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U.S. imperialism's defence of th free world” against the ‘‘menace’ Communism” is a reptition of Hill and Goebbels — but it will meet ™ the same end, because it is a lie because the world’s peoples are m@ and more showing that they know! a lie.

Gunmen ‘doctrines’

Bx in 1820 under U.S. President James Monroe, the Monroe Doctrine came into being. It specified that “no outside interference in the internal affairs of North and South America” would be permitted, thereby reserv- ing for the U.S. alone, that exclusive “right”.

Despite all the differences betW German fascism of Hitler’s day ® American ‘‘democracy,” they brothers under the skin. g

—PEOPLE’S VOICE, New — Zealand, April 7, '65.

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Granted that many of us © different things first, but what the possession of everything else ™ if there is no peace? No matter h healthy or how rich we may be whether we have the best job in world, nothing matters if sudden’ and destruction strikes.

Over a century later another U.S. president, Harry Truman, one of the chief architects of the coldwar, gave birth to the Truman Doctrine, which some people believed “reversed” the Monroe Doctrine. On the contrary it mere- ly brought the former up-to-date with its “aid to free people to maintain their free institutions and their nation- al integrity against aggressive movements that seek to shape them as totalitarian states’.

Under the Truman Doctrine U.S. imperialism—and it alone, determines who and what is to be “free”, and the specific conditions of that “freedom”. Like in Alabama, Vietnam, Korea, Formosa and sundry other areas of the USS. “free world.”

— WESTERN PULP AND PAM ‘ : WORKER, Vancouver, Last week President Johnson, with his 15,000 Marines April, 1965. in the Dominican Republic, says they are there to “pro- tect” U.S. citizens. Later he came up with the real reason of his aggression, as per former U.S. “doctrines”; to pre- vent another Communist state on this hemisphere”. What type or form of government the Dominican people may want is of little moment. It is what the “free” gunmen of

the Pentagon wants that counts—at least so far.

A ‘lollypop’ tax cut

Ee inance Minister Walter Gordon’s new budget tabled in the House last week is described by the Canadian Tri- bune as “a lollypop budget”. That fits it to a nicety.

General Johann von Kielmansegv! 59-year-old Prussian who through the war as a high-rank Nazi officer, is commander of | Land Forces in Central Europe.

‘Of course, there are many precedents for this type of thing, Coventry, Warsaw, London, Madrid...”

In his blow-by-blow account of front-line experience in 1941, ™ mansegg wrote:

Some 21-percent of more of the budget is still retain- ed for socalled “‘defense’’, some one-and-a-half or two bil- lion of the taxpayers’ dollars down the war drain annually. ; No tax-cut there. — “We can report that we have”; ried out to the full the duty ossif m) to us by history, Germany 9" Fuehrer, and we can report f at are equally ready to carry out only remaining duty — the dest of England.”

Kielmansegg’s command 1° cludes the British Army of the Rh

For the big monopolies, those vested interests whol swallow up the lion’s share of the nation’s resources and wealth, the new budget presents no problems whatsoever. Their privileged position finds new stimulants in its basic

When Mr. Gordon’s $265-million tax-cut is shared F : K around among Canada’s largest income tax paying group, Gas meabmetic, the man with $5,000. or less annually, it works out at just about 8-cents a day—the price of a very mediocre lollypop. For the taxpayer with an annual income ranging from ten to twenty thousand the “lollypop” will at least measure up

to an all-day sucker.

One item “disallows” their current tax deductions for advertising Canada “for sale” in foreign-owned publica- tions, otherwise they’re still “sitting pretty”.

—SCOTTISH MINER, April, 1965.

The white man's burden is thé” den of the Coleured man’s res? Hense Imperialism is not, as 9" by imperialists, a policy of peace culture, but one of war and foY"

Budget-wise, the government’s much-touted ‘“‘war on poverty” —aside from that 8-cent lollypop, is conspicuously absent from the 1965 balance sheet. But, as a local scribe editorializes, “the extra money ... will ease the sting for many taxpayers”. He could have added that it will help them forget they have been stung again.

