of thalf-truth,

down (or up) te the penny-a- _ line hacks, the trial of the priest Mindszenty, who has fought the

Hungarian workers all his life ,

has produced more columns of distortion and lies in a few days than any other case of a like kind in a long time.

A Sun edit- orial. true to

form. alleges _ that Mindszenty was found guilty of “the crime of

Catholic and he may be a Chris- tian, but that has nothing to do with the charges of which he has been found guilty. There are 6,- 000,000 Catholics in Hungary: why were they not in the dock if the Sun’s nonsensical claim is true?

Mindszenty himself has an- Swered that foolishness. He main- tained his innocence until it was no longer possible to do so. Only

when confronted with unanswer- able evidence did he break down and admit his guilt to the charges of treason, trying to overthrow the government and black mar- ket speculation in foreign cur-

rencies, including dollars receiv- —

ed from Cardinal Spellman and the, Vatican.

Like the nations deluded by the Marshall Plan he believed the promises of the U.S. He believed the promise of U.S. minister Sel-

den Chapin that the U.S. would start.a war with Hungary to help him to accomplish his evil de- signs. Only when the Hungarian people had scotched these plans did he begin to rat, express sor-

*row for his crimes and offer to

repay the Hungarian people for the damage he did them,, an of- fer utterly impossible of accom- plishment.

This priest has a long record of struggle against the people. When the Communist government was in power in 1919 he was arrested for writing pamphlets and taking part in a movement for its over- throw. Foolishly they allowed him to go free then. Had they dealt with him as he deserved at that time. the Sun, President Truman, Prime Minister St. Lau- rent.and Ernest Bevin would not

. how be hailing him as a martyr

whose just sentence could. be made an excuse for a third world war.

It is worthy of note too, that one of his fellow criminals who was also found guilty of the same charges, Duke Paul Esterhazy, belongs to the same degenerate ‘noble’ family as Major Ester- hazy, who sold French military secrets to the Germans and then forged documents which sent Captain Dreyfus to rot on Devil’s Ysle for years. A family trait no doubt! ;

It is claimed for Mindszenty that he fought the Nazis. He never fought fascism. Horthy was the first fascist ruler in Europe and Mindszenty was on his side from the beginning of his

Wits a pisces “Anatalimnent™ ap-

pearing January 31, the scab- produced Vancouver Daily Prov- ince has just concluded a series of five articles on “Communism in BC.”

Workers can look forward to these hysterical effusions being reproduced in

- pamphlet form and given wide distribution by the’. © a'na- dian Man- ufacturers’ As- - Sociation, the Chambers of _ Similar: outfits. called that a number of B.C.’s _ biggest labor-hating monopolists presented their respective em- _ ployees with copies of an earlier effort of the Province along those lines, all suitably inscribed “with the compliments of the manage- ment.”

Commerce It may be re-

and

Woven from the suis fabric -inuendo and falsehood, these journalistic ex- hibits of boss-class hysteria and hate are intended as ideological

‘weapons for the waging of “cold

war.” Even the resort to bare-

this Hitlerite business of paint-

ing a lurid tale, as the alleged - quotation from. Lenin in the first’ _ “installment” clearly shows.

Despite its philistine plea that

“Knowledge is the surest wea- _

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rule until he fled from the wrath of the Hungarian people.

And while he was supporting Horthy’s assassination of the spir- it of the Hungarian people, where was Rakosi who is now being de- nounced by these paragons of vir- tue, the Sun, Truman, St. Lau- rent and Bevin? He was incar- cerated in Horthy’s jails. For 15 long years he suffered - the Christian benevolence of Mind- szenty and others who maintained Horthy in power.

Truman says the People’s Court is a ‘kangaroo court”! If he wants to see a real kangaroo court, let him look to New York where 12 men. are on “trial”, not for trea- son. not for trying to overthrow ihe government or for black mar- ket speculation but for believing that it would be better for the 145 million people of the U.S. to produce for themselves than to allow a handful of billionaires to exploit them for profit.

The land reforms of the Hun- garian government have cost the Church nine-tenths of its land holdings in what was once the

‘bread basket of Europe. Educa-

tional reform has freed the youth. 6,000,000 Hungarians may pay Peter’s Pence if they so desire but the state will not compel them to do so.

This is the reason for the agi- tation in the Catholic world; this is why the Pope advises the Catho- lics to refuse to obey “unjust” laws; not the fate of a priest, even one who would like to become a martyr.

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pon abajo communism,” the _ Scab-produced Province articles are primarily designed as an appeal to ignorance. The tech-

nique of the big lie underscores *the whole series.

LPP leaders and others in the Canadian labor movement, of whom Karl Marx said 100 years ago “disdain to conceal their views.” are depicted as scheming conspirators operating in “cells,” “fronts” and what not, all for the general damnation of the South- am concept of “democracy.”

