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We have tried to be aloof from him; we have tried to be chums with him we have tried to reason with him, we have tried to appease him, we have tried to be tough with him; and now we have told him—lay off. or else. Now it may speak well for our Christian charity that we have tried everything, but the fact remains we have been wrong, we have failed. It has been expensive, and we are far worse off than if* as moral men, we had sized him up at the first. Now it hasn't been easy. Am. ong nations as among men you don't pick your neighbors, and unless you buy up or convert a whole community you are liable to get. some who bring trouble. Even sticking in your own yard won't work- and that is not the thesis of a friendly democracy based on free enterprise. You just, can't live your own life with an obnoxious neighbor. Wi'h nations as with individuals a basic pattern of life has to be fixed, common to all men, with due allowance for l* armless individualities; and this has to prevail everywhere. It should be by eager, common consent, for it. is the only thing that w'll work. It is nature's inexorable axiom of balance, and she is ever at it, in eruption and erosion* high tide and low, fre'ze and thaw, sun and shower. And as man is simplv the top Child nf nature, it is his golden rut universal formula to correct periodic unbalance in a fast-moving world- The League failed for lack of it, but the U.N. launched itse'f grandiosely with the same old abacadabera, the catechism of a parrot, so accepted as to be ever unconsidered. One line, one phrase is enougl and all—ihe inexorable axiom of right which all men tense b instinct—which wisdom sharpens and care'essness dulls. But it is dud among men and among nations and hard on even Hitler we found Stalin difficult The difficulty was in us- Now individually 'an awkward neighbor who defies *he axiom is difficult, and you can't .iust leave him alone. To destroy him him is wrong, for everything has a potential of good that is valuable to ourselves- To convert him is the true victory and collectively that it not so difficult —to make him see what he loses by his own error. We have done very else with Russia; he thinks he has done pretty well. And getting angry all at once is as effective in the moral axiom as being careless far loo long. Now morality is practical. It ha* te eat- There is just one right and communism and democracy cannot both be right. Of -course neither is what it professes to be- but, even in prin ciple it is only a mechanical version of a natural axiom. ■& if * AU men were not created equal No two babies are alike, and you can't, break an Olympic record- To so rule would be to stifle in Mister Enigma TOKlC *Sb^S__glL___: 17 MiLLON aches ©MSK OF WHEA' CHELIABINSK'_. ///£7/£ IjMBJSmiES >^U5*f|,ETZK MAGNETOGORSKI t&'&IU&lStN H „.*""'« t.00 „„.*!£• _=rea.!! I dividual initiative, progress, more for all. But gifts—for they are given, not made—should be used for the benefit of all, not the ex ploitation of the unblest by the blest- with a fair incentive to the gifted to so use his gift- That should be tne will of the people- We can forget all about Karl Marx; the communists in practice have haid to- Rut democracy can stand a bit of cleaning and polishing- Even if both were pristine pure 'they are essentially irrecc.cil. able but no farther apart Uian liberal and conservative. Christ was a socialist. Income tax and old age pensions are socialism; and Korea is free enterprise run to licence. We could compromise w'th communism, but it wou'd limit the potential of our world: aid ivi'h designing communism air- bitious free enterprise nerer could. It is one stage, and pretty small for man's ambitions- You succeed as you sun up your neighbor — early. If he comes as a Hottentot you k*iow what you have to do. In co 1c: • tive morality you can coaivert him -•- neither by hostility i,or appeasement—kind but fir_ at every step- Or—trouble. But we forget, the. axio i in tenanting expediency. Thirty years ago we foand ourselves with a new neighbor in a big, neglected back yv.d of the worM- It is a. big yard, a b'g family—3-000,000 square miles and 300 000,000 souls—too big to ignore, btcause you can't isnire anything, but in dangerous ignorance, And we had been uncaring. For it was a dirty yarfcl; the children did not go to school They had precious little to eat, few of the things our same world no game; if he saps Ihe soil* be pavs- It the natural arithmetic and it always adds up — cause and effect, action and reaction —balance. It is the axiom on which science has worked marvels in well-being, for man was created a conscious partner. He has power to use or abuse the inexorable axiom; but not tc change it* He often forgets tha*, in his conduct, in his laws- He forgets that his whole concent of democracy — the will of the people—rests on the corollary of right desire: it is no good votim* to make water run uphill. But because society grows complex motives become involved and perverted. Even good parent* are sometimes wrong: British ■«stice has 'been unjust and Christian zeal has been unchristian. Man has the now- of force and the fault, of error* Both cause eruptions 'Of unbalance. Even sincerity of right desire 1* not enough; it must be sure it is right. * it * Morality is man's acknowledgment of the natural axiom, his "agerness of right desire. And from the dawn of thought the moralist has been as busy as the scientist in the vital partnership of getting value from material gains — atomic energy, creative or self - destructive; For both in one axiom have 'be same aim—eager happiness- Bu< because we have been careless, we come to look upon morality ns restrictive—so eager to have the apnle that we forget how to er»*nv it- Morality is the universal creed of human happiness in the axiom of right desire, the natural religion that is no more solemn or restrictive than sun and air and the only religion. All any religion can do is inspire its joyous acceptance and the faith in obvious universal good beyond what human reason will not carry. In moral concepts ever*' religion has discovered almost the same attributes of necessary human conduct, but missed the axiom and its joyous urge that makes a glory, not a burden. But the idealist, — the true realist, most practical man of all, who couples purpose with pursuit fo" true progress—has not. From Babylon to Thomas Mann men have fully under, stood the purpose of life and shown how to reconcile improve ment to true progress. It is the obvious starting pom* —destination and direction, quo vadis — but man has been too busy going fast to think whf.re he is going- It is the starting point of any j world order. Men and nations realize we need one and a quick) Cave us- Ihe top few wore rich jewels and threw big par*ies in t*-e parlor that was St. Peters- tnrg. But the rabble wer? ragged It was the one nation in 'he modern comity where ths ieu- !