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Moscow press conference

Writing and publishing flourish

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Bert Whyte, Tribune correspondent is seated at the table, fourth

from the left.

Voznesensky, who gave re-
citals at U of T and UBC, found
Canadian students keenly inter-
ested in Soviet literature and
alive to the’ political happenings
of our era. He had been warmly
received by the young people
wherever he went.

He returned to the subject of
Morales: “A wonderful poet.
When he visited our country we
roamed the streets of Moscow
together, talking about poetry,
about youth. In his last letter to
me he wrote that he was trans-
lating my poetry into Spanish.
He was a poet of an elevated
spiritual plane, and wrote in
vivid metaphorical images. Now
he has been killed, brutally
murdered by the Guatemalan
border guards. You correspon-
dents must tell in your papers
of this monstrous crime.”

* %* *

V. Ozeroy, editor of the jour-
nal Problems of Literature, de-
scribed the fruitful international
contacts which Soviet writers
are developing with many count-
ries. Last year some 500 Soviet
writers went abroad and a
similar number of foreign col-

leagues came here as guests of
the Writers’ Union.

Iraklyi Andronnikov, literary
historian and raconteur, well
known to TV audiences for his
anecdotes about famous writers
of the past and present, spoke
of the preparations now under-
way to celebrate this year the
150th birth anniversary of Dos-
toyevsky and Nekrasov.

P. Zagrebelny, board secretary
of the Ukrainian Union of Writ-
ers, noted that over 850 Ukrain-
ian writers publish today —
whereas in 1950 there were few-
er than 400.

Other speakers included G.
Gofman, Hero of the Soviet
Union, who described the work
of Jewish writers; V. Kozhevni-
kov, editor of the magazine
Znamya; A. Chakovsky, editor
of the Literary Gazette; N. Les-
yuchevsky, board chairman of
the Union’s central publishing
house; and N. Fedorenko, editor
of the magazine Foreign Litera-
ture.

Questions from the floor were
asked and answered, and before
we knew it the clock said 2 p.m.
Another press conference was
over—this time a lively one, with
a solid peg to hang a story on.

Badge—labor unity symbol

BERLIN (ADN) — The foun-
dation of the Socialist Unity
Party of Germany (SED) on
April 21, 1946 was symbolized
by the handshake of the chair-
men of the Communist and So-
cial-Democratic parties which
united on that day.

The handshake between the
late Wilhelm Pieck and the late
Otto Grotewohl was captured
in an historic photo which was
reprinted frequently in the Ger-
man Democratic Republic in ar-
ticles dedicated to the 25th anni-
versary of the SED.

The clasped hands — a sym-
bol of working class unity —
and the red flag were the two
most popular proposals for an
emblem of the new party 25
years ago. It was not possible,
however, to present the badges
to the 2,000 participants at the
unification congress. At that
time, less than one year after
the defeat of the nazis, Ger-
many was still occupied by the
major allies, and the Allied Con-
trol Council did not permit the
wearing of party buttons.

At the congress it was POS-
sible only to describe the future
emblem which has remained un-
changed ever since: on a white
oval the red flag is aloft the
clasped hands; the steel-blue

edge is engraved with the name
of the party.

The first SED flag was how-
ever carried into the hall of the
unification congress, and that
flag already carried the symbol
under which the working class
in the GDR has developed in
freedom ever since.

Who owns Canada?

OTTAWA — A recent govern-
ment report on foreign owner-
ship of non-financial firms in
Canada for 1968 indicates that
slightly over 76% of the count-
ry’s major companies were
under foreign control.

Of 362 firms with assets of
$25 million or more in 1968, 276
were under the control of a fore-
ign country, mainly of course
the United States.

STOP PROPAGANDA, SAY
OLYMPIC CHIEFS

LAUSANNA — The Interna-
tional Olympic Committee (10C)
has requested the two Munich-
based American broadcasting
stations, Radio Free Europe and
Radio Liberty, to discontinue
political programs during the
Olympic Games in Munich
(West Germany) next year.

