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Worth. Reading

SOVIET GYMNASTS. by
Vladimir Belyakov. 75c. Des-

the Soviet school of gymnastics
which won fame as the best
in the world. He describes the
biggest national and interna-
tional meets in Which he and
his colleagues participated.

THE NATIVE VOICE. 50c.
A-historic pilgrimmage of On-

B.C. are “participating in the
special ceremonies on the cen-
tenary of Pauline Johnson.
This-is a special edition of Na-|
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THE UNIVERSE, by A.

Oparin and V. Fesenkov. 95c.
This is the Tatest information

cribes the rise and growth of/ ,

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in natural science’ in regards
to our solar system.
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io, = €xport.’”’ It is, in fact,
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ie 8hbours” know it: That
a JEK was so insistant |
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bhi. Uuture will reap the bene-
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U.S. traitors

B. Maddy, Oakland, Cali-|

fornia, writes: It seems that
many people ought: to write to
| their traitors in the U.S. Con-
|. gress, demanding: impeach-
iments and prosecutions of
“higher-ups’ for -eriminal vio-
lation of America’s Neutrality
Laws. At least. three were vio-
lated by~ the ‘attempted inva-
sion of Cuba.

Kennedy and his supporting
rip-snorters want to give Cuba
back to. the Priests of Rome
and Capitalists of USA.

Do we want to be shoved
over- the bring into H-bomb
war by such a combination?

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Naty

EARS AGO these partisans
res on a ban the bomb petition in Toronto. Today

of peace

.ahy of Canada’s outstanding citizens are zealously work-

mitt
~“™s in Canada.

g to collect names on the petition of the Canadian Com-
ittee for Control of Radiation Hazards to ban muclear

|| dians.

The battle at Montgomer

Recalls stirring

pages

from Canada s history

MOVEMENTS OF POLITI-
CAL PROTEST IN CAN-|
ADA, 1640—1840. By 5. D.}
Clark: University of Toronto
Press; 518 pages; $6.50.
Order at Peoples Co-op
Bookstore, 307 W. Pender.

This is a book which recalls
many a stirring page from our
country’s past, which tells of
struggles long ignored in the
standard txet-books of history.

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We are given a picture of
the long sweep of the struggle
for democratic rights in our
country which goes well back
into the 17th century — the
struggle that was waged by
the earliest settlers against
colonial tyrants, land specu-
lators, reactionary clergy, and
corrupt officials. wen |

We see how these move-
ments, beginning around local
issues and immediate griev-
ances, developed greater clar-
ity and deeper scope and mov-
ed towards the climax of the
democratic revolution of 183%
jed by William Lyon Macken-
zie and Louis Joseph Papineau.

The greatest impact was of
course that of the American
revolution, but we also. are
provided with an abundance of
evidence with which to~ dis-
prove the myth that .French
Canada was. forever isolated
from its motherland. The truth
that. the call of the French
Revolution for Liberty, Equal-
ity and Fraternity exerted a
most profound influence on
the thinking of French ~Cana-

The British rulers and their
colonial hangers-on stopped at
nothing to maintain their grip.
They used jntimidation of
voters and bribery and, when ;

hesitateq to resort to brutal

violence.

James Glenie wrote, follow-|
ing upon his- election to the
New Brunswick ‘Assembly for
Sunbury, in November, 1789:
“Every Stratagem, every low
Artifice & Lie was practised
and made use of by the Govr’s
pitiful Junto for months before
to prevent it; but all to no
purpose.”

But the champions of the}
people were not cowed by'
such methods.

They fought back courage-
ously and militantly as exem-
plified by these words of Wil-
liam Lyon Mackenzie penned
in the Constitution of July 12,
1837, after the hand-picked
legislature had completed one
of its do-nothing sessions:

“Ye false Canadians! Tories!
Pensioners! Placemen! Profli-
gates! Orangemen! Church-
men! Spies! Informers! . Brok-
ers! Gamblers! Parasites! and
knaves of every cast and des-
cription, allow me to congrat-

|understanding of

ulate you. Never was a vaga-
bond race more prosperous.”
Listing off some of the lead-
ing .Tories of his day Mac-
kenzie wrote;

“Ye refuse and scum of
God’s creation, ye besoms of
heaven’s wealth against poor
sinners, let loose from below,
for a season, to curse a por-
tion of mankind, allow me. to
congratulate you upon your
success in mocking the idle
hopes of those who believe
that you would do ought for
a suffering and ruined popula-
tion.”

In this recording of the
words and actions of the pro-
tagonists in the fierce struggle
of those years lies the chief
value of Professor Clark’s

these didn’t work, they never | work.

With . painstaking research

he has assembled a very large
body of factual material which
is of the greatest value to any-
one who wishes to deepen: his
Canadiana
history.

This reviewer must differ,
however, with his theory of
history.

This theory sees the main
motive force in that history
as the struggle between ‘the
central authorities and the
people living on the frontier.

This theory draws heavily
on the work of the American
historian Frederick Jackson
Turner who interpreted the
whole development of United
States history in terms of the
frontier, even going to the
point of reducing the Civil
War to an event of relatively
secondary importance.

If this theory does pot ex-
plain what happened in Cans
ada 120 years and more ago, it
certainly cannot explain what
is happening now, when there
is no longer a frontier.

Perhaps, it is this difficulty

in part at least which led ©

Clark himself to say to the
1959 members of the Canadian
Historical and Political Science

Associations. that. there is a -

need for “the development of
a sociology of social change.”

As Stanley Ryerson points
out to him in his introduction
to the Founding of Canada:

“There is a ‘sociology of '

social change.’ It is Marxism.
One need not agree with it, to
accept its presence -——- and
growing influence — as a Sig«
nificant fact in today’s world.
The pretense that it ‘does not
exist’ is wearing thin. The pos
sibility that Marxism may pro-
vide a new insight into Canée
dian devezopment merits ex-
amination.”

July 21, 1961—PACIFIC *TRIBUNE—Page 5

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