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Or Bill
SOME columnists appear to get
& . . :

a great thrill on discovering
something new (to them). Per
haps it’s the reaction to having
-peddled one ‘brand of literary
boloney for half a lifetime. Any-
way one of the “greats,” Mamie
Moloney of the Vancouver Sun
came up for air a week or so
ago to announce

FULLGUEASUHRSSUSNORSAAUUAAUSAATUAUAUUITH

that she had
found two new
papers, the

Financial Post
and the Pacific
Tribune.

~.Qne of ». the.
reasons Mamie
likes “living in
a democracy” is
that it gives her
an opportunity bo

to read two such papers, without
which Mamie fears her education
would be “sadly neglected.”

In telling the world about her
discovery of the Financial Post,
in-at-one-ear Mamie says she had
imagined it to be one of those
dry as dust collection of figures
on trade and commerce, market
quotations, stocks and bonds, pro-
fits and so on. Just imagine Ma-
mie’s pleasant surprise to find the
Financial Post giving an almost
equal coverage in labor report-
ing—without any “slanted news,”
and striking Mamie as “outstand-
ingly objective.” i

Believe it or not Mamie actu-
one item in the
Post praising the Saskatchewan
CCF’s “industrial socialization
program!”

While the CCF may have some
difficulty in assaying this Post
bouquet on “socialization,” I could
show the readers of this column
just what “objectivity” means

ON January 19 the Hungarian
: Government issued a Yellow
Book entitled “Documents on the
Mindszenty Case.”” This remark-

able compilation is not a web of -
_ Communist propaganda, as many

spokesmen in the camp of reac-
tion like to kid
. themselves and
their dupes into
believing, but a

tation. of. con-

spiracy and
treason against
the Hungarian
government and
people, in the
handwriting of Cardinal Minds-
zenty, together with other agents
of the Vatican and foreign gov-

The commercial press of this
and other countries, sometimes
referred to in labor circles as the

“yellow press,’’ did not see fit
' to refer to the Yellow Book for —

the facts in the Mindszenty case.
Those engaged in the business
of manufacturing war hysteria,
even when on a “holy” plane, have
little use for facts or truth.

Yet prior to and during the ©

Mindszenty case, these facts were
available. They were available to
Prime Minister St. Laurent, when,
in replying to Tory war-crusader
Drew’s demand for action on be-
half of Mindszenty, replied that
he was in favor of “joint action”
with other signatories of the Hun-

garian peace treaty against the

Hungarian .government.

e
ret us pick a few items at ran-
dom from this Yellow Book of

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Tom McEwen __ ;

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when applied to the political con-
tents of the FinaNcial Post.
Without beating around corners,
_it means nothing more than com-
mon ordinary garden-type lying.
Ronald Williams, a Toronto ex-
‘CCF’er has become the Financial
Post’s “labor expert.”  William’s
‘objectivity’ consists of reading
“as much of the Communist press

; . as his mentality can hold at one

sitting, re-writing it in the new
' Gouzenko “communist plot” tech-
nique, and palming it off as the
real McCoy in Post “labor cov-
erage.” ;

Of course Mamie wouldn’t know
all that, writing as she does from
the wrong side of the lumber-
worker’s picket line at Iron River.
ee.

About -the Pacific Tribune
which Mamie discovered simul-
taneously with the Financial Post,
she has nothing nice to say. No
fine complimentary figure of
speech about “objective writing.”
If anything, the Pacific Tribune,
just because it is factually rather
_than “objectively” written, seems
‘to get the Moloney goat. Mamie
doesn’t like the Tribune’s lan-.
guage. Maybe that is because it
sounds like the language of men
on the picket line.

That is just as it should be. The
type of political writing that is
published in the Financial Post

_ and which appeals to “politicians”
of the Mamie Moloney stripe, can
have no place in a paper pro-
duced in the interests of the wide
masses of the people of Canada.
Their struggle is hard—to win
their daily bread and keep a roof
over their heads is hard. Their
whole fight for existence, secur-
ity and peace is hard, consequent-
ly their language is hard. That

explains the language of the

revolution against Socialism.

On January 16, 1945, Mindszen-
ty wrote a letter to Gabor Vajina,
Nazi Minister of the Interior, in
which he stressed the point that
“the Apostolic Holy See was the

first to recognize the present or-
der,” the “present order” being
the regime of the Arrow-Cross,

the party of the Hungarian fas-

cists, :

The cardinal has been reported
in the pages of the yellow press as
a “resistance fighter”
nazism. The Yellow Book tells us
something of the quality of this
“resistance.” : :

Mindszenty “resisted” the requi-

sitioning of his palace by the
Nazis, because there he had a
cache /of ‘1,800 new men’s shirts

and drawers’? which another Na--

zi, Arrow-Cross prefect Ference
Schiborna, had his eye upon. So
the Arrow-Cross tossed Mindszen-
ty into camp for a month to come

to his senses with respect to_the

‘new order.” It did not take the

cardinal long to realize that in ©

the business of trading a People’s
Republic for a royal Hapsburg,
there were higher stakes to be
won (he hoped) than 1,800 shirts.

Oil and fascist-monarchist con-
spiracies mix well together in the
business of imperialist interven-
tion against a nation’s own choice
of its form of government. Minds-
zenty was planning a new Greece
for Hungary:

Mindszenty sought to trans-
form the Church from an institu-

tion of Christianity to one of es-_

pionage, .counter-revolution and
treason. In the Yellow Book he
frankly states (without benefit
of “secret” drugs) :

“It was through the clergy

against.

