Footnote on Berlin Editor, Pacific Tribune: Drew Pearson wrote in the Washington Post, April 22, 1948, that the Russians were permitted to take Berlin by a previous ag- reement between the three Big Powers at Yalta. The following is taken from the secret papers of Harry L. Hop- kins in Colliers Magazine, Sep- tember 18, 1948, page 28. Hopkins indignantly wrote: “This story by Drew Pearson is absolutely untrue. There was no agreement made at Yalta what- ever, that the Russians should enter Berlin first. Indeed, there was no discussion of that what- ever. The Chiefs of Staff had ag- reed with the Russian Chiefs of Staff and Stalin on the general Strategy which was that both of us were going to push as hard as we could. It is equally untrue taat General Bradley paused on the Elbe River at the request of the Russians so that the Russians eould break through to Berlin first’ Pd “Bradley did get a division well cut towards Potsdam but it far outreached itself; supplies were totally inadequate and anyone who knows anything about it, knows we would have taken Ber- lin had we been able to do so. This would have been a great feather in the Army’s cap, but for Drew Pearson now to say that the President agreed that the Russians were fo take Berlin is utter. nonsense.’ : T, A. BARNARD. Nanaimo, B.C. Sold short _ Editor, Pacific Tribune: - Hey you! How do you get that way? Can’t you count up to twelve? My September 17 issue of your (our) old rag only contained eight pages. Pages 3, 4, 9 and 10 ‘hat were missing. And if you bunch of roary-eyed reds think you can Syp a smart cookie of a big shot (I said shot) capitalist like I am, well you got another think com- ing. If you think you can put the bite on me for one third (33 1/3 per cent) of what’s coming to me, well, I don’t think, see! What kind of a Marshall plan on poor persecuted prairie punks do you think you’re running? Talk about exploitation. Get off my back you parasites and go to Paris, where ‘you belong. Damned dictatorship of the printing proletariat I calls it, and I won't stand for it, at. won't, You come across or I will report you-to the Un-American activities. You and your old eight- page paper. 33 1/3 per cent ex- cess profit and then you howl at some poor private enterpriser making a measly 7 or 8 hundred percent afd denounce the poor self-sacrificing soul. Well, are you coming across with those missing four pages or will I come across the Rockies and talk to you by hand? Come across you scoundrels OR ELSE. You will hear from Yours 33 1/3 percent short, BERT ELDERTON. P.S.: Best wishes and kind re- gards to all the staff, Ikyle, Sask: F Wall Street war Editor, Pacific Tribune: For some time it has been ob- vious that the “Lice of Wall St.” are preparing for -war against Russia. Capitalist rot is forcing their hands. The danger point will be when the next U.S. depression is about to start in earnest, For that time military prepar- ations are being rushed in the U.S. Factual information says that Russia and her allies would win such a war rather easily—A-bomb vn Hote or no A-bomb. But, in the remote possibility that some unknown factor allows the Wall Stret lice and their suckers to win, the workers have got to remember what will hap- pen to them from one angle, the strike weapon. Workers ‘do not strike in Rus- sia, because it is quite unneces- sary to strike against themselves when they own the industries. And if the Wall Street lice are able to smash the socialist sys- tem in the USSR—then the work- ers in all countries will be very, soon shown that trade unions and strikes will be quite useless against Wall Street and their al- lies, while: the said lice grind out unheard of profits in the future for many, many years. All work- €rs should be reminded Corny: of this fact, SAM REYNOLDS. Vancouver, B.C. Back Effie Jones Editor, Pacific Tribune: The Daily Province of Septem- ber 15 published on its editorial page what I presume is the first of a series of mud-slinging tac- ties regarding Mrs. Effie Jones’ candidacy for mayor of Vancou- ver. Knowing the Daily Province, i am not surprised at this, and al- though professing to be such a - supporter of true democracy, , I know it will refuse to publish anything in favor of Mrs. Jones. In support of Mrs. f%ones, who I have known’ for quite some time, I just wish to state that if a Communist is a person like Mrs. Jones, who devotes all of her time to the betterment of her fellow men, regardless of their political affiliations, then let me be a Communist, It’s too bad we ao not have more people like her. Put her in Vancouver City Hall and she will keep politics out. HOPEFUL VOTER, Sechelt ,B.C, GIVE VANCOUVER A NEW LOOK EFFIE JONES Opening Raily FOR MAYO WED. OCTOBER, 6 8 p.m. Pender Auditeriam 399 West Pender Two Soviet films “The Thirteen’ and “Cossack Golota,’” two famous Soviet films to be shown at the State Theater here next week, starting with a midnight shown Sunday, are not new productions—they were shown" in Vancouver ten years ago—but they represent the best of the many excellent pictures the Soviet Union has pro- duced. Both are adventure stories, “The Thirteen” being the story of ten demobilized Red Army men in 1917, two scientists and the wife of one of them, cut off at a water hole in the desert by nomads, and “The Cossack Golota,? from which the scene above is taken, portraying tle-Ukraines struggle for free- dom. GUIDE TO GOOD READING Best of Maxim Gorky READING VOLUME 1 of the Selected Works of Maxim Gorky has been au event in my life, as it will be for all who oad: by the way, are excellent. collection of Gorky’s works Russian, which is one of the treas- ures I brought back with mé from my last year’s trip to Eur- ope, and it is really Gorky in all his beauty and grandeur. in Gorky is the greatest writer of our age, the father of socialist realist literature. Even in his ear- liest stories the genius of Gorky blooms. And it isn’t just the mas- terful writing, the description of people and events. I think it. is because Gorky doesn’t look down on the people, doesn’t direct them as though they were ants or caterpillars, but walks with them hand in hand, understands . them to the depth of. their souls, finds the fine and precious-things in them and lifts them up the way his Danko, in the tale told by “Old Izergil,” plucked his burning heart out of his breast to lead his people from the forest to the light, It is that courage that inspires men and lifts them higher that runs through all of Gorky’s stor Of course, I have read Gor ky before, both in English translation and in the original Russian. I have compared them with the The translations, ies, whether it be the Gypsy Zo- bar in “Makur Chudra,”’ or the striking tram workens in “Tales of Italy,” whether legends from the past or stories describing working-class struggle in our day. It was the time of reaction in Russia, much like the darkness that is descending on America to- day. The storm clouds are gather- ing over the ocean, and the bour- geois-liberal “gulls” are moaning in their terror, but the stormy petrel, “ever laughing, ever sob- ' bing—he is laughing at the storm- clouds, he is sobbing with his rap- ture, hears the murmur of ex- haustion in the crashing of the thunder” and “proudly wheels among the lightning, o’er the ‘voaring, raging ocean, and his cry resounds exultant, like a prophecy of triumph — Let it break in “all its fury!” This collection of Gorky’s stor- tes and plays, written about dock- .ers, strikers, gypsies, thieves, prostitutes, tramps, and about all humanity reaching out to a nob- ler life will inspire all who read it—JOHN WEIR. : CLASSIFIED A charge of 50 cents for each insertion of five lines or less with 10 cents for each additional line is made for notices appearing in this column, No, notices will be secepted later than Monday noon of the week’ of publication. 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