ek Book Store. New store Peoples’ Co-operative T HE Bookstore has moved again— into. a completely renovated location at 341 West Pender, only a few doors west of the old store, in the Pender Auditorium build- ing. Main purpose of the move is to provide a better display of the hundreds of titles the book- store now has in stock, in partic- ular, the paperbacks which are more and more taking the place of the more expensive hard cover books. * * Modern every show new display racks book face up and lighting and spacious aisles make browsing a pleasure. A specially designed rack just inside the door will enable regular customers to locate their favorite periodicals and newspapers with no trouble, and all sections of the stock will be clearly marked for easy identification. The Circus L. Stilwell of Langiey writes; The Liberal Fast-Buck-board is rolling across Canada, swaying from side to side on well greased Yankee Cartwheels, with a Yank- €e war-lord in the driver’s seat cracking the whip, followed close- ly by the medieval Diefenbaker chariot, with the funny money clowns tooting their little horns in the rear. The war lord Nor—said unto Michael, ‘‘ Come forth’’ and he Came third and lost the race. One Defence Roy Reid, Saskatoon, writes; Our press reported recently the killing of three striking wood- Workers and the wounding of nine others in a labor dispute, near Kapuskasing. The strike-breakers Were armed, the strikers un- armed. This crime caused by con- fused thinking, misunderstanding and disunity among working peo- An interior view of the new premises of the People’s Co-op ~ WORTH READING Problems of Contemporary Hist- ory, by R. Palme Dutte. Price $1.50. This book is based on four lec- tures delivered in 1962 in which the author stated that the scien- ifie approach “technically known “as Marxism-Leninism” does en- able the historian to reach a relatively more objective judg- Ment than by other methods. He applies the method to three contemporary issues — the cold war, the prospects of the social- Ist revolution in the West, and the applicability of Marxism and So- Cialism in Britain. —Photo by Searle Friedman location The children’s section is especi- ally attractive with a good selec- tion of the very popular pop-up books from Czechoslovakia and stories and verses from socialist lands, as well as all the old favorites. * One of the interesting new sec- tions which has been added is History and Current Affairs BOOKS where literally hundreds of titles dealing with Disarmament, Peace, Foreign Policy and_ all the vital political topics of the day are displayed. The Bookstore extends a cordial invitation to all its shareholders and customers, old and new, to Opening Night on Friday, March 29, 7-9 p.m. This will mark the beginning of a week long sale featuring a 10 percent discount on all stock. When in the last week of Oct. 1962 Khrushchev wrote Kennedy. pointing out that under existing conditions, two individuals (the two K’s) were personally respon- sible for the issue of peace or war in the immediate ‘future Khrushchev proposed that Soviet Russia would remove the weapons that had been installed in Cuba and which the United States re- garded as an offence against them. This Russia agreed to on con- dition that the U.S.A. would lift their blockade of Cuba. These negotiations were agreed to by both sides and one after the other acted them out in unity. The people of the whole world breathed more freely. For the moment to some extent there was peaceful co-existence, Had there been continuing disunity, in all probability that would have ‘Lawrence of Arabia .... sinister phantom of Col he ce lonel Thomas Edward Law rence is haunting the Near anc Middle East. The British Intelli gence Service has invoked the ghost of this titled spy. Still unerased in people’s minds are the memories of the’ trail of blood Lawrence left behind him over a vast expanse ranging from the shores of the Ganges to the valley of the Nile, from the walis of Mecca to the Dar- danelles, and from Kabal to the Persian Gulf. In India, Lawrence masquerad- ed as ordinary airman Ross, in Afghanistan as the merchant Shaw, in Egypt as a counsellor of the Arab bureau, in Damascus as an archaeologist, and in Con- stantinople as a haughty Pasha. But everywhere he was the same spy and saboteur who by cunning and flattery, bribery and clandestine murder, conspiracy and provocation, paved for the magnates of the City the way to the oil gushers and key, strategic points of the Near and Middle East. e a * The criminal doesn't often re- turn to the scene of his crimes. But Lawrence has returned. He has returned as the hero of a sensational super-adventure film, Lawrence of Arabia, cooked up in London, and running throug- out the world, including some Middle Eastern countries. It goes without saying that the picture highlights all the charac- teristics of a ‘“noble’’ Saladin and “selfless’’ missionary, who was not adverse to donning the bur- nous of the Bedouin or the tur- ban of the Moslem, who knew brought nuclear war and unknow- able world disaster. In Canada we need unity be- hind the slogan No Nuclear Wea- pons For Canada’’. The farmers and workers of the west, organ- ized and unorganized, are mostly progresive Canadian people. Un- der the existing condition in this Federal election, the left wing of the N.D.P. could pressure the right wing to act in line with the © realities of the present situation. If the people would go into action they .could put a stop to the crazy disunity we are cursed with at the moment. In disunity among workers and farmers there is disaster and defeat. In union there is strength. Modern intercontinental rockets