- Survival by luck
= | he crash of an American B-52 bomber at Palomares,
Spain, is a matter (or should be) of grave concern to
many millions of people outside of Spain, and of very spe-
cial concern to all Canadians.

This B-52 is reported to have been loaded with a num-
ber of H-Bombs, each allegedly containing twenty times or
more the destructive power of the A-Bomb which destroyed
Hiroshima.

The whole area of Palomares has been cordoned off
and the inhabitants removed, as a precaution against pos-
_ gible radioactive contamination and disaster. The intense
_ search for the Bomb (or bombs) by U.S. forces has now been
taken to the bottom of the Mediterranean.

While an atmosphere of “nothing-to-worry about” and
assumed “calm” has been carefully cultivated by U.S. brass,
the feverish scope of the search for the missing H-Bomb,
the removal of the coastal civilian population, and a tight
U.S.-imposed censorship in the crash area, gives the lie to

this seeming “tranquility”, and reveals a very deep anxiety,

as it should.

British Labor M.P.s have already demanded of Prime
‘Minister Wilson that nuclear bomb-loaded U.S. planes be
banned from flying British skies. Other heads of state have
voiced a like sentiment. Ottawa retains its customary U.S.
“silent partner” attitude of “hear nothing, see nothing, say
nothing”’. ee

Since it is already well known that nuclear bomb-load-
ed U.S. “Strategic Bomber Command” planes range Cana-
-- dian skies daily round the clock, it is higi: time Canadians

_ were pressing home a like demand upon the Pearson govern-
ment; viz, that U.S. planes carrying nuclear weapons be
banned from Canadian skies.

The Yanks may boast of having all the “luck” in the
world with their 20-year “‘no disaster accidents” in ferrying
nuclear bombs around, but Canadians just don’t “cotton
on” to the idea that there won’t bea “first time’, or that a
~ Canadian community, its life and its people won’t be “it”.

Since our medicos and health authorities never tire of
reminding us that “prevention is better than cure”’, it is ob-
viously long past time when we should put that splendid

axiom into operation in keeping Canada’s skies clear of
- nuclear-carrying U.S. vultures.

The horrible alternative, as in Palomares, Spain, is to
_ stake our survival on the “luck” of U.S. war hawks.
SS

OVE MEYOUR TIRED,
YouUR POOR, YOUR
RUDDLED MASSES...”

ante in The New Statesman

An augury for peace

he rising ferment within American public opinion for

an end to President Johnson’s war on Vietnam is
now finding a strong and growing support in the halls of
government itself. The Pentagon’s banditry in Vietnam,
both North and South, is now being openly challenged by
leading U.S. Senators and Congressmen, on both moral
and constitutional grounds.

Leading U.S. educators, writers, churchmen, civil
rights leaders, prominent senators and congressmen are
now voicing their demands for an end to the killing.

They are also beginning to challenge effectively the
LBJ-war cabal abrogation of the Constitution, by telling
their president “that the power to declare war rests in
the hands of Congress” and not in his.

As the U.S. Farm News put it: ““By the mere change
of one man’s mind we might have peace in Vietnam. We
have our destiny today totally dependent on the decision
of a man... who stands in contempt of our U.S. Consti-

tution”!

Such voices are a good augury for peace. Their
example should put some stiffening in our own LBJ
apologists.

‘No, there is no discrimination in Can-

Bees week External Affairs
Minister Paul Martin was
- reported in the press as saying
that “he knows of no justifiable
basis to deny the Commander
of a West German army unit, now
training at Camp Shilo, Mani-
_ toba, the right to deliver a public
address in Winnipeg,’’ In this the
minister struck a fine pose by
adding that “in Canada, freedom
of speech is not restricted.”

_ The Minister’s blurb about
‘freedom of speech’ is highly
debatable, but in this instance
not the prime issue, :

“Here we have a senior min-
ister in the Government of Can-
ada, who knows of “no justi-

plement to their winter weapons-

Tom
McEWEN

testing in preparation for World
‘Til... on Canadian soil!
oe : oye OW Our

a group of Canadian war veterans,
or Canadian war widows and mo-
thers, to take Mr, Martin on a
conducted tour around some of
Canada’s great war cemeteries
in France, Holland or other
European countries. They could
also drop in on Lidice, Lenin-
grad, Coventry or London — or
thousands of other places where
the very earth is watered with the
blood of its patriot sons and
daughters, En route they could
visit the mass graves from Stal-
ingrad to the Baltic, with a stop-
over at the immortal Warsaw
Ghetto Memorial,

Such a tour-might provide Mr,
Martin with the “justifiable
basis” he seems to lack; to
close Canada’s military estab-
lishments and meeting places to
the neo-Nazi revanchists of Bonn,
“our NATO allies,” who are
today, as in Hitler’s prewar days

help), bu: stoking
of another Id co

fires

It would also assist Mr, Martin
to find the ‘justifiable basis”
he lacks, were he to frequently
read (and digest) the immortal
lines of Col, John McCrea, “In
Flanders Fields,” and especially
that line we readily forgot be-
tween World Wars I — II, when
we of the ‘Free West’ were
building up Hitler, as we arenow
building up the militarist scour-
ings of his regime: — “If ye
break faith with us who die, . .”

