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| World-famous ‘Chinese porcelain is shown in this picture.
| This coloured plate porcelain for wall decoration was made

| 0f 24 porcelain’ pieces ‘painted with red, green, pink and |

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PUTS

|SOCIETY ON TRIAL

THE ‘TRUTH. Produced. by

“Raoul J. Levy. Direction:and
screenplay by H. G. Clouzot.
Showing in Vancouver soon.
} The widespread tendency to
‘dismiss any Brigitte Bardot
‘} movie as a sex lure for the en-
| tertainment dollar, no matter

formance, must be disregard-
7 ed in the case of “The Truth.”
| (La Verite.”)

The main reason is the di-
7} rector, Henri-Georges Clouzot,
j} the man who made “Diaboli-
7 que” and “Wages of. Fear.”

+ “The Truth,” while not up
there with “Wages of Fear”
Jas one of the great French
# ‘films of. all’ time, is .a.-very
‘800d: movie.

7. The story; related by flash-
- ‘ing back from the ana

of a French murder trial, i
‘Well-told inquiry into ae a
Mixed-up ‘and amoral young
lady: named: Dominque. (Brigit-
%) te Bardot) came to murder her

‘lover’ (Sami Frey). ‘

The girl is an unloved un-

jJtalented second daughter of a
4 Provincia] military family who
}Comes to Paris with her musi-
{tally talented;  prissy — sister
(Marie Jose Nat) and contin-
es ona somewhat intensified
asis among Left Bank beat-
iks a life of revolt she began
t home. She is defiant, shame-
less but searching.

Her sister’s musician boy
iend (Frey) finds himself in-
atuated with Dominque and
ys siege to her, only to find

~ WORTH
_ READING

- Planning in the USSR, by
+ Yevenko, 95c. The Commun-
| ‘St Party and the Soviet Gov-
*rnment are paying particular
}®ttention to the improvement
%f socialist planning. This book
‘Meals with the basic principles
}°f management and_ planning
the economy. in the USSR
tnd describes the methods of
} ganization and. tasks.
Report to the 22nd Congress
‘the Communist Party of the
/S-U., 20c..This pamphlet is a
*eport. of. the. Central Com-
ee.to the 22nd Congress of
C.P., delivered by N. S.
‘ushchev, First Secretary of

}hew well founded in past per-|

4
+

1€Central. Committee, Octo-
Ty: IS6t.

what she grants casually to
others she denies him. The in-
tensity of the anxiety he suf-
fers before she yields finally
and they decide they are. in
love is portrayed with the kind
of realism of which Clouzot is
a master.

Their affair is, to under-
state the case, tempestuous.
Their only bond is the physical
one. He is jealous of her. She
is jealous of his music. They
quarrel and break. She turns
to prostituttion to eat.

Rejected cruelty when she

swallows her pride and at-)

tempts a reconciliation Domi-
nique shoots her lover full of
holes and tries unsuccessfully
(for the second time in the
film) to take her own life.

The rather commonplace bit;

of melodrama is given vitality
and greater meaning by the
manner in which the story is
told. The story puts the Napol-
eonic Code and the structure
of French justice on trial and
by inference, the society that
produced Dominique.

Dominique is appalled at
the picture of her created by
the prosecution — a wanton,
guilty of a cold and premedi-
tated spite murder. She fights
with little success to explain
to those arrayed against her
how she was driven to do what
she did. Her attorney is at-
tempting to prove it was a
crime of passion.

The Defense strives to por-
tray how heartlessly she has
been treated, not only by her
lover but by life. But the
weight of the social forces
arrayed against her are in-
exorable. Every. question from
the pompous and self-righteous
judges is a passage of judg-
ment. The prosecutor reviles
her. The attorney for her slain
lover’s family smirks at every
sentiment she declares. Even
her own attorney is a tired
cynic.

Frustrated to the point. of
rage, she rises in the dock and
denounces her tormentors. That
night in her cell she succeeds,
at last, in suicide. The next
day the judges, with a fine at-
tention to legal. detail, close
the case.

The response is a splendid
performance by practically ev-
eryone — including, most par-

eee Miss Bardot.
: e Senne World!

FIRST -PRIZE: $1

,000

WORLD-WIDE competi-
A tion for the best research
, and study papers on the econo-
mic effects of disarmament has
been announced by the Inter-
national Institute for Peace,
which has: its headquarters in
Vienna, Austria. :
For the hest paper, the in-

$1,000, a second prize of $500
and two third prizes of $250
each.

The papers must be scien-
tifically. based and the. points
they make, logically developed.
Following are the terms of the
contest as set out by the Bee
national Institute: .

