To win peace—
[let's fight for it’

By LESLIE MORRIS

HERE is one workable test of the nature of the reception
; the British people gave to Yuri Gagarin: Would they have
done the same thing had a German flier visited Britain in 1938?
The answer is plainly, no. The conclusion from this must be
that in addition to the admiration they showed for this modest,
dedicated man who was the first to cross the astral frontier,
tnasses of the British people showed their basic and unshakeable

respect for the Soviet Union,

: Tt is this conclusion which threw Whitehall into a tizzy and
. €aused official Washington to say that such things were not to
be expected of “our ally in the Berlin crisis”. No doubt the
ATO sabre-rattlers know very well that, appealing as Yuri
Gagarin is, the remarkable demonstration in Britain was basic-
ally political. When people really get a chance to show their

feelings, they show them,
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: HAT was seen when Premier Khrushchey toured the United
T States. Official Washington suffered a defeat then like B.C.
official London did during the Gagarin visit and finally had to
bow to the good wishes and good sense of the public, just as
Wacmillan did. The same thing is seen, often, in the receptions
given to Soviet artists in the Western countries and to the all-

too-few Western artists who perform in the Soviet Union.

: It is all of a piece — the welcoming crowds for Yuri Gag-
“erin, the handshakes for “Mr. K.”, the striking success of ae

os

iVioiseyev Ensemble, the coming success of the tour of the Red

Army Chorus in Canada, and in the visits of Lois Marshall and
Others to the Soviet Union. ‘The peoples of East and West are

'. fundamentally friendly,
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’ §T WOULD be foolish to deny that almost 15 years of cold war.
: [ propaganda have had a serious and corrupting effect on!

public opinion in the West. People who began in the Second | 2 ove
orld War and in the immediate post-war years to See the}
wecessity for peaceful coexistence and to test it in their own!

idly to completio
Bala event. The
talented group,
will be headlini
cultural progra
also include the You
and instrumentalists,
areas have already Settled the
pre-contest contest as to
will represent them in the Miss

contest, and the girls are
ing themselves for the las
ute race. At last count
Burnaby Was slightly ahe
the pack with Miss North
couver running a close se

| See you at
|the family picnic’

The cooks are cooking, the

Weenies are roasting, and the
cold drinks are cool
-| indications point to th
crowd ever at the A
bor-Farmer Picnic,
at Bear Creek Park this Sun-
day, August 6.

ing, All
€ biggest

being held

Preparations are moving rap-

n for a really.
popular ang
the Milestones,
Ng an excellent
m, which wil]
th Singers,
Some

who
Labor-Miss B.C. Farmer
prim-
t min-
Miss
ad of
Van-
cond,

As in past years buses wil]

oe available for those who need

tegen transportation, Special-
ly chartered buses will leave
the Dunsmuir Street depot at

go. directly io the

Park and return to the depot,

2 \ leavi icni
experience, have been temporarily confused and turned aside |(°2¥i"9 the picnic grounds at

from friendship.

But the rich pool of good feeling has not been drained off.

The Gagarin visit showed it to

public would not be far behind,
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. HY is this so? Is it not because there is a howling contra-|
W diction between official. Western propaganda about the |

5:30 p.m,

is $1.00 return and tickets may
be true for Britain: if he is able| be
_ to. visit Canada, it will be. seen to be true for Canadians also.

And if he were given a visa to go to the USA, the American

in the afternoon, Fare

purchased on the bus,

’ Goviet Union and other socialist countries, and the demonstrable |

facts? And is it not ever thus?

‘Old-time socialist editors were fond of a type of journalism
- €alled “the deadly parallel’, It consisted of placing some pic-
, torial or wordy example of boss propaganda alongside a rep-
usually taken from current happenings.

resentation of. facts,
’ {t was very effective.

.. Such biting contrasts also were the theme of great labor

€artoonists, like Art Young, who drew a child gazing in wonder
‘at the Milky Way out of the window of her tenement home.
. The caption was: “O Mummy, the stars are thick as bedbugs

tonight.”
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OW that we are in for no mean summer, when the drums of |
IN alarm and panic will be beaten by John F, Kennedy, the

tooting trumpet of John Diefenbaker will be playing its usual
- Obligato and the bagpipes of Harold Macmillan will be skirling
to drown Yuri Gagarin’s voice and awaken the British to the

“real danger of our hour” in West Berlin, it will be well to
keep these things in mind.
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2 Sue newspapers are saying that this summer of 1961 is

hen they had the Soviet Union isolated, after Munich, Then
‘Hitler was rampant, encouraged by Muni

This will keep armament expenditures high, Satisfy the |

"munition makers and create ‘the murky political atmosphere so
beloved of the Brinkmen. -
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%&
2 OW is the time for ali good fighters for peace to fight back
N against the panic-mongers by rolling up the petition of
the Canadian Committee for the Control of Radiation Hazards.

