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iclory vain a smear

.S. astronaut Commander Alan
Shepard’s successful flight
last Friday marks yet another his-
toric milestone in man’s conquest
of space. Lobbed into space by a
rocket the capsule carrying Shep-
ard reached a height of 115-miles,
arcing down in the Atlantic some
290 miles from its starting point.
at. Cape Canaveral. Maximum
speed was estimated at 5,100-mph.
After what must have been a
nerve-racking experience sitting
atop the Redstone rocket for 2%
hours before blast-off, Shepard re-
turned from his 15-minute flight
into space in top condition.

Objectively, despite the heavy
spate of U.S. coldwar propaganda
before and since the U.S. astro-
naut’s flight, the Shepard achieve-
ment in all its essentials can only
be regarded as a very valuable
contribution to scientific research
in the realm of space conquest.

That fact, however, doesn’t
seem to meet the requirements of
U.S. coldwar super-ego and bomb-
ast. U.S. “prestige” was also
hitched to the Shepard space cap-
sule, hence their need to ‘play-
down’ the Russian Yuri Gagarin
109-minute journey orbiting the
Earth 23 days before Shepard took
his epic 15-minute ride up—and
down.

In this the U.S. brainwashers
are working overtime attempting
to ‘prove’ that the Gagarin flight
‘never happened’ and hence the
U.S. is “first” as always.

The May 1 edition of U.S. News
and World Report dedicates two
pages on the “mystery” of tha
Gagarin flight, designed to estab-
lish the idea that it just ‘didn’t
happen’, while Ed. Sullivan on his
last Sunday TV show told his
audience that “America does
everything open and above board

In Geneva U.S. foreign-secre-
tary Dean Rusk won’t talk “peace”
untill he is assured a genuine
“cease fire” is in effect in Laos.

In Laos U.S. imperialism is do-
ing its best to see that no such
“cease fire” takes place.

Pacific Tribune

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. . . and the whole world now
knows of Alan Shepard’s heroic
feat”, whereas in respect to Yuri
Gagarin orbiting the Earth, “
have no proof other than Soviet
propaganda”?

This “great American” brain-
washer forgot that the leading
scientists of his country had
checked and accepted Gagarin’s
flight while he was still in orbit.
He also forgot that the U-2, Cuba,
Allan Dulles’ ‘Project X’ and sun-
dry other exploits of U.S. policy
fell far short of his “open and
above board” caricature of the
Shepard achievement.

Scientists and historians of this
age and of the future will record
the names of two youthful and
heroic pioneers in reaching out to
other worlds in space; Yuri Gag-
arin the Russian and Alan Shep-
ard the American. On the mighty
contribution both made in man’s
probing of the universe beyond the
realm of Earth; a probing which,
in this history-making age the
Communist effort dedicates to
peace — and U.S. imperialism and
its hired propagandists, to the pro-
motion of falsehoods, national hat-
reds, and war psychosis. A sorry
‘tribute’ to America’s first astro-
naut.

” Detition tor su rvival

HE petition sponsored by the
Canadian Committee for the
Control of Radiation Hazards
(CCCRH) merits the attention and
whole-hearted support of all peace-
loving Canadians.

Initial signatories launching this
petition consist of many promin-
ent Canadians; - educationalists,
churchmen, journalists and others,
deeply concerned with the preser-
vation of mankind from the hor-
rors of nuclear destruction.

Addressed to the government of
Canada, the petition declares:
“We the undersigned oppose the
spread of nuclear weapons to any
country or military alliance not
now possessing them. We petition
the Canadian government to re-
ject nuclear weapons for the armed
forces of Canada and to prohibit
their installation on Canadian
soil.”

