Bohemia. Czechoslovakia,
| be

12 hours

he public in Vancouver will
have an opportunity to meet
‘authors of a recent book on
W@ Rosenberg trial which has
"aused a sensation in the United
ates, and on the strength of
' ich a new appeal for Morton
ll is being launched.

Walter and Miriam Schneir
as New York City, who wrote
Will be at the Co-op Bookstore,
he W. Pender St,, on Friday,
Sctober 29th, between 7 and 9
Pam, The public will have a
Re ce to meet the distinguised
| “Uple who will autography copies
_ “\ their new book,

wt their book the Schneirs say:

Not Only were Julius and Ethel
an 'Senberg—and Morton Sobell—
4 putty convicted, they were
Wished ‘for a crime that never
Ccurred,*

Commenting on this statement
ee g :

Learn while you sleep

Hy roca means learning something while,you sleep—
something all students dream of, Psyghologists in
«Various countries have been experimenting with it fagyears

and now what is believed to be the first radio course in the
world using this method is about to be broadcast for resi-
dents of the industrial city of Usti nad Labem in North

This first, experimental course will be transmitted
by wired. or closed-circuit. radio which is very widespread
-in Czechoslovakia, supplying news and static-free music
round the clock to subscribers. Some 70,000 homes and
Offices in the Usti listening area have this facility (usually
in addition to regular wireless sets),

The course will consist of ten lessons in basic English,

~ and will last five months, Languages, it seems, lend them-
Selves best to learning while you sleep, Each lesson runs

MIRIAM AND WALTER SCHNEIR, authors of Invitation to an Inquest,
_ Will be at the Co-op Bookstore Friday, October 29.

Authors of book on
Rosenbergs coming

© book Invitation to an Inquest,

editorially, the Washington, D.C,
Evening Star said recently:

«That firm statement is not an
idle claim nor is it made emo-
tionally or without full apprecia-
tion of its significance, Schneir,
whose writing has appeared in
various national publications, in-
cluding The Nation and The Re-
porter, and his wife have devoted
five years’ to investigating the
Rosenberg-Sobell case,

*There is no doubt that the
Schneirs make an impressive
case even down to their seeming-
ly fantastic, final conclusion,
There is also no doubt that their
case is subject to rebuttal, for
it is the beginning of a hoped-for
dialogue, and not the last word.
They do not claim otherwise.

®Fven if one discards all but
their mildest—and most likely—
contention, it seems to the lay-
man that they have assembled
sufficient evidence to warrant a
reopening of the case.”

You are invited to

MEET THE AUTHORS

“Invitation To An Inquest’

Walter and Miriam Schneir
of New York City, U.S.A.

at an
Autographing Reception
Friday, Cctober 29th, 7 - 9 p.m.

at the

CO-OP BOOK STORE

! [41 West Pender St.,

Phone MU 5-5836

Author probes Quebec’s
‘not-so-quiet revolution’

QUEBEC, THE NOT-SO-QUIET
REVOLUTION, by Thomas Sloan.
Published by the Ryerson Press,
Toronto, 1965. 121 pages, paper-
back. Availabie at Co-op Bookstore,
341 W. Pender St., Vancouver.
$3.50.

T° English-speaking Canad-
ians who want more infor-
mation on the problems of Con-
federation, this book can be of
great help,

Thomas Sloan is obviously well
versed in Quebec affairs and
well-acquainted with the politics
of that fascinating region,

He does not write as aneutral,
but.as one who is seeking. an
answer to the question of how to
maintain the Canadian entity
while preserving it as a dudfity.
What he calls for is *a new
synthesis of people and a new
chapter of federalism.”

Canada” he writes, *is faced
by both a problem and an oppor-
tunity, We can no longer expect
to return to the old Canada,
whatever happens.”

