Trudeau is guilty! “Collusion in U.S. war By NELSON CLARKE Who was the prime minister of what country who was “not aware” on Feb. 2 that Laos had been invaded? _ Here is the record: Monday, February 1: The wire services of every press agency in the world are tapping out the story of the invasion of Laos. The Daily World of New York going on the press that night sums up the news: “Reports of a U.S.-Saigon invasion of south- ern Laos came from many dif- ferent sources on Monday.” In Moscow, Premier Alexei Kosy- gin says that “American imper- ialism, with the help of its Saigon hirelings” was escalating the Southeast Asia war “where an outrageous invasion of the southern .province of Laos is under way.” Tuesday, February 2: The Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Can- ada issues a statement con- demning “the criminal invasion of Laos by U.S. and South Viet- namese troops” as another glar- ing example of President Nix- on’s shameless duplicity. They wire Prime Minister Trudeau “demanding that the Canadian government immediately con- demn this U.S. action.” The Canadian Peace Congress de- clares: “The international trea- ties of Geneva (1954) and Gen- eva (1962) have been cynically torn up . . . The United States has decided to try for a brutal military solution under the hoax of ‘Vietnamization’.” Presi- dent Georges Pompidou of ‘France expresses “growing anx- iety over the spreading of the conflict to all states in Indo- china.” : : Now to answer our question, we go to the softly carpetted green chamber of the House of Commons. Heath Macquarrie (PC from P.E.I.), asks if the government has any information “in respect of distressing reports of escalat- ing military activity across the border of Laos.” The Right Honorable Pierre Elliott Trudeau says, ‘Mr. Speaker I did not understand where the increasing military activity was.” McQuarrie tells him again. An astonished Honorable Member blurts out: “Were you _ not aware of it?” Trudeau replies: “I am not aware of it, Mr. Speaker, but I will refer the question to the Secretary of State for External Affairs.” : Wednesday, Feb. 3: The Jap- anese News Agency gives de- tailed reports to the world press on the airlifting of 5,000 Saigon troops into Laos by the US. Back in Ottawa, T. C. Douglas of the NDP asks External Af- fairs Minister Mitchell Sharp if - he is “making representations on behalf of Canada to the gov- ernment of the United States.” Mr. Sharp decides it’s the oc- casion for a merry little joke: “Mr. Speaker,” he says, “I know how difficult it is to get infor- mation about apprehended in- vasions.” It is illuminating to know that we have a_ government which apprehends insurrections which don’t exist, but cannot apprehend invasions which do. Whether this fact is quite as hilarious as Mr. Sharp seems to think is another matter. Monday, February 8: After a long and bloody week Mitchell Sharp finally apprehends. The government is “concerned” but unfortunately they haven’t been able to get the facts about an invasion that was reported in the middle of last year. Natural- ‘ly, the alleged invaders then were the “North Vietnamese.” He suggests that’ if we could only get the International Con- trol Commission to investigate THAT “invasion,” then maybe we could some time get around to having a look into whether the U.S. and the South Vietnam- ese had perhaps done some in- vading this time. Later the Canadian government was to re- Blood coined into dollars The vast arms program re- lated to the Vietnam war has meant vast profits to the great U.S. industrialists. It has meant an appalling burden of inflation to all the people of the USA. That inflationary pressure has been a major component in soar- ing prices in this country—and they’re starting to soar again in the midst of government-impos- ed mass unemployment. This has been true because the Canadian economy is so domin- ated by that of the U.S. It is also true because Canadian monopolists and U.S. monopol- ists operating in Canada have themselves fattened on the arms drive. There is no job security in the armaments industry. This war will be ended by the world’s people. < : The blood of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people is on the hands of the monopol- ists who have fed the U.S. war machine from Canada. And the jobs, the living standards and the future of Canadian working men and women have _ been jeopardized. Who are some of these mer- chants of death? A report issued by Informa- tion Services, office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense lists firms - in Canada with contracts in 1970 of $10,000 or more. There are 55 companies and institutions on the list. Heading them all is the Cana- dian Commercial Corporation. This is a purchasing agency for the government of Canada. The Canada Year Book tells us that it acts “primarily as the Canadian government contract- ing and procurement agency on behalf of foreign countries de- sirous of purchasing defense or other supplies and services from Canada.” : In 1970, its shopping list for the Pentagon totalled $155,843,- 000. Some of the other better known firms are: Bristol Aero- space; Canadian Admiral; Cana- dian Industries; Canadian Mar- coni; DeHaviland Aircraft; Esso International; Ford Motor; In- ternational Business Machines; International Harvester; Inter- national Nickel; Litton Indus- tries; Transair; Uniroyal; United Aircraft. ' And from this list we also learn how Canadian science is perverted for the U.S. war. The Pentagon has contracts for mili- tary research with the Unive-- sity of British Columbia ($85,000); McGill University ($20,000); University of Toronto ($20,000). PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1971—PAGE 6 JQaG-~ FX2, ES LEIA Y 4AQ'ai-—- 34 User iA; fae MAS ject the urgings of its fellow ICC members—India and Poland —to join in a public appeal for peace in Laos.