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Curb nuclear addicts

ee External Affairs Muin-
¥ ister Howard Green goes
through the motions of pleading

for ‘peace’ in the UN and urging °

the creation of more cumbersome
and inefectual ‘talking’ machin-
ery, Defense Minister Douglas
Harkness whoops it up in West
Germany for nuclear arms for
NATO’s Canadian troops.

This double-faced double-talk by
government ministers fits neatly
into the pattern of Pentagon
stooging, so well illustrated by
Diefenbaker in his UN Assembly
demagogic harangue. Green wants
more ‘talking’ machinery as a
safeguard against any decisive
top-level negotiations on disarm-
ament and peace; a sort of endless
“negotiations for negotiations
sake”, in which nothing is negotia-
ted, but which provides more time
for nuclear conspirators to build
up their armaments while ‘talking
peace’.

On the other side of the Tory
face (its real one),'’ Harkness

wants Canada armed with nuclear
weapons now, despite Tory pre-
tentions of Canada as a “‘non-nuc-
lear power’.

There may be those who think
that Green’s efforts in the UN for
a ‘non-nuclear’ policy towards dis-
armament and peace are “well-
intentioned”. Be that as it may, it
should not be forgotten for one
minute that, accelerated by Tory
double-talk and demagogy, the
way to nuclear hell is paved with
such “good intentions”. That much
Harkness has again made clear
in his demand for nuclear weap-
ons for Canadian cannon fodder.

Only a. mighty protest by the
Canadian people will compel the
Diefenbaker government to do
what must be done; to stop talk-
ing out of both sides of its mouth
and playing a ‘waiting’ game on
the vital issues of peace and war.

And second, the immediate re-
moval of ministers displaying
symptoms of nuclear mania.
Canada’s peace, independence and
security demands nothing less.

Three in a bed

T is said that “man cannot serve
twe masters,’ but that was a
long time ago. Non-Partisan en-
dorsation of Mayor Tom Alsbury
for a second mayoralty term shows
that virtuous homily outdated.

It may be asked, however, es-
pecially by working men and
women, just how can a man who
prides himself on his labor ‘back-
ground’ accept, (or warrant) the
endorsation of such a_ political
hijacking gang as the NPA?

With the official backing of the
Vancouver Labor Council and the
NPA, it would appear that Mayor
Alsbury’s ‘popularity’ is sufficient-
ly assured. But when the NPA
horns into the picture with its
‘blessing,’ that could be something
else in ‘disguise.’ It is said that
civic as well as other politics
“make strange bedfellows.” This is
certainly the case in this instance
with the VLC, and NPA all in the
same ‘four poster’ with their may-

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orality choice. Perhaps before the
final count the Civic Voters As-
sociation (CVA) will climb into the
Alsbury crib also.

“Move over.’

Culture versus ‘cash

Satie Vancouver taxpayers
through the media of their
city council continue to pick up
Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS)
deficits, the present one amount-
ing to some $26,000 dollars?

During 1959-60 it is reported
that city council paid out some
$85,000 to keep TUTS on its feet.
A tidy sum indeed, especially when
added to what John Q. Public
coughs up when he takes his fam-
ily to a TUTS presentation of as-
sorted U.S. ‘talent. Much too
much for such dubious ‘cultural’
entertainment.

However there is another side
to this problem of TUTS, one
which Karl Marx brilliantly set
forth over one hundred years ago
in the Communist Manifesto; the
sordid fact that capitalism “has
left no other bond between man
and man than naked self-interest,
than callous ‘cash payment’.”

Thus the present ‘debate’ about
the ‘to-be-or-not-to-be’ of TUTS is
conducted on an exclusive “cash
payment” basis, rather than its
value as a unique cultural achieve-
ment, and more important, a
splendid media for the promotion
and presentation of purely Canad-
ian talent. Seen in this light TUTS
is a highly worthwhile endeavour
which should not be relegated to

the scrap heap because * cash paye
ment’ considerations, or reduced
to soliciting alms in order to sut=
vive.

