AND REVOLUTION

2! Chartrand, presi-
the central council of
-based Confedera-
ational Trade Unions,
Congress of the Union
des Etudiants du Que-
abor movement is the
t for overthrowing
c society.

artrand added that
“rapid and radical
ation... in spirit and
s’’ must be an internal
“Revolution is neither
or exported,” he said.
bor movement must
© students that “‘it is
police they must aim
at those who decide,
iho hold the power.”
egram, Mar. 17, 1969.

ON’S MISTAKE

few weeks since he
president, Richard
Ms compiled an un-
-fecord. No hits, no
error. He has taken
jor decision. He has
terrible mistake.

ision, announced
gy, is to deploy ballis-
sile defense (BMD)
dozen Minuteman
arting in Montana
lakota..His. mistake

is to deploy the system. He
ought instead to junk it.

—James Eayrs,

Professor of international
relations, University of Toronto,
in the Toronto Star.

DID TIME GET THE WORD?

What does now seem clear
is that while the Government
has yet to make up its mind
about the size and nature of
the long-term contribution to
NATO, the commitment itself is
no longer in question. In the

Cabinet, few ministers support
Postmaster-General Eric Kie-
rans’ view of the Alliance as
“a self justifying deterrent
against a non-existent military
threat’; having made his point,
Kierans is now prepared to
drop the subject in public.
Prime Minister Trudeau will
thus be in a position to reas-
sure Richard Nixon of Cana-
da's intention to stay in Eu-
rope when he calls on the
President on March 24, The
plan is then to announce the
results of the NATO review just
before the Alliance's 20th an-
niversary ministerial meeting in
Washington early in April.

Time, Mar. 7, 1969

A U.S. REFUGEE!

It is hard to accept that we
might produce political refu-
gees of our own, as if we were
one of those tenth-rate coun-
tries ruled by timorous power,
afraid of its own shadow, mor-
tally afraid of one resolute
man. And yet, here is this glar-
ing instance, the case of Eld-
ridge Cleaver. The State of
California claims that he has
violated his parole and be-
longs in the penitentiary. But
of course his crime has been
to exercise the right of free
speech—or better, to fulfill the
citizen’s duty to say exactly
what he thinks on matters of
public interest. Eldridge Clea-
ver believed that as a nation
we still had a few imperfec-
tions (he arrived at that start-
ling notion by comparing our
ideals with our practice), and
he said so. The State of Cali-
fornia, meaning the Governor
and the officials of the prison
system, found his opinion de-
testable. He was threatened
with the revocation of his pa-
role if he persisted in express-
ing them. He refused to be sil-
ent, California, imposed its
cowardly sanction, and Cleaver
fled—a political refugee.

Saturday Review

At the time of the first attack on the Siberian
border, an American correspondent in Saigon
cabled an article which described the jubilation
in the ranks of the general staff of the South
Vietnam puppet army. It was clear, said the
article, that China now regards the Soviet Union
as its “number one enemy.”

Perhaps this depicts, in all its tragie propor-
tions, the degeneracy of the Mao Tse-tung policy.

If Mao was determined to claim onto China
all the land that is China’s, why the obscure,
uninhabited Damansky island? Why not the
Chinese province of Taiwan, occupied now by
the Americans? Who does Mao consider as his
main enemy? Is it the American imperialists,
who not only occupy Chinese territory, but bloc-
kade its waters, who have been the implacable
foe of the Chinese revolution since its inception?
Or is it the Soviet Union, the socialist camp and
the international Communist movement?

The whole process that has been known eupha-
mistically as the “Sino-Soviet” dispute for years,
has caused joy in many alien quarters. The Sai-
gon generals, who have had little to cheer about

or a long time, the German revanchists who
naturally love any and all divergent pressures
on the Socialist world, and of course the Ameri-
cans with their pet vulture Chiang Kai-shek, see
the turmoil and internal disruption and foreign
aye madness in some cases as a new lease on
ife and in others as a golden opportunity, A
golden opportunity they could not dare dream
about, when the Chinese people emerged trium-
phant in 1949,

The invective and slogans that Mao hurls at
the Americans are exposed for what they are in
the bayonet thrusts against Soviet border pa-
trols, and the menace of Maoism for the whole
revolutionary movement is exposed in its actual
dimensions.

The provocation on the Soviet-Chinese bord-
ers is a logical sequence to the great power, ad-
venturist policy of Maoism. The timing of this
provocation action with the equally provocative
action by the West German government in Ber-
lin and sharpening tensions in the Middle East
is no accident. It is part of a premeditated plan
to create a new seat of tension in the east as a
background for the coming Party Congress in
China. Maoism is purposely fanning the flames
of anti-Sovietism to quiet opposition to the di-
sastrous results of the “proletarian cultural
revolution.”

How far this has gone can be seen in the deci-
sion of the Chinese Government to stop the.
trans-shipment of war material from the Soviet
Union to the Vietnamese people via China.
Such acts cannot be reconciled with a socialist
state.

Sooner or later the Chinese people will over-
come this situation, strengthen solidarity with
the socialist camp and the peoples of the world
in the struggle against the real enemy of man-
kind — imperialism.

“I have a confession to make — I'm an export reject!”

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