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1944 Warsaw Uprising. Barto-
szewski’s book (Interpress, War-
saw, 1970) is a “pioneer step
in the research of the help that
the Polish community gave their
Jewish brothers,’ say the pub-
lishers in their introduction.

In 1967, Bartoszewski, a foun-
der of the Council for Aid to
Jews, co-edited with Zofia Le-
win the volume, “This is My

Fellow Countryman. Help Given:

to Jews by Poles, 1939-1945.”
An expanded edition of 1,109
pages appeared in 1969.

“No other country in the world
paid such a price in blood for
helping Jews as did Poland. It
was incomparably easier to de-
monstrate in defense of Jews
in certain western countries than
to hide one of them in Poland,”
says Czeslaw. Madajezyk in his
two-volume history, “The Policy
of the Third Reich in Occupied

. Poland.”

Warsaw Ghetto

In his 69-page booklet “Strug-
gle and Help” (Iskry, Warsaw,
1968), Tadeusz Bednarczyk tells
of the Warsaw Ghetto freedom
fighters and the assistance to the
embattled Jews by the Polish
underground. As a_ wartime
member of the underground Mi-
litary Organization of the Se-
curity Corps, he worked togeth-
er with the Jewish Military Or-
ganization of the Warsaw Ghet-
to.

The Warsaw Ghetto uprising
is also saluted in an article in
an encyclopedia issued last year
by the Ministry of National De-
fense Publishing House. The
article is titled, “Armed Strug-
gle on Polish Land, 1939-1945”
by Boleslaw Dolata and Tadeusz
Jurga.

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The memory —
of Lumumba
stays green

Ten years ago in the little
town of Thysville, on the cara-
van route where the Portuguese
marched the black slaves to Lu-
anda for deportation to the Ame-
ricas at the time of slave traffic,
Patrice Lumumba and his com-
panions-in-arms Maurice M’polo
and Joseph Okito were handed
over by President Kasavubu to
the Katanga secessionists.

_ On February 13 that year the
world learned with alarm and
indignation of the cowardly as-
sassination of Lumumba and his
two comrades by the Belgian co-
lonialists and their mercenaries,
fully blessed and approved by
the imperialist powers.

Worthy, noble son of Africa,
staunch leader of the national li-
beration movement, Patrice Lu-
mumba was the personification
of the will for national indepen-
dence and unity.

At a time when the Portuguese
colonialists, sure of the help of
their allies and NATO member
countries, are intensifying the
genocidal colonial war, when im-
perialist forces are stepping up
aggression and intrigue against
the integrity and sovereignty of
African states intent on liquidat-
ing the liberation movements
and restoring colonialization in
the continent, the example
shown by Patrice Lumumba re-
mains more firmly implanted
than ever in the hearts of all
peoples everywhere.

It was he who said, “Better
to die with head high, faith un-
flinching and confidence firm in
the destiny of one’s country,
than to live a life of subser-

vience and surrender one’s sac- -

red principles”.

Patrice Lumumba’s political
career symbolizes heroic strug-
gle; it is -an inspiration to all
who cherish peace, freedom and
justice in the world.

—Peace Courier

Facts on USSR

The Soviet Union is the big-
gest state in the world as re-
gards territory—it occupies one-
sixth of the habitable land area
of the globe (22,400,000 sq. km.).

The USSR is the homeland of
130 nations and ethnic groups
and its population totals some
242,000,000.

The USSR was the first coun-
try in the world to introduce a
planned economy. It was the
first to do away with unemploy-

ment.

The USSR was the first
to put an artificial earth
satellite into a space orbit

(October 1957). Soviet cosmo-
naut Yuri Gagarin was the first
human to orbit around the earth
in outer space (April 12, 1961).
<® TH@ USSR built the first
atomic power station in the
world and launched the. first
nuclear-driven ship, the Lenin

icebreaker.

TURN TO BOOKS

Satirical Mother Goose

Merriam, Eve. The Inner City
Mother Goose. Visuals by Law-
rence Ratzkin. Simon & Schus-
ter, 1969, $5.95.

Merriam, Eve. The Nixon
Poems. Illustrated by John Ger-
bino. Atheneum, 1970. $3.50
(paper). :

The freedom of speech and
the freedom to write and publish
are well guarded in the United
States. The Administration will
countenance almost any out-
burst. of democratic fervor—up
to a point, of course. So we have
that incredible American con-
tradiction of suppressive and ex-
pansionist government practices
openly deplored by the media
and in public assembly.

