'n the US. last weekend.

Motive

pe Kennedy’s assas-
‘sination took place under
the noses of police and guards
despite the heavy extra pre-
cautions they were said to have
taken.

Now the man the police
charged with the crime has
been shot while actually in
police custody, not by a hid-
den sniper, but by a man
who fired at point-blank range.

The combination of these
two events is bound to increase:
the already strong belief that
something is very rotten in
the Texas town of Dallas.

When murder is done, toes-
tablish where the guilt lies,
it is necessary to ask what the
motive was.

This is even more essential
where political consequences
of such great national and
world proportions are in-
volved, as with President
Kennedy’s tragic death.

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Open joy

It is perfectly plain that ra-
cialist fanatics of the U.S.
regard the President’s mur-
der as their gain.

Many Southern Negro-
haters are openly expressing
their joy at the. removal of the
man they regarded as their
enemy.

“So they got the nigger-
lover — good for whoever did
it’? was typical of many tele-
phone messages received by
Southern newspapers, soon
after the news of the assas-
Sination was published, accor-
ding to a report quoted in the
Sunday Telegraph, which re-
ferred to the ‘‘triumphant

~mood’' of many fanatical
Southern segregationists.

A local radio station broad-
cast comments from a man
who said; *‘I am sure that the
majority of the people of
Alabama feel that Mr. Kennedy
got exactly what he deservd

. . any white man who did
what he did for niggers should
be shot.”’

Race hate

Where racialists are cap-
able of murdering childrenina
church school or shooting men
from ambush, it is obvious
that things have developed to

become deranged by the race
haters’ poison.

But these are not the only
groups to believe they have
gained. There are also the
frenzied anti-Communist and

BR. DAILY WORKER EDI‘ ORIAL

Look for the motive

Vancouver newspapers have quoted sections of a~British Daily
Worker editorial which appeared Monday dealing « ithe tragic events

In view of the fact the capitalist press quoted only sections 0f this sug

nyjicant ed:torial the PT made special arrangements to et the editoria‘
which we here reprint in full. The editorial ts entitled: — Louk Jor the

the point where minds have.

fascist groups, and some great
financial forces involved in the
huge and enormously pro-
fitable arms racket.

They feared that the Presi-
dent had taken the first steps
which could lead to peace, and
to eventual cuts in arms and
profitable contracts,

It is perfectly obvious that
nothing could suit these groups
better than to turn public an-
ger against the Left and pro-
gressive forces in the U.S.

But it is also perfectly plain
that Communist, progressive
and Left people have nothing
whatever to gain from assas-
sination or other acts of in-
dividual terror. :

On the contrary, history has
shown that such events are
always used as excuses to whip
‘up reactionary campaigns.

The Reichstag Fire was one
such example, when the nazis
deliberately engineered the
burning of the Reichstag in
order to launch a campaign of
murder and terror against
their most militant opponents,
the Communists. That was how
the nazis seized power and
then organized their prepara-
tions for war. :

Acts of assassination have
always been utterly alien to
Communist principles, meth-
od and outlook. Lenin repeat-
edly condemned them.

‘¢Only the mass movement
can be considered genuine po-
litical struggle,’’ he wrote.
‘ewe are convinced that the ¢
experience of revolution and
counter-revolution in Russia
has confirmed the correct-
ness of our Party’s opposition
to terrorism,”’ he said.

Many people are asking what
will happen in the U.S, Im-
portant as_ that question
is, what is still more impor-
tant is what we do in Bri-
tain.

For if Britain were to car-
ry out a vigorous foreign pol-
icy of peace, instead of the
present Tory cold-war policy,
this would strengthen the pro-
gressive forces in the US.
and make it far more diffi-
cult for extreme reactionary
policies to gain control.

In this sense, Britain oc-
cupies a key position. The
struggle here to get rid of the
Tory Government and to win
a foreign policy of peace has
assumed greater urgency than
ever,

Oswald

Con't. from Pg. 1

When he wished to return to the
U.S. but lacked the money, he
Went to the American Embassy,
Which gave him the funds upon
the recommendation of a lead-
ing Republican senator from
Texas,

After returning to the U.S.
Oswald told a Cuban counter-
_ Tevolutionary group in Miami

that he wanted to fight the Castro
S0vernment, But in’New Orleans
he claimed to be the local sec-
Tetary of the Fair Play for Cuba
_ Committee,

(According to V. T. Lee, nat-
ional director for the committee,
‘No one named Oswald is an offic-
ial of the committee anywhere
in the u.s.)

In July of this year, said the
W York Times recently, Os-

wald appeared in New Orleans
and offered his help to a leader
of the counter - revolutionary
Cuban exile ‘‘Student Director-
ate."’

The leader, Carlos Bringuier,
told the Times: ‘*I was suspic-
ious of him from the start. Frank-
ly, I thought he might be an agent
from the FBI or the CIA,”’ Os-
wald’s offer of help was turned
down,

After this maze of contradic-
tions, and despite the fact he had
offered military information to a
foreign power, Oswald was never
placed under charges of any kind
by U.S, authorities,

Instead, he was recently grant-
ed a US. passport to go to the
Soviet Union and Europe as a
A photographer”. Strange behav-
jour indeed towards a self-con-
fessed ‘*Marxist”’!

Which road will U.S. take in fight

between moderates and ultra right?

