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rected toward this section.”

“Be a real smoker,”
“Smoke a man’s cigarette,”
—the propaganda is ceaseless,
and the funds limitless.

From 1956 to 1960, 38 mil-
lion pounds was spent on
tobacco advertising; during
the same period of time the
princely sum of five thousand
pounds was devoted to propa-
ganda against smoking.

In 1961, sponsors of a docu-
mentary film on smoking and
lung cancer sent advertise-
ments to four national news-
papers and to two London
evening papers. The adver-
tisements were refused by all
papers except one, and yet
the plea is continually made
that smoking is purely a per-
sonal choice. This is hypo-
critical nonsense.

All advertising of cigar-
ettes should cease. Such a
step would not interfere with
anyone’s freedom and would
prove that the government
takes the question seriously.
Unless we all take it serious-
ly then what is the use of
having doctors? Why march
to Aldermaston? Why fight
for a better world?

In Canada, an all-out drive
against young people smok-
ing wil! be made by the Can-
adian Cancer Society this
year, it was recently an-
nounced. Dr. Robert Taylor,
executive vice-president of
the Society, explained: “If
we can stop youngsters start-
ing the habit, we are a long
way towards achieving @
small measure of success.

It was revealed that Cana-
dians bought 36.6 billion
cigarettes last year, at a cost
of over $630 million.

Per capita consumption of
cigarettes has soared from
229 in the year 1922, to 1,939
by 1959.

Obviously, we in Canada
also need a campaign to cur-
tail cigarette advertising, and
to warn the public of the un-

IN HIGH PLACES, by Arthur
Hailey, Doubleday Canada
Ltd. $5.75. Available Peo-
ple’s Co-op Bookstore.
Arthur Hailey, noted for

his “realistic? television

scripts, has turned in this
new book to the broad can-
vas of politics in our own

country. Hailey presents a

view of Canadian reality.
Two themes are woven to-

gether in this novel. First, a

proposal for the union of

Canada and the U.S. in view

of the imminence of war, and

second, a “Christian Hanna”
type of immigration problem.

His characters are reason-
ably well drawn. All readers
will begin to put names to
them—names that are from
the immediate political scene.

This gives the book its seem-

ing reality.

e
But the omissions of the
book underline its weak-
nesses. In relation to the main
premise for union. with the

U.S., there is a fatalistic con-

cept of the inevitability of

war.
His prime minister, for ex-
ample, says:

“War is inevitable sooner
or later because it’s always
been inevitable. It always
will be too, just as long, as
human beings are capable of
quarreling and anger. To
abolish war, you’d need to
abolish every last vestige of
human vanity, envy and un-
kindness. It can’t be done.”

He is on the side of the
warmakers and his book can
be a significant contribution
to their ideological ammuni-
tion.

Along with this is his ac-
ceptance of the theory that
Canada is expendable. This,
of course follows, logically
from the original premise.

Hailey’s second omission is
to be seen in the character
of the struggle for or against
the act of union. The prime
minister, returning from
negotiations in Washington,
thinks:

“Ten or even five years
ago, when the search for a

/ so-called Canadian identity

was at its height, any act of
union would have been re-
jected out of hand. But the
national mood since then had
changed”’.

Wife of imprisoned Mexican
artist makes world appeal

nglican Arenal de Siqueiros, wife of the world-renowned
A Mexican painter, has issued an appeal on behalf of her
husband and newsman Filomeno Mata, in the form of a
letter to the democratic press of the world.
The letter states that the two fighters for human rights
have been “kidnapped under the incredible accusation of
‘social dissolution’ a crime of opinion, and held in jail for

19 months.”

“Tt is obvious’, the letter continues, “that the so-calledi
‘free world’ is going through an absolute crisis of human
values in which the Universal Charter of the Rights of Man

is a dead letter.”

Lashing out at the persecution of Mexican democrats
and trade unionists, the national executive of the Canadian
Communist Party has forwarded a telegram of protest for
this sentence to Mexican president Lopez Mateos and has
urged other Canadians to join in the rising chorus of voices
protesting this outrageous violation of civil rights.

All communications should be forwarded to the Mexi-
can Ambassador, His Excellency Rafael D. La Colina, 38

Metcalfe St., Ottawa 4, Ont.

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The spokesman for the
eppdsition to the act of union
Says:

“T tell you that war or not,
your act of union would be
the beginning of the end.
Americans would never stop
at partial union; we’d be
swallowed whole. We'd lose
the British flag, the Queen,
traditions . . .”

The prime minister replies
that these things we would
keep and the opposition
spokesman continues:

“How could we? . .. with
the border wide open and
Americans, including Puerto
Ricans, Negroes, flooding in.
Our identity would disappear
because we’d be outnumber-
ed and people wouldn’t care.
What’s more, we'd have
racial problems we never
knéw before.”

e

But is it true that those
‘who fight for the independ-
ence of our country are
jingoists, British imperialists,
full of race prejudice and
other bigotries? Of course
not!

As for the sub theme, the
immigration. case, here
Hailey becomes most liberal.
He can afford to. The ad-
mission or non-admission to
Canada of a stowaway does
not challenge the main goals
of U.S.-Canadian monopolies.

It only offers the oppor-
tunity for the author to ap-
pear democratic without com-
mitting himself to the real
struggle for his country.
Needless to say, he avoids
any mention of the wide-
spread discrimination prac-
tised against immigrant
workers, which is the true
hallmark of Canada’s depart-
ment of citizenship and im-
migration.

In High Places will be
read by many Canadians. It’s
that. kind of book. It presents
a challenge to the patriotic
and democratic writers of our
country to present with truth
and realism the struggles of
the Canadian people.

nt

TOm Elb Napoleon re-

ee and tries des- deniable danger involved in
Sain power in the cigarette habit. Of this
there is no longer any doubt.

ble shown above will visit Canada in May. Details of,
the Canadian tour are expected to be announced shortly. 5

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