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People vs.

| t happens thatI strongly pre-
fer people to animals, So I
found the cat’s-eye view of people
in The Three Lives of Thomasina
extraordinarily unappealing, The
ginger puss heroine of this Scot-
tish Highland adventure tale en-
Taged me more than most films
felines, by giving a sort of Mrs,
MacDale’ s Diary of her triple
life Story, in confidential little
installments,

On the other hand my daughter,.

whom J] suspect likes animals
more than people, had a whale of
4 time soaking her hankie, while
Poor pussie nearly dies and the
little motherless moppet (Karen

Dotrice) who owns her, goes mad
with grief,

More than the cat she adored
the “witch”? of the forest, played
Y Susan Hampshire; and rather
well Played, at that, This glam-

Might is Right?

Ne Reid, Saskatoon, Sask.,
_€s: According to press re-
President Johnson has been
a ng the United States is go-
ee Continue reconnaissance
e Over Cuba, By what right
“4 LS being done other than
eee Size and might of the
ted States? Quite justifiably,
Uba Considers this a violation
ee air space and they are
ia to stop it if they have to
them down.

oc the same situation e:x-
nliea South Vietnam where the
i States has been carrying
Sih Suerilla war against the
ditio Vietnamese and where con-

MS are such it begins to look
the U.S, can’t win, Now,
Lyndon Johnson they aré
g of carrying the war into

Vietnam, claiming the
h is giving support to the

leg by
talkj

There

must
Sides be a lot of people

War j me who fear starting a
Vet a either of these places,
Boing Ntinuing what is already
Conse ©n could have disastrous
Qences, It would seem that
Present Situation if it is
ot to develop into war be-
ae 28 two greatest powers is
© Suicidal for both sides,

rel it is time the Canadian
. did something on behalf of
tedon) We could write to our
United Sovernment and to the
tepr Nations, We could ask our
€Sentatives in parliament

animals

or girl hermit in home spun
“skirts is an O.K, human because
she ffs love in her heart, Ani-
mals from miles around come to
her cottage to share it,

Before long, the little mother-
less moppet’s handsome Daddy
(Patrich McGoohan) comes to
the cottage for his share of it,
too . . . The wedding, as you
might imagine, is ever so pretty,
“And the bridesmaid is - guess
who? Why, none other than that
dear little autobiographical pus-
sycat, all dressed up in ribbons
and frills!

‘*Oh, how sweet!’? cooed my
daughter. And how skillfully,
one might, add, can Walt Disney
judge what little girls like! In
fairness though, I must add that
the Highlands scenery is beauti-
fully filmed...

—Nina Hibbin

and those who seek to be our

representatives in the future,
what they and their party propose
to do on behalf of peace,

Stop the Polemics

N, P, Dougan, Cobble Hill,
writes: My sincere and earnest
commendation to Mrs, Jeanne
Teather for her viewpoint re the
Russian-Chinese ideological dis-
pute in Open Forum, May 15,
Thank you, Mrs. Teather, there
are still a few who will think
for themselves in our spineless,
pussy-foot, smile-now-please
generation,

Though Khruschev, months
ago, advised: ‘stop the pol-
emics,’’ readers of the PT are
still subject to this discord, this
provocative bitterness, A sorry
example, and a disillusion to
many earnest people,

To assume, to accept that China
whose historic background,
deeply influenced by her age old
philosophies — so diametrically
contradistinguished to western
ideologies — that this -giant
spiritually and intellectually in
potential, is going to accept the
leadership of any combination of
the western world, is puerile
nonsense,

The present disputation be-
tween the two socialist giants
will be resolved amicably; make
no mistake about it, Since our
present attitude is plainly harm-

ful and disruptive to the social-

ist movement, should we not adopt
a more rational philosophy in
dealing with it?

a

PLAN TO BE AT THE

Pacific Tribune

Victory Celebration
Sat., June 13 — 8:30 p.m.

Queen Elizabeth Playhouse

VARIED, COLORFUL PROGRAM FEATUR-
ING: Folk Orchestra and Dance Group of
the Chinese Youth Assn.; Kobzar Dance
Group of the AUUC; Cumberland’s Carl

Isen at the Piano; folk songs by The Mile-
Stones; other talented performers.

