WHAT IS THE REAL CAUSE OF THE FAMINE IN ETHIOPIA?
Patrick Walsh reports on the present Ethiopian tragedy (below). Mr. Walsh is Research Director for the Canadian League of Rights. The following from Canadian On Target (November 5th): “Our ‘Red Tory’ External Affairs Minister, Joe Clark, was in Addis Abbaba a few days ago, agreeing with the Marxist regime’s request that Canada should be ‘a bridge to the prosperous countries’ re the famine conditions in Ethiopia. “George Ignatieff, the old time unilateral disarmer and now a ‘consultant’ to External Affairs, complains that too much money is being spent on Canadian armaments (national defence}, suggesting that if we cut this spending and were to give the savings in the form of food to Ethiopia, ‘we wouldn’t be in this state of hopelessness’. Both Stephen Lewis, our U.N. Ambassador, and Doug Roche, our Disarmament Ambassador, have been peddling this same line. “Not one of this foursome has pointed out that the main cause of the famine stems from the rigid Marxist regime imposed by the Sovi