$$! medieval pattern persisted, ■ " — many ruled recklessly by thp autocratic few- It couid produce great thincs, pre" men—Peter the G^eat and Tolr'oi; in soccer and ice hockey it can quickly challenge Britain and Canada when it wills. It could be arrogant too; there was Peter and Crimea. But as ever we were in trouble with a neighbor we had let go too far- and we gathered aU the st'ength of morality on our side. Including Russia, where the rot was so deep as to have eroded even the imperial Romanoffs and the power behind the throne, less silly than sinister, was Rasputin, notorious "mad monk." In his mercuric hand lay the fates of 200 million Russia is as much an eastern power as she is a western, by gco graphy. Sprawling across two continents it is unique in this Po -.it'on. with obvious advantages It is no.f, reallv a homogeneous •nation at a'l, but a vast, remote stretch loosely occupied by ma*" ancient peonies from Slav to J Turk and Mongol, whom the, western march has nerleeted, and Moscow lately consolidated- Reaching for the Orient is no new Russian role. tt if tt From Moscow to Vladivostok is 6.000 miles — overland: from Tokyo to Singapore 2,500: Korea is the size of England. And East is East Now Russia made a good ally* Her huge manpower tied up the Germans on the long eastern front, and we were hard eti^ugh put in the west. But if Russian gun fodder was inexhaustible its endurance to suffering was not. The czar's neglected armament, was no match for Germany's modern might. The answer was to pour in more men- The slaughter was terrific. Nor could the medieval home front stand the strain. Russia just coHasped. We did nothing; we made 'hem fight for us—to collapse Our m'Utary need did what our morality should have done humanely long before Now the golden age that produced its Tergenevs and its Tschaikowsky's produced its political thinkers too. They had no more chance than Voltaire had with Louis XV. Revolution Soldiers deserted- There were food riots bm3 uprisings every. where Rasputin was murdered. Thi« viss r*ot <,is,anized striking in the ooportunity of crisis. It was spontaneous, the point beyond which the human animal will stand no more. And it was largely leader-less- Thee were thinking men in Russia-, a Labor Party in the BatnA who for vears- had been working foe moderate constitutional reform- They did not fan an ignorant fire for personal power- The removal of Rasputin gave them hope- The riots were nut down and what, relief was possible was given. Public resentment compelled the abdication of Czar Nicholas- for it was through his influence over the empress that Rasputin had work ed his machinations; but Prince Lvoff became provisional protector. The first recourse was an attempt, to suppress it by force and arrest of the liberal members of the Duma, as had been managed in 1905 when, against Japan, Russia's disgrace in the field was evidence of disgraceful conditions at home. tt if if But this time suppression failed and there was tittle faith in the new.founfl sincerity of old oppressors- Even the Household Guard mutinied. Police encouraasd the rioters- But the provisional government struggled on. One of its early acts was to restore political prisoners banished to Siberia- The American'Revolution had no such opportunity or justification. This was France, 250 years overdue. But revolt is a red and ug'y word, and in war it. is treachery. We had desperate need to keep the Germans harried in the east. We forgot that we were fighting there for the same that our ally was reaching for at home The moderates had a difficult task to work the miracle the ignorant masses demanded in a ravaged land; and' there were firebrands like Lenin and Trotsky as well ac temperate me ■ike -Kerensky. They appealed to their allies for support, moral and material- They got neither. We tried to kick them back into the fight— how different from Stalingrad— and" they did try, and the more hey tried the worse it became at home. There were riots too in Berlin and Vienna. Kerensky urged a conference of liberal men of all nations* to bring, by popular demand, a democratic world peace. We paid a Russian general i< invade his own aountry; our own troops on punitive expeditions, to push the Russians back in—to relieve our troops. * •* Poland, egged by France, grab bed a slice of Russian territory. Each new crisis drove the radical wedge deeper. Kerensky was no politician, but Lenin and Trotsky were* Their Bolshevik party grew as Kerensky failed to produce the miracle* A big push to oblige his "Allies' led to Kerensky's falL War weary Russia—for now the only explanation couM be the war—rose up again and this time there was an eager, wCLwary nucleus ready to fire it, and ride upon it- They wanted no world democracy; they wanted a Red world, world revolution, world Comintern. Even Marxist Trotsky was too mild for them. They hunted * if" /as inevitable and it naturally came at the weakest point- A rabble can stand only so much- him down and murdered him, for this was iotal and nothing must stand in the way Kerensky fled and continued to cru- . crusade in vain for international intervention. All but the reeking Reds fled or were butchered, for this was no revolt against oppression but the ruthless clearing of a favorable stage for a new world play. Everything else was swept away. The outraged democracies con tined to attack but there was now little hope of Russia* fighting onr war and we were winning anyway, and we soon set them down as barbarians and left them to themselves. * ir tt They were our natural en. emies anyway, and this could inspire neither fear nor love. The Bolshevist blood bath over the communists, no mere butch eis, began to put, their bouse in order with the same ruthless efficiency, for bigger tilings- At first we ostracized them, j but their constructive Purposeful ness' gradually wore us down; and there was much they needed to buy - . . With the men of the Krem'in there is clear evidence of a care- J ful, immutable master plan from -the first. When it meant suave- ness they could be suave; they I could be cunning and they could ; be bloody- It was win, with nothing barred. So thev bought, and they took our experts to develop their own Anfl they anplied .Inst as much —and as little—of Karl Marx as suited; it meant incentive — to a. noint—and regimentation and chcao la-bor. And thev did make progress: thev could hardly miss One after the other, belatedly, the nations gave them dinlo- matic recognition- We invited them i"to the League and they came- Tt was useful to them- But their plan rolled on. The" exn'oited their access to the rest of the world. but their own workings 'hey tent behind ?" iron ci,**t»in Fmn, heh*nd H there came disturbing inklings that made the ladie*' aid wonder whether after oil thev deserved a partnership in this modern moral world but *h*» diiwm*,'* wer»> doing fine-^- their memoirs we**e written much later. And of course our open minded hospitality always provided plenty of enthusiasts for any new and revolutionary thesis by an underdog—thwarted bv reaction ary preiudice; for lacking a clear touchstone we can err on either side. The Kremlin nlough ed on as inexorably as truth, but on a red, narrow-gauge track, \ But their plan was advancing and their hand began tc show *.• * It showed in a p'ague of boils throughout world economy. The* had planted their seeds and "ince their hait was for the proletariat, and their main dbsta- r*e its orthodox agent, they burrowed first into the trade unions with paid agents, who took orders from Moscow. Now the Moscow brain trust was much *.