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Picture shows a July 1st crowd at the Shevchenko monument at Palermo, Ontario.

earby is a museum of Shevchenko’s works.

By TOM McEWEN

@hevchenko Festival of Uk-
Yainian Song, Music and
ance, Friday and Saturday.
June 2 and 3 at the Garden
Auditorium.” So ran the ad-
Yertisements.

But in the Vancouver Shev-
chenko festival it was much
More than that. It was the
Songs, music and dance, the
Suffering and vision of an im-
Migrant who came to Canada
Nearly three-quarters of a cen-
tury ago, the beloved poet of

. Ukraine, Taras Shevchen-

Yes, Taras Shevchenko the
Serf, the exile, the victim of
* cruel tzarist tyranny, died
©n March 10, 1861 at the age
f 47-years. But he left his peo-
ble a priceless heritage, en-
Shrined in the hearts of tens
°f thousands of Ukrainian im-
Migrants who chose Canada as

fir adopted land.

With little in their pockets
Sut a boundless hope and cour-
*8e in their hearts, its flame

‘burnin : eeu
Mon € brightly by the vis-

‘b

and inspiration of their
Cloved poet, Taras Shevchen-
®, their sweat and toil rolled
&ck the frontiers of their

‘8dopted land, and the songs

Music and artistry of their
“mortal Bard, intertwined
" th: their struggles and hopes,
“88 become an inseperable
‘Part of the rich cultural heri-

. “88e of Canada.

ae the song and story of
a Tas: Shevchenko there is an
pretentious but tremendous
oa to overcome antagon-
a and inspire a common
a4 herhood; to bring the ‘left’
ke the ‘right” together in the
eas bond of a beautiful.
ee heralding a new dawn
mankind, A dynamic com-

ia power, inspiring a Can-
of non-Ukrainian origin

tt
e feel that Taras Shevchenko
: ae for all mankind; to think

“of him not only as the Bard

Wo © Ukraine, but. one who
ve the suffering and. hopes

Shevchenko’s work part
of Cana

dian

of all humanity into his death-
less lines. e

No one who attended the
magnificent two-performance
Vancouver Shevchenko | Festi-
val could come away unmov-
ed by the Association of Unit-
ed Ukrainian Canadians pre-
sentation of the Shevchenko
drama. From the tableau of
The Great Kobzar the charac-
ters created by Shevchenko
portraying the bondage, the
suffering, and the fearless
challenge of his people seek-
ing freedom, came to life
again.

In the music of many of the
Shevchenko songs rendered.
by the AUUC choir and orch-
estra, there is: both the qual-
ity of intense sadness and
stirring rebellion, while the
AUUC Dance ensemble  pro-
vided that rollicking rhythm
of abandonment and victory
which sets the feet of the aud-
iences tapping in unison.

In the twelve or more Shev-
chenko Festival . celebrations
which will be staged by
AUUC players during the com-
ing weeks, and terminating in
a great Toronto Festival on
July 1, Taras Shevchenko will
not only become in all reality
a poet of the Canadian people
as well as of his native Uk-
raine, but-this combination of
cultural festivities, marking
the centenary .of his death will
have added another brilliant
page to the cultural richness
of Canada and its people.

chenko Festival, three import-
ant books -have been. added
to the literature of Canada.

Translated by John Weir. This
is a book which requires no
‘review’ in the usual-sense, but
one which.» merits the grati-
tude of. .all. Canadians «for
bringing ‘Taras..Shevchenko
into their -hearts and: homes. —

Then: there is» Shevchenko
In. Canada. by. ~ Peter « Kraw-
chuk, with ..Transiation. by

eritage

... Ais part of -this great Shev- |

Taras Shevchenko Selections,

Mary Skrypnyk. It is the story |
of Ukrainian immigrants in|
Canada from the first of these
hardy pioneers over 60-years
ago down to the present. It is
also the story of how Taras
Shevchenko came with them
to this new land, deep in their
hearts and minds, giving them
that measure of courage, de-
termination and hope in fac-
ing the difficult. problems of
a pioneering era.

Last but by no means least
is Little Taras by Vancouver's
ewn Hannah Polowy. This is
the story of a little boy, with
all the evidences of his latent
talent to write and draw
bursting forth like a summer
rash, but more often being
booted around, his desires de-
nied, and hard menial work
his constant companion.

