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By PEGGY CHUNN

From this corner’s point of
view, only one thing should be
concerning each and every one
of.us at this moment: What can
we do to make certain that the
war in South East Asia is not
escalated into a world thermo-
nuclear disaster,

Surely there is no one with
the least spark of humanity and
compassion who can condone what
the. Pentagon is doing to the people
of North and South Vietnam, They
make no pretence any more of
being there to preserve “free-
dom,” to ensure “democracy” or
any other claims they formerly
said necessitated their presence
in that unhappy land,

What is going onthereis stark,
unadorned aggression by the Gov-
ernment of the United States...
and it is being carried out by
American troops and their native
trainees with such bestiality as
to be beyond human understand-
ing.

John Kirkwood, special cor-
respondent, Vancouver Sun had
this to say on March 4, 1965,
reporting an interview with some
American officers inSaigon: “We
are now supplying the friendly
forces with the standard Ameri-
can Army M-26 fragmentation
hand grenade,” an American cap-
.' tain told me nonchalantly, “It’s
a fine weapon, It bursts into 850
to 1,000 white-hot fragments of
metal that will make a man look
like a hamburger, It has an ex-
cellent kill effectiveness.” .,.A
lieutenant added enthusiastically,

“The Claymore nine we’re using

has an absolutely beautiful kill
effectiveness —just beautiful.”

* * *

It is not too long ago that the
world was appalled when the son
of Fascist Dictator Mussolini
expressed the same kind of senti-
ments when describing the * beau-
tiful effect” of bombs landing in
defenceless people and villages
during Mussolini’s invasion of
Ethiopia in the 1930’s, What is
even more disturbing than the
expression of brutality of two
professional mercenaries, is the
fact that the President of the
United States, who can mouth
such lovely phrases about free-
dom, dignity, brotherhood, etc,,
has not only given approval to
what his country is doing but is
exerting the most extreme pres-
sure inside and out of the USA
to support it,

Again from The VancouverSun,
March 2/65, the report of a White
House reception for congress-
men,
Brings Response” describes how
a Congressman named Church,
@who just a few days previously
had delivered a blast against U.S,

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policy in South Vietnam), was
taken aside by President Lyndon
Johnson and asked whom he had
talked to before he made that
speech, “Walter Lippman,” was
the reply. (Lippman has been
calling for a negotiated peace in
Veitnam,) The President of the
United States replied, “Well, the
next time you want adam in Idaho,
talk to Lippman, not to me,”

More chilling than the cold and
callous statements by the Presi-
dent, was the fact that the news
report went on to say that “Since

then, Church, a wise domestic

politician, has toned down his
views on Vietnam . .. publicly,
tre is no longer anti-Johnson, no
longer anti-wider war.” Fortun-
ately, not all people are subject

to such pressure, and through-.

out the world, millions are dem-
onstrating in a number of ways
their desire for an end to the
fighting, and for immediate ne-
gotiations,

She ies ak

What can you do to help stop
this mass murder of innocent
people? One of the most simple,
and easiest of things to do is
to put your thoughts on paper and
send them to those people in
government who are in aposition
to take action to halt the war...
write letters, again, and again,
and again, Write to President
Johnson protesting his govern-
ment’s ‘actions which have
brought us to the brink of all-
out war, and demand an immedi-
ate halt to the fighting, and re-
moval of all American troops and
military weapons from Vietnam;
write to the Canadian Prime
Minister, urging Canada to use
her influence to help bring about
a just, negotiated peace, Write
to the United Nations, supporting
U Thant’s proposal for a nego-
tiated peace, Write to your own
Member of Parliament urging
him to speak up for positive ac-
tion by Canada to avert world
war, Write letters to the papers,
and encourage others to do like-
wise,

The choice of taking time to sit
down and write some letters to
help achieve peace or, by one’s
silence, tacitly supporting poli-
cies, which include grenades
“which make a man look like
hamburger,” should not be a dif-
ficult one for any sane, and hu-
mane person to make, If each of
us did that, and in addition got
some others to do the same, we
would also move their friends
into action, repeating the effort
over and over with other Cana-
dians, a clear and decisive de-
mand “TO STOP THIS DIRTIEST
OF WARS IN VIETNAM—NEGO-
TIATE NOW” would be heard
ringing across our land, It would:

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U.S. affack on C.P. aims
fo silence war criticism

Gus Halli, leading spokesman
for the Communist Party, U,S.A.,
called the reindictment of the
CP under the registration pro-
visions of the “monstrous Mc-
Carran Act . .. part and parcel

OBITUARY |

at

James Blakey

In failing health for a number
of years, yet struggling to keep
working up until his last day,
James Blakey, vetern Communist
and trade unionist, passed away
on March 6th in his 67th year,

A shipyard worker from boy -
hood in Jarrow near Newcastle,
England, Jim Blakey came to
Canada in 1923, following his
trade for many years in the
Prince Rupert shipyards and
later in the Victoria yards,
During those years Jim played
an active role in the building of
the Marine Workers Union,

In the years of the Hungry
Thirties Jim also took an active
part in the organization of the
unemployed, and particularily in
the. organization of the Relief
Camp Workers Union. He joined
the Communist Party back in
19388 and was consistently active
for many years until ill-health
slowed him up, :

_While a resident in Victoria .

Jim was one of the Party’s most
active literature salesmen,
chalking up in one year an un-
excelled individual effort total-
ling a $700 distribution.

Under the supervision of the
B.C. Memorial Society , James
Blakey willed his body to medical
science and-his eyes to an eye
bank, A Memorial Service for
James Blakey will be held on
Friday, March 12th at 8 p.m,
in the Hastings Community
Centre. He is survived by his

wife Doris Blakey, oneson, Allan . |

in Vancouver, and by four sisters
and one brother, all resident in
England, The family has re-
quested donations to the Pacific
Tribune in lieu of flowers.

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NOTICES

of the futile and brazen war drive
of the Johnson Administration,”

Originally the date for the trial
under the new ruling was set for
March 16th, However, when At-
torney Joseph Forer, represent-
ing the Communist Party in the
upcoming court case, appeared
at the U,S, District Court on
March 5th, the government at-
torney asked for consolidation of
indictments against the Party,
Consequently Judge Matthew Ma-
guire set a new date for the trial,
which is now October 11,

Mr, Forer argued against both
the procedure and the long-de-
layed date of the trial, asserting
that the request for consolidation
of charges indicate the govern-
ment did not think its case onthe
first indictment was very strong
and sought to bolster it, He said
also the seven-month delay is a
denial of the constitutional right
to speedy trial. Forer’s argu-
ments were overruled,

Informed observers are of the
opinion that the repeated delays
indicated a reluctance onthe part
of the government to come to
grips with the constitutional
issues involved in the McCarran
Act, Some believe the Department
of Justice, knowing the lawis un-
enforceable, prefers to have the
McCarran Act suspended over the
heads of the people to intimidate
them and discourage all expres-
sions of dissent.

Gus Hall told a press confer-
ence that the “new indictment is
another example of the Adminis-
tration’s policy of talking one
thing and practising another,”

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hesitatingly embarked upol
socialist path,” President Bou!
ghiba of Tunisia stated here di
ing a recent visit, d

While accepting an honor
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