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Scientists, geographers, metal-
tid aviators engaged _in north-
opment are eager to cooperate
ac Canadian and Alaskan count-
They want to continue the
on, the comradeliness that na-
sows up between men pioneer-
“harsh and thinly populated
that they achieved in a small
before the war and carried
furing the war. And such co-
tean flourish only under peace
tions.
madian Government frowns on
first comment a government
made when he learned of a
sientist’s claim to have dis-
second magnetic field on the
‘Shore of the North American
was: bet
— all, I'd like to know how he
2 North American Arctic fringe
f which is Canadian territory.”
pe hostility, the fear, if there
Mething to conceal?
; °
ISWER is to be found in the
ih of the Canadian and Ameri-
mments’ military preparations,
Cal steps already taken _to
| the secret agreements reached
Permanent Joint “Canadian-

Defense Board, for which it is
_to go no farther than the daily

Jary this year the Permanent
ladian-American Defence Board
uebee. A Canadian Press dis-
‘January 16 stated:

‘ought that Arctic military con-
ay come under review, tied in
present Qperation Muskox.”
fuary 20, Brig. S. F. Clark, de
+ the man who planned Opera-
=0x, declared that the expedi-
“Ron-military in its objectives
fins nothing of a highly secret

dispatches, however, ascribed
t purpose te the expedition.
Milliams, Canadian Press cor-
fon February 14 stated that
ive of the expedition was “to
Ability of armed forces under
Aditions and try out army-air
Peration in air supply.”
‘tation Muskoy was only one
ber of highly significant mili-
*S which, taken together, re-

By Hal Griffin

veal the sinister plans for making all
Canada the front line of the third world
war. .

Between January and July this year
these reports appeared in the daily press:

January 25: On the theory gliders will
fly anywhere airplanes will fly, first tests
with gliders north of the “timber line”
in Canada’s barren sub-Arctiec area will
be conducted in mid-February. it is
understocd that both Canadian and
United States military authorilies are in-
terested in their performance under high
velocity wind conditions in the North.

February 18: Existence of a number
of “ionospheric recorder” stations in the
North and elsewhere in Canada is dis-
closed by defence department officials.
. - - tt is thought possible study of the
relation of the aurora borealis—which
affects Canada more than any other
country—to the ionospheric layers might
have an important application to radic-
@uided missiles such as V-2 rockets
which travel at great heights above the
earth. 5

February 22: It is anncunced that the
U.S. will have an “Operation Muskox” of
sorts next month when a navy.~ tash
force maneuvers between Greenland,
Labrador and Wudson Strait. It will
be led by the giant carrier Midway. The
operation is to test this equipment in the
most severe and coldest weather condi-
tions. Next winter a larger force will
go into the Arctic.

March 23: Polar flights, which may
result in substitution of radar for com-
pass in future Arctic navigation, will
be launched shortly by. United
States Army Air Force super-fortresses
flying out of Edmonton with Canadian
navigators. ‘

June 10: The U.S. Army has under-
scored its interest in the Arctic short
route between Hurope and America
with an announcement that special task
forces will make new tests in the Aleu-
tians and Alaska this winter of tactics,

weapons and equipment for sub-zero
weather.
June 29: In the narrow ice-choked

seas between Siberia and Alaska four
Pacific fleet

submarines of the US.
will embark on a revolutionary test
expedition to prepare the underseas

service fleet for combat conditions in

_ PACIKIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 5

7

Arctic waters anywhere. The
jmission will be known as QOpera-
‘tion Iceberg.
* July 18: Canada has refused
the request of American Officials
that a weather station be erect-
ed this summer on_ Melville Is-
lan, an external affairs spokes-
Man reveals. He was comment-
ing on a report that U.S. defence
officials regarded 3 station on
Melville island as important in
the Canada-US. defence plan for
the Arctic. . . . He said that the
report was not accurate in infer-
ring that Canada’s decision was
final. Ottawa wished to wait un-
til the entire situation in Arctic
defence had been ascertained.
oe

EE HPURTHER corroboration is

necessary, it can be found in
the speeches of two of Canada’s
most notorious warmongers,
Conservative Premier George
Drew of Ontario and MTiberal
Senator G. G. McGeer of British
Columbia. _

“_. . . One nation and one na-
tion alone threatens the peace
of the world,” Drew declaimed in
a speech to the Credit Grantors
Association in Toronto last
March. “The bare unvarnished
truth is that unless Russian ag-
Sression is stopped we are in the
front line.”