Written with the endearing
love of an adoring mother,
Little Taras is described as
“A Children’s Book.” Perhaps
its author Hannah Polowy,
(herself the mother of two
lovely children) will forgive
us if we suggest that Little
Taras is also a good book for
adults; for those who. seek a
full-length portrait of the Gen-
ius whose being originated in
the good earth of the Ukraine,
but whose vision of freedom
and happiness embraces all
mankind in his immortal My
Bequest:

“Oh bury me and rise-ye up
And smash your heavy chains
And water well with evil blood
The freedom of Ukr@ine.
And in the great new fam-
ily
The kinship of the free, -—
With kindly and a genile
word,
Remember, also me.”

The Shevchenko. Festival
celebrations, sponsored, by- the
AUUC enables all of . work-
ingelass- Canada--to-knew and
to ‘remember’ Taras. Shevchen-
ko; to make his. memory syn-
onomous with ‘their ‘struggle

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US.

ATROCITIES IN

S. KOREA REVEALED

A 49-page booklet outlining
332 cases of atrocities com-
mitted by United States
troops against the South Ko-
rean people has recently been
published in North Korea.

Based on reports in South
Korean newspapers, the book-
let details) 129 accounts of

violation .of women, 89

habitants and 78 aceounts of
the plunder and destruction. of
property. Ranging -frem .1954

sent only a part of-the atro-
cities committed.

Prepared by the . Korean
Democratic Lawyers’. -Associa-
tion in. cooperation with seven
other Korean .people’s organ-
izations,. the. booklet- declares
that the outrages are -‘‘eom-
pletely .trampling . underfoot
human morality and utterly
ignoring the principles of in-
ternational law.”

It reminds its.readers that
“all the .barbareus.acts of the
U.S. “imperialists - against .the
South. Korean . people. have
been. perpetrated: under the
UN signboard. illegaliy-usurp-
ed by them.”

These examples .chosen at
random: from= the ‘pookiet in-
dicate the-pHight taced..by the

SCIENTISTS
AGAINST BOMB

Canada’s atomic ..seientists
and... technicians..-living and
working: at Deep River, -Ont.,
have signed -a petition to the
government “urging the total
abolition of -nuclear. weapons.

The petition was -signed -by
235. persons, most .of avhom
work at. nearby..Chaik. River.

to the present .year, the book- |
let states that the sts -repre- |

homicide, 36 accounis of the ;Ok Ai (15) in an attempt to
ac- | Violate her. He fought. with
counts of outrages against in-|the neighbors whe came to

South Korean people as a re-
sult of American troops +»eing
stationed in their country:

“On the night of Dee. 13,
1960, an American soldier
committed violence to Kim
Soon Kab of No. 176, Sibjung-
dong, Inchon, and * broke into
the room of his daughter Kim

| stop him before he made off.

i (South Korean paper Dong-A.

Hbo, Dec, 14, 1966.)”

“At about 9 p.m., Feb. 26,
1960, in Waikwan four Amoer-
ican soldiers of B €o., US.
Army 44th Engineer Gp. (the
same company whieh com-
mitted the lynch on the 12th)
perpetrated another atrocity
at the same place: and in the
same manner as in the pre-
vious case before the -pepular
resentment against the dynch
subsided.

“According to a South Ko-
rean paper, Inchon Shinbo af
July 1, 1969. the U.S. Army
authorities. set .. barbed-wire
entanglements eovering a
wide area. around. the. newly-
built Soongeui Railway Sta-
tion in Inchon, As-a result
local traffic and- water sup-
ply were suspended for more
than 20,000 inhabitants and
1,000 students of three sehools
in the. area, causing ‘them
great inconveniences in their
daily life.’’

The booklet..declares that
these atrocities “‘cannot:be tol-
erated” and calls -upen “the
honest -. minded people and
lawyers of the. world to pass
a fair judgment -upon the
blood - curdling;  >barparous,
criminal acts ineessantiy per-
petrated by (the US. -xqperial-
ist aggressors- in South Ko-
rea.”

for peace.

a sun bath.

Children at.a kindergarten in Changchun, China, enjoying

~ June -16,-1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page $