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US. FANS FASCISM AND
WAR IN BERLIN CRISIS

Aggressor moves of the
Western powers in the Berlin
situation are dragging the
world closer to the brink of
war. Frame-up arrests of
leaders of the Communist
Party of the United States
bring this continent closer to
the brink of the North Ameri-
can fascism required by Wall
Street as the domestic base
for its desperate plans of
world aggression.

These twin menaces lay bare
the urgency of the “need for
the mighty voice of the Can-
adian people to spé&k up for
the peace that is our deepest
desire and for wresting this
country from its suicidal role
as running dog for the doomed
global aggressors.

The bi-partisan rulers of
America are rushing arms
across the Atlantic to threaten
the freedom-loving peoples of
Europe while at home they

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FOR ISRAEL EPSTEIN

launch a Hitlerian red-scare
to club down the growing
Wallace peace party. Simul-
taneously the French “third
force” government has toppled
in face of popular resistance
to the economic and military
subordination of France to
the Germany from which that
ravaged country has thrice
been invaded.

A measure of western
powers’ guilt in the Berlin
crisis is the extent to which
the big business press and
radio is substituting, in the

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@® Here Myrtle —— “Miss
“Lumber Worker’ in the Un-
ited Labor Picnic’s popular girl
contest, gets votes from three of
her lcgger supporters while Don
Barbour, her campaign manager,
happily records the names of
(eft to right) Ossian Johnson,
Gus Lindbergh and Emil Job.
Now, in case other contestants
should accuse us of giving unfair
‘prominence to the loggers’
candidate, turn to pages 6 and 7
for pictures of five other charm-
ing young ladies who will vie
with her for the honor of being
crowned “Miss B.C. Industry” at
Confederation Park on August 1.

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