Sons of Freedom children
teleased from New Denver

After more than five long years, children of Sons of ‘Freedom Doukhobors have
heen released from New Denver school and reunited with their parents. Release of the
4 children was ordered by Stipendiary Magistrate William Evans after the parents
had promised that the children would be sent to public schools in September.

RCMP. raids, in which chil-
dren were seized and shipped
to New Denver for failure to
aitend public schools, began
in September, 1953, and have
continued since then.

sons of Freedom Doukho-
bors are pacifists, and object
fo the “glorification of war”
in the teaching of history in
| public schools. They have con-
slantly emphasized that they

| Mate schools of their own.

children to their parents.

when the new term begins.

-ttemselves.

_/%m sect made plans to move

and federal governments
mi the proposed exodus was
iponed.

WP not object to education as
= and have on several oc-
asions offered to open and op-

The Pacific Tribune visited
festova (the chief Freedomite
t ment) and examined the
blem, then in a series of
icles called for an end to
the Socred government's “big
slick’ policy and the return. of

Attorney - General Robert
Bonner announced that the
New Denver school (termed a
“concentration camp” by the

domites) will be kept in
teadiness for use again should
te Doukhobor parents fail to
¢ “nd their children to school

‘A committee set up to. study
the Doukhobor problem some
Years ago recommended a
More liberal approach to the
- “thool problem, and some
Members felt that . teachers
~ Mould be drawn from the
; tanks of the © Doukhobors

Last year the Sons of Free- }

he Soviet Union, but failed | THESE SONS of Freedom children have been released
}/#reach terms with the prov- | from New Denver and returned to their homes, on a prom-

Heo by the parents that the children would attend public
school when the September term begins.

HF Room ; At The» Top (Studio)
1a devastatingly frank film—
‘its theme, in its handling of

cter, in its langauge.
ere is a film that is not
faid to. call a spade a spade.
lattilines: “English as. she is

and..expect in. daily life),

‘set in the town..of
ey.’ ‘This..could..be. any.
hire industrial town but

d of the pussyfooting. so.
m+ to cinematic  philis-

rank English film portrays
roblems of a ‘social climber

is actually Bradford.

A.young man named Joe
Lampton (Laurence Harvey)—
“working class and proud of
it”—arrives in Warnley to be-
gin a,new job. But he is am-
bitious and soon sets his heart

ke,’ the words that we.ac-1on,the town’s. richest little

heiress. Unfortunately, for Joe’s
peace, of mind, he impractic-
ally falls. in love with the sen-
sitive and maturé Alice Aisgill
profoundly and movingly por-
trayed by Simone Signoret.

penetrating ..examination _ of

character put a devastating

What deveiops is. not. only. al’ Strongly recommended.

‘came as no surprise to close

winner of the _ steeplechase,
was interviewed for a TV

he was asked not about his

World) the recent track meet
between the U.S. and. the
USSR -in Philadelphia was a
dopester’s dream.

Almost everyone ran true to
form.

Sports Illustrated, for ex-
ample predicted the U.S. would
win the men’s meet 132-104.
The actual margin was 127 to
108.

SI came even closer in the
women‘s meet. It predicted the
USSR would win 66-41. The
actual.count was 67-40.

Strict adherence to form is
not, however, a very exciting |
ingredient from the spectator’s |
point of view. Neither the
crowd at the stadium nor the
television audience saw many
close contests between athletes
from the two nations.

The U.S. dominated the
events it was supposed to dom-
inate -and the Soviets won the
ones. they were supposed to.
There were a couple of mild
upsets—in the hammer throw,
for example—but even these

students of the sport.

From the broader viewpoint
of cultural exchange, however,
the meet must be adjudged a
success. Relations among the
athletes were mosi cordial and
the U.S. as a whole was given
a gracious .and- friendly im-
pression of the Russian
athletes.

One cannot help but wonder
what the Russians really
thought of some of the things
that happened to them.

There were, for example, the
types of questions asked them
by U.S. reporters, radio and
TV people.

When Semyon Rzhishchin,

audience just after his victory,

SPORTLIGHT

ROM .a . strictly athletic|
point of view writes!
Steve Murdocx in People’s|

amazing endurance but what
he thought about U.S. women.
(He indicated politely the re-
lative attributes of women are
not determined by nationality).

Robert Shavlakadze, the
high jump winner, was asked
not ‘about high jumping tech-
nique but why he wore a mus=
tache. (He’s a Georgian. All
Georgian men __ traditionally
wear mustaches).

Jimmy Cannon, the New
York sports writer, wrote with
some puzzlement after the
meet that Igor Ter-Ovanesyan,
the Soviet broadjumper and
decathlon man, “appeared to be
entertained by the questions I
asked.”

Sample question: “Why are

you a track and field athlete?”
* * *

The women’s phase of the
meet was either ignored or
ridiculed by U.S. press, most
of the TV and radio.

_ Newsapers were full of snide
stories about the heftiness of

discus throwers. Soviet coach-
es were criticized, as they were
in Moscow last year, by the
U.S. press for their desire to
combine the scores of the
men’s and women’s meets into
a single total. This is done
often in Europe, but not in the
U.S., where women’s track is
strictly a stepchild sport —
frowned on in the _ public
school system and scorned by
sportswriters.

The TV coverage practically
ignored the women’s phase of
the competition. There was just
one. shot of the woman’s shoi-
put competition, and that was
almost in passing.

* * *

The Poor Man’s Stock Mar-
ket closed at Lansdowne this
week, and the racing scene
shifts to Exhibition Park,
where Randall’s Outdoor Rou-
lette will operate until Septem-

ber 14,

commentary on opportunism—
as Joe’s social climbing clashes
with, class. snobhery, the rem=-
nants.ofhis.prineiples.and the:
dictates of his heart.

Directed by. Jack. Clayton

(who earlier gave us The Be-
spoke Overcoat),.ROom,At The}
“Top stops -just-short of- real:
greatness.

» Nevertheless, {t: is, a: deeply!
affecting film which (so rarely
for the English-speaking cin-
ema), does not pull its punches.

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