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TERRE DES HOMMES

What's there for you

Expo '67 is now Terre des
Hommes (Man & His World) —
TDH, for short. Aside from in-
ternational legaltities, this is
only just in preserving the image
of that historic event and in
terms of the changes in the
“Son of Expo”.

What is not there this year—
at least not yet—is the electric
atmosphere of history’s biggest
event of its kind. Also gone are
the two most popular pavilions
(aside from that of the host
country): U.S.S.R. and Czecho-
slovakia. Labyrinth which, with
the Czech Pavilion, had the long-
est queuing waits, is closed this
year for no acceptable reason;
and a number of other exhibits
have been watered down or have
disappeared. Free open air enter-
tainments are sparse.

What is there this year is a
major part of Expo ’67 plus seve-
ral new exhibits. It thus remains
the biggest international exhibi-
tion extant, without even a re-
mote rival before Osaka ’70.

Although I had been in touch
with both public and behind the
scenes aspects of Expo ’67 far
more than the average passport-
paying fairgoer, TDH did require
two full days to re-establish ac-
quaintances, see’ new exhibits
and check over changes or non-
changes in old exhibits. I expect
to go back again. This is my
basic answer to the general
query: to go or not to go to
Terre des hommes? If you did
not attend last year and can
make it this year—don’t miss it!
But don’t expect the same cap-
tivating, electrifying experience.
If you thoroughly investigated
it last year, perhaps you would
prefer to retain an untarnished
memory of an historic event. If,
on the other hand, the memory
of Expo haunts you and/or you
were not able to see and do
everything you wished, you
won't be disappointed by a re-
turn visit. Moreover, crowds are
so much smaller this year that
you can get around with scarce-
ly ever having to stand in lines.

The most significant changes
are:

e Disappearance of the most
popular pavilions, already men-
tioned;

e@ Substitution of war for a
peace theme, the Christian Pavi-
lion’s bold anti-war theme has
been changed to a place to “re-
lax and reflect” while elsewhere
TDH has established a fairly am-
bitious pavilion of war: Man the
Destroyer/Le Pavillon des ar-
mes.

e Conversion of the U.S. pa-
vilion, which many thought was
for the birds anyway, into a
Biosphere that is literally for the
birds: an aviary with a few
parks, parakeets pigeons and
buzzards (both live and the
American version spread across
the entrance wall as a left-over
from 1967) — still a very big
package with very small con-
tents;

e A new pavilion: From Youth
With Love/Signe, Jeunesse, with
a splendid collection of child-
ren’s paintings from many lands,
intelligently and tastefully ar-
ranged;

e Conversion of the Ontario
Pavilion into The Face Of Win-
ter/Mon Pays, c’est hiver, a
museum of 19th Century winter
artifacts and scenes;

e Conversion of the European
Community Pavilion into Cine-
matheque canadienne, a museum
of older and, newer film equip-

ment, stills and film clips — .

neither well chosen nor well or-
ganized, ‘but with enough to well
reward a careful tour.

@

Other new or altered pavilions
include: Algeria, Cars of Yester-
day/Les Balles d’autrefois and
Music Belfrey/le Beffroi de la
musique, France, Ireland, Humor
Pavilion/Pavilion de 1’Humour,
Poland, Quebec, Stage in Minia-
ture/I’Univers d’Arlequin.

e

Most interesting of the un-
changed pavilions include first
and foremost: Indians of Cana-
da/Les Indiens du Canada and
the Theme Pavilions: Man The
Explorer / L’Homme _Interroge
Yunivers, Man The Producer/
YHomme a loeuvre and Man
The Provider/l’Agriculteur et
Yalimentation. Others include:
Africa Place/Place d'Afrique,

Burma, Ceylon, (West) Ger-
many, Iran, Mexico, Morocco
Netherlands, Tunisia and United
Arab Republic. Several pavilions,
including Cuba and India, were
still closed or half-closed weeks
after TDH opening.

Films are projected free in a
number of pavilions, including:
Biosphere, Canada ’67, Face of
Winter, Time and Motion, We
Are Young/Nous sommes jeu-
nes. La Ronde remains much the
same with a few improvements,
especially the popular roller
coaster, which replaces the very
tame Gyrotron as the star attrac-
tion among the rides. Also at
La Ronde: the $4,000,000 Mon-
treal Aquarium, le Village,
‘French Canadian motif with
Canadian cuisine available at
modest prices; and Carrefour in-
ternational where prices are not
quite as outrageous as last year
(for snacks try the Indian and
Tunisian casses-crofites; for an
interesting but very expensive
restaurant, take a look at Le
Koliba).

There are also outside artistic
events, though nothing like last
year’s World Festival. Théatre
du nouveau monde’s marvellous
French version of Pygmalion is
scheduled from July 5 to 13 and
Indrani’s Indian Dance Company
plays Place des arts until July -
14, Throughout July and August,
La Comédie canadienne will run
film versions of Gratien Gelinas’
Tit-Coq and_ Fridolin. Many.
other artistic events will take
place during the summer.

