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Sacco-Vanzetti case
hailed as fine TV play

Writing in the San Francisco | ing flow of TV commercialism.

People’s World

last week

ichael Gold, U.S. working |

Class Writer, said: “By some
aeerele that I cannot under:
nd, the finest, most truthful

a ane
ce d uncompromising play
Sut Sacco and Venzetti was

q conte on TV recently, a
- §0lden gleam in the dark, reek-

A medal of TV honor is due
the production. May such mir-
acles come again. They redeem
the prostitute medium.”

The play which was staged
by NBC as a two-part national
television show on the nights
of June 3 and 10 was written
by Reginald Rose, the same

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alicia niet positions, the
CO-exist © achieve the peaceful
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thig other welcome feature of
the ne of Marxist Review is
ation PUPlication of the declar-
~ 8dopted by the Commun-

ist parties of the 12 socialist
countries in Moscow in Novem-
ber, 1957. This basic statement
of Communist policy was
printed in the Pacific Tribune
at that time, but will now be
available in a more convenient
and permanent form in Marx-
ist Review.

Canadian developments are
extensively treated in the mag-
azine with articles by George
Harris on the recent CLC con-
vention and by H. Galbraith on
trends in Ontario agriculture.
Together with these the maga-
zine carries extensive excerpts
from the reports of Bruce Mag-
nuson to the Ontario conven-.
tion of the Communist Party,
and of Rae Murphy to the con-
vention of the Young Commu-
nist League.

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writer who gave us “Twelve
Angry men.”

The first installment told
how two. obscure radicals,
Nicolo Sacco and Bartolomeo
Vanzetti were arrested and
charged with a New England
holdup killing in the politcally
surcharged atmosphere of the
Palmer Raids.

The second installment dealt
with the long and futile seven-
year fight to save the “good
shoemaker” and the ‘“‘poor fish
peddler’” from the electric
chair.

For the first time in the play
millions, including a genera-
tion that barely heard of Sacco
and Vanzetti, was able to hear
Vanzetti’s immortal eloquence.
“If it had not been for these
things, I might have lived out
my life talking on street cor-
ners to scorning men. I might
have died unknown, unmark-
ed, a failure...”

Rose’s script is frankly part-
isan. It is built on the clearly
declared foundation of the in-
nocence of Sacco and Vanzetti.

August 22 will be 33 years
since the famous pair were leg-
ally lynched by the red-baiters
of that day even as Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg met the same
fate in our day.

HELP BUILD
PACIFIC TRIBUNE
CIRCULATION !

Pass this issue on to your
neighbor or workmate.

| that woulda

| writes:

Jack Boyd, Vancouver,
“Your correspondent
E. Rodgers regards neutrality
as. an opiate te serve as a
tranquilizer, sootning

negate all
independence.

syrup
strug-
But

gles for

| how can we achieve independ-
| ence

first
Yankee

break
mil

unless
from

we

loose the

| itary and economic grip?

“Neutrality constitutes
essential first step in that di
recion. For how can we attain
independence if we passively

} submit to Yankee war bases in

Canada? Why they even arro-
gantly bar admittance to
Canadian. officials. Surely it
should be clear to all that the
US.
madmen even more
than Hitler, and who are ra-
bidly frothing at the mouth as
they gleat over their military
camps in various countries.

“As Canada is but a pawn
in their gamble to win world
dominance, imagine what
would happen if one of their
screwball. pilots stationed here
took off for the U.S.S.R.-in a
U-2 ‘“‘weather plane.’ The So-
viet would be fully justified
in retaliating within minutes
but of course, we’d all be safe
if “protected” with Civil De-
fence paper hats.

E. Rodgers should realize
our main enemies are right
here in Canada. Every nation
should have the right to self-
determination and the right to
work out its own destiny.
Therefore, we
mass pressure on Our govern-
ment and compel the brass
hats to get out of the fascist
camp.

Certainly all decent-minded
people should hang their
heads in shame in being part
and parcel of a gang of cut-
throats such as Adenauer,
Franco, Syngman_ Rhee,
Chiang Kai-shek, Kishi and a
host of Yankee imperialists.

“To free Canada from these
sadistic reactionaries and pre-
pare the way for independ-
ence we must first demand
and fight for neutrality. Be-
lieve me we won’t get it serv-
ed on a gold platter and it will
be a tough struggle on the road
to independence, and the very
opposite of the do-nothing pol-
icy E. Rodgers portrays.”

e

A. Stratton, N. Vancouver,
writes: “Does Mr. Rogers think
that the present Canadian gov-
ernment, or any other likely
to be elected in the near fu-
ture, would take the part. of
any Oppressed people against
their oppressors I feel sure
not,

should bring |
sense of decency

NEUTRALITY -- YE

|
|

an |

is ruled by a clique of |
fanatic |

|

; the

July 8, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5

§ 0

“The
it the Canadian people must
united in

most important action

take is to become

their efforts. to compel the
| Canadian government to break
the military alliance with the
| lying, discredited Yankee ag-
gressors, hat means with-
drawal from NATO, and the

isting of all Yankee military
forces and equipment from our
soil, and working for total dis-

armament.

“I think that there is a de-
1
[

| cided possibility that that aim

| could be secured but not if the

theories of socialism

the

are. in-

ected. into discussions,

+
J
desirable as socialist aims may
be.

“T don’t think that the word
neutrality is the correct word
to describe that policy, be-
cause it is one of positive ac-
tien.””

€

Erling Nash, Notch Hill,
writes: “Should we urge a pol-
icy of neutrality? With the
present policy of the Diefen-
baker government I think that
the most urgent demand of the
Canadian. people should be
neutrality; militarily, that is.

“However, when such out-
rages occur as the murdering
of the Negro people in South
Africa and the foreing down
the throats of the Japanese
people a war treaty that they
don’t want, to name only two,
then we cannot let our words
and thinking remain neutral

| Or we betray our moral opliga-

ions to our fellow men, our
and self-
respect, as well as losing the
comradeship of those people
who are in so much need of
support that we should
and can give them by speak-
ing in their support in order
to make the Canadian people
more conscious of their strug-
gles.”’

H-bomb immoral,
says British actress

British actress Rosamund
John made a moving plea for
peace and nuclear disarma-
ment last week at a public
meeting in Nottingham, Eng-
land.

“I’m -the mother of two sons,
six and 14 years old. I hope
one day to be a grandmother.
I can’t commit the future of
my children or yours to a
world which is playing about
with H-bombs,” she told a
crowd of several hundred.

Pointing out that humanity
was running great-risks the
actress said that ritain
“should not indulge in this im-
moral traffic in H-bombs.”

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