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Wreckers Of The Peace

By ALD. CHAS. SIS

a is Canada being:
dragged by Mackenzie King’s
foreign policy? She is being
dragged, without any consider-
ation of the opinions of her
people, into the camp of the
wereekers of the peace which
was won at so high a cost.

Wews headlines this week blaz-
ened forth with the story that
the King government will give
“early and favorable considera-
tion” to the plan of U.S. Presi-
dent Truman which includes the
setting up of 2 chain of atom-
bomb rocket-sites, airfields and
Military installations in the GCa-
madian Arctic regions. Not a
word about submitting the plan
to) parliament! King is appar-
ently willing to come to a mili-
tary agreement with Truman
which would have the effect
of handing over the Canadian

~morthiand to U.S. imperialism as

@ main base for war prepera-
tions’ against the Soviet Union.
_ €his is in line with current
fereign policy of the sovern-
ments of the U-S., Britain and
@anada_ The failure of the Paris
Big Four Foreign Ministers’ con-

British MP’
ritis Ss

Phe truth of the forced
elections and the terror that
‘has been loosed against the
Greek people as a result of
these elections, is gradually
emerging. Stanley Tiffany,
labor MP, and member of
a delegation of SBritish labor
MEP’s who visited Greece fol-
lowing the forced elections, sub-
mitted their reports on what
they saw to a number of Bri-
tish papers.

“Reynolds News’ carries the
report of a delegation consisting:
cf Stanley Tiffany, M.P.:° Nor-
man Dodds, M.P., and leader in
the British Co-op movement, and
i. J. Solley, jiabor MP.

it is a report of terror and
murder of Greek citizens at the
hands of the ‘-ite” royalist
and populist parties, who, under

be Kept functioning only by a
constant, inordinate and useless
amount Of worry on the part of
the head of every section . . .-

it is impossible to make plans
for progress in any single bramch
6f our work while our physical
Conditions remain us they are,
and in radiological work, lack of
Presress means professional re-
trogression.”
SOLD HOME” STILL IN USE

Accommodation for nurses still
remains a most pressing prob-
lem at the Vancouver general.
After a lively public campaign
in which leading members of
the hospital staff played an im-
portant part, the city council in-
troduced a by-law which received
Gverwhelming support and re-
Sulted in the allocation of $800,-
G00 dollars fo rthe building of
@ new nurses’ residence. The
amount was augmented by an
additional $400,000 from the gov-
ernment Increased costs of con-
Struction, and extension of power
plant facilities now indicate that
& substantial additional sum will
be needed before the building
€an be completed.

in the meantime, the present
accommodation complicates staff
problems that are already acute.
Parents become more and more
reluctant to send their daugh-
ters to train at a hospital where
they may have to sleep twelve
in a room in a non-fireproof di-
lapidaited wooden building, and
work and study under conditioss

ference reveals how serious the
Situation is.
‘S. SECRETARY BYRNES
with Senator Vandenberg,
the Hoover spokesman, at his
Side, closed the Paris confer-
ence by declaring that the U.S.
would consider signing separate
peace treaties with the defeat-
ed fascist axis states. The Gri-
mea and Potsdam agreements
are being flung into the dis-
card. Those historic agreements
Stipulated that first, the Big.
Four would agree on the peace
treaties, after which the treat-
ies would go before the 17 small-
er nations. Byrnes’ proposal that
the unity of the Big Four be
discarded menaces the welfare
and peace of Ganada and every
one of the United WNations.
Byrnes and Bevin want an
“easing up” on Germany. They
refused to explain why the Pots-
Gam agreement is not being
carried out in the American and
Sritish occupation zones, or why
the Polish fascist Anders’ army
is still kept intact, or why a
sizeable German army still
exists in the British zone. Sup-
port of WHirohito in Japan, of
Franco in Spain and of the fas-

cist-monarchists in Greece is
Dart of this Anglo-American im-
perialist scheme to wreck the
peace and dominate the worid.
Soviet Union refuses to
“ease-up” on fascism, or to
be blackmailed and bludgeoned
by “atom-bomb diplomacy.” She
will not betray herself or Hur-
ope to a revival of the evil fas-
eist forces, Her stand for the
Potsdam agreement, for the ex
tirpation of the roots of fas-
cism, for the unity of the Unit-
ed Nations will be supported by.
all honest men and women.
fruman’s Arctic plan is as
much a part of this reactionary
assault against the peace as is
the eurrent Canadian —
scare.” Mackenzie King is plac-
ing the strength of Canada be-
hind these peace-wrecking plans
of Washington and London. His
foreign policy is hostile to the
interests of Canada. In fight-
ing; against the Truman plan

to transform Canada into an
imperialist war base for the
Washington-Wall street schem-

ers of “the great American em-
pire,” Canadians will be guard-
ing the peace and the true na-
tional> interests of their country.

