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Never. in ‘ World spoken $9 stop eee as in " € bombing nam — but to all emo SaYs — push on. : strations, march- lls shevlutions, to the On ay ing the grow- ° the war poli- mene list of Sen- 1 Opposing the Ever-growing ic i _ labor, ene Out wo- Ss ee Class and app cutives, con- vat the pssion — to all busy on. big fool has re- ite, Per in States is drawn ‘of Nto inna: erful uddy, as pict deep” to jing _back- € asingly creating z struggle strength but the old fool still says, “Push on.” It is a fair question. But the answer is an unequivocal No! The moment is serious — even critical—but it is not hopeless. The solid truth is that the pos- sibilities for a victory over the policy of aggression are greater today than at any time since the war started. It is the policy of imperialist aggression that is hopeless. The most significant develop- ment of this day is that the base of political support for the John- son war policy continues to nar- row down. The war was never popular. But even the small sup- port is now withering away. The policy is bankrupt. It is said rats instinctively leave a sinking ship. Each Republican defection, whether a Senator or a Congress- man, is proof that the war is becoming politically untenable. Democratic office-holders’ are not concerned about . Johnson. But they are getting alarmed at the possibility that Johnson at the head of their ticket will drag them all to defeat. This alarm is expressed in a growing “dump Johnson” move- ment among Democrats. Thus is the political base for the war policy narrowing down. , Only the Dixiecrats, Gold- water, Reagan, Shirley Temple, and certain leaders of the AFL- CIO remain as a cheering sec- tion as the old fool repeats, “push on.” Some say they are discour- aged because the New Politics Conference in Chicago did not come out clearly for a. third Presidential ticket reflecting the struggle for freedom and peace. This is true. But New Politics ~ EDITOR TO VIETNAM - Tribune editor, Rae Mur- phy, has left for North Viet- nam to. send eye-witness accounts of the war there. Having visited the country two years ago, he will be able to bring to the readers | of the paper an analysis. of the effects of the U.S. es of th End complicity N FACE OF the onslaught against the “stop- the-bombing foreign ministers” of State Dean Rusk last week, it is hearten- ing to see, that, speaking for Canada, Paul Martin has said he will stick to his guns. It took long enough to bring the federal gov- ernment to the point where it would see, as so many Canadians had already seen, that a call for ‘the immediate ending of the bombing of North Vietnam was the decisive need for the bringing about of conditions that could lead to peace. To those who felt that demonstrations and pressure on our Canadian government to take a stand against the war would have no effect, Rusks blast proves the contrary. It hurt ob- viously when the pressure had come from what up until then had been the “silent diplomat.” But one speech does not an end to bombing make. Canada is not just an onlooker of the war in Vietnam. As this week’s issue of the Finan- cial Post clearly indicates, we make many things that go to assist the U.S. forces in their aggres- sion, and we make lots of money from them. | Our 1966 orders, they say, from the U.S. De- fence Department are up to $317.1 million, a 90 percent increase over 1964. And the figures for 1967 show an even further increase. The whole-picture though has to include our increased sale to the U.S. of raw materials like copper, bronze, scrap, iron, steel, and nickel. The direct war goods range from defoliants to explosives, from aircraft to rockets, from prefab buildings to green berets, from gearboxes to whiskey. According to the Post’s article the 1966 de- fense contracts meant employment of between 13,500 and 15,000 Canadians with “an addi- tional 110,000 persons estimated ‘to be affected in varying degrees by the many subtiers of indus- trial activity generated by the contracts involved.” by Secretary Surely, having broken the silence, it is now time for Canada to also end its complicity in the Vietnam war encompassed in the business we are doing for that war. Sweden and other coun- tries have declared that they will not sell to the United States for use in Vietnam and Canada can surely do the same. This obviously must involve plans by the fede- ral government in order to assure that cutting out shipments for the Vietnam war doés not result in large scale unemployment. But there is nothing impossible in that. It was the pressure of Canadians which made possible the first tentative step of our govern- ment to dissociate Canada from the U.S. war against the Vietnamése people. Now is the time to press forward in order that we completely dis- sociate Canada—in all aspects. can still play an important role. The Chicago Conference was only one gathering of a many- sided political process. The path of political struggle continues to develop on many levels, along numerous paths. The process proceeds along many paths sim- ultaneously. Along each path there will be alliances and coali- tions — some temporary, some for longer duration. | The forms have not yet clear- ly ecrystalized. But there is now a growth of mass political move- ments without precedent. They all move in one direction — a negation of the Johnson war policy and for freedom for the Negro American. Six months ago most people thought the idea of running a slate. of peace candidates, as delegates to the Democratic con- vention, a far-out idea. Now it is being pushed by all kinds of forces within the Dem- ocratic Party. It is emerging as an important arena of struggle against the war policy. The New Politics movement is by no means dead. The idea of a third Presidential ticket is not dead. On the contrary — as the war becomes increasingly unten- able, as the independent forces build grassroots organizations, the idea of independent candi- dates on all levels — including on the Presidential level — be- comes ever more pressing. I am sure new forces will take new initiatives to present a'meaning- ful alternative for 1968. So the struggle against the war policies will continue. It will continue on all levels, along all paths. It will continue along the path of mass demonstrations. It will continue along the elec- toral path. It will continue along the path of forcing the public Officials to redirect government funds to the home front. It will continue along the path of strikes, of rebellions of the ‘poor in the ghettos. Because of their own self-interests, the busi- ness executives will continue their struggle. It will. continue around the world, in the UN, and needless to say it will continue in Viet- nam. gan as “Candidate for the U.S. Presidency.” ‘Lay said, LOOKING AROUND A PRINCE GOES TO COLLEGE “The important thing,” said Lord Butler, Master of Trinity and elder statesman of the Conservative party, “is. that the Prince should find a friend. who will take him out. We want him to have as nearly as possible a normal undergraduate life. It is better for him to go out to the pub than to sit in his room.” - —New York Times. =) The Greek military regime’s ban on partisan politics ap- parenty does not extend to the U.S. Presidential race. Athens film distributors are plugging “The Santa Fe Trail”—a 1940 Warner Brothers horse opera—by advertising star Ronald Rea- — Newsweek. e OUR WAY OF LIFE—OR ELSE “We had one old woman out on the reservation,” Brice “that was all by herself and living in a tent, so we found a house for her, but she wouldn't move in. She said she'd die if she lived in a house, that the air in a house was bad air. Oh, she was stubborn. But finally,” he concluded with a tone of great satisfaction, ‘we got her in there.” | —New York Times. e Like most of his predecessors, Johnson took office genuine- ly determined to be the President of all the people all the time. Unlike them, Johnson has refused to recognize that in a society as diverse as the U.S., a President frequently has to take sides and, act as a Sontender against some of the people. Said an aide: “I just wish that he would be the bastard that he really is.” : —Time Magazine. e Social leaders in Washington who are angling for invita- tions to the White House wedding of Lynda Bird Johnson and Marine Capt. Charles S. Robb fear that so many Texans are to be invited that it is going to be difficult for anyone else to attend the ceremonies.