Restaurants at TDH tend to
be fewer, higher-priced with
more limited menus than last
year, with noteworthy excep-
tions like Japan. The most pro-
mising and less expensive restau-
rants at TDH are: Cuba, Héléne
de Champlain, India, Japan,

Mexico, Morocco, Québec, Swiss,

Tunisia and several in le Village
(at la Ronde). For snacks, try the
following: Burmese Snack Bar,
Indian Tea Terrace (outside the
Indian Pavilion), Sur le pouce
(across from Indians of Cana-
da), Térasse (in front of
France). Trattoria Romana, seve-
ral in le Village, and the Indian’
and Tunisian in Carrefour inter-
national.
e
However, you will find your
food money better invested up-
town. Montreal is an important
gastronomical centre. Here are
a few suggestions in the centre
of town: ARABIC: Le Carthage,
1429 Crescent; BELGIAN: Le
Colibri, 1485 Mansfield; CHI-
NESE: Teen Hong, 1025 Clarke;
FRENCH: Le Caveau, 2063 Vic-
toria; GREEK: Pantheon, 1437
St. Laurent, HUNGARIAN: Hun-
garia, 3479 St. Laurent, ITA-
LIAN: Da Giuseppe, 1426 Notre
Dame West. These are all listed
for the excellence of their cui-
sine and moderate prices.
N. E. Story

HE spate of hate litera-
ture in the recent fede-

ral election campaign
provides some __ interesting
food for thought. First of

course it provided a ready
pretext for a fine display of
“moral indignation” by the
Holy Willies of the status
quo; by those apologists of
big business interests who
depend, even in a so-called
democracy, upon compulsion,
coercion, sadistic force and
violence to keep themselves
in the saddle of class privi-
lege, pelf and profit.

If anyone attempted to ca-
talogue the “preferred”
groups against whom _ this
hate literature has been large-
ly directed during the past 50
years or more, top of the list
would. have to be the Com-
munists—at home and abroad.
For many decades such litera-
ture has been an open incite-
ment to violence against the
individual or families of those
citizens who proclaim their
Communist ideas, and yet not
a single government or judi-
cial finger has been lifted to
curb its poison ar incentive to
maim or kill.

The Canadian Intelligence
Service publications edited
and printed in Flesherton,
Ontario by one Ron Gostick,
with “literary” contributions
from the self-styled RCMP
operative, Pat Walsh, and
similar neo-fascist and Trot-
skyite vermin, has been flood-
ing the Canadian mails for
years. Tons of this anti-Com-
munist, anti-NDP, anti-Jewish,
anti-everything mildly pro-
gressive, has found its way
to the desks of a good 50 per-
cent of Canada’s big and mid-
dle business tycoons, finan-
cially supported by their sub-
scriptions and subsidies. This
with a goodly chunk of alle-
ged U.S. CIA money to speed
along the hate and racist
mania, with nary a peep of

protest from ‘constituted
authority!”
Moreover, peculiar as_ it

may séem in retrospect, the
devil a peep of protest or
action (as Minister of Justice)
from Prime Minister Pierre
Elliot Trudeau, against whom
this latest hate smear was
directed by the Gostick hate
mongers and their “Christian”
church collaborators, on the
wild allegation that Trudeau
had once politically co-habi-
ted with the Reds or the
paler pinks of the NDP.

Magnanimously, the PM
“Jet it pass’—which poses a
query; was this ministerial
magnanimity prompted by the
fear that a clampdown on
these hatemongers might
alienate the votes of a wide
segment of big business
whose “‘patronage” keeps the
hate literature manufacturers
in ‘the printing business?

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Volumes of this political
and racist hate literature has
been poured out in vast vol-
ume during recent years
against Jewish and/or other
ethnic or minority groups in
Canada which didn’t or don’t
atune their thinking to that
of the Establishment; the
same hate literature with its
incentive to violence as a
means of silencing them.

Since the assassination of
U.S. Senator Robert F. Ken-
nedy, the question of inspired
hate and violence has been
raised by numerous leading
personages, press hawks,
clerics, police administrations,
etc.. With well-feigned piety
and “shock” they ask “could
it happen in Canada?,” bliss-
fully ignoring the fact that
their studied silence (and
tacit approval of the dissemi-
nation of Canadian-produced
hate literature right under
their noses, is the best as-
surance that it “can happen”
in Canada, just as it is hap-
pening in every corner of the
world where mankind strug-
gles for peace, freedom, equa-
lity and justice.

Hence to hear such charac-
ters ranting against hate liter-
ature and its resultant vio-
lence is like hearing the late
Josef Goebbels conducting a
world-wide seminar on how
to tell the truth — and now
from a source whose “‘credi-
bility gap” makes Goebbels
look like a third-rate ama-
teur.

Thus while we philosophize
in pious wordy dialogue by
and through every media of
public mis-information on the
alleged ‘‘causes” and “cures”
of violence and killing in
modern class society, we al-
low ourselves to be lulled to
sleep, and so unable to look
in the right direction; viz, the
dog-eat-dog society in which
we live and have our being.

We “deplore” violence, but
like. an innocent-looking sanc-
timonious toad under a «flat
rock, live and fatten by it.
The $300 million we get from
Uncle Sam to aid in the mur-
der of mothers and children
in Vietnam would appear to
make our hands less bloody
than the armament makers
who pocket ten times that
amount for the same job.

And in case you don’t know
it, the 38 or so police admi-
nistrations which haye now
been supplied with a large
stock of Mace, is purely a hu-
manitarian gesture. Instead
of clubbing union pickets, the
growing army of unemployed
or protesting students, they
will now be put out of action
with a canful of incipent pa-
ralysis. As Vancouver's
mayor, Tom “Terrific” says,
“That’s better than guns any
day.”

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