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See Fascist Terror In Greece

the protection of Beyvin-Church-
iil bayonets, won the “elections.”
The delegation of M.P.’s do not
go into the history of padded
election lists, Their main em-
phasis is placed upon acts of,
terror perpertated upon the
Greek people who fought and
defeated German and {Italian
fascism. They tell of the murder
of leaders of the Greek Libera-
tion forces; of the brutal at-
tacks upon relatives and friends
seeking assistance on behalf of
their murdered relatives. Of peo-
ple coming to the police station,
beaten and wounded, asking pro-
tection from the fascist royalist
hoodlums, and the police driving
them out. The delegation of MPs
give numerous eyewitness stor-
ies of these brutalities, in which

the entire state forces of the

Peoples’ Health

detrimental to health and ac-
complishment.

BETTER WAGES AND
WORKING CONDITIONS

Shortage of nurses is a prob-
lem in all Canadian hospitals
today. In the words of Dr. Har-
vey Agnew, secretary of the Ca-
nadian hospital council, the short-
age of trained nurses could result
in a “national calamity’ if an
epidemic should break out in any
part of the country. It must be
recognized, however, that the
shortage of trained personnel is
not by any means due to the
strenuous nature of the work
alone. On the average nurses
receive a little less than $100
per month with board and room.
Low wages combined with lonz
hours and poor working condi-
tions have driven hundreds out
of the hospitals and many out
of the profession.

During the past week a nurses’
union was formed in the city of
Vanvouver. Having overcome the
initial prejudice all too common
in the professions against trade
union organization, the new
union deserves the support of
the entire labor movement in its
fight for increased wages and
better working conditions. The
community: as a whole has much
toe gain from such a victory.
RECONVENE THE DOMINION
PROVINCIAL CONFERENCE!

Any serious consideration of
health and hospitalization in
Vancouver must lead to the reali-
zation that the final solution

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new government are directly im-
plicated.

The delegation visited many
Greek centers, and in every lo-
Cality the picture was the same.
Mr. Tiffany sums up his obser-
vations: “I am convinced that
what is going on in Greece to-
day is nothing less than the
Geliberate use of the entire state
machine te consolidate the elec-
tion of victory of the Royalists,
to prepare the way for the re-
turn of the king and to suppress
by terror, persecution and legis-
lative decrees, all political activ-
ity of a democratic, republican
and trade union character .. .’

Pascisny has returned to
Greece, under the protection of
British bayonets, and the liber-
ation forces of the Greek peo-
ple from German and Italian
fascism are itS main victims.

ALATA UT ELA aL

of this problem lies in a national
health plan which brings medical
and hospital attention within the
financial reach of every citizen
and provides the facilities for
such services in keeping with the
highest standards of modern hos-
pitalization and. technical ad-
vance.
CITY COUNCLL MUST ACT

The city council also has an
immediate responsibility to rec-
Ggnize the hospital emergency
that exists in Vancouver and
increase its grant to the gener-
al hospital. A council which
made a political football of wat-
er chlorination and is actually
debating the merits of milk pas-
teurization in this day and age
has an approach to questions of
health as antiquated as the ay-
erage B.C. W#lectric streetcar.
The full fire. of public opinion
must be turned on a council
which is willing to pay more
than four million dollars every
year in interest alone to the
bondholders, an amount which
is 14 times the grant to the
Vancouver general hospital. Re-
funding of the city debt, a busi-
ness tax, and a revision of the
basis of assessment are meas-
ures which must be undertaken
to supply vital public services

to the people of Vancouver. Let

_the non-partisans answer to the

people for their failures when

they come to the electors in the

coming civic elections.

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Short Jabs » or a

A Difference

The London Times recently, commenting on
the new broadcasting service of the BBE to
—Sure ! the Scviet Union, is a little bit worried about

Z how the broadcasts will be received in Mos-
cow. The editor is satisfied that the curiosity and eagerness of
audiences for news from London should not be taken for granted.
if the respect of such audiences is to be secured, he says, broad-
casts must be of high quality as well as objective and accurate.
Since that is the case, it is quite natural then that the Times
Should remark that, “It is too much to expect that the new Russian
Service will escape criticism and expressions of resentment from
Moscow in its early days. What appears objective in one capital
often looks partisan in another.”

