EARL RUSSELL HITS YANK ATROCITIES

U.S. has shocked mankind in Vietna

ELBIE JAYS ABC OF WIET-NA

By EARL RUSSELL

This article by the world renowned
British philosopher appeared in the
British Daily Worker last Saturday.

The Americans have at last
succeeded ——too late, alas ——
in shocking the conscience of
mankind,

They have been engaged for
years in various kinds of atroci-
ties in endeavouring to subdue
“inferior” races at home and
abroad, but these acts have been
excused as occasional excursions
on a too energetic population,

The British Labor Government
has applauded them and has made
itself an accomplice in unspeak-
able cruelties, But in the en-
deavour to exterminate the in-
habitants of South Vietnam in the
sacred name of freedom, they
have now adopted the use of what
we are told is “non-lethal” gas,

For some reason, which I do
not quite understand, people who
thought nothing of the murder
of babies andthe torture of
women and children, are shocked
by this new method of warfare,

It is not their present shock
that is astonishing, but their
previous indifference,

The present cries of horror
are amply justified, What our
Press tell us about these Amer-
ican “non-lethal” gases is that,
when employed against an enemy
they induce a state of nausea or
in some way render the victims
incapable of action for a period,

During this period, however,
it is clear that the possessor of
the gas can murder his enemy,
or imprison him, or capture his

citadels so that he is killed or,
when he comes to, finds the
battle has been lost, :

This is bad enough, but the
recent history of Americans in
Vietnam makes one doubt whether
it is really the whole truth,
Are the gases really non-lethal?
One remembers the “defoliants”

which were said to poison only '

vegetation, but, in fact, also
poisoned animals and human
beings,

We have been told that they
were harmless weed-killers and
that to deprive the population of
its crops is no grave matter,
We learned, slowly and with diffi-
culty, that what were called
“weed-killers” were, in fact, poi-
sons of which, after observation
of their effects, the use in the
United States has been forbidden,

I cannot remember what excuse
was given for the use of napalm
bombs which burn people alive in
unspeakable and prolonged agony,

The American authorities have
in fact, indulged in a vast career
of concerted lying,

A Government official, the
Assistant Secretary of Defence,
Mr, Arthur Sylvester, stated pub-
licly in December 1962, that lying
is a proper weapon fora Govern-
ment to use,

One cannot, therefore, escape
the suspicion that the “non-
lethal” gases are, in fact, lethal,
and that the purpose of their
employment is the depopulation of
Vietnam, both North and South,

We have been told on high
American authority that the next
step America will take will be

a Fi is for Advi

This is one of

ser.

iform an
ee for
oe

exterminale |
other Vie Namese

the destruction of China, When
China has been destroyed, Amer-
icans will turn to giving assis-
tance to their henchmen in the

British Labor Party in their

struggles in Malaysia,

She will then “liberate” various
other, hitherto happy, countries
in Asia and Africa, —

When these tasks have been
accomplished, America will rule
the world, No one will dare to
resist, since resistance will be
useless, A population rendered
cruel by wholesale slaughter will
feel no restraint in practising
cruelties, by this time become
habitual, in any part of the world,

Is there anything that can be
done to prevent this universal
empire of evil?

AIM OF EVERY PT BOOSTER SHOULD BE

By JERRY SHACK
(Drive Manager)

his week the 30th Anni-

versary Press Drive got
off the~ground—and is doing
very well, But before going into
some of the pertinent facts and
figures there is one point we’d
like to mention, and it’s simply
this: We urge every PT reader
and supporter to raise and/or
donate $30 by way of observ-
ing our 30th birthday,

We know that. many people
have already resolved to do
this, We also know that others
will raise much more than this
special anniversary. amount,
But what we don’t know is how
many people will decide to put
out some extra effort and
climb up into the $30 bracket
this year,

For those that do, there will
be a special award of merit
waiting, The PT has been in

most prominent artists, who
is designing aspecial 30th An-
niversary souvenir lapel pin,
This pin will be presented to
all Press Builders at the con-
clusion of the Drive,

