whose pro-fascist leaning was a
few years ago exposed to public
view? And what of this nonsense
about drugs?

First, about the drug called “Ac-
tedron.” You can buy it in every
drugstore in Europe, it being an
ordinary stimulant to keep you
awake after a sleepless night. Be-

lieve it or not: it is well known on
this continent as “benzadrine!”

But it is perfectly obvious that
the fantastic story of the “doping”
of Cardinal Mindszenty cannot ex-
plain the photostatic copies of let-
ters with signatures’of Seldon Cha-
pin, U.S. Minister in Budapest. Car-
dinal Rochracher of Salzburg, J.
B. Montini, deputy Secretary of
State in the Vatican, ete , because
all these letters—some of them re-
laying messages from Cardinal
Spellman of New York and Ken-
neth C. Royall, U.S. Secretary of
War, to Cardinal Mindszenty are
in connection with espionage and
plot against the Budapest govern-
ment, and are published in the
Yellow Book containing “The Doc-
uments of Mindszenty’s Crime.”
(There is also the Cardinal’s own
confession at his trial in Budapest
at which he was sentenced to life
imprisonment).

Dr. Eckhardt on the night of
January 25, 1949, addressed an un-
advertised meeting in Toronto,
sponsored by the Catholic Guild of
St. Paul’s “Religion and Life” se-
ries The subject was: ‘World
Peace and Christianity.” The hon-
orary patron of these lectures is
His eminence James Charles Car-
dinal McGuigan. Archbishop of To-
ronto. Reporting about that meet-
ing, the Globe and Mail next morn-
ing said that Dr. Eckhardt “was
condemned to death by the Nazis

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Atom smasher _

Lhe synchrotron, world’s most powerful atom-smasher, has
been installed at the University of California, and is reported to
be operating successfully.

Peace movement gains
momentum in Vancouver

_ Sixty-five delegates and observers from 21 organizations, repre-
senting 15,000 Vancouver citizens, met last week at Harmony Hall
and set up a Vancouver Peace Assembly. A permanent council of 30

members was elected.

violent and reasonable means for
the prevention or resolution of
conflict at any level—internation-
al, national or community;

Dr. James G. Endicott, guest’
speaker, gave a detailed report of
his organizing and speaking tour
in British Columbia during the

past fortnight. He has addressed To resist policies and attitudes

tending toward war, violence, and

gatdiie ad oal aoe owas aa ahites Gookai t ‘ in 1944.” This is something new
ry rcion; to suppor * but all

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troduced the proposed organiza-
tional structure of the Vancouver
Peace Assembly and it was unani-
mously endorsed by a
vote.

fairy tale.

The Catholic Guild and the pub-
lic in general should know, that
Eckhardt was the leader of the

poverty and want, which’ are
often responsible for misunder-

standing, prejudice, insecurity
and war.

Ontario student body
hit by ‘free speech’ ban

Barred from fulfilling an engagement in which he had been invited
rto speak to the students of Western University, London, Ontario,
Stanley B. Ryerson, national organizer of the Labor-Progressive Party
has issued the following statement:

“Freedom of thought and ex-
pression or an intellectual black-
out—that this is the issue in the
debate. at Western University,
London, is made unmistakeably

' clear by the support of the Stu-
dent Council for the right of
students *to hear a member of

Aan L
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standing

The assembly then divided into
panels to discuss questions rela-
tive to the struggles for peace.
It was generally agreed that war
in any one part of the world
would eventually involve Canada.

Membership in the VPA is open
to all citizens regardless of race,
national origin, religion, class,
ereed, political party, or sex who

are prepared to actively support
the objectives of the Assembly.

any recognized political party.
The ultimate decision in the mat-
ter of my being permitted to
accept the invitation tendered me
rests of course with the Univer-
sity authorities, but the question
having become a matter of pub-
tic debate I am impelled to point
|; Qut that in my opinion the very

» Objectives of the Vancouver
Peace Assembly are: to study
those national and international
problems which constitute, or
later may constitute, a threat to
Peace; to promote use of non-

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the disquiet evoked at the pros-
pect of Marxist theory of scien-
tific socialism being presented by
One of its adherents to university
students is, in itself, an unquali-
fied tribute to the power of that
theory, a power which derives
from its truth.”