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Short Jabs

HNN HE

Pacific Tribune but Mamie
wouldn’t understand that.

Newspapers are so different in
their function and the place they
occupy that to place them in
comparison is almost impossible—
except to journalistic Mata Haris
of the boloney school.

While Dorise Nielson was in
Vancouver recently, a Sun editor-
ial commented on her fall from
grace, from being a nice orderly
Member of Parliament to getting
mixed up in a world peace move-
ment. The same editorial writer
made no comment whatsoever on
a peace -‘movement representing
80 million women of all nationali-
ties, uniting to head off imperi-
alist aggression and atomic war,
nor did any of the Sun’s other
“news” gatherers. We have to de-
pend on women like Dorise Niel-
sen and papers like the Pacific
Tribune to tell what is really hap-
pening in the world.

Mamie deprecates “class hat-
red” and the “damning of every-
thing Canadian.” She doesn’t like
Communists and says so—for so
much per week, better than Bob
Morrison ever did. For that rea-
son we cannot accept Mamie’s
judgment on what. constitutes a
good newspaper or “objective
writing.” We cannot rely on the
“objective” news or the editorial
propaganda of the kind of pa-
pers Mamie likes—we must have
cur own and we must pay for
them ourselves.

So we have a drive for $15,000
to keep the Pacific Tribune going.
An old friend of mine came into
my office this week, put a $100
bill on my desk and said, “That'll
hold Mamie for this week—let’s
go after a ‘bigger and better.
Tribune, :

CAST TTT

parts of the country the politi-

cal, economic and industrial

data, which I authorized my sec-
retary regularly to give to the

Americans.” __

Nor was Mindszenty’s activities
confined to Hungary, in a letter
to the Pope, he says,— ‘

“A bishop consecrated (?) in
complete secrecy should in some

way or other be sent to the

Carpathian Ukraine. Accord-

ing to the information of the

bishop of Hajdudorog there are
in Rome several Ruthenian and

Ukranian monks and celebate

lay priests who would, by virtue

of their marty’rs spirit be suit-
able for this task.”
__ Compared with some of these
20th century lads, Judas was a
small town piker.

On the Jewish question the car-
dinal is seen at his best. In his
own handwriting this question is
“settled.” .

“Tt is our good fortune,” says
he, “that the great reservoir of
Galatian and Bukovinian Jews,
the millions of the Jewish mass-
es in the Ghetto, have as a re-
sult of the German war, been
reduced, to some 500,000.”

Unlike the lowly Nazarene, this
“prince” of the Church (who de-
files its mission), sees the Hitler-
ite death camps of Auschwitz,

Maidanek, Dachau and Warsaw, .

and the murder of untold millions
of human beings, as “our good
fortune.”

We commend perusal of the
Yellow Book to those who would
wage a “holy” war in defense of

the real destroyers of political
and religious freedom—the Minds-
zenty’s. and those who promote
their treason with Yankee dollars,

Peace is key issue
PPROXIMATELY 125 delegates will gather in Vancouver

this weekend to attend the sixth annual convention of the
British Columbia~-Yukon Labor-Progressive Party.

These delegates will come from every corner of B.C., from every
key industry and from the diversified farm lands of our province.
In this they will represent a true cross-section of British Columbia’s —
basic citizenry.

High on the agenda of this convention—projecting itself above
and beyond all other political and economic problems—is the vital
issue of peace. How to stop the war maniats and profiteers, who,
together with*their “yes men” governments, are seeking to plunge the
world into another and more devastating war—as a means of per-
petuating their rule of exploitation and industrial feudalism against
the rising tide of socialism. f

How to win those measures of economic and social security,
which the common people have earned by sacrifice and sweat, and
which are now denied them by the -monopoly-controlled Johnson-
Anscomb Coalition government.

The prime task of this convention is the rallying of the people
of British Columbia for the things reaction seeks to deprive them of
—peace, democracy, security. Its deliberations must help to assure
the defeat of the Tories, Liberals and right-wing social democrats,
who today constitute the political ‘‘front’’ of the Wall Street war-
mongers.

Confident that the sixth convention of the LPP in Bnitish Col-
umbia will measure up to the great tasks confronting it, the Pacific
Tribune extends warm fraternal greetings to its delegate body, and
best wishes for fruitful deliberations.

Let the trained hyenas of profit-mad imperialism yelp. Though
unimposing in numbers the LPP is the party of the Communards of
1871—the party of Canadian unity, peace and socialism—ihe party
of tomorrow. :

Ata Afi

“I am off to Banff for the week, Miss Schmaltz. If the —

union negotiating committee shows up tell them I am away 02
urgent business.” vs,

Looking backward

(From the files of The People’s Advocate, March 17, 1989)

‘Stalin summed up the international views’ of the Comm
Party of the Soviet Union in ‘four points:

“We stand for peace and for strengthening business-like with

with all neighboring countries whi omm: mtier
the Soviet Union. © Sao os emtle eg ae
We stand for support to, nations which have fallen to aggression
and are fighting for the independence of their countries.
“We are not afraid of threats from the aggressors . + #
we are ready to retaliate with two blows for one against the

Stigators of war who attemp
the Soviet borders.” t to infringe upon the integrity

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