distorting, ~ outright lying in. their present tion of ‘“‘news” from the Socia™ ist sector of the world. F If a “correction” is unavoidable later, such correction occupies less than two percent of the origin@ space given the distortion — an invariably buried in the pack pages. Deprive a Webster oF Cronkite or similar press “coma mentators” of their Geopbels } brand of anti-communism and “Red bogey” for a week and wha would be left of such profession?” noise-makers? We hesitate to haz ard a guess. - Who gains from the use 0 “Red bogey” is no longer an a demic question. The armame manufacturers, the big monoP z ists, the nuclear maniacs of t Pentagon and elsewhere. And x course, the old-line political hen” men of big monopoly «and the portunist lackies who ape them: f the ca nt the Tory candidate for Sudbury.