vay “Peace can be saved .. . Do not feel hopeless, the power is yours.” GUIDE TO GOOD READING © Who are plotters against peace? Ivor Montagu writes indictment SPEND one dollar on a book that has just been published. Your ' life may depend on it. The book is called Plot Against Peace.* It is written by Ivor Montagu. ; It is no ordinary book. For it exposes a plot against you and all of us. : The author quotes on his title’ page the words of Nazim Hikmet, the progressive Turkish poet: To be duped or not to be duped That is the question. If you are not duped you will live. If you are duped you will not._ Montagu presents the case for peace. : 3 That case is overwhelming. But this ‘merit alone is not enough. It is enough when a sufficient number of people know the case and are determined that it shall not go by default. You may think that nobody wants war. But there are some people who do. : They are the exceptions, but they are powerful. vast resources and great armies. They own most of the sources of information and the Americas. They sway the minds of mil- | lions of innocent, honest peaceful people. Such innocent people can | be duped into war—as they have | - been in the past, and in spite of all the lessons.of that past. But ‘also they can be won ‘for peace. : Indeed, they must be won. Ther must defend their lives against the plotters. The plotters against peace are the present rulers of the US., their generals and their henchmen in U.S. satellite governments. Montague has drawn up*his in- dictment on materials that cannot be disputed. For every count he has evidence taken from thé plot- _ ters themselves. . a He quotes Dulles, who wants an_ end to “containment” and would “set up stresses and strains” to “mark the beginning of the end” of the Soviet Union. He quotes (Eisenhower, ‘who wants to “haunt the Kremlin with nightmares of punishment. . . .” Indeed, as he says: “Hitler him- self, in Mein Kampf, was not plain- er about his plans.” : _ And in the true Hitler manner, the Wall Street trusts rule the _ United States by force and fraud _and terror—as they are bound to do if they wish to preserve the They control . in Western Europe - { PERT TUT HTu t STANTON, MUNRO & DEAN U.S. as the world’s greatest war base. : ¥ * * MONTAGUE GIVES the facts: + How the trusts have killed free speech. How they run Con- gress. How they control the elec- tions. + How big business is now identical with war business. How opponents are intimidated, or per- secuted if they can’t be intimi- dated. + How lawyers who Communists are jailed — for de- fending Communists. y + How spies riddle the whole fabric of American society. How “scientists” preach that war, fam- ine and pestilence are a blessing. + How corruption of the young is widespread. How atomic de- struction and bacterial warfare are exalted. + How political murder is preached. How GIl’s are condi- tioned to despise humanity. i Added to force, fraud and ter- ror is THE LIE. Montagu ex- poses among other lies: + The lie that the Russians are using all their resources to build a war machine. ° + The lie that Russia has the biggest armed forces. + The lie that Russia refuses to agree to arms and atomic con- trol. + The lie that the “Western” states fear Russion aggression. + The lie that Russia stirs up trouble alk over the world. + The lie that Russia runs slave camps. Then he gives facts — taken - from pro-American sources — of. the U.S. spy organisations whosé members are sent into the Soviet Union and the People’s Democ- racies, such as Czechoslovakia. Of course, the U.S! State De- partment and British Foreign Of- fice disown their agents when found out. But, as Montagu says: “A very different tale is told | to Congressional committees on _ expenditure when the administra- tion is seeking secret funds. .. . It may well be wondered what the administration spends them on, if all its agents are innocent or how it happens that the .. . Kremlin always catches the wrong people.” He gives the facts about. the Mutual Security Act (under which $300 million is set aside to finance spies and saboteurs inside the Soy- iet Union and the People’s Demo- cracies). i : There is much more: defend — + The breaking ‘by the “West- ern” powers of their solemn ‘treat- ies with the Soviet Union. ithe: 2S: organisation of Western Germany for war — with Nazis, assassins, anti-Semites and the rest of the Hitler rabble that escaped after the Second World War. f ‘ + The fixing of the U.S. auto- matic majority (although a minor- ity in total populations) in the United Nations. He tells the full story of “the Trial Run” in Korea: 4 _ ‘How the U.S. organised the war in Korea. How it induced its servile majority in the UN to put the blame upon the Koreans—and how the U.S. State Department committed forgery in the process. He tells of: : The unspeakable atrocities per- petrated by the napalmite Ameri- cans in Korea; The murder and torture by the Americans of prisoners and the » sabotaging of the truce