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t AS recorded that when the Roman

Soldiery together with the Pharisees
and others of the philistine tribe were
Plotting to destroy a Nazarine ‘Carpenter,
one of his disciples was requested to
stand watch while the Carpenter prayed.

fat worthy, we are told, promptly
Went to sleep,
ie Story has a great significance
Wenty centuries: later. While evil forces
®onspire day and night to launch atomic
pi Upon the world, and engage in

_*very cruelty and oppression to keep
: inittons ‘of colonial peoples and others

th a state of ignorance and degradation,

the Church as a collective disciple of

{ae of Peace is still pretty much

. Pai does not mean that the millions
nonureh people of all faiths and de-
sive nations are not aware or apprehen-

ni © of the perils of our times. It only
fans that, with few notable exceptions,

eh bulk of our leading churchmen re-
ne Silent, fearful, too timid to speak

Matecst DY So doing they find their
spi erial welfare endangered by their

bie oe convictions. How else can
the €xplain the sontnolent attitude of

he modern disciples of the Prince of
Whe’: oF the behavior of those others

> Sive their “blessing” to the H-

Canto. ? “peace - through - strength” bdig-
erg? Philosophy of the atomic warmong-

eh recent times there are some indi-

‘ershin that sections of the Church lead-
on te are wakening up to what is going

: ities nae them. In the London Sunday

as h . the Archbishop of York is quoted

Wing said recently:
sinned fi Past the Church of England
Polo §rievously in not condemning the

: eee unemployment of millions,

Veni righ ess of the slums, the under-

Must poedt Of children . . . the Church

hu fight the battle of the poor, the
the ey, € refugee and the aged against
ar porld which too often turns a deaf

ost ‘o their appeals. its leaders should
Give for social justice.” _
Tnilitars Practical expression by a Church
sae the battle for peace becomes
evils mental to the eradication of these
Poverty: @ social system which breeds
~Y> exploitation and war.
; More x “ am oa :
Keny,_ccently, in a pamphlet entitled
‘Mission, wim? for Actioh, the Church
Weleomin® Society begins to show a
African = awakening, Canon Bewes,
in plai jeetelary of the CMS, sets forth
O08 auth anguage something of the abuse
Pea e rity and power in Kenya,
Said C multitude of Ordens-in-Council,”
: faings non Bewes, “many without the
Siving rk of constitutional law, and
tieas naPPearance of legality to prac-
Only unjust in the eyes of

infor, .°8lY serves to underscore what~

“Oloniay ,, People already know, that

Tost wm rule is only maintained by the

Ploitatio, 3s forms of oppression, ex-
It and race genocide.

fing fh therefore, highly encouraging to
beginning rominent Church leaders are
act “to awaken, to see and beliéve

for ld become a mighty force
‘Qo fneetess and peace. HiBombs make
tions Ha disti

that soenya Pamphlet and others show
Ware of 4,S¢ctions of the Church are
‘Ing Sethe Menace of atomic war be-
St Wan grt, by. the dollar-worshippers
the Same treet. But much more from
Rattle for ource is required to win the
ok Hyg a Peace, As Canon Bewes of

“2Y8, “Don't let Tt be too late.”

od, by :
bina illegal by the accepted word

Dang Shut € Church as an institution

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What's the government hiding?

ARLIAMENT has a right to
Pe all the details relating to
thefts in the army depot at Jericho.
And the people, who pay the
taxes, have a right to know. But
Defense Minister Ralph Campney
and the Liberal machine at Ottawa
say these thefts are ‘‘confidential’’
and maintain that position by
weight of the Liberal majority.

Just a little over two years ago,
the St. Laurent government was
faced with the Petawawa army

scandal. At that time, under the

stewardship of former Defense
Minister Brooke Claxton, Cana-
dian taxpayers discovered they
were paying to maintain horses,

listed as army personnel, drawing

pay from padded payrolls, and to
provide top army brass with resi-
dential surroundings built for

_ themselves at public expense. In

fact the army looked like a very
attractive career for all except
noncoms and footsloggers.

_ something to hide.

When the fog had been’ suf-
ficiently cleared by an investigation
commission, Claxton quietly retir-
ed from the defense ministry to re-
sume his legal profession. Since
there has been no word in the press
about his being “‘liquidated’’ or

- ““purged,”’ it may be assumed: he

is finding the practice of law no
less remunerative.