«o shrewd to bra" its formula as Hitler dM with such au'aa"'^ that nobodv believed. ESS secret handbook' seized fr-™1 their agents revca'- ed as r-""h as was necessary- And t*-~-e we took seriously — Sec'i-r-n 98 in Ca.nada's criminal l*"v and its various equivalents: ■'rast.ic measures for a new and desperate threat. For those degression days were communisraV innortunity. They were speeding un. almost- going a bit too fast: Shei* hand was shown. And very soon we saw their designs in the bolder natlern- They wanted parts of Finland to strengthen their northern defences- So thev marched in and took them- This open ag- i gression bv a big power against a small niesrhbor of course ont- I raged a sentimental wor'd. Russia ignored the League's order to withdraw from Finland and Unanimity In The Kremlin: Scene: the Kremlin. Stalin and Gromyko Telephone rines- Gromyko (aside): It is the American ambassador. Gromyko (into phone: No. No! No! No! No. No! No! No! Yes. No! No! . (Hangs np) Stalin (sternly): Why did you say yes? Gromyko: Ha asked if J tould hear bins. was expelled, to the accompaniment of a holy howl throughout the world- It was simply the dawn of a new era of national banditry. Tragic, of course, attuned to modern powers of destruction, but, fully foreshadowed in the theses of the new breed of power dictators- The democracies were soft and decadent. The primitive man would shape a worthy modern world. The big punch and the big lie. Morality was weakness- The real tragedy "is how the obvious success of this barbarous creed has tinted our own materalism. Ihe public mind is defective in the long view. We are mightily material, swayed by incidents, allergic to trends. We do not identify the snake. We wait for him to sting. We are expedient- ists- We think in terms of today, careless of the future il s this must breed- Russia was simply keeping schedule* and schedule was reach ing the bolder stage of world domination, clear in interpretation! as revealed in plan from the first- Communism needed a elear field and appropriate soil to arrange a strong core in an apt apple- This its Russian sponsors found at home. a if * Communism was not new and it was not Russian- Karl Marx formed his Communist party in Germany in 184S and it made its bid in the German revolution of that year. It had no great influence in the fertile aftermath of the industrial revolution whence it sprang. Logic finds it full of ° fallacies, Mu< ii soundei was Adam smith's theory, and much more immediate in its influence- It will also be proven much more enduring, for man must eventually realize that the best theory is the best practice. There are bits of Karl Marx that should go into the TJ-N. handbook for a sound society but his was by no means the first or the ultimate in po- litv-al science- Two thousand years ago Plato gave ns something that has never been surpassed—or attempted- Marxism was simply a ready made bait that, a clump of ignorant, ambitious men got hold of and none too truthfuly and even less sincerely exploited hi favorable circumstances. Their stooge was the little man. They would reverse the natural order, instinctive in tribe and herd. The follower—the inept and the ignorant would lead- The sham was apparent. Can they? Do they in Russia, in the communist- dominated trade union? But the rugged independence of free, honest thought was the real enemy in the Kremlin's eye, for its good sense is most likely to prevai1- These became the hateful "bourgeois"—not the bloated nouveau riche. but the professional man and the professor, the solid citizen, who for all his fautts and his errors, slowly shapes a world that will work— and leave no chance for communism—you You are their real enemy Top and bottom.they know how to handle. Now privilege has always sprouted intelectual asses who pampered by privilege, can indulge their distortion in Us de- (Page Six please) The Truth About Korea THIS SERIES has been done for an international news service. By special arrangement it wi'l be run serially in your community paper. For those who wish it in compact form a few galley-proof eopies have been made available at J. Corrie's fiooiutore. ■swswwpjrs — PAGE SIX— * THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR, PRINCETON, B.C. 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The agitator becomes i sober minister in the respon- siblities of government- But any new idea is always attended by an orgy of "free thinking" that rushes to scrap the slow and painful evolution of sound progress and enshrine a new and revolutionary idea simply because it is newt and unproven—surrealistic painting and the South Sea Bubble- And there are always those of the same unscrupu'ous mind who say there is no room for sentiment in business- I NOW W e Can Supply PEAT MOSS For Gardens and Poultry IN BALES :: ANY QUANTITY • □ | GRANGERS FEED & STORAGE OFFICE BRIDGE ST. :: PRINCETON 145 THE STAR FOR GOOD PRINTING And so in places high and low fanaticism and unscrupulousncss batched many who were ready to sell us out both to commuh-1 ism and fascism without thinking how they would fare. For the inner ring of ruthlessness is tight and there is evidence of its ruthless purges- Both communism and fascism were now in world stride and Spain brought an eloquent example of their shapes. T&was the first clash, and each was p-a.y- ing the same game. The barometer of public sentiment, is not scientific, and in our wrath against the stronger, cruder fascist we veered to unsuspecting sympathy with its rival. The pattern was now complete The communists had forged a strong core, shielded by an iron curtain. In the same ruthless design they had geared their economy as their polity- with a huge potential of resources and manpower. They had •mrength- I ened their defences. They had i consolidated at home and were ready for the second phase — world domination. The pattern was clear—it was avowed—and the procedure was consistent- But we are much too emotional to calculate—and too expedient. And the ground was being pre pared throughout the world, the seeds insidiously planted- Mem- | ory is careless, but the files of I the world press, to the fol'ower 1 of vitajUjrends, show that the j world pattern of communism i was clear and well laid in. 1.137- i* Consistent, he has never mistaken its consistency. But the pubic mind is flushed with matters of the moment- prosperity makes it liberal and recession conservative and anxiety thrusts out anger. We fluctuated eratically in our sentiments towards the new order, but the unscrupulousness and ruthlessness to which 1939 gave opportunity to the inscrutable shadow men of the Krem- shook us to the roots* Here was the arch-perfidy of aU time. Their own shores beleagurcd, Britons clamored to -violate Swedish sovereignty to fight, in Finland- some of the same who had fought with the communists for a "free" Spain- America even stopped selling to them in its do'lar morality. Now official Americavhad been consistently diffident. She was among the last to give diplomatic recognition and it only lasted, half-hearted a few years. Nc country was more passive'y wrathful against all the new and barbarous forces, and American opinion of Russia has never veered as much as that of Britain. There was a coldness in the liasion of -commands and friction from- the first contact of the converging armies. There j were sure signs before Yalta that I we were not Allies, but simp'y, [ by his madness- fighting the | same enemy- In the Balkans * Russia clearV shotted she was no longer fighting delensivelv. j but for world communism. AU, of which makes Yalta and Teh- Page Seven You would not buy a buggy ... or a coal oil lamp. Your horn gramophone is up in the attic. Plastics and nylons . j . And projected is an ultra-modern pipe-line through Princeton, bringing cheap, convenient Natural Gas to your door. 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They were pretty much the fo!ly of one man, a sick and misguided man, wno was badly duped- It is doubtful if even in those optimistic days the home governments would have endorsed them- or a popular plebiscite- But the shock, the grirnness; of total war turned our minds from creeping communism. Long before the Soviet orgy of 1939,! most mora' nations had considered tbe Sdviet. unfit for ordinary diplomatic relations and most men in their hearts had outlawed her Kerensky in Paris 'ontinued to crusade and think of what might have been had moral men been truly moral. But Hitler made a common enemy a strange a-ly. and in the flush of victory we framed the mirage of a miracle. 