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IN artistic

Tiiisers was produced and
Brita, €d by Carl Foremanin
eer he moved nearly
the ee? to get away from
bis an rthyite restrictions of
films ae U.S.A, His earlier
ot ; €e from High Noon to
3 Navarone.
Are tors summarizes
an participation in World
© up to 1946, when the

Cold
etemiog. sn changed allies into
aSsisteq d enemies into allies,

by German opportunism.

bai
5 et documentary real-
€rscored by contempor-

Ne 3
Bee clips) leaves little

: aid
: By, Out war’s brutality and
mi

a8 forgetting that for
’ is a time of super-

= ent founterposed to the in-

W ;
Ba armth of human con-

in terms of war’s effect

an personalit i
» without
Sequences, a

um,

Alth
ugh the story centres

3 Phelan oe U.S. platoon through

4 Italy, France and Ger-
Q ee mostly the same
S, The Victors is really

€S of short stories,

Th
Oe a Pisodic treatment is at
Althoup,  ensth and a weakness.
Wamatic veakening the total
larger s effect, it allows much
ih ty, -YeT@e; while, truthfui
the al Context, it underscores
Wap , cutless impersonality of
Nop Pity ch can neither pause for
any human desire.

' Altho
Ngh the prevalent mood

is the onl ;
: y refuge in an
EF @
“Wlonay orld. The film is de-

War condemned

style

is grim, as any truthful treatise
on war must be, there is humor
and other variations of mood
and thought. Some _ incidents
seem rather too neat, like Romy
Schneider’s total change of char-
acter from dispirited sweet little
musician to unfeeling whore. A
certain undefinable air of pat un-
‘reality also clings to Melina
Mercouri’s black marketeer, al-
though the lessons taught are
indispensable. (However, the
fault may lie in cuts by North
American distributors.)

Surely, too, we could have been
spared the sentimentality of
‘There’ll Always Be an England’
on the sound track, after akindly
act by an English family.

Most ofthe film gives penetrat-

ing glimpses of the struggle for
life in the midst of the struggle
for death, the more truthful for
their oblique approach,

The locations in Britain, Italy
and Sweden are uniformly con-
vincing. So also, for the most

' part, are the performances Fore-

man draws from his internation-
al cast; although most are with
us only long enough to give im-
pressions rather than character-
izations, ‘

Taken as a whole and particu-
larly in its brilliant conclusion,
Carl Foreman’s The Victorsis an
incisive summary of World War
Two on the western fronts, atotal
condemnation of war — and a
warning of the evil danger of

another.
—N.E. Story

Seo Fight

John
with ae Chase, B.C. writes;
Ska
c
Come Gynt? will, no doubt,
the yy, °TY kind of alibi from
this °-'P. leaders as to. why
Mange att: about,
Nate Boe Way from the gang-
the apath the old-line parties to
Y of the electorate.

N

to “ertheless , [believe we have
Gen | S far deeper - and mud-
atte, aters for the truth of the
Chewan It is not just in Saskat-
the det but across Canada that
hag, “Tloration of the N.D.P

Bread, .D.P.

Pu in; :
Wite in its Simplest terms, and
Cause Ones, too, it is be-
* tight + Party has just refused
that ay the very real struggles
Ying People of Canada are

creasing numbers.

a
Bowe the position in our own

©. Right now there is

c
a Massett affair.

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defeat of the N.D.P. in

These will

Thousands of shipyard and civic
workers at the same time are
out scrapping to maintian decent
living standards for themselves,
their families, and, really, for
all of us, Have the N.D.P. lead-
ership made any kind of effort
to swing their organization in
support? Any of the M.L.A’s on
the- picket line? With, possibly,
one or two honorable exceptions,
have any of the N.D.P. leaders
shown the slightest interest in the
plight of the Haida Indians on the
Queen Charlotte Islands? ~

And it’s been going on a long
time, this indifference - and
worse. It stretches all the way
from Allied Engineering to Ka~
puskasing and back again to
B.C. Telephone.

And what are the provincial
leaders up to now? They’re go-
ing on a speaking tour to try and
whip up support for their party!
Far better they roll up their
sleeves and pitch in with Jack
Phillips, the Homer Stevens and
the William Stewarts, then they
won’t need to go on any speaking
junket - or have time for it
either!

Some time ago several of us
entered into a discussion in your
excellent paper on ‘‘Whither the
N.D.P.’’ I don’t think any of us
like taking over and whether the
N.D.P. like it or not the people
are saying ‘put up or shut up’!

One thing is certain, either this
party will take up the increas-
ingly widespread struggles ofthe
people as their own cause or
other ways and forms will be
found for achieving progress.

or many years doctors and
[> scientists have suspected
that at least some forms of human
cancer were caused by viruses.
It has been long been known that
certain animal and bird tumors
were virus-induced and it was
therefore a reasonable specula-
tion that some human tumors
were too, And so the scientists

began looking...