“It will be important,” the Times concludes, “to make clear the
relation of the BBC. European service to the British government
iS quite different to the relation of the Moscow radio to the Soviet
government.” ~

Precisely! And just what is that “relation of the BBC to the
British government?” The BBC, short for British Broadcasting;
Corporation, is a misbegotten piece of “nationalization,” Tory
nationalization. During the general strike of the British workers
in 1926, the Tory government of Baldwin learned of the advantages
for propaganda that went with ownership and control of the radio.
So they took the necessary political measures to keep it in their
Own hands, no matter what kind of government might be in power-

A Royal charter was granted to a gang of dyed-in-the-woot
Tories to operate the BBC. They could carry on according to their
charter privileges without giving an account of their policies to the
government. Their policies are framed in camera, in secret. They
are not made public by the Tory-appointed management and cannot
be discussed in Parliament,

The present chairman, Sir Allen Powell, is chairman and manag-
ing-director of Briggs Motor Bodies, an American-owned concern
connected with the ultra-reactionary Henry Ford. The vice-chair-
man is Capt. €. H. G. Millis, director of Baring Bros., one of the
leading English banks, The chairman for many years before the
war, was R. €. Norman, a brother of England’s “man of mystery”
Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England,

Undoubtedly the BBC bears a different relation to the British
government than the Moscow radio does to the Soviet government,
for the Moscow radio is a mouthpiece of the Soviet government, 2
relation which no one can claim the BBC bears to the British
government.

It may be necessary, in the eyes of some supporters of the
present Labor government of Britain, to point out this distinction,
So that that government can dissociate itself fronr the anti-Soviet
programs which will undoubtedly be broadcast over the foreign
apparatus of the BBC. :

They make no bones about the fact that these broadcasts to
the Soviet Union in the Russian language, are for the purpose of
letting the Russian people know the TRUTH about Britain’s foreign
policies in relation to the Soviet Union, over the heads of the..Soviet
government.

That is a species of interference in the internal affairs of a2
friendly government which would raise a howl of protest if it came
in the other direction. It is somewhat similar to the methods’ of
the Stuart Research Service Ltd., when it appeals to the loggers
“over the heads of the union leaders,” as every broadcast they.
make actually does, and both have a similar purpose, to undermine
and destroy—the one against the TWA, the other against the Soviet
Union.

If the Labor government of Britain is not the spineless body it
has so far.seemed to be, it will immediately abrogate the BBC
charter, can the Tory Board of Governors and reorganize the BBC
So that it will operate in the interest cf the people of Britain—the
iabor people of Britain.

Faith Must Not

Most of us thought we read Churchill’s
Fulton speech. We did not. We only read
Be Kept what the local papers published. The worst

part of the speech was left out of the
local press stories. When I got back from the interior I found a
bundle of papers waiting for me. In one was a copy of a letter
published in the Washington Post of March 16th, over the signature
of a Mexican diplomat named Quantanilla, delegate to the Pan-
American Conference and a onetime Mexican ambassador to the
Soviet Union.

In that letter was a quotation from Churchill’s Fulton speech
which we never had an opportunity to see before. Churchill’s words
as quoted by Quantanilla, read, “the agreement which was made at
Yalta, to which I was a party, was extremely favorable to Soviet
Russia. But it was made at a time when no one could say that the
German war might not extend all through the summer and autumn
of 1945 and the Japanese war was expected to last for a further 18-
months from the end of the German war.”

The press moguls only let us know as much as they want us to
know and they certainly did not want us to know that Churchill
gave himself away so brazenly. i

Churchill, in this attitude to the Yalta agreement to which he
was one of the signatories, is taking himself back in history to the
15th century. It is a principle of the church that “Faith should not
be kept with heretics.’ John Huss, the leader of the Bohemian

protestants against Some of the dogmas of the ehurch, learned this

to his sorrow as did also Some of his countrymen a little later.

Huss was invited to discuss his’ differences with the highest
dignitaries of the church. Being suspicious, he asked for a ‘safe
conduct’ which was granted by the, Pope himself. But when Russ
had entered the enemy’s territory, the Pope denounced the ‘safe
conduct’ which he himself had granted and Huss was burned at the
stake in Prague.

Later, through dissention in their ranks, the Bohemian people
were compelled to make their peace with the church at Basel. Con-
cessions were made to them to give up the armed struggle. When
they did so and were no longer in a position to fight back, Pope
Pius the Second denounced the Basle agreement and inflicted merci-
jess punishment on them. “Faith must not be kept with heretics.”

To Churchill, the people of the Soviet Union are heretics.? “Haith
must not be kept with them.” But the irony of history is a biting
irony. Churchill must feel that today, as the results of the Czecho-
Slovakian elections are heralded across the world and we learn that
the Bohemian people are voting Communist, an unanswerable reply
to those who work on the principle that “faith must not be kept
with heretics.”

Churchill is a persistent enemy of the Soviet Union.
Hitler.
ber 30, 1942, “Once we get to Stalingrad, nobody will ever get us
out,” may be considered as the life-purpose, since 1917, of Churchill.

FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1946

So was

‘The historic words of Hitler in his Berlin speech of Septem=