a re fly ing fast and furi-
|'s, 8 4y. Some are flagrant
‘at Ch as the calm assertion
rs 'goslav diplomat who
leatieg weered by nationalist
hu Europe, was killed
hats viet -paid” assassins.
MH asec ruler type lie — if
“tht @ thing strongly
*ough a long enough even
1s Ven 1s no evidence,
in ua the evidence is

eq, ary, it will be be-

Other,
> ima x lies by speculation
ahs, et but “trustworthy”
it ae — and they are in
ti votes, days. In this
mat ont actually say
erg think oy make your
g aS
at ee time there is dang-
ne ay and disarmament,
le. “ots Ministers or brass-
~ the elt the bogey type
biggest SOViets are building
1 My Ba eae they are estab-
Wor ype! base in Cuba or
% the acever, Soviet ships
len Thar or planes in the
hg ; Que ‘ed was the big lie
in cons “ping the credu-
fat Rusgatt fear of an “im-
w the Cold vasion”) that
ae eee 2° long.
UW (or Ty 27e, just plain
ly «O° Lubor Zink) liek,
, bay tora 4 look at the Aug.
Yoo Star, heaq, te, Toronto
Shige Gating ¢, “Neutral no
"pact, 6 With the India-
a Wow! > “hree parag-
Reg? a
| bees pela, India’s prime
| TOW te Indira Gandhi,
_ "St the policy laid

ot

itor. :
pal begins, “By en-

mur

Publi
Mereounee’ eekly ot Fo
ae .C. Phone 685-5288.

00 one year

ontrols

Hees insists :
roe ee VU

with River military alli- ,

Vest Coast edition, Canadian Tr

The big lie again...

down by her father, the late
Jawaharlal Nehru”.

Did you spot it? The funda-
mental untruth there is that one
about the “20-year military al-
liance”. All the rest flows from
it.

Now the India-Soviet friend-
ship treaty is not secret — it
has been published, all its pro-
visions have been presented
and debated in the Parliament
of India and the Supreme Soviet
of the USSR. It is NOT a mili-

alliance!
ean is a section in it that
provides for consultations in the
event that either of the signa-
tories is attacked or threatened
with aggression = consultations

eserve e!
ers you ae lied once, they
say, others come easy. Thus eS
Star weeps that the pact coul
involve India bee

les”, i.e., “the qua e
eer Russia and China”. That’s
the ‘fashionable big lie of our

e.
othe quarrel is between those
who promote peace and those
who foment war. And the Star
is on the side of the war-mak-

gain!
s sthers is hypocritical advice
to the USSR to mediate be-

tween India and Pakistan rather:

than “support of India against
palisten the way Russia zeit
ports the Arabs against Lohan
Yes, there must be “no eet
ination against a; >

ivi : in Te Middle East A
Southeast Asia . - . The fac
that the United Nations neve
strongly and repeatedly demane-
ed that Israel withdraw from oS
cupied Arab territories doesn

cut any ice with the ae

releleleceleresersiestatateteteteteresetstetetetetetetee eben eee

Tri

#,9,0, 0.0. 659,8,9,%.%,9,%,8aPetatatetetetatataterererererentets

Editor—MAURICE RUSH :
td Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hostings St,

. Circulation Manager, ERNIE CRIST

* Canada, $5.00 one year; $2.75 for six months.

! ‘ the: Merica and Commonwealth countries, $6.00 one year.
; *

Ti CAN TRIBUNE

would also be taug

Under the U.S. guns

Monday morning Canadian banker
Robert MacIntosh, on learning of Pre-
sident Nixon’s 10 percent surcharge on
imports, exclaimed that this amounts
to “putting a gun to the head of the
rest of the world.” (Of course, he was
referring to the shrinking capitalist
world.)

Within 24 hours Canada was “under
the U.S. gun” in more than a figurative
sense. Canadian Armed Forces infor-
mation officers warned the public that
“an undisclosed number of big U.S. B-52
nuclear bombers” would take part in
“a little war game” over Ontario on
Tuesday. Some Canadian F-101 jet
fighters would accompany them...