that can, by remote control, be brought down on targets thou- sands of miles away, have made Polaris and Bomare missiles ob- solete. ‘All’s well that ends well’ 4é ake House” is the name L commonly applied to the. seat of government in far-away Ceylon. Some months ago a Philli- pine journal, the Manilla Bul- letin, published a story, later picked up by the Tribune Ceylon News Review. Under the caption “Canad- ian Gir] encounters ‘Den of Wolves in Ceylon”, it would appear that ‘Lake House’ had certainly sponsored a “hot mamma’. According to the Ceylon Tribune, Miss Sarah de Vioo, “the shapely 23-year-old arts graduate from Bow Island, Alberta, went to Ceylon last May for a vacation but was told to leave the Island be- fore the expiration of her Visarac ss “Gawd”, chirped Sarah, “I ran into a den of wolves and was kicked out of Ceylon be- cause I resisted...” ete. and so forth. : Among Miss de _ Vloo’s “wolves’”” were, just to men- tion a few, a member of par- liament and some “govern- ment officials’, a policeman and a “plainclothesman”’. But Miss de Vloo’s safari wasn’t all a tussle in a “sav- age den of wolves”. She found her affinity at ‘“‘a Canadian embassy party. He’s a Ceylon- ese businessman. We love each other”. the Koran by heart and who could talk with the tribal chiefs in their own dialects. “No country can forgive Bri- tain such a distortion of histori- cal fact and truth’, angrily no- ted the Turkish paper, Havadis. “NO country is entitled to insult another by eulogizing a_ despi- cable spy.” But while the late Colonel con- tinues his present cloak and dag- ger activities only on the screen, = Se PETER O’TOOLE in the title role in ‘Lawrence of Arabia.” his heirs and students are per- forming more ments. specific assign- * * * The press is crammed with re- ports about the shady doings of British spies on the borders of Yemen. British intelligence cen- tres in Bahrein, Beihan and Ku- wait are most active in smug- gling agents and arms into Ye- men, to stifle the revolution and restore the despotism of the blood-stained monarchs. By artificially amalgamating the British mandated princedoms and emirates in the Persian Gulf area into the Federation of Southern Arabia, the British in- telligence service is trying to make it a stronghold for imperial- ism in its struggle against the national-liberation movements of the Arab peoples. At the other end of the Arab world, in the Sudan, British mis- sionaries have, in the words of the Sudanese Minister of Infor- mation Mohammed Osman, “en- gaged in activity that is detrimen- tal to the country’s interests and results in disorders.” a * _ * For many years, British spies have carried on subversive acti- vity in the Sudan’s southern pro- vinces, populated in the main by Berbers. Their aim is to carve up the country, to slice away dis- tricts and provinces rich in min- erals. They have restored in Law- rence’s tested methods of flirt- ing with the tribes, bribery, poli- tical assassination, stirring up strife between nations and tribes, and setting different religions one against the other. The eviction of these so-called ‘missionaries’’ from Southern Sudan has caused a_ certain amount of irritation in London and Washington. Some Western news services have accused the Sudanese of being guided by their desire to obstruct the preaching of Christianity and their support of the Moslem religion. What unmitigated hypocrisy! There was a time when Lawrence also popped up in the Arabian East as a Christian missionary. Glub Pasha: of Jordan and Filbi- bey of Saudi Arabia, embraced Islam when it was necessary in the interests of MI-5. * * »” The Sudanese, now rid of the foreign colonialist yoke, still re- members with anger the hang- men governors Gordon, Lee- Stack, Huddlestone, Howe, and the host of ‘‘mission- aries’”’ who spun a web of es- pionage through the nation. But these days are gone. In 1963, Lawrence of Arabia is just an image on the screen. But his ghost still stalks the places where the British colonial- ists are vainly trying to regain their past positions. —G. OSIPOV receiving wide usage He -was getting pretty hot, part CHORUS: CHORUS: CHORUS: CHORUS: But someone has to start; parit—_ CHORUS: Ballad of Lauris Norstad A young (16-year-old) North Vancouver high school student, Dave Yorke, has recently written the following song, which is ra in the current election campaign. melody is similar to Woody Guthrie’s “Hard, Ain’t It Hard?” There once was a man named General Lauris Norstad I’m afraid that we all know him well; To turn this world into an H-bomb Hell. But Lauris, Lauris, you can yell until you're hoar-ase; We will not heed your cries We will not take the Bomb, nor any other nuclear arms For our soldiers, on our soil, or in our skies. ‘The General waved his fingers at us nasty Canadians Saying: ‘“‘Why don’t you listen unto me? : ‘ You folks must have the Bomb, it can’t do you any harm To get blown up more scientifically.” The rantings of the General have shaken up the Liberals, They now think that H-Bombs are a must: But if Lester feels that way he’ll find out on voting day That we know that H-Bombs aren’t for us. Ncw Dief has thought the problem through Bui he can’t tell what to do— From those sleepless nights he’s looking pale and wan; 4 His courage he must brace and decide just whom to face— Us Canadians or the U.S. Pentagon. If the people have their way, we will see a peaceful day And we'll all deserve a big ‘Hurrah!’ “NO NUCLEAR ARMS FOR CANADA” The ‘cause we would not do our that’s where we can do our March 29, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 9 be ae eS et : 3 Re Woes: URE Y ee! Se ee Be r Se aoe ee eg oe Oy Robert |