ak *: ‘Ries a 10 IV REVIEW Books — Motion Pictures — Musie — Arts ‘This Is Our Land’ Indicts Nazi Intrigue THIS IS OUR LAND—By Raymond Arthur Davies—Progress Books, Toronto. This book will help Canadians to know Canada. That is very important—not only from the standpoint of making our maximum contribution towards the extermination of the Nazi plague—but for the building o be worth all the “foil, sweat, plood and tears” that are part of the price of democratic survival. This book is a story of the struggles, hardships and achieve- ments of the four or five hundred thousand Canadians of Ukrainian origin. It is very fitting that the opening chapters should find their setting in the vast prairie lands of the Middle West. . . in the transformation of these lone- ly areas into thriving communi- ties. When a lot of us came to this country from the British Isles many years ago, we brought a jot of chauvinistic baggage with us that could well have been ieft behind. Among this dubious men- tal baggage was a queer concept of Canada’s working people — “shite men,” which we took for granted covered our particular breed, and “bohunks,” “salatians,” “dooks,” “foreigners,” and so on, which covered all others not of our own superior clan. Ultimate- Iy those divisions were broken down, but they served our joint exploiters well while they lasted. Coming from European areas where tyranny, autocracy and ig- norance ruled, the Ukrainian im- migrants prought a healthy hatred of oppression and a great Jove for learning to the land of their adoption. They brought with them the rich folklore, songs and culture of their people, a heritage they have preserved through decades of oppression and woven it into the pattern of their adopted land. One of the fine contributions of “This Is Our Land” is to appraise the Cana- dian people of the great contri- f a post-war Canada that will bution made by our fellow Cana- dians of Ukrainian stock. A great section of the book will be a starting revelation to many readers. Fascist and Nazi intrigues, based upon nar- row nationalist and racial ag- grandizement, have stopped at no provocation to wage war upon the USSR. and to utilize “nation- alist’? Ukrainian elements, where- ever they could find them, in Canada or elsewhere, as their willing tools, the objective being of course the repartition of Eur- ope and the Soviet Ukraine into a “sovereign” Ukrainian State. One need not recount the con- fiscation of the halls and proper- ties of the loyal Ukrainian-Can- adians, the seizure of their print- ing presses and the banning o£ their papers and organization, the internment of their leaders, and the turning of these halls ahd other properties over to the Nazi- controlled Ukrainian “national- ists’ for a fraction of their real value, The greater portion of “This Js Our Land” deals with this blot upon Canada’s treatment of loyal Canadian-Ukrainians. “This Is Our Land” does not tell the whole story of the great contribution made by Canada’s people of Ukrainian origin to the wealth and culture and well be- ing of our country, but it does tell that part of the story which every Canadian should know, and know it now. The book is a splen- did stimulant to hatred of fas- cism—to hate Nazi plunderers of Europe, and to hate and despise their servile reptiles in our midst. —T, Mcebwen. Canadian Printing Of ‘Communist Manifesto’ THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO—By Karl Marx and Fred- erick Engels—Progress Books—10 Cents. Five years from now, workers throughout the world will be celebrating the centenary o f the publication of the Com- munist Manifesto, joint work of Marx and Engels. The Manifesto, as it has come to be called, appeared a few days before the outbreak of the Feb- ruary Révolution in Paris which heralded the revolutionary wave that swept over Europe in 1548, even touching with its fringe the well-bolstered institutions of the British ruling class. This Manifesto of the Commun- ist League was to become the basic document of the Socialist movement. It was to be translat- ed into more languages than any other book (except, perhaps, the Bible); to be the source from which millions of workers would draw inspiration for the making of a better world. In the introduction to the Pol- ish edition, Engels wrote of it: xs . By the numbers of the Manifesto circulated in a given language, we are able to estim- ate with a fair degree of accur- acy the condition of the working class movement in that jJand.” A quotation from Wendell Will- kie on the front cover says it is one of the “historic documents.” The Manifesto is a historic docu- ment certainly, but it is not a museum piece. It has been the center of political strife for al- most a hundred years. It was banned as early as 1852 in Ger- many, after the Cologne trials, and has since been banned in al- most every country at one time or another. But the Communist Manifesto will still retain its place as the basic document of the Socialist movement—a historic document that is also a guide to action.— W. Bennett. Democracy In The By ALFRED C. CAMPBELL Spee READERS DIGEST continues to scrape the depths. One of its hack edi- tors, the notorious trotzkyite; fascist Max Eastman, con- tinues to work for Hitler. Wallowing in a welter of weasel words inspired by Goebbels, this degenerate sheet has printed in its July _dssue a vicious slander against the Soviet Union and its leader, Joseph Stalin. With the exception of a few sentences on the fascists, which were put in to more firmly con- fuse the indiscriminating reader, this article could be lifted word for word out of any fascist paper in Berlin. The Readers Digest has a large circulation in Can- ada and the timing and purpose of the article is obvious. Driven to fury by the ever- increasing friendship and unity of the Allied Nations, Eastman joins with other treacherous ele- ments to sow discord and arouse mistrust, doubts and suspicions about our Soviet ally. Under the misnomer of “We Must Face the Facts About Russia,’ the Beaders Digest article raises all the hoary canards about the Soviet Union which have long since perished under the blows of time and truth. Taking Advantage of the credulous reader who may be quite ignorant regarding the democratic character of the USSR, the fourteen full pages, among other things, are devoted to depicting the USSR as a totalitarian country, with “red imperialist” aims and