ANDREA KALANG, brilliant young Vancouver pianist, arrived back in Vancouver after studying on a five year scholarship at Kiev. City pianist back for May 15 recital ndrea Kalanj, the young Vancouver pianist whose talent won hem a five year Scholarship at Kiev Conserva- tory of Music, returned to Vancouver this month to give her first solo recital at Queen Elizabeth Playhouse on May 15 at 8:30 p.m. When she competed in the! World Youth Festival at Vi- €nna in 1959 her playing ‘sO Impressed music masters that She was given an audition by the Soviet committee, which Invited her to give recitals in Moscow and Kiev. This in turn leq to her being offered a five year scholarship val- ee ued at $25,000 at the Kiev Conservatory. Previously, on the advice of her teacher, she applied for a Canada Council grant to continue her studies in Eu- rope, which was refused. The Soviet scholarship gave the opportunity to advance her studies, She is the daughter of Emil (Mike) Kalanj, member of the Vancouver Fishermen’s Local of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union. All seats for the Vancouver recital are reserved and are” available at the theatre or any T. Eaton store. Letter to P.M. Walter Wiggins, Vancou- ver, B.C., writes: To the Rt. Hon. Lester B. Pearson, Ot- tawa. Honourable Sir: Can it true what we read in the Papers, that you are rushing about to arrange for nuclear Warheads for the weapons for Canada’s armed forces? How awful, if true! How Utterly monstrous. Where is your ynandate for this action? A substantial majority of the Voters rejected your policy in the recent elections. Canada needs nuclear war fads as much as a paraplegic Needs a cancer in his eye. What the people of Canada "Nd of the whole world need "ght now above all is a last oment, all-out effort by gov: Mments and people to avert i imminent, threat of need SS, useless and altogethe: ‘Senseless war, The So-called West is in n¢ oe of military invasior gest the so-called East. T Nomic “aggression” is th Feat from the East, spend : e billions on war prepara est will surely prove thi Seas bossible way of com ating that, in i Seok PA a) Lord’s prayer : Oliver Sendrall, Vancouver B.C., writes: Our true heri tage and freedom is inter locked with all nations anc with all groups of people, ye our present-day government: conceivera hell or an enemj when there is none, and con: jure up a picture of our own paradise, when it.is only ¢é mirage? Let me voice my prayer tc our “beloved” Pearson; Ou Lester who art in Ottawa Hallowed by thy name. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our transgres: sions, aS we forgive the U.S.A. who trangress against us. And lead us not into Bo- mares, but deliver us from warheads, For thine is the ete., and etc., Amen. Is it freedom to honour an agreement which makes pro- vision for mass death? Is it freedom to. have an “enemy” aS an excuse to jus- tify defense and war? It is freedom for tens of thousands caged up like an- imals, the skidrow ghosts, the mass unem i de opportunity to maintain a decent standard of life? I say not war, but peace: wwe ‘ A.M. STEPHEN’S LITERARY HERITAGE ployed, all denied - ‘Songs for anew nation’ book of poetic treasure = ongs For A New Nation by A. M. Stephen. (Vintage Publishers, New York.) When this book of poetic treasures was first brought to this re- viewer’s attention by Anita Anderson of New Westmin- ster, it brought back memor- ies of the stirring days of the “Hungry Thirties’ in British Columbia and the leading role its author, A. M. Stephen played in those historic days. Poet, novelist, dramatist, educationalist and deep hum- anitarian, ‘A.M.’ as he was affectionately known by wide' circles of friends and _ col- leagues, died on July 1, the Canada Day of 1942, twenty- one years ago. The literary heritage he contributed to Canada, now crowned by this latest Songs For A New Nation, include such titles as The Land of Singing Waters: The King- dom of the Sun, The Voice of Canada, The Golden Treasury of Canadian Verse, and the Rosary of Pan. Deeply interested in com- munity and literary affairs during his years in B.C. and Canada, A. M. Stephen held many posts. Some of these in- cluded presidency of the Van- couver Poetry Society, mem- bership in the Canadian Au- thors’, Association, Canadian representative on the West- ern Writer’s League of Am- erica, presidency of the Child Welfare Association of B.C. and other community posts. But A. M. Stephen was much more than just an ac- tive community figure. He was a rebel, a progressive who dedicated his great tal- ents to causes far beyond his immediate