Review EDITORIAL PAGE Bob scores again? ard on the heels of echoing the fhamber-of-Commerce in his blast against union leaders of the “extreme right and extreme left” being the cause of “labor unrest” in B.C., NDP-provincial leader ‘Bob Stratchan has now turned his public ire against fellow NDP- MLA Cedric Cox, now on a visit to Cuba to see conditions for him- self. In this instance Strachan pub- licly lectures Cox on his MLA duties “here at home .. . rather than traipsing to Cuba, ete and etc....” A lecture no doubt high- ly acceptable to U.S: State Depart- ment and other anti-Castro official- sa if not to the average Canad- All this ignorant Strachan blast has accomplished to date is to stir up unnecessary division in NDP ranks, and provide sewer journals like The Province with a fine opportunity to scribble scur- rilious editorials against the NDP and labor generally. From this unfortunate incident one prime question projects it- self; not on Canadians having the right to go where they like with- out interference from any quart- er, but when will Bob Strachan learn that the job of building the NDP can not be done by down- grading its best builders? Or does Strachan prefer to re- main a standing example of that “political detritus”. The Province seeks to rub his nose on or in? Eiorial comment.. he Comox Free Press posed a question in a recent editorial; “What type of mind chooses to drink beer in a graveyard and break the bottles over the grave- markers?” To which could be add- ed, what type of mind revels in toppling and smashing headstones, setting fire to schools, or destroy- ing school fixtures? Desecrating the graveyards of Japanese, Chinese, Jewish or peoples of other racial origin is unquestionably the end result of a mind poisoned and destroyed by racist hatreds and prejudices. A condition which modern capital- ist society is by no means guiltless. Destruction of school property is something else for the “ex- perts” on juvenile delingency to ponder over. There too they may find it is society and not the in- dividual that is basically at fault. The canker of frustration and ne- glect invariably seeks recompense by unsocial acts, with no more valid explanation than that con- jectured by the Comox Free _ Press; “we couldn’t think of any- thing better to do”. A fine tribute to the insanity of our times. * * * Socred Minister of Highways, Gaglardi has added his two-cents worth to the circle of “experts” expounding on the causes for our terrific toll of highway deaths. Phil insists the prime cause is booze, drinking drivers. He has a point there. Coming however, from a minister whose driving licence has been suspended on a number of occasions for speeding and other driving infractions, Pacific Tribun | ne Editor — TOM McEWEN Associate Editor—MAURICE RUSE Business Mgr.—OXANA BIGELOW Published weekly at: Room 6 — 426 Main Street Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone MUtual 5-5288 Subscription Rates: Canadian and Commonwealth coun- tries (except Australia): $4.00 one year. Australia, United States and all other countries: $5.00 one yer. Authorized as second class raail by. the Post Office Department, Ottawa - and for payment of postage in cash. 1, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 4 _ Phil can scarcely be classed as an authority on “safe driving”. In his case silence would indeed be “golden”. * * * In the Lionel Orlikov case, now “closed”, the RCMP have demon- stratively fulfilled all the func- tions of a police state. First, the essential “Communist smear’, based on the Orlikov- conducted tour. Second, the plant- ing of “suspicion” in the Winni- peg School Board on the “fitness” of Orlikoy to a well-earned scholar- ship. Finally, when these _ slanders just wouldn’t. stand up, the RC- MP graciously (?) “clears” Lionel Orlikov of being “a Red suspect”. The RCMP, prosecutor, judge, U.S. orders-‘achtung’ Roe NATO chief U.S. Gen- eral Lauris Norstad, briefing a press conference in Ottawa last week, “laid it on the line” for Canada. “We are depending on Canada to provide some of the _ tactical! nuclear strike force in NATO”, with the impudent reminder that Canada has “‘faiied in her commit- ments” in respect to nuclear arms in the hands of Canadians. This Yankee general went so far as to declare that failure to equip Canada’s armed forces with nuclear warheads “would degrade the deterrent effect of NATO.” Regardless of the wide opposi- tion of Canadians to having nuc- lear weapons in Canada or in the hands of Canadian troops abroad, apparently held in utter contempt — KUKRINISKI (Pravda) ANOTHER ONE THAT GOT AWAY! by this U.S._.NATO boss, Canada is now expected to “toe the line!” Since the Norstad broadside on what is “expected”’ of Canada by the U.S. nuclear maniacs, Dief- enbaker and his cabinet have been singularly quiet — a bad omen