Alarmed at the steadily growing
support for such a petition among
all sections of the Canadian
people who are daily becoming
more conscious of the menace of
radiation hazards and the stock-
piling of these monstrous weapons
of mass destruction, there are
croaking voices already attempt-
ing to utilize the anti-Soviet
bogey in order to weaken and ob-
struct the purpose and urgency of

the CCCRH petition. 4
In its May 4 edition The!)
ince asks editorially “ATER
nuclear petitions in Russia]
answers its own questiol}
Yankee imperialism’s store
viz: that Western power
not strip themselves of “
sive deterrent of the ool
their professed enemies 1%)
armed to the teeth.” ‘
Were The Province inter)
factual journalism it would),
that not only are there peay
tions in Russia containing ™ p.
of signatories for peace. al
the banning of nuclear W
but Soviet: government pea
cies calling for total disat™
and the abolition of war if)
forms; peace policies om
with the desires of all
dating from the Resa pi
tion of 1917 down to the ™ ‘| '
cent sessions of the Unilf
tions. Peace policies whic
monopoly journals like T va
ince invariably misrepre
blackout with the same —
tongue it now uses to thro
picion and distrust on the~
petition.
The CCCRH petition rx :
another important mass efit 13
survival and peace. In tha
it commands wide support:

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Tom
McEwen

EW York’s “finest” were
N swinging their blackjacks in
Union Square busting up an alleg-
ed “communist” rally. A burly
cop with his blackjack poised
bore down on one of the audience.
‘Don’t hit me officer’ protested
the intended victim, “I’m an anti-
Communist”. As he lowered the
boom the minion of. “law-and-
order” retorted: “I don’t give a
good g——d what kind of a
Communist you are. Git th’ hell
out of here.”

The modern coldwar crusader
against Communism is much of
the. same mental calibre as the
New York cop. To the rabid “anti”
anything and everything that
doesn’t conform, is “communism.”

Thus for example, when one of
the high priests of ‘Canadian In-
telligence” one Ron Gostick re-
cently paid a short and somewhat
stormy visit to Vancouver, he had
the University of British Colum-
bia, its president Dr. Norman Mc-
Kenzie, Sun columnist Elmore
Philpott and sundry other centres
and individuals branded as “hot
beds of Communism.”

Since most of these well-sub-

sidized ‘‘antis’’ are viciously anti-

’ Semetic, Gostick unloaded a heavy

barrage of literary garbage against
the Zionist, B’nai B’rith and other
Jewish organizations and leaders.

_In the Gostick mentality all who

oppose or show ‘concern at the
re-arming of West Germany are
branded as ‘‘communist.”

In the U.S. Time magazine,
(March 10), itself no slouch in
the art of anti-communist smear, is
an article on the “John Birch
Society,” an “elite corps’ of anti-
commuist propagandists, who as-
sume it as their special mission
in life to fight “communism.”

Thus we learn from Time com-
ment on these “John Birch” torch-
bearers for fascist ‘reaction. that
golfer Ike, a tool of the Communist
Party, is guilty of ‘treason’ to
America; that “Central  Intelli-
gence Association” (CIA) boss Al-
len Dulles is the “most untouch-
able supporter of Communism,
next to Eisenhower himself,’ while
the late and most decidely un-
lamented John Foster Dulles was
nothing more than “a Communist
agent.”

A few days ago in one of his
press conferences outlining his
government ‘‘policy,’? President
Kennedy declared his intention of
“saving this system (capitalism) at
whatever the cost.”

The “Birch” boys and their car-
bon copies in similar ‘‘anti’’ organ-
izations “pledge” themselves to
the same end. At the moment in
their crusade against ‘“commun-

ism” they are. mounting 4 ‘
campaign in several states for 4
“open-shop-right-to-work” ona
of the National Manufact
Association in the U.S. and ©
ada. “Reuther will rule met
they tell us, “unless You do 8)
thing about it ... your futw

threatened, don’t lose everyil
you cherish. . don’t let Oe

ganized minorities led by the
ruin Your country,” etcett
so on. i

Recently Dief said somethy
the same when he “warned”
dians that the prime issue i
next federal election wou :
“socialism” versus “Follow
Well, we’ve certainly had 4
of the latter.

Over in Victoria Premie!
nett, not far removed from 4
“Birch” bunkum, prides “se
on having “saved” B.C. 14
“socialism” on numerous occ i

We haven’t mentioned
Re-armament” in this scabby *,
of “anti? Canutes who are
to see the “communist mentee
every advance of human Peat
towards peace and social ®
But whether the name 3 ‘tl
“Dr.” Buchmann, John Birch i
Gostick or whatever, the P
who pay the shot in millions gf
consider it money well spent, Cd |
the big monopolists and
multi-partisan governments: jj”

Mix the lot and what an ?
political omelette emerges ~ jf
big business and its piels
it that way.

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May 12, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE~