[Cam Th | EDITORIAL regime. Records were out of Europe to safety It is to be hoped that External what apart have shown they will hang on to po majority, jail, beat and murder people _ Naming all the names The issue of war criminals and collaborators in Canada; how they got here, who facilitated their entry, which allied governments were complicit, what political ends were and are being served just won’t go away. Nor should it go away. From the first dirty days in the late Laurent opened Canada’s gates charged Ottawa with breaking 1940s and early 1950s, when the Liberal St. to Nazis fleeing justice in Europe, this newspaper has both Canadian and international law in providing refuge and engaging in a massive cold war conspiracy along with the U.S., Britain and other western allies. The Americans today openly admit they established an entire plan, Operation Paperclip, to grab both the scientific and intelligence expertise of the defeated. Nazi falsified, U.S. law broken, networks established to spirit Nazis — all to fight communism and the new cold war. Canada did it as well, sometimes in response to U.S direct requests on a case-by-case basis, more often as a wiiling partner caught up in the hatred and sickness of the anti-Soviet witch hunts. Imagine what these cold warriors accom borators into patriots fighting communism. into our “enemy.” They betrayed the sacrifice of thousands of Canadians who died fighting facism. The Soviet Union, portrayed, now to the But, like water, the the deepest corner. Every revelation, other studies, adds to the store of facts and treachery, betrayal of our veterans, cold war conspiracy, lies heaped upon lies, official cover-ups, destruction of records and files. And just four years ago, we found RCM the Tory government looking the other way Surely 42 years is enough. Surely the time full role in this affair. The cover-up is falling apart. Let’s name all the names. The time to actis now Affairs Minister Joe Clark’s swing through Southern Africa last week might be more than simply an exercise to prop up a Tory government which has all but lost its last supporter at home. It is also to be hoped that Clark listens ( ~ which, once again, urges Canada to imm The government in Ottaw plished: they turned Nazis and their colla- They turned the USSR, our wartime ally, which paid with 20 million lives and a devastated land, is fourth generation of Canadians, as the enemy. truth has a habit of seeping up between the cracks, penetrating whether it’s from the finding of the Deschenes Commission or forms a horrible picture of governmental P officials still playing this sordid game and ~ has come for full disclosure on Canada’s this time) to the African National Congress ediately impose complete and mandatory knows the facts: it knows about the repression. It knows heid laws are. It knows about the bannings, jailings, death squads. Clark doesn’t lack facts. He has mountains of facts about this regime, called “‘a crime against humanity” by the UN. , The racists running South Africa have given Clark, our apologetic UN ambassador Stephen Lewis and Mulroney himself the answer they claim to be waiting for. They wer, deny civil and human rights to the Black by the thousands. Prime Minister Botha has spit in the face of these “liberals” who pray for the reform and evolution of a system based on racism and torture. Apartheid, Clark has been told, can’t change. It can only be smashed. And Ottawa has little time to make up its mind whether to be part of the solution or part of the problem. & ry & Editor — SEAN GRIFFIN Assistant Editor — DAN KEETON Business & Circulation Manager — MIKE PRONIUK ‘Graphics — ANGELA KENYON Published weekly at 2681 East Hastings Street Vancouver, B.C. V5K 1Z5 Phone (604) 251-1186 ISSN 0030-896X — Subscription Rate: Canada — $16 one year; $10 six months Foreign — $25 one year; Second class mail registration number 1560 aes wanted a glimpse of the chaos that will prevail if Canada Post ever succeeds in carrying out wholesale privatization of the Post Office, we got it last week when we went to pick up a parcel that the letter carrier was unable to deliver during the Tribune’s two-week shutdown. As it turned out, local pickup had already been contracted out to a East Vancouver drug store, Health Care Phar- macy, which is considerably more distant from our office than the Canada Post depot, some four blocks away. But that was only the beginning of our problems. Once in the place, we found a lineup that dwarfed anything we’ve encountered at Canada Post, notwithstanding the staff cuts the Crown corporation has made over the years. Many of those lining up,of course, were there to pay hydro or tele- phone bills, yet another service that small stores try to jam into their already- understaffed post office wickets. But the frustrating part came when the clerk showed us two additional pieces of mail addressed to the Tribune. Both of them showed 42 cents postage due — but when the clerk, at our request, weighed them, she found that the amount put on them by the postage meter was correct for the weight indicated. In fact, there was nothing owing. People and Issues ——————————— _______ So, give us the pieces of mail, we sug- gested. “I can’t unless you pay me the 42 cents for each letter, 84 cents in total,” the clerk replied. But there’s nothing owing — the pos- tage was correct in the first place, we insisted. “I’m sorry,” she said, “my instructions are not to give you the mail unless the postage due is paid. I'll have to send them back.” Where “back” is, we don’t know. But we still haven’t got our letters, since we were not about to pay Canada Post money which wasn’t owing. We’ve sent our own letter, in turn, to Canada Post manage- ment protesting the action of the contracted-out post office and demanding the immediate delivery of our mail — without postage due. More than anything, we're angry because the incident is only a small indica- tion of what mail users can expect if the system is privatized to the extent that the Tory government and Canada Post man- agement wants. Whenever problems arise, people won’t be dealing with a trained postal worker, they'll be dealing with someone at a private store wicket who has no authority to make any decisions that fall outside the rule book. : The incident also underscores the demands voiced long ago by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers for increases in staff to provide better service and an expansion of the services provided by Canada Post to bring more revenue into the system. Then we might have a mail system — not the corner store chaos that Canada Post is creating. ee t is with both sadness and admiration that we’ve reported over the past several years about many long time supporters who, just before they have passed away, - have wanted to make certain their contri- bution has made its way to the paper before the end of the annual financial drive. And so it was with Bruce MacDo- nald who passed away in Burnaby General Hospital just before the end of this year’s drive. Although not himself an activist, Bruce had been a supporter of the paper since — coming to this province from Calgary fol- lowing a stint in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. After study- ing at the University of B.C., he opened practice as an accountant, for a brief time | occupying an office with lawyer Harry Rankin and trucking company operator Carl Rush, both then just starting out. He was also well-known among friends for his prowess as a pianist, an art in which | he was entirely self-taught. ko * * : e had a sad note last week from | Jonnie Rankin telling us that her brother Gil Tonge had passed away in the early hours of the morning July 31, after a long battle with cancer. Gil was knownto J} many in the Committee of Progressive | Electors for his work there during civic | election campaigns. ; Our condolences to Jonnie and to Gil’s son, Chris, and his granddaughter Myriah. 4 PACIFIC TRIBUNE, AUGUST 19, 1987 <5