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ae FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT
-# Arthur Miller, last week re-
ected an invitation to the White
House because of his disagree-
ment with President Johnson’s
Vietnam policy,

Arthur Miller’s slap in the face
Sr LBJ came after he had been
Mvited to witness the Signing of
€ Arts and Humanities Act,
"Oviding government funds for
: ultural projects, In a cable to
President Johnson the U.S, play=

Tight welcomed the signing of
he Bill,

“But the occasion is so dark-
ed for me by the Vietnam
tragedy,” he said, “that I could
Rot join in with a clear con-
Science, It is five and a half
Months since Hanoi radio broad=
“ast four conditions on which they

Would be willing to negotiate a
Ceasefire,

“No concrete response has yet
“ome from the President aye.
fanwhile, American casualties
are Mounting daily, Our Air

Artists help
to fight
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‘8nd sculptors are using their

to fight apartheid, They are
: Contributing works to an art sale
ind €xhibition in London, the pro-
‘Seeds of which will be used to
help defend political prisoners
| South Africa and to maintain
their families,

: The artists, from about 30
SUntries, have contributed
Tks valued at close to half a
Mion dollars, A Picasso has
€n loaned and it is hoped that

Other of his works will be
a for Sale,

_, The painters and sculptors

ie all signed a declaration:
a Support the struggle against
fo injustice, I demand the
bandonment of political trials

ree is carrying out gigantic

ARTHUR MILLER is the famous author of “Death of a Salesman,” “The
Crucible,” “A View from the Bridge,” and other plays.

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bombardments through thick
cloud cover which can only mean
immense civilian sufferning in
Vietnam and death for innocent
women and children.... \

“When the guns boom the arts
die and this law of life is far
stronger than any law man may
devise.” Earlier this year poet
Robert Lowell turned down an
invitation to a White House func-
tion in protest against U.S, policy
in Vietnam,

An indication of the extent of
the “civilian suffering” brought
about by U.S, bombing to which
Miller referred was given last
week in a report from the Binh
Dinh provincial committee of the
South Vietnam National Liber-
ation Front,

In the course of July and Au-
gust 548 people were killed and
644 wounded, including 160 chil-
dren as a result of U.S, bombing
in Binh Dinh provinee alone, Dur-
ing this period 5,194 houses, 10

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When guns boon, the arts die’

churches and pagodas and 10
schools were destroyed, while
the spraying of poisonous chemi=
cals by U.S, planes had destroyed
the rice crop over a large area,

At a recent conference on
peaceful alternatives to the war
in Vietnam, ‘held at Michigan
University, Arthur Miller said
that any administration that
claimed it wanted negotiations
had to stop bombing,

“We may win this war,” he
warned, “but it will be a grave-
yard we have won for years to
come, We have to use our voices
to get the President to change
his mind.” He was supported by
Emil Mazey, one of the leaders
of the United Automobile Work-
ers’ Union who has taken an in=
‘treasing part in the protest
movement in the U,S3

Some outstanding U.S, artists
who attended the White House
function attended because they
said they supported the Bill but,
were critical of the U.S. policy
in Vietnam,

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Gala city event will
honor Tommy Douglas

Saturday, October 16 will be ‘“‘DOUGLAS
NIGHT" in Vancouver when hundreds of people from
all walks of life will gather at a banquet and dance
at the Showmart Building to pay tribute to Tommy
Douglas’ thirty years of public service.

Music will be provided by Mart Kenney and his

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AND HIS WESTERN
GENTLEMEN

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orchestra which will include the singing of Norma
Locke. Tickets are $7.50 each and can be ordered
from the Douglas Night Committee, 517 Broadway
East, Vancouver 10, B.C.

the immediate release of all
Poli

tical prisoners in South
ica,”

AURIER .LAPIERRE,, of the TV
how, “This Hour Has Seven Days,’ will
be master of ceremonies at Douglas

TOMMY DOUGLAS, whose thirty
years of public service will be honored
at the gala event.

Nine galleries in London and
a have also agreed to donate
Tks to the exhibition which will

held between October 7 — 27.

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teep NV FOSTER DULLES, archi-
Ho America’s cold war big lie of
Dn @8gression’’ Canadian gov-
the "8 accepted this big lie as
Pole "€78tone of their foreign

Night.

he big lie about the threat of

Soviet aggression, the lie on
which U,S, and British and Can-
adian eold-war aims andpolicies
have been built for 20 years, has
been taken to pieces and torn to
shreds, trampled on and blown to
smithereens by David Horowitz
in The Free World Colossus, a

new book recently published,

(Available through Co-op Book
Store.)

It will make the cold- war war-
riors, their scribes and the ser-
vile swallowers ofall things made
in Washington fume and foam,
But they will not be able to an-
swer Horowitz’s case.

Horowitz, a U.S. university
lecturer, now at the London
School of Economics, has pro-

“policy,

duced a superb work; precise,
logical, and thoroughly docu-
mented (from official as well as
unofficial sources), The resultis

BOOKS

a devastating demolition of the
entire cold-war structure,

The architects of U.S, foreign
and by implication, of
British foreign policy too, are ex-
posed and red-handed, in theim-
perialist act,

The justification for cold-war
policies followed by the U.S, is
that the build-up of U.S, nuclear
weapons, the huge arms spending,

New book debunks cold war big lie

the stationing of troops abroad,
the foreign bases, the military
alliances and blocs, the subver-
sion and overthrow of govern-
ments, the invasion of other coun-
tries, were all required as re-'

‘sponses to aggressive Soviet

moves,

Horowitz shows this to be to-
tally false and that it is the
mirror image of the truth, The
aggressive moves have always
come from the U,S., never from
the Soviet side, The military
strategy of the U.S., he shows is
aggressive, that of the Soviet
Union, defensive,

The first part of the book re-

views U.S. foreign policy since
‘Yalta to recent times,

Clearly

the blame for the deterioration
in international relations and the
tension arises from Washington,
After this broad sweep, he ex-
amines detailed aspects — Korea,
Vietnam, Guatemala, Iran,
Greece, Turkey, Cuba, the atom:
bomb and the swindle of the
“missile gap,”

Each of these is an excellent
summary of the important facts,
all of which point the finger of
guilt at the U.S, leaders. Of
particular value just now is the
chapter on Vietnam — the back-
ground and subsequent course of
events proving U.S. reponsibility
for aggressive and treacherous
war against the people of that
country,

ss ‘ —Willi Wi ° right

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