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: Disney's Shaggy Dog
is fun for the kids

IF YOU don’t mind a story
yout a boy who turns into a
large shaggy dog — and turns
‘back again at copvenient
moments — you and your
children will have some fun
at The Shaggy Dog, a Walt
_ Disney production suggested
by the Felix Salten novel, The
Hound of Venice.
- The boy (Tommy Kirk) is
_a typical teen-ager in a small
town whose father (Fred Mac-
Murray) is a mailman — who
hates dogs. He (the boy, that
is) gets hold of an old ring
belonging to the Borgias, no
less, and a spell is cast: on
_ him. The dog (the boy, that
is) has a small brother,
charmingly played by Kevin
Corcoran, who is delighted
that he finally has a dog, des®

pite his father’s opposition to °

_ the breed. | :

_ he only trouble is, he has
him and he doesn’t have him,

for the dog keeps turning
back into a boy and, in the
‘process of being one or the

_ other, he. uncovers a nest of
international spies in the most

unlikely place. spat

_ As a dog, he can not only

talk ‘and understand every-
thing going on around him,

ut he can-also drive an auto-

_ mobile,-make phone calls and
reason his way in and out of

_ human situations.

Do not mind the ‘loopholes
‘in the fantasy; the fantasy
itself is the thing, and at
‘times it’s pretty funny.

ut oat age 0 fe
ME WAS when movies

were based on books and
plays that had achieved a
reputation in one way or an-
other. Hence, we have seen
War and Peace, based on the
Tolstoi novel, William Faulk-.
ner’s The Sound and the Fury
will soon be on the screen,
ic:

Now we have novels “based
on” the moving picture! Most
of them are published by the
paperback publishers and a
cursory glance at the drug-
store bookstand will reveal
several currently popular
films — on which so-called
novels have been “based.”

Night of the Quarter Noon,
an inter-racial film with some
decent attributes, may be
found in paperback, written
by one of its screenwriters
(Franklin Coen) and _ bearing
the tag, “Based on the daring
motion picture release,” ~ ete.

Boldest of them all, how-
ever, is the new paperback
called Tempest, plugged as

“the BIG novel from the BIG -
motion picture.” It was writ-°~

ten by one R. V. Cassill, which
would be news to its originai
author, if he were alive. His
name was Alexander Pushkin _
(1799-1837). He called it The
Captain’s Daughter.

In addition to their origin
on the screen, instead of the:
typewriter, these novels have
one other thing in common:
all show evidence of having
been written in a great hurry,
are badly written and sketchy
in the extreme. :

DAVID ORDWAY

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Peace or war? A new pamphlet —

F WAR broke out over Ber-
lin could Canada avoid

_ being involved? Why is. Ber-

lin being kept. divided and
who is interested in keeping
it divided? What did the
Potsdam Agreement really
say and what part does it
have in the present dispute?
What part does Washington
play in the present crisis?
What is the role of the Ger-
man generals?

What are the Soviet pro-
posals on Berlin? Is it pos-
sible to reunite Germany?
How can the Berlin problem
ive settled peacefully?

These are just a few of the
many questions that are ans-
wered in the hard-hitting,
fact _ filled . new pamphlet,
titled Berlin: Peace or War?

written by Nelson Clarke, ed-

itor of the Canadian Tribune,
and published by Progress
Books. The pamphlet, which
sells for only five cents,
should help to clear away
much of the confusion and
misunderstanding that exists
today around the problem of
the two Germanys.

We present here a few ex-
cerpts from the new tract:

On why the western pow-
ers are opposed to withdraw-
ing West Germany from Nato:

Every step in the direction
of easing tension in Europe,
and towards the re-unification
of Germany, has been fought
tooth and nail by the West
German government. On every
occasion, the United States,
Britain, Canada and the other
NATO governments have been
willing to support and en-
courage the war provocations
of Adenauer’s government in
Bonn.

The reasons for this were put
very clearly by the U.S. com-

mentator Walter Lippman on

Nov. 14, 1955 in the New
York Herald-Tribune in ans-
wer to the proposal from the
Soviet. Union and the Ger-
man Democratic, Republic
that in order to bring about
unification of Germany, both
parts of the divided country
should be withdrawn from all
military alliances. Lippman

‘said: - »

“For if we concede German
in’ NATO in
order to promote German
unification, we shall be faced
with a deep dislocation of
the NATO military structure.
Western Germany is the key-
stone of the structure, and if
it wete taken away, the stra-
tegical conception of NATO

would have to be radically re-
‘vised. The Western govern-

ments would consider that an
exorbitantly high price to pay
for the unification of Ger-
many.”

On West Germany’s plan
for another “Drang Nach
Osten”’: :

The West- German. govern-
ment is the only government
ment in Europe today that is
demanding more territory.

It’s whole policy is directed
towards bringing under its

“control the German Demo-
cratic Republic, and to re-es-
tablish German sway over all

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NELSON CLARKE

the territories once ruled by
the Kaiser. It lays claim to
Alsace-Lorraine, now part of
France, as well as to large
areas of Czechoslovakia and
Poland, and even of the Soviet
Union.

Fiedler, a minister in the
Baden -Wuertemberg govern-
ment, said bluntly on June 11,

» 1957, “Prague-has always been

a town of the German Reich.”

Adenauer himself told an
election meeting in Limberg,
in November, 1954: “We shall
be.on the way to recover the
Soviet zone when the western
world has reached the re-
quired strength.”

In West Berlin on Feb. 1,
1953, he echoed Hitler when
he said that young German
peasants will “one day again
help to colonize the East. I
believe that this task will
have to be called by that
name.”

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On the actual proposals of

gives the facts on Berlin crisis

the Soviet Union about Ber-
lin: ;

The Soviet Union said in
its note to the Western pow-
ers of Nov. 27, 1958: “The
most correct and natural solu-
tion of the problem would
evidently be a decision to re-
unite the western part of Ber.
lin, now virtually severed
from the GDR, with the east-
ern part, making it a united
city within the state on whose
territory it is situated.”

However, the Soviet Union
does not propose this solution.
The problem, as the Soviet
note makes Clear, is that West
Berlin’s economy is still based
on capitalism. The Soviet
Union and the GDR have no
intention of imposing their
social system on anyone.

Therefore, the Soviet Union
has advanced the only other
possible solution to the Ber-
lin problem — the establish-
ment of West Berlin as a free
city with its own government.
Its independence would be
guaranteed by the four form-
“er occupying powers, both
_German states, and the United
Nations. If further guaran-
tees are felt necessary, the
Soviet Union has made it
clear that it would agree to
the stationing of neutral
troops in the western sector,
or the establishment of a
joint force composed of Brit-
ish, U.S., French and Soviet
troops.

Free, unhampered commu-
nications would be ensured
both eastward and westward,
and as the Soviet note says:
“The establishment of a free-
city status for West Berlin
would well ensure its eco-
nomic development thanks to
its all-rounded ties with east-
ern and western states, and
secure an adequately high
living standard for its popu-
lation.”

Only governments that do
not..want peace can be op-
posed to such a fair and sen-
sible solution.

“Fall in, the European Army!”

April 10, 1959 —

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