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9. Richer Canadian Culture

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or better understanding between izations of Canadian artists should be put :

fans of French and English extrac- into effect. : Aid and Comfort j
F gualce the joy and advanta ays - "THE lessons of this war appear to be hard to learn in some quarters.

al a JOY ges of A New Status For Our Women T There are people so obtuse that no argument however pointed, can
jand art available to all the people, make any impression on their pre-conceived, obstinate prejudices. In-

 s ss i ‘The new status won by Canadian wo- tolerance ig their guide, an intolerance determined by their self or
eP proposes that the SOvernment sae 5 £ 4 ) b group interests, in the explanations they make of world-shaking events
Pidership to’ our national cultural Ten im the course of the war must be up- Such as we have seen unfolding before our eyes in the titanic struggle

) : ee : held in the postwar; women must be between progress and reaction, now, let us hope, in its last phases. As
ment. As a fitting memorial to Suaranteed equal rights to work at trades oe een rete EL, “Mere “ate Ss ee al

ee s : s See not see.” :

ms war dead, the Dominion Sov- they have trained for. Phe principle of For the British people as a whole, the question of the reactionary,
R hould establish a ationa “ equal pay for e ual worl: ust be estab- so-called Polish government-in-exile in London, Was definitively settled
i : ; sp aN : fal Cen ae pa) q = ae: a by Churchill when he made his report on the Crimea conference to the
er ulture and the Arts, with a Na- ished by law. House of Commons. That self-styled government was placed where it
4 £ : properly belonged, on the outside of everything; representative of noth-
P ibrary and Museum, to help pro- A Future For Youth ing in the life of the Polish people. They still carry on, however, in

opposition to Churchill and the British government, in opposition to. the
policies of the United Nations—and by the same token, on the side of
Hitler and fascism.

Be creation of a network of such 2 ;
: Immediate action to meet the postwar
@ cross the country. Our artists,

ae h 1 1 te ; needs _of Canada’s young people. ‘The _ Yet we find here in Vancouver, exponents of the same politically
sad other cultural workers in both establishment of a National Youth Com- backward and reactionary demands that were the be-all aud cual
= eee i : 323 : 2 of a program, if it may be called such, of that gang of Polish loo-rollers
3 and English Canada pou ve Huso1 ou to Cathy: 160 effect a charter of that Churchill put the boots to, in his report on the Yalta decisions.
jito the work of establishing this youth’s needs, to open the broadest edu- At Easter, a Vancouver clergyman, Archbishop Duke, gave voice to
= : : cational facilities exte a i these same demands, linked with 4 definite attack on the Soviet sovern-

» and Siven GveUy: encouragement , “its 283/80 Bale nd and PEEVE ment, the government of all govemmments which has has done all the
f bute to the enrichment of Cana- facilities and opportunities for vocational liberating that has been done for the Polish people. This Churchill also
Dire training. . stated to be the case. :

a s Archbishop Duke does not accept the decisions of the Yalta con-

A Dominion-Provincial scholarship - ference. In the press reports of his speech, he tries to sow the seeds

- . of disunity in the ranks of the enemies of fascism.
Plan to assure that giited children whose With crocodile-like compliments he speaks of “the sacrifices

7 services of the Canadian Broad-
q orporation must be extended and

as am educational and cultural parents income is in the lower brackets of the Russian people who have been our heroic allies” and then
: shall hav i 3 proceeds to show his crocodile teeth, ‘but we camnot forget the men-
f Phe CBC must be further de- : : : aul opportunity to secure tality of the present ruthless Russian regime in that vast and popu-
ted; it must become an active fac- higher education. Jous land.”
5 ; : = 2 : Whether Archbishop Duke knows it or not, this attitude of his in
4 development Bae strengthening : Extend Canadian democracy by lower- distinguishing between the heroic Russian people and their Soviet goy-
“mt of true Canadianism. The ing the veting age to 18 years. 2 ernment, is an attempt to create a gap in the unity of the most power-

ful of our allies, a breach in the structure of the United Nations who are
beating fascism down to the ground and is, in fact, providine: “aid and
comfort to the Nazi beasts.” ;

= “Report on the Russians”

2 T= Archbishep’s speech fits in well with the publication of a much
touted book, “Report on the Russians,” by an author whom Pravda”

called, “a certain shady newsboy named White.” Pravda’s estimate of the

book was short, vigorous and piquant. “The book itself,” says the Pravda

reviewer, “.. . is the usual stew from the fascist kitchen, with all its

smell, calumnies, ignorance and hidden anger.”

HVE DECIDED THIS Is
FAY EIGHT Toe!

ing their salt he came back to America to slander and malign them.
That proves at least one thing, White is not an Asiatic.

Eric Johnson has criticized the Slanders of White in a statement in
which he says that the author has emphasized the bad and minimized
the good in the Soviet scene. Even in that, Johnson is wrong since White
did not do at all as Johnson says. White took his slanders with him to
the Soviet Union from America, all the venom and spleen of the Hearsts,
the McCormicks, the Marlin Dies and the Hamilton Fishes; the filth and
lies of 25 years of hatred and covetousness. These he brought back again
to be dressed up in “309 bages and an excellent jacket design” of the year

A Canadian trade journal says this book will probably prove to be
the most controversial book of 1945. And since “controversy is always
good for sales . . . this book will also likely rang high in the 1945 best
seller lists.”

Already, from the digest 6f it that appeared in The Readers’? Dis—
gust, it is a “best smeller.” Don’t waste your money on it.

This book of White’s (or whoever wrote it, for it may be a ehosted
job by Isaac Don Levine like Out of the Night), is further evidence that
the struggle against fascism is not going to end with the extermination
of the Nazis in Germany.

These are portents to warn us that we will have to work to make
effective the plans drawn up by the leaders of the anti-fascist United
Nations at Moscow, at Teheran and at Yalta.’ Right here in our midst is
the deadly microbe that makes the fascist plague. If we do not heed the
symptoms the disease will destroy us in the end.

Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, can only give us the lead. We must
do the work of giving their plans form and body and reality. Qur
first duty is to be on the alert, to watch for every sign that our
enemies are planning to sow dissention for that is their surest road
to victory for them and destruction for us. Without that meas—e
of unity we have achieved so far, we would all he doing the goose
step by now. Do not let us forfeit any of it!

Press Drive

I HAD almost forgotten there was a press drive on. To secure our quota

on this column of 60 subs and $100 donations, we ¢an use a few more
willing helpers. Ours is a little band and lowly as the Sally Ann band
that plays at the corner and as we must make our quota we are pleading
for your help. .

One of our committee members has donated a bottle of rum, (dont
tell the editor about this), to be raffled or otherwise used to raise the
dough. Maybe if I drank the rum, that would help. But we'll see. Now
if you are not on any other committee get on ours. Perhaps you will be
lucky and get the rum. :

Get in touch with me at this office or at the People’s Book Store,
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