2. After 1939 The wisdom of War II—as our j leaders saw it — was that the I world was no longer safe ifom I a dictator. SmaBTstates Icould ' not stand and- the large must I protect, them. World 'serrarity I and world balance would be pre- I served by a strong Union of Nations; but since its existence ac- , tually depended on the three | big powers, they would have to take the lead and they would I have to agree. , Now that is logical and. in good i faith there was nothing sinister ! about it—not even a benevolent | despotism- It is simply foundelil on the arch fallacy that the Big Three could or would agree. Roosevelt dealt in good faith but unbelievably bad 'judgment. It was largely a matter of good faith Roosevelt believed Stalin was ready to play ba'l, that he could compromise with commun ism. that democracy and communism could co-exist if each behaved- That in itself is aoubt- ful in a modern world, especia'ly in view of their actual designs But the real tragedy was that it started off by assuming what it had to achieve—that natural rivals would agree. Even their machinery of agreement was forged in that. One could make both wrong. 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We were well duped- Canada scrapped Section 98 and before VE Day the Ottawa spy scanflal was out Britain made a 25-year friendship pact with the Soviet and within two years was scraping together an Atlantic Union. But America was not as gullible as its unorthodox and often unconstitutional president Russia was past the sneer stage, and America's experts were no longer under-rating. Towards Russia her foreign policy was more alert than before the unholy wedding match-made by 'Hitler and consummated by a dying Roosevelt. Jittery America had swung from careless isolation to watchful intervention, in Washington's embryo theory that the best way fo ensure peace was to be strong for war and her logistics cxper's kept careful score. But even they were too cautious, underrate^ at. least Soviet cunning- They I schedules; Russia to have the a-' bcr.-f hi 1953, to have outs'rii- pert 'IT S- war potential by 1957- But on the spot they were meiing it as it. came, however thev misjudged. And it came quick and plenty—Austria, Berlin. Greece, the Italian elections, Hutch Indies. China- Korea. isjjn with just, as much tcugh- jne.—; -»s it needs 7 Aft'-? "he has made herself res- pon'b'e for keeping the democrats 'amp in 'ine- It is in reality Russia vs. U-S, the one with satellites, 'he other with voluntary support. VATTA On the eve of the- IAL.1A great final offensive, Stalin and Roosevelt and Churchill met in the Russian Crimea town to give final endorsement to plans for the final ofiensives and to lay the broad lines of the occupation and the peace—including the United Nations. There was' hard bargaining but utmost unity, as emphasized in the clockwork precision of the synchronized offensives. Though the agreemen' was secret, it was announced amid popular acclaim that the alliance would continue through the peace, and later a friendship pact was made between Britain and Russia. It was on the bas's of the unity of the great powers, who must jointly be resnonsible for world order, tha.t the U.N. veto was arranged. The same three had met on a British warship at sea to proclaim the- Atlantic Charter of free peoples over the world. Russia's entry into the war against Japan was agreed on and the foui* zones of Germany with a central control organ with he»flauarters in Berlin. The motif of Yalta—complete faith of our leaders in the Soviet despite her record. PTR«T T.OTTRT Forgiveness across the Atlantic was less spontaneous than- in liberal Britain. From the first • America, her own morality tempered to good business, and then aloof under a poli'sy of isolation, had been the loudest critic — flespite her refusal to co-operate in a moral world—of the "immoral Bolshevists." Characteristically, though finding herself against a common enemy, she did not let her feelings stand in the way of hitting where it counted, most, but made no bones that her aid was strategic. The Bolsheviks were no res- pectors of American isolation either, and sowed surreptitious seed in American institution and economy. Russia was a strange! ally, and America knew it. But Yalta hopes — the most hopeful event in history changed everything. But only for a brief! fortnight. Yalta was 4th February, 1945. j Crimea itself but recently Heli-| vered, Russian armies were: storming through the Balkans- Two weeksjater they had over run Poland and Rumania. Yalta had anticipated and provided for this. AU countries in the path' of deliverance were to be a joint responsibility. Even the entire principle of spheres of influence was jettisoned. But Molotov followed the artny into Bucharest, gave King M'ch- ael "two hours and five minutes" to expel the government anfl in- stal one to the Soviet's taste. Even as Roosevelt was reporting on Yalta to Congress — his tragic last speech—Molotov did the same in Warsaw, openly flaunting the Allies, for governments in exile had from England been partners in combat. The astonished Roosevelt dab- led his Yalta comrade. Stalin's reply—a charge that the Western Allies were scheming for a separate peaHe. Within the hour Roosevelt died; and so did the hopes of Yalta. • • • POTSDAM — Wherever the Russians got first the factual pattern was the same—they went as self respon- sib'e conquerors, and from behind the curtain came shocking accounts of the conqueror's ruthlessness. Where they d'fl not conquer alone, there were ugly ino'dents. So the Potsdam meeting, 2nd August to lay out the concrete occupation pattern, was in a very different spirit from Yalta. For one thing, (the Russian seizures were a fait accompli, and the best possib'e was to do nothing to upset the job in hand. For another, two of the old ctom- rades were miss'ng. For Roosevelt was dead and Churchill deposed and so imperious had they been that their successors did not even know to what they- had been committed. Nonetheless, in the same spi- r'.t of utter unity, Potsdam made a blueprint "for the reconstruc ( tion of Germany on a democratic and peaceful basis." A year later their foreign ministers met to discuss a most unsatisfactory working out of the occupation. The Western Powers clamed that Russia ran their zone as a unit, and failure to co-ord!nate the zones put a huge burden on their victorious taxpayers; Russia replied with demands for huge reparations — though no peace treaty has even yet been made—which in an impoverished Germany, increased the burden of western support. The whole conception of the post-war plan was based on en- (Page Ten please) Weak, Tired, Nervous, Pepless Men, Women Get New Vim, Vigor, Vitality Bar soodbye to tuesa weak, always tired Ieeltt«i*. 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At her instigation, on the thesis that Potsdam meant the four power.is co-operating to administer Germany as an econ *i* lies convinced that Russia was making them a shield for a vigorous drive for world domina ton, were clearly faced with a double task—to stop Russian expansion, exploiting every treaty aldvantage, and to proceed, over Russian opposition, with the world plan in which Russia had been counted on as a partner but now loomed as the chief antagonist. In short, a stabilizing association became a cold war w'th Germany and BerUn the test-ground. Not only was there the strate- omio whole, the Western Powers! gic principle of stopping Russia merged their three zones. Rus-| at these focal points; it was a sia resourcefully retorted that Hi facto* that instead "of letting violated the agreement of four- Russia make thfcm costly lia- power control. bilities, we should convert them At the same time America] to assets, at the same time with stopped Russian reparations! ^L'-^.