The Gordon budget can also be regarded as a possible election “come-on” since all old-line partisan governments tend to make gestures of “sharing the wealth” when elec-

: : —CEYLON TRIBUNE, — tions are in the offing.

February 20, 1965.

Tom

-McEWEN |

‘>= Mr. Bingham: - The Prime Minister has asked me to acknowledge receipt of your recent letter regarding the situ- ation in Vietnam and to assure you that he appreciated your having written to him on this matter, Yours sincerely, etc, and etc,”

This form letter masterpiece of inane brevity is, in all prob- ability, received in scores of thousands of Canadian homes, weekly, in reply to citizen letters protesting U.S, aggression and brutal atrocities against the people of Vietnam, North and South alike,

The Prime Minister “appreci- ated your having written him on this matter,” Not one word about what “my government” has done, will do, or plans to do about it. Not even a- repetition of that recent feeble plea for a “pause” in the U,S. murder and destruc- tion in Vietnam, Just appreci-

ation for “your having written,” _

We have a copy of Mr, Bing- ham’s letter to the Prime Min-

ister. It is direct and explicit and lists the crimes, the viola- tions of international law and

human dignity and decency, It.

is written by a working man whose people and himself are the builders of Canada, Bya working man, not a Nobel Peace Prize winner, but one whose life’s credo has been peace and human brotherhood, Consequently his letter is entirely free from diplo- matic double-talk, and calls a spade a spade,

“And Sir, I wish you to take Canada out of-.this turmoil, . .” Just as simple as that, and fully in keeping with the tens of thou- sands of other letters from like- minded Canadians to whom the Prime Minister’s office ex- presses its formal “apprecia- tion” while U.S. bombers continue their 24-hours-around-the-clock pouring down of napalm, poison gas and horrible death upon the people of Vietnam,

What Prime Minister Pearson needs at this precise moment in history in order ty give his “appreciation” a more ganuine

ring, is more letters of the Bing-

-ham calibre, millions of them,

bearing the simple message, now becoming world-wide: — “Get Out of Vietnam.”

“Tell the ruling gangsters in the U.S.A. that Canada is not with them,” concluded Mr, Bing- ham i. his letter to Mr, Pearson, “and if that does not work, shut

‘off all supplies of nickel, natural

gas, oil, covoer, and iron etc, That would stop ‘ne war factories, and let them know thai Canada

_means business,”

It would tndeed, It might cause us some temporary embarrass- ment and discomfort. but it would assure that tens of thousands of Vietnamese people now iiving — would continue to live, together with millions of others in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

To shut off the U.S. warhawks’ tap on Canadian resources now might even assure that we’ll be living a year from novw, . Bingham’s proposition to Mr. Pearson is a drastic one, but then “desperate diseases require desperate cures,” and what is more desperate — or destructive than U.S, escalation of its war of aggression in Vietnam, up to and

including the threat to use nuclear -

bombs “if necessary,”

We sincerely trust Prime Min-

Mr,

ister Pearson will get around to “appreciating” that threat to human survival, in Vietnam and elsewhere,

Most Canadians can readily “appreciate” Mr, Pearson’s di- lemma, Having literally sur- rendered Canada to the U.S, and made of our country a storage ground for U.S, nuclear bombs and our skies “open range” for U.S. war planes (with the aid of the Tories before him), it is not easy for Mr, Pearson now to say to his election promoters in Washington, “Canada insists you get out of Vietnam,”

But somewhere along the line,

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and soon, it has got to be 5 and it doesn’t matter a tl damn how. To permit the © military brass to continue Ad chosen role of an armed “ 4 e gendarme” with death and is truction its prime weapol become an accessory to the az rible inevitability of world clear destruction,

A few more million lett! the Bingham pattern might st acl late Mr, Pearson’s “ape h ation” to the point of ara action — for peace and sur ‘

That is what Canadians be and demand — Now.

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