A national scandal

s over the years, Canadians in all walks of life paused Afor a brief hour on Remembrance Day this week to honour the dead of two world wars. To remember those who did not return; to remember the supreme sacrifice they made, to the end that the world they fought for would be realized by those who survived, and those who came after them.

For the Vancouver Fraserview Veterans Homeowners and Tenants the tributes of Remembrance Day was mar-

red by a circumstance not associated with that fitting cere- -.

monial — the threat of eviction from their homes by the government-owned Central Mortgage and Housing Corp- oration. A threat that unless these Fraserview war veterans pay the upped purchase prices and rentals demanded by CM&HC for their homes, eviction proceedings will be launched.

This despite widely-supported petitions, veteran rep- resentations to government, the specious “promises” of Liberal and Tory office-seeking politicians, and the pledg- ed support of wide sections of British Columbia. labor.

Remembrance Day—and the eviction of war veterans and their families from their homes.

If Remembrance Day is to have real meaning the cause of Fraserview must be taken up, not as a “‘local”’ is- sue which “only” affects a few hundred war veterans and their families, but a cause which must now assume all the proportions of a shameful national scandal. A gross injus- tice to the war veterans affected, and an insult to those who did not return.

Doubly so, since it is perpetrated at the hands of a government-owned institution, designed to aid war veteran rehabilitation and housing, rather than profiteer by it.

Whatever the ultimate outcome may be, Vancouver must stand out as an example to all Canada in defense of its war veterans—with a resounding city-wide demand of Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation — NO EVIC- TIONS of Fraserview Veterans on any pretense whatso- ever!

The Fraserview Veterans case against CM&HC is not only the concern of every veteran, but of all Canadians. The eviction of one Canadian veteran for the reasons ad- vanced would be a cynical denial of all that Remembrance Day means.

Voice of Geldwaicr

oe [t is safe to predict that the next issue of the B.C. Com- munists’ official organ, the Pacific Tribune, will fea-

ture editorials on the awful deeds of Anaconda Copper,

Britannia’s parent company .. .” .

So said “The Province” in a November 4 editorial, an- other of its highly typical Barry Goldwater anti-labor blurbs. While the American people in their millions decis-’ ively rejected that anti-Communist “Don Quixote,” not so with “The Province.”

Strip that alleged “newspaper” of its anti - Commun- ism upon which it projects most if not all issues involving labor and monopoly, and little else except a complete blank would remain.

One has only to refer back to “The Province” edition following the big Mine-Mill demonstration in Britannia on November 1. To its “garbage detail” columnist, the Britan- nia rally in support of Mine - Mill’s case against the Ana- conda was nothing more than “old home week for the Communist Party.”

“The Province” is right on one “prediction”; the “PT” will continue as hitherto, to feature the facts, and to help promote labor unity and solidarity upon those facts — a function utterly alien to the Goldwaterism “Province.”

Tom

McEWEN _

fter « ite a hubbub in Parl- Niament to extract some en- lightment on the matter, it now appears from the reluctant ad- missions of External Affairs Minister Paul Martin, that Soc- red leader Robert Thompson M.P. is on a junket to Africa as the “emmisary”of the Pearson government,

After much *ho-humming” Mr, Martin finally got around to ad- mitting that Mr. Thompson, on a “Special” service for Canada, shouldn’t be expected to “pay his own way.” Definitely not — when it is so easy to pass the bill on to the harassed taxpayer for all such “services,”

Since External Affairs Minist- er Martin and his Liberal collea- gues are unduly coy about their behind-the-scenes “relations” with Socred leader Thompson and his followers, we may be excused for doing a little speculation

ourselves on the Thompson safari, And particularly since we’re not burdened with the illu- sion that Mr, Thompson rates as any kind of an “expert” on African or Asian affairs,

A current opinion, quite widely held in some quarters, regards the Thompson trip to Africa as a sort of “pay-off” by a grateful Liberal minority for Socred aid in times of Liberal voting stress and strain in Parliament,