Cont'd from pg. 1
American home affairs during
Kennedy’s presidency - an issue
made even more explosive bythe
time, place and circumstances of
the President’s assassination -
was the question of civil rights
for America’s 20 milli on Ne-
groes.

* * *

Kennedy’s period of office saw
the full emergence of the Ameri-
can Negroes in their demand for
equal rights in law, in the econo-
my and in the schools and univer-
sities of the U.S.

Here again the failure to chal-
lenge the forces of reaction in a
more determined way resulted in
attempts at compromise which
the segregationists made use of
to resist any whittling away ofthe
policy of white supremacy.

And the situation on Kennedy’s
death is that even the emascula-
ted civil rights measure that he
put to Congress, has been held up.

Other issues of home policy
like plans for medical care for
the aged, the limited education
and housing program were killed
stone dead by reaction.

But it was above all on the
questions of foreign policy andthe
allied issue of military expendi-
ture that reaction fought hardest.

Not for nothing did ex-Presi-
dent Eisenhower in his farewell
message warn against the *ftech-
nological military complex’’ and
its influence in every home, every
State and every Federal office in
the country.

The phrase ‘‘technological
military complex’’ was Eisen-
hower’s polite euphemism for the
arms manufacturers, whose pro-
fits have increased by leaps and
bounds with every month and year
of the cold war, and who regarded
even the slightest decrease in in-
ternational tension with horror.

With President Kennedy upping
arms expenditure to an all-time
high in peace to over $50,000
million a year, the profits of the
arms kings had increased and the
mere thought of a cut was ana-
thema.

Nevertheless, the realities of
the world situation, above all the
growing strength of the Soviet
Union and the Socialist camp, to-
gether with the peace forces in
the capitalist countries and the
forces in the newly independent
countries, began to force a
change.

When the American attempt to
strangle Cuba last October failed,
there were signs that the Kenne-

dy Administration had begun to
arrive at a more realistic as-

sessment of the situation.

The fruits of that new realisa-
tion were contained in the partial
nuclear test ban treaty, the es-
tablishment of the Moscow - Wa-
shington hot line, the considera~
tion of extension of East-West
trade and cultural relations,

But even these limited steps
forward roused the hatred and an-
ger of reaction at home and ab-
road, -

ses Oe Rak

Men like the former West Ger-
man Chancellor, Dr. Adenauer
made no secret of their opposi-
tion to the nuclear test bantreaty
or any relaxation of international
tension. :

And U.S. reaction attempted to
present anyone who favored anu-
clear test ban treaty as pretty
much a Red and anyone who fav-
oured Civil Rights to Negroes as
a near - Communist.

This is the situation in which
President Lyndon Johnson takes

over.

This 55-year-old Texan is an-
other millionaire who made his
money in oil and real estate and
who has acquired the reputation
of a master ofthe American poli-
tical machine and a ‘‘fixer.”’

He was the youngest-ever lead-
er of the Democratic majority in
the U.S. Senate and in 1957 was
credited with having steered
through the Senate the first Civil
Rights Bill to be enacted since the
American Civil War.

It would be foolhardy to hope
that this man, himself a South-
erner with a reputation asa
**compromiser,”’ is likely to do
anything to challenge the oil
kings, whose special privileges
in tax: payments, for example,
were questioned by President
Kennedy.

He is certainly not a man of
the New Frontier, and the forces
of reaction are most likely to
feel that now is the momenttoin-
tensify their attack on all fronts.

On international affairs, the
perspective is even more som-
bre, for President Lyndon John-
son is believed to belong to the
Truman-Acheson school, the ad-
vocates of massive nuclear re-
armament who argue that the only
language the Russians understand
is force,

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In his speeches round the world
since he became vice-President,
in 1961, he has shown that the
idea of reduction of international
tension does not suit him.

His visit to West Berlin during
the 1961 crisis was calculated to
stir up the war hysteria, and dur-
ing his visits to other countries
anti-Communism has been his
main theme.

As recently as November 5 he
made a speech calculated to pour
cold water even on the limited
nuclear test ban treaty by declar-
ing that ‘*the Soviet hands’? which
signed the treaty ‘‘are still poised
at the push-button of missiles
aimed at Europe and America.”’

Men and women of good will the
world over will echo the hope ex-
pressed by Khrushchev on behalf
of the Soviet people that ‘‘the
search for settling disputed ques-
tions, a search to which Presi-
dent Kennedy. made a tangible
contribution, will be continued
in the interests of peace, for the

benefit of mankind.’’

But it is not enough to hope.

The forces opposed to such a
search are tremendously power-
ful in the U.S. and they have pow-
erful allies in the capitalist
world, in West Germany and in
Britain, too.

That is why a tremendous res-
ponsibility rests on the peace for-
ces the world over to ensure that
the search continues and more
progress is made on the road to
disarmament and the reduction
of international tension.

Today, more than ever, the
maximum effort is required to
consolidate the limited agree-
ments for peace already reached
and banish for ever the danger of
war,

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ike to call it...
Cuban aid
nears $1,000

Total amount of aid collected
for Cuba in Vancouver so far is
$945.50. In addition to the above

amount, which has been submit- |

ted to the Canada-Cuba Friend-
ship Committee, quite afew indi-
viduals and organizations have
forwarded contributions directly

Latest group to do so is the
Vancouver Civic Employees —
Outside Workers, who last week
mailed a $50 cheque with a letter
to Dr. Americo Cruz, Cuban Am-
bassador to Canada.

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