Belfrage book on Latin draws mixed reactions Gun gan At The Door With The ae 'y Cedric Belfrage, editor-in Visas ie ‘ ational Guardian. at People’ : : Stone Price oes e’s Co-op Book | @ ia a pate Mar at the Door With Written 2 Cedric Belfrage has aee ve very interesting ac- mage ie a tour he and his wife “nd ee the countries of erica in 1962, he book is filled with com- Passi oa the desire to under- 4 and to make others un- See an eagerness to do hy ins and get others to do tion i oct the exploita- AMMettes uN Peoples of Latin nd to end the horror Of life y aca. Wall Street impe- This of ed, in- Re Course is to be expect- aaa all, Belfrage, editor- ve of the National Guard- Scious al most of his con- “ oe inthe struggle to make 0 live, a better one in which ee and his love of the the sae Yage was hounded by sae i and finally deported ee ty which he had Otten y his presence. : Dees roushout ‘“The Man at tan With the Gun,”’ bitter- the ao this peers through oat a 28 his Latin American it erat is only natural, but a to divert the reader e ath thread ofthe book. * * Be aot We uses excellent rep- ortorial judgment by beginning his book with a description of Cuba today before moving on to the discussion of his trip to the other Latin American countries. Tremendous is the drama of contrast between Cuba, where the people have taken their des- tiny in their’ own hands, and the other Latin American coun- tries, where the people still live under the heel of Wall street imperialism and native oppres- sors. Belfrage gives a vivid picture of the conditions of life in these exploited countries. And he re- ports with vigor the reaction, moods and desires of intellec- tuals and others he met on his trip. * * * This reader wonders to whom this book was addressed, Certainly, those who are already convinced as to the oppression of Wall Street imperialism will read it with interest. But will other people inthe U.S. be enlisted in the struggle against imperialism, when’ Befrage makes such 2. blanket indictment of all who live in the U.S., and sees very little hope that any of them will, in the interest oftheir own country, do anthing to liftthe yoke of Wall Street from Latin America? This reader found himself puzzled a number of times throughout the book as to the purpose of certain comments. For example on page 56, he re- lates a conversation with an American in the San Juan, Puerto Rico, airport. This American asks Belfrage ‘‘Why don’t they have elections in Cuba?” Belfrage answered; ‘Well, everyone has a gun there and they feel that keeps Castro from dictating the wrong things. They’re funny. They shut down their Congress and used it for a cattle show. They say cat- tle are more democratic than Congressmen.”’ Now, that may be funny. But it does not help anyone to un- derstand what is really happen- ing in Cuba. —Daniel Mason (U.S. Worker) Historical novel on Shevchenko ay Sea World Is My Village —A Nah Po ae Great Kobzar,” by Han- ble’s Co Wy and Mitch Sago. Peo. (Papert, °P Book Store. 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The book makes clear much of Shevchenko’s thinking about Uk- raine and Russia, Bitter as he is about Russia’s tyranny over Ukraine, he yet comes to see that the tyrants of both countries are allied against the serfs of both countries, As C, A. Manning, of the De- partment of Eastern Buropean Languages at Columbia Univers- ity, wrote in 1945; Shevchenko ‘ THE WORLD IS MY VILLAGE THE WORLD 1S MY VILLAGE By Hannah Polowy and Mitch Sago HARD COVER—$4 PROGRESS BOOKS Toronto, Ont. — March 6, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 9