Coupled with this opinionis the possibility (if not the probability) that one of these fine days, should the “bait” be attractive enough, Mr, Thompson may “cross the floor” and take a more comfort- able seat on the Liberal side of the House,

Since “free enterprise” poli- tics of the old school are not noted

for unduly adhering to the “high

principles” of their partisan “loy- alties” when opportunity knocks, this possibility of Thompson switching party labels should not be ruled out of the Africa junket deal,

If Canada is in need ofinform-~ ation or on-the-spot data about Kenya, the Congo, Ethiopia or any other newly independent African nation, surely the Pearson gov- ernment could have found a more

representative choice for the job-

than Socred Robert Thompson,

On too many occasions during the past years Mr. Thompson’s well-hidden but obvious sympa- thies with anti-Semitic and ultra- rightist ideologies have been well known, Not so long ago this char- acter publicly expressed his “ad- miration” for the racist Barry Goldwater and declared his “lik- ing” for that product of Southern

U.S. racism and Ku Klux Klan’

“white supremacy”, Mr. Thomp- son would have very much “liked” to have had Goldwater “visit” Canada on a “speaking tour”,

When the Pearson government selects such people to represent Canada abroad on any mission whatsoever, it exhibits two major defects; one that it has a very

low opinion of the peoples and |

states we are presumed to be

“visiting,” and two, an appalling.

bankruptcy in its political stock- pile of “emisaries,”

We are told by External Af-

fairs Minister Martin by way of

an “excuse” for his government’s choice of Robert Thompson, that as a one-time resident of Ethio- pia Mr, Thompson may now be regarded as something ofan “ex- pert” on African affairs,

In present-day Western *diplo- macy” circles “experts” on Af- rica are as numerous as fleas on a dog’s back, and serve much the same parasitical function since the days of Rhodes and Liy- ingston, The African people have

Worth Quoting ve

“In the case of a sudden nuclear plosion, car drivers should stop im diately The car should be brought halt in such a way that road crossi etc., are not blocked.”

But this useful-leaflet (issued by ™ West German “‘Air Raid Protecti (ARP) does not tell drivers what have to do if the bomb drops ae they are in a parking meter areo™ have not got the right coin to drop the meter.” Sounds like the home Ed.. i

—DEMOCRATIC GERMAN REPORT,

Sept., 1964.

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But we have to decide now in later, because we will not have same chance fo gain the goodW: é, the Chinese or solidify their ill-will. let us use whatever influence w@ to get seven hundred million chines into the UN and fo cancel Chiang * ~ veto privileges. And let us have % eign policy that doesn’t consist © soy” ing ‘‘me too’ whenever the U.5-

_down the law. Let us be in steP

most of the world and courage: enough to act, for a change, own self-interest. Above all, let 4 in a way that will, if anything that convince the mainland Chinesé there are no victors in a nuclear bi —MACLEAN'S MAGAZINE, editor : Nov. 16, !

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Last Thursday in Parliament be Cairns d the Menzies 9° ’ ment of abdicating its responsibilty "Y refusing to expose the Ustashi. Het o called that since 1963 he had te ‘ giving the Government evidencé Ole tashi activities including the fact fi they were training people for fel? is acts in Yugoslavia. It appears i aoe government is siding with and shie® : ing this organization. i

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of Hitler. Ed.) ee —AUSTRALIAN raion

a name for all such sometiit less complimentary that ee perts.” It was such “exP® ., who manipulated the murde? "4, Lumumba in the Cone 5 Aredged up a Tshombe t? Pony: erve their colonial hegem™ Whatever the Liberal «asst, ment” to Thompson or thee?” the Canadian taxpayer, the is not a happy one — for C

assignment is typical, if all of unconvincing, But don’t be ’ 1. prised if, before many rave have passed, the Liberals © a new “recruit”. Say

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November 13, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PO9”