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An Indian rights plan

VEN a government respon- sive to popular opinion, im- plementation of the ‘Indian: Bill of Rights’’ plan prepared by a UBC research team under the direction of Dr.. Harry Haw- thorn for the federal government could mark the end of a long- standing national disgrace. The recommendations go far toward giving Native Indians full citi- Ng Sieay sas eae zenship rights and eliminating Britain is doing it — why not Canada? discriminatory. restrictions plac’ | ed upon them..

The real questions at B ermuda Perhaps the most far-reaching

recommendation of all is the pro-

THE “Big Two’’ conference at U.S. approval of the “‘right’’ to glo-American ‘friendship’ is posal that ‘‘Agency Councils of . Bermuda between British trade with such countries; in ac- once again cemented on a “‘sound Indians should take over the ad- Prime Minister Harold Macmil- quiring new weapons of mass de- and lasting’ basis, with both ministration of Indian affairs.’’ Seeeand 1).S.- President Dwight struction from the vast Yankee once again of one opinion that This will give Native Indians a | Eisenhower had two prime ob arsenal — the while talking President Gamal Abdel Nasser decisive voice in the conduct of Jectives. One was to patch up ‘‘peace’’ in the best Oxford ac- of Egypt is a Russian stooge their own affairs. Anglo-American differences aris- cent. ra: : with whom the ‘‘Big Two, and As a signatory to the UN Dec- “Ihg out of the ill-starred British- Bermuda is a thieves’ confer- as Many more as they can bribe, laration of Human Rights, this “French - Israeli aggression on ence at which the prime problem must ‘‘get tough.’ country should lose no time in

8ypt. ‘The other was to agree

the terms of U.S. support for

Mitain's “‘get tough’ policy

| 8ainst Egypt. For the U.S. no €ss than Britain wants to stem

€ colonial revolution now bat-

teting at the crumbling walls of Mperialist exploitation in the

iddle East. All the reports from Bermuda

“it into these two main problems

ike pieces in a jigsaw puzzle—

* puzzle which the ‘Big Two” “scribe as the ‘‘threat of Rus: “a communism.”

Macmillan describes the Ber-

Nuda talks as ‘‘the hope of the Tee world.’’ And what is the sence of this ‘‘hope’’? It is ‘hat U.S. imperialism will see “ye to eye with British imperi alism in exploitation of the Arab World; in fomenting of new war Nttigues against the countries of ,

‘ogialism — the while seeking

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is who takes precedence in the thievery and the greater share of the oil swag. That settled, An-

Truly a strange road to ‘peace,’ but typical of the Ber- muda road-builders.

implementing the recommenda- tions, thereby erasing a shame- ful page from Canadian history.

Tom McEwen

T WAS A beautiful spring Sun- day morning, one of those days at the tail-end of winter which makes Vancouver look like a jewel set in a cascade of stately moun- tains. Spring was definitely in the air, whatever its strontium 90 level, and the call of the open road strong and insistent. Several thousand Mr. Jones’ and their families thought they might get a spot of fishing some- where. A few thousand Mr. Smiths and the families just want- ed to get going anywhere and no- where in particular. An equal number of Mr, Browns, conscious taxpayers that they are, decided to explore the North Shore to see sections of the new Squamish road, the Second Narrows Bridge, and what else they were getting for their taxes (not counting the $28 “dividend” they were getting from Premier Bennett). Additional other. thousands, not desiring to go further afield than Stanley Park to enjoy the first tints of spring, were amazed to realize just how far away Stanley Park is from Vancouver. We even got into the parade ourselves to

nowhere in particular. Spring was in the air and Motorama was on the move.

On such occasions the term “move” is strictly relative. In less time than it takes to scribble these lines Motorama had been reduced to a five-mile-an-hour cr less crawl in a magnificent traf- fic jam. On all main highways it was crawl and stop.

Sweating policemen mopped their brows and waved their arms like high-geared windmills and found it difficult to remain polite, but the slow pace remained. Everyone was on his way and getting nowhere. Motorists who had set out with their families in the morning full of spring feeling, came close to the border- line of lunacy before they reach- ed New Westminster or the north end of the Lions Gate Bridge.

Junior complained to his dad, “Why are we going so slow?” while mom setiled back resigned, scarcely disturbed by the rich flow of Billingsgate from her spouse — until then she never quite appreciated his fluency. Young bloods with souped-up hot-rods gave vent to their spring urge to get going with roaring _ exhausts and clouds of gasoline fumes.

On this spring day there was no hint of panic. It was just one of those days, almost a daily oc- currence in our motorized way- of-life; too many cars on too few highways, trying to get to too many places all at the same time.

Periodically our civil defense pundits disclose one of their press “evacuation” schemes for Van- couver in case of H-bomb attacks how many they can “evacuate” by auto, train, boat or other con- veyance in a given time. On paper it sounds plausible, but in an at- mosphere of H-bombs instead of spring it is the sheerest damn nonsense — one might almost say, criminal nonsense.

Bill Bennett once wrote a story about the Bank of Commerce (Hastings and Granville Branch) air raid shelter during the last war, and its foot-high letter di- rectives informing possible air raid victims that the shelter was open only “during banking hours.” Old Bill erytically remarked that “it is to be honed the Japanese war lords have been notified that banking hours are from ten to three and that they will cooper- ate.”

By far the best civil defense is to work for the outlawing of all atomic weapons, thus avoiding the necessity of such “evacua- tions.” It’s tough enough to get out of the city when you're mere- ly out to get a sniff of spring. And it is scarcely likely the “enemy” would be as “coopera- tive” as Bill Bennett suggested, or as polite as Highway Minister Gaglardi with his “sorry for the inconvenience” signs addressed tc motorists trying to get some- where, and getting nowhere.

Ban the H-bomp — and end the current CD nonsense.

MARCH 29, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 7