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—bui too much left out

P "iecting Sean O'Casgy ” on
aa ‘Screen is a supremely,,.
cee task, whatever the

Stances, and even if all
Commercial barriers are lifted,

oe need something akin
Re O’Casey genius itself to
Hee the great passion and
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a sm, the revolutionary and

nalist ardour, which erupt

like red-hot jewels from the vol-
zanic pages of his six-volume
autobiography,

I wish, though, that they had
reached out alittle more greedily
‘or all this in “Young Cassidy,”
yased on the first four volumes
with a screenplay by the late
John Whiting, I wish they hadn’t
dlayed it so safe,

For it is a good and valuable
film, introducing screen audi-
ences in an enjoyable and enter-

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OC, RA ROBSON plays the mother of the great Irish playwright Sean
rected}, in a new film just issued called “Young Cassidy.” The film is di-
ea hed Ford. ROD TAYLOR, seen above with Flora Robson, plays

asey as a young man.

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taining way to the story of the
Irish laborer who became one
of the greatest theatre personali-
ties of our time. It isn’t what’s
in it that worries me as much
as what has been left out,

There are enough glimpses of
the political events of the times—
the formation of the Irish Citi-
zens’ Army, the Easter Rising
of 1916, the Black and Tans’
reign of terror that came later—
to tantalize the interest. ...

We never feel his immense
passion for a free and united!
Ireland, for the class struggle,
and for the vision of Commun-

ism, —Nina Hibbin
Forest revenue
Hark ! Hark!

The Ralph Loffmark,

_ With a wet blanket scare

For full medicare.

Friend Lois Haggen

Set tongue a-wagging,

Of a sizable lump

We could get from the stump.

Did you not hear the blast

Of Gibson—Thursday last?

What a terrible pity

There’s not more in the kitty.

Your words hollow ring

When of ruin you sing,

Maybe some demon

Is slicing the melon.

If things are real tough,

It’s simple enough,

To harvest the wood

And share as you should.

BULLBUCKER

—Victoria Colonist

very morning at break-

fast, I read the news-
paper, It is adope habit most
of us have been hooked into,
To paraphrase Mark Twain,
first aman commits murder,
then he falls into burglary,
then he descends to wife-
beating, then he drinks and
smokes cigarettes, then at
the very depth of his descent
into the moral abyss, he be-
comes an addict of news-
papers,

I have a hunch halfthe sick
people of New York rapidly
recovered their health dur-
ing last year’s newspaper
strike that lasted several
months, What a dose ofbrain
poison Americans imbibe in
their daily paper, along with
the morning ham and eggs,

The human mind needs
healthy, creative food to keep
it healthy and creative, Or
would you say it is better fed
on this newspaper diet of:
endless murder, rape, gang-
sterism, movie blondes with
silly faces and big hair-dos
and the like?

The citizens of ancient
Greece in her intellectual
glory were fed the tragedies
of Aeschylus and Euripides,
not the daily dose of sensa-
tional sadism and rape, re-
ported by slavering hacks of
TV and press,

Brain poison

By MICHAEL GOLD

Some day the* mass media”
America’s major means of
communications, will fall
into more honest and crea-
tive hands than those of our
dollar-grabbing monopolies, ~

They will tell the simple
truth, and not in the stale
cliches that form the jargon
of the press now, Thedream
of a great editor and fighter

for democracy, LincolnStef-
fens, will prevail. Good writ-
ing, even a great literature,
will fill these pages, and
daily ennoble, not degrade its
readers,

The phonies have given a
phony compass to the people,
And in the struggle for peace
one must first learn how to
clear a channel through the
overwhelming fog created by
the merchants of death and
misinformation,

St. Patrick’s Day

R.H., VANCOUVER, writes:
The working people of many lands
were no doubt pleased to hear that
the British Labor government has
returned Roger Casement’s body
to Ireland—for which he gave his
life,

“Treason” screamed the most
vicious and reactionary, the
people who sent the “Black and
Tans” in to rape and plunder the
people of Ireland, The Irish boot-
ed them out, Then in desperation
British imperialism found a few
willing tools, one by the name of
Carson, who, backed by British
armed forces, cut off six counties
of Northern Ireland,

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This neo-fascist Northern Ire-
land, in existence for nearly 40
years has been backed by British
guns, discrimination, gerryman-
dering, armed police, with a
Special Powers Act to intimidate
the Irish into accepting this par-
tition administration, wellnamed
“John Bull's Tobacco Road,” or
the “Second Portugal.”

This Special Powers Act pro-
vided for:

* Arrest without warrant;

* Imprisonment without charge
or trial and denial of Habeas
Corpus, :

* Entry and search of homes
without warrant any hour of day
or night,

* Punishment by flogging.

* Prohibition of the holding of
an inquest on a prisoner’s death,

* Prevention of access of rela-
tives or legal counsel to anyone
imprisoned without trial.

* Prohibition of the circulation
of any newspaper not approved
under the Special Powers Act,

These are only a few of the
Special Powers Act which in its

entirety constitute a gross viola-
tion of the UN Declaration of
Human Rights,

Just previous to the last elec-
tion in Northern Ireland the
Unionist Party candidates and
their supporters, fearing the
people and fearing they might
lose control, these elements went
to extreme measures and the
police went wild,

This terror, intimidation and
threats upon the people was seen
on many TV stations and report-
ed in a number of papers, So
much so that many protests came
from British trade unions, Labor
Party clubs, Liberals and other
organizations, demanding that an
inquiry into the affairs of North-
ern Ireland be started, It was
also urged in Britain that the
Fenner Brockway bill against
racial and religious discrimina-
tion should also be made applic-
able to Northern Ireland,

On the eve of St, Patrick’s Day
and the Easter Uprising, these

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CARLESS
Yeah, but WILL he work
like one?

developments indicate a new up-
surge for Irish unity in “Erin’s
green Isle,” Up the Rebels!

“‘Free elections’’

ARTHUR STRATTON, NORTH
VANCOUVER, writes: How can
the Americans justify their war
in South Vietnam and their ter-
roristic action there, when one
considers their much - boasted
policies: of holding “free elec-
tions” and letting other countries
have the kind of government they
desire?

The Americans are always de--
manding that “free elections” be
held in the countries which they
call prisoners of the USSR, yet
they aided their puppet Ngo Bien
Diem in preventing the holding of
“free elections” in Vietnam in
1956, which according to the
Geneva Agreement of 1954 they
had orally agreed to observe,

The Americans give as the rea-
son for not recognizing the well-
established governments of the
Chinese People’s Republic, the
Democratic German Republic,
and the Fidel Castro government
of Cuba, because these govern-
ments came to power by other
means than by “free elections,”

Yet for many years they sup-
ported Diem as the head of the
South Vietnam government, who
had never been elected by the free
votes of the Vietnamese people,
Then after their Central Intelli-
gence Agency had deposed and
murdered Diem, the Americans
have supported several Vietnam-
ese military dictators as govern-
ment heads who, like Diem, had
never been elected to any public
office by the people, Yet since
1960 the Americans have waged
a fiendish, vicious and illegal
war inSouth Vietnam to keep their
puppets in power. How come?

March 12, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 9

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