environment. A founder and leader of the CCF, A. M. Stephen’s ad- vocasy of progressive ideas on the need of militant struggle and workingclass unity were soon to: see him, along with the late Dr. Lyle Telford and others of a like mind, expell- ed from the CCF. Perhaps his greatest work in those stirring years was Back peace action at Holy Loch Ba ? VANESSA REDGRAVE, rat- ed as one of Britain’s top act- resses, sent a message sup- porting the demonstration on May 25 against the U.S. Pol- aris submarine base at Holy Loch. Dame Sybil Thorndike also sent a greeting and pledge of support. “I am one with every effort toward dis- armament,” she said. A. M. STEPHEN. his devoted struggle for peace and against the rising tide of ° fascism. During its entire life- time A. M, Stephen served as the chairman of the B.C. sec- tion of the Canadian League against War and Fascism. During the Spanish civil war against the fascist dicta- torship of Franco, A. M. Ste- phen was one-of the most tireless supporters of Repub- lican Spain and the Interna- tional Brigades, including the Canadian ‘‘Mac-Pap” battal- ion of that historic Brigade. In Songs For A New Nation will be found one of his most beautiful poems, “Madrid 1936.” Saddened but undaunt- ed, “A.M.” concludes _ this poem with a vision of the fu- ture; . “Though on the Nazi cross They nail those hands that were so brave. The flower of Liberty wil) spring, Triumphant from the mar. tyr’s grave". That “flower of Liberty” is again budding in the prison- twisted house of Franco’s Spain and - is nearing its full bloom. Throughout this book of poetic treasure A. M. Stephen poured out his hopes and his dreams in a manner and style worthy of the great masters, portraying the exquisite beau- ty of his Canada and the struggles of his people, at home and in other lands. The *Mac-Pap” clutching his trus- ty rifle against the oncoming fascist hordes at Jarama or the Ebro; the million-fold job- less destitute workers in his own home town and country, or the ragged and hungry Chinese soldier fighting against fearful odds for the New China to be (and now is), These were “A.M.’s” people. & Songs For A New Nation contains many of A.M. Ste- phen’s finest and most inspir- ing poems, revealing a breadth and depth of human feeling and sentiment seldom attained by the literati of to- day. To his “Irene” and the Vin- tage Press publishers who have made this literary gem available, British Columbians will feel a deep sense of grati- tude, as indeed will all Cana- dians who feel a deep sense of pride in their great trail blazers, among whom the memory of A. M. Stephen will always stand in the forefront. His love of Canada, its builders and its beauty is ex- pressed in much of his poet- ry and prose, but nowhere more inspiring than in his Maple Tree’, “Fairest and youngest of them all, My scarlet banners gleam. I guard a land more beauti- ful Than all the fields of dream.” Songs For A New Nation by A.M. Stephen, available at the. Co-Op Bookstore, 341 West Pender St., Vancouver, B.C. Clothbound, $2.75. @TOM McEWEN “Let's get out of here! They'll say we aid it!” Daily Mirror (I-ndon) Arthur Miller calls for drama of hope eading U.S. playwright Ar- thur Miller has sent a message in honor of the Sec- ond World Theatre Day, marked in the German Demo- cratic Republic on March 27. In his message Miller said, “that perhaps the time is near for the theatre of will, the drama whose root is that ever so slight freedom which has nevertheless set man’s won- ders on the earth .. . to share a hope for man.” “It is valuable that at this' moment,” said Miller, ‘‘tens of thousands of people, per- haps millions, are pausing in their pursuit of entertainment or, hopefully, of a deeper ex- perience, to recognize that on this planteary stage the larg- est cast in history must find a true catharsis, a release from terror by saving insight —or the catastrophe is upon us. “. .. The thrust of scientif- ic knowledge has turned us all into actors; there is no longer any audience, for the great silence that threatens will leave none of us outside its deathly pall. DRAMA “T am speaking, of course, of the contemporary problem, of war,” Miller continued, “but implicit in all the plays that ever mattered is the fate of man. The only difference now, and it is sizeable, is that it is we rather than an isolat- ed hero who must find the re- solution or die. 3 “A play is fine not for what it shows but for its underly- ing revelation . . . which re- veal the universal in man,” said Miller. ' May 10, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 9 sa haainaans rab RnR.