for Canadians. One truth however, can no long- er be .concealed by Tory double- talk and chicanery, viz, that “commitments” for nuclear war- heads in Canada were given in the Tory scrapping of the Avro-Ar- row, and Tory acceptance of Bo- mares and nuclear-carrying: U.S. aircraft. Thus the Norstad blast ~serves one good purpose at least. It rips away the curtain of Tory duplicity and double-talk, and giv- es the people a glimpse of what is being prepared for them, with- out being “informed or consult- ed.” Already Liberal leader Pearson, who served as Dulles’ “Man Fri- day” in the “integration” of Can- ada into the U.S. NATO-NORAD war machine, has let it be known that he is “deeply disturbed” that Canada has failed to live up to her “commitments.” This Liberal echoing of Norstad, directed at the Tories in a cheap attempt to wangle votes, should serve as a warning, as dangerous to the peace and well-being of Canada as Tory hedging. Both spell out dis- aster for Canada. These “commitments” and those who made them must be decisively spurned and rejected by the Canadian people. They con- stitute a standing threat to the peace, independence and dignity: of Canadians. and jury. The police state. ithout any coldwar pressures whatsoever, we have long and freely admitted that in the manufacture and export of a well- known bovine by-product Ameri- ca leads the world. -We weren’t aware however, until a reader sent us a page from the January 3, 1963 Family Herald, that the U.S, state department has now au- thorized the granting of “citizen- ship” to “their bull.” Here’s how that venerable Can- adian journal tells it; “One day last year when the Al- berta Hereford Association was working overtime to get its boat- load of cattle ready for Russia, a certain gentleman from the Federal ‘Bureau of Investigation (FBI) came up from Montana on a very curious mission. He came to ad- vise one of our foothill ranchers that a serious charge had been laid against him in the U.S. for his part in the Russian cattle deal. Said the FBI man, “I have proof here that one of the bulls you have sold to Russia was born in the U.S.A. And that being the case, you can’t sell it to a Communist country without first getting a permit from the American gov- ernment.” 5; : 4 The rancher had indeed bought the bull in the U.S. while he was still a calf, with the purchase and registration duly recorded under Canadian law. To this rancher the bull was “clearly a naturalized Canadian citizen and his future was of no concern to J. Edgar Hoover and Co,” Knowing some- thing of our rugged and freedom loving foothill ranchers, we are sure this one added a good choice round of foothill vocabulary to speed the FBI ‘man from .Mon- tana” on his way. The Russians like Canadian- bred Herefords. They also like Al- berta cattlemen’s frank and friend- ly way of doing business, a rela- tionship which, from the Family Herald story, appears to be pleas- ingly mutual. From the example given by an Alberta rancher the essence of the story is a good one; don’t endan- ger the future of Canada, or that of a good Canadian “citizen” bull —by taking “‘bull” from the FBI or the coldwar lunatic fringe it serves. Moreover, a bit of the Alberta Hereford Association backbone in ~ dealing with whom they choose to, deal with, might serve as a valu- able stiffening in Ottawa against similar interference, intrigue and pressures of the Pentagon and its political police. And that “ain’t bull.” * He a Another reader sent us some clippings from the current edition of the Portland, Oregon Reporter. -puts it, as the “Lord God of Hosts?” It is a question Canadians Among these is a “Merry Christ- mas” display advt. by the Port- land John Birch Society, misquot-, ing Kipling in order to advance the Hitler ‘Me Und Gott” idea that the ‘‘Lord God of Hosts” and the John Birch Society are one and the same? On another page of the above journal is an Associated Press re- lease on U.S. Supreme Court Just- ice William O. Douglas’ new book- let “Freedom of the Mind.” This noted Supreme Court Jus- tice underscores what many Am- ericans (and Canadians) already know; that Pentagon-CIA _ inji trigues and conspiracies at home and abroad not only threaten the freedom and democratic rights of. all Americans, but indeed the free-' dom and peace of the entire world., “Are we,” asks Justice Douglas,: “on the threstsold of re-entering the world of feudalism which Europe left in the 15th ond 16th centuries _.. ?” He could have added. “with the Pentagon casting itself in the role of feudal lord over all’? Or, as the John Birch Society advt. should give a great deal of sober thought to in 1963. A ruling caste that ruthlessly suppresses basic. freedom at home, isn’t likely to champion basic freedoms abroad. Even an Alberta ‘citizen’ bull on his way to the Soviet Union can- vouch for that?