| and 4 from A SAN CLEMENTE oe N CLEMENTE, Calif.—An ed 10,000 anti-war pro- hs eee in front of, 4 found President Nixon's a 'esplendent. new summer resi- Ence, Aug. (Pe, c.€Y came from adjoining ane. Pendleton, a Marine ates base of some 25,000, ed points throughout €rn California as well as : sia other parts of the Nixon administration 1S action was but the first. of many to come unless ei | th —People’s World e “SECURITY °*"' eres Foreign Minister An- fo, /omyko in an important Orej P cent Policy speech to the OVvj ‘tin Moscow, outlined how | lective So understands col- “gions €Curity in different re- of the world, including 7 must pest collective security ected universal and not dir- Secon feet any country. Conimior it must. emphasize conker n efforts and general the: N for peace, keeping in | whi [ckground = differences A fittles The exist between coun- Spirit. eve it must affirm the Neighbor’ Practice of good all ne} ey relations between it cites pouting states. Fourth, Mic. .0& backed by econo- Cogn. entific and technical ing. eo on an equal foot- D felaee ¢ it must proceed from Policy Or the non-alignment responds neutrality of cor- Wit p19 Countries and last- B fo oan be embodied in the Solution mutually acceptable . treaty) << (and sealed in a Dy egos atter a whole round of es and study of a Sven Problem. * é & Editor—TOM McEWEN NIXON and ON and ON... BEN RSe. 1/. War in Vietnam was ended. — ren, \ Aba West Coast edition, Canadian Tribune A cans eR a HISTORY MIGHT HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT On June 2, 1939, the Soviet government handed its part- ners in the talks its draft pact on mutual aid for preventing aggression in Europe. But this draft was not destined to be implemented: The subsequent talks at military mission level got bogged down in fruitless delays It is interesting that such a politician as Winston Church- ill makes, ‘in his memoirs, the following assessment of the 1939 talks: There can be however no doubt even in the afterlight, that Britain and France should have accepted the Russian offer... . The alli- ance of Britain, France and Russia would have struck deep alarm into the heart of Germany in 1939, and no one can prove that war might not even then have been averted. The next step could have been taken with superior power on the side of the Allies. The initiative would have been regained by their diplomacy. Hitler could afford neither to em- bark upon the war on two fronts, which he himself had so deeply condemned, nor sustain a check. ... If Mr. Chamberlain on receipt of the Russian offer had re- plied: “Yes. Let us three band together and break Hitler's neck’’ or words to that effect, Parliament would have approved. . . . History might have taken a different course’ Thus, the Second World War could have been prevented had the Soviet Union, Britain and France resolutely formed in good time a united front against Hitler. Soviet Life - - Associate Editor —MAURICE RUSH Vv Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St., GNncouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. Subscription Rate: Canada, $5.00 one year; $2.75 for six months. oth and South America and Commonwealth countries, $6.00 one year. 8 Sein All other countries, $7.00 one year. Second class mail registration number 15 SESRRRRA EAR lity for Canada Sheep shearing Since he became Prime Minister, Pierre Elliot Trudeau has delivered himself of a number of pronouncements on vital matters. One of his recent most ominous ones was on inflation which, in his words, “makes so many people suffer.” Mr, A. Searle Leach, president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce (which, in the words of one of its mem- bers “does not come across as an orga- nization that cares about people... .”) welcomed the Prime Minister’s address. Mr. Leach said, ““We have been effec- tive in imparting to governments our feelings about what the role of govern- ment should be. We realize that in fight- ing inflation, our interests and those of the government are the same; When the Prime Minister made his .recent television speech on the subject of gov- ernment actions to curb inflation it was interesting to hear him use some of the same phrases I used a year ago in a presentation to him on this subject.” © Interesting, indeed. How very right Lenin was when he said, “Governments manage the affairs of the capitalist class, and the managers are well paid. The managers are shareholders. them- selves. And they shear the sheep to- gether, under cover of speeches about ‘patriotism’.” Tinkering with justice On August 26, the amendments to the criminal code became the law of the land. Almost everyone will agree with liberalizing rigid and punitive laws, en- ‘acted in a less enlightened historical era. However, the point must be made that the amendments are less signifi- cant than the authorities would have us believe. The process of “liberaliza- tion” is simultaneously both an ac- knowledgement of the need to do so, combined with a conscious effort by the capitalist state to head off social unrest--a sort of safety release as it were. 2 ; It goes hand-in-glove with the in- creasing tendency of the media to make a big fuss about some individual wrong, often a spectacular case. Since these so-called exposures rarely lead to any basic changes, they can often be. classi- fied simply as an exercise in muckrak- ing. The amendments to the criminal code have really left untouched the main in- justices endured by the nore of our country. Here are a few problems that need. to be written into law, and en- forced: e Full equality for women. Full equa- s Native Peoples..Make anti-Semitism a legal offense. Full equa- lity for all people, regardless of sex, race, nationality or religion. e The right of every Canadian to a good education, a eae job, adequate medical care, and adequate leisure. e Equal opportunity for every child in our country, no matter where he or she lives. Job opportunities and train- ‘ing for Canada’s youth. A youth bill of rights. ee ee sie tate tenk 1—_¥ae| 4 e The right of every Canadian to a decent home. These, of course, are but a few of the needs of Canadians. But what is important is that these are rights that capitalism doesn’t guarantee by law, but which socialism does guarantee. Hustle wheat, Mr. PM It is reported that Saskatchewan’s Premier, Ross Thatcher, will discuss the possibility of bartering wheat for power generators with Japan’s deputy minister of foreign affairs. The Mani- toba government is also taking a look at this possibility. ; Their actions confirm the contention that provincial governments have wide powers under the BNA Act to deal with questions of trade, price control and production. It does more than that. It opens up the entire question as to why the Trudeau administration has not.de- veloped new, far reaching, trade poli- cies, so'urgently required as mountains of surplus food pile up. Obvicusly, the monopolies, for whom he speaks, ,have no intentions of so doing. The story broke in the press at a time when a United States’ Depart- ment of Agriculture official is reported to have told Japanese officials that ‘it would be ready to “adjust” its wheat prices to make them competitive. Can- ada has adjusted its prices downward, already, and we can be sure that furth- er price cuts are in the offing. The development of mutually advan- tageous trade, through an imaginative expansion of the rather limited but re- vealing lines Thatcher and Sthreyer open up, could go a long way to helping » solve the prairie wheat farmer’s di- lemma. And pass the hamburg Many books have been written about the bizarre life of the rich. The other day a Canadian newspaper carried con- firmation in its reporting. of a social event attended by Henry Ford and other wealthy aristocrats. — You won’t believe it if we tell it to you in our own words, so we quote from the story itself: “The scampi, fish, steak and baked potatoes stuffed with caviar were bare- ly out of: the way before the guests joined ... in singing .. . at least one rollicking lyric in faint praise of Il Duce, the late Benito Mussolini. “It is unclear just who threw the first unshelled almond, although there were those who suspected the Marquis, Spain’s gregarious heart surgeon and Generalissimo Francisco Franco’s son- in-law... “. . Before long the guests were lobbing the champagne glasses into the fire... Just when it looked as if there might be a lull, the Spaniard, who owns the restaurant, fired a cap pistol or threw another chair on the fire.” Had any of today’s youth dis rted themselves in like fashion, they'd have been quickly clapped in irons. Here, in these few sentences, is laid out the decadent and indecent life of the rich which demeans the dignity of man. E—SEPTEMBER 5, 1 TRIBUN 62851992 —FUUGIAT S