A&8 - Sunday, August 26, 1984 - North Shore News

Color the ‘peace’ push red ~

N EXCELLENT BOOKLET has just been published. It’s called ‘‘The Peace Movement

nd the Communist Party of Canada,’’ and

I recommend it to Paul Little, chairman of the West Vancouver Citizens for Peace, and to anyone who wants to know where much of the push for

nuclear ‘‘peace’’ comes from.

And while we’re on the subject, let me congratulate the West Van council for not declaring West Van a ‘‘nuclear-free zone,’’ which is what Little & Co. wanted them to do. There is no limit to looniness. “~~

I realize, of course, that liberals “ridicule anyone who links the so-called peace movement with the commies. That happened to Ronald Reagan when he talked about Communist influence in the demonstrations in Europe. **Reds under the bed,’’ goes the sneer. Well, sometimes they are under the bed. And in it, too.

However, let’s state the ob- vious, which is that the ma- jority of those who support “*nuclear-free zones’’ and similar nonsense are not reds. Most are well-meaning, many are dupes, and others wouldn’t recognize a com- munist even if Karl Marx knocked on their door.

It remains true®that the peace movement is well penetrated and to a large degree inspired by the Com- munist Party of Canada and its fellow travellers. If the party always campaigned

under its own banner, it would of course have no in- fluence at all. But, as this

booklet documents, it has dozens of ‘‘front’’ organizations.

These include the Cana-

dian Peace Congress, the B.C. Peace Council, the Toronto Association for

Peace, many trade unionists, not least of whom, on the West Coast, is George Hewison of the Fishermen’s Union, and even something known as Cyclists For Peace, for God’s sake.

And you needn’t look very far for direct party involve- ment. In Vancouver, it was the commie and _ fellow- traveller crowd in COPE, headed by Bruce Yorke and Harry Rankin, who were the main force in having that city declared a ‘‘nuclear-free zone.”’

A bit down the road there’s the Fraser Valley Peace Council. Two of its leaders, according to this booklet, have connections with the party, and one of them has been a communist CPC can- didate in several federal elec-

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tions. It was this group that sponsored a ‘‘Give Peace a

Chance’? concert in which most of the audience wouldn’t have had the

faintest idea who or what was behind it all.

The ‘‘Nuclear Weapons Free Zone’’ -{NWFZ) line goes right back to Moscow, which has promised — par- don me while | smile — not to use nuclear weapons against regions so classified. Hilarious, ain’t it?

The Communist Party of Canada, the Canadian Peace Congress, and their myriad

clones, are one in demanding that Canada be declared a NWFZ. The party, indeed, seems to have been the first to issue the call. It was then taken up by other groups, with the result that it is now being peddled as a national election issue. Moscow will probably give Canadian par- ty boss William Kashtan the Lenin Peace Prize. “Everyone is for peace, in- ‘luding West Van council and my humbie self. But the purpose of the ‘‘freeze’’ agitation is not peace. Whether its advocates know it or not, it’s the breaking up of the Nato alliance and a bargain-basement military advantage for the Soviets.

This booklet. names some interesting names. Al Passarell, for instance, the NDP MLA for Atlin, is Tteported to have been a Canadian Peace Congress delegate to a big ‘‘peace’’ bash in Bulgaria organized by you-know-who. Strange that I’ve never seen anything about this is in the papers. But the media do not regard that sort of thing as news, just as this booklet won’t be news.

Mr. Little may know aill about this. If he doesn’t, he can get the booklet for two bucks by writing to Citizens for Foreign Aid Reform, P.O. Box 332, Rexdale, Ont. M9OW 5L3. And so can you.

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‘Look deeply’, Collins!

Dear Editor

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been angered by D. Col- lins’ column. But, keeping a healthy perspective 1 realize that he (D. Collins) would not excessively attack CJOR, CKVU, North Shore

Women’s Centre and Van-~-

couver Status of Women if he did not feel personally wounded after his experience with each. ~

1 would suggest that D. Collins look deeply into each situation and accept his own responsibility in each case Mrs. Gale Humjan North Vancouver.

Defends Liberals’ immigration stand

Dear Editor

‘Election fever is moun- ting’’, according to a letter from L.W. Meyers printed in the August I5, 1984 issue of the North Shore News. This letter provided excellent evidence that bigotry is another fever that is still bur- ning in Canada.

What a pity that L.W. Meyers had to discredit some of his/her intelligent and valid criticisms of the 16-year-old Trudeau regime with a comment that Canada’s open-door im. Migration policy has flooded ‘four part of the country’’ with ‘‘them’’ when ‘tour own

peopie’’ cannot find jobs.

This kind of generalization has muddied attitudes towards immigrants since the first Chinese labourers were brought to B.C. to help build the railroad and | am tired of it. [f a majority of the Cana- dian people agree with

' Meyers we would have a dif-

ferent immigration policy. We would also have missed out on all the positive con- tribuuions that many hard- working, productive, warm- hearted and non-violent peo- ple, who are proud to call themselves ‘‘new Canadians’’ have made towards building this nation.

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