And from Senator G. G. Mc-
Geer, who once told the veterans
of the Hirst World War “to get
back on the breadline where you
belong,” comes the same pervert-
ed idea ‘couched in different
terms. ;

“The North Pacific coastline
is the only vulnerable approach
today to this continent,” he wrote
in an article reprinted by the
Vancouver News-Herald on July
30. “The only conflict possible
in the immediate future is be
tween the English-speaking peo-
ple and the organized masses of
Asia, under Soviet leadership. If
such a conflict ever comes to
pass, the Northwest will become
the Belgium of future warfare.’

e

[IZ IS to this end, to make Can-_

ada the cockpit of a third
world war, that the King Goy-
ernment’s foreign policies, its
anti-Soviet provocations, its pro-
jected military adventures in the
Worth, combined with its efforts
to restrict democracy and thwart
the people’s demands, are lead-
ing.

Forgotten now at Ottawa is
the ringing speech Prime Minis-
ter Mackenzie King made at Mon-
treal on January 19, 1944, when
he said of the Soviet Union that
“as we become neighbors we de-
Sire more than ever to become
the most helpful of friends. The
Arctic wastes, so long an impen-
etrable barrier between us, are
now coming to join us closer to-
gether.”

These words, no matter how
hypocritical King was in voicing
them, nevertheless represent the
true wishes of the Canadian peo-
ple in their relations with the
Soviet Union. This is the policy
of friendship which alone can
realize the vision of Canadian-
Soviet cooperation in the North
through which a greater and
finer Canada can be built.

The path followed by. King will
culminate in a third world war
in which Edmonton, Winnipeg
and Vancouver will logically be
the prime targets and for which
the Canadian people will pay the
price in their dead, their shat-
tered homes and all their hopes
for tomorrow.

The King government has al-
ready disillusioned the people in
their dream of building a better
postwar Canada in which health,
housing and: the people’s welfare
would be the first consideration.
it is now endeavoring to substi-
tute for that dream the night-
mare of another war. the prelude
to which will be a resort to fas-
cist methods to stifle the protests
of the people before death flashes
from the skies to destroy them
utterly.

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destroyers. A very

Shor t Jabs by Ol? Bill

war is still in the air. The Signs of it are apparent in the policies
of those who protest most loudly that they do not desire war, the
leaders of what has come to
the facts, as the Anglo-American bloc, the U.S. and the nations who
hope to be able to borrow money from her. ;

At the peace palavers at Paris, the most sensitive individual is
undoubtedly the U.S. representative, Byrnes. He becomes indignant
When the ulterior motives of American imperialism are even hinted
at, flies off the handle and cuts the most undignified figure by the
undipiomatiec denials he makes, Of course, one Should not expect
an untrained clodhopper like Byrnes to lie with the Suavity and
finesse of a polished diplomat.

He showed up in one of his didoes last week when one of the
Soviet representatives bluntly stated that some of the nations at
the conference had profited from the war. Byrnes jumped to. his
feet and denied that his country had made any money out of the

war, in fact, he said, it had cost the people of the Wnitea States
400 billion dollars.

That figure is a little higher than the figure quoted by Rep.
John M. Coffee in Congress during last session. Elis statement reads:
“When the full bill for participation in the war is presented to the
American people it is expected to total 336 billion dollars? Of
course, a small item like 64 billion dollars would not worry a
juggler with other people’s money like State Secretary Byrnes.

