A

THENS — After being ban-
4 almost 30 years, the
Rin Party of Greece is
: €gal political party.
Met rq Bees broadcast heard
j 10 Sept. 25, it was re-

| w

“IS had issued a decree
he nine political parties in
Pare ty, legal. The Commun-
ft Y will be the main bene-
Al
ype 08h banned for years,
1 Gree Or the Communist Party
Decialhy has constantly grown,
S}Mf the 2, Under the brutal times
heyy otatorship. Even non-
| th bourgeois sources esti-
dt ena, the Communist Party
1" the S the support of 20%

AlthpoPulation.

eon the new decree is a
matin: 2 Victory in the
. zation process, -Hari-
|B Com akis, first secretary of
i Mt gover onist Party of Greece,
4 feo, ™ment foot-dragging on
fr ng zation of Greece in an
ly, ~ Mterview the week be-

|, The
ft
Neg?

political situation in
and ens difficult, com-
ull of contradictions,”

Victory f
|The a
4 following letter was sent
rh ee Committee of the
a Party of Greece on
=.) CY William Kashtan,
nis Secretary of the Com-
We eeey of Canada:
stig 84 the news of the
t ag ‘your Party with
Ocracy t is a victory for
8 Of Gr and for the working
aa ece which for years
We paitst the military jun-
»Ultiag Ow ‘under what great
: your Party had to

e
Q

» an
ental € many sacrifices
Nal es Internal and ex-

Ction hoped that b
egalization” the oy
coed would be cut off
atic Orking class and de-
loti, ces and other truly
pions of Greek soci-
Mion of this it provoked
Mot ie division with the
€r weakening and

= Curbing: «the
jhe puclear weapons and
tae the my, Of nuclear reactors
ain action priorities
the Council of the
Omen which met

Voiog by

for Ext also had some ad-
Wegllan qyat2! Affairs Minis-
hat tolg ,scEachen, who last
nie th the UN General As-
leg’ On ye, there should be li-
Bot Spread of nuclear
ycould » Dut didn’t know how
she, Mbers € done adequately.
The? Wh oe the Voice of Wo-
fis, Pening °t, With MP's before
Md Bist Of parliament, sug-
ie and Canada, as a neutral

al com Member of the UN
nt mittee on world dis-
ame Ork toward a world
mY critic onference in 1975.
mtiggin zed the UN’special
y igh, for not doing
by do Said that Canada
atta ou more to bring
“SOMmiccs stu! conclusion of

Ssion’ :
'0n’s work, especi-

‘that Greek Premier Ka- :

St time in 27 years

Greek Communist Party legal

- PIZOXPAXTHE ===

ETHN Sn EEABA,

2
a’ OPTANO THE KENTPIKKI ETNTPOOHE TOY KOMMOYMIZTIKOY KOMMATOI EAAABAZ ‘- _____

yla Sixain Aden

legally in Athens.

Dee ey H Anpoxpatia
mm

tedvi bdoesve] Ay AAPEXONTALENT YHSEIE
roi Kenpeset | TIN ABIABANTEY ERROTES.

Kopid noivikh KUpwon oToUC npwrepyorec the Xouvrac

Masthead of issue number 2 of the Greek Communist
Party paper “Rizospastis” (The Radical) now publishing

ayr6cbcta:

Florakis said. “More than six
weeks have passed since the
time the Constantine Karaman-
lis government came into office.

But the extraordinary laws still”

are in effect in the country. It
is characteristic that the appa-
ratus of the junta dictatorship re-
mains intact. The Greek people
demand democratization and
normalization of the situation in
Greece.

“The efforts of the Greek peo-
ple are aimed at removing the
agents and supporters of the
junta from the government ap-
paratus and at abrogating un-

democracy

dissipating that political force
in Greece which advances a
truly democratic alternative to
reaction and the policies of
monopoly.

These aims of reaction have
received a decided setback with
the legalization of your Party.
New prospects open up to
achieve the democratization of
all aspects of life in Greece, as
the path forward to socialism.

We greet your great victory
in the long struggle for the legal
status of your Party. We affirm
again our solidarity with your
great struggle. Please convey to
your members, to all progres-
sive forces in Greece, our good
wishes and hope for further
successes in your all sided acti-
vities.

The events in Greece point
again to the power of Marxism-
Leninism and proletarian inter-
nationalism.

VOW main priority—
{rb nuclear weapons

ally after recent statements by
Prime Minister Trudeau and Mr.
MacEachen had given encour-
agement that Canada’s foreign
policy would be gared to place
emphasis on human problems.
Among the MPs who took the
time to meet with the VOW
delegation were Herb Breau,
parliamentary secretary to the
minister for external affairs;
Gordon Fairweather, PC; and Ed
Broadbent, NDP House leader.
At the Council meeting on
Sept. 28, it was agreed to study
the charges made by Palestinian
Liberation Organization of injus-
tice and discrimination.
Charlotte McEwen, a member
of the Ottawa group that intro-
duced the resolution, announced
that the VOW will include
within one of its main priorities
for the coming six months an
exploration of these charges,
and will encourage a general
process of discussion and educa-
tion among membership and

public. ~

democratic laws. They are -wag-
ing a struggle for democratic
freedoms and for an end to the
influence of the U.S. and NATO
in Greece.