Now it seems from a later
press dispatch, it “was alla mis-
understanding.” Herr Com-
mander Mundt of Bonn didn’t want
to speak in Winnipeg at all, at
Ailsa. set

In a letter from another Can-
adian to Defense Minister Paul
Hellyer, expressing his grave
concern at the presence of West
German troops at Camp Shilo,
Mr, Hellyer replies with all the
stock-in-trade official Liberal
guff about the need of *co-oper-
ation with our NATO partners...
one of the corner stones of our
defense, . .” etc,, then goes onto
add something new,

“Tl am sure you are aware,”
says the minister, “that Canada
cannot preserve the peace by

’

of the Canadian people are ‘sure’
and daily becoming more so,
that when Canada has a govern-
ment as devoted to peace as the
people it continues to mis-govern
Canada can and will, “preserve
the peace by herself” since no one
threatens the peace of Canada...

outside of the world’s self-ap- .

pointed policemen in Washington,
D.C,

When the Pearsons, Martins,
Hellyers and Co, learn to say
‘no’ to the war hawks of Wash-
ington and Bonn, Canada willfind
a world-wide strength to ‘pre-
serve the peace,’

But, whoa there, another ‘Nato
crisis,’ this time hitting our wo-
men folks a nasty wallop.

As of February 10, Washington
has decreed that no wigs, pony
tails, alluring eyelashes or other

Pacific

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Worth
Quoting

He also quoted Lyndon B. Johnson
who, as a Congressman on March 15,
1948, declared that without superior
airpower, America is ‘‘an easy prey to
any yellow dwarf with a pocket
knife.” It is this chauvinism, racism,
colonialism, and parasitic appetite that
is at the base of the aggressive foreign
policy now dominating Washington.

(DR. HERBERT APTHEKER, excerpt

of an address on his return from

Vietnam). i
Ds

The U.S. may possess the power to
destroy the word, but it does not
have the power to prevent it from
changing. Inexorably theworld is
moving towards socialist ideals and
principles. The struggle will continue;
by peaceful means in countries where
such as possible and by revolutionary
means where peaceful means are out-
lawed. By its military interventions
the U.S. can only intensify and pro-
long the agony of change, but it can-
not halt it. —

(THE COMONWEALTH, Feb. 9/66)

¥

Lawrence Gauder, editor of the
Johannesburg Rand Daily Mail says:
The story of our society is one of
spiritual deterioration and retreat
from values we once cherished...
Deadening conformity of thought is
being imposed on us, ruthlessly and
relentlessly. The fotalitarian mind is in
control. This outlook has taken posses-
sion of Rhodesia and Portuguese colo-
nies have had a surfeit of it.

Justice Minister Balthazar John
Vorster said recently: ‘‘We could
finish off any of these black African
states before breakfast.”’

CEYLON NEWS REVIEW, Nov. 13/65)

*

Just recently a Canadian Indian was
fired from his job for speaking up for
his peopl h , shame, shame.
The investigators claim that we lack
initiative and leadership, but when
some Indian man steps up to show he
has leadership quality, his ideas and
plans are ignored and squelched . . .

ada. It is just the white man’s

superiority complex at work.

(BIG WHITE OWL in NATIVE VOICE,
Jan./66)

hirsute additions to female pul-
chritude shall be allowed into
the good old USA from ‘our
Nato allies,’ to wit, Belgium,
France, Britain, Italy or West
Germany, unless these sover-
eign states (a la U.S.A, that is)
can prove that such adornments
contain no single hair from Peo-
ples China,

So gals, you just mustn't grace
your lovely hairdos or your de-
mure and beautious eyelashes
with hair grown by your lovely
Chinese sisters, It just ain’t
patriotic, dollarwise or other-
wise,

For ourselves, even atthe risk
of losing a mite of your loveli-
ness, we'd prefer seeing ‘our
Nato allies’ counting Chinese
hairs for hairdos, instead of
counting their potential kill and
over kill with bigger H-Bombs,

“/2tbane

MAURICE RUSH