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5 - made some revealing statements. drew aside the curtain and permitted as hearers a.

aren Canada *

_ ders from another country.’ : cm January 26, 1948, )¢ That statement was made ie e a urse of the House of Commons debate on the Al

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THE NATION

By TIM_BUCK

St. Laurent’s Troy speech proves

PEAKING in company with several big shots St United States’ industrial monopolies at Troy, New York, on October 14, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent

Ever so cautiously he

glimpse of some of the difficulties being experienced by his: government in its efforts to establish’ policies which,

aif they are fully developed, will make Canada absolutely

dependent upon the U.S. Characteristically, the source of the difficulties about

~ which St. Laurent complained is in the U.S. They are

- caused by the arrogant disregard of the greedy U.S. Monopolists concerning the effect of their polices upon other peoples—even upon their ‘partners.’ It is fairly evident that St. Laurent chose that particular occasion to make his statements because he was speaking in Company with the presidents of such corporations as

General Electric, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Alle- —

Sheny Ludlow Steel, Corning Glass, Cluett Peabody, His speech was an attempt to help them to understand ‘the more subtle implication of their own predatory im- - Perialist policies.

St. Laurent’s plea was. for cooperation. He was at great pains to explain to U.S. monopolists that such

Cooperation would “‘not mean any loss of business for bye manufacturers or of employment for your laborers:””

© tned to make it clear, however, that the sort of —

ee that i is necessary to complete the integration

give ia . The hope shat the U.S. monopolists will not ex-

— Pect Canada always to give in comes late from : aurent. The policies and measures which - have made

tt the regular thing for Canada always to “give in” im

U.S. have been introduced by

er d ealing with the Responsibility for the

© St. Laurent government.

tadical change in Canada’s relationship to the U.S.°

(and the calculated rapid k of Canada’s ties pid weakening : With Britain) rests squarely upon the St. Laurent gov

Hameie and primarily upon the prime minis

“Tt is noteworthy that one of the first stages of St.

ie plan to change the relationship between Can-

Ada and the U.S. was characterized by a member of

the House of Commons as follows: “It shows ‘an site

Ing subservience to the United States. One would thi Nada was a subject country. o Canadian govern-

far .as to t ‘Tent since Confederation has Cel MP,

Tt could be ued that St. Laurent was 7 re- fering to the Abbott plan at Troy, but ‘it cannot be Ceaied that what he was complaining about was, in

- fact, the failure or refusal of the U.S. imperialists to

strate reasonable appreciation of the job that is oa

a in literally ocr Canada » a part of their :

ren .

ure “The fact that ‘St. Laurent” $ Seat was in a meas

ke that Canada is | * uae as a result

ificant oes

US ate for cooperation wae ar a

P*eparations for war.

Having donintitred ‘Canada to wha Sie or ones

t is sphemuistie-

need to ‘Keep Canada Independent’.

Liberal in a hurry

N Ottawa dispatch to a Vanpauver daily paper states:

“The CCF’s Angus MacInnis, from uke couver East, thinks that when history is written Prime . Minister Louis St. Laurent will stand up - with the best of Canada’s great government leaders.

“Speaking in support of the government’s bill. to amend the British North America Act in re- spect to matters strictly federal, he said:

“Tam of the opinion it is much more difficult ts be a ‘great man today than at the time of Sir John A. MacDonald or Sir Wilfred _ Laurier.

“‘T think today we have men as great as were those men—great though they were.’

“Another MP suggested Mr. MacInnis would not get into the Senate that way, and the CCF member—smiling broadly—replied :

» “Well, you can’t say I didn’t try.’ ”’

Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, eh, Angus?

‘is not possible under your present” legisla- tion” and, in a flourish of lawyer's double-talk, St. Laur- ah. expressed to his hearers, ever so gently, the hope that

© United States will not “expect Canada always to”

ter himself.

at he himself

St. Laurent now wee

the U.S. monopolists to. grant Ganadian monopolists a portion of the fabulous profits anticipated from war preparations. As the Ottawa staff correspondent of the Toronto Globe and Mail put it: ““He has come into the open with a blunt proposition which has been the

subject of W ashington-Ottawa. discussions for nearly a’

year and which keynoted the discussions here last sum-

mer between the U.S. ee Secretary Johnson we “members of the cabinet.”

The essential content of St. Laurent’s speech at Troy was veiled carefully but it was very definite. He and his government will always “‘be on the same side”

with the U.S. imperialists in defense of the profit system,

his government favors “‘integration’’ of Canadian military, naval and air preparations in U.S. war plans (which means in fact, Canada at war when the U.S. ,is at

war) but, in return, he urges that Canadian monopolists

should get a cut out of. the profits of war preparations. If a statement from the prime minster had been re-

quired to prove the need for action around our slogans “Keep Canada Independent!” of War,”

and “Keep Canada Out St. Laurent’s speach at Troy proricenit it.

