A A, all Al AM UL ssalemnsenmebatail she bovctelesnnill omallledadlr lelah. rm “One man—one vote’ 7 HE proposal of Britain’s Prime Minister Harold Wil- son for “a Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Mission” to Rhodesia in an attempt to head off the threat of Rho- desian Premier Ian Smith's “Unilateral Declaration of Independence” (UDI) is not an evidence of the “high statesmanship” is it touted to be in some political circles. Already the Wilson proposal has received a sour re- ject by racist Premier Smith. With the exception of “my close friend, Prime Minister Robert Menzies’’ of Austra- lia, Smith rejects the other Commonwealth ministers (in- cluding Canada’s Lester B.) with a contemptuous “those people”. In British Guiana, Aden and other trouble spots of our “far-flung empire and commonwealth” Prime Minis- ter Wilson, and the Tories before him, have had no hesi- tation about suspending constitutions, disbanding elected governments, or putting the people under military and police rule. In this at least London can claim parity with Washington. But not in Rhodesia. While they pretend to oppose Premier Smith’s UDI, that is 230,000 white settlers lord- ing it over 4,000,000 voteless Africans in a British “owned” African colony, they fear the inevitable conse- quences of UDI, and prefer the colonial status quot to remain—with some small “concessions,” of course. These might include the possible “appointment” of, a handful of African “ministers” in a “junior capacity” in government affairs; a big hurrah about an. “expanded educational policy’, aimed at teaching the African the “responsibilities of self-government”’, etc. But not a word on the prime objective of four million Africans, expressed in four simple but expression words: “One man one vote”. For the “Labor’’ statesmen in 10 Downing Street the colonial status quo in Rhodesia is preferable to Premier Smith’s UDI. Neither seeks to end the white minority rule, which makes life for four million Africans a verit- able hell on earth, but one, UDI presages disaster, swift and inevitable. As the British Daily Worker puts it: “It is for pre- cisely these reasons—and because of what the status quo means in terms of human suffering and misery to the four million Africans—that the government (British) must be pressed to act now and end white minority rule, _ without waiting to see which way Premier Smith will >2 _8 ‘*splinter’’ groups in the run- “You're not. to talk about peace, or anything else that might upset him at the moment !’ Murder called “good’ AST week External Affairs Minister Paul Martin made one point of Liberal “foreign policy” clearer, viz; that in the event of a Liberal victory at the polls, Canadian military forces will be on their way to Vietnam to join in the U.S. murder of Vietnamese. According to Martin all who question U.S. murder- ous aggresion in Vietnam in its criminal attempts to “stop Communism”, are “ill-informed”. Echoing Martin’s approval of U.S. aggression the Vancouver Sun “apolo- gizes’ for those Vancouverites who had the temerity to question Herr Martin, then informs its readers that “‘the American purpose is good” in Vietnam; that all the blame for U.S. atrocities “lies in Hanoi and Peking”. During and after World War II the Hitlerite war cri- minals used much the same argument in defense of their crimes against humanity. Martin’s concept of what is “good” is bad for Canada. It is imperative that it be cor- rected November 8. Thus if ‘‘majority’’ govern- ments were the ‘‘solution’’ to Canada’s ills, we’ve had lots of them since 1867, But, as the ancient philosopher Aesop so fit- tingly wrote apropos ‘‘majority’’ Liberals emerged with 171 seats: to the Tory 39, with no less than ning for the balance, including the Tory Herridge ‘‘New Democ- racy’’ party in a desperate effort to salvage something from the government, ‘The Mountain wreck of the ‘‘Iron Heel’’ Ben- labored , .. and brought forth nett pirate regime, a mouse,’’ Well not quite a, n their touching appeal for votes, always well larded with extravagant *promis- es’*, L. B, Pearson and his Lib- eral entourage of aspiring candi- dates rarely miss an opportunity to extol the ‘‘urgent need’’ of ‘*majority’’ government to ‘‘get things done,’’ In Vancouver last week Ex- ternal Affairs Minister Martin is reported to have said ‘*God help Canada if it isn’t a Liberal majority’’, For the record a few million Canadians (including this one) can promptly reply, ‘*God help Canada if it is,’’ Since the first Parliament of Canada, July 1, 1867 to Nov, 6, 1873, the Tories, or the ‘Pro- gressive-Conservatives” as some of them dubbed themselves 78-years later (in an attempt to stem the tide of political oblivion) have had no less than ten distinct ‘*majority’’ govern- ments, seven of these with very substantial majorities, Similarly since Confederation, the Liberals have had no less than thirteen distinct majority governments, some of them real whopping ones, capable of imple- : menting any or all pre-election **promises’’ had they so desir- ed, but didn’t, In the years of World War I we had the Tory Borden govern- ment which, in its second term in office became a ‘Unionist’’ government under the ageis of a **National Liberal and Conserva- ~ tive Party,’’ an alliance which split French and English Canada on conscription, made ‘‘democ- racy safe’’ for the Bankers Asso- ciation, and together gave Canada some of her best and biggest graft and corruption scandals, An art in which both old-line parties excel, whether together or’ apart, Along about that time deep schisms in the ranksof Tweedle- dee and Tweedledum also began to show up, followed later by breakaways, Thus we had **Laurier-Liberals’’, ‘‘Independ- ent-Liberals’’, ‘‘Independent- Conservatives’, ‘‘United Farm- Labor’’, plus Tory H.H, Stevens’ one-man ‘*Reconstruction” party, The Social Credit plague didn’t appear on the scene until later. In the 1935 general election the (Any similarity between the Tory Herridge NDP of that era with the NDP of today or its veteran MP from West Kootenay “is purely coincidental,”) In the 1945 Liberal ‘‘majority’’ with its 184 Grits to 39 Tories, the ‘‘brand new world’’ promised after World War II held noattrac- tion for the King-St, Laurent top- heavy majority, They had other *