Ostriches or vigilant guardians ?

According to a popular belief (true or otherwise), the ostrich, when it finds itself hard-pressed by an enemy, buries its head in the sand, as if it believed, in the little brain at the end of its long neck, that the danger, no longer seen, ceased to exist.

How many men, even nations, are addicted to this practice of the ostrich!

Tell them that secularism is threatening our Christian way of life and they will answer: This is a myth. We are keeping religion in its proper place but we are certainly not banishing it.

Tell them that we are actually being swamped in a rising tide of Socialism, which tide is being fostered and strengthened by the support of our intellectuals and the chiefs of our big unions: They will answer: Another fable, set on foot by reactionaries.

Communism is seeping into our most important public organizations. Lies, they retort, all lies!

The newspapers, the radio and television governed by the State, are being manipulated by corrupters and the propagators of Socialism. Myths! they reply, fairy tales!...

Tell them that Communism has finally installed itself on the very doorstep of North America in Cuba; from there it is infiltrating into the other countries of South America. They will answer: This is a bogeyman, conjured up by the big American trusts which are humiliated at having been chased out of the island of the sugar cane.

The atom bomb, the hydrogen bomb - oh yes! these exist. They won't deny that fact. They can be seen and heard. The world knows about the victims which these weapons have already made. And when the great ones of the world snarl at one another, a cold shiver runs down the spines of the nations, even though the bombs have not been moved.

But the spirit of Communism, the propagation of Communism, the infiltration of Communism which does not lie in carefully guarded warehouses but operates actively in the very heart of nations, which effects the installation of those devoted to its propagation, at the head of unions, in the great organs for communications, even in our universities, this doesn't bother them in the least. It is an insidious, creeping, subtle thing, like poison gas; the people veil their eyes from it and deny that it exists.

Must we wait until we are under a police state or in a concentration camp before we admit that this dreadful danger is aimed with cold calculation and diabolical ingenuity right at the heart of our democratic and free way of life?

A french clergymen, the Reverend André Richard, wrote in his book, "La Reine aux mains jointes" (The Queen with joined hands):

"When the secret of Fatima began to unfold in 1942, it seemed so improbable that the peril could come from Russia (then allied with the West against Hitler) that what the Holy Virgin, in fact, said about Russia, was generally attributed to Germany... "Since that time, seventeen countries have fallen under the Communist yoke, and whole continents, like China, have declared a war without mercy upon Christ; the Arab world has ranged itself against the West, the colored people as a whole find themselves under dire pressure, the nations which are geographically situated in the West, are ready to fall like ripe fruit into the hands of the Communists; and finally, the intercontinental ballistic missile, in the hands of the Soviets, presses upon the heart of the world, a deadly menace."

People in this hemisphere, in our country of Canada, will probaly shrug their shoulders and say: All of that is on the other side of the water, in old Europe which has for long, now, been riven by atheism and Communism. It couldn't happen over here.

General Carlos P. Romulo, Philippine ambassador to the United States, and one of the most revered and respected statesmen in the world, had this to say about the spread of Communism, in an article which appeared in the Reader's Digest, November, 1960:

"At its rate of growth since World War II, the universal Communist police state could come into being in our own lifetime. Does this sound like an exaggeration? Well, ancient Romans, too, must have thought the idea of conquest by their clamorous barbarians was far-fetched. Today, history moves with electronic speed. Processes that in ancient times took centuries to unfold, now explode in decades. Who would have thought it possible barely a generation ago, that Communism would soon stand astride two continents, from the Baltic to the Pacific, with extensions of its power in places as far apart as Africa and the Caribbean?"

The Reverend Richard wrote his book in 1958, that is, before the Castro regime took power in Cuba. No one who has any will to face the truth can deny that the regime of Castro and Guevara is Communist. It has firmly aligned itself on the side of the Communist nations. And Cuba is a country of the Americas!

But Cuba, the answer will be, probably constitutes a menace to the people of Latin America; there can't seriously be any question of it menacing Canada with Communism!

The language of the unthinking! One would certainly have to have ones head buried in the stand to believe that Canada is so isolated. Perhaps there are those who consider the Cuban revolution to be nothing more than a band of terrorists riding about, overthrowing the government, massacring the opposition, throwing the obstinate into concentration camps, forming execution squads, etc. - and as long as such things do not go on under our eyes, why worry?

