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ing class are free to suffer not
only from drought but from
the cost-price squeeze, inflation
and unemployment.

Reading the capitalist press
now one would think the Ger-
mans had been our allies in
the second world war. Too
many people have short mem-
ories. What guarantee is there
for the right of the allies to
cross, the more than one hun-
dred miles of the territory of
the German Democratic Re-
public, between West Germany
and West Berlin? The Potsdam
agreement is the only guar-
antee.

This agreement, signed at
the end of the second world
war, in Europe, was concerned
with making it impossible for
Germany and her allies to ev-
er start another war. At that
time Germany was our en-
emy. Russia was our ally. Our
leaders under the influence of
free enterprise destroyed the
usefulness of the Potsdam
agreement, for us, as far as the
purpose for which it was writ-
ten was concerned, almost as
soon as the ink was dry.

To all who make a study of
the matter it is clear now, the
only possible defence against
nuclear war is disarmament.
Tt is time for us to make peace
with both West and East Ger-
many. The people of Canada
should act to pressure our Fed-
eral Government, so that we at
least will not bea party to
starting a war because Russia
signs, or is going to sign, 2
peace treaty with the German
Democratic Republic.

Both are correct

Lewis Agassiz, Vancouver
writes: “There will be no her-
oes on the attacking side in
any nuclear war — only damn
fools, or should it be ‘damn-

ea’?”
—_——

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— By John

OiW,, Stinngy..:
ints An epune presentation
ig Maly sig Yr socialism today.
Sty : of “Managed Cap-
Mey in Bar the role of the
bye ah e ern economy, as
j by trigg nawmination of those
hg, to pra Putting social-
ely fa « actice, makes this

Must
Pilitical eee et all students
nomy,

: AWorth reading

“HISTORY W Tbe AL-
SOLVE ME” — By Fidel Cas-
tro, $1.10.

The dramatic speech made
by Fidel while on trial for his
life in Batista’s courts. A key
to the reasons for the Cuban
Revolution, it is fast becoming
one of the historic documents
of our century.

GLIMPSES OF THE USSH,

mation on the
sources, economy and way 0
life in the Soviet Union. A
brief history of all the repub-
lics of the Soviet Union.

THE UNITED STATES IN
TODAY'S WORLD, by Gus
Hall, 45c. Analysiis of the
economic struggle, civil rights

and foreign policy of the U.S.

by N. Mikhailov, $1.25. Infor-
natural re-| therein and to remove or Te

f£, strain the negative influences.”

New books for
Soviet readers

Soviet citizens will soon be
reading in their own language
pooks by the following Cana-
dian authors: Tim Buck’s ‘Our
Fight for Canada”; Wilson
MacDonald’s “Selected Poems”
and Farley Mowat’s ‘People of
the Deer”.

The last will be published
next year in a 50,000 run, ac-
cording to officials of the For-
eign Literature Publishing
House. The first two authors
will have their pooks out this
year in about 30,000 runs.

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Anyone can get a higher edu-
cation in the Soviet. Entering
a university or institute is not
restricted by any qualification
except one—successtully pass-
ing entrance exams.

Up to 1956 students at high-
er schools had to pay 2 small
90 ruble fee. Now this fee is
abolished.

Most students get a monthly
stipend of 22 to 60 rubles. Best
students get a higher stipend.
These are awards in honor of
prominent statesmen, scien-
tists, writers, and artists.

At the Bauman Higher Tech-
nical School for engineering,
the school’s hostel takes care
of 15,000 students and post-
grads. Hostel accommodation
and services cost a low 1%
roubles a month.

Textbooks, medical services,
sports equipment are free.
Prices in student canteens are
Jower than those for the pub-

lic.

Pope’s encyclical
reveals alarm

_A new 20,000-word encycli-
cal released by Pope John

| XXIII has focussed attention

on the alarm obviously felt in
Roman Catholic circles over
the advance of progressive
ideas in many countries.

The encyclical in words at
least attempts to put the
Church on record as sympa-
thetic to many ideas which are
gaining wide support.

Pope John demanded that
prosperous countries come to
the aid of other countries
where “‘large segments of the
population suffer from misery
and hunger.”

He also finds that socializa-
tion brings many advantages—
“we consider that socialization
can and ought to be realized in
such a way as to draw from it
the advantages con tained

The Pope, elaborating on
this, made clear that his sym-
pathies lie with the type of
mixed public and private own-
ership, and so-called “demo-
cratic socialism” espoused by
the right-wing social demo-
crats.

Sian, capital of Shensi Province, once the imperial capitak

of China and noted centre of science and culture — now
blossoming into a great modern industrial centre.

Filin Festival

entrants

not up to standard

Had a vote been taken
Film Festival showing of

among the audience at the
L’Avventura, is extremely

doubtful that it would have received an award. However,
it is to this so-called “revolutionary” Italian film that the

Critics’ Award went. Why?

It is hard to escape the sus-
picion that it was very largely
because it was the “safe”
thing to do. First, the film has
already won an award at the
Cannes Festival; secondly, it
is almost completely devoid of
content. The trivial passions,
if one may use too strong a
term, of the idle rich yachting
in the.Mediterranean are not
enough to keep one engrossed
for over two hours, and cer-
tainly if an expose of the
worthlessness of these people
was intended (and it is doubt-
ful that that was the intent)
then ten minutes would have
sufficed.

Technique was excellent,
and the photography had the
quality of immediacy and bril-
liance that we have come to ex-
pect of Italian movies. How-
ever, thirty years ago, a Rus-
sian genius named Sergej Eis-
enstein was producing movies
with these very qualities, and
an opportunity to prove this
was provided by the showing
on the last Saturday afternoon

of the Festival of some of the
film made by the great director
in Mexico in 1932. Even in that
fragmentary unfinished form,
and despite the fact that the
only print available was a 16
mm., the tremendous power
and affirmation of belief in
life came through. Violence?
Yes, but violence as a necess-
ary and integral part of an ar-
tistic whole,

It was gratifying to note that
the Canadian Federation of
Film Societies award went to
the Japanese film ‘Fires on
the Plain” for its treatment of
the theme of protest at the hor-
rors and futility of war, but
the film which certainly de-
served, but did not receive an
award was the Czechoslovak
entry “The High Principle’,
the story of a schoolmaster and
his students during’ the Nazi
occupation of Czechoslovakia.
Here was almost unbearably
real life, and a very necessary
reminder of events that some
people are all too willing to
forget.

On the whole, it seems to be
generally agreed that this
year’s Festival was not up to
last year’s standard and cer-
tainly the current preoccupa-
tion of film makers in the
West with sex and violence,
with shock for its own sake,
with dehumanized characters,
was more than amply demon-
strated, The film has such mar-
vellous possibilities for impli-
cation, suggestion, subtle delin-
eation of character, evocation
of mood, that it is interesting
to note that the recent Moscow
Film Festival in which films
were shown from the young
studios of Asia, Africa and La-
tin America, as well as Europe,
the U.S.A. and even Canada,
the motto was “For humanism
in cinema art, for peace and
friendship among nations.”

—E.S. :

August 4, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5

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