Perhaps the most outstanding in the Provinces five vials of anti- communist wrath is article No. 2, “Peace Drive Newest Ruse” To think, speak or work for peace ‘has now become subversive to the nth degree. Even the non-party non-political Canadian is now held suspect, should he or she dare breathe a word in favor of peace. The personalities and the “fronts” are.all duly listed and classified. The whole business of peace, ac- cording to the Province, eman- ates from Moscow. “Orders (from Moscow) are to stress the horrors of atomic and bacterial warfare,” thus helping to weaken “the will of the masses to defend the de- mocratic way of life.”

The “innocents,” listed as ree nestly worried religious men” are warned to forsake peace, lest they

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the preservation of a “way of life” which offers them nothing but war.

Article three dealt with the al- leged role of the Communists in the unions and the language or- ganizations. Hand in hand with

the hope that ‘Communist Con-

trol Weakened Now” is the dis- turbing worry that most of the unions do not readily succumb to the “democratic” blandishments of Frank Hall, Doctor Pat Con- roy and the Vancouver Daily Pro- vince. :

The language organizations are portrayed as a “smoke-screen to hide, Red party tactics,” while Ma- rion’ Parkin, secretary of the Housewives-Consumers’ League—

which really fights for price con-~

trol on basic commodities, “is not to be confused with the Canadian

Consumers’ Association’’!

In its smear on Communist “control” of the unions the Province ommitted all mention of the 30 month picket line of the ITU, or of the men on that picket line locked out after 20-30 years’ service to the Province. This ommission left us wonder- ing whether the existence of the ITU picket line is a result of the Province’s anti-Mescow hallucinations, or its monopoly preference for stabs? Hither way, it is a fair criterion of the Province’s “concern” for trade union welfare. as set. forth in its recent smear blitz,

On. the. Pacific Tribune. the

Province lie factory really excell-

ed itself. It charges us with pub- lishing “fantastic lies” which “no one in their right mind could be expected to believe .. .”? The pot would like to call the kettle black (or red), in order to cover up the fact that it is a pot—used

, crime against humanity.

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in the compounding of a’ gigantic :

Three pillars of ‘freedom’ PREMIER. Maurice (Padlock) Duplessis of Quebec demands

that newspapers confine their comments on Communism to “three lines.’” He exhorts Canadian businessmen to “use their power to stop newspapers becoming propagandists for communism” by featur- ing all the “news. The ‘‘power’’ Duplessis refers to (and he should know) is financial backing of the monopoly press through large- scale advertising—the life blood of every commercial journal, and that which determines its quality of “‘freedom’’ to give the reader what the interests of its advertisers demand.

Doubtless. sections of the commercial press will make a pretense at protesting Duplessis’ blowing aside of the newsprint curtain and exposing to the light of day just how “‘free’’ our “‘free press’’ is, but they will eventually conform to the Padlock Premier’s ideas on’ freedom if big business, of which they are a part, insists.

From Budapest comes another sample of this ‘‘freedom of the press.” George Seldes, editor of Jn Fact, commenting on the Mind- szenty case and its reaction on Catholic editors, says: “So: fat as the’ present Cardinal (Mindszenty) is concerned, it is a fact that his stand, especially regarding land reform, has brought opposition from his own people, including the Catholic newspapers. In 1948, Cardinal Mindszenty, following an article criticising his stand, issued a pastoral letter stating that all Catholic journalists who criticise him will be excommunicated’!

The most classic definition of ‘freedom of the press’? comes from Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times. Addressing a group of citizens protesting his paper’s distortion of the news, editor Sulzberger declared: ‘“‘Freedom of the press means your freedom to circulate a handbill, if we, in our freedom, refuse to print that which you would have us say.’ Later, telling his critics he had achieved his right to this great freedom by marrying the boss’s daughter, said: “If you want freedom equal with the Times; you too are free to marry a publisher’s daughter.”

From these three authorities we get an unsolicited but exact measure of our “free press’; finance, intimidation, and class distinc- tion., ““Three lines’? (in lieu of slanderous distortion) or no dollars; hell fire if the truth is published; marry the boss’s daughter and crack the whip over the Fourth Estate!

These are. three typical reasons for building the Pacific Tribune

. for supporting a paper that is not under the dictation of powerful advertisers, that cannot be intimidated, and regards freedom, not as a plaything of the rich, but a right of the common people in their

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(From the files of The People’s Advocate, February 1%, 1939)

Deliberate anti-Soviet lying, of course, is not new. It is as old as the Russian Revolution, critical period for the world sees new phases of it. The enemies of the Soviet Union must have their

‘consolation to save them from the anguish of reading the many reports of growing Socialist strength and advance, and of the un-

assailable military defensive might of the world’s key peace bulwark.

These hungry foes for hateful news of the USSR would starve if they did not feed themselves with this synthetic sustenance, consist-__ ing of collected anti-Soviet lies,

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