Any government which holds
army thefts to be ‘‘confidential’’
and uses its preponderence of vot
ing power to keep it that way, has
While army
thefts and scandal are not new ex-

periences for the Liberal party,

Campney has a responsibility to
the Canadian people that out: -

weighs his “‘confidential’’ covering

up of thefts in his department.

Public pressure is obviously called
for to compel the government to
divulge the details and save army
prestige as well as taxpayers’

‘

money. :

“Insult to our national pride

EF the selection board proceeds —

with its reported intention to
give the governor-general’s award

for fiction to Igor Gouzenko, it
will disgrace Canadian literature.

The purpose of the governor:
general's awards is to encourage
our own writers and foster pride
in our own national literature. -To
give the award to Gouzenko is to

discard these worthy objects and

substitute shoddy cold war propa-
ganda for honest creative achieve-

ment.

Gouzenko’s book has only one
dubious merit. Unlike the majority

- of such efforts, it is openly publish

ed as fiction. Beyond that-it is the

_pygmy’s attempt to defile the life

and work of the giant of modern

Russian ‘literature, the poisonous —

exudation of a haunted mind. It
has nothing in common with Can-

adian life and traditions.

Several fine Canadian novels,

written by Canadians who know
_and love their country, have been
~ published in. the past year. To rank
_ Gouzenko’s novel above these,

even to compare it with them, is a
slap in the face for every honest
Canadian writer. More than that,
it is an insult to our national pride.

-

- laborated with him

Hal
Griffin’

James Stirrat Marshall publish-

ed his Adventures in Two Hemi-
spheres in Vancouver this year he con-
cluded five years’ work and fulfilled a
lifetime dream.

The dream was instilled in him by his
father, Captain James Stirrat Marshall,
“who followed the routes of the early
explorers in all parts of the world,” as
the dedication explains. Marshall, who
is a marine insurance underwriter, has
given substance to the dream by piecing
together the story of Captain George
Vancouver’s historic voyage to the Pa-
cific Coast. ‘

His search for material took him three
times to Hawaii. It engaged him in cor-
respondence with people throughout
North America. Some of his material he
got from Britain — in the old files of
Hansard, for instance, some from the
United States. But most of it, as he
told members of the Canadian Authors
Association the other day, he found
“right here at home in Vancouver.”

In Vancouver he got 98 volumes of the
old Scottish Journal, later the Edinburgh
Record, beginning in 1739, which proy-
ed to be a mine of almost forgotten facts.

| Some ‘of his difficulties arose from the
fact that many government historical
publications have long been out of print
and some indeed have hecome collectors’
items. .

“But in the 10-cent box of a Richards
Street bookstore I found the publica-
tions I was looking for,” he relates.

Es BE ae :

Out of his years of research Marshall

has retrieved many little known in-
cidents.

One such. concerns the naming of
Behm’s Canal, north of Ketchikan in the
Alaska Panhandle, at a time when, as
Marshall observes, “relations with Rus-
sia were a lot different than they are
today.”

' Captain Vancouvér remarked in his
writings: : ;

Bk I had always regretted that no
opportunity was taken to commemor-
ate the weighty obligations conferrred
by Major Behm on the officers and
crews of the Resolution and Discovery,
whilst at Kamchatka in the year 1779,
by the introduction of that gentleman’s
name in the charts of that’ voyage; I
embraced this occasion to name the
channel that separates the island of
Revilla-Gigedo from the continent,

_ Behm’s Channel.”

Marshall relates. how Maj Behm,
Russian commandant at Kam: hat sup-
plied the Discovery and Resolution with
stores without charge when they called
at the port of St. Peter and St. Paul (now
Petropavlovsk) in 1779 after the death
of Captain James Cook, entertained the
crews and undertook to take any dis-
patches to Moscow with him for delivery
to aon peiet ambassader.

Major Behm was given Captain Cook’s
report to the British government and a
oii discoveries, and its safe re-

was later. recorded in press
reports. 5% eres:
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Marshall and his wife, Carrie, who col-

, have produced one

_ oF the most complete and informative

books yet written on the voyage of the
man after whom Vancouver is named.
As a contribution to our

oor history, it belong on every book-

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