“The Communist Party of
Greece regards as its main task
the struggle to achieve all these
goals and is doing its utmost—
in ~ organizational, — ideological
and political aspects — to ex-
press the strivings of the peo-
ple.”

Re

The 16-city tour of two of the Soviet Union’s
leading opera performers offers Canadians a
unique chance to see and hear Yevhenia Mirosh-
nithenko and Dmytro Hnatiuk during the month,
October 20 to November 20.

Canadian-Soviet exchanges — cultural, sports,
scientific, educational, in many fields — are a
welcome pattern on the fabric of peaceful co-
existence. And this particular visit promises a

rare treat as these prominent artists sing.

excerpts from world-renowned traditional operas,
as well as from their own Ukrainian repertoire.

Yevhenia Miroshnichenko’s debut took place
17 years ago at the Kiev Opera House when she
sang the part of Violetta, in Verdi’s La Traviata.
She had been singing non-professionally for some
years — in the amateur art company at the
Kharkiv Electrical Engineering Works, where
she was a fitter, in military hospitals and, in
preparation for her professional career, at the
Kiev Conservatory to which she was admitted
in 1951.

Her most recent accomplishment was in Ten-
derness, a one-act opera written especially. for
her by a young Ukrainian composer Vitaly
Hubarenko. And just before beginning her Cana-
dian tour with Dmytro Hnatiuk, she is working
on the role of Margareth de Valois in Meyer-
beer’s Les Huguenots.

What was her secret in presenting a person-
ality, an interviewer asked.

“’m afraid there’s no secret to it at all,” the
singer replied. “I simply try to live the life of
the personage, strive to get into the skin of
the character I’m supposed to play on stage.”

She had to be careful, she said, not to lose ~

herself, “never to cross that invisible line . . .
between the art of scenic truth and naked
naturalism.”

The artist’s parts in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Gol-
den Cockerel and Massenet’s Manon, among
others, are considered ‘‘gems of high vocal
talent.” ;

“I loved every part I have sung,” she con-
fessed. “It couldn’t be otherwise. When you
sing without putting your whole heart into it...
you might fool yourself, but not the audience.”

Her art is not separated from life, she in-
dicated. Married, and a mother of two small
children, Yevhenia Miroshnichenko said: “I don’t
want my sons to ever experience the horrors of
war and possibly end up orphans. I want all
people on earth to live in peace and friendship.”

Dmytro Hnatiuk is no stranger to Canada; this
will be his fifth concert tour here. Complimen-
tary reviews have appeared in many Canadian
dailies on those occasions, including the con-
cert by Edmonton Spectator music critic Edward
Gaswell, who said: “Dmytro Hnatiuk is doubt-
lessly one of the world’s best baritones.” -

In the Ukraine, this singer is probably the
most popular today. His tours inside and outside
the Sov.et Union “audiences cannot remain in-
different when Hnatiuk is singing,” wrote one
Soviet observer.

An aeroflot AN-12 sits at Dacca ai fter delivering

Z : rport after d

first shipment of medicines to Bangladesh ze sea oe

oon aid program for flood victims. Soviet ambassador to

ne cig eet A. sei (left) is handling part of the gift over
ape ae aera oae :

ee ae of the Ministry for Flood Victims’ Assistance,

The singer has reason to be absorbed in his

‘work. “I’ve been singing at the Kiev Opera and

Ballet Theatre for over 20 years now,” he said
“Recently the administration made me another
offer. Now I am a Stage director in a production
of Borodin’s opera, Prince Igor. This makes me
very happy.” :

However, he said he was looking forward to

- his Canadian.tour, for one thing to visit his

sister-who lives in Vancuver. But he said too he
always feels excited about meeting those Ukrain-
ians whom fate forced across the ocean.

“As usual,” he said, “I will only represent the
arts, nothing else. I am hoping to popularize
the best creations of-old and modern Ukrainian
songs, as well as world-known vocal composi-
tions.”

The tour opens in Toronto on October 20. The
two Soviet artists will make numerous stops
across the country from Ottawa to Vancouver
and a final appearance at the Shaw Festival
Theatre in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.

The two artists will take their programs from
a wide-ranging repertoire of operatic aries, duets
and Ukrainian folk songs. :

Dmytro Hnatiuk’s selections will include
Gerard's monologue from Giordano’s Andrea
Chenier; Figaro’s cavantina from Rossini’s Bar-
ber of Seville; Non piu andrai from Mozart’s

‘Marriage of Figaro; and the Russian and Ukrain-

ian songs Stepan Razin and Cranes.

Yevhenia Miroshnichenko’s selection will in-
clude the Bell Song from Delibes’ Lakme; arias
from Bellini’s La Sonnambula, Strauss’ Tales of
the Vienna Woods; and the Ukrainian Folk songs
Apple Tree and Oh, I Know I have Sinned.

The two will sing duets from Rigoletto, La
Traviata and The Barber of Seville.
Both have received high artistic honors.

Yevhenia Miroshnichenko as_ Rosina and

Dmytro Hnatiuk as Fi i “
Seville” by Rossini. pee se Singles

PACIFIC TRIBUNE-FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11 , 1974—Page 9