Using the special techniques of
immunology scientists can. de-
monstrate that viruses of a par-

_ ticular sort are present in the
body, and even more important
“they can prepare vaccines that
stilulate the body’s protective
mechanism to enable it to ward
off an attack by that virus.

This is true of the polio virus

against which most of us arenow _

fairly completely immunized. ©

* * *

it is hardly surprising that
the public and research workers
alike would hope that one day
similar protection might be pro-
vided against at least some forms
of cancer. Over the years agreat
deal has been learned about some
of the causes of some forms of.
cancer and the starting point of
the discovery was in many cases,
the recognition of a common fac-
tor in the environment of many
of the people who were suffering
from the same sort of cancer.

Men in the shale oil and tar
industries were found often to be

suffering from skin cancer and
eventually chemists were able
to isolate from coal tar, pure
chemical substances that when
painted in minute amounts on the
“skin of mice could in a short
time produce malignant skin can-
cers. j
ok * *

Among men_ suffering from
bladder cancer, many had been
employed in the chemical or
rubber industry, where they had
come into contact with one par-
ticular chemical, beta - naph-
thlyamine, since shown to be the
causative agent.

Leukemia - a malignant blood
disease - was found to be unex-
pectedly frequent among the sur-
vivors of the atom bomb attack
on Hiroshima, and subsequently
it has been shown that radiation
can stimulate changes inthe bone
marrow that lead to leukemia.

A common environment factor

was discovered not-very long ago-:
-among speople who-died of lung ~

cancer. Most of them had been
heavy smokers, — :

In all of these examples, itwas
the men who made the statistical
examination of the cancer death
rates who were able to say:
“There is something specific
among this group of people. Go
and find it!’’ :

At the present time these
specialist statisticians, or epi-
demiologists, are active all over
the world, probing for indications
of unusual frequency of one or
other form of cancer in a given
area that might lead to the un-
covering of yet another causative
agent.

One such study is being made
in parts of Africa, where children
die of a disease known as malig-
nant lymphoma of the jaw. This
terrible disease appears to be
restricted within a definite geo-
graphical region of central and
east Africa, where the tempera-
ture never falls below 60degrees
and the rainfall .is more than 20
inches each year.

These curious limitations turn
out to be the conditions under
which the tsetse fly and certain
mosquito-like insects thrive, and
so scientists are searching for
an insect borne virus asthe agent
responsible for African lympho-

ma. “So far they have not been
successful; >. fone

There is much in the nature of
leukemia that suggests that it,
too, might involve virus infec-
tion. It is not surprising, there-.
fore, to find that many scientific
institutes in many countries have
been studying the blood, tissues
and bone marrow of leukemia
patients, looking for evidence of |
viruses...

For two or three years now
there have been reports of ‘‘vi-
rus - like’’ particles seen by el-
ectron microscoposts in human
leukemia cells, but these high
magnification pictures could give.
no indication of the function of
these particles.

Now a team of British
scientists has succeeded in ac-
tually isolating a virus from the ©
bone marrow of leukemic pa-

‘tients ..

This represents a great step
forward in solving the problem
of the relationship between virus-
es and human cancer, but it is
unfortunately still a long way
from the final answer.

The authors themselves are
very careful to state that they
do not on the present evidence
assume that the virus causes leu-
kemia, but now that the techni-
ques have been worked out we
may expect more evidence to ac-
cululate about this virus, and per-
haps other viruses will be found
in association with other forms of
cancer,

- —Dr. Walter Davis
Br. Daily Worker) +

CALEDONIA

By an enthusiast

Land of chivalry and freedom
Land of old traditional fame;
May thy noble sons and daughters
Long uphold thy honored name.

Land where foreign foe ne’er ventured
Land where tyrant never trod;

Land whose sons are ever foremost
Treading nobly life’s high road.

Land where rest in silent slumber
_ Ashes of our honored sires;
May their mem’ries long be cherished
Round our humble cottage fires.

Land of simple-hearted kindness

Land of patriotic worth;

May your virtues ever flourish
Hardy clansmen of the north.

By a critic

Land of ancient, bloody tyrants

t
Land of bibles, kirks, and bastards
Land of lasses fearfu’ frail;

Land of prayers and strong raw whiskey
Churches, shebeens, cant and kail,

Sneaking traitors, deep and sly;
Land of thieving heilant deevils
Kilted rogues and stolen kye.

Land of canny, carefu’ bodies
Foes to all ungodly fun;

Those who sum up man’s whole duty
Heaven, hell and number one.

Land of droning psalms and sermons
Pawky wut and snuffy bores;

Famous chiels, sae fond of country

That they leave

it just in scores.
—Anonymous

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