AIMS. AND CONDITIONS is
The arms drive has. endan-
gered world peace and depriv-
ed us of enormous quantities'
‘of consumer goods. It has ‘in-
creased the burden of taxation,
resulted in a one-sided devel-

has squandered means greatly
needed for peaceful aims such
as construction of houses and
schools, health, research, aid
to underdeveloped countries
and other civic purposes.

The proposal of general and
complete disarmament arous-
ed great interest among all
peoples. If it were to become
reality it would do away with
| the war danger and also set
considerable means free to de-
velop the material and cultural

nations.

| Not only do political prob-
‘lems have to be solved on the
road to total disarmament, but
suitable economic measures
must also be taken to ensure

economy. This competition
aims at helping to solve eco-
nomic problems connected
with -this.

All people having the neces:
sary knowledge are entitled to
participate and above all pro-
fessors and assistant professors
of the national economy, mem-
bers of any economic organiz-
ations, institutes for national
economy, economic experts and
students of all branches of the
economy.

THEMES

The competing works can
deal with all questions con-
nected with the transformation
of the arms economy to
civilian production.

The papers can deal with
the whole complex of econo-
mic questions connected with
disarmament or with one of

stitute offers a first: prize of}

opment of the economy and!

its aspects only.

Participants can also restrict
their research to one certain
country or deal with a group
of countries, such as highly-
developed industrial countries,
agrarian countries, underdevel-
oped countries, etc.

LENGTH, OTHER RULES

The. papers should be from
9,000 to 15,000 words. They
can be longer or shorter if the
theme requires.

The exposition must be
scientifically founded, the an-
alyses backed by facts and the

-conclusions based on pbsective

arguments.

Papers should be in English
or French. Three copies should
be sent to the International

Who lost the war?

“It. is time for the German
people to realize that the pres-
ent division of Germany, and
the loss of territory in the
East, were the inevitable re-
sults of the war which Ger-
many started and lost. The
West is not prepared to risk a
Third World War to undo the
consequences of the Second.”

Effects of disarmament
theme of world contest

Institute for Peace, Vienna,
IV., Mollwaldplaiz 5. .

The name and address of
the author should not appear
on the paper itself, but on a
separate sheet, or on the back
of the envelope. Names and
addresses of authors will be
revealed by the Institute Exec-
utive Board only after the jury
has announced the prizes.
JURY

Prof. A. Arsumanian (USSR),
Prof. J. D. Bernal (Britain),
Prof. Ch. Bettelheim (France),
Prof. Goeran van Bonsdorff
(Finland), Lord Boyd Orr (Bri-
tain), Prof. J. Dobretsberger
(Austria), Prof. O. Lange (Pol-
and), Prof. A. Resenti (Italy),
Prof. F.. P. Schneider (Federal
Republic of Germany), Prof. J.
Varga (USSR).

CLOSING DATE

All entries must be received
by May 15, 1962.

The prizes will be epee
ed by July 31, 1962. All parti-
cipants will be advised by mail
which entries have won prizes.
PUBLICATION: RIGHTS :

The organizers of the com-
petition retain the right to
publish the prize-winning pap-
ers on payment of author’s fees
and to acquire remuneration to

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Mail.

| tries.

conditions of all peoples and| -

a smooth adaptation of the}.

Mountain Trails by Gregory
Fedoseyev Foreign Languages
Publishing House, Moscow.
Available at People’s eh
Book Store.

MOUNTAIN TRAILS is a
Soviet adventure story — the
true and. often, thrilling  ex-
periences of- surveying’ parties

and mountain. regions = north

eastern Siberia.
-The wide variety of subject

of-the surveyor Korelyov. who.

in the. wild, uninhabited taiga |.
“is. the heart-warming and fas-

matter in.this book creates ad- |
4 ded interest. In it you will read.

in his youth had been the
leader of a young band of
thieves. There are gripping ac-
counts of people lost in the
taiga. Eskimo legends, dog and
wild= animal ‘stories, descrip-
tions. of nature by one who

Joves the wilds—all these are
included in the book.

But. most interesting of all

cinating story- of Ulikutkin, the
wise 80-year-old Evenk (Eski-
mo). :

Outstanding is the strength
of character of this remarkable

December 22, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5.

SOVIET ADVENTURE BOOK FASCINATING

man who lived his life by the
principle that when he did
good for others he was at the
same time doing good for him-

-self. “If you like what Ido for

you, then its better for me,
too” was the way Ulikutkin ex-:
plained it.

There is much in these tales
‘of hardship adventure and

courage that will remind you
of Jack London’s stories of the
far north. Yet there is some-
thing different too—the com-

radeship of men living in a

socialist society. SWANKEY

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