*"-™6 °i *"°™„ from the western zone, arguing nvlitant Germany — a delicate that the spirit of the agreement1 P™*!*™- **»* *h« loeic„was sti" and the provision-was that' w„„» the S&ZZL 5_5 **?£ repartations were linked with a Potsdam — an efficient but not self-supporting German^, that- "£u*?nt Gemany, as a vital con LOCAL LUMBER ROUGH and DRESSED Reasonable Prices, Good Grade WHIPSAW LUMBER CO. 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Box 385, Princeton MODEL TRANSFER Russia's impoverishing demands, plus her refusal to pool the resources of her zone, postpone Reparations, especially while he pol'cy forced the Western Pow ers to foot a heavy support bill* Russ:a then pulled from the hat a secret Yalta clause giving her reparations from current production in the western zones. This was at variance with Potsdam but had not been revoked: the Western delegates did not know it existed. BLOCKADE—A" this time telat ons generally were deteriorating. The Council of Foreign Ministers (o . the four powecis) after a series " I of disagreements, broke up. It was always the same—three to one. In the United Nations the Soviet bloc was similarly opposed to ihe rest of the world and Russia, monotonously plied her ' Big Four veto, given in trust of unan'm/ty There were various incidents in the occupied zones backed by official maneuvers and pinpricks. The Eastern zone was behind an iron curtain, and Germany split into separate, verily antagonsitic parts. Russia refused! to g've a tally of the reparations she had taken; it was charged she was bleeding her zone. Beiilin, of course, is the Ger man focal point. A fact unap predated, however, is Berlin's geography. It is far to the east, nearer the Polish f ront er than to any Allied zone, surrounded and deeply backed by Russian territory—an added natural dif j fljulty for the Allies. On the the ss of unity, eastern awarfcls to| Russia was logical. But though I Berlin fell far within the Rus sian zone, spec'al provision was made for four power administration — zonal partition on the same pattern as Germany at large. In pressure politics the Russians had obvious advantage and soon made no secret of their intent to drive the Western Pow ers from the capital keypoint. Agreements, based on unity of aims, were soon an obvious sham and an embarassment. The Al 'Oo is this General Lull bloke? organ was the Four Power Council of military commanders, logical under military occupation, but intended to implement pol jcies (decided at the highest political level, it soon became clear that Russia was exploiting this position to present a diplomatic mask, cover for her Berlin commander to act arDitraruy ana opposite in application, with the commander only responsible to his own government. The foreign minister medium already wobbly, the Allies went direct to Stalin* The inscrutable one, in quite the same pattern, gave Up service of sincerity and co-operation, as always, with enough of realism and hard bargaining to delude the perspiring western negotiators that a difficult job was a completed one. and the old convenient prima donna touchiness, the thin technique of winn'ng concessions by being difficult and making your opposite anxious. (Page Thirteen) tibut'ng factor in European and world stability—strong but supervised. Russia, with her own world aims, clearly wanted Ger many her economic and political satellite. This pattern was well laid from Baltic to Balkans — j fattening her economic core audi widening her political aura. I In short, the resolution of the: last war had devolved into' a new war between two camps of j the victors. BERLIN CRISIS—1* was a cold war oven a world front, only with added delicacies, and once again well considered Western strategy gave priority to the European front. Berlin became the hot spot with the Russians clearly regard- 'ng it as their greatest advantage the AUies as determined on no surrender. Every move had a dual significance—in world and local issues. The on-the-spot co-ordinating The Best GIN You Can Buy! »i. Triple Distilled. . Tropical Botanicals add that delightful bouquet. . 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BALANCE SHEET As at December 31st. 1949 ASSETS CASH l\ BANK • ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE: Government Grants: Building (New Construction) $ 49,504.91 Night School 42.50 Sites T 4,26000 Furniture and Equipment 386.00 Transportation '4,521-00 $ 25,531-64 $ 55,704.41 Rentals 372*50 Text Books _ 42.15 Value of School Lands—estimated. $ 25,101.85 Value of School Buildings—estimated 2S0.280.92 Value of Furniture & Fixtures—estimated 17,034.25 Value of District-owned Vehicles 6,000.00 OTHER ASSETS: Victory Bonds - 56,11906 298,41702 2,300-00 SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 17 (PRINCETON) SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURE ACCOUNTS For the Year Endina December 31st. 1949 ADMINISTRATION ACCOUNT: Salary, Secretary $ Office Expense _ Trustees' Expense _ General Administration _ 2,100.92 483.82 21278 1,174.73 INSTRUCTION ACCOUNT: Teachers' Salaries _ $ 69310,99 School Clerical Salaries _... ' 55.53 Teaching Supplies .... 4,493-00 Other Instruction Expense _ 456.51 OPERATION ACCOUNT: Janitor and Engineer Salaries _ 4,374.70 Janitor and Engineer Supplies - 765-37 T.fcht, Power, Water and Fuel S 842.60 Insurance, Rentals etc _ 7.520.35 REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE: Grounds, Wages and Supplies ... Buildings, Wages and Supplies .... Equipment, Wages and Supplies . 32.50 1,81646 402.18 LIABILITIES $382,427.72 | ITTXILIARY SERVICES ACCOUNT : Health Service _...$ 2.090-08 . Dormitory anji Boarding Expense 81.00 | Other Services Expense J77-28 $ 3,072.25 74,516 03 16,503-92 2251.14 2,348.31 SCHOOL DISTRICT No. 17 (PRINCETON) SUMMARY OF RECEIPTS Eflrfhe Year Endina December 31st. 1949 Rural Taxes '. ....... 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PRINCETON, BC, FRIDAY, 14th JULY, 1950 Sc per Copy; $2.00 per Year • KNOW YOUR ENEMY — AND THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR TROUBLES We Cherish Freedom - - To Be Slaves TWIN MISTAKES OF 1917 AND 1945 GAVE KEY TO OLD DESIGN TO NEW AND RUTHLESS RIVAL We Killed Russia's Bid For True Democracy and Set Up an lmposter, Then Let Him Betray Ls Twice; Handed Him the Means * PART II THE first man was se\f-suffi- cient, a child of nature. He began to learn her laws, her resources His family grew, his world enlarged, his knowledge increased. His abilities and his land were specialized. More resources came into his orbit. As freeflcim by enlargement grew, selfish freedom. diminished- There was more to have, but he had other men to reckon with. He had to observe balance among men as in his contract with the earth; He could comply with" reason, or defy with force. Nature retorted with passive but inexorable force. If he over - hunted there was famine. He has yet to learn that among men the axiom is as inexorable. In obedience to natural axiom the social contract enlarged the heritage of all men; hi disobedience, it took without creating; it destroyed. The group began as co-op erative, self-sufficient, with natural leadership of ability. But man coveted. The group became protective—and aggressive. Men coveted power over other men, arrogation of the word's wealth by force, either of weapon or of wits. And a succession of dictators arose—Xerxes and Alexander; Kublai Khan and Charlemagne; the Ivans Great and Terrible, Peter