Devaluation, crisis “gored in new budget

_OTTAWA

INANCE Minister, ‘Dz Cc. Abbott's second budget of 1949 presented to the House of Commis last week completely failed to take cognizance of two critical economic abyetypmehts since poe ak of his last budget in) March 1949. | They were the rapidly maturing trade ‘ctisis and the sharp effects of devaluation: on the earnings of work-

ing people. " Instead ‘Abbott said: “The budget resolutions which —

I am now tabling differ only slightly from the ones:

which I tabled last March.” Instead of relief for the poor, a provision is made

for the rich by extending the 10 percent personal in-—

come tax credit on dividends received on common shares

“to all preferred stocks. i Without offering any direct solutions: to the adverse Abbott nevertheless was forced to acknowledge its existence and record the concern of ¥

trade situation,

the Soverninent. | ‘ . Some declines in our overseas export markets

Te already occurred and some further declines can

ws ne! ‘stated, noting that it would

hardly be avoid

depend on the progress “our overseas customers. make © ; Pr opardeneee their dollar difficulties.” : Inability of the American oles to absorb Can- ~ adian goods, with consequent grave ets on the Can- ‘possibility

adian economy, was foreseen as a Sree: in Abbott's nee ea S <

.

\

-On his way back from a European

- Republic.

a are war, especially since the news that the |

By LESLIE MORRIS

After Marshall - the Winch plan

ACE Piivld Winch, ‘Buta: Columbia’ leaden of the CCF, who has come up with the year’s prize

suggestion to. freeze the cold war to zero plus zero. “fact-finding tour”

Winch stopped off in Toronto to speak for the CCF in the Greenwood byelection. The Toronto Daily Star, which refused to mention the LPP campaign of Mrs. Louise Watson, headlined Winch’s desire to: ““PRO- ‘TECT EUROPE FROM REDS BY BOND DRIVE.” =

“We should use our government surplus to extend credits to Europe for food, clothing and machinery,” he said. ““We should go even further. We raised $12,- 500,000,000 in wartime; if we are sincere m our Christian beliefs not to want to see communism spread over Europe we should float a Dominion-wide bond issue, as if in war, to assist Great Britain and the con- tinent.”” *

The money: raised during the war was “to fight Hitler. Hitler could not have been defeated without alliance with the Soviet Union—which came very late indeed. Having received the benefit of the victory at Stalmgrad, Winch now proposes “‘as if in war’ to fight the Soviet Union. He cannot be so naive as to think that to raise billions by public loans is not a warlike act. Suppose the Soviet Union were to float a loan among its citizens to fight Canada? What a howl Winch woild raise!

This truculent propedal comes hot on the-heels of an admission by Mr. Winch that the Marshall plan has failed. ‘“‘If we don’t replace Marshall plan aid when it ends in 1952, we are going to find the continent unable to build up its economy and it will become a fruitful ground for communism.’

So, General Marshall having made a_mess of esas along comes Corporal Harold with the * ‘Winch Plan’!

We wonder how it will go down with his own ‘CCF party on the Coast? The last CCF convention™ © there turned down support for the North Atlantic sas the military edition of the jaca plan.

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'_ In his perambulations about Europe Winch visited the Eastern, Soviet, zone of Berlin. He is reported in the press to have seen nothing there but gloom and fear.. But a few blocks away, in Western Berlin, under ‘the

tule of the British, French and U.S. generals, and in

Western Europe generally, people have a “cool and dispassionate understanding that they are living at a crucial time in world history.”

Could it be that Winch attributes to other people what he himself feels? -

The question arises: What psychic qualities social democrats must possess to draw mighty historical con- clusions from a stroll down the street? Along with the Winch plan, we get the psychological interpretation of history! Winch is so gifted at sort of thing that he says: “The: support of the - Atlantic pact by :

~ these countries” (in Western Europe) “Ss not just” a _ matter of arms and munitions, but the ps

effect that comes from telling the Soviet Union that we

“are united as democracies.”

Note, the language throughout these quotations.

WWE Milde: the mauopolivs and the avorkens, ‘Wi ‘oppressors and the oppressed.

“We are “cool and

dispassionate”” people who have been se-aaly bucked

up psychologically by the supply of arms and munitions

by the United States.

Of course, the Chinese, not being Christians, ‘dea

not numbered among the “‘we,” do not have such a

psychological attitude.” Not being “‘western” they

use the arms supplied by the U.S. to establish a People’s

But then, they are not of the blessed

“Christian beliefs’ which. Winch counterposes to com-

munism. General Marshall having failed, can Harold Winch succeed?

» Such is the political anatomy of a CCF Gas. Setting the pace for the westem imperialist rulers on. his return from his European! Cook’s Tour, pc Sarg altid CCF members and supporters. a further object lessom in the truth that right-wing’ social oe handmaidens of the warmongers. ait =

Perhaps he will give the Winch plan to St. eel . The Liberals are ‘sadly in need of help. to. p up the Union “the atom bomb.

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