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By LESLIE MORRIS
- April 22 will be the 90th anniversary of the birth of

The marvellous foresight of this man is again

shown in a collection of writings by his wonderful com-
panion, his wife Krupskaya, which has just been published
in the Soviet Union. She died long after Lenin’s passing

in 1924, and in: those lonely

‘years she wrote a great deal

about the man whom she knew better than anyone else.

“In one of her reminiscences
she recalls some
words which brilliantly light
up the situation today, almost
40 years later. A new and
mighty force has entered the
world which makes lasting

‘peace possible for the first

time in the history of man.
The strongest military power
in the world is using its super-
iority for peace, and not for
war. This has never happened
before. Formerly, when a state
gained military superiority ov-
er its adversaries, it used that

» force for its own ends.

‘Now a Socialist state is using
its military superiority for
peace — and, strangely en-
ough if judged by the stand-
ards of imperialist conduct —
is the very country which is
proposing to scrap all arma-
ments, including the very
guided missiles which give it
superiority.

Contrast ‘this with the U.S.
A. When it was militarily sup-

erior it attempted to impose.

its will on the world. When
Britian was the strongest mili-
tary force, it conquered an en-
ormous empire. What child
who went to British schools
does not remember those
great red blotches on the atlas,
“glorious British Empire,
on which the sun never sets’?
(And wages never rise — the
old socialist soapboxers used
to add.)

But all this has changed,
radically and fundamentally;
so’ fundamentally that for the
first time relations between
states may now be released
from war, because the country

which is superior insists on | ‘

that sort of policy in foreign
affairs. Only a socialist state,
free from annexationist, mon-

opolistic, imperialst aims,
could propose complete and
general disarmament — and

use its own military superior-
ity to support its peace policy.
Lenin, in 1923, already

of Lenin’s|

‘stricken with. death: sickness,
foresaw this possibility. -Let
Krupshaya tell about it:

“It was our custom’ to take
walks into the woods on his
birthdays. We- would - walk
deep into the forest and Lenin
usually would talk about mat-
ters which- particularly occu-
pied him at the moment. But
the sweet spring air, the softly
rustling forest and the swell-
ing earth would combine to
arouse a mood in which our
thoughts were projected ahead.
We wanted to look into the
future. There lingers in my
memory one such talk during
the last years of his life.

ual, about some current mat-
ters, but as we walked deep-
er into the forest he became
silent: After a while he be-
gan to describe an invention,
and then went on to foresee
how new inventions-in science
and technique would make the
defenses of Our country so
powerful that any attack up-
on it would be rendered im-
possible. As Lenin spoke he
developed his theme. When
power is in the hands of the
bourgeoisie, he said, they use
it to oppress the working peo-
ple, but when power is in the
hands of the conscious, organ-
ized working class, they use
it for the removal of all ex-
ploitation and to’ put an end
to all wars. As he talked his

until it was almost a whisper.
This was unusual with him
when . he _ spoke
dreams ...”

he described
near Gorky, towards the end
of the long and dreadful ill-
ness caused by the assassin’s
bullet, has become mankind’s
main hope for an ‘end to all
wars.”’

“At first Lenin spoke, as us-

voice became softer and softer, | ;

about _ his |:

Lenin’s whispered words are |}
no longer a dream. They are |:
a world-shaking reality. What

in the woods |:

V. I. LENIN

The 90th Anniversary of’ Len-
in’s birth will be celebrated
in Vancouver on Sunday, Ap-
ril 24 at 8 p.m. at a concert
meeting in the Pender Audi-
torium.

CP candidates

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million budget for this year is
almost double the total pro-
vincial government budget of
ten years ago. And the demand
for improved traffic facilities,
schools, hospitals, water, parks,
sewers and other essential ser-
vices for growing urban popu-
lations will drive them still
higher at an ever faster rate in
the years ahead,” he said.
“We must insist that municipal
and provincial spokesmen go
to the Ottawa conference to de-
mand a more equitable re-
alocation of tax revenues, and
diversion of wasted arms
spending on armaments and
Bomarc missiles.”

‘a~ partial victory

election,
Tribune this week.
> ete City Council and our’

PORT ALBERNI— “Ac-
tion of the B.C. Legislature
in amending the Port Alber-
ni Validation Act represents
in - our
long battle to make Mac-
Millan - Bloedel pay their
rightful share of municipal
taxes,’ Mark Mosher, Com-
munist. Party candidate in
the forthcoming provincial
told the Pacific

present MLA had been doing

.| what they should have been,

MacMillan-Bloedel would be
making a similar contribution
to the cost of other city ser-
vices as well. This fixed ass-
essment now only has five
years to run, but we Commun-
ists are certainly not going to
let up until this fixed assess-
ment racket and any others
like it are exposed and out-
lawed. It has cost the citi-
zens of Port Alberni millions
of dollars ‘in taxes the Com-
pany should have been pay-
ing,” he said.

The “fixed assessment” Act
adopted in 1945 on petition of
City Council and Mayor Lor-
an Jordon, fixed the assess-
ment for 20 years ahead on
Bloedel’s mill property at
$100,000 for land and -700,000
for machinery and imoprove-
ments. Since then, the city has
grown tremendously, M&B’s
mill has expanded similarly,
until it is today worth nearly
a hundred times more than it
was when the company-dom-

Part tax. victory hailed —
by Alberni C

candidate.

MARK MOSHER

inated City Council got the aS
sessment “FIXED” at this ti
diculously low level.

In the last civic election, al

dermanic candidate George
McKnight circulated a leaf
let in which he pointed out

that “Assessments of all other

properties (including homes)
amount to about 515 million;
MacMiilan-Bloedel properties
which should be assessed for
at least $33 million should be
providing two-thirds of the
taxes. Instead they provide
less than one fifteenth.”

Interviewed this week, Mc-
Knight said “It’s disappoint
ing ‘that our campaign last
Fall wasn’t supported’ to the
extent that the Company
would be compelled to pay
their share towards other city
services as well as schools.”

PUBLIC

MEETING

Suit, April

NO GERMAN BASES
IN SPAIN?!

_ SPEAKER: TOM McEWEN
eernee Auditorium

10-8p.m.

These pictures show the new-maternity hospital opened recently in Peking. -
hospital has an inpatient and outpatient department and undertakes research work.
This is the new centre from which technical guidatice is given maternity work i in Peking. 3

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