Appeal of the Paraguayan
Communist Party to all Com-

munist and Workers’ Parties,
all Democratic Forces of the
World.

We, the delegation: of the
Paraguayan Communist Party to
the 24th Congress of the CPSU,
consider it our duty to express
our deep gratitude to the delega-
tions of the fraternal Communist
Parties for your solidarity with
our Party and people in the
struggle for the release of poli-
tical prisoners. We know of, and
highly appreciate, your contribu-
tion, that of exposing the viola-
tions of human rights in our
country and demanding the re-
lease of the. hundreds of impri-
soned trade unionists and poli-
tical leaders, victims of the
criminal and repressive policy
of the pro-American dictatorship
headed by General Alfredo
Stroessner.

Antonio Maidana, Alfredo Al-
corto and Julio Rojas, who are
members of our Central Com-
mittee, prominent political per-
sonalities in our country and
known and tested international-
ists, have been held in prison
13-14 years each in criminally
adverse conditions designed to
bring about a slow death. As it
follows from the public declara-
tions of highly-placed officials to
the effect that the above-named
are “international prisoners”,
they have been burried alive as
hostages of U.S. imperialism in
the notorious cell of Asuncion’s
third district commissariat.

In recent years, the military-
police dictatorship killed more
than 250 patriots and democrats
holding different views. More
than 200 civilians and service-
men, men and women, are still
languishing in the cells of the
capital’s different commissariats
and elsewhere in the country.
Many of them are kept in chains
and have not seen their relatives
for years; others are doing
forced labor in the quarries of
Tacumbu and el Chaco. The
workers’ movement, the agrarian
union and other people’s organ-
izations are exposed to mount-
ing police persecution and terror.

The state of emergency, regul-
arly prolonged every 90 days

‘volutionary,

since Stroessner set up his dic-
tatorship nearly 17 years ago, is
a weapon used by the official
regime for arresting and im-
prisoning Paraguayan patriots of
all political parties and different
public organizations for indefin-
ite terms, without so much as a
trial. At present, the executive
authorities are invoking the
monstrous new law for “the
protection of order and personal
liberty” to condemn to prison
terms of three to fifteen years
anyone making the slightest
criticism of the bosses of the .
rotten military regime now in
power.

The country’s democratically-
minded public demands an end
to this criminal situation. The
ordeal of 13-14 years of suffer-
ing, of physical and moral tor-
ture, in the prisons of the
Stroessner tyranny is too much!
An end must be put to this ter-
rible crime against humanity.

We appeal to the sense of in-
ternational solidarity of all re-
democratic and
progressive forces for greater
pressure on hangman Stroessner.
to release the prisoners of the
dictatorship and _ imperialism.
We call for redoubled expres-
sions of solidarity with our
people’s struggle for freedom
and independence. Let new
voices resound at once, con-
demning the reactionary and
criminal repressive policy of the
Paraguayan government. Send
more telegrams, demands and
thousands of letters without
delay to the country’s author-
ities and to Paraguayan em-
bassies abroad, demanding free-
dom for Antonino Maidana,
Julio Rojas, Alfredo Alcorto and
the other imprisoned political
leaders and trade unionists. This
expression of solidarity will help
our people to win freedom.

U.S. “SHARE”

According to efficial 1968:data,
U.S. firms control 51% of Cana-
da’s mining industry, 43% of
manufacturing, 19% of whole-
sale trade, 17% of retail trade,
12% of service industries, 84%
of rubber manufacturing and
67% of coal, gas and oil.

Columns of defeated, demoralized mescenarise Sradged from

Bay of Pigs 10 years ago. The U.S. trained and financed invasion
attempt was met and defeated by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed.
Forces in 72 hours of fierce fighting. It was a mighty victory for the
Cuban people and all progressive mankind.

In a speech marking the event, Major Raul Costro said: “We will
never forget the attack on Giron, for it is part of the fighting glory
of our people. Nor will the Yankees forget it, for, to them, it means
the shame of the first military defeat suffered by imperialism in

America .. .”

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY MAY 7, 1971—PAGE 9

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