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APPEAL TO BACK GUATEMALA

f oMONTREAL — Invasion of Fi Matemala is a “clear case of } Mernational aggression” and a sj ‘me that can be compared ¢) With those of Hitler and Musso- ni, Ismael Mendez-Zabadua, CG temalan Consul-General to

anada, told the Tribune. The “Nvasion started only after U.S. 4 lanes landed in Nicaragua and

“Ondoras with arms, — he ‘ Charged.

| aSehind the invasion was J) ‘Nastasio Somoza, son of Presi-

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; Provided Castillo Armas with a and money and was the et man for the U.S.-owned jauited Fruit Company who bit- lt, Y Contested the agrarian re- Fm policies of the Guatemalan | 8°vernment.

; aycndez Zabadua appealed to ¥. anadians to raise their voi-

tan Stop this terrible aggres- ~ against his people.

The Tribune,

June 28, 1954

__ FLASHBACKS FROM THE COMMUNIST PRESS

‘| €nt Somoza of Nicaragua who”

Profiteer of the week:

50 years ago...

REACTIONARY SOUTH AFRICAN ‘LABOR’ PARTY The Labor Party in South

Africa, representing not the in- terests of the workers, but the interests of the petty capitalist class, is waging an election cam- paign in support of Hertzog, so-called Nationalist Premier of South Africa.

Hertzog represents the ruling class in South Africa in their desire-to; wrest greater,power.in the exploitation of the Black population of South Africa and surrounding territories from British: capital. This has found expression in his demand for a separate South African flag and other suggestions of this kind, which, on the surface appear to be anti-imperialist, but which in essence represent the growing imperialist interests of the South African ruling class.

The Labor Party, is composed of only the small upper stratum of skilled workers who very often act as foremen over the brutally exploited Black work- ers. The Worker,

June 22, 1929

this year!

As long as Canada’s resources and the means of transporting them are in the hands of private corporations, million of dollars in returns which should belong to the people of Canada will be drained away to the board- roommillionaires. Forexample, Interprovincial Pipe Line Ltd., had an after-tax profit of $14,317,000 for just the first three months of

Figures used are from the company’s financial statements.

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EDITORIAL, COMIMUENT

Canada’s stake in SALT II

The real fight for the life of the SALT II treaty signed by Soviet premier Brezhnev and U.S. president Carter in Vienna June 18 is underway.

Capping almost eight years of difficult, delicate negotiations, the signing itself is a victory for reason, an important step to limit the spread of strategic nuclear weapons. It is also a sign of realism, faced as the world is with major choices in the field of nuclear arms.

SALT II limits the USSR and USA to deployment of 2,250 launchers for inter- continental weapons, places at 1,200 the number of missiles that can be armed with

multiple warheads and takes a first step in|

limiting arms modernization. It also opens the possibility to enter into the SALT II negotiations which could make important headway toward not only arms limitations, but reductions. .

But, predicatably, the hawks in the West,

especially in the U.S., are out to torpedo the treaty. Led by Senator Jackson and other throwbacks to the political Middle Ages, they are doing everything to scuttle the treaty by building up opposition to it in

the U.S. Senate which requires a two-thirds

- vote for ratification.

The debate will go on through the summer with the vote expected in early fall.

Carter outlined the administration’s pos- ition June 18 before a joint session of Congress and said:

“In setting our hands to this treaty, we set our nations on a safer course. Not one nation on this earth, not one human being,

_is harmed, threatened or deprived by this

victory in the battle for peace. A victory is here for all. . . .”

A true and realistic statement.

Given the battle ahead to make SALT II a reality, and given that SALT LIT depends on the U.S.’s ratification of SALT II, every nation concerned with world peace now has a responsibility to do something about it in a concrete way by greeting this important development.

This certainly includes Canada and its new Tory government which, instead of threatening to spend even more on war, should openly and publicly endorse SALT II which, if ratified, will protect this country too.

Clark’s gamble backfires

The full impact of Joe Clark’s cheap election stunt to move Canada’s Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is beginning to be felt. In their haste to get elected, the Tory braintrust dove head first into one of the most basic questions around which peace in the Middle East depends — the rights of the Palestinian people.

There’s not much point in being sur- prised at such an ill-considered and pro- vocative Tory strategy, except to remind ourselves what this government is capable of doing for votes in a few constituencies.

Clark is now caught in a bind ‘between the Zionist lobby which backed him with votes last month in exchange for the

embassy move and the swift and powerful »

reaction of the Arab world who had given

him ample warning what this move would

mean to Canadian-Arab relations.

But the issue is not simply petro-dollars and this country’s international financial health. There are more fundamental and important questions raised by Clark's fool- ishness.

The denial of the national rights of the Palestinian people for over three decades

has plunged the Middle East into four

wars, caused untold suffering and, on several ocassions, threatened world peace.

Israel's expansionism, its refusal to ad- dress itself to the question of the rights of the Palestinian people, indeed its repres- sion and annexation policies, have been condemned time and again by world public opinion.

The United Nations has stated that a just solution to the Palestinian question is the key to lasting peace in the area. It has called again and again on Israel to get out of territory it occupies illegally (including East Jerusalem).

Israel's problem, therefore, is to win

international recognition of its illegal occupation — and one way is to convince other nations that Jerusalem, all of it, is an Israeli city.

And that is what Joe Clark has been sucked into. ace

Only Holland and 13 Latin American states have their embassies there and Canada, if Clark doesn’t back away, is going to join that company with all that conveys.

We will then have joined with these states in publicly rejecting the national rights of the Palestinians and will have thumbed our nose at the United Nations on this vital issue.

That’s quite a price to pay for a few ill-gained votes.

‘Boat people’?

Immigration Minister Atkey says Viet- nam is practicing racial and entre- preneurial discrimination against the ethnic Chinese. He says Canada will up its immigration quota on humanitarian grounds. He says we don’t have a “guilt complex” like the U.S. about Vietnam.

Entrepreneurial discrimination? Maybe Atkey doesn’t know that Vietnam finally, after 30 years of sacrifice, consolidated its socialist revolution and those who find it impossible to live without exploiting others

can leave.

Ethnic discrimination? Ask yourself — why: doesn’t China invite these “entrep- reneurs” to settle in China after urging them to leave Vietnam?

No guilt complex? That's interesting, considering Canadian business made mill- ions out of the Vietnam war and just recently Ottawa reneged on its promise to aid in the country’s reconstruction.

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