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Editor—TOM McEWEN

NIXON and ON and ON...

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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

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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.

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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

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