Is it an accident that, after dealing
Canada a body blow with his economic
measures, Nixon followed this up with
a military show of strength over Can-
ada? Was this a Yankee imperialist
warning to Canadians in more senses
than the one which Canada’s brasshats
spoke of in their announcement?

Why was this “little war game” or-
dered at exactly this time when the

masses of Canadians are not just per-:

turbed but angry over Nixon’s econo-
mic war against us and other capitalist

untries? A
» What business do our jet fighters
have escorting U.S. nuclear bombers
for “war games” over Canada?

What business have U.S. bombers of
any kind, and nuclear bombers. most
of all, in Canadian skies?

Do we have to wait until bombs drop,
until Toronto and Montreal suffer the
fate of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, until
Canada is laid waste like most of Maet:
nam before we start kicking them out?

Let’s get out of NATO and NORAD

- at the same time that we release our-

selves from the clutches of the U.S.

liar!
hep defend Canada!

The democratic way

e people of the Ontario city of
Seeeth Falls, over 80 percent of
whom are Brench-speaking, are again
asking that instruction in heir ‘secon-
dary school be conducted in French,
with a new phe ae be built for Eng-

ish- king students.
De a Peasonable request and the
powers that be in Queen’s Park should
grant it — not as a concession but as a
right.

‘e is only one way to settle the
augstion of the language of instruction
in schools, and that is the democratic
way — by lelURe Bela ace: and stu-

selves decide. te

deve ner like to see pupils divided
according to religion | (the seperele
school system is a relic of the past)
or national origin. But the surest way
to divide both students and the people
is by enforcing a aenaee of instruc-
ion not want.

a ey Sere of Sturgeon Falls or
any other community (and they don’t

have to be the majority in a given

Sun ,
area) want instruction in French, that’s

hould have. :
OF pute. A any such school English

ht as a su

=} tit

bject. And —

it would be to the good if in English-
speaking schools in such communities
as Sturgeon Falls (and why not even
where the French-speaking don’t com-
prise such a big portion of the popula-
tion?) the French language was one
of the subjects.

Unity is the fruit of mutual under-
standing and cooperation — never of
domination and coercion.

The family farm

Canadian farmers are up in arms.
In Prince Edward Island they are pro-
testing their plight by blocking the
highways under the leadership of the
National Farmers Union. Across Can-
ada they are boiling mad as well they
may be since they have been handed
down a sentence of ruin and death for
most of them.

We are unctuously told that there’s
no help for it, the small family farms
just can’t compete on the world mark-
ets and they have to go. They must be
swallowed up by the agri-vulture firms
and the few big farmers. Sorry, but
that’s the price we must pay for pro-
gress, the vultures explain. They’re even
willing to subsidize the farmers to go
away—and die?

We don’t oppose. technical progress
in agriculture, and we don’t endow the
family farm life with the sort of mystic
social values Ontario NDP leader Ste-
phe Lewis found in them in his other-
wise commendable defense of the farm-
ers’ interests at a meeting in Oshawa
recently. We have seen too much back-
breaking toil and heartbreak on those
farms to idealize them.

But we are against the vultures of
monopoly and big landowners gobbling
up the family farms and destroying the
men and women who have fed us and
much of the world: by their work.

We want the family farms and the
smal] farmers saved not in order to
impede progress but to carry out that
progress by being enabled, individually
and finally through cooperative action,
to introduce the highest techniques in
farming and at the same time to build
subsidiary industries in their localities.

Otherwise, we’ll suffer what Oliver
Goldsmith described in his “Deserted
Village”:

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills

a prey,

Where wealth accumulates and men

decay.

Pictorial record

It takes a bit of doing to compress 50
years of exciting history — the record
of the Communist Party of Canada in
our country’s momentous past half-
century — in term of photos and com-
mentary in both French and English.
That’s what the C.P. has done-in the
40-page pictorial titled “Fifty Years of
the Communist Party of Canada 1921- ©
19712”

Both space limitation and gaps in
the photographic record that has been
preserved have made this a formidable
job. We are glad to affirm that it is a
job well done.
_ PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1971—PAGE 3