f! ) sii f Fe INESE Scientists are now » Studying methods used to meserve wood buried over i 0 years ago and recently ,xcavated in sound condition. * team excavating at Chang- on In Hunan Province has ia Nd many wooden figurines, eves planks, lances and * ing vessels~ still well Preserved in graves dating Back to the Warri one arring States T10d (403 to 221 B.C.) Be eny of the inner and outer f i. ne of the graves were still la ct and the wood in some Here are two of the UBC players who will be seen in The # Tinder Box, a children’s fantasy based on a Hans Christian % erson tale, when it is staged at the University Auditorium pouay, and Saturday, August 3 and 4. Director is Sidney Pe Cath 2 Wood sound though buried 2000 years even gave out a fragrance when it was sawed. The coffins were buried at depths ranging from 20 to 25 feet. The find is_all the more re- markable because Changsha has high temperatures and heavy rainfall which would normally cause wood buried in the ground to rot quickly. Well preserved wood was found only in those graves painted with a layer of a special kind of “putty,” whose composition scientists are now trying to determine. BOOKS Bitter fruits of anti-Semitism documented by this new book met after the awful lesson of Nazism there are still people in this and other coun- dries who are anti-Semitic — though one would have thought that impossible. They. should all—whatever they may be — have to read Leon Poliakov’s new book Harvest of Hate. If they have any regard for themselves as human beings that will be the complete and final end of their anti-Semitism. Poliakov’s coldly written and meticulously documented record of how the Germans ex- terminated six million Jewish men, women and children is above all a record of unim- ‘ aginable depravity. But it has another lesson. First, it shows how a deter- mined group of men, control- ling a powerful propaganda machine, may corrupt a nation. Second, it reveals how mass hate unleashed creates its own forces even more mon- strous. Poliakov had access to Nazi cabinet records, to the arch- ives of the German govern- ment and to an immense col- lection of Nazi letters and documents. He believes that in 1933 within the Nazi inner circle the extermination of the Jew- ish population “was certainly not being considered,” and he adds: “To say that the Nazis arrived at genocide, as it were, in spite of themselves, carried away by the demons they had unleashed, is only further to accentuate the problem. When the accused at Nuremberg, faced with the facts, swore ‘they had known nothing about it,’ for the most part they lied. But when they cried out, ‘We did not want that,’ they were no longer lying. For such is the history of most crimes.” * * * Today an even more terrible crime is possible. It is possible not only for the Jewish people -——_ b The Canadian Political Scene: New Possibilities for Labor and People’s Unity — IMPORTANT POLICY SPEECHES from the LPP National Committee meeting” i, tt . j New Paths to Peace and Socialism — Tim Buck f Leslie Morris N 2 Ay Stage in Development of Canada’s Trade Union Movement — William Kashtan ben Up the Discussion-on Ways to Build the Labor-Progressive Party — Harry Binder NATIONAL AFFAIRS MONTHLY LPP THEORETICAL JOURNAL 25c¢ a copy — 10 % discount for bundle orders Room 503, Ford Building or Room 7, 9 East Hastings or People’s Co-op Bookstore, 337 West Pender, Vancouver, B C. but for all peoples to be mur- dered. The men who preach hate even while they manufacture the hydrogen bomb should re- member the Nazis, the Nazi hate—and its final outcome. It could happen again, and no matter who became the focus of hate unloosed we would all reap the harvest. Poliakov’s record needed writing; it preserves facts that some people are now trying to have us forget. They are facts that should never be forgotten; a terrible warning of the black depths of depravity to which mer may sink. It is here shown that the mess of German people, hav- RADIO-TV ing been corrupted by years of anti-Semitic propaganda and legislation, either sup- ported or took no action to prevent the massacre of the Jewish people. Could they have done any- thing ? Poliakov points out that when Hitler proposed euthanasia, cr painless death, for sick, crippled and aged people — “useless mouths’ — a spon- taneous mass protest caused him to retreat. The same kind of protest could have stopped the Jewish massacre. But the terrible fact is that there was no protest. PHILIP BOLSOVER Dr. Marius Barbeau CBUT program guest p*. MARIUS BARBEAU, author of some 60 books on anthropology and best known for his work on the British Columbia Indians and the folk lore of Quebec, will be Profile’s -guest on Channel 2 August 5 at 10 p.m. é Dr. Barbeau is now 73 and lives in Ottawa, where the telecast was produced. He bs When Duke Ellington and will be interviewed by Judith Crawley. On radio, first of a series of three talks on North Ameri- can archaeology by Gordon Lowther, of McGill University, will be heard on CBC Wed- nesday, August 8 at 10:15 p.m. His first talk deals with the way in which man probably reached this continent some 20,000 to’ 25,000 years ago. is band played to a capacity house in Stratford Festival Concert. Hall recently the audience would not let them go until Ellington appealed to the crowd that his band had not eaten for hours. Even then fans clamored for Ellington’s autograph. Here he is seen with a fan, Beverley Feick of Hamburg. August 3, 1956 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 13