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Two new Ph inese aera of art. On the left is a traditional
Painting: “Lotus Dance.” On the right is a colored wood-

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cut depicting work in the countryside in the spring.

Author of Room at Top’
active fighter for peace

John Braine, the Yorkshire-born author of the best-selling “Room at the Top”,
which was made into a highly honored film, is one of Britain’s most active peace

workers.

He has spoken on many nu-
clear disarmament platforms.
In a recent interview he said:

“T have learned that there is
no sense in being involved in
this campaign unless one is
prepared to fight the whole
way. There is simply no point
in mincing your words when
you feel insidé of you that un-
less we break through the H-
bomb barrier, we shall all ex-
perience a Hiroshima.”

On German rearmameni he
said:
first of all a betrayal of the
German people who want to
see an end to permanent div-
ision of their country. German
rearmament is a betrayal of
two generations of British
dead. It is absurd to have as
an ally a nation which has
twice imperilled our very ex-

Search for peace

_ F. E, CROSS, Vancouver: It
1S now more than seven years
Since I stood-in line at the Im-
Migration Office in Linz, Aus-

_ tria, applying for a visa and I
_ Temember it as clearly as if it

had been yesterday. I was des-
Perate. Desperate to live in
Peace, away frdm_ war-torn

_ Europe and Canada seemed to
_ be the haven for my war-

Weary heart. You won’t like it,
I was told. Canada is a hard
country and, besides, there is
‘NO Social Security. What will
you do if you are sick? Who
will look after you? But at
least, it’s a peaceful country.

At least, it is not occupied by

foreign troops, like Austria is,
and, if it means hardships, I
am willing to take them. I
would rather live a hard life
than live under the constant
threat of atomic extinction, till
the end of my life.

That was seven years ago
and I came. I gave up security
and my job. I gave up my
friends and my beautiful home-
land, just to live in peace.

When the Canadian immi-
gration officer asked me about
my political opinions, I told
him I didn’t have any and did
not care about politics, even
if only
vaguely. I just wanted to get
away. I was frightened. But I
wasn’t able to leave the cry
for war behind me. It followed
me and is around*'me — more
so than ever before. And ev-
erything I have run away from

has caught up with me. ‘
I dreamt of living a life,
free of fear, but the fear is

around me. I dreamt of a
country, free of foreign occu-
pation and influence, but the
foreign troops are here. Noth-
ing has really changed. Every-
thing is the same, except me.
You see, I won’t run away any
more. I have decided to stand
up-and fight for peace.

K. was right

‘ROY REID, Sask. Eisen-
‘~hower has said some foolish
things about the crisis caused
by the American spy flights.
Why should the United States
presume that the Russian gov-
ernment base their under-
Standing of things on spying
and deceit. Socialist countries
depend on a knowledge of the
facts of social science.

Even people in Saskatche-
wan with little understanding
of Marxian political economy,
know that Khrushchev is wise
in demanding an apology from
Eisenhower, or a postponement
of the summit meeting. Six or
eight months from now HEisen-
hower will no longer be head
of the United States govern-
ment. Also the fog of confusion
and misunderstanding which
misleads the masses of North
America, will have had a little
time to clear.

‘Like Mafia

READER, Powell River: In
Sicily the Mafia have murder-

ed 40 labor organizers during

the past 10 years, but no one
has been convicted of the
crimes. They have sabotaged
land reforms there, and are
infiltrating the Christian
Democratic Party.

Men have been shot down in
cold blood for protesting this
infiltration or attempting to
testify against them.

We expect the Mafia to do
anything for money, but we
have a right not to expect our
own lawmakers, civic and re-
ligious leaders or fellow work-

ers to. sell us out either for|™

money, jobs, advancement, so-

cial prestige or anything else.| §

But when they do put them-
selves in the same class as the
Mafia they deserve contempt.

Pacific Tribune
fo publish entries

The Pacific Tribune wishes

to thank the many people who
took part in the writing con-
test, “What disarmament
would mean where I live.”
. Many excellent contributions
were received and in succeed-
ing issues the Pacific Tribune
will publish as many as space
will permit. —

HELP BUILD
PACIFIC TRIBUNE
‘CIRCULATION !

Pass this issue on to your}
neighbor or workmate.

“German rearmament is |}

istence within the last 50 |fare, a war of clarity and com-
years, | passion. I want to see who can
build the best national thea-

On communism he said: “T|
have no fear of the Soviet | tres, the finest schools and uni-

Union, neither am I frightened | Versities, give the most to the
by communism. Frankly I am | Starving two-thirds of the
more worried by the rise of | world’s population.” ;
West German militarism than His advice to Britain: “Tet
anything else. us give up nuclear weapons

“But being a catholic, being | and withdraw from NATO. I
most definitely not a commu- oe fed up with being told we
nist, I want an all-out war /can be defended when 12 H-
with the Soviet Union—a war ; bombs on this island will de-
of culture and a war of wel-|stroy every one of us.”

“PEOPLE BE VIGILANT”

The world cannot afford to forget the bestiality of.
the Nazis. The Canadian Slav Committee has made an ex-
cellent contribution to the fight for peace today by pub-
lishing a 16-page pamphlet entitled “People be vigilant.”

eh tins ans ince

It contains four once top-sec-

ret documents in which Nazi |

leaders outlined details of
their notorious plan of “Ost”
for the destruction of the Sla-
vic nations of eastern Europe.

Under this plan over 20 mil-
lion Poles were to be uprooted
and transported to Siberia and
South America. From 65 to
75 percent of the Ukrainians
and Byelorussians were to be
similarly dispossessed. The
Russian people were to be div-
ided and ‘‘weakened racially.”

In their introduction a group

of Wcrid War 2 veterans of
Slavic descent write: “We
would be happy to let by-gones
be by-gones were it not for
the terrible facts of new hor-
rors now in the making —
this time bearing the stamp
of approval of our own gov-
ernment.” -

The pamphlet has been pub-
lished in English, Ukrainian,
Russian and Polish and may
be ordered from the Canadian
Slav Committee, 1164 Dundas
St. W., Toronto.

A PTE ANNEAL FHT

BRITAIN
and all ports 4

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