Catching up on crime

HE Nuremberg court which
tried and sentenced scores of
nazi war criminals, also tried and
sentenced to death (in absentia)
Herr Adolph Eichmann, the mur-
derer of millions of Jewish, Slavic
and other peoples.

Eichmann, together with many
other nazi killers, fled the coun-
try, thus escaping his just deserts.
That was fourteen years ago.
Many of Hitler’s top butchers have
“oot away” since, aided and abet-
ted by U.S. and British imperial-
ism, which require the services of
these professional killers in their
NATO “defence” conspiracies for
war.

Now, it appears, Israeli agents,
tipped off on Eichmann’s where-
abouts in Argentina, have taken
him to Israel where he is now in
close custody.

Such a procedure is without
doubt a violation of Argentina’s
sovereign status. Were such ac-
tions to be approved by law, in-
ternational or other, the sovereign
rights of nations would no longer
exist. Neither would the legal
sanctity of the individual.

That, however, is not the im-
portant point at the moment. The
prime question is that a convicted
nazi mass killer is in custody, held
by .a Jewish state which saw six
million Jewish people, the aged
and the babes in arms, perish
under Eichmann’s orders.

It could be argued that since
Adolph Eichmann was tried, con-
victed, and sentenced to death for
his crimes against humanity by
the international tribunal of Nur-
emberg, that no other trial is re-
quired; only the carrying out of
the just sentence imposed.

If a second trial is needed to
dispose of this nazi carrion, it is
eminently proper that is should be
staged in Israel, but under the
aegis of an international rather
than an Israeli court. As_ the
Israeli Communist Party declares:

Let the trial reveal before the
whole world the whole truth of the
horrors and catastrophe of the ex-
termination of the Jews—let not
a single thing be hidden.”

Pacific Tribune

Editor —. TOM McEWEN
Associate Ediror — MAURICE RUSH
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Quite naturally any and all sug-
gestions of a public trial for
butcher Eichmann in Israel is
making the West German Aden-
auer government and their U.S.
coldwar backers in Washington
extremely jittery. On the stand a
brutal murderer of helpless peo-
ple, now turned abject coward,
might “sing”; that is, he might
implicate in his million-fold crimes
many of his old nazi colleagues,
now top officials in the Adenauer
state and military machine.

This thought of Eichmann
“squealing” on the stand is also
disturbing Washington’s “forgive-
and-forget” coldwar circles who
regard the ex-Hitlerite militarists
of West Germany as their most-
valued NATO “ally” in their war
conspiracies against the Soviet
Union.

Three things which an inter-
national court on the soil of Israel
sitting in judgment on butcher
Eichmann will accomplish; rid the
earth of a monstrous sub-human,
expose the relationships between
the old and new swastika carriers
and their imperialist promoters;
and, strike a mighty blow for
international understanding and
peace.

EDITORIAL PAGE —

‘Plan for

HIS absurdity known as “civil”
defence” moves from ne
fiasco to another. After pouring
countless thousands of the tax-
payers’ dollars down the CD prop-
aganda and equipment drain, the
Diefenbaker government belatedly
discovers that its “evacuation”
schemes were totally unworkable.

Any school child could have told
them that long ago. A casual look
during any normal rush hour in
any major Canadian city made
that much crystal clear. But cold-
war governments can never see
what they don’t want to see, un-
less compelled to by the people.

With its “evacuation” comedy
now discarded and expensive CD
motor transport equipment stash-
ed away under bridges to rust and
rot, Dief’s CD boys have come up
with another bright idea, a “plan
for survival’; that of urging cit-
izens to build their own H-bomb
shelters in their own backyard.

A modest cosy burrow with very
tight accommodation for a small
family to be nuclear barbecued to-
gether can be built for “only
$300.00.” Of course, for the more
expensive tastes ten times that

survival ?

amount can be sunk in this CD
backyard enterprise.

A number of important points
are omitted in this CD barbecue-
yourself plan. No mention of
where the other half of the popu-
lation who don’t own backyards
are to burrow. Nothing on where
B.C.’s 100,000 jobless (or Can-
ada’s one million) are to get the
“modest $300” to build with, to say
nothing of where next week’s rent
and groceries are to come from.