Premier Stalin as a dictator. é$ N TORONTO, on June 22, our Premier Mackenzie King, along with Joseph E. Dayies, former US ambassador to the Soviet Union, and Soviet “Minister Gusev, addressed an audience of over 17,000 persons where, in tribute to the Soviet Union, he said: : “The importance of MRussia’s resistance has been so great that we hardly dare ask ourselves what might have happened if, in- stead of standing firm, the Rus- sians had yielded or had been overcome.” The author of “Mission to Mos- cow,” Joseph E. Davies, said: “Mutual trust and respect as be- tween the Soviet Union, Canada and the United States is of particularly vital importance to WSs ee While this was being said, the Readers Digest was already on the news-stands, contain- ing its vicious attack on the integrity of Davies, the picture, Mission to Moscow,” the Vice- President of the United States, Henry Wallace and the Soviet Union.” How such an article was permitted to pass the cen- sors and the Canadian customs is something that should cer- tainly be asked our respective government departments. . we the smoke cleared away from the ruins of Stalin- grad, some of the confusion and prejudice against the Soviet Union in our country went with it. But, aided by such treacher- ous agencies as the Readers Digest, there still exists great ignorance in regards to the eco- nomie and political democracy of the Soviet Union. What are the facts we have to face? The facts are that the Soviet Union with its Socialist system has the highest social, economic, and political democ- racy ever attained jn the entire history of mankind. Its consti- ~ tution is the most clear, concise, democratic document in the world. « | The main foundation of the draft of the new Constitu- tion of the USSR consists of the principles of Socialism, its main pillars, which have already been won and achieved: the socialist ownership of the land, forests, factories, works and other imple- ments and means of production; the abolition of exploitation and exploiting classes; the abolition of poverty for the majority and of luxury for the minority; the abolition of unemployment; work as an obligation and honorable _duty for every able-bodied citi- zen in accordance with the form- The North American edi- tion of “Volkischer Beo- bachier” seconded by Max Eastman, stabs our Soviet ally in the back. ula. ‘He who does not work neither shall he eat.’ The right to work; the right to rest and leisure; the right to education, ete, ete. The draft of the new Constitution rests on these and similar pillars of Socialism. .. oe (Stalin on the new Constitu- tion.) The firm foundations of the Soviet Union is seen in its huge mass popular organizations of the people. Its powerful trade unions in every factory, mine and mill discuss all public questions and advise the gov- ernment, which, contrary to the skeptics, pays great attention to their suggestions and resolu- tions. The vast educational work car- ried on in the Soviet Union by the sports, art, theater and musi- eal organizations places that country in a %eading cultural position, and exists on such a wide seale precisely because it is a socialist country. The huge agricultural collectives, the mighty democratic Red Army and the working class are united by a million bonds of loyalty to the leading organization of the country — the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, led by Joseph Stalin. Ace for those who attempt to confuse the Soviet Commun- jst Party with the German-fasc- ist, imperialist-controlled, Nazi party of baby killers, Stalin gave an answer: “In the -USSR there are no longer such classes as capital- ists, landlords, kulaks, etc. In the USSR there are only two classes, workers and peasants, whose interests are not only not antagonistic but, on the contrary, amicable. Consequently, there are no grounds for the existence of several parties and therefore for the existence of freedom for such parties in the USSR. There are grounds only for one party, the Communist party in the USSR. Only one party can exist, the Communist party which bold- ly defends the interests of the workers and peasants.” (Stalin on New Constitution.) Today, in Wight of the crush- ing defeats the fascists have re- ceived at Leningrad, Moscow — and Stalingrad, we hi plaud the words of Stalin when he a that it defends the these classes not is a matter about can hardly be any world that the ageres: a Japan in China and Abyssnia was the prelu other global war which a million times more s any former conflict took the lead in thes collective security a for an alliance of the cies to head off th of the Berlin-Rome-Tok and prevent the outbreak And since June 22, 19 USSR has borne the main | of the enemy forces and allies an opportunity to; “ate and strengthen the { for the long over-due iny Europe. ; e HEN itroy. who inspired — his heroie stand informed the fascists th: “Such a party cannol ally say one thing to i lions of its followers the same time secretly opposite. Such a par dearest Doctor Sack, ¢ know double bookkeep Dimitrov tore to bits th» up of the fascists who's posed to the world as @ political mobsters. East Readers Digest, the Toro gram, rags have since been on the work of Goebbel representing the aims @ cratic character of th Union and the Ce Parties. Very often wel the indomitab | fascist fighter, Geor~ at Leipz ed his challenge at Goe- reminded the world of % democratic aims and ob. his party. With biting 1” and other such st << of fhe Soviet Union it~ norance repeat these sla Stalin’s popularity nos” the Soviet Union but th the world is no “enigms beloved by millions wl nize in him the great E- statesmanship he has from the treasure hous€ - Engels and Lenin, and he has added. Stalin's + prestige is based om Cob” cies and leadership whit practiced since youth, ¢ on which many splend have been written. e + W* SHOULD beware persons who try t the Soviet Union — either the conscious tool lerite Quislings oF are. fascist propaganda wht ages the unity of our and its all-out war eff progressive future of 6 try demands closer relat all democratic forces Y cludes the USSR. : We need have no § or fears of the democrs -acter and aims of the — its intentions in the por construction to follow acterizing the fascists — men without conscie! honor, these men with U of beasts .? Prem on November 6 and 7, dressed the Russian PE outlined the aims of # os See DIGEST — Pa