FTER much hesitation, an Eng-

lish mystic by the name of ©

Margaret Fulller once declared: “T accept the Universe!”

And-the witty Thomas Carlyle, author of The French Revolution, is said to have retorted: “By gad, she’d better!”

John Foster Dulles, U.S. sec- retary of state, has not yet seen the light that Margaret Fuller saw. He refuses to accept the facts of life.

“There are none so blind as those who will not see,” goes the old saying. And Dulles is the blindest thing that ever walked on two legs. é

When’ President Eisenhower told an astounded press the other day that Dulles was “the greatest secretary of state in living mem- ory,” some people were heard to ask whether Ike had a memory.

This year, both before Dulles crawled away from the confer-. ence table at Geneva to lick his wounds in Washington, and since, up to the time he publicly chortl- ed over the U.S. aggression against Guatemala, Dulles has committed enough blundering idiocies to alienate even his clos- est friends. ,

At Berlin a few months ago, like an ant at the foot of a moun- tain that sees only the pebble on which it is sitting, Dulles shout- ed: “Who is this Chou En-lai?”

At Geneva, where he found out who Chou En-lai is, Dulles was heard to mutter that he would meet the great Chinese leader “only if our cars collide.”

As Dien Bien Phu fell, this “greatest secretary of state in liv-

By BOB WARD

Asia no longer ‘rickshaw boy’

JOHN FOSTER DULLES ing memory” is reported to have declared that in any partition of Indochina he would “leave the Comunists ‘the space of a small room in which to be locked up.”

But the bluff and bluster has a hollow ring. The bluff has been called too often, and the ant at the foot of the mountain is being made to feel how small he really is.

After Geneva the U.S. maga- zine Time,.one of the more vic- ious organs of big business, wrote in pained annoyance:

“They (Chou En-lai and the other Chinese leaders) now de- mand a voice in the affairs of the Europe that a generation ago was sure that it ordered the affairs of China as surely as it ordered about its rickshaw boys.”

“Yes, gentlemen,’ one might reply, “the world moves and it sticks in your throat, doesn’t it?’

The days of ordering about rick- shaw boys are over.”

Perhaps the most interesting comment on Dulles and his re- fusal “to aecept the universe” is provided. by some of his best friends. Among them, and the more pro-American section of the British press, are the Econ- emist, which has begun to pour salt on Dulles’ wounds and add insult to his injuries.

In a leading article entitled “Alliance in Danger’ the paper wrote:

“Bluff plays a proper part in diplomacy if it is not tried too often and is never called. Un- fortunately too many of Dulles’ bluffs have not worked. ... The result has been to frighten Am- erica’s allies much more than to impress the Communists.”

Referring to the rift in British- US. relations, the Economist said: ms

“Tt must frankly be stated that © most of the present appearance of crisis has been manufactured ty wild and irresponsible talk in Washington.”

Yes, the rift widens between the rival imperialists, the thieves are falling out .— and all be- cause of a refusal to accept the facts of life.

Among the hard facts that stare them in the face today is a re- surgent Asia, which can no long- er be ordered about like a rick- shaw boy.

The more the imperialists and “the greatest secretary of state in living memory” refuse to “ac- cept the universe” the more soundly they will be thrashed.

No punch clocks for politicians: lots of MP-tee seats in house

We see by the papers where only 21 of “our” members of

parliament were in the House Vother day. And when you fig- ure there are some 265 MPs who were all elected “to fight in the best interests of the people” this kind of news is quite disturbing.

However, our readers will be cheered to know that there were enough Liberal MPs present to win whatever it was that might happen to be voted on.

One little aspect of the MP- teeism which is also worth taking a look at is that a quorum of 20 is required in order to conduct “our” business. So if two of the MPs ‘had suddenly developed a kidney ailment we wouldn’t have had any legislation passed at all that day.

In the light of some recent legislation whether this would be a good thing or a bad thing is, of course, a moot ‘question.

Another little angle to the mat- ter is that the MPs are very well paid (much of it tax-free) by the taxpayers (that’s us) supposedly to look after our interests.

Now most working people don’t get paid at all if they aren’t on the job. But with politicians there are no punch clocks and there is anparently no public record kept,

But it would be interesting to find out just how many of our MPs are absent more often than -they are anything else. Because from ali accounts a hell of a lot of money is being squandered on non-present-nor - productive _ poli- tics. If these boys were on an hourly rate they’d most likely end up owing parliament a. lot of money.

Then again maybe we shouldn’t be too hard on the MPs. After all they do have to sit on those hard wooden seats and listen to long speeches about all kinds of important things. Take this re- cent exchange between a group of “our” MPs.

