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Canadian Peace Congress:

‘Know the facts of war

The Canadian Peace Congress
has urged all Canadians to in-
form themselves of the facts
about the criminal nature of the
U.S. operations in Indochina.

In a hard-hitting leaflet dis-
tributed at recent peace mar-
ches, the Congress draws at-
tention to Telford Taylor’s new
book: “Nuremburg and Viet-
nam, An American Tragedy.”

Taylor, a retired Brigadier-
General in the U.S. army was
the chief prosecutor for the
USA at the trials of the nazis
at Nuremburg, and is now a
law professor at Columbia Uni-
versity. In his book, he states:
“U.S. Chief of Staff General
William Westmoreland could
be convicted and hanged if the
standards established after
World War II were applied to
his conduct of the war in Viet-
nam.”

The Congress also cites an-
other new book — “Ecocide in
Vietnam,” by Barry Weisberg,
which it describes as ‘“‘terrify-
ing.” Ecocide “means the pre-
meditated destruction of an
area by the destruction of the
people, the land and anything
that can sustain life.” Weis-
berg charges that, “The near
complete destruction of the liv-
ing landscape and the human
society throughout all Southeast
Asia is proceeding at such a
staggering rate that itis really
impossible to estimate its true
scope, severity or long range
consequences.”

The Peace Congress message
continues: “The U.S. has killed,
wounded, burned and maimed
one million children in Vietnam.

“American policy is not only
destroying Southeast Asia, it is
destroying the democratic way
of life in the U.S. also.”

»The Peace Congress calls on
Canadians to:

1. Keep up a continuous pro-
test by writing to editors, radio
commentators, Members of Par-
liament and the Prime Minister.

2. Demand a change in Cana-
dian policy. Canada _ should
speak out openly in condemna-
tion of the U.S. war and stop
selling arms and strategic mate-
rials.

3. Support all efforts to make
facts contained in these two
books (and many others) known
everywhere.

4. Make regular contributions
to the work for peace.

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Momentous anniversary

May 8 marks the 26th anniversary
of V-Day. : o

On that day in 1945, the great alli-
ance of the USSR, Britain and the USA
consummated the military victory over
fascist Germany, its armed forces
smashed.

On that day of triumph for mankind,
54 million people did not celebrate, They
were the dead, victims in the most hor-
rendous war in history, victims-of Hit-
ler’s maniacal war, of Nazi Germany’s
murderous genocidal policies.

The Soviet Union, which bore the
brunt of the war, lost 20 millions of its
people. Our own Canadian dead num-
bered more than 38,000. Together: with

- all of peace-loving mankind, we declare
_ —“We should not, we dare not forget!”

V-Day was followed by the Nurem-
burg trials. Surviving nazi leaders
were tried and sentenced. Military ag-
gression was pronounced an interna-
tional crime, punishable by law.

Today U.S. imperialism continues its
war of genocidal aggression against
the supremely heroic people of Indo-
china. There is no difference between
the crimes perpetrated by the nazi
hangmen and murderers and those of
the Pentagon generals.

The nazi hordes pillaged, burned, laid
waste vast areas of the Soviet Union,
of Western Europe. Hitler’s planes
rained bombs on defenceless people in
great cities. Fascist scientists in labor-
atories of death directed the ghastly
mechanisms of genocide.

In its long criminal war against the
Vietnamese people, and more recently
against the peoples of Cambodia and
Laos, U.S. imperialism has used its
most modern techniques and instru-
ments of destruction to slaughter peo-
ple, to wipe out all living things, all of
nature’s growth in enormous areas of
Indochina. Mothers, infant children,
old and young innocent civilians have
been murdered in cold blood on direct
orders of U.S. generals. Not only have

_ they sought to emulate the genocidal

methods of nazism, they have extended
them horribly.

Before the eyes of humanity the U.S.
militarists now stand condemned, just
as were the killers who stood in the
prisoners’ dock at Nuremburg 26 years
ago.

On this May 8, the mighty call rings
round the world—with the courageous
American peace forces powerfully
Joining in—“Withdraw all U.S. armed
forces now, unconditionally, from Indo-
china!” This is the true way to mark
this anniversary of V-Day. 2

The NDP convention

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the New Democratic Party took place
at a time of mounting crises — eco-
nomic, constitutional, democratic —
with the very independence of our
country in jecpardy. Monopoly capital-
ism through its policies exerts massive
and manifold pressures attempting to
drive politics in Canada to the right.

These pressures were reflected in the
NDP convention’s adoption of policies
that, compared with major decisions
taken by its 1969 convention, consti-
tuted a step backward. In line with its

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