and Catharine; Napoleon and Wilhlem and Hitler; and equally, though subtler of Wall Street and Whitehall. *?" the Russians greeted this change of front was proof, in the obviousness of their subtle policy, of their alarm. They knew very well what it meant. The gauntlet was down, the line was drawn. And the Kremlin, with very different tactics, wanted that no more than Hitler had. Of its seriousness the Allies were equally aware. They had chosen thin ice in preference to fog, and were determined net to break it. But could they avoid retreat? The odds on holding in the delicate situation seemed all on the Russians and if the "Danzig garrison" could not be maintained, it would be a serious backfire, both in tactics and in actual power. To balance Europe by diplomatic means was gone. Loss of Germany to Communism meant loss of Europe, without the opportunity to fight a blow—unless Berlin brought it to blows. That was the clear picture, and our risk seemed pretty big. But history will show it to have been as wise as it was inevitable — anil effective. The Russians put up a righteous yell that it violated tatla and Potsdam. The Alilies tersely neplied that it could be Potsdam — the real Potsdam — any time the Russians cared to come in anlii make it the four-power rule that Potsdam prescribed. The door was open, but the travesty of Potsdam was over. They were sticking to their rights ander Potsdam. ,, i It was simply the cha.ee of a Of politics and money, and all i ne_ Und o{ chaos wltJl the op- forms of expediency and greed that upset natural balance, wilful or careless, in your Main St., your own shoes. That is where anfl how wars start. By 1917 slothful Russia had slithered across two continents, from Arctic to Tropics, devouring and digesting in slothful degree, until the largest nation was the most backward- Under strain of war the masses rebelled Because Russia was an 'ally'-of enlightened democracy, we tried to stop it. Then we tried to keep them fighting our war, and so ended the hope of righteous men to' make Russia a moral, democratic neighbor. This was the opportunity for group-dictators to take over under the guise of Communism. Faced with with other dictators, we tried to make an alliance with this one we had despised- He sold out to the othej side But when it suited they attacked him. That made him our ally and in victory we based our new portunity to meet it by our own decisions. Fraught with dangers, with incidents inevitable, we accepted them, barganefl for them in the necessity to make it stick- Berlin is one dity, and it is an island in the red sea. Rail and roafl approaches were' all Russian, barred t-'ght. The narrow air corridor by which we amazingly gambled to maintain a j great, shattered city anld our i own toehold of strength was, though provided by treat;-, at j the mercy of Russia's anguished , respect for treaty. The physical | diff'culties themselves formid-, able, Russia used every trick, from air maneuvers to dive bombing. We made formal but futile protests, and kept right on That was the nub; we had to keep on, and it is now established that we have won a major victory, the craziest victory ever, flying our: coal to the .conquered, I but it may also prove the best bargain ever. A cold war won with coal. And inside it was the same. One a contract of 1| **& meant. S^wVe«r?™; He used dicrous' and often backfirng unanimity with him. that to .wreck our world, so to set up his own mastery. This is the trend we have traced in previous study of a diabolical serial sadly not fiction. We continue: * if ■& (Stalin was approached personally to end the Berlin blockade.) And this.time the inset ntable one gave in with surprising ease. He said the blockade would end. Of course it d'dn't, and by this time the Western Allies were alert, had their alternative ready It was bi-zonal Berlin, the three democracies going ahead with their own union • of zones, the Russians remaining aloof w'th theirs. And to give it teeth, the federates had the airlift and a sort of passive counter-blockade—and the currency weapon- It was the old story. The Russian military commander in Berlin found a pretext to nullify the decision of his generalissimo, without appearing to discount his authority. The Allies clearly had decided they had had enough and were determined on a showdown. The appeal to Stalin was cither the last caiid in the diplomatic game, or the leading one in a new and daring game of realism, as the Russ'ans cared to make it. The alliance of World War II had ended without making a peace, and the enemy capital of that war had become the neutral battleground for World War HI, no longer a diplomatic struggle, but a real war of action, though without shooting—a cold war between the old. if odd, allies. The vehemence with which against the Russians themselves, for municipal services were clear j ly inter-zonal, and even offices j of one side were in the other's; zone. It was a stage set for in-: cidenlts. anfl there have befen | many, but restraint has been a remarkable feature. The anger is too deep, the stakes too b"g for- petty temper. • It was, however, in its larger, aspect a petty play in a show- i down. W:th all the advantages,' Russia meant to nush the Allies from Berlin; that could mean I from Germany. The Allies were! determined to stav. and by stay-j inr. to win a vital round. The Russians closed the com-' munications corr'dnr. provided bv the agreement, through the Russian zone of Ge»*nianv to Berlin. The All'es replied with the astounding resource of the air lift, and despite both the tre- i he Core of Com racndous natural difficult.es and Russian wiles, made it stick. The Three charged Russia before the League with disturbing the peace; the Russians simp'y blocked it by veto. The Germais sniggered. The Allies went briskly abou restoring Germany's ecomomy I That currency reform was a fun I damental factor :s evident in ' the resul's. This is a decisive victory, assuming that Russia's resl aim was the opposite of her agreements. The new currency was a dou ble blow to Russia, for it affected the currency and the economy of her own zone in just the op pos.te way. A single currency was a Potsdam provision. Rus s'a said the old one—its choaa clearly suited the r obstruction ism—was it. It was indeed body blow, and Russia countered with her worst — the Berlin blockade. Each, the one through the other, has boomeranged against the Russians. Three custodians of peace have charged the fourth partner with menacing peace. The Soviet, expelled from the old League under parallel circumstances, blocks her expulsion now — at least in the moral sense—by the sacred trust of unanimity, against the accusation of her partners that she has broken the trust she uses to balk their accusations; no wonder such confusion sounds confusing A if * The Russian Commander walk ed out of the Berlin council and strangled it. In the same expediency, oppositely applied, Russia continues in the U-N. I Of course the Soviet nowledi that the Atlantic Alliance is an aggressive pact, a threat to peace—that America is the aggressor in Korea, that the Marshal Plan is a subt'e attempt to i buv out by bribery its hungry beneficaries, to run their governments—she of the satellites. She wants no European recovery. A weak, disunited Europe suits her well She sabotages, then steps in- And when Tito wants to be communist and still a nation- Russia conspires to be be rid of him—and we woo him shamefu'Iy- She is pledged in the U-N. to oppose aggression. When the 58 nations of the U.N. do oppose ag gression she says the UN- is the puppet of the U S- She boycotts the UN. because she wants Comrouni«t China to replsie Nationalist