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_ Peace is real emergency’

JHE St. Laurent government. is asking par-
liament to.declare a state of “national em-
ergeney,”: Coming as it does close in the wake
of the “national emergency” already declared
by the Truman administration, it is indisput-
able proof of the contention that the St. Laur-
ent govertiment is serving the role of a menial

in, the ramshackle house of American imper- *

ialism.

There is no emergency in Canada that is
not of the government’s own making in the
service of American: imperialism. .

_ There is an American war of intervention
in Korea, that is no less American because it,
is conducted “under the United Nations’ flag.
There is'a threat of war with China. But the
overwhelming desire of the Canadian people
is for an en{ to the war in Korea and for
peace negotiations with China

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If the St. Laurent government recognizes

this as an emergency, it has it within its pow- |

ers to end it by recognizing the People’s Re-
pubic of China and using its influence with-

in the UN to promote the negotiations for:

which China has consistently held the door
open.

But the government’s “emergency” is
clearly a means of obtaining the coercive pow-
ers it requires to stifle the people’s demand
for peace and to promote Wall Street’s de-
mand for war, The “emergency” reflects the

“government's desire, indicated by the proposed

amendments to the Citizenship Act, to destroy
the civil liberties by which the people are pres-
‘sing their demand for peace.

The “emergency” is a sham and a fraud.
All progressives, all’ sections of labor, should
recognize its implicit threat to their liberties
and“organize to defeat its purpose by mili-
tantly carrying forward the fight for peace.

A monstrous betrayal

HE nvssion ‘of John Foster Dulles to Tokyo
and. the rejection by the West German re-
gife of unification talks with the German De-
mocratic Republic may have appeared to be.
disconnected episodes. In fact, they were inte-
grated aspects of the Truman-Wall Street ef-
fort to blackmail and bludgeon the people of
Germany and Japan to resume the Axis war
. against the Soviet Union in which they had
| suffered So disastrous a defeat.
: In Germany, this policy was reflected in
' the refusal of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of
: the’ West. German government to accept the
‘bid by the government in East Germany for
talks. on ‘the unification of the country. His
government's. rule shaky, dependent entirely
- on the. benevolence of the British and Ameri-
'¢an authorities, his fegime impotent to deal

: with the mounting unemployment — now —
. placed at 2,000,000 in West Germany — Aden-

‘ auer flouted his countrymen’s loudly-expres-
“sed desire for unification and peace : because
the Truman-Wall Street combine prefers a

_. disunited Germany: with a West Germah army

: to a united and peaceful Germany.
i While divided Germany presents -differ-
“ent problems for the war-makers, the Dulles
mission to Japan has essentially the same pur-
pose. ’ ;

Dulles is in Japan, as the Truman govern-
,ment made clear on December 28, to make a
; treaty with Japan, whether the Soviet Union
‘and China approve it or not, in defiance of
>the wartime agreements requiring that those
‘to any peace treaty.

The country which engaged the armies

of Imperial Japan the longest. and which suf-_
_ , fered the most — China — is thus being barred
_;from the peace table and, in fact, is being

‘offered up by the U.S. State Department. as
_the victim for Japanese forces in a new war.

two allies in the war, against Japan be party.

For it is Dulles’ task to exact from Jap-
an a peace treaty which will include the rapid
reconstruction of the Japanese armies and the
permanent occupation of the country by U.S.
forces, all with the view of carrying out the
imperialist program of war on People’s. China
and the Soviet Union...

In Japan as in Germany, however, this pro-
gram must face the growing resistance of
the people themselves, On the eve of Dulles’
arrival in Tokyo, the reactionary Japanese Pre-
mier Yoshida himself acknowledged that thé
people of Japan will not willingly accept re-
nulitarization. And in Gérmany, both West
and East, the people have declared openly
against plans to rearm West Germany for a
new war against peaceful neighbors.

The Canadian people, thousands of whose

sons died in the last war precisely because of

“such anti-Soviet policies that connived at the
rebuilding of German armed might under Hit-

_ ler, will find this policy of restoring the Wehr-

nyacht under its old Nazi generals no more

acceptable now because it is under, American

leadership. Clearly this policy, to which Can-
ada as a signatory of the North Atlantic Pact,
is committed, does not mean “peace through
strength,” as the St. Laurent government pre-
tends. Sus
It means reestablishment of the fascist
Axis, but with the difference that the U.S. has
become the third and dominant partner. Its
aim—war against the Soviet Union, the New
Democracies an] People’s China — is essen-
tially the anti-Soviet policy of the fascist
Axis. It means war — not-peace,

The Canadian people must reject this pol-

é

icy and compel their elected representatives.

in parliament to voice their rejection, for their
lives, the lives of their sons, depend upon
their revolt against this monstrous betrayal

_of everything they fought the Second World

War to achieve. :

. Observer’s theme is that Sir Hubert, son of a

TOM McEWEN

As We See It

A group of grasping, evil men stand like sinister decoys on the

edge of a dark and bottomless abyss. A highly pedigreed English
gentleman with the right connections by marriage and a proper Eton
accent, murmurs a polite suggestion: “Well, if we do leap, we should
all leap together.” This English gentleman is Sir Hubert Miles
Gladwyn Jebb, Britain’s dollar salesman on the UN. What marvellous
perspective: “Let us all leap together!”

Strange how things work out. We had been thinking of intro-
ducing the glacial Sir Hubert to readers of this column for some
weeks past, mainly because as one of “Socialist” Atlee’s key diplomats
on the UN, this scion of Tory snobocracy and the old school: tie is
being touted in sections of the British press as a “hero of every Ameri-
can home” who can dispose of Soviet Jacob Malik’s arguments for
peace “without taking his gloves off!” A man
whose glacial class-crust cannot be pierced by ap-
peals to reason or sanity, and whose simple solu-
tion for “peace” is to have us “all leap together”
into the cauldron of a Wall Street war!

From sunny Alberta a Pacific Tribune reader
sent us a bundle of clippings from the British
press. One of these, from the London Observer,
gives Sir Hubert a big build-up as one of Britain’s
top diplomats on the UN. The™~burden of the

country gentleman “with the Law, Church and
Scholarship in his ancestry” is a “skilled operator
who can knock down a political blackguard (read

any UN representative not in the Wall Street dollar bloc) without-

taking off his gloves or removing his hat.”

And from sunny California where strong voices also speak for
peace (without the cultivated Eton accent) came a few pungent ob-
servations on this striped-trousered product of a dying empire, ob-
servations which make it abundantly clear that there are thousands
of American homes where the austere and icy Sir Hubert is regarded
as anything but a hero.

The Observer's “profile” of this aristocratic “hero” of diplomatic
intrigue and double-cross follows the traditional formula. First Eton
and Oxford for the degrees, the parchments which confer upon an
unmitigated bounder or a genius the approved stamp of “higher”
education.

The marriage—with the right family, of course. This is vitally
important to.a successful diplomatic career., Marriage and connec-
tions—connections and money. Almost the same mathematical sym-
bols as Marx’s M-C-M (money to buy commodities to sell for more
money) but distinctly opposite as to objectives. 7

Then comes the job, in or around the Foreign Office. And the
More glacial the exterior deportment and language of the sthiped-
trousered legionnaire, the dirtier the assignments, the faster comes
promotion and recognition. .

The “recognition” is certainly rolling: up. The London Observer
quotes numerous sections of Wall ‘Street’s billion-dollar kept press
in its fulsome praise of Sir Hubert’s antics in the UN sessions. The
main reason for the plaudits is, of course. Sir Hubert’s uncanny
“ability” to “tell off’ Jacob Malik of the USSR, or any other UN
delegates from other states and peoples who do not readily dance
to the $-symphony of Anglo-American imperialism,

British “Socialist” colleagues of Sir Hubert in the British Foreign

Office do not look upon him as a man capable of formulating policy,
but rather as one specially gifted with political rhetorical “ability”
to make black mean white, to give a patent falsehood a ring of
genuine truth, all in superb Oxford English rolling out from a glacial
poker-face. In this respect the Observer opines “it is hard to imagine
a man more admirably suited to the tasks which confront him, and
which seem likely to confront him for many years.” ‘These “tasks”
confronting Sir Hubert are simple; that of providing.a new Goébbels’
propaganda technique which will assure that all the unfortunate
millions of people, harnessed to the Atlantic Pact dollar bloc, will
“leap together” into the abyss of an anti-Soviet war. ? 4

Meanwhile, Americans are getting a steady TV ration of Sir
Hubert with their morning grapefruit and learning how “devastating”

-a gangsterized war propaganda can be when given an Eton-Oxford

polish and presented by a master of glacial austerity in striped pants,
morning coat, silk hat and regulation diplomatic. gloves. | R

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To return to these clippings from the British press. There is
one from a Welsh paper, the. Weekly Argus, with a picture included,
showing a row of houses, or rather slums, falling down around the
ears of their occupants. It appears that these workers’ houses in
Nantyglo, Wales, which were condemned 45 years ago, and are now
falling down from sheer age and neglect, endangering the lives of
the women and children they fall upon, have been cémpletely missed
by the noble Sir Hubert who has now become Britain’s foremost

exponent for Wall Street’s “way of life” for the rest of the world.

On the other hand, it is just possible that this new Lord Haw-Haw ¥

of the American airwaves would “explain” in the most precise Eton
accents, that -tumble-down houses in Britain are a result of the
“communist menace’ and not the class rule-or-ruin interests of

which Sir Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb is a perfect carbon copy, ;
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