- It’s a good thing the people of Laos are able to throw invaders out of their country without waiting for Mitchell Sharp. * * * So it has been through 17 shameful years in which the Canadian government has serv- ed U.S. imperialism abusing the position of trust in which our country was placed by the Geneva Conference which end- ed the French war _ against Indochina. The full story has been often told and cannot be repeated here in. detail. We might recall as examples of Canadian gov- ernmental perfidy the statement of Gerald Clark in the Montreal Star for May 9, 1967: “Canadian informants are betraying their trust by acting as informants for U.S. intelligence agencies...a harsher way of putting it is that they are functioning as spies when they are supposed to be serving as international civil servants.” Or the statement of Tim Ralfe in the Toronto Daily Star the next day that the Canadian representatives “see themselves as American spokes- men on the Commission.” Noth- ing has changed since then. Quite the contrary. On March 24 last, Andrew Brewin of the NDP extracted the following in- formation out of the govern- ment: The Canadian government was requested by Canadian Uni- tarian Aid for a permit to export medical equipment to help civil- ians in North Vietnam. A permit was granted for the shipment of goods of Canadian and German origin. A permit was refused to the Unitarians for the shipment from Canada of medical equip- ment of U.S. origin. Such per- mit was not refused at the re- quest of any U.S. authority. The government had not made rep- resentations (as Brewin sug- gested they should) to the ap- propriate U.S. authorities that “refusal to permit the shipment of medical supplies for civilians is in contravention of Article 23 of the provisions of the Geneva Convention which provides that —‘Each high contracting party shall allow the free passage of all consignments of medical and hospital stores intended only for civilians of another high con- tracting party even if the latter is its adversary’.” The govern- ment has never refused to grant permits to export medical sup- plies to the Saigon regime in South Vietnam. In short, Nixon doesn’t even have to ask Trudeau to break the Geneva Conventions. Tru- deau is happy to do it for Nixon without being asked. The Canadian people do not support their government’s com- plicity with U.S. imperialism. They need to make it crystal clear that they will punish this government at the polls for that complicity. The demand that Canada dis- sociate itself now from this bar- barous U.S. aggression needs to arise from every corner of this land in every form that people can put it forward. The marches and rallies on April 24-25 week- end need to be made larger than ever. And from then on every mem- ber of parliament must continue to feel the escalating pressure of the people. (See story on British MP’s on Page 1.) at NM eae oe Remnants of the 39th Ranger Battalion of the Soiget army surrendering to fighters of the National Front fo of South Vietnam in recent fighting on Peak 500, Khe Vietnam. Atrocities A Some GI's refusel By WILLIAM ALLAN DETROIT — A _ discharged Specialist 4th class, James Wyns- berge, is telling newsmen here that some GI’s defied atrocity slaying orders from their offi- cers, and he is one of them. He starts off by telling how he and three other GI’s in a helicopter gunship circled over a Viet- namese village as 30 people ran to cover to avoid the expected hail of bullets. The order from the ground commander two miles away, says Wynsberge, was clear: kill anything that moves. “One of the officers hanging out the door of the copter want- ed to shoot and one didn’t,” Wynsberge explained. “Luckily our grenade system didn’t work and I finally fired over their heads into the rice paddies.” Wynsberge, who flew more than 800 combat hours in Viet- nam, said he recalled times when GI’s refused to shoot down civil- he said. aoe v ians even though ordered to do A small child J¥ so. dle emerged [ff He was arguing against the campaign to make Lt. Calley a hero, now in full swing by neo- fascist outfits such as the storm- trooper like “Breakthrough.” He said, “Orders were given— to shoot and kill anything that were cited for * though they steadfa- J | to fire on civilians: 166, It was Oct. 14, U.S. helicopters 1a” South Vietnamese | village. But the mem tion forces wiped a: U knocked down t nat copters. A U.S. COM pi! ed in warplanes — the village, settine yt Wynsberge and his 2, were then orderé slag the rest of the Vi ney survivors. He q commander women and childre? lage, but the “Eliminate all § “We made thré st © didn’t fire—we J! u rvivo® woman picked UP gunner next to and the two fell. ys ged about it latel of - I didn’t want him 7 moves — but there was never any more.” ig anyone there to back them -up. He said so yee ta Calley is no hero.” orders as licen Wynsberge was discharged in 1967 after 13 months as a crew chief of an armed helicopter whose mission was to attack Vietnamese villages around Bien to “prepp” areas the word was 8!" 7, al Hoa. Back from Vietnam, he of death and W hg tried to explain to his friends | Wynsberg® “soy and neighbors the horrors of now and has gai? war and its brutality, especially child was not 3 ted: , sg: . . a the atrocities committed against when he was dr top civilians. “These things went “IT wanted to a on,” he said, “it was an every- ism... 1 ware sa day thing. But nobody wanted good soldier, | -op, them to think it was that way.” ed to doa good } He said many times his crew me sick.” ;