Is this extreme contradiction
America’s safety valve for the
containment of criticism? How
are the ordinary American peo-
ple affected by seeing Jane Fon-
da on a TV talk show denounce
the American war in Vietnam?
Or reading James  Baldwin’s
“Open Letter to My Sister, Miss
Angela Davis” in the New York
Review of Books? Or even buy-
ing Eve Merriam’s acerbic obser-
vations in verse?

Those Americans who can
afford TV, review - periodicals
and $5.95 books are the middle
class. The people who would
be the most reinforced by the
bravery of Fonda, Baldwin and
Merriam. probably never even
heard of them or their fervor
in favor of democracy. :

But Eve Merriam’s poems

Odessa highlight

are worth reading for their do-
cumentation of America’s disen-
chantment with the Nixon re-
gime. Canadians reading them
wonder how long the Americans
will only write poems about
their two top public disgraces—
Nixon and Agnew. Here’s how
Merriam sees “MY PREZ”:

Of whom

else can I say

that

when he does

something good

there is

a bad reason for it.

The Inner City Mother Goose
does another job—it exposes
ghetto life through the use of
Mother Goose rhymes.

Mary, Mary,

Urban Mary,

How does your sidewalk grow?

With chewing gum wads

And cigarette butts

And popsicle sticks

And potato chip bags |

And candy wrappers

And beer cans

And broken bottles

And crusts of pizza

And coffee grounds

And burnt out light bulbs

And a garbage

strike all in a row.

The rest of them may scan
like Mother Goose too, but they
are just as devastating as Mary,
Mary. Both books are picture
books meant for adults. Read
“them and see—and then pass
the books on.

—Harriet Sanger

Donald Bell on four

By ILYA ILYUSHIN

ODESSA—tThe concert here of
Canadian singer Donald Bell,
who toured the USSR recently,
was very successful. —

According to Mr. Bell, the
“musical start’ had successfully
begun for him in Kharkov,
where he was received very
warmly. He was particularly
keen on meeting Odessa audi-
ences because this city has great
musical traditions. It was actu-
ally here that the world-famous
musicians David Oistrakh, Emil
Gilels, Svyatoslav Rikhter and
many, other began their careers.

Music fans here noted the ser-
ious music tastes of the Cana-
dian singer, who included in his
repertoire such works as Giulio
Caccini’s ‘“Amarigli,” Alessandro
Scarlatti’s “The Yellow Sun of
the Ganges,” Samuel Barber’s
vocal cycle “The Songs of a
Recluse,” Sergei Rakhmaninov’s
romances “I. Feel Great Pain,”
“It Is So Nice Here” and “Spring
Waters,” and Ludwig Van Bee-
thoven’s vocal cycle.

There was a wealth of emo-
tion in the performance of
Rakhmaninov’s romances, and
audiences here particularly ap-
preciated that these were sung
in Russian. Critics noted the
singer’s easy stage manner, ex=
cellent. vocal schooling and su-
perb voice mastery—an expres-
sive and beautiful baritone.

This is Mr. Bell’s second visit
to the USSR, and he said that
he was sincerely glad to meet
Soviet audiences again. He re-
called with pleasure his _per-
formances in Moscow, Lenin-
grad, Rostov-on-Don, Taganrog
and Donetsk in 1962.

“The Soviet people,” he said,

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1971—PAGE 9

“hear concerts with great ap-
preciation and interest, and they
are responsive to the works per-
formed. It is always a joy and
pleasure to sing to such an
exacting public.” arr >

This time Mr. Bell’s wife, In-
grid, came to the Soviet Union
as well and became acquainted
with the musical life in the
country. According to her, she
was greatly pleased to see
Adam’s ballet “Giselle” at the
Odessa Opera and Ballet Thea-
tre.

Mr. Bell mentioned the great
skill of his Moscow accompany-
ing pianist—Lyudmila Kuratova.

“T consider the Soviet musical
art to be the best in the world,”
he said. “To my mind, the Soviet
Union has a particularly fine
organization of musical educa-
tion for vocalists.” He also said
that Saviet educational estab-
lishments train highly educated
singers of many different pro-
files. They study many other
subjects as well as singing thus
becoming people of high cul-
tural standards, real artists,
scholarly and superb performers.
This helps them in their creative
work in the opera, in concert
programs and in _ pedagogical
activities. :

“During this tour I did not

. manage to hear such well-known

Soviet singers as Galina Vish-
nevskaya, Pavel Lisitsyan and
others,” said Mr. Bell regretful-
ly. “The itinerary was too pack-
ed. But I hope to come to the
USSR again, to visit opera thea-
tres and meet my colleagues.”

Besides Odessa and Kharkov,
Mr. Bell held concerts in Minsk,
Leningrad, Kiev, Volgograd and
Ulyanovsk. -