SONGS — AWARDS — DANCES
Tickets at PT Office

will undoubtedly be thoroughly

‘1s has attained professional stan-

The rhinoceros, like the one shown above peacefully nibbling away in the London zoo, isin
imminent danger of becoming a thing of the past, according to the article below. It is only one

of the many species of natural life facing extinctio
enterprisers” in many countries.

n at the hands of profit-hungry, “private

Profits first -- always !

he preservation of rare wild

animals liable to become
extinct—from the green turtles
used to make the Lord Mayor
of London’s soup to the iguanas
of the Galapagos—was debated in
the British House of Commons
recently, Members from_ both
sides of the House gave examples
of the outright butchery of
animals for commercial reasons
which had resulted in largenum-
bers of rare, beautiful and useful
animals being hunted to the point
of extinction,

Under discussion was a Bill, —
introduced by Miss Harvie An-
derson (Tory) to stop the import
into Britain of all such beasts
except uncer special license for
such places as zoos, Listed in
the Bill were animals like anth-
ropoid apes, lemurs, tarsiers,
the Arabian oryx and the rhino-
ceros.

Both Tories and Laborites
spoke of the importance of pre-
serving wild life and it was
pointed out that Africawas grow-

Red letter

hursday, June 11, promises

to be a red letter day for
all Lower Mainland lovers of good
music—and especially for ad-
mirers of good choral singing.
On that evening, at the Queen
Elizabeth Theatre, the AUUC
Shevchenko Male Chorus of Tor-
onto and Ukrainian Mandolin Or-
chestra will be appearing ina full

“evening of songs and music,

Conducted by Eugene Dolny,
who conducted the historic Ivan
Franko Festival in Winnipeg in
1956 and Shevchenko Festival in
Toronto in 1961, this evening

enjoyed by both Ukrainians and
non-Ukrainians alike.

The Shevchenko Male Chorus
has entertained thousands of Can-
adians at hundreds of concerts,
zuest appearances and festivals
for more than a decade, Although
it is an amateur group, the chor-

jards in performance and reper-
‘oire,

An organization of highly train-
2d and experienced performers,
chey have been acclaimed by cri-
ics, reviewers and varied aud-
eneces, Formed by a group of
young Ukrainian Canadians in
1951, the chorus draws on a
voluminous repertoire of folk

ing. ever more conséious of this
necessity. A proposal was made
that the Galapagos should be
transformed into a game pre-
serve.

' Another MP spoke of the way
in which gun-happy shieks had
hunted the Arabian Oryx with
spotter planes and sub-machine
guns, until there were few left;
the rhinoceros was: in danger of
being wiped off the face of the

earth because of the commercial
value of its ivory tusks; the
leopard was facing the same fate
because of the craze for leop-
ard skin coats, pyjamas, rugs,
etc,

A tribute was paid to the USSR
and Poland by Tory backbencher
David James for the enlightened
steps they had taken to preserve

the European bison. In 1939 there
had been only 30 left, but now
there were over 200, Their con-
trols were ‘‘so strict and ad-

. Mirable’’ he said, that it had not

been thought necessary toaddthe
animals to the list given in the
Bill,

For the government, aspokes-
man accepted the principle ofthe
Bill (which was later withdrawn!)
and promised government help
in redrafting one which, accord-
ing to press reports, ‘‘ would
be more effective.’’

Within the past few years, many
nations have started to seriously
study the problem of how to pre-
vent species of animals from
vanishing because they are com-
mercially ‘‘popular,’”’ — anda
source of immense profits, Chief
among these are many of the
newly-born nations of Africa and
the United Nations cultural-
scientific organization, UNESCO,

day approaching

music, songs of other nations,
2lassical works and compositions
of modern writers,

The Ukrainian Mandolin Or-
chestra has also won recogni-
tion in its own right, It has done
much to familiarize thousands of
Canadians with some of the best
in Ukrainian folk and classical
music, It has “also contributed

2.

to and continued the tradition of
mandolin music in this country,

While the main role of the or-
chestra on this tour will be to
provide rich and pleasing accom-
paniment for the Male Chorus,
they will also entertain with sel-
ections of their own,

Tickets ($2.00, $1.50and $1.00).
are available at the AUUC Hall,
805 E. Pender and People’s Co-
op Book Store, 341 w, Pender,

Marlene visits USSR

A

ctress Marlene Dietrich ar
rived in the Soviet Union las

week for guest performances in
Leningrad and Moscow. She in
tends to present the same pro

gram as

in other countries—

Songs from her films and from %
we different nations,

“I have waited for many years *

for a meeting with Russia, and
at last my dream comes true,’’
she said in an interview in Par-

‘and have many friends among
your compatriots, I love Rus-

Sian

literature, cinema and

mainly, the Russian soul,"’