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‘Sympathy in crime

ONDAY of this week was
declared a “Day of Mourn-

ing” by the Negro people of South

Africa. On that day they buried
their dead, bandaged their wound-
ed, and prayed. At the mass grave-
side a world also mourned with
the African Negro peoples, be-
cause in their massacre it saw as

‘in a mirror, the indignity of its
own moral shame.

There were some who didn’t

_ mourn, but only feared, and hoped,

by fine meaningless words to allay
public indignation and _ thereby
shield the white African. racist
killers, misnamed a “government.”

In Ottawa a Tory government
“deplored” the mass ‘murder of
Negro people in South Africa by
the Verwoerd racist government,
but regards the Negro massacre
as “an internal affair”, and there-
fore plans no diplomatic or other
protest against African “apart-
heid” (race segregation) policies.

Britain’s Tory government has
gone one better. It has expressed

- “sympathy with all’ the people of

S.A. (including the killers), then
sent out its police in droves,
mounted and on foot, to club down
British people demonstrating be-
fore South Africa House in Lon-
don; demonstrating their sym-
pathy, support and _ indignation
with the Negro peoples of Africa.

From the number of “anti-
apartheid” demonstrations

_ throughout Britain by working

people, trade unions, Labor party
and people in all walks of life, it is
already clear the MacMillan gov-
ernment no more represents the
sentiments of the British people,

- than does Diefenbaker “deploring”

on this issue.
This tory aloofness to “inter-
vene in the affairs of another

_ state” is a contemptible sham, and.

does not square with their anxiety
and readiness for

They show no such “propriety”
or squeamishness when it comes to
“intervening” in the internal af-
fairs of Socialist or progressive
states, as their interventionist ree-
ord over the past several decades
well illustrates.

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Editor — TOM McEWEN
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When Tories (or their Liberal
tWins) practise “non - interven-
tion”, as they did to crucify Span-
ish democracy in the late 30’s,
thereby opening the way for the
butchers Franco, Hitler and Mus-
solini, their class interests were
the determining factor in their
“non-intervention’”. Today their
“non-interference” is a piece of the
same cloth, serving as a filthy
curtain behind which they hope to
hide the racist crimes of one of
their own — the white “apart-
heid” killers who govern enslaved
Africa with the whip, the club, the
prison compound and the machine
gun. ae

How different with Hungary,
People’s China, the Soviet Union,
British Guiana, Cuba; in a dozen
other nations where class interests
are at stake. Then Tory (ard Lib-
eral) intervention was (and is)
both prompt and arrogant. But the
brutal murder of .Negro people by
White racists in Africa, our Tories
can only “deplore” or offer a sham
“sympathy to all’.

The issue must be faced square-
ly; those who remain silent in face
of this hideous crime, are them-
selves morally guilty. Canada must
take a clear and unequivocal stand
against the tyranny of racist
segregation in all its evil forms.

_No civilized nation can do less.

ANADA’S reckless “defense”

spending goes up and up. So
do the people’s tax burdens, living
costs and insecurity. So also do
monopoly profits, unemployment
totals, and crime statistics.

- The only thing that doesn’t go
“up” with all the other “ups” is
Canada’s “main defense” weapon,
the dormant Bomarc B missile.

These factors are as closely
related as Siamese twins. Reckless
Tory “defense” spending and ex-
cessive tax burdens, flow directly
from the stupidity of Tory policies
and Tory subservience to the dic-
tates of aggressive U.S. war
maniacs.

The Bomarce B missile, for which
the taxpayer will pay a round $125
million or so for launching bases
and equipment, stays close to the
ground. So much so that its U.S.
promoters who sunk $450 million
of their taxpayers’ money trying
to get it off the ground, have now
decided on an “appropriations”
cutback — from an annual $421
million down to $50 million. A sure
sign that Bomarc B is already on
the way to the “obsolete” scrap-
heap.

U.S. armament manufacturers,
operating on much the same tech-

Blimps and bomarcs |

nique as the old. snake-oil pet
used on suckers as a sure-fire oa

for all ills, after having press
Diefenbaker and Company hich
Scrapping the Avro Arrow W off
(like the Bomare B) never go
the ground, sold the Tories 09 —
Bomare B as our “main defer
weapon. With the Bomare B 10 i
.on the obsolete list, the Canadiat
taxpayer sees another $125 millio

following the Avro Arrow °".

million down the “defense” dral

proportions, with nothing to show

for it except a Tory “defense
minister “Blimp”, whose exuber-
ant “optimism” for the Bomare
verges on senility.

Thus, thanks to Tory subservi-
ence to Washington, Canada

stuck with another costly “de

fense” dud, and the overburdened
taxpayer rooked for another $125
million for “defense” against noth-
ing. Meantime tax burdens Mr
crease with hundreds of munich
palities crying out for needed

schools, hospitals, social services;
jobs, farm security, but get noth-
ing in return except Tory “prom
ises”, Tory “defense” extrava-
gance, and a “Colonel Blimp”. °P-
timism bordering on the insane. ~

intervention |
’ when it serves their class interests.

Tom
McEwen

OST every one has heard the
M cry. of “free elections.” It has
a very high rating on the coldwar
hit parade. When spokesmen of
our “free West” tell the peoples of
Socialist countries how their
affairs should be run, the ‘free
elections’ theme is always tossed
in with a virtuous flourish. These
“free” world Andy Gumps, from
Diefenbaker down to your nearest
local labor faker, are tireless in
their yakkity-yak about - “free

~ elections.” /
Thus People’s China may only
be “admitted into the community

permits her people to have “free
elections.”

‘German unity will also only be
“realized” when the “Kremlin”
allows ‘‘free elections,’ presum-
ably in the German Democratic

Union with all of its titanic
achievements in every field of hu-
man progress, is lost.to_our ‘‘free-
way-of-life’ because of its laek of

of free nations’ (???) when she ~

Republic. Even the great Soviete

‘free elections.”

» There’s a lot of gimmicks in this
“free elections’. ballyhoo | that
won’t bear too close a look-see.

Beginning with ourselves (always
a good idea), we sure have ‘free
elections.”

_ We can vote for a Tory, Liberal,
Socred, CCF, or any rump com-
bination of either or all. Tweedle-
dee, Tweedledum, Tweedle-be-
damned; in either care we are
“free” to make a “free” choice. In
either case of course we make a
choice which, by tradition, custom,
and the status quo, (with minor
variations) provides us with a gov-
ernment subject to the rule and
dictates of monopoly capital.

Just to demonstrate how ‘“‘free”
we really are we even permit
Communists to run in our “free
elections,” just so long as there
is no danger of their too numerous
victories at the polls. When that
Igmppens we throw our “free elec-
tions” into the ashcan, and boot the +
peoples’ “free choices” out, as was
done in British Guiana and more
recently in Kerala, India.

Two of these ‘free elections” so
highly touted by the “Free West”
have just recently taken place. The
‘free ‘elections’ in Taiwan (For-
mosa) shows the U.S. State De-
partment’s resident “democrat”
Chiang Kia-shek “returned unani-
mously without opposition.” With
an “open” ballot, plus a false bot-

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tom in the ballot box well stuffed -
ahead of time, plus U.S.-directed
fixed bayonets pinch-hitting for re- -
turning officers, how could such 2
“free election” candidate fail? -

Up in South Korea another U.S. —
“democrat” and pillar of the. “free -
world” won the race in the presi-
dential elections. Unlike gangster
Chiang, Rhee had an “opposition”
candidate, who had the foresight
to conveniently die before election
day, thus averting a “free elec-
tion” crisis and leaving Rhee 4
clear field.

The Rhee ‘free elections” were
marked by a score or more deaths
and with hundreds injured and
wounded in an orgy of government —
‘and military violence against the
people voting.

Even the U.S. State Department
press officer, Lincold White felt —
compelled to express “‘deep regret” ~
at the conduct of this ‘free elec- ~
tion,” pointing out that since the
U.S. boasts that South Korea is
“a free nation,” that the “free —
elections” held in South Korea ~
must be “extended to the whole
of Korea,” therefore the Rhee-U.S.
latest “free election” fiasco can
only be “regretted.” 4

When coldwar propagandists -
speak of “free elections” they have
one prime desire in mind; to turn
the clock of history back, and re- —

store world hegemony to: imperial- :
ist cannibalism.

April 1, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page

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