Review

No ‘permit’ needed

| N its sale of some $12 million worth of passenger buses to Cuba, the Leyland Motor Corporation of _England has let the U.S. know that Leyland’s and not Washing- ton runs its own business. “I have no knowledge,’ stated Leyland manager Donald Stokes, “of hav- ting to go to America for permission ito sell buses...”

Immediately following an- nouncement of the Leyland bus contract with Cuba, (similar to previous contracts between Ley- land’s and Cuba) a howl went up from Washington about Britain “breaking the U.S. economic -blockade of Cuba,” about selling “strategic materials” and “trading with the enemy,” etc.

Even the Vancouver Sunina January 9 editorial was compelled to ask: “If the U.S. is sincere in desiring an end to the cold war it ought to give up futile campaigns of this sort as impediments to good understanding. It -may be argued that buses are strategic goods. But what goods aren’t?”’

Recently Soviet Chairman N. Khrushchev gave a more illustra- tive definition of this absurdity of “strategic” materials. “Trouser buttons,” said Khrushchev, ‘“‘can be classified as such, since with- out them soldiers would have to use one hand to keep up their trousers and wouldn’t be able to use a rifle.”

Overseas Canadian trade with the Socialist world has also had some sorry experiences as a result of similar U.S. interference in Can- ada’s trade exports. The incident of the Ford Motor Company of Canada, prohibited by its parent U.S. organization (read Washing- ton), from filling an order for sev- eral thousand motor vehicles to People’s China, This, with thou-

sands of Canadian auto workers jobless.’

Nor has our now booming wheat sales to the Soviet Union, China and other Socialist countries escaped the howls of “disapproval” emanating from Washington.

Hence the Leyland Motor Cor- poration provides a good lesson in stiffening-up in the defense of our own industry and trade oppor- tunities. In the words of Leyland’s manager, Canada must call a halt to having to “go to America for permission to sell” our products to those countries, Socialist or others, who seek wider trade beneficial to both.

Let’s advance the cold war “thaw” with more trade and less “strategic” bans from Washington.

Get rid of

W ITHIN the first two weeks of 1964 four loads of.U.S. nuclear bombs have been ‘delivered at North Bay, Ontario, and probably by the end of this week at least two loads of this concentrated death at La Macaze, Quebec.

Soon we will probably see a few loads being delivered at Comox, enough to blot out Vancouver Island and half of British Colum- bia.

’ A “Happy New Year,” chirrup- ed Prime Minister Pearson out of one side of his mouth; out of the other to give his approval to a secret deal with Washington, a deal transforming Canada intoa nuclear dump for U.S. “‘defense.”

In this Pearson- Washington deal, flouting the existence of

Parliament and the peace aims of |

the Canadian people, Canada is now a full-fledged member of the U.S.-designed “Nuclear Club,” en- dowed with all the risks and haz- ards —but not the fateful decision as to their use.

Now that these U.S. horror weapons are on Canadian soil, sneaked in by the criminal action of a minority Liberal government,, what is to be doneto get rid of

Arizona ‘fallout’

S ENATOR Barry Goldwater of Arizona has announced he will seek the Republican nomination for president. The senator is al- ready etching out an ultra-right- ist Birchite program which, among other things, would spell sure dis- aster for the peace of America— and the world. =

Goldwater, who has numerous admirers in Canada among the ranks of Social Credit, plans to throw all efforts towards peace and peaceful coexistence in re- verse.

- both—the Liberal conspirators and the U.S. bombs? : . 7 There are many things that can © yet be done. A visit or a strong let-— ter to your M.P., protesting this crime against peace; registering 4 strong protest, individually or en” mass with the Pearson govern ment, a condemnation of it “agreement” to permit these hor ror weapons in Canada. A steady _ and growing demand for an im- mediate cancellation of all ‘‘agree- — ments” with Washington on th storage of nuclear weapons in Can~ ada, and toreturn the nuclear warheads we have with all pos- ~ sible speed; to insist that Canada _ be declared a “Nuclear-freé Zone.

That’s the least the Canadia

people can do to win some assur ance of survival and independence survival to speak as a nation hon- estly and genuinely dedicated to peace and independence.

The Pearson minority gover: ment has no mandate from th Canadian people to sneak U. nuclear bombs into Canada. Hav-, ing done so it has now no mandate” to exist—except by getting rid of © these U.S. nuclear bombs with all. speed possible.

The senator would also rever the trend toward civil rights and equality for American Negroes, - and restore the “white supremacy ~ of the Deep South. And as for Cuba the senator would support and mobilize ‘‘Cuban exiles” for another Bay of Pigs invasion, with “U.S. air cover” to assure success in bringing Cuba “to its knees.”

