eer Reet ne et a a. ——— i) SS ——* i “Garden City’—a common sight in Argentina. 25,000 Working class families live in these houses built of mud, tin and cardboard. A few water outlets supply the entire “city”, Acute shortages plague Argentina ORE than three million aie Argentinians live in Communities in which fre is no sanitary organiz- ion _Whatsoever, where Sar é no medical assistance te able. This means that, so 34 as hygiene and medicine Concerned, one-fifth of iy peuntty’s entire popula- a lving in a prehistoric pe cording to statistics gath- . y the World Health Or- ay ation (UN) there are tong 10 hospital beds per ae inhabitants; this repre- ira”. 36% of the re- ficla number, and in the sa of maternity homes, ¥- 25%. ee is this the only short- ma a by its people. 1,- Ricdia\. homes are needed im- noe ely. Barely 4% of the Population have ade- uate housing. Tecent inquiry into hous- eee wons in two of the eae urban centres, con- af by Dr. Thelma Cora, wed that only one-third of Pre-school age children 2 . alone; 35% share, their oy one other person With remaining 32% sleep ble me or even more peo- - These are 1945 figures, at ing Slee and since then the situation has worsened. e As a result of these tragic conditions, it is almost im- possible for the country’s children to develop in a nor- mal manner. In rural dis- tricts, 23.2% of the popula- tion over 14 years of age cannot read or write their own names; only 13% com- plete their primary education and in the poorest and least populous provinces this figure drops to 7%. Naturally, this process of “flight from the schools” increases in the sec- ondary and higher levels. Since the amount of educa- tion received by a child is in direct proportion to the social position of that child’s family, very few youngsters get the benefit of any higher educa- tion whatever. The basis of ownership of property — the latifundia— is the main reason for this terrifying situation in Argen- tina’s countryside, and the cities are only slightly better off. It remains to be seen just how much outside aid will be given to the people of Argen- tina to help them break the shackles-in which they find themselves. PROMINENT ARTISTS SAY - RENOUNCE NUCLEAR TESTS, Some of the Wo theatre r > ets Most prominent stars JOIned their fans in S > : Peaking for peace. WORTH __READING wane Days that Shook the ras by John Reed (Paper- side $1.75). This book is con- Ted the best eyewitness ac Polar of the Bolshevik Re- 0 f : a cludes n. The material in interviews, speeches, Ons and press accounts Beant full of quotations from tments, : mas Miies from Home, 50c arren Miller (Paperback se his portrait of Cuba Written on the spot by cee novelist and is a ie account of what is PPening in Cuba today. resoluti Recently, a group of artists sent a message to Premier Khrushchev, President Ken- nedy, Prime Ministter Mac- millan and President De Gaulle asking them to ‘work unceasingly toward renuncia- tion of nuclear tests.” The signers included Rudy Vallee, Orson Bean, Mimi Benzell, Douglas Campbell (Canada), Sydney Chaplin, Gladys Cooper, Ossie Davis, Uta Hagen, Julie Harris, Wendy Hiller, Lotte Lenya, Viveca Lindfors, Elaine May and Maureen Stapleton. SEEGER ON a; When he was in Vancouver a short time ago. Pete Seeger taped a television show for future use. The PT has learn- ed that it will be shown on the Seven O'Clock Show, CBUT (Channel 2), on Thurs- day, April 12th. “The Conspirators”’ glorifies reaction The Conspirators, by D. J. Goodspeed. Available upon request at People’s Co-op Book Store. Price $5.00. Major Goodspeed, working in the obscurity of the Cana- dian Army historical section . in Ottawa, in this work seeks to glorify the necessity and desirability of counter-revo- lution. It would not be amiss to once again warn Canadians in these days of a rising movement from the right in North America, that this lat- est book gives inspiration to putschists of the John Birch breed as well as to the more experienced veterans of the White Terror who make up the various “ethnic” councils on Canadian soil, and who specialize in calling for war. The Goodspeed book deals with six attempted seizures of power. Of the six, three of them are attempted fascist putsches; the fourth an ac- count of the 1944 generals’ revolt against Hitler. Actually, the latter was an attempt to keep the German people from moving to the political left as Hitler’s de- feat became obvious. ~ Allen Dulles and British intelli- gence undoubtedly had a hand in this venture. The Russian Revolution is superficially treated in the book, and where there is an element of objectivity, the suspicion arises that the author cribbed from John Reed’s ‘Ten Days that Shook the World”. See da Vinci Thousands of people are streaming through the doors, of the National Gallery in London to see the drawing of the Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist. and St. Anne, by Leonardo da Vinci. & This ‘picture, ~ entitled ——. Cambodia. — Had he borrowed more, he might have come to the con- clusion that the Russian Re- volution was not simply a coup or takeover by a band of professional putschites, as the author energetically. seeks to establish, but rather a pop- ular revolution of the most profound kind — unique in history. But authors like him are completely incapable of un- derstanding the nature of a really popular revolution. Thus, throughout the book, we have the typically bour- geois slander about revolu- tionary leaders who spring from the masses. They are considered mentally unbalan- ple of Germany and made it Page Five of the PT is usual- ly devoted to cultural events, book reviews, reports of an educational nature, and so on. Since this is YOUR paper, readers are urged to mail in contributions and criticisms of its contents. ced. The leaders of the Easter Rising in Dublin of 1915 are designated as ‘“‘not completely sane’, so too the Bolsheviks and particularly Lenin. Go The only sane people, ac- cording to Major Goodspeed, are people like himself, the von Stauffenbergs, General Becks and the like, who led the bomb plot against Hitler. Goodspeed’s admiration for these German generals blinds his historical vision. He re- veals his subjective desire in his hostility to the Soviet Union. He would have liked the plot against Hitler to have succeeded, not because it would have brought victory to the Allies more speedily, and an end to Fascism, but because it would have streng- thened the capitalist hand against the workers and peo- st by Mark Frank. a better weapon against soc- ialism. The “he was mad” theory of history is a favorite device of bourgeois apologists. They have written down as insane William Lyon Mackenzie, Louis Riel and many others who fought oppression and wrongdoing. Karl Marx suf- fered particularly from boils. Hence the vitriolic character of his writings in Das Kapital. Goodspeed belongs to this species of historian. He writes history to please his masters. Reactionaries have always acted thus. When they cannot explain a revolutionary sob- erly and objectively, they ascribe his revolutionary zeal to fanaticism. To write otherwise might prove dan- gerous to the class in power. This anxiety to declare a revolutionary insane is par- ticularly manifest when the prevailing capitalist regime is being questioned. For in- volved here are huge vested interests, actual power ques- tions of the day, the system of exploitation and war, pro- fits out of the arms race and nuclear weapons contracts. Unable to answer the ver- dict of history. that revolu- tions take place as a result of definite historical material conditions, authors like Good- speed resort to subjective ex- planations of these events, while advancing their “white terror” philosophy. By this means they want to create the idea that the pre- vailing system of capitalism is eternal and that if any changes take (place they will be only along the lines of an enlightened “people’s capital- ism’’. Of course, this is cari- caturing the historical pro- cess, and Major Goodspeed is an expert in this occupation. e Abridged from a review tle “She is happy”, won a Gold Medal at the 1961 Moscow International Exhibition of Photographic Art. Photographer was Jun Du Lam of April 6, 1962—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5