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French, English, Eskimo numbers

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adherence to the smooth evo-
sion of folk tradition is prac-
ticed. This is good musical com-
mon sense as well as com-
mendable integrity which ‘the
“improvers” of folk songs
could well emulate.

Outstanding in the recital,
a real gem of folk imagination,
is The False Young Man; Can-
adian variant of a song of dis-
appointed love widely known
in the. British Isles under
titles like As I Walked Out.
The False Young .Man has
undergone further polishing
and refinement in Canada
until well nigh perfect.

The affecting ballads: Un
Canadien Errant and Brave
Wolfe are rendered with
proper dignity. The beautiful
praise of Newfoundland girls
—The Blooming Bright Star
of Belle Isle is tender; while
the rousing tribute to Cana-
dian womanhood — Vive La
Canadienne — has appropriate
swing.

Complaints about marriage
— The Farmer’s Curst Wife
and Dans Tous Les Caritons—
contrast with the tribute to
homesteader Old Grandma
and the ancient love song: A
La Claire Fontaine. The Huron
Carol (which dates from 1641)
and D’Ou Vienstu Bergere,
two Christmas carols, _ sit
cheek to jowl with the rousing
logger’s songs: Les Raftsmen
and Ye Maidens of Ontario.

An Eskimo Lullaby has a
reasonably close transcription
of the Eskimo melody, but the
English lyrics by an Anglican
missionary substitute Christ-
ian platitudes for the lovely

group of art

ists a few years ago, has be-

folk simplicity of the original
Eskimo words.

Other selections are Blood
On The Saddle, En Rouland
Ma Boule and We’ll Rant And
We'll Roar.

Folk Songs of’ Canada is
available at the Peoples Co-op
Bookstore, 337 West Pender
at $4.95. N. E. STORY

the man who succeded Hitler,
tell his story. Today he is a
free man in Western Ger-
many.

In his book, Memoirs — Ten
Years and Twenty Days, pub-
lished in English this week,
the Grand Admiral makes ab-
solutely plain that “the main
preoccupation of the military
authorities in the present situ-
ation (Germany’s military col-
lapse) is to save German ter-
ritory and the German race
from Bolshevism.”

It is significant that Doenitz
recalls that ‘Churchill at first
opposed my removal. He want-
eded me as a ‘useful tool’ and
to pass on instructions through
me to the German people.”

With typical arrogance, this
head of a vanquished state,
who was soon afterwards con-
demned as a war criminal, re-
lates how he gave interviews
after the surrender to British
reporters,

“I gave my warnings on
probable political develop-
ments in Eastern Europe and
made proposals for dealing
with them,” he writes.

Here are other points in the
book:

SOVIET

Hitler's successor
talks like conqueror

HEAR ADMIRAL Doenitz,

/ Doenitz recalls that even

after the declaration of war by
France on September 1,. 1939,
rigorous orders were issued-to
U-boats not to attack French
ships of any kind. Evidently
Hitler did not believe in the
sincerity of France’s “phoney
war” effort, and was hoping
that the war might still be
“switched” eastwards, with
France at least “neutral.” Doe-
nitz says as much.

“The invasion of Norway is
justified by Doenitz because
he claims it forestalled a

,British occupation.

He blames the “contin-
entally minded German goy-
ernment and high command
of the German armed forces”
for underestimating the im-
portance of U-boat war on
Britain’s shipping and for not
concentrating on this from the
beginning.

The book is full of such
gleeful phrases at the sinking
of British merchant ships as:
. . . the convoy ran into the
line of U-boats . . . Once again
we had got them!” or: “In
January 1942 62 ships
were sunk ... with a total
tonnage of 327,357 tons. That
was a handsome figure.”

Speaking of Hitler’s seiz-
ure of power, this scion of an
old Prussian landowning fam-

ily says the armed forces wél=

come it, since “they could not
come down on the side of the
Communists,” although he ad-
mits they were the “third
strongest party and continuing
to gain votes.

“I myself believed that Ger-
many had chosen the right
path,” he says. “The unifica-
tion achieved -by Hitler of all
German races into one corpor-
ate Reich seemed to be the
realization of an age-old Ger-
man dream.”

Admiral Doenitz recalls
that Field-Marshal Montgom-
ery accepted a separate sur-
render five days before the
general surrender of Germany
on May 9, and writes glee-
fully:

“The first step toward a
separate surrender to the
West had been accomplished
without our having been for-
ced to abandon German sol-
diers and civilians to the
mercy of the Russians.”

The memoirs give the im-
pression of a man who always
considered himself in the right
whatever the point at issue;
a man of alternate arrogance
and whining — and complete
unrepentance.

May 15, 1959 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 5