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By STEVE SZOKE

Hungarian fascist tours Canada
with phoney tale of ‘secret drugs’

(Editor of the K. M. Munkas, Canadian Hungarian Weekly) —

In the Toronto Star, January 25, 1949, a news item said: “A drug reputed to make a person
psychologically incapable to saying no to anything has been used by Communists on political prisoners, Dr.
Tibor Eckhardt, former leader of the Hungarian Peasant party said today.”
who is now touring Canada—and speaking on the CBC’s Sunday Catholic hour with Father Lanphier

Who is this an Eckhardt

first fascist stormtroopers in Eu-
rope, the ,“Awakening Magyars”
and the “Race Defenders,’ who in
1919 and 1920 were directly respon-
sible for the murder of thousands
and imprisonment of tens of thou-
sands—men, wémen and children.

Dr Eckhardt who in the early
1930’s, @was president of the Hun-
garian Small Holders party, at
that time a party of middle and

‘big landowners. But he never had

any connection with the National
Peasant party. organized for the
poor peasants only in the 1940's,
when Dr. Eckhardt already posed
as°an: ‘exile’ in the U:S..-,

Eckhardt, who is related to. the
family of Admiral Horthy, for his
services under the White Terror.
was appointed chief of the press
to the Foreign, later the Prime
Minister's office. As chief of the
press, he was accused of organiz-
ing armed bands in Slovakia and
counterfeit of Czechoslovak  cur-
rency.

In 1932. he became the leader of

the Small Holders party, robbing
it of its program of land reform
and leading it to vote’for the first
and second anti-Semitic laws in
the Chamber of Deputies

Later, Eckhardt became the vice
president of the “Revisionist Lea-
gue,’ which chained Hungary to
Hitler’s war chariot. Prior to this,
he represented Hungary at the
League of Nations and collaborated
with Mussolini and Laval of
France.

In March 1940, Eckhardt arrived
in the U.S., leaving his family safe-
ly in already Nazi-dominated Hun-
gary. He was undertaking a mis-
sion obviously not opposed to Nazi-
Germany’s interests, but rather
similar to that of Rudolf Hess. Af-
ter making connections and agree-
ments with Otto Hapsburg and oth-
er reactionary gangs, allegedly
with the State Department too, in
the fall of 1941 Eckhardt proclaim-
ed the “Independent Hungary”
movement, opposed to the already
existing democratic “Free ‘Hun-
gary” movement. As to the charac-
ter and purpose of his movement,
we can quote his own words:

“The form of government is not
important. I personally am for a
monarchy because in a monarchy
the army is more trustworthy, and
with the improved arms of today,
with three hundred tanks and one
thousand airplanes, it would be
possible to extinguish any revolu-

tion if after the war there should
be a revolution.”

There is every reason to believe
that Eckhardt and similar lectur-
ers are part and parcel of the Wall
Street. scheme to make Canada
@ war base and battering-ram
against world peace and democ-
racy. :

Marshall plan
boosts jobless
in BC lumber

LAKE COWICHAN, B.C.
“Unemployment in B.C.’s lum-
ber industry is not just a temporary
condition—it threatens to become

permanent and is a direct result of
the Marshall Plan,” declared Henry
an LPP-sponsored
here

Lundgren at.
meeting on unemployment
Sunday night.

“Canada must break with ‘the
Marshall Plan; we must regain our
national independence,” he said.
“The Unemployment Insurance Act
must be amended to allow relief for

workers who are. destitute;. and
the government must immediately
institute a road building and pub-
lic works program.”

A committee of five citizens was
set up to investigate the local un-
employment situation and plan
further action.

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