The January 9th issue of L'Évangéline (a New Brunswick paper) carries several notes on a conference, "Le Communisme au Canada" (Communism in Canada) given by Mr. Alexander Boudreau of St. Joseph. University, Moncton, to Le Cercle Acadien of Moncton. Mr. Boudreau is a professor at the University and was formerly Canadian consul at Boston.

"Communism, said Mr. Boudreau, is a thing difficult to define. It is something more than an economic system different from others; it is a philosophy of life; it is a psychological condition which is sought in order to establish a climate favorable to the building of a system under which all the fundamental human liberties will disappear".

Mr. Boudreau goes on to say that Communism has no plan to take over power through the electoral procedure. Rather it works through the infiltration of ideas and principles; when the terrain has been worked over in this fashion, then Communism takes over by force.

Mr. Boudreau quotes the order of the day set down by Tim Buck, leader of the Canadian Communist party: "For Canada, the order of the day is, Operation Confusion".

Communism uses direct and indirect propaganda. Of the two, indirect propaganda is the most dangerous because it is so insidious.

"Indirect propaganda consists of Communist infiltration into the workers' unions, which are the most favorable milieu for the hatching of Communist ideas."

But Communism is also infiltrating our Canadian press:

"Our press has become dangerously infected."

Communist ideas are also infiltrating Canadian radio and television.

The Canadian Broadcasting Company, said the speaker, has a curious way of supporting the Moscow-line.

He gave as an example, a television program which had for its subject the study of Communism. The program was passed in interviewing, exclusively, the partisans of Communism.

Regarding Cyrus Eaton and his friendship for Khrushchev, Mr. Boudreau said:

"Regardless of who or what attracts admiration for Cyrus Eaton, be careful!"

Referring to the subject of Cuba, Mr. Boudreau declared:

"I hope that sooner or later there will come a full realization of the seriousness of this beachhead of Communism in America - Cuba. All the orders and directives for the Communist party on this continent, come from Cuba. Fidel Castro and his brother Raoul, are graduates of the University of Lenin in Moscow."

In the Congo, Lumumba is Moscow's man, while Mobutu is a solid Christian Catholic, in fact.

The entire system of Khrushchev's government is based on lies and you cannot believe a word coming out of Moscow.

Mr. Boudreau terminated his conference with these words:

"When Communism is exposed to the light, it loses its strength. And it is extremely dangerous for intelligent people, such as we are, to pretend that there is no danger of Communism here in Canada. We must inform ourselves, awaken our minds to the problems of the present, to the menace of Communism for each and every one of us."

Perhaps the greatest threat to our safety is the curious apathy of our leaders in the face of the Communist threat.

Recently the Canadian government leaped eagerly at the opportunity (so they estimated) of taking the place of the United States in trade with Cuba. It mattered not that Cuba had solidly aligned itself with the Marxist powers, that Major Guevara, the economic czar of Cuba and considered by many to be the real power behind the Castros, publicly declared:

"China and Cuba stand on the same front in struggling against imperialist aggression!"

The government of Canada declared itself only too ready to do business with a power whose basic concept of society posits the destruction of all types of government such as ours. And this dealing with the enemy was excused by saying that we are already trading with Moscow and other satellites of the Hammer and Sickle. As if two wrongs ever made a right!

In the great giant to the south, the United States, this same peculiar soft-headedness appears in the most important ministry of the U.S.A. government, the department of State. Charles Stevenson, writing in the Reader's Digest of February, 1961, has this to report:

"Since the days when the Chinese Communists were pictured as mere agrarian reformers too many men in the State Department have persisted in the dangerously wistful belief that if the Reds just aren't annoyed they are bound to see how well-meaning the United States is and will stop their harassment. Incredibly, this philosophy has infected the highest quarters of government. And all the while the Kremlin, teasing this naive desire to reach an understanding through the outworn tradition of polite negotiation, toys with the West by hot and cold manouvering as it inches towards total victory".

The book, "Protracted Conflict", and analysis of the methods used by the Communists in waging war on the free world, the following sentence casts the spotlight directly upon the principal reason why the Communists have been able to win such resounding victories over the West.

"The Communists are scoring victories in World War III because they know they are in it."

