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Editor, Pacific Tribune—

Sir: Almost every capitalistic
newspaper and magazine in the
United States, especially Time
magazine, in every issue, bewails
the “awful” fate of German pris-
onens in so-called Soviet “slave-
labor camps.”

Since the daily press in our
own province refuses to publish
articles describing and justifying
these labor camps, may I use a
smal] space in the Pacific Tribune
in reply to the Yankee moans?

Under the rules of war the So-
viet Union took and held as pris-
oners of war many millions of
German Nazis, who started the
war. That the Soviet Union put
these vicious Germans at work
rebuilding parts of the Russian
civilization which these same Ger-
mans had destroyed, was only
just and right,

Many of these Nazis had been in
“devastation squads,” soldiers
armed with axes with which to
cut down and destroy, orchards
which it had required many years
to bring to bearing, but which a
Nazi axe could destroy in five
seconds.

Others had been in “arson
squads”, roaming the- countryside
to burn homes, barns, granaries,
storage warehouses, scientific lab-
oratories and other vital Russian
establishments.

These Nazis were not ordinary
prisoners of war. They were will-
ing, malicious, eager murderers of
women and children. They were
arsonists, brutal beasts armed by
Hitler to destroy Russian civiliza-
tion.

I sincerely hope that every such
Nazi now held in these so-called
slave labor camps dies there of
old age, disease and vermin. They
chose to be destroyers of the
most vicious type over recorded

in history. Let them pay the just
and righteous penalty for such
crimes,

BERT HUFFMAN,
Newton Station, B.C.

Munitions profits

Editor, Pacific Tribune—

Sir: It is with some hesitation
that I write you again regarding
a matter I’m sure is in the mind
of most workers. Will it do any
good? Much prominence is given to
existence of evil influence in our
economic set-up, the question per-
haps being the power that posses-
sion of great wealth gives to its
holders. We disapprove of the
methods used to secure it, and
now still more do we dislike the
uses to which it is put. :

How can we reduce or offset
the power of capitalism as it af-
fects the national policy of the
country?

Capitalism has insinuated itself
into everything that goes to make
up our way of living. There can't
be any great objection to that,
if the motive were the benefit of
humanity. But we are well aware

that the motive is profit and still
more profit, no matter how that
profit is secured,

I refer particularly, to the enor-
mous profits secured from the
manufacture and production of
munitions of war. We are all
convinced that the wealth of big
business was increased:in the past
war out of all proportion to ef-
forts used to produce it, and con-
sequently war to them is more
than welcome.

In fact I have read that their
agents are war agitators, instill-
ing in the minds of nations sus-
Picions of each other, and that far
from selling war material for de-
fence, they sell the greater quan-
tity for attack. All for profit.

To take the profit motive out
of the manufacture of these war
supplies would be one way to re-
duce their ungodly wealth, and
Possibly offset their power in our
Mternational transactions,

If we must have materials of
war, let their manufacture and
production be an exclusive gov-
ernment monopoly. |

S. SMITH,
Sandy Lake, Man,

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THE VARIOUS REVIEWS I have read of The Big
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One reviewer says the book “has all the effect of a

fine documentary film plus the art

used by a writer who knows how
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crux of what in my opinion, is
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It is extremely well written,
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WALT DISNEY IS reported to
be busy on a production of Alice
in Wonderland, due to be released
in 1950. In the meantime the al-
most submerged French film in-
dustry is going ahead with a
color production of Lewis Carroll’s
classic fantasy,

Made by American technicians
with British actors and French
financing, the film will be pro-
duced by Lou Bunin in a speci-
ally constructed studio on the out-
skirts of Paris,

Two sound tracks are being
made, one in French and one in
English, with an eye to the Ame-
rican market for future bi-lingual
films—as a boost for French in-
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which belongs to words

Part puppet animation, part live
acting, Alice in Wonderland has
presented innumerable difficulties
in France due to war shortages
and lack of technical facilities.
Once, in order to obtain’ a load
of cement, Bunin had to send a
group of workers all over Paris
buying sufficient potatoes to ex-
change for cement—the only form
of payment the merchant would
accept, ;

J. Arthur Rank, British film.
tysoon, has acquired the distribu-
tion rights to the picture and it
will be released in the U.S. by
Eagle Lion,

A recording of Alice in Wonder-
land has just been released by
Victor, reported to be one of the
nicest albums for children yet
produced, from a stage adaptation
presented sometime ago in the
American Repertory Theater, On

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is done in fine style by members
of tht original cast, with a nar-
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Town Below by Roger Lemelin,
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AMERICA’S LIBRARIANS HAVE

JUST finished their nation-

al convention at Atlantic City—and finished, along with it, any

stereotyped Misconceptions about librarians

tower weak-willies,

as a group of ivory-

For the 67th annual convention of the American Library

Association stood out as
The librarians’

a beacon of fighting progressivism.
battle line was America’s heritage of culuture

—its books. And at that line, now under attack from the
Thomas Un-American Committee and similar groups, the librarians

‘stood their ground and fought.

They heard Howard Fast, invited as an honored speaker in

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names of Spanish anti-fascists, lance the
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