The best we can hope for in Canada is that the people of th USA will squelch this fascist plague, before it destroys them— and us.

Tom é McEwen y

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F rom a reading of Peter C. New- man’s book on John Diefenbaker, ‘Renegade in Power’’, students of the Canadian political scene draw one fair- ly obvious conclusion; viz, that the New- man panegyric on John Diefenbaker can apply equally to any prominent Liberal or Socred the reader cared to hit on, including Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson.

Several centuries ago the classical pretext given for the ‘‘grievous” as-

sassination of Caesar was that ‘‘Caesar.

was an ambitious man’’, but if we read history aright, so too were: his assassins,

To this reader ‘‘Renegade In Power”’ comes very close, if not actually a libelous compendium directed against a prominent figure, inspired (and quite probably financed) by equally ‘‘ambit- ious’’ Liberal medioctrities, in an at-

tempt to politically assassinate their

Tory opposition.

We venture to say, the ‘‘majestic equality of the law’’. being what it is, that had any Communist author pro- duced such a book on -Diefenbaker, Pearson, Bennett, Manning, or any of a score of similar political tubthump- ers, he would already be headed for ‘‘durance vile’’ under our highly flex- ible slander and libel laws!

While we have no desire or intent to champion the cause of Dief's pol-

itical integrity (or lack of it), his.

charge that ‘‘Renegade In Power” is Liberal-inspired was fully vindicated only last week when Pearson attempted in a TV news flash to ‘‘explain’’ how he had come to ‘‘autograph’’ a goodly number of copies of this ‘*best seller’’ for his Liberalcohorts. In Pearsonian double-talk, to ‘‘autograph’’ a book smearing your political opponent is not necessarily to ‘‘approve’’ of its con- tent. That's like saying you can put your signature to a filthy document lambasting your next-door neighbor, then expect him to believe you didn’t see or mean any offense by doing so.

However, it must be said that on this job of ‘Renegade In Power’’ Peter C. Newman has certainly proved, to the Liberals at least, that ‘‘the labour- er is truly worthy of his hire’’. That they got their money’s worth for Lest- er B. to ‘‘autograph’’.

Now, with ‘‘Renegade In Power’’ as a first edition, if Mr. Newman would just take on another such assignment with his characteristic vigor, but this time for the Tories on the Liberals, or both on the Socreds, Canada’s pol- itical archives on Tweedledee, Tweedledum and Tweedledam_ could be fairly well brought up-to-date come the centennial of Confederation. Then the ‘‘postscript’? would certainly be up to the people.

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Back in 1941 the King-St, Laurent Liberal government were just itching to get Canada into the ‘‘Pan American Union’’, better known as the Organ- ization of American States (OAS). But “Uncle Sam’’ said ‘‘No’’, definitely **No"’, opining that Canada was much too much closely ‘tied’? to British imperialism to be of any service to

_the U.S. in its ruthless exploitation

and aggressive wars in Latin Amer- i ica, ;

Now however, as the saying goes, | **tempus fugit’? and with it the changes — in .time’s flight. Canada is no longer } ‘tied’? to the British lion’s tail as ] firmly as hitherto, but our ‘‘ties’’ with | U.S. imperialism, politically, econom- } ically and militarily are as tight as

a strangler’s knot on our necks, thanks

to a monopoly-dominated Liberal and |

Socred phalange, who would sell their

own mother as well as their country —

for a quick Yankee dollar.

Today U.S. imperialism in all the countries of Latin America is finding the going hard. Its ‘‘alliance for prog- ress”’ Its hand-picked Latin American ‘‘gov- ernments’’, with or without U.S. Mar-

ines, are having much difficulty holding — their people in check in their fight

for freedom, food and independence.

Hence comes the urgent U.S, need

for a stooge, an ‘‘intermediary’’, anew ;

OAS member ready and willing to pull “Uncle Sam’s’’ chestnuts out of a hot-

ting-up-Latin American fire. Hence |

comes the old call ‘‘come over and help us’;

ica,

For Canada the danger is that-we i

have still more than enough U.S.- indoctrinated Liberal bellhops in Ot- tawa, ready and eager for this OAS

job. By filling this *‘ vacancy’’ in‘‘Uncle

Sam’s’’ Latin American ‘‘colonial of- | fice’’ Canada has everything to lose and

nothing to gain—except the contempt of Latin America’s sorely oppressed millions,

is pretty well on the rocks, —

the now warmed-up in- — _ vitation and welcome to Canada to “take a seat’? in OAS andhelpto ‘‘sell’’ Pentagon ‘‘progress’’ in Latin Amer- —

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January 17, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Pag

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