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UN’s WALDHEIM COMMENTS ON

Soviet efforts for peace

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. United Nations secretary-
8eneral Kurt Waldheim, in the
USSR at the invitation of the

viet government, made the fol-
Owing comments to the press
While flying from Moscow to the
iberian city of Irkutsk last week:

Q: Soviet president Brezhnev
fecently re-emphasized that the

‘Sanger of war can best be warded

Off by energetic and immediate
actions for peace. How do you
view this comment in the context
Of the forthcoming UN general
assembly session?
_4: The maintenance of peace
at International security will bé
; he foreground of the debates in
the forthcoming 32nd Session of
es poneral Assembly of the Un-
ations: It will not only have
© deal with the current tension
4nd conflict situations in different
res of the world, but also with
© burning problems of dis-
armament. The Soviet Union has
Made a number of concrete pro-
FeealSin this regard which will be
€alt with by the General Assem-
She hope that progress will be
ie € in this regard as well as in
8ard to the efforts to solve the
Tegional conflicts in the world.
No Stability
in There is still a considerable gap
the living conditions between
€ industrialized countries and
st developing nations. A new
€mational economic order is
Crefore necessary to overcome
€se inequities. There can be no
Political Stability in the world as
M8 as we have not achieved
®conomic and: social justice.
5 : How. do you regard the
OVviet contribution to many years

Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko (left) meets with United Nations

secretary-general Kurt Waldheim during the latter’s visit to the USSR

last week.

of UN activities?

A: The Soviet Union, a found-
ing member of the United Nations
and Permanent Member of the
Security Council, has taken
numerous initiatives to contribute
to the solution of world problems.
I refer here especially to efforts in
the field of disarmament, decol-
onization, social development
and the settlement of regional
conflicts.

Middle East

Q: There are attempts to re-
move the Soviet Union from the
process of a Middle East settle-
ment. Is a just, peaceful solution
of Middle East problems possible
without the participation of the
USSR?

A: The Soviet Union is a co-
chairman of the Geneva Peace
Conference on the Middle East.

In this capacity she has to play a
crucial role in any future Middle
East settlement. It is therefore in
the interest of a peaceful solution
of the Middle East problem that
the Soviet Union is fully involved
in any efforts to find a just and
lasting solution for this most im-
portant problem. :

Q: The last time you visited the
Soviet Union was five years ago.
What changes, in your view, have
taken place here since then?

A: During my stay in Moscow I
noticed the impressive expansion
of this beautiful city and the
dynamism of its population. I am
looking forward with great antici-
pation to my visit to other parts of
the country, which will offer me a
further insight in the progress
which ‘the Soviet People have
achieved over the last years.

John Gollan, 66, the 1956-75

general secretary of the Com-

munist Party of Britain, died at his
London home on Sept. 5, the CPB
announced. Gollan had been re-
ceiving treatment for lung cancer.

Before he succeeded Harry
Pollitt as general secretary, Gol-
lan was general secretary of the
Young Communist League; Scot-
tish secretary; assistant general
secretary; national party or-
ganizer; assistant editor of Bri-
tain’s Daily Worker, the party
paper. In 1975, he retired and was
succeeded as general secretary by
Gordon McLennan, who now
holds that post.

Gollan left school at 13 to be-
come an apprentice painter. In
the 1926 British general strike he
sold strike papers. He joined the
Communist Party in 1927. In 1931
he was arrested and served ‘six
months in prison for ‘‘sedition’’
and incitement to mutiny.”

He was the author of several
books, and was chairman of the
commission that prepared the
‘1958 CPB program, ‘‘The British
Road to Socialism.”

‘La Pasionaria’
recovering
from surgery

MADRID — Dolores Ibarruri,
“‘La Pasionaria,”’ 81, the Presi-
dent of the Spanish Communist
Party, is recovering from a surgi-
cal operation Sept. 6 in which a
pacemaker was implanted in her
chest to correct a heart condition.

Those who visited Ms. Ibarruri
said her condition was improving.

John Gollan,
of British CP, dies at 66

former head

JOHN GOLLAN

On behalf of the Communist
Party of Canada, William
Kashtan, general secretary, senta
message of condolence to the
CPGB and to the Gollan family.

