The Soviet studio ‘‘Mosfilm”’ is shooting the film ‘‘Appassionata’’, which deals with the friendship between Lenin and Maxim Gorky, and with Lenin's attitude towards art, art workers and his love for music. B. Smirnov is cast in the role of Leninand V.Emelya por- trays Gorky. OPEN FORUM People Will See Roy Reid, Saskatoon, writes: One bitter cold winter ‘back in the hungry thirties about 0% of the farmers were on re- lief. There was a lot of sickness In 'the area and our old doctor was too busy to go to bed—for Weeks at a time. He was serving a district about 20 miles in three directions and 40 miles on the north east. > : Often he got back from one trip only to find another call waiting. Two drivers and two of the best teams he could get took him on One trip after another. The doctor got most of his sleep hunched in his buffle seat in the cutter. There 1S no question in my mind that this doctor was serving the sick In accordance with the Greek Oath of medical fame. It is quite clear that the doctors’ Strike when faced with the Sas- katchewan Medical Care Act, was Quite a different thing. The strike’ Showed that doctors are affected, AS are the rest of us, by the free enterprise system which drives doctors and people alike to make Profit making the reason for liv- ing, Since the first of July, 1962, new » things have developed. Commun. ity Clinics have sprung up around the province. And if the com- Plaints of Community Clinic doct- ors are justified it is clear that We, the people, have lost effective Control over the hospitals we have built and financed over the Years; = When the facts regarding the Crisis brought on by the doctors’ SPposition to Medicare are known, Masses of the Canadian people ~~ WORTH READING A Lion In Court, by Vincent Hallinan. Price $5.95. The uninhibited autobiography © America’s most controversial lawyer, H. Hallinan is San Fran- Cisco's famous lawyer (nationally Nown as Harry Bridges’ coun- Sel)—a radical reformer and self- Made millionaire. From his many experiences in and out of court, he supplies a Nich fund of valuable knowledge 8nd anecdotes concerning judges, ‘Nries, fellow lawyers and clients Sask., — o. will see the doctors and others who built up our Community Clin- ics are living up to the ancient ‘hhippocratic oath. When more peo- ple come to understand the case, they can be trusted to act cor- rectly. Inevitable Process M. Novak, Vancouver, B.C., writes: If we are to under- stand the society in which man lives, we must compre- hend how greatly evolution has contributed to its growth, ‘and modern man would be wise to examine this before looking towards the future. Like every other organism, society is in a state of con- stant activity, leading to the birth of new parts, and to the death of others. This is a steady war between those things which are disappearing and those which are emerg- ing year by year. In this way society slowly and gradually changes its character, with the new being built on the old foundation. This change cannot come about by some act of govern- ment; it will come naturally and gradually and will result in the development of a sys- tem which will benefit the community and be suitable for all nations. At present people are swayed by majority opinions but simple people will go on making progress despite at- tempts by some to prevent this. In time, progress will bring for all nations satisfactory so- cial systems without any par- asites. The end of the twen- tieth century should see the coming of such a system. On this continent of North America, which is such an im- portant part of the world, there are many parasites hold- ing up progress, but the new era will find something. There are forty billion tiny units of living matter in every pound of soil. Bacteria, mold yeast, pro- tozoa, algae and simple animal forms struggle in the soil for existence. ee The by-products of their existence and activities make it possible to'live on earth. A session with Ihe A.G. n a television interview after the meeting May 24 of Negro intel- lectuals with Attorney General Robert Kennedy, James Baldwin, the writer, summed up the “‘racial crisis’”’ this way: “What white people have to do is find in their hearts why they needed a nigger in the first place . sa mn0. nigger.” This comment went a step be- yond what had been the focal point of the May 24 confronta- tion: an attempt to make the moral issue involved in racial dis- crimination against Negroes clear to the Attorney General. At the Attorney General’s re- quest, Baldwin had invited a group of friends to discuss race relations in the North. Among them were ‘singer Harry Bela- fonte; Lorraine Hansberry, author of ‘Raisin. in the Sun;”’ singer Lena Horne, actor Rip Torn (who is white), Dr. KennethClark, City College psychologist; attorney Clarence Jones; David Baldwin, and Jerome Smith, field secre- tary of the Congress of Racial Equality. Burke Marshall, head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, was also in the. group. * * * Initial reaction of the partici- _ pants was that the meeting had been a ‘‘flop,’’ that there was a “wide gulf’ between the Negroes and Kennedy. Baldwin said: ‘“‘We were a little shocked at the ex- tent of his naivete.”’ A spokesman for the Attorney General’s office (New York Post, May 25) said: ‘‘What did the Neg- roes up there expect to come of this meeting? The Attorney Gen- eral was just hoping to find some answers to some very difficult questions. Nothing more.” A few days later, when there were indications that the meeting had caused some reaction in Washington (the president an- nounced he would send legisla- tion and a special civil rights message to Congress) Miss Hans- berry expressed a changed view. She said simply: ‘I think we penetrated. We are a hurt peo- ple and he got it.” * * * The session was a stormy one. The greatest moments of tension came when Smith, who has been beaten and jailed many times in the integration struggle, said he would not fight against Cuba. Miss Hansberry said the Attorn- ey General was visibly shaken/ “He said something like, ‘I don’t see how any American could re- fuse to fight for our country.’ ” At his response, Miss Hansberry said: ‘““Every Negro in the room said, ‘Oh, you don’t?’” “What he (the Attorney Gen- eral) needed ,’’ Miss Hansberry said, ‘“‘was to see that there was” no separation in the ranks of Negroes. And that’s what we showed.” Miss Hansberry said that at the meeting she declared that Smith was ‘“‘the most important person in this room.”’ The other Negroes she said, closed ranks around him ‘as he spoke to the Attorney Gen- eral as if Kennedy were a white man who wanted to understand. Smith said it made him “‘naus- eated’’ to have to be there to ex- plain. “You go down to my house and live,”’ he said. ‘““You change places with me.” * * - “What we wanted,’”’ Miss Hans- berry related, ‘“‘was to make clear that we were not asking for ges- _tures; we were not, asking for some window-dressing. He wanted a whole bunch of fancy Negroes to tell him he was great and the Adminisration was doing a fine job.” When the Attorney General pointed to the Administration’s civil rights record, the group tried to explain the mood of the Negro people and the moral issue. Miss Hansberry said the issue was: “‘Can we begin to expect that the government is not only going to be responsive to the struggle as the Negroes push it, but is going to anticipate Negro needs? It should be clear that this is a crucial American problem with Presidential prestige neces- sary to its solution.”’ * * * The -group suggested that the President give a series of “‘fire- side. chats’”’ on civil rights and _ LORRAINE HANSBERRY that he personally conduct Negro students into the University of Alabama. The Attorney General laughed. At the end Clark said. ‘I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry or both. We were unable to com- municate clearly and_ skillfully that this was not a group of Neg- roes begging the white power structure to be nice to Negroes. We were trying to say that this ‘was an emergency for our count- ‘ry, as Americans. This never got over.” Another participant said: ‘‘We learned something. It was a fright. ening confirmation of what some of us suspected—that the chief legal officer of the government of the United States is totally out of touch, out of real communication with the mood of the Negro.” He called the approach of the Attorney General ‘“‘self-righteous arrogance.’ But it was an arro- gance which was somewhat. shak- en. * * * No one had supported the At- torney General when he comment? ed that ‘‘some people in this room. have sent me telegrams congrat- ulating me.” At the meeting, Torn, who is a Texan, told the Attorney General: “The flag of my state says, ‘Don’t tread on me.’ The Negro people are say- ing it now. It’s like a revolution and every man has to be counted. I am prepared to be counted’. * * *x Over and over the participants said: “He didn’t understand.” Baldwin said: “It was a great shock to me that the Attorney General did not know that I, would have trouble convincing my, nephew to go to Cuba to liberate the Cubans in defense of a govern- ment which says it is doing every- thing it can and can’t liberate me.” The Attorney General also did not understand that Baldwin could say, “I know how my nephew feels and how I feel and how the cat in the barber shop feels.” Apparently there was a com- plete lack of communication between the white and wealthy Attorney General and the group of prominent and talented Neg- roes. A factor may have been that, as Miss Hansberry remarked, “Everybody had forgotten to bring his handkerchief.” —J. G. (National Guardian) The Four Days N THE autumn of 1943, when Mussolini had surrendered and Italy was.under German occupa- tion, the people of Naples, ang- ered beyond endurance by their brutal nazi oppressors, rose up and drove them from the city. Exactly how such an uprising could succeed, without leadership, knowledge or experience, against a heavily armed and ruthless pro- fessional army, is unfolded with graphic realism in The Four Days of Naples. The revolt isn’t shown as a single, united force. At first, peo- ple are divided by fear and anxi- ety. Some try to win favors by wearing black shirts; others pro- of Naples fess indifference. But bit by bit, in varying ways; men, women and children be- come more and more deeply in- volved. And each time the nazis make reprisals — when some- body’s brother is shot, or when a little boy is mown down in the street — the anger of the people grows and the resistance swells. The director, Nanni Loy, pre- sents this complex and frag- mented development with such en- ormous skill that throughout all the chaos of unorganized battle you begin to know many of the people involved, and to worry about their families and their future.—NINA HIBBIN. It wasn’t long ago Once again they’re Did They Die In Vain? The Nazis stalked the stage And the cloying stench of burning flesh Made all decent people rage. For even greater crimes— These monsters now are blessed As Saviours of our times. Money men in our “Free World” Hand out nuclear arms To bloodstained Fascist butchers, While singing Wall Street psalms. What a mockery of our dead! Thosé millions died in vain If vultures who’ve never heard a shot Build fiendish monsters up again. The death ovens of these Fascist beasts Still in our memory cling, And all the scheming in the West Can’‘t give this carrion wings. getting set @ AL RANKIN July 5, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page &