Lo a good bourgecis like Byrnes the cost of the war must only
be stated in money. He would not even for a moment base his
calculations for the cost of the war on the lives of American boys,
396 thousand of them.

But even if we surrender Our attitude, that the lives of the
men in the army, the navy and the other fighting forces, are more
important than dollars in calculating the cost of the war, we will
find that Byrnes has no right _to claim that the U.S. did not profit
from the war.

For over two years before the States came
American industry was coining profits out of the intensified - ex-
ploitation of American workers in the production of war material
which was sold to the nations fighting fascism while they were

still able to pay for it. :
“Cash and Carry” At first these War commodities were sold
to Britain and France on a “cash-and_
Carry” basis, the neutrality laws being revised by Congress to make
that particular form of doing business possible. Later, when the
U-boat menace to Allied shipping began to tell, the neutrality laws
had a further going over and U.S. shipping was allowed to Carry
War cargoes into the war zones.

into the war,

When the dollar resources had been squeezed out of the British,
when they had paid every last cent’s -worth in American stocks and
bonds for the product of American industry, “lend-lease” was de
vised, a2 mortgage on the future of the Allies which was meant to
place them irretrievably in the hands of Uncle Sam Shylock.

Along with this, American
future of its aviation business

imperialism laid a basis for the
by buying 99-year leases on many
strategic points of the British EXmpire—Newfoundland, Bermuda,
Jamaica, Sta. Lucia, Trinidad, Antigua and British Guiana in re-
turn for 50 worn-out, obsolete and practically useless torpedo-boat
profitable business deal in view of the develop-
ment of the world’s airways.

Twenty-two thousand new millionaires were ereated in the Unit-
ed States during the First World War. It is too early yet to know
how many new millionaires the Second World War has produced.
But we know already that the number of Dillion dollar corporations
inereased by 11, bringing the total of such up to 43. And we know
too what profits during the three and a half years the U.S. was
in the war, after paying all taxes, increased by 300 percent over
the pre-war years.

The OPA published figures to show that, compared with the
1936-9 period, profits in the lumber industry went up 1064 percent;
in the soft coal industry by 1148 percent; in the manufacture of
engines and turbines by 2431 percent and in aircrait and parts in-
dustries by 1686 percent.

We have to admit, however, that Byrnes is partly right. It
is not the American people who profited from the war—only the
monopolist imperialists are in that happy position. Taking advantage
of the liberalism of FE. D. Roosevelt, the tycoons of industry in
that country channelled the fruits of the American workers en-
thusiasm for the defeat of fascism into their own ecoifers and are
now bending all their efforts towards saddling these same work
ers with the financial burdens of which Byrnes speaks,

It would be interesting to learn, although we will never learn
from Byrnes, how much of that expenditure was, and is, repre-
sented in the equiping and arming of Chang Kai-shek, in stirring
up civil war in China, in combating the class enemies of American
imperialism, the real representatives of the Chinese people, and in

fostering fascism in cther places.

“Baa, Baa, Baa” A New Zealand delegate at the Peace
Conference has injected a new angie into

the discussions there—but not a new one for that one-lansuage

section of the human race, the. Anglo-Saxon.

With the scorn common to that superior (7?) people who can-
not understand another man’s language, he thinks there is too
much “quack, quack, quack.” He wants to see something done. He
probably imagines something would be done if the delegates went
“baa, baa, baa.’ That might be better understood in that land of
CCF-Socialism, New Zealand.

in his stand he is supported by the Texas longhorn, U.S. Sena-
tor Tom Connally (whe hasn’t even been to Paris yet) whose opin-
ion is that it is “a yah, yah, yah affair.” Being a U.S. senator,
Connally should be a good judge of that kind of stuff. And our
Own delectable delegate, Mackenzie King, is also of the opinion
that the conference “is wasting valuable time.”

These delegates, with their pre-conceptions, apparently forget
that there was another Peace Conference at Paris, in 1919. Un-
fortunately at that ccnference there was not enough discussion.
We know what the result was—if they don’t.

ERIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1946