It will not be duplicated in
future drives, so this is a
once-in-a-lifetime chance to

touch with one of Vancouver’s —

$30 for 30 years

win this special badge of
merit,

The Drive itself is off toa
flying start, Almost $1,000has
already been turned in and
Press Clubs allover the prov-
ince are mapping out their
campaigns to close in on
quotas,

At its last meeting, the club
holding the honored name of
Bill Bennett pledged $610 to-
wards its $650 quota—with
several club members absent!
And at another meeting, a
group of waterfront workers
undertook to raise $445 for the
Trib,

These scenes are being du-
plicated over and over again,
indicating the determination
and enthusiasm with which our
$18,000 Drive Fund is being ©
tackled,

In actual results, the prov-
ince is slightly more than $100
ahead of Greater Vancouver
with $532 raised to the city’s
$425, Leading all clubs is
Nanaimo, with a whopping 30.4
percent of its target already
in,

This outstanding effort is,
followed by Pt, Grey (28.5 per-
cent) and Surrey (21 percent),

Next week’s PT will carry
more details,

Our launching of this anni-
versary year with a Special
$1 Introductory Offer resulted
in 106 new readers being
signed up on a three month
trial basis; 62 in the province
and 54 in the city,

Much of the credit for this
good showing should go to
Vancouver East (16 subs),
Trail (13) and Correspond-
ence (10), We remind one and
all that New Subs won during
the Press Drive will be credit-
ed to the Drive,

Our sincerest thanks to all
who contributed towards mak-=
ing our paper available to 106
new people,

We wish to apologize to Bob
and Ada Towle and to all our
readers for a typographical
error which occurred in list-
ing the awards on our 30th
Anniversary Celebration tick-
ets,

The value of the Spanish
Shopping Basket donated by
the Towles (No. 6 in the
awards) should read $20, not
$10 as listed,

B is Scr Bomb

Andthis bomb is
filled with napaln

which Duris uP

r ynerits
Rcctern democtacy

Certainly the first step is to help
the people of Vietnam in their
efforts to win and preserve their
freedom,

As for the further steps, if

mankind is to be preserved from .

the threat of a nuclear war, there
is only one hope for the world,
which is that the better elements
in the American population will
refuse to follow collective mass
murderers on their fatal course
and will restore to mankind per-
mission to remain alive,

This is a work in which in-
dividuals as well as nations and
parties can take part,

It may be that if the greater
part of mankind expresses, for-
cibly, a horror of such a pros-
pect and the almost universal
hatred of America which its suc-
cess would entail, the more
ferocious elements in America
would be restrained by those
who have some feeling for human
welfare,

These are, Iam convinced, the
great majority of Americans——

- 81 per cent, according to a Gallup

Poll, There is no reason why
we should sit down and be over-

ridden passively by organized
murderers,

It should still be possible,

with P
MASS GRAVE OF NAZI VICTIMS. The Bonn government was forced f? tion
its legislation for another four years which would have ended eee
Nazis guilty of these crimes. Reactionaries in Bonn were bent on pus

the

e, and a government crisis is now expected.

April 2, 1965—PACIFIC TRIB

6 istcctte Condenrationy

expressed by the
Brith Government.

Grattito in the London Tribung

though it is getting daily ™ |
difficult, to induce Americal f
choose a government not “a
posed of savage exterminat0™,
government with some Te
for human rights and hl
happiness, +.

The British people, acspit
attitude of the leaders of the” |
great parties, can help t0?
this about, :

The action of the 94
M.P.s and of important ©)
unions in protesting agains
American aggression is 2 ste?

the right direction,

White men, generally, ve s

been accustomed to some
turies of supremacy, but aa
has come when men of

colours demand equality, *
sibly in combination with
better elements in the whité
tions,

It may prove possible fot ™
liberal views to prevail.

But it is necessary fot
liberal views to be publicis
strong and clear statem
based on trustworthy info
tion,

ed

This is a slender hop& a
is all that the present wor
justify,

\g the

une—Poe