Annually the Canadian taxpay-
er, without so much as a ‘by-your-
leave’ sees $114-billion or more 0
his tax dollars dumped down a use=
less (and bottomless) arms drain,
while _his -all-too-few _cultural |
achievements like TUTS, become:
the victims of ‘cash payment’ hag-
elers, on the level of a Billingsgate
cadger peddling herring.

TUTS should be subsidized and
maintained as a valuable civic en-
terprise, dedicafed wholly to the
encouragement, . promotion an
presentation of Canadian talent.
Its entire administration and fin-
ancing should be geared to this
end.

Nor ‘does it require a ‘royal
commission’ on TUTS to overcome
the “weather hazard” effects up-
on box-receipts. All that it needs
is a roof, portable or fixed, 10
blend with the beauty of its lo-
cale. Any grade-six student call
draft a roof blueprint — for free:

Let’s keep TUTS as a cultural}
enterprise, in which civic pride of
achievement and pot a ‘cash pay”
ment’ relationship will be the
yardstick of cultural advance.

Tom
McEwen

umn of a Victoria newspaper
the following:
“Union

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their advantage.’

|“ a tiny advertisement tucked
away in the “personals” col-

Movement — Former
members of the B.U.F. (British
Union of Fascists) or followers of
Sir Oswald Mosley are invited to
write to Victoria Press, Box 873,
where they may hear something to

In the August 26 edition of this
paper was’ a full expose of the
American Nazi Party spilling over
into Canada, and its ‘Troopers
Manual,” the latter a blueprint
for organized hooliganism against
Negroes, and the “extermination”
of American Jewry via the Hitler-
ite gas chambers.

(The U.S. fascists boast they
have the cooperation of the FBI
and the approval of the U.S. gov-
ernment. Their head offices are
only a few blocks away from the
White House.)

Just last week TV viewers saw

a group of young people in Que-
bec, with their “fuehrer’ Andre
Bellefeuille, arms outstretched in
a Hitlerite ‘“‘salute” and screaming
their “Sieg Heils’. Fuehrer Belle-
feuille, an employee of the federal
Department of Transport, also
talked about “gas chambers” for
Jews and other ‘‘inferior”’ peoples.

Last week too, as this paper re-
ported, the Adenauer government
of West Germany has numerous
agents in Canada, actively recruit-
ing among German-Canadians for
the new West German Wehrmacht,
in preparation for a new revanch-
ist “Der Tag” against the socialist
sector of the world, and first and
foremost, the Soviet Union.

With the “Free West’ coldwar
climate warmed up to their liking,
the Nazi vermin emerge from their
disease-ridden rat holes. All these
sinister manifestation of a Nazi re-
surgence are being carried on,
under the noses of, and with the
tacit approval of Washington and
Ottawa. Without reference to the
U.S., how other can be explained
the Diefenbaker government’s ad-
mission to Canada of hundreds of
Hitlerite death camp commandants
and similar war criminals and riff-
raff from the fascist gutters of
Europe? Bringing their poison
with them, they poison the minds
of young Canadians like Andre
Bellefeuille and his deluded fol
lowers.

Madame Fairclough, chief of
Canada’s immigration department,
may be a very gracious lady, dedi-
cated to the task of keeping Can-
ada’s bloodstream lily-white and
pure, but the presence of resurgent
Nazism in our midst, sparked. by
the immigrant dregs of Hitlerism
which have been allowed to enter
Canada in droves, points up the
need of a drastic overhaul in im-
migration administration.

This Friday is Remembrance
Day,-‘‘Poppy Day”, dedicated _ to
the tens of thousands of young
Canadians who gave their lives,
who suffered broken bodies and
unsurpassed sacrifice, in order that
it would not happen 4gain. But it
is happening, right before our very
noses, and happening with the con-
nivance and tacit approval of the
Diefenbaker government—and the
Liberal government before it. |

Tf ever the anger and protest of
the Canadian people needs to be
turned upon Ottawa to halt the
spread of this Nazi disease, it is
NOW. The history of the Hitler
era is an appalling memory, and
it must not be allowed to be re-
peated. The new stokers of Hitler-
ite death ovens must be stamped
out like poisonous vermin. :

A government that hesitates or
fails to do this, is an enemy of the
Canadian people, an enemy of
peace, and a standing insult to
Canada’s war dead.

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