The book is brief but not super-
ficial, It is by an author who
has mastered the art of pre-
senting current historical prob-
lems in a popular, journalistic
fashion. If he doesn’t give all
the answers, he at least puts
finger on the key problems and
helps the reader to search in-
telligently for those answers,

The scope of the book can be
visualized by the chapter head-
ings: Politics, Religion, Econ-
omy, Persons, Separatism, Na-
tionalism and Confederation,

After reading the book, you will
have a much better grasp of the
political and economic realities

of French Canada, Your review-
er was particularly impressed
with the description of how the
Quebec state has been compelled
to nationalize hydro resources
and play a much greater role in
guiding the economy as a whole,

With a proponderance of for-
eign ownership and a crying need
for secondary manufacturing and
a modernization of the educa-
tional system, the state is com-
pelled to intervene more aggres-
sively in the direction of the
economy and social life,

It is the opinion of your re-
viewer that the state will have to
go much further in the direction
of nationalization then is indi-
cated by Sloan’s book,

' The sketches of leading polit-
ical personalities in Quebec and
the analysis of the role of the
different parties and the separa-
tist movements are most enlight-
ening,

Sloan poses two, main prob-
lems, Firstly, the relations be-
tween English and French Can-
adians, Secondly, the relations
between English and French Can-
ada, In the first case, he points
out how the English-speaking
minority in Quebec enjoys min-
ority rights which are denied to
substantial French minorities in
New Brunswick, Ontario and
Manitoba,

Secondly he points out that if
the French Canadian minorities
in regions outside of Quebec
were given the same rights as the
English-speaking minority in
Quebec, the problem of relations
between Quebec and the rest of
Canada would be easier to solve,

Sloan makes it quite clear that
the British North America Act
was a marriage of convenience,

Hollywood speaks up

n interesting change has been

taking place in the movie
colony during the past period of
time, There isa revival of liberal,
thinking and action on the part
of the stars, an aspect of movie
life that was effectively quashed
during the McCarthy and the Un-
American Activities Committee
era when the Hollywood Ten and
countless other film personali-
ties were quickly blacklisted for
daring to be outspoken in support
of what were considered to be
radical causes,

Counter to this there is also a
greater marshalling of forces
among the undemocratic element,
though these were always more
outspoken and vociferous in the
atmosphere of cold war and the
backing of the state department,

Now, however, with the war in
Vietnam and the stresses and
strains of the civil liberties
struggles of the American Ne-
groes, many top-line stars who
formerly backed away from any
sort of political identification,
are not only openly proclaiming
their views but are allowing their
names to be used in specific
political issues, And whatis most
heartening, the overwhelming
majority of the most politically
active stars are lending their
support to liberal causes,

A very fine example of this
activity was the full-page adver-
tisement on behalf of people in

the arts bearing the names of
700 people in the New York area
against the war in Vietnam, These
were backed by another 200
names from Hollywood. And more
recently still was the party tossed
on behalf of the militant civil
rights group called the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Com-
mittee,

A most surprising number of
prominent Hollywood luminaries
turned out to this fund-raising
affair. Invitations to the party
were signed by Harry Belafonte,
Mr. and Mrs, Richard Burton,
Mr, and Mrs, Burt Lancaster,
Mr, and Mrs, Paul Newman, Mike
Nichols and Sidney Poitier,
Among the invited guests were
Lauren Bacall, Lee Marvin, Tony
Bennett, James Garner, Stanley
Kramer, Nancy Wilson, Abby
Mann and many others,

The conservative element,
however, is also busy, One ofthe
most outspoken supporters of
U.S, policies in Vietnam is Bob
Hope, followed by Raymond Burr,
star of the Perry Mason tele-
vision show, who has visited
Vietnam four times recently and
is now embarked on a heavy
speaking tour to marshal public
support for an intensified war
against the National Liberation
Front, Others among the con-
servative element are John
Wayne, Ginger Rogers, Mary
Pickford, Alice Faye, Irene
Dunne, George Murphy, Ronald
Regan and George Jessel,

not love, and has been left behind
by history,

When you read this book you
realize that there is a new, lib-
eral wing in the Catholic Church
which is playing an important
role in the Quebec renaissance.

Also, that there is a new wave

of nationalists, including Social-
ist-minded people, who find their
inspiration in the re-awakening
,of oppressed nationalities in
Africa and Asia, because, as
Sloan writes ‘many sensitive
French Canadians do consider
themselves an oppressed peo-
ple.”

At one point, in discussing
nationalism, Sloan falsely
equates nazism, facism and Stal-
inism, However, this flaw does
not detract from the generally
postive approach to the prob-
lems under review,

—Jack Phillips

Herald-Examiner, Los Ange!-
Under new management

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FOR A NEW PACT
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WHAT IS EQUALITY
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CANADIAN COMMUNISTS -
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ECONOMIC PROBLEMS 2
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