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Allen W, Dulles, an old hand
at intrigue, was chief of the CIA,
when this conspiracy was pro-
posed,

According to the Johnson book,
in April, 1961, on the eve of the
invasion, Olivia and San Roman
were ordered to a secret parley
at Base Trax, a CIA training
base for the invasion, in Gaute-
mala, At this meeting, they were
briefed by a CIA agent, whom the
two Cuban renegades knew only
as **Frank,’’

This ‘‘Frank’’ told them that
there were people in the Kennedy
administration who were aiming
at calling off the Cuban invasion,
He claimed that he, ‘*‘Frank,’’
might be ordered to cancel the
invasion attempt,

‘Frank’? then told San Roman ~

and Olivia that he would let them
know at once secretly if he re-
ceived such orders from Wash-
ington. Then, the Johnson book
reports San Roman as recalling
*«Fyank’s instructions thus:

‘If this happens you come here
and make some kind of show, as

if you were putting us, the ad-

visers, in prison, and you go
ahead with the program as we
have talked about it, and we will
give you the whole plan, even
if we are your prisoners,”’

As San Roman recalled it,

**Frank’’ gave explicit instruc-
tions as to how to proceed, detail-

CIA was ready to defy
Kennedy on Bay of Pigs

ing an armed guard to each
American’s door, halting com-
nunications with the outside
world, until he gave the orders
for leaving for the advance base
for the invasion,

When the Cuban renegades as-
ked ‘‘Frank’* who were those
opposed to the invasion, he was
vague, calling them ‘forces in
the administration,’’ or ‘‘politi-
cians,’’ or ‘‘chiefs above.”’

*¢F rank’? gave the Cuban rene-
gades the shock of their lives
when he declared that if the
Kennedy administration gave him
the order to cancel the invasion,
*‘T have also orders from my
bosses, my commanders, tocon-
tinue anyway.”

Johnson declares in his book
that the Cuban chiefs of the in-
vasion attempt ‘‘never doubted
that he (**Frank’’) was speaking
for his superiors,”’

Allen Dulles

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Toronto Shevchenko Male Chorus
and Mandolin Orchestra one of
the most important cultural pro-
jects in the history of our or-
ganization, os

“It is our sincere desire that

this tour will, in the spirit of

our recently concluded 1ith Na-_

tional Convention and the Taras
Shevchenko 150th anniversary
celebrations, recapture the finest
traditions of our almost five de-
cades of cultural activity and will,
at the same time, reach out to
make many new. friends while
continuing our modest contribu-
tion to growing Canadian cultu-
ral expression.”

One aspect of this tour which
should perhaps be stressedis the

fact that all of the artists - every
choir member, every mandolinist
‘. is an amateur performer, Each
one of them is sacrificing his
or her holidays in order to go
on this tour,

And that is not an easy task,
Instead of lounging around, going
fishing, or doing some ‘‘work

around the house,’’ they will be

on the road continually, sleeping
in different beds, eating different
food, drinking different water,
and so on, In a word, they are
sacrificing their individual
pleasures for a collective effort.

The least that we, the people
of the Lower Mainland, can do is
to fill the theatre and share the
richness of their offerings,

Tickets, prices at $1.00, $1.50
and $2.00, are on sale at the
AUUC Hall, 805 E, Pender and
People’s Co-op Book Store, 341
W, Pender.

The Best Man.” United Artists
release of Stuart Miller-Lawrence
Turman production. Screenplay by
Gore Vida’ from his play. of the
same name. Directed by Franklin

Schaffner. .

laywright Gore Vidal liter-
ally learned his polities at
his grandfather’s knee,

His grandfather was Thomas
P, Gore, the blind U.S, Sena-
tor from Oklahoma, Vidal lived
as a boy with the Senator in
Washington and used-to read him
the newspapers and the congres-
sional Record,

This experience not only im-
planted in young Vidal a life-
long interest in politics — one
that led him to run unsuccess-
fully for Congress himself two
years ago — but gave birth ob-
viously to a respect for some
of the more homely virtues of
American politics,

When Vidal's play, **The Best
Man,”* appeared on Broadway
four years ago’ most critics -
were quick to See in the char-
acter of Art Hockstader, a for-
mer President of the Unit-
ed States, marked similarities to
Harry Truman, There are, of
course, obvious similarities, but
Vidal says there is also a lot
of his grandfather in Art Hock-
stader.

Now ‘The Best Man’’
reaches the screen in a presi-
dential year, a bit of timing
that is, of course, not acciden-
tal. It's a fast-paced, tautly-done
piece of work — not completely
plausible but engaging and inter-
esting,

* * *

_ There are two major conten-
ders for the presidential nom-
ination of an unnamed political
party, which is holding its con-
vention in Los Angeles, One is
a highly principled egghead type
(Henry Fonda), The other is an
ambition - driven demagogue
(Cliff Robertson),

The former President (Lee
Tracy) is trying to make up his
mind which one to support, He
dislikes the demagogue but he’s
afraid the egghead is too indeci-
sive.

The demagogue has clawed his
way up the political ladder via
the investigative route, His spec-
ialties — the Mafia and Com-
munists, It is a tribute to Vi-
dal’s play that this character,
who was likened once to a com-

bination of Richard Nixon andthe
late Joe McCarthy, now suggests
to some a blending of Robert —
Kennedy and McCarthy,

There is an obvious Steven-
sonian quality to the Fonda role,
although the number of intellec-
tual liberals in government has
now grown to the point where
other comparisons are possible,

* * *

The major conflict concerns
the methods employed by the re-
spective candidates in seeking to
attain their ends, The dema-
gogue is ready to use a report
that shows the egg-head once un-
derwent treatment for mental ill-
ness,

The intellectual has at his dis-
posal the, fact his opponent once
was charged in an Army court
martial with being ahomosexual,
He is reluctant to use such a
tactic despite the urging of Hock-
steader that he do so,

In the end he does not employ
the smear, He employs his sta-
ture in the convention to throw
the nomination to another man
—a ‘*faceless’’ governor, The

manner in which the convention

hurriedly stampedes to _ this
alternative candidate is one ofthe
picture’s less plausible se-
quences,

Vidal’s thesis seems to be
that the American political
system tends to produce not the
most brilliant and talented lead-
ers but a pragmatic kind of*‘best
man’’ who has some of the face-
less qualities of the man next
door, It is at best a debatable
concept,

But the play does demonstrate
some of the virtues of the de-
mocratic process that have man-
aged to survive the image-mak-
ers and the computer era of big
money politics,

The demagogue has tremen-
dous muscle working for him,
Yet he blows his big chance by
overplaying his hand, And the
convention chooses an undistin-
guished man who holds the pro-
mise of surprising those who have
chosen him,

—Steve Murdock
(People’s World)

A Sonnet of Senility —

*‘When I have fears that I may cease to be,”’

Keats was a young man when he wrote that line,
While I am now a doddering eighty-three

And death should cause me nothing to repine,

Life After Death is far from my belief
And leaving this mad world no source of Worry:
‘Tis threat of nuclear war that causes me grief,
When young lives and old are snuffed out

in a hurry,

The After Life is but a childish query

Where the fond wish

is father of the thought:

Just a relic of past, crude, barbaric theory
When our intelligence is over wrought,

When the Grim Reaper finally comes along
We'll never find out who was right or wrong,

June 5, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 9