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TOP: The building in which the historic World Peace Assembly

"is meeting this week. BOTTOM: A: view of Helsinki, the Finnish
capital which is host to, the great world gathering.

2,000 AT HELSINKI

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Parley opens
or peace

A month before the Big Four conference in Geneva,
2,000 men and women, delegates of the world’s millions
with a vestéd interest in peace, are meeting.

-» By air, land and sea, from 75 countries, they poured
into the Finnish capital last weekend for the opening of the

World Assembly for Peace on
Wednesday this week. »
' All of them — statesmen,
churchmen, delegates from pow-
erful unions and. small craft
bodies, famous philosophers,
writers, artists and sportsmen—
are conscious that they are rep-
resentatives of the millions of
ordinary people by whose -pres-
sure the Big Four have at last
been brought together.
They are determined that
their week’s deliberations will so
influence the Geneva talks that

there will be no excuse for fail- .

ure.

Before ‘each one of them set
foot on a plane, a ship or a train,

many meetings ‘had taken place ~

in localities, factories, mines and
mills in their respective coun-

tries, ensuring that the views of

the workers, housewives, parish-
joners and professional people
qvho have sent them to the as-
sembly will be expressed to i
best advantage. : ‘

Among the dajeastee from 75
countries attending the assembly,

Canada is represented by a group

of 50, Britain by a group of 60.

The best way td cope with nu-
clear weapons is being discuss-
ed by men like Dr. Mekhnad
Saha, “MP, founder and director
of thé Institute of Nuclear Phy-
si¢s of Calcutta University, Pro-
fessor Joliot-Curie, Nobel prize-

winner for physics and president
of the World Council for Peace,
and Professor Nesmeyanov, presi-
dent of the USSR- Academy of
Sciences.

Exchanges of views on the ef-
fects of the H-bomb tests are
taking place between experts

‘like Dr. Nobuo Kusamo, who~as-

sisted in the autopsy on the Jap-
anese fishermen victims of the
Bikini tést,: and Major-General
Sir Sahib Singh Sokhey, former
director of the World Health
Organization. af
The contribution culture can
play in preserving peace is be-
ing thrashed out by world-known
writers Anna Seghers, Arnold
Zweig, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ilya
Ehrenburg, and by film produc-
ers Cavalcanti and Gerassimov.

Park concert wil
fete Canada Day

Twelve groups of young Canadians performers will take part in a lively and cl

orful concert Friday, July 1 at 8:30 p.m.,
in a beautiful natural setting with the mountains and the sea in the background, wie :

the highlight of a Canada Day Youth Festival celebrating this country’
Canadian folk songs and dances will be featured, along with the songs and dance

of Canadian national groups.

Alouette, Red River Valley,
Vive Le Canadiene, Louis Riel,
O Lovely Land, The Strangest
Dream are some of the numbers
to be presented.

There will be a short, dramatic
scene of the Fathers of Confed-
eration at the Quebec Confer-
ence,, where the basis of Cana-
dian nationhood was establish-
ed. ‘

Two groups of Native Indians
will dance; Pauline Johnson’s
poetry will be recited by a Native
jndian girl, and her Toast -to
Vancouver, set’ to music by a
young Vancouver musician,
Searle Friedman, will be sung.

A special attraction will be an

fast Indian stick dance perform-
ed by a group of 12 East Indian

boys from the Lake Cowichan

district. © 3
The grand finale will see all

the performers on stage to sing
the three verses of O Canada:

The festival opens with’ a Na-
tive Indian canoe race at English
Bay on Friday, July 1 at 2 p.m.
Canoes from Vancouver Island,
Burrard Inlet and the Fraser
Valley will compete in Canadian
waters for the first time since
1946. This event promises to be
the outstanding Canada Day at-
traction in Vancouver.

On Saturday, July 2 an all-day
sports meet will be held in
Brockton Oval. It begins with a
9.30 a.m.. volleyball tournament
for both boys and girls, and con-
tinues with a track and eld
meet in the afternoon. :

_ The festival will conclude with
a dance in Stanley Park Pavilion
at 9 p.m. Saturday.

Film groups
plan meet

Possibility of establishing a
provincial council of groups de-
voted to the enjoyment and study
of screen art is opened up by the

Joint Preview Weekend being

held in the city this Saturday and
Sunday, June 25-26, in which a

number of film groups from’ yar- .

ious parts of the province will
participate. ;

Among participating groups
are the UBC Audio-Visual Ser-
vices, Vancouver Film Society,
Vancouver Film Council and
Classic Film Society. Other
groups from as far diStant as
Prince George will also take
part. : \

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The preview may include Tit-
Coq, Canada’s first feature-length

film, in addition to examples of.

‘Chinese, Mexican and Soviet

screen art.

in Broékton Point Oval. The concert, stag

s 88th birth

B.C. signatures
for peace soar

Thirty-eight thousand signatures have now been cok
lected in this province to the World Appeal Against Prep:
tions for Atomic War, it is announced by B.C. Peace Coun

Eighty canvassers gathered 3,842 signatures t
during Vancouver’s “Helsinki Day” celebrations tase
day, in honor of the World As-
sembly for Peace, which opened
in the Finnish capital on Wed-
nesday this»week.

ciel
intend to
Ss more

tures marks a fine beg
our campaign, but we
go on to collect thousand
Gardner told the “Helsink! |
audience. “Our aim is #0 §
the total of 86,000 signatt
gathered in B.C. to the Pea
Pact Appeal in the summer
ihe ap lo?

To spark the campaig® ©
other city-wide canvass will f
place on Saturday, July
honor of the Big Four.

which is to commence
later.

“The Peace ‘Pact Appeal,

ed an important part in DUN
about the Big: Four mee
Gardner said. ‘signal ee al
World Appeal can help influ’

its outcome.”

Teams representing , th the ES
great powers, United States
viet Union, Britain an 3
will. compete in a
lecting on July 16._

Toronto Peace Council support-
ers collected 1,457 signatures on ~
the same day in a friendly com-
‘petition they lost to Vancouver.

On Vancouver Island, a peace
motorcade organized by Nanaimo
and Alberni Valley peace coun-
cils, toured Parksville, Qualicum
and the Albernis, collecting 262
signatures.

British Columbia’s three lead-
ing canvassers, Mrs. Freda Hickie,
Mrs. Dora Palmer and Anton
Muzichenko were given a stand-
ing ovation by more than 100
fellow peace workers at a Hel-
sinki: Celebration last. Saturday
evening.

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Gold peace pins, awarded ‘to
canvassers who have’ collected
1,000 or more ‘signatures, were
presented to them by Ray Gard-
rer, council ehairman. The awards
were instituted by the Canadian
Peace Congress.

Mrs. Hickie collected 86 sig-
natures Saturday to become the
first to pass the 2,000 mark. Her
iotal is now 2,047. Muzichenko

Leading canvasse
paign, apart from the ' sea
trio,’ are Mrs. Bel ’
961; Mrs. Elva Black, a

_ Kay Gardner, 800;
Prokopchuk, 791; Mrs.

has collected 1,275 gin, 643; Mrs. Mary
Mrs. Palmer 1,087. signatures and 619; Ray Gardnet,
é Graber, 471; Mrs. Ma

“Thirty- eight thousand signa- 422; and Mrs. May Taylor

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