China, not in the constat"':oi>a! process but summarily, at her demand. The UN- wisely ca'-'ries on, and she loses her power to block and veto when it wou'd come in very handy to her. We have both sides shamelessly wooing Germans we hive to correct. They are armed, they strut in parades that are Hitler munism all *>ver except that the shirts are a deceitful hue, the auspices red In Berlin and the Balkans we never know when enemies we have already whipped are going to be our 'ally's' stooges to j start something. And we called j 1939 the phoney war! I We hanged as traitois Britons of the Free Korps who dared to fight against the same Commun ism it would be treachery to refuse to fight in Korea. At the same time we imprisoned as trai tors men who dared to believe that our 'ally' had a ri^nt to atomic weapons. If government was moral we wou'd have far fewer traitors. She devastated countries by reparations, carted things off at her own sweet wil', screamed for her pound of flesh; haggled about her war debts and hung on to least-lend armaments that saved her in her peril. And the warships we loaned our ally are held by our'enemy. Somebody blundered? We spend mil ions on propaganda and they millions to jam it. The wicked Americans, they scream, are dropping potato bugs—an inkling of bacteriological war to come? We became inured to countless incidents that mean a s'ate of undeclared war, without the honor of war. A U S. plane la shot down; Russia counter charges spying and violation of her territory. When war-torn Greece, in tree choice set about recovery, she sent foreign armies to upset that( choice. She exploited the politi cal divisions of Italy and France She blocked peace treaties; there is still no formal end to the war and no small ally has had a chance for any say in the peace. With the Balkan belligerents, in the closing the Danube, in Manchuria and Korea and Poland, she has virtually precluded any peace tribunal award. In every part,of the world, by aggression or by boring from within, she has reared the Bolshevist front as her Atlantic Charter trusteeship. *•* She has grabbed in lease-lend and in reparations, in slave labor by the leverage of occupation, to bolster her strength, by broken pledges sinisterly contracted, by obstructionism, by spying and botage and theft to strengthen herself and weaken those who -**"<} 'n her way. That is her sacred plan, the nnly thing she holds sacred. In Burma and Java, freed from the imperialism she railed at she planted her own. In Malaya she turned our arms against us She took over, far more sinisterly, the czarist program of im- i perialism In east Asia. Edging into the Pacific war when it was already won. sh Moscow on the Moscva (river). Population 3,000,000. St. Fetcrsb urg (Leningrad) was czars'capital l * if * stalled the settlement in Japan drove a wedge into Korea, held on in Manchuria until her dupes wete ready for the rout of China The collapse of China, whatever it means to the Russians— and China is a special ease—is at least a blow to our cause. For a century there has been obscure bnt Intense rlvarlrr for -Asiatic dopiinance between Japan and Russia World War IT deposed Japan:, but'the folly of Yalta let Russia in bv the back door. Now the occupying powers — chiefly America—have fa'len heir to an old role of huldin* the bear in Asia. It ties In with their world task. In 1939 Stalin control1**! 3*0- miUion people; to.day eight — more than half the world. If the poorer half. It is later than Munich. * •* This is a war for power, for world power, between the rival ambitions of American capitalism and Russian Communism* It is a war to hold or to break the American $- And because it ls stark realism tha.t the $ is the symbol the material core, round which our ideals are crystallized, the idealist, the little man. can and must rally in stout heart and good conscience, in the sheer necessity to save an admittedly faulty vehicle as the means to perfect it. In 1939 there were three camps — Fascism, Communism and Democracv. Democracy Is perhaps a misnomer, distorted into free enterprise., with perhaps capitalism its real foitee. Equa^y is Communism distorted. But democracy and communism are their ideals. Faspism me-." power by regimentation, dictated from the top; Communism frrr •the bottom; MemocrSlcty free choice of free neople. As ideals the three are fundamentally irreconcilable. In reality a loose pattern, sufficiently followed for popular consent, by which personal interests seek power, they are equal'y- hi sheer rivalry, in. compatible. World Wars II and HI are conflicts both in social ideologies, and private rivalries. Deiqpprac cannot perfect itself within while it is threatened from without. Nor Communism. As a social ideal or a nrlvate lust wither of the three needs, eventually, a clear field. Con munism cannot share, nor free enterprise develop, >£hat it does not possess, or wha,t a rival covets. It is a world issue. The Soviet, like the Nazis simply aggravating!? consistent, bases its prospect <jn a world comintem and its record, in peace and war, covert and overt, is in that clear course, .in tha fallacious creed that the end jus tifies the means. Which is the exposure of any masquerading ideology—balanced right 'annot be built of component wrongs as our own history and the logie of t\yo world wars h^s shown . Democracy too is imperfect, inconsistent; witness the {blissful American paradoxes of tl*c Monroe Doctrine and the Open Door, Marshall Aid and high tariffs. No interference in anv of the A^iericns, yet America's frontiers are on the* Rhine and in Formosa, an_ America's right to trade anywhere; gift dollars to snur sick, economies to earn buyinr dollars by exports; vet proh'hition of balanced recovery by selfish national lines- The dramatic change in American policy from isolationism to internationalism is the confused realization of the need for ba'ance; with the unwillingness to give it still dragging. An unbalanced world will not work, nor can balance be achieved in any nation- any ideology without it. Moral laws are natural axioms, as inexorable and one with mechanical laws j the way the world was designed to work. History is tUe record of selfish efforts to defy natural laws in se'fish iliu«ion—a coi*.- tinuous shifting of false balanee forced by selfish stresses. But this simple logic, this ene solution, in selfishness no man and no system will accept. Ideologies are selfish shams c an inexorable principle. Democracy—mass free choice — is as dangerous as any qji'ess predi. cated on right choice In precept it is the'.Jiest fprmirfa m»n can devise; in practice it h*s '»'* itself vulnerable to, nay inspired crudities Uke coivnunism and fascism. The real enemies are selfishness and igno>-ancea-wh*r« ever they are found. And th* worst ignorance is the selfish defiance of or blindness to inexor- ab'e moral laws It is all_3bou,t us, the keystijne of the materialist' woMS we struggle to shape nnd to hod- It is the ignorance .of sophisti- • atiftn- tragic ij> all our values— of success, of happiness. It is on our radios and in our W — the freedom to be slaves to our baser selves. But it {lees net satisfy, Mister Dove TRYGVE LIE -_. :■::,_,«, it does not balance and there ».re wars — civil war,*, of socia' and economic rivalry, and wars of world unbalance. Because democracy, if It is to succeed anywhere, must succeed everywhere —it cannot conquer the world oeoaus* It cannot defy inexorable universal axiom; it must convert to. anrj by. .compliance. And it does no'—at home or abroad, because it is faulty ?r'~ often insincere It is falling, but revealing, to hear stock markets bracketed with war bulletins. In no