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—NEW YORK OT 00 et the Second World War is over, more than

500 million people in colonial countries are still fight- ing for their share in the peace. Before the Axis _was defeated, the propaganda machines of the great democ- racies led these people to ex-

till the

pect true self-government as a sult of their participation in the United Nations war effort. Now they are trying to collect.

The claims of the colonial peoples are being asserted both in negotiations and in all-out shooting battles. The 60 million people of Indonesia fought for months and finally won a pact from the Dutch that gives them somewhat more freedom than before.

In Indo-China, with a a tion of more than 20 million, a war is going on at the present time. While the French govern- ment and the autonomous Viet- Nam republic, which it recog- nized, were negotiating in Paris, lecal French forces attacked the 'Viet-Nam capital and tried to wipe out the republic.

What is happening in Indo- China shows that the colonies must not only win their free- dom with arms, but that they need arms to keep it. French big business interests, which _ exploited the country -for a long time, will not give in, whatever the Socialist cabinet in Paris may say.

The big industrialists have a weapon at hand in the famous Foreign Legion, which in Indo- China is composed. largely of _ Nazi ex-prisoners using Ameri- ~can lend-lease arms.

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"HE real owners of such sub- ject countries as India, Burma, | Indonesia and Indo-China are

not the British, Dutch and French peoples, but the great British, Dutch ‘and _ French

trusts, in all of which American trusts have large holdings. This is reflected in the ‘treaties’’ now being offered to these colonies, which permit them | to fly their own flags and run certain local affairs, but bar them from dis- posing of their Own resources.

The Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company pretty nearly owns the government of Holland itself _ and will turn the army on any- -_ one who does not allow it to run its Sumatran oil wells on prewar terms.

_* British big business concerns like the Imperial Chemical In- dustries and the Nuffield auto- mobile interests are presenting Indian businessmen with con- tracts virtually at the point of

a bayonet. Everybody concern- ed knows the bayonets will stay

right kind of under-

_ standing is reached—or until they are driven out.

American troops in the Phili- pines and China are equally

_ persuasive salesmen for U.S. big _ business. Their bargaining posi-

tion is good because their sup- port is worth a lot to ruling factions that depend on _ the power of arms. ~ ;

_ Suropean imperialists want the US. army to take a hand in ‘pacification’ in their own near-

.by territories and shrewd bar-

_ PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 12

_ paper”

gaining is no doubt going on,

with U.S, big business trying to figure whether it vill be more profitable to hirc out the GIs or let nature take its course in its competitors’ back yards. Nevertheless, the war has left

the stronger than ever before and much more determined to use their strength to win independ-

‘subject peoples’ much

ence, If may take them many years to gain victory but their chances are good, The emerg-

ence of new nations and new in-.

dustries where there were only colonies and slave economies before may yet be remembered aus the chief positive result, if a somewhat delayed one, of the Second World War.

Goebbels lives in ‘Le Goglu’

By FRANK ARNOLD E GOGLU; Goebbeles-

que smear sheet, ped- dler of race-hatred, once banned for its rabid anti- Semitism, is on Montreal news-

stands again.

Boasting that “Le .Goglu is

sold everywhere except by the

Jews,” this self-styled “comic launches into an = un- paralteg emission of vile spleen that sickens the ordinary read- ef. Edited by Joseph Menard, noted pro-fascist, Le Goglu car- ries paid ads from Salluste Lay- ery, another Hitler friend, and supports Premier Maurice Du- plessis and his Union Nationale to the hilt. In a lead story Le Goglu told Bagot electors that they would find in Maurice Du- plessis “echoes. of Mercier — the same dignity, the same in-

_ trepidty, the same courage—the

great patriot who will turn your eyes toward the flag of liberty (sic).” While calling for a Du-

' plessis vote in Bagot this paper

directs a scurrilous attack on Senator T. D. Bouchard, . who exposed the Order of the Knights of Jacques Cartier, di-

recting ring for activity in Quebec.

most fascist

In typical Storm ‘Tidop style

Le Goglu attacks the slightest

sign of culture, progress’ or science. The second issue of this sheet devotes a whole page to

proving that “doctors are char-—

latans” for advocating pasteur- ization of. milk. Typhoid and in- fantile paralysis epidemics can be traced to pasteurization, Le Goglu states vehemently.

The Hitler theme of Jew-bait- ing runs throughout the paper but one special article entitled “Like rats in the cheese,” car- ries the idea to its lowest level, “In politics, through the medium of masonic lodges, of which the Jews “are the masters, they spread everywhere the odor of their dung.” Le Goglu says, re- peating by rote the catechism it learned from its Nazi master.

Communists come in for Same vicious rage. Fred Rose is described as ‘alias Rosenberg, a Jew born in Russia,’ while Val- more Bienvenue, K.C., Liberal attorney who defended the Car- tier MP, is lampooned in Rus-

sian costume. David Lewis, na-

the

‘provide

tional secretary of the CCF, is called “a notorious Jewish Com- munist.” :

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Pe ground for. Le Goglu, and

other, similar salesmen of hate, racial intolerance and fas- cism, has been broken by Pre- mier Duplessis’ reactionary on- Slaught on civil and trade-union rights. Le Goglu, ang the rest of the lunatic fringe, has receiv- ed the green light from the huge Quebec trusts and from their political. handmaidens. Their job is to divert popular attention from the vital needs of French Canada—jobs, decent pay envelopes, homes and_ se- curity from war threats.

“The recent acts of the Unit- ed States government in the coal miners strike, and the dis- gusting and extremely serious offensive against trade union rights and all forms of civil liberties by the Quebec govern- ment under Maurice Duplessis

ample cause for the serious alarm, not only

within the ranks of organized workers, but amongst thinking people in all walks of life.”

most

at three towns north and south of Hanoi, acording to reports reaching military au- thorities in Paris.

Dispatches said it had been reported “in some _ quarters” that the Viet Nam forces were using tanks that presumably had been ' left behind by the Japanese. The dispatch reported an fficial source as saying that French troops cracked through the lines of the Viet Nam Re- public forces and relieved be- Seiged French garrisons, but rebel operations are spreading over the whole of ROMER SET Indo- China.

The heaviest fighting was in the town of Bacninh and Whu Lang Thuang, about 50 miles north of Hanoi, and at Namdinh, 45 miles to the south.

The Viet Nam: forces, fight- ing for the independence they have been promised, have cut the road from Hanoi to the sea- port of Haiphong, 30 miles to the east. This has hampered the movement of French troops and supplies.

A French press agency dis- patch said fighting had not start- ed yet at Tourane, southeast of Hanoi, although the city was officially reported to be surrounded by Viet Namese. The press agency hinted that insur- gents had hesitated to attack because of the strong French garrison in Tourane and _ be- cause of French warships in the harbor.

The situation was officially regarded as_ serious in Paris. Military observers said France had small chance of holding Indo-China if the Viet Namese opened a full-scale revolution be- fore French reinforceemnts ar- rive.

It appeared that Blum’s So- cialist government was caught in the middle by the trouble,

playing the unpopular role of mediator, : French © communists support :

Viet Nam independence and co-

operation with France.

Marius Moutet, minister overseas possessions, left on an emergency mission to China last week, instructed to reach an agreement with Ho Chi Minh, president of Nam, which would end the fight- ing “without abandoning any Frénch right in Indo-China.” :

But in a press interview at

Saigon, following a visit ‘to em-~

battled Hanoi, Moutet stated,

“It is necessary to have a mili- _ that | military authorities were deter-—

tary decision,” implying

mined to press the campaign against Viet Nam forces, :

FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1947 1

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