talks, . And remember, Montagu bases his frightful story of American Savagery and perfidy entirely upon sources friendly to the U.S. : 1k. * * YOU MAY say: If the facts are available to Montagu they must be known also to the Canadian poli- ticians who support the Americans in Korea and elsewhere. So they are. : These Canadian politicians have permitted the United States to quarter her troops here and have placed them above the law. They are threatening to wreck Canada’s economy by rendering it dependent on the U.S. F ‘As Montagu says: “The need of the hour is people to say ‘No’ to what they know is wrong, ‘Yes’ to what is right,” ‘He points out that “the heart ‘ of +. . all true patriotism .. . lies in the working-class movement. And he quotes resolution after resolution passed by trade unions and Labor parties against pro-Am- erican policies and in favor of peaceful settlements. He expounds the program of the World Peace ‘Movement, the core of which is summed up in the Ap- peal for the Congress of Peoples for Peace. ee “Men and women of all views and faiths, come together, will for peace Peace must b saved.” ; ‘He speaks directly to the indi- vidual: “Do not feel hopeless, the ‘power is yours.” : : Your must be expressed, Saved. Peace can be a _ Barristers - Solicitors - Notaries = SUITE 515 we FORD BUILDING (Corner Main & Hastings Sts.) MARINE 5746 198 BE. HASTINGS aT : pees UCC EMM ere ir tit itt Tt Tit ie 337 West é __ Buy this book. See that others buy it too. ~ * “Plot Against Peace,” by Ivor Montagu (Lawrence and Wishart) Pe =People’s Cooperative Bookstore, Pender Street. ~~» Obtainable in Vancouver at the | - directed by Ida Lupino, WHAT’S ON THE SCREEN Now Hollywood is trying | HAVING RUN through all the better-known gun-makers in their search for a hero not likely to be blacklisted by the American Leg- ion, or to bring the director be- fore the UnAmerican Activities Committee, Hollywood has now got down to knives. The Iron Mistress has ds its central figure Jim Bowrie, invent- or of the ‘knife that bears his name. To immortalise him Alan Ladd has to do a,good deal of, gambling and fighting in mushy, Technicolor. : ok, * * DAPHNE.DU MAURIER’S My Cousin Rachel, is a skilful piece of best-selling fiction turned into an acting vehicle for Olivia de Havilland. Rachel is the charming young ‘widow of an Englishman who has died mysteriously abroad, Is she ~as charming as she seems, or a deep’ and wicked schemer? The dead man’s cousin can’t be sure. ‘Olivia de Havilland gets every- thing there is out of this neatly directed period piece. * * * HERE'S A FILM that really makes racket an ambiguous word, Hard, Fast and Beautiful was who seems to have given up film act- ing for film making. . - This film has its share of icliches—a sick father, an unhappy love affair—but it has something extra, too. A girl has a meteoric rise to fame—as a tennis player—this is the least convincing part of the film—and then the cheques start to roll in, j Play here, play there, stay at this hotel, wear this dress, use that shampoo. There is a per- centage in publicity for amateur to achieve it with knives as well as professional. The young girl is played off her feet on the merry-go-round, and this so-call- ed amateur sport is shown to be not so simon-pure, Claire Trevor and Sally Forest play the hard, pushing mother and — _ the girl who started by thinking . that tennis was just a game. *x * * IT TAKES director Curtis Bernhardt the worst part of two hours of The Blue Veil to follow the genteel fortunes of Jane WY. ~ man from the time she loses het own baby and takes to nursing other. people’s through a longs blameless career of nannydom marred only by the obstinate stu- — pidity with which she refuses of — fers of marriage. Every situation in which Miss Wyman’s sweet, gentle, simple ton’s smile can be exploited is duly trotted out and every age of infancy from birth to confirma tion class squeezed for sentiment. — In the end the film persuades us that nannies lead pathetic lives. But it fails to persuade us that they need to be nannies. The film’s compensation i8 — ’ Cyril Cusack, the irascible Irish toyshop proprietor who cheerfully insults his rich patrons and re7 — fuses to sell war toys. * * *. / WITH science-fiction. now it- vading the movies, for better °F worse, The Thing From Another World has everybody shouting and screaming when a flying sauce! ‘turns up at the North Pole with — an unwelcome visitor—a vegetable in human form. Al the} characters in the film complain that the vegetable i5 more intelligent than they are. But this is not a difficult mental feat for an overgrown carrot. — Please enter my subscripti CHEQUE iw - P.O. O PAGEANT "Voice of Champion’ FRIDAY, : February 27 8 p.m. PENDER AUDITORIUM . —————— n to CHAMPION for one year for which I enclose the sum of one dollar. O CASH (1 sees ’ Name: : Send to CHAMPION, Room 200, Ford Building ss | Vancouver A, BiG? ae — PACIFIC TRIBUNE — FEBRUARY 6, 1953 — PAGE 8 ee oe