nation—and few men- is there true democracy; or, what Is enough, the will er tha sincerity for it. From the private eitisen to the League of Nations, It is the thin hypocrisy —only more tragic because j-<- often, unsuspected and sincere— of selfishness: the polities of principle. That is the background and the core of the present crisis If there is sense or sincerity in ear rallying at an we must face it at the outset and realize what tne real aim of vietory 5s. For the starkness of war rears opportunity for the ruthless to sab otage the victory from • within bv selfishness that \s the same enemy in Main Street as Moscow and recks as much for a brother as a Hun; and temptation- by th* more Immediate crisis, in the cruder passions of sheer survival, to sow in our own hearts what we crusade fc> supplant in th* ignorant of the enemy. <r if -U It is all war, no longer the honest anger of Ug, but the suaveness of the modern Smug who goes to church on Sunday and gives handsomely to the patriotic fund and never dreams that he is driving some Oriental Ug. by primitive but persistent human instinct, to play Thug, in the slick hands of some equally moral and successful sinner on the. other side, whose morality has been distorted by the same selfish materialism under another flag, even another bible. There were no more sincere and patriotic than the Nazis or the Japs; nor than the Jap* any more religious. Some strange Christianity has been crusaded in our own holy wars. We cherish a romantic reverence for the pirates of Elizabeth. The morality of our own empire is that it is a fait accompli; we have no wish—and no need to disturb the status quo And the tota'iitarians with swifter cut- lasse8, use the same technique of the fait accompli- and we satisfy morality with de jure and de facto and cold and hot war. and make the puppets fire the aruns and step in ourselves when they fall down. Ug was cruder, but simnle honesty is more successful because more natural. It is war whether you kill a man with an atom bomb or a high tariff or a cartel grab; or if you only incite him to retaliation that builds up to war It is war when an. ally stca's secrets far more devastating in actual effect than any day of battle; when he sabo'ases vour economy directlv or by infiitra„ tion it is a straight, tactic of modern war. First strip away hypocritical ideologies which however they motivate the little " roan who fights the wars and pays for them, are not the sacred urge in the powers that make them. Profit and politics drive principle out—everywhere. Anfl from if age Fourte'f So Long: Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham, 30th March. 1950. Reduction of Vote 4b Civilians: With reference to F-L memo No. 138,350 dated 29th inst., the following amendment is to be made:—Para. 5. For "these"' read "those." Signed Distribution': Heiads of Departments (21); Divisional Officer (12), M|;_ Officer, Senior Chaplain, ResettlMnenl officer, c.O. RS., C-P.O. Canteen For Information: Commodore, Captain (G.), Commander (L), Commander (C), Maintenance Garamander, Conxmiaiid P T. PBid W.O. m **; lfi#i^#^&li#^ PAGE FOURTEEN — THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR, PRINCETON, B.C. FRIDAY, 14th JULY, 1950 HOW STALIN DUPED OUR CHIEFS (From Page Thirteen) every dictator they inevitably rear against themselves and send us to put down, they take new totalitarian tricks. We are too moral, too civilized to-day to grab a club- to take a loaf when we are hungry, to save the strength to pay it back- j We are a legal people. We have j codes of ethics. And we are sincere in them, never suspecting that unnatural ways make them snares to trap ourselves. We can always vote on it; we can even make four o'clock five. Somebody voted on Pearl Harbor and there are no more moral nor re- j ligious people than tbe Japanese) We vote for Pearl Harbor every time we vote for the fcl'ow who does most for us, because by corollary be will do most for himself; every time wc invest in a shrewd stock. Every time we buy an unethical bargain. Every time we make our trade union, an instrument for getting all we can, as our moral defence against the same tyranny. Every time anyone thinks in terms of profit, over real or social value. We un- demine just as the communists do, but. things are complex. In a moral world—even our democratic slice of it—the dictators wou'd never dare. But we are too inured to just these things in ourselves We are all selfish dictators, little to biff—and we forget the simple axioms of . full'um and leverage, the chain reaction of cause and effect. It starts far back and bui'ds up and when it boils it has not 1 produced the rigiM. leadership t or the right morality to handle it. We had a. long time to take moality to the Orient. Even our most moral papers, which would never report a wrestling match or even a sty'*- WORLD'S HIGHEST BUILDING A50-4 This advertisement is not published 01 displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia. ish horse race, give the stock markets full play—*ied up with war bulletins- These are sincere moralists- the cream at the top It is graphic in Korea.'Roosevelt and Churchill were politicians, not statesmen- It was politics—the commercial interest— that even now made Britain recognize the Chinese communists. History is the history of what man knows to be axiom, but refuses to accept. We learn in history what we will not learn from his'ory. We understand all about chain reaction. It is behind US. internationalism and Marsha'l aid. But it is the morality and charity of Wall Street, which goes to church on Sunday and subscribes hand, somely to the patriotic fund. Nor ever suspect that they are Pharisees and Philistines. The propaganda of "American imperialism" is truer than they know—only more complex. Dollars can take as much as .guns, The men who Dan margarine and spend your taxes to persuade you to buy butter so they get the farmers' vote are the same men who decide about the guns and the ideologies. There are Smugs and well as Ugs among the McCarthy's amino laok of Mugs among us in| this Tug of war, be it hot or cold i but constant. *•* So the Hiss's get into politics | and politics is the handmaiden of power profits which we fondly fancy is democracy- and to want natural balance and good government makes you worse than Hiss—with the "patriots." Of course it is war. When American planes fight Russian planes and American guns Russian guns- what is it but war. nc matter who fires them and who masquerades behind a technical smokescreen, which tragica-ly fancies itelf moral. It is war, 1950 pattern—blood, sweat and tears; mud, thiea's and jeers. Progress is not a batt'e. War is simply an obstruction in the march. Ncne of Us could want wars in that <*ood logic* but il this has 'o but one, this time let us face it with true vision and determination that in win. ning it from the enemy we shall no1 lose if to ourselves, but make it a milestone in th<* march. This is a cha'lenge to patriotism. The true natriot is he who knows tha' rieht is not a selfish arroffatior, of right; that "righ' or wrcng" is "0 pariotfcm at all; that the only victory, he only food sense is the inexorable balance of one right for all. To have it we must comitr it everywhere and start, with it in ourse'ves. Or this test is vain hypocrisy and we cannot win. To-day is it not loyalty that TTHE Russians seem to have j- discovered everyitailng, - excerpt any wool on Fairiiey's nazgiln; though it often takes ig, Icing time for them to discover that ttoey discovered a 'thing. They will dispute that line biggest tom.drag'in the world is the Empire State. 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