The western governments, their heads in the sand like the ostrich on the front page, try to pretend that everything will be all right if they trudge along the old and outworn paths of international diplomacy. Do business with the Communists. Welcome them with open arms and all the honors accorded a warm friend when they invite themselves to visit your country. Picture them as jolly good fellows, diamonds in the rough. Smooth their feathers when they get ruffled at the West's infrequent attempts to stand up to them. Belabor those who dare stand up against Communist infiltration. Mobutu, for example, Franco, for another. Do everything but face the fact that you are up against the deadliest killer in the history of mankind, a power which will not only crush the body by its ruthless despotism, but will strive to kill the soul with its militant atheism.

Communist's spokesman, Khrushchev, has declared publicly: We will bury you! 

What could be clearer. And don't think for a moment that this international gangster was speaking metaphorically. He meant it - literally.

Yet the leaders of the Western peoples refuse to face up to this fact. Dan Smoot in his Report of October 3, 1960, speaking of the sorry specfacle of the United States at the time of its invasion by Khrushchev and the other cut-throats of Communism during the last session of the United Nations, had these remarks to make:

"If ever a great nation was led into the dead-end of despair, humiliation and helpless anger by the ineptness (or treachery) of its own leaders, that nation is the United States of America."

The spectacle of Khrushchev having been given the keys of the nation as an honored guest in September 1959; having insulted our President to his face at Paris in May 1960; and having manouvered our "ally" Japan into a comparable insult against our President in June, 1960 – arrogantly showing his contempt for our whole nation by inviting his gang of cut-throats to the United States.

Krushchev invites the Communist dictators and fellow-travelling dictators of the world to the United States, and all of them come - to receive the official protection of the United States government while using the American facilities of radio, television and press, and the American-financed facilities of the United Nations to saturate the population of the world with contemptuous vilification of the United States!

At no point in the whole sorry carnival show has any ranking United States official behaved as if anyone even expected him to consider the United States a proud, independent and self-respecting nation!

There is little time left. The stands are running out, and unless some drastic, and definite steps are taken to stop the onrush of Communism, the West and its democratic way of life and its Christian concepts which make man something more than an animal to be exploited, will soon disappear from the face of the earth.

There is little hope of any positive action from our men of "State". If anything,  they have through their legislation, shown a strange willingness to adopt the principles of Socialism - the first step to Communism. Our intellectuals, likewise, are for the most part on the side of the fellow-travellers, those who go along with Communist principles and insist that Khrushchev and the others are doing a fine job for the "people".

So its up to the little fellow - the little fellow, who in the final analysis, if he understands and assumes his rights and responsibilities, is actually the big man. For it is he who will, by persistent pressure, bring the men whom he has elected to represent him, to fulfill his desires, his will.

If the governments of the western nations and the makers of these countries policies, are to have their heads dragged out of the sand and are to be goaded into taking that action necessary to stem the Red Tide, then it is the people, and the people alone who will accomplish this feat.

Such a revolution, however, cannot be accomplished by a people who are ignorant of the facts of the situation and have no idea how to act. Unfortunately, the vast majority of individuals today are afflicted with such ignorance. How can they be otherwise when they are lied to and misled by the constant stream of propaganda favorable to socialism and centralisation, which streams out of our press, radio and television?

The Union of Electors, the organization which is built around the two papers, The Union of Electors and Vers Demain, has for its goal the education of people in the truths of our political and economic life, and the training of individuals in true political action which will be effective the year-round, and not simply once every so many years at election time.

The readers of our papers know that we fight vigorously against every factor in the social and economic life which tends to Socialism and centralization; they know how sternly we combat Communism, how we point out the insidous methods it uses to overthrow whole nations.

The salvation of the world and the building of a new civilization which will see the banishment of want and insecurity, can come only through the victory of the principles and ideals which Social Credit teaches. And such a victory can come only when the majority of the people have adopted and made part of themselves these truths which are so much of the essence of democracy and Christianity.

A great friend of the poor Maurice Brisson of Spanish, Ontario, filled with a tremendous desire to help the poor, has made himself, as it were, their advocate with the department of Social Welfare, in order to obtain help for them. His great charity has not been in vain. He has succeeded in obtaining pensions for 37 poor families in his parish. A man like Maurice Brisson, who has a goal, and a heart burning with love for his fellow-men, will win every battle!