HALIFAX LABOR
ENDORSES
PEACE APPEAL

HALIFAX — The Halifax-

Dartmouth District Labor
Council, Sept. 14, unanimously
endorsed the 2nd Stockholm
Appeal.
. Many. delegates, including
Nova Scotia Federation of
Labor secretary J.K. Bell, and
Halifax Peace Council presi-
dent W.J. Wilson, Local 713 Un-
ited Transportation Union, rose
to support the resolution. Bell
said the move was important in
the light of the development of
the Neutron Bomb.

Tribune correspondent in the Ukraine

Life in a rural village

By JOHN WEIR
Tribune Moscow
Correspondent

The Mountain stream Duba.

Tas through the village of
Splase, ava. Children love to
— In the clear cool water.

abit Make it their special

lag, - Boys go outside the vil-
thiaa © fish for trout. The Carpa-
smile Mountains look down and
of the tis a very beautiful corner
€ earth, yet for several gener-

sé peoble were driven from it
eo work and food all
Canada, world, hundreds in

A We had allowed ourselves only
Meant 2” in Tsenyava, which
the Sh a talk with the chairman of
inspe €vchenko Collective Farm,
oe ct the cow barns and other
inf. wt 2dditions, pick up as much
ation as time allowed, eat a
fas Ptuous dinner as collective
Rozh guests at nearby
, Ryativ, spend a few hours
old friends and relatives. It
Canes quick tour but pleasant be-
€ eae signs of prosperity on

le.

Vasil Dzhurin has headed the

25 Vchenko Collective Farm for

€ars. When it started it had six
S of horses and eight cows.
trac It has 600 milk cows, 60
Ors, 74 trucks and other
traction automobiles, and
b Eavo million roubles in its
: Ccount. The farm was
Ben the Badge of Honor for its

‘performance in the 9th Five-Year
Plan.

In addition to dairy and meat (at
14 days they give their bull calves
to a neighboring collective farm,
which fattens them up and then
sells them to government agen-
cies for meat; the two farms share
the proceeds, which gives the
Shevchenko Farm an income of
half a million roubles), they grow
wheat and flax. The farm also
boasts subsidiary industries: a
joiner’s shop, a tailor shop that
sews two million roubles’ worth
of clothes annually, a tile factory,
a flax processing mill, a metal
workshop, one preparing cattle
fodder, etc.

There are 75 persons from the
village currently studying at
higher educational institutions, 17
of them on farm stipends.

The farm building team is at
work on a dwelling house with 16
apartments, will soon start on a
500,000 rouble new House of Cul-
ture. The old club rooms are still
in good shape, but needs are
growing; the village now has a
drama circle, orchestra, mens
chorus with 105 voices and wo-
men’s choir with 86, other circles.
Movies, dances, celebrations of
all sorts need more space.

Together with two neighboring
smaller villages they have 105
school teachers, two doctors (one
4 dentist) although a clinic and

hospital are only a couple of

kilometers away at Rozhnyativ.

Their concern for culture can
be seen from the fact that the
Shevchenko Farm has a special
vice-chairman in charge of that
area of work. The sum of 105,000
roubles has been allotted. for
instruments, costumes, books for
the two public libraries, and also
museum exhibits.

The museum (yes, a village
museum) is something. Housed in
a fine building, it has exhibits of
life in this area thousands of years
ago, dug up by archeologists, of
the centuries ‘under foreign rule,
then of the new life starting in
1939 but interrupted by the
bloody fascist occupation. There
are exhibits of Tsenyava people
who migrated to Canada, pictures
and quotations from some who re-
turned or those who have visited
their native village.

Much of what Tsenyava has
achieved is due to the Shev-
chenko Collective Farm chair-
man, Vasil Dzhurin. A talented
organizer, he has been decorated
for his work and was elected to
the All-Soviet Council of Collec-
tive Farmers. A good leader is of
great importance, of course, but
the work is done by the whole
collective, the 1,400 men and
women, half of them young, who

creators of its achievements.

It wasn’t easy to say “Do <
pobachenya’’ (Adieu) and leave 8
in the star-studded night for our |
headquarters in Ivano-§
Frankovsk. z

TOP PHOTO: V. Dzhurin, chairman of the collective farm shows his
guests around the village museum. Bottom: Dzhurin beside some

newly-built farm buildings.

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