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CRUCIAL U.S. ELECTION DRAWS NEAR

By JOHN WILLIAMSON

ith less than a week left

before election day in the U.S,, the presidential campaign is now in high gear,

As all polls put Lyndon John- son out in front by substantial majorities and life-long Repub- lican newspapers and magazines announce support for him. the great danger is that the anti- Goldwater forces will settle back to await his automatic defeat on Nov, 3,

Each day Goldwater becomes more irresponsible and dema- gogic, Before the American Le- gion convention he declared that “merely possessing the weapons of strength is not the same as being strong, We need the will to be strong,”

He then made it clear it was against the Soviet Union he was itching to demonstrate the strength,

Hitting out sharply against those who wanted to cut’ military spending, he said they would use

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the money “for handouts here and subsidies there” andthus “fritter away taxable capacity in do- gooder schemes,”

Striking back, President John- son at the Steel Workers Union conference blasted Goldwater as a “raving, ranting demagogue.”

He declared: “We are going to seek peace in every capital, with every person who will meet us half-way, We know the price of destructive war, We hate it, We love peace,”

In Mississippi, while the rac= ists accompany their frenzied support of Goldwater by dynamit- ing more libraries, civil rights centres and churches used for

5 Notes-registration, the Freedom

Democratic Party announced it will campaign for the Johnson- Humphrey ticket,

Making clear this was a prin- cipled position, it accompanied its announcement by reiterating its rejection of the Johnson- Humphrey-Reuther compromise concerning the seating of Mis-

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In every hamlet, city and state where the Negro has the right to vote, they are overwhelmingly anti-Goldwater,

In contrast, the racialist Goy- ernors Wallace, of Alabama, and Johnson, of Mississippi, both Support Goldwater. while the vi- cious, reactionary Senator Thur- mond of South Carolina has joined what he calls “Goldwater’s Re- publican Party,”

All the pro-fascists are rally- ing to Goldwater’s support, in- cluding the John Birch Society, the Minutemen, White Citizens’ Councils, Christian Crusade and others,

Under the threat of a serious, pro-fascist development if Gold- water was elected , there have been some important develop- ments in Negro-trade union united action,

On the trade union front, never since the 1936 Roosevelt cam- paign has there been such unity as there is today in calling for Goldwater's defeat,

The AFL-CIO executive coun- cil and its 166-member board acted unanimously, including those few long associated with the Republicans. Even the reac- tionary, cold war-warrior, pres- ident George Meany, likened Goldwater to Hitler,

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ing up to all the needs and qualifications, whom we

see on the political horizon at the present time, i8_—

Bawry Coldwater. I know Barry fairly well.

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a great American.

As IT foresaw a year ago how the

WELCH ENDORSES BARRY. The above is taken from Robert Welch's ‘Blue Book 2 Welch, the founder and leader of the John Birch Society, discloses his association ; with Goldwater. It has been revealed that he personally got Goldwater to func : tion on some “‘front’’ organizations set up by the Birchers.

Welcome of cosmonauts

described by PI writer

illiam Devine, who for many. Wears was an editorial staff writer for the Canadian Tribune, has taken up his post as Moscow correspondent for the Canadian and Pacific Tribunes, He re- places John Weir. Both Devine and Weir have contributed many articles to the Pacific Tribune in the past,

Devine was in Red Square re- ently when the three Soviet cos- monauts were honored for their historic flight, He wrote:

~ “The flag-bedecked crowd ap- plauded the three-man crew of the Vorshod (Sunrise), the first space ship to carry more than one cosmonaut aloft, The three were awarded the titles Hero of the Soviet Union and Pilot Cosmo- naut of the USSR,

“Colonel Vladimir Komarov, pilot of the craft, told assembled Muscovites that all systems of the craft had worked perfectly and that the flight opened a new

é f chapter in the conquering ° — space, :

“Echoing this sentimell scientist Konstantin Feoktist! said the flight was more oC tifically productive than prepee ones, The crew’s doctor, Boe if Yegorov, said the bodily tute of each had performed perfe® throughout the flight.”

WILLIAM DEVINE

CANADIAN TRIBUNE EDITORIAL

THE SOVIET CHANGES |

Last week’s issue of the Canadian Tribune carried the foliowing editorial on the changes in the Soviet Union.

Nos of the changes in the leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and of the Soviet government came as a shock to most Canadians and gave rise to considerable anxiety. For at least two good reasons: (1) Because to most or- dinary Canadians, as indeed to millions throughout the world, Nikita Khrushchov symbolized the Soviet people’s desire for peace and his government’s policy of peaceful coexistence; his sudden removal from leadership aroused momentary fears among many as to whether that policy would be continued. (2) Because they found it difficult to understand the man-

ner in which the changes were announced

and explained.

While these changes are an internal matter for the Soviet people, they are of concern to people everywhere. This is so because of the great role and influence of the Soviet Union and of socialism in the world. For this reason particularly it is understandable that questions are being asked about the way the changes were made. All those who look to socialism as the beacon-light of progress cannot be in- different to the way socialist democracy operates and advances.

We do not intend to join in the orgy of speculation which has surrounded these changes and the manner in which they were made. We are confident the Soviet leaders will take note of the impact these changes have had on world public opinion and of the questions and criticisms raised

in connection with them.

What IS of the most vital significan a is the declaration of the Soviet gov® h ment that it will continue along the tei of struggle for peace, peaceful coexisten the prevention of nuclear war, for diy fs ament and the settlement of dee fot questions by negotiation, and supp? the national liberation movements.

What IS significant is the statement Hh the leaders of the CPSU that they 4 persevere in their efforts to restor ont consolidate the unity of the world munist movement.

jal What IS significant is their pledge they will “continue irreconcilably and ac’ sistently to oppose the ideology and aT ow tise of the personality cult” and to f? and firmly Leninist principles in party government leadership. n Peace and disarmament and the pre in8 tion of nuclear war remain the bh : task of our day. The imperialists are ”* «+ ulating about “the disarray in Comm tue ranks” and hope to use the present oA tion to weaken socialism aad he of eace and democracy, wit. ou Ree heck their positions throug will the world. But their hopes and pl@

fail. | 4 The latest affirmation of the ote! party and government leaders tha pus will continue the policy of relentless = ce gle for peace and peaceful co-e%!§ gives mankind reason to be confide? the cause of peace will triumph.

age October 30, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE P