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Coldwar dope pediars Peace—a

ORMER chairman of the Can-
adian military chiefs of staff,
General Charles Foulkes told a
Vancouver audience last week that
Canada’s role in the nuclear weap-
ons issue is comparable to that
of a dope addict, and posed the
question: “which is worse, the dope
addict or the dope pedlar?”
The doughty general hit the nail

square on the head on both counts.

Our Tory dope pedlars who speak
officially for Canada in the United
Nations or in the public arena on
this vital question fully confirm
the general’s estimation. For sheer
hypocritical cant, windy demagogy

and utter humbug, John Diefen- .

baker and Howard Green are the
Pentagon’s top coldwar dope “push-
ers.” ‘

Green invariably makes a fine
show of being against the testing
and use of nuclear weapons, but
when it comes to voting in the UN
he does as the Pentagon dictates.
On the recent Afro-Asian dual
resolution declaring nuclear weap-
ons “a crime against mankind”
and to make Africa a “nuclear
free” area, Green first “abstain-
ed” from voting, and later switched
his vote “against” the resolution.

A few days ago U.S. Arthur H.
Dean, chief nuclear negotiator (or
should we say obstructionist?) at
Geneva, announced that U.S. tests
will go on. “Our slogan” said Dean,
will be “talk and test.” The fine
“indignation” peddled by Dief,
Green and company at the Soviet
tests, was nowhere in evidence at
the Dean boast.

Again when the UN moved to
eliminate the shame of racist
South Africa from the UN As-
sembly, the Canadian pedlars of
Pentagon coldwar dope “abstained”
from voting; this despite the fact
that Dief had “starred” at an
earlier Commonwealth conference
as a champion of ‘the “rights of
man” regardless of color.

With jowls acquivering Dief let

it be known that he was indeed
“brother” to Africa’s oppressed

Negro people, conveniently forget-
ting Native Indian “apartheid” in
his own country. But Dief’s

“brotherhood” with the oppressed

of Africa didn’t mean no truck nor

trade with the racist Verwoerd

government. No sir, on that score
it is business as usual, hence in
the UN our dope pedlars “abstain”
from throwing out racist South Af-
rica — which stands as an insult
to all Afro-Asian nations in the
UN. The “free world” of U.S. and

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Western imperialism needs the
Verwoerds as it does the Chiang
Kai-sheks, the Francos, Adenauers
and their ilk.

Since the introduction by the
Soviet Union of a resolution call-
ing for an end to imperialist col-
onialism, the nuclear addicts and
pedlars have found the going a
bit tough. With colonial independ-
ence struggles blowing hot in their
faces from Algiers, Laos, Latin
America and other areas of the
globe, something has to be done,
and Canada’s nuclear dope pedlars
the lads chosen to do it.

At a gathering last week in Tor-
onto consisting mainly of national-
ist and fascist ethnic groups from
the counter-revolutionary scour-
ings of Europe, Dief peddled some
high-voltage dope to provide his
audience with a “kick.”

Working up to a fine lather of
anti-Soviet “indignation”, Dief
intimated his intention of intro-
ducing a resolution in the UN (at
an “appropriate time”) condemn-
ing “Soviet colonialism.” To Dief
and his Pentagon “pushers”, the
Socialist countries of Europe and
elsewhere are “Soviet colonies”
suffering under the harsh rule of
“Soviet imperialism”, and must
therefore be “liberated.”

“For Communist. Russia” sobs
Dief, “to pose as the champion of
human liberty and the liberator of
captive peoples” is unthinkable.
Something must be done about it.
“Why must the Soviet empire be
more sacrosanct than any other?”

Clearly General Foulkes was
doubly right. Pentagon dope ad-

EDITORIAL PAGE

UNICIPAL elections are again

in the forefront in B.C. The
issues are many and varied rang-
ing from metropolitan government
to “civil defense”, from sewers t@
speedways, from social wellbeing to
“fallout shelters.”

Central to all is pyramiding
taxation, felt in every B.C. muni-
cipality with ever increasing in-
tensity. Social and civic services
hitting bottom, taxes skyrocket-
ting. :

How to bridge this ever-widen-
ing gap between civic and social
services and spiralling taxes? The
formula is simple and ready to
hand for any sensible candidate
to grasp; to begin injecting the
overall issue of disarmament and
peace.

“Ah,” say the hand-picked can-
didates of the NPA, CVA and sim-
ilar “non-political” aspirants to
aldermanic office, “that is a fed-
eral matter and has nothing to do
with civic affairs.”

Such an excuse may have had
some validity once although we
doubt it, but not in this nuclear age
of near insanity. Every city block,

dicts, pedlars and pushers, froth-
ing at the mouth with anti-
nuclear “indignation”, but always
voting or “abstaining” to keep the
H-bomb as the final arbiter in

their “liberation” madness.

Truly a contemptible and shame-
ful role for Canada to play in a
world in which total disarmament
and peace has now become the one
and only path to human survival.

civic matter

district or area; every citizen old
and young, is systematically strip-
ped of needed services and reforms
because the bulk of Canada’s tax
dollar (wherever collected) is be
ing poured down an arms drain
and with far too many municipal
administrations meekly assisting
in this shameful “pouring.”

Hence we see a lot of candidates —
and a lot of programs, all avoid-
ing mention of disarmament and
peace as if it were a plague, and
all seemingly oblivious to the fact
that without disarmament and
peace their “non-political” civic
platforms and pledges are just sO —
much hot air, an element already |
in more than plentiful supply 0” ©
far too many municipal councils.

It is time other than socialist- |
minded candidates began to inject —
disarmament and peace and a halt |
to Canada’s criminal war spending —
into municipal politics. The annual
two billion now going down th
arms drain transferred to munic
pal needs would transform a lot |
of civic needs into reality, and |
change scores of municipal halls |
from centers of petty politicking —
and impoverished frustration to
centres of civic wellbeing, pres: |
perity and peace. 4 4
’ Closest to the people, the muni-
cipal arena should be the strongest
voice for disarmament and peace.
So far, in Vancouver at least, it
is scarcely a whisper. Civic needs, a
coupled with survival, demands it”
be shouted from the housetops, —
and the resources of the people |
utilized for purposes of peace and
wellbeing.

—

Tom
McEwen

. all employees: I think I have

seldom seen a more lucid,
simple and dispassionate discussion
of the progressive and continuing
trend toward increasing, govern-
ment power and lessening personal
freedoms than is set forth in the
attached. I commend it to your
careful study and thought,” signed
R. D. Baker, president and man-
aging-director of Standard Oil of
British Columbia.

The “attached” to Mr. Baker’s
suggested reading for Standard Oil
employees is a 13-page address by

_ Mr. Howard T. Mitchell at the an-
nual Chamber of Commerce con-
vention in Halifax, N.S.

A'‘big spoke in Canada’s “free
enterprise” wheel, Mr. Mitchell is
also a director of MacMillan, Bloe-
del & Powell River and publisher
of the Canadian Journal of Com
-merce, which specializes in stocks,
bonds and general coupon clipping.

At the Halifax C-of-C confab Mr.
Mitchell dealt at some length with
the Socred government’s going into
business, and with the disastrous
results that ‘large chunks can be
broken off the economic founda-
tion of freedom without prior ap-
proval of the operation — and
what is more disconcerting — with

no one but some shareholders, cer-
tain financial purists (the term is
new to us in this field, Ed.) and
a handful’ of the more far-seeing
being more than mildly concerned
about what has happened.”

You guessed it, the B.C. Electric
take-over. But that wasn’t the only
“spectre” that threw Mr. Mitchell
into a “free enterprise” cold sweat.
The PGE railway, marketing
boards in agriculture) forest licen-
ces, (MacMillan & Bloedel shouldn’t .
kick about that since they have got
the bulk of B.C.’s forest resources,
‘Ed.), control of Crown grant min-
eral rights, operating a ferry ser-
vice, the Peace River Power De-
velopment, a rail system in the
Lower Mainland, etc., and etc. To
Mr. Mitchell there just seemed to
be no end to “governmental in-
trusions into the public economic
realm’,, which of course to Mr.
Mitchell and his C-of-C tycoons
means ‘‘socialism’’?

But Mr. Mitchell had another
‘worry about the future of ‘‘free
enterprise.” “Let us concede,”
warbles the MacMillan & Bloedel
director, “that the present Premier
of British Columbia has a lingering
basic regard for what is fit and
proper in a democratic society .. .
but what manner of leader will
succeed him?”

“We have never voted in favor
of Socialism in B.C., nor given a
mandate to a non-Socialist govern-
“ment to socialize things. As a prov-
ince, we have invited the world to
witness our repeated rejections of
the party that once honestly, (tut,

tut, Ed.) if mistakenly, advocated
outright Socialism,’ croons Mr.
Mitchell, “But something has hap-
pened to our once high standing

. and... it has not been an
overnight development.”

“Something has happened’ al-
right, but it is by no means “‘social-
ism” by Socredia, as Mr. Mitchell
expounded in his Halifax hallucina-
tions. Since to date the big mon-
opolists whom Mr. Mitchell speaks .
and writes for have been the main
beneficiaries in these. emerging
manifestations of state capitalism
(which he labels. ‘“‘socialism’”’) we
can only assume that Mr. Mitchell |
designed his address to “soup-up”’
his audience for a change of
broken-to-the-bit Tory-cum-Liberal
horses come the next election,
while at the same time attempting —
to stick a “socialist” burr under
the Socred saddle?

Standard Oil of B.C., whose chief
Frank Baker has already won some
cheap notoriety as an anti-labor
and anti-socialist “philosopher” had
no doubt one thought in mind in
mailing this 13-pages of ‘monopoly
bilge ‘“‘to all employees,” that of
making confusion, on the B.Cw
Electric take-over and other state ;
operated enterprises, more con-
founded. :

The only feature that is “lucid”
about the Mitchell C-of-C address
is its designed confusion, while its
dispassionate” discussion on ““per-
sonal freedoms’ ’is purely a matter
of which side of the tracks one
views Mitchell’s “fundamental facts
about freedom.”

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