Review D‘* has been busy as the pro- verbial beaver in recent months “building up an image of himself among the ethnic groups — as the ony Canadian political leader capable of combatting commun- ism.” So says Peter C. Newman, Maclean’s “backstage” man in Ot- tawa. How true, how true. Dief is out to “liberate” Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Estonia, East Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania,j China, ad infinitum. In fact this Tory Don Quixote and his made-in-US A nag, Rosinante, would even ‘ liberate” the Soviet people from themselves if given the opportunity. That at least is the gist of the Dief demagogy at sundry ultra-nationalist and pro- fascist ethnic group gatherings across the country. In Tory strategy this “libera- tion” binge is considered a good vote getter. The ordinary citizens. see it as something far more sin- ister and dangerous. Not to be outdone and allow this vote-catching “image” of Dief to masquerade alone, the Liberals are getting busy grooming Lester B. - “Mike” Pearson for a safari into ethnic group territory. Already a Liberal office has been set up in « An ‘image’ for sale Ontario and a “senior liaison” of- ficer appointed to help mould “Mike” into a similar “image” of a daring “liberator”, ready to make the world safe for Wall Street. To top that off and assure the ethnic Skorapadskys, Petlurists, ‘Freedom Fighters” et al, the Liberals have got out a little “pamphlet” summing up Pearson’s fine record of anti-communism, in- cluding an alleged quotation from Pravda dscribing him as “a run- ning dog of American imperial- ism.” Surely that should be en- ough to convince all devotees of counter - revolution, intervention and war, that “Mike” hasn’t “gone soft on communism”, or that Dief isn’t the only “liberator” available —for votes? We fully agree with Maclean’s scribe on one basic observation, viz; “that we have no cause for smugness about political ethics as practiced here.” Having sold their country to U.S. imperialism for a fast profit buck, they would now sell what little honour remains among thieves for a handful of pro-Hitler | ite anti-communist votes. said Joe McCarthy was dead? Editorial comment. . A recent United Nations survey of the diets of the world’s peoples has this to say: “Four out of five of three billion people now living in the world — 80-percent of the human race — have never had, and will not have in the fore- seeable future, what a North Am- erican family takes for granted as a good square meal.” There is just one faulty formu- lation in that damning UN revela- tion, viz, the reference to “a North American family.” There are scor- es of thousands of North Ameri- can families, among them the real North American Indian peoples, who have yet to know what a square meal looks like, and are not likely to see it under govern- ments dedicated to monopoly ex- ploitation and profit. Have America’s rulers learnt anything since they organised the attempted invasion of Cuba a year ago? Judging from their present antics they are as incapable of learning from experience as the Bourbons. - Pacific Tribune Editor — TOM McEWEN Associate Editor—MAURICE RUSH Business Mgr..-OXANA BIGELOW Published weekly at: Room 6 — 426 Main Street Vancouer 4, B.C. Phone MUtual 5-5288 Subscription Rates: One Year: $4:00—Six Months: $2.25 Canadian and Commonwealth coun- tries (except Australia): $4:00 one year. Australia, United States and all other countries: $5.00 one year. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash The attack on Cuba was a mis- erable fiasco. Its authors complete- ly underestimated the popular sup- porti for the Cuhan Government But they keep .on trying, today in South Vietnam; tomorrow with new schemes for aggression on Cuba. EDITORIAL PAGE Who. 4 Two key hen Justice Minister Davie Fulton “apologized” for the RCMP hounding and intimidation of a 15-year-old Winnipeg school boy, it didn’t mean that the Dief- enbaker government were moving to put a curb on the police-state activities of its political police, or upon any “over-zealous” officer of the RCMP as Fulton smugly phrased it. On the contrary, it just meant that the protests of a courageous Canadian mother on RCMP intim- idation of her 15-year old son could not be silenced by further RCMP threats. Hence the minis- terial “apology” in an effort to cover up an ugly feature of RC MP activities; a field of “duty” comparable only to the Hitlerite _ gestapo. The boy’s “crime”?