Nor is any mention made of the
fact that the citizen who does build
one of these eosy mausoleums if
his backyard, will promptly find
his already sky-high taxes boosted

still higher.

CD’s “plan for survival” misses
the one and only chance for sur-
vival;. the utilization of the na-
tion’s resources and energy for
disarmament and peace. The
Japanese people have given a mag-
nificent example of how this can
be done;. by unity and determina-
tion to stop their nuclear war-
makers. To convince Dief, by 2
similar unity, the fight for peace
instead of backyard shelters, is the
only way to survival.

Tom
McEwen “

HEN things are breaking
W sonst for nuclear war sales-
man and the common people let
it be known in no uncertain terms
that they don’t want such char-
acters around, the old cry about
“law and order,” the “rule of law”
and so forth, is raised to high
heaven.

This yowl about the “rule of
law’ has been particularly noisy
since the Japanese people closed
the door on Eisenhower. Its prime
purpose is to convey the phoney
idea that all the spokesmen, sales-
men, janitors and other cadgers
of “free world’ merchandise are
lily-white saints, with nothing on
their minds save the “salvation”
of their fellowmen.

The others of course, are devils
incarnate, “red” ones at that, with
“no respect for law’ and always
intent upon ‘“‘violence’” of some
sort or other.

Just take a look at some of the
most raucous exponents of ‘the
rule of law’ who have done a lot
of yodelling on the theme during
past weeks.

The blue ribbon of course must
go to the big boys of the Pentagon
who wrote Ike’s speeches and do
his press and propaganda work. It
obviously never entered their cold-
war minds that the Japanese (of all
peoples), would probably not be so
amenable as Diefenbaker to hav-
ing U.S. nuclear bases in their
country. (And after all, despite
U.S. military occupation, the
Japanese people still believe Japan
is their country .

Thus, when the Japanese people
gave Ike’s “‘visit” the grand detour,
without saying they where “sorry
for the inconvenience,” the blue
ribbon lads in the Pentagon gave
out with the old imperialist mating
call: “‘A red conspiracy of vio-
lence,” a menace to “‘the rule of
law,’ and so on ad infinitum.

Syngman Rhee, another U.S.-
tutored ‘democrat’ (now a landed
immigrant) was another great ex-
ponent of the “rule of law,” His
methods were unique, but typical.
Rhee imprisoned, murdered, plun-
dered, tortured and persecuted his
people for a decade and when they
finally booted him out (despite his
U.S. backing) he topped. off his
career in the ‘‘rule of law” by
absconding with some $10-million
dollars of his nation’s treasury.

Chiang Kia-shek, whom Ike is
presently visiting on his Asian
“goodwill - with - nuclear - trim-
mings” junket, is also another
sturdy alumni of the U.S. school
on ‘the rule of law.’ Chiang’s
record in pillage, murder, rack-

upon his own people, puts him high

fluctuations or pre-election tory

brity. or other, they are invariably
listed as ‘“‘an orderly but wildly

turn out to send some merchant of
death or coldwar politician pack-
ing, they are catalogued as “a

- mob,” with no respect for “the rule
of law and order.”

nowadays on peace, that is a
‘tirade,’ or better still, a ‘‘har-
rangue.”’
through something someone else
wrote, or “Man Friday” Dief. un-
rolls three yards of demagogic
bladerdash on the same_ topic,
these are listed as ‘constructive

A great weapon, language.

eteering, black-marketing and war

up in the ranks of those who find
the “rule of law” a handy cover-up
for their crimes.

Just a few days ago we read of
a spiel by South Africa’s ‘‘apar-
theid” premier, Hendrick Ver-
woerd. This modern “Simon Le-
gree” had much to say about the
“superiority” of the white race as
the custodians of “the rule of law
and order,’ while his police-state
machine was writing it on the
backs of peaceful African peoples
with. dum-dum bullets.

Semantics, like stock market
promises, are highly interchang-
able. If a large number of people
are tricked or bulldozed into turn-
ing out to cheer some coldwar cele-

enthusiastic assembly.”’ When they

When Mr. K. makes a speech
When Ike

stumbles

contributions” to something OF
other, probably the “rule of law.”

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