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| Communist peace appeal calls on

heart and reason of the world’

Peace can be preserved
appeal to the “heart and reason of the world”

ry

Workers’ parties after discussions here.
An atomic and hydrogen weapon tests an

MOSCOW

- war is not inevitable. That is the message of an historic

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manufacture and use of these weapons.

It is not only the Socialist
countries, not only the nations
of the East that do not want
War, say the 64 parties. War
is hated by the people of the
Western capitalist countries
Who have twice experienced it.

They warn, however, that
the danger of a monstrous and
all-destroying war — a hiund-
red. times more des ructive
than the calamity of the Sec-
ond World War — has not
passed.

Revolutionary art made

| Diego Rivera famous

MEXICO CITY

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One of Mexico’s foremost citizens and one of the world’s
foremost painters, Diego Rivera, died of a heart attack Mon-
day this week in his studio at suburban San Angel. He would

have been 71 on December 8.

Until his right hand and
arm became paralyzed a few

_ Weeks ago, Rivera kept paint-

ing 12 to 14 hours a day on
three new paintings. His
Capacity for work was legen-
dary; people who knew him
in his younger days say he
Often worked 20 hours a day,
Sometimes falling asleep on the
Scaffold.

Rivera was born with the
itch to paint. Shortly after
his birth, December 8, 1886, in
Guanajuato, he began to draw.
by the time he was three his
father, a noted educators emp-
fled a room in the big family
Ouse, lined the walls with
blackboards and made it the
Oy’s exclusive domain. He
Spent hours happily drawing.
Tn 1907, at the age of 20, he
Was sent to Europe on a schol-
atship. Except for a few trips
Ome he remained in Europe
Until 1921, studying in France,

ny England, Spain, Italy and the

“Owlands.
Among his friends during
€se years were two other
artists of some acclaim: Pablo
lcasso. and Ilya Ehrenburg.
© shared an apartment with
Ehrenburg for some years and
'S said to have been the in-
SPiration of the Russian writ-
*s first novel.
ivera formally joined the
°mmunist Party of Mexico in
the mid-twenties and_ main-
'ained a stormy relationship
With that organization for the
"8st of his life.
of is Marxist understanding
. history and identification
Ith the strength, the beauty,
ce aspirations of the people
ing texico gave a rich flower-
£ & of Rivera’s development as
1 artist.
is 4ving absorbed and mas-
»,% the techniques of Euro-
; art, Rivera over the years
Te and more turned this

“Ne¥clonedic knowledge™ into

DIEGO RIVERA

the development of a form
that would be uniquely Mexi-
can.

His later paintings incorpor-
ate the colors of his homeland;
the forms often reflect Aztec
designs; the subject matter is
Mexican history, its revolu-
tionary heroes and struggles,
the grandeur and promise of
the future. His favorite models
were Mexican peasants, the
men, women and children of
the poverty-stricken villages
and farms.

As part of that history,
Rivera has painted many
murals powerfully attacking
U.S. imperialists and imperial-
ism for their role in the sub-
jugation and exploitation of
Mexico.

Rivera was part of a great
movement in Mexico that
stimulated hundreds of paint-
ers to turn to the wall for a
canvas and to speak to the
multitude with their art. That
development has _ produced
hundreds of fine painters and
three grand masters of the
mural form: Orozco, Siquieros
and. Rivera, undoubtedly with-
out peer in the world.

made by representatives of 64 Communist and
The appeal calls for action to win an immediate halt
d the “unconditional and speedy prohibition of the

A communique published
with the appeal says the dele-
gations of the Communist and
Workers’ parties who attended
the recent celebrations of the
40th anniversary of the Great
October Revolution decided to
take advantage of: their stay
in Moscow for a friendly meet-
ing and discussion of ques-
tions of interest to all the par-
ties.

The participants exchanged
views on current questions of
the international situation and
decided to address a Peace
Manifesto to workers and peas-
ants of all countries, to men
and women throughout the
world, and to: all people of
good will.

The communique says the
conference took place in an
atmosphere of close coopera-
tion and cordiality, typical of
the relations between fraternal
parties linked by unity of
Marxist-Leninist ideology and
the principles of proletarian
internationalism.

To avert the war danger that
darkens the joy of life, the

manifesto urges the people to’

demand an end to the arms
drive, to the policy of mili-
tary blocs and military bases
in o her countries, to imperial-
ist plotting and military pro-
vocation in the Middle East.

It says that German militar-
ists, chiefly responsible for the
last war, must not be allowed
to rearm in the very heart of
Europe.

In place of this there must
be a policy of collective securi-
ty, of peaceful co-existence of
different social systems, and
the widest economic and cul-
tural cooperation of all peoples.

* First stamp”

reached Vancouver this
week from the Soviea: Union.
“First in world, Soviet artifi-

cial: earth satellite,” says the~

wording in the right corner.

Part of funeral procession for President Zapotocky in Prague.

(zechs elect Novotny
to succeed Lapotocky

By ARMOUR MILNE

PRAGUE

Antonin Novotny, first secretary of the Communist party,
has been elected. president of the Czechoslovak Republic in
succession to the late President Zapotocky.

The most interesting out-
come of the election is that
Noyotny is to continue to act
as the Communist party’s first
secretary. One reason for this
is the obvious one that Novot-
ny, who will be 53 next month,
is 20 years younger than was
his. predecessor as president
and is, therefore, capable of
holding down both important
positions.

He joined the Czechoslovak
Communist party in 1921, soon
after it was founded, when he
was only 16. His father, a
bricklayer, was also one of the
earliest members of the party.

Born in Letnany, a small
industrial town about 10 miles
to the north of Prague, No-
votny served an apprentice-
ship as a mechanic in a fac-
tory.

He was long active in the
workers’ mass sports move-
ment, and it was not until he
was 25 that he emerged as a
Communist party local offi-
cial.

In 1935 he had advanced in
party standing to such an ex-
tent that he was sent to Mos-
cow as a delegate to the Sev-
enth Congress of the Commun-
ist International. Returning
from Moscow he was made in-
structor to the Prague reg-
ional organization of the par-
ty and a few years later was
elected to the regional secre-
tariat;

When the Nazis invaded
Czechoslovakia in 1938 he
worked in the underground
leadership of the party in the
Prague region, remaining at
large until 1941, when he was

ANTONIN NOVOTNY

arrested by the Gestapo. The
next four years he spent in a
concentration camp.

In May, 1945, after the liber-
ation, he was appointed first
secretary of the Prague sec-
tion of the party, and in the
following year was elected to
the central committee for the
first time. He played an im-
portant and active role in the
events of February 1948.

His first major promotion
came in 1951 when, on the re-
commendation of the late
President Gottwald, he was
appointed a secretary of the
central committee of the Com-
munist party and elected a
member of the presidium and
the secretariat.

In- January 1953 he
made a deputy premier. Two
months later, following the
death of President Gottwald,
he returned t6 full-time party
work as first secretary for the
central committee.

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