Yes, it will be no mean summer. Yuri Gagarin’s visits
. broad have shown the Brinkmen how hard their job i

All of which should teach us (and how many times we must
“earn it all over again) that it is not enough to want peace: we

must be prepared to fight for it, ang this summer not the least
@£ all times.

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Sergei Vinogradoy (left),
Kovalev, chief gas worker at th
cal Centre in the Urals, ha

now

a steady rising wage and

or in the future. Their un

the vast economic and soci ; tion tha
advance envisioned in the new ¢ and social| the kind of ac
munist Party of the Soviet Uni

. . a
nnual La-/tionery Workers ganged up this week in 4”

blast-furnace foreman, and A.

ye no worries about job security,

Workers duped ‘int
anti-Cuban activities,

Canadian sugar trusts and the Bakery tem!

jan nN per
block the entry of Cuban sugar to the Canad 7

The Bakery and Confection: ; ant
ery Workers Union fired off a|them to the ee
wire to Diefenbaker charging | gar refinery WOP*™
“that this action may he indica- | threat lies in Bg pel
tive of a Communist promoted | techniques whit? ©
move to disrupt the Canadian | to limit cone jally
market” and at the same time through artifice’
threw a picket line around a es, chy
Cuban ship unloading sugar at} <“t¢ the su ae .
a Montreal port, to, it could con” and

President of the Acadia Su-|deals with Cuba ng
gar Refinery in Montreal, W. | raw sugar for PY ="
J. R. Paton claimed the deal, |ada. At the PP gay 18
which will bring Cuban Sugar | great pulk of su ontrd
to the Canadian market at 50c | ed from Britin Guia
a hundredweight below. the | tations in Britis yntate
Price of Canadian refined: su- | Jamaica wliere F yard s
8ar, could seriously effect the | bor is very cheaP: pare S|
steady employment of many | the slave level
Canadians. ; ence. sugar
The Canadian Tribune quot-| “These ONT: first .
es a Toronto economist-on the | lies would Pe aban Se |
Possible effects on the Canad-| port refined ke 4 vise :
ian sugar industry of the im- | they could Ti al a |
port of Cuban sugar. . tit from bee Car da.
“The only possible eff. t this [198 Sugar 3
deal to import Cuban aire ETE would ancl
Sugar could have would be to agian Ue
force the Powerful sugar trust ges
to reduce its price of refined
Sugar, -

“It seems that the trust has
UNWitting allies whose obvious
anti-communist bias blinds

ggth,
Saturday, July 2 yen

_of fourteen people  No™
| Vancouver took UN
llear Arms Petition
Street and in 4 34
hours secured 1,018 ets fh
Many of the petit
veterans of earlier
when the goine
tougher. It was 4 W’
to secure 100 pare
in 1951, but last 54 a yoo" e
of the fourteen sec
more. at
The sentiment of oe (ab
has. changed. In son ried
the petitioners TeP iO Xf
people lined up 10 57 a
took copies themit ‘itty
people expressed ‘a
and some even seve sv
and added their OW?
ort, “oh
: However, the peace at
iions reported that igo
people are still very 9
of the danger of Wal ©. tn FF
haye- been deceive® og
| lieving. that nucle
are for defensive PU it Oe |
| The people supPr as
but this sentiment i xc™
‘organized. There. 15 a ni
‘today for inaction 9
ence,
“These are! dangerovr 1 on
but they are also boP gout
The experience of thé ane
North Vancouverites cat
a

p
pr

e Nizsny-Tagil Metallurgi-

ion agreement provides for | that a big job for peor
done. The current ag #1
they reach 55 years of age. | needs to be intensifi€” ‘op

ine”
draft program of the Com-| feat the madmen tote? ;
on. (See details on page 2.) ithe brink of war.

Ml
age
August 4, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE