“™y ho a a The Miles that they on Saty Ocal artists, SPONSORING HOOTENANNY tones, well known Vancouver folk singing group, have announced are sponsoring a Hootenanny at the Queen Elizabeth Playhouse rday, March 27, beginning at 8 p.m. The program, featuring all Promises to be an exciting one. Tickets, priced at $1.50 for adul, os ed $1.00 for students, are available from The Milestones or People’s ‘ook Store, 341 W. Pender — but they are already hard to come by, O hurry, Chaplin’s book mee Haney B.C. writes; beh Owing item is copied from foe e Chaplin’ s book “ My Auto- “a aphy”, page 410, andhasme % Confused, ene Louis Ferdinand, " ae of the Kaiser called me ~~ Studio and later we dined at Me and had an interesting The Prince, charming and Drman cuizent, spoke .of the worla n revolution after the first 4 war as being comic opera, My grandfather had gone to Hol 3 et he said, but some of my at p talk, Very aR too terrified to move. marched last the revolutionists Note Ba on the palace they senta pms ng if they would receive: ei. nd in that interview assur- sy m that they would be given Pei ection and that if they to phon anything that they had only ers, 4 the Socialist Headquart- ears Could not believe their’ ment . : ut when later the govern - Settle ed them about a elati €nt of their estates, my Ves began to equivoicate and (the at In summing up he Revolution > said, ‘The Russian as a poe a tragedy, ours On en the above my comment is, Chants. « Weep when the see Wonder S “Limelight”some may the a and think when they read ve. Grant that wedo both, Us, ‘terror’ ix na. Vancouver, writes; There article reprinted from the 2 Street Journal inthe Febru- Sority of One” which is 3 ae its conclusions. . aad of this article tells Poltey ° S that the USA has a areas frightfulness in some this = a of the need to disguise of icy as legitimate support arassed people. Also the Marg “ hand in the Wall Street Journal e He sd a to be an ideal couple. Gnd she Us, steels and electronics, drugs > has chemicals, aircraft and Qeer FORUM ives remained in the palace . author believes this policy of frightfulness and deceit justified, and that one must forget qualms of morality and justice, and do the practical and succeed in the ‘objective desired. But the author is sure sucha policy will not succeed, and why. The reason given that it will not succeed is because the Com- munists are so much better at. carrying out a “policy of fright- fulness” than ever we (the U.S.) can be, It seems hardly possible that the writer expects the public to demand that the government shows the Communists thatit can be more “frightful”, but that ap- pears to me to be the only logic flowing from this brain- washing job: To me it appears that the author of this insane distortion is only about one step behind the late U.S. State Secretary James Forrestal, who jumped from a top storey window, thinking the Russians had “invaded” Washing- ton, when it was only a firetruck passing his residence. Does not all this imply that these people, and those whom they presumably write and speak for, have become the victims of their own lying propaganda? ‘Little Norway’ M.T, Chase, B.C. writes; May- be many “PT” readers do not know that “Little Norway” of 125, 000 population has 100 miles of common frontier with the USSR. The river Pasvik is part of this common border and~ lately Norway and the USSR in joint fellowship, agreed together on Norway's building a power pro- ject on this frontier river. It all went very well indeed, a mutual agreement for a power dam for the well-being of both countries, Such cooperation is possible when we remember that Norway Prime Minster Ger- hardsen, the youngest premier in the world when he took office, and the longest one now 33-years in office, has always worked close together with the Labor and Socialist movement in Norway. Just recently he said “this year all workers in Norway shallhave a 30-day vacation with full pay”, something I think no prime min- ister in the world has managed to say as yet. Shows what can be done in a little country where they have an honest government. | Inside story of S. Vietnam struggle told by Burchett “VIETNAM-INSIDE STORY OF THE GUERILLA WAR,” by Wil- fred G. Burchett. International Pub-. lishers. Available at People’s Co-op Bookstore, 341 W. Pender St., Van- couver. Price $5.50. nternational Publishers in the U.S, is to be congrat- ulated for rushing through pub- lication of the latest book by Wilfred G, Burchett, “Vietnam: * Inside Story of the Guerilla War.” This book is now available in Vancouver at the People’s Co-op Bookstore. This book is an eyewitness re- port by the only Western writer to travel through the areas held by the National Liberation Front, whose guerilla troops are usually referred to as the “Viet Cong.” He visited “liberated” areas - comprising, as he reports, two- thirds of South Vietnam - during the last quarter of 1963 and the first three months of 1964. He then revisited this area for two months, A “Postscript,” receivedas the hook was ready for press, and datelined, “An Advanced Libera- tion Front Base, January 15, 1965,” summarizes his impres- sions of the second visit. \ Burchett makes clear his deep sympathy for those South Viet- namese who have fought the Saigon regime to a standstill, even with the support from the U.S. His book , therefore, far from sustaining the official posi- tion of the United States, gives an entirely different picture, A keen observer, with a back- ground of reporting wars and revolutions for over 25 yearsfor both “Establishment” news- papers and radical journals, he gives the only first hand account of the nature , extent, organization and aims of the guerilla forces, including their attitude toward a negotiated peace. For eight months he travelled with the guerilla forces and ob- served the way of life in the free towns. By jungle trail, over mountains and rice paddies - on foot, horseback, bicycle or by sampan - Burchett travelled with guerilla guides to the very out- skirts of Saigon, often within a few yards of enemy posts. He talked with the mountain tribespeople and the plainsfolk of Central Vietnam, and saw both «strategic hamlets” and free towns inthe Mekong Delta as well, Despite his 52 years, he took forced marches, running for cover from helicopter attacks, crept through the fabulous system of underground tunnels as battles raged - in short, he shared the life of the incredible Liberation fighters who are defeating far - superior military forces. He saw jungle arsenals and field hospitals, interviewed American POW’s and talked to the heroines of the “Chignon brigades” which spike enemy cannon, In the villages he saw «self-management” at work, the system of inner democratic rule which prevails in two-thirds of South Vietnam, a government in all but name. He met Nguyen Huu Tho, pres- ident of the National Front of Liberation; Tran Nam Trung, its military leader, and many other civilian and partisan leaders, local and national, His first book on the present struggle in Vietnam, “The Furtive War” (1963), foretold the end of the Ngo Dihn Diem regime. The present book reveals that there is no “light at the end of the dark tunnel,” unless it be the light of a negotiated peace that will leave Vietnam free to deter-° mine its own destiny. This book is a good answer to the drivel being poured at by the Vancouver Sun in a series of articles by John Kirkwood, writ- ing from South Vietnam, in which he attempts to justify and glorify the U.S, soldiers in South Viet- mam, whom he characterizes as men: who “conduct themselves like gentlemen,” After two weeks on a tour conducted by U.S. officers and men, Kirwood is able to come to the conclusion that “the war can be won” and that “the regular Vietnamese army is rapidly being turned into a tough and efficient fighting machine with a dogged determination to win the war, an extremely high morale, and a willingness to accept the sug- gestions offered by the Amer- icans,” Kirkwood had better explain how the heavily outnumbered Lib- eration forces are able to defeat South Vietnamese forces under U.S. command many times more humerous, Also why so many ‘desert to the Liberationarmy and take their equipment with them, Burchett’s book is an invalu- able and brilliant piece of report- age which gives readers an insight into the struggle now raging in South East Asia, —Maurice Rush Author of the latest book an Vietnam, Wilfred G. Burchett, is shown with the president of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, Nguyen Huu Tho. The picture was taken in the dense jungle area of NFL H. Q. for 30th s part ofthis paper’s con- tinuing celebration of its ‘ 30th anniversary, a call has * gone out to all art and photo- graph enthusiasts to send in sampes of their own work or any other material which could * be used in mounting effective displays of working class art, The call, from the PT 30th Anniversary Committee, asks for material in the following categories: children’s art, adult art, photography, his- * torical documents andposters (from around the world), This material will then be mounted, assembled and made * available to press clubs all over the province, Entries can either be donated to the Pacific Tribune, or marked for sale (with the Trib charging the usual commission to help de- fray costs) or an artist may x; stipulate that his workis being %; sent in strictly on loan, to be ss returned after the birthday “: celebrations have been com- pleted, The committee requests Prepare art display birthday that all submissions should generally comply with the theme of British Columbia, its natural beauty, the ideas and aspirations of its people, as seen through the eyes of its workers and intellectuals, Anyone wishing to send in material for one or more of the categories outlined above should do so promptly, as | assembling, compiling and : mounting the myriad paint- : ings, photos and documents ; could turn out to be a task of | huge proportions, So Ali material should be for- warded to: 30th Anniversary DISPLAY COMMITTEE c/o Pacific Tribune, Mezzanine 3, 193 E, Hastings St,, Vancouver 4, B,C, Anyone requiring more in-+ formation or having any sug- gestions to offer _ should contact Margaret Apps at 4865 Triumph, North Burnaby (CY 8-4980,)