i _ wished him and his country well on behalf of Canadian demo- : €he end of ignorance, the end of poverty, the end of racial, -FIDEL SPEAKS By LESLIE MORRIS oO“ MUST see and hear Fidel Castro speak to the Cuban working people to realize the depth of the Cuban revolu- tion and to grasp the oneness of the leadership and the masses. The other night the Cuban prime minister received the | Lenin peace prize. The auditorium of the Confederation of| avith the conga and rhumba beat. (One of them, made up as they | go along, goes: “Whoever doesn’t like socialism should take a laxativet’) The Turkish poet, Nazim Hikmet, and Cuba’s national poet, | Wicholas Guillen, were on the platform, with the ambassadors | of the socialist states, trade union and Communist leaders, officials of the peace and independence council, and with Fidel, President Dorticos and Foreign Minister Roa. While Fidel was backstage, this writer met him and con- veyed to him congratulations on receiving the peace prize and erats. Fidel is a big man, physically and politically, with a frank, open face, a warm smile and a hearty handgrasp. But it was when he spoke to the crowd, and simultaneously | to a television and world-wide radio audience, that Fidel sym- bolized the new Cuba. He is at once a teacher and the practical political leader: He stood at soldierly attention, in. his com- «andante- uniform, and slowly and deliberately explained that the armed popular defence of Cuba is part of the cause of world ‘peace, Who fights imperialism fights for peace, said Fidel. The wout of the invaders of April 17 was a blow for world peace. | The Cuban people, armed and vigilant, the 100,000 Committees | of Revolutionary Defence, the militiamen and militiawomen, the children. in the.new schools, the 100,000: voluntary teachers who are liquidating illiteracy in 1961, the workers in their factories and the campesinos in their fields — are fighting for peace. : Victory for the invaders would-have been-a victory for war. a * * OINT by point, step by step, Fidel:explained-to the amazing- ly politically conscious Cuban peopte (a gay but studious and reading people) that the cause of lasting peace meant the ending of the exploitation of man by man. Time and again this idea was hammered on in his speech, the end-of exploitation, mational and class discrimination. It waS easy to see how this plain man, who goes among the people every day, who talks and argues with them, is the sym- bol of Cuban democracy, and now of the building of socialism on this island. Behind the speech was fine and noble thought, a@ carefully-chosen political message and that very_essence of popular leadership — variations on-a single great theme. # * * of the “mercenarios”’, the invader-prisoners, should be sent to the U.S.A. to negotiate the exchange of prisoners for gractors. The crowd threw in suggestions and the cry of “Molina!” went up, the demand that Francisco Molina, a Cuban hheid in a U.S. prison, be exchanged- for a prisoner here. Fidel took up the point, and, later, in his eloquent, masterly message fo Kennedy offering to exchange “mercenarios” for Henry 4Vinston and Pete Seeger, Molina’s name appeared. ES Farge was the speech in which he proposed that a committee _ Long after midnight the tireless audience called on their prime minister to continue te speak. ' His voice was hoarse and he was obviously -tired. The Cubans affectionately call him “the horse” because of the enor- mous load he bears, _. Elan, courage, determination, imagination, enormous con- fidence, leaping political consciousness, pride and hard work — these qualities, which are transforming Cuba, are those of the marveltously talented leadership, typified by Fidel Castro. Che Guevara, Raoul Castro, and their companions, only 12 in all, who. landed in Eastern. Cuba so -very short a time ago, and whose inspiration, which came from the people and returns to FINANCIAL POST SAYS "Chinese many Canadian products Hard selling Canadian business men, with inventories piling up in the! e « = . * i i . « . Cuban Trade ‘Unions was jammed with a singing, dancing) houses, are regarding the recent Canadian-Chinese wheat deal as the forel crowd, who constantly chanted their witty, pungent mass songs |trade with China running into the $200 million a year bracket. The Financial Post, May 27; edition, says: “Want to do business with China? There is | plenty of potential profit in it. Besides buying great quan- tities of our wheat, the Chi nese are in the market for many other Canadian prod- ucts.” : Among the numerous items | the Chinese are interested in, says the F.P., are wood pulp, forestry equipment, paper products, industrial chemicals and fertilizers, mining, con- struction and agricultural ma- chinery, metals including stee} and copper. A glance at these products, many of which B.C. can pro- vide in vast quantities, shows what expanded trade could mean to B.C. industrial activ- ity. To emphasize the range of the possibilities, the F.P. ar- ticle points out the likeiihood that China will move ahead of West Germany next year as a Canadian buyer and come close to Japan, Canada’s. third best customer. These developments lend added emphasis to the pro- posal that the BC. govern- ment establish a permanent trading mission in Peking put ‘forth by the recent conven- tion of the B.C. Communist Party. Borrowing from the exper- iences of Canadian firms do- ing business with China the F.P. article makes a number of suggestions on how to smooth the way for deals with China. The glaring weak- ness in their approach is seen in its insistence in dealing in terms of relations between individual companies and the Chinese market. The estab- lishment of a. trade mission, as proposed by the Commun- ists would resolve most of the technical problems raised by C. Knowlton Nash, who writes from Hong Kong for the F.P. Here are the highlights of the F.P, estimation: Of the 75 per. cent of China’s trade out- side the Socialist block, Cana- da has well over half. Active: them, has transformed this island. % * * t AST night I saw a film, “A Cuban Album’’, made by Roman Karmen, a gifted Soviet cameraman. More than a million words could, it tells Cuba’s story. Canadians should demand it be shown, in every town and city. 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