Hon. Sinclair (Minister of Fish- eries): “Your talking would make anyone go to sleep.”

Hon. Pickersgill (Secretary of State): “It sometimes is very dif- ficult to say awake... .”

Mr. Fulton (MP, Kamloops): “Has the Minister ‘of Fisheries some comment to make?” —

Sinclair: “Yes, I have.”

Fulton: “Then, will the Min- ister get to his feet and say them.” :

Sinclair: “Yes, I will. I would say that the Hon. member for Kamloops would make anybody in this House go to sleep except himself.”

(At this stage a whole flock of MPs got in to the act — a sort of a junior donnybrook). Then... _ Sinclair: “How silly can you gel eae i

Fulton: “When answering at- tacks of the Minister one has to descend tp his level.” ~

Sinclair: “That would be very easy for you... .”

Fulton: “I will leave it at that

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Point of order By ALAN MAX

The Soviet Union has built the

first atomic power plant in the

world. What will they originate

next to steal?

and return to the Secretary of State.”

Sinclair: “An easier target.” -

An Hon. Member: “Oh, no!”

Pickersgill: “The Secretary of State has no desire to descend to the level of the member for Kam- Woopsee5 3

Mr. Herridge then spoke on the amount of money being spent by Turkey on public libraries; but before he was finished Mr. Ful- ton said, “10 o’clock,” (time to edjourn). |

Mr. Macdonnell (Greenwood) thought it wrong to “cry 10 o'clock when people were talking about libraries.” y

Then Mr. Fulton finished the debate on this high level. “If I am uncultured and uncouth” (hear, hear, said the Fisheries Minister), “if I have not benefitted

by the education to which I was exposed overseas, I do ask my hon. friend not to lay the blame on Cecil Rhodes but to lay the biame right here... .”

x x *

And this type of exchange, citi- zens, is most likely the reason why less than 10 percent of the “our way of life’ upholders up- holster their seats in Commons.

For how can our MPs find time’ to deal with such mundane mat- ters as unemployment, national health, trade, civil rights, hous- ing, etc., when there are these loftier matters to-take up their time. : '

We think that come next elec- tion time we should tell quite a few of them that it’s later than 10 o’clock as far as they are con- cerned.

@ This article is reprinted from the UE News.

. democratically

Oppose fare hike

DONALD GUISE, business agent, Vancouver Civic Em-

. ployees Union: The members of

this union are definitely opposed to the granting of a fare increase to the BCER. The company 1s already overcharging the public.

In its last financial statement,

» the BC Electric showed an over-

all profit of more than $12,000,- 000. us

On top of that, we are inform- ed that the top executives of the company have just made a neat bonus of $875,000 in share op- tions, as against the $750,000 yer year the company is seeking in new fares. d

All this adds up to a convinc-

ing argument for public owner- ship of power and transit utili- ties. _ The sooner the trade union movement unites solidly around a demand for public ownership, the better for the public. In the meantime, labor must go all out to defeat the present application for a fare increase.

UN or United Fruit ?

READER, Vancouver, like that crack I read in a US. labor paper last week: “USS. State Department theory is that the Eastern Hemisphere comes under the United Nations and the Western Hemisphere comes under the United Fruit.”

U.S. foreign policy

A. CORDONI, Haney, B.C.:; How the U.S. can persuade anyone on this earth of their benevolent and democratic intentions is beyond my understanding, especially as the Guatemalan government was elected. whexeas many of the South American countries are controlled by Am- evican-sponsored dictators.

The U.S. has amassed surpluses of food products which they can- not get rid of. The thought strikes ore of the incongruity of a rich and prosperous nation with moun- tains of food, using force of arms to keep a small and intensely

PACIFIC TRIBUNE

BCs: 31.

poverty-stricken people| i? of petual poverty and slavery:

the communists are

poverty to advance thei political interests.

If they don’t want to feed ne brave people with some ? they own surplus food, why oe ut not let them try to work ! cost themselves, which is all the not 4 munists were showing the™ to do?

| Flashbacks

40 years ago.

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ing in a special conventio? yslost to discuss the Vancouver 4g coal miners’ strike, voted in to take a referendum vote if ao affiliated unions “as to ¢ oa visability and possibility ° mote ing a general strike to foreé ine equitable terms for the "pe than those contained 7 jth | wretched offer of the ope re recently received throug 4

‘ier McBride.”

I5 years ago

(From the files of the Advocate, July 14, Protesting in their manner with nude par 3 fa demonstrations, Doukhober pot ‘ilies in Winslow and slom 9 be districts were being force cell jos! back their own foreclos®” sit and property from the 5¥ del Assurance Company oF ' “As long as I am sel a there will be no evictlOM, sf

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