U.S. author reports
on China today

By PEGGY CHUNN

Speaking to an audience of
approximately 800 people at the
Exhibition Gardens, Felix
Greene, U.S, author and lectur- .
er, reaffirmed his enthusiastic
account of developments in China
which he gave to a Vancouver
audience last October, Greene
visited China in 1957, 1960, 1963
into 1964, The meeting was spon-
sored by the Canada- China
Friendship Association,

Greene noted the fact that China
was still extremely poor, but
said the vitality and social inter-
relatedness of the Chinese people
were tremendous, He also noted
an improvement in the food-sup-
ply, more consumer goods onthe
market, and a very marked sense
of quiet confidence on the part of
the Chinese people,

In spite of errors they have
made, particularly inagriculture
and over-capitalization of heavy
industry, they have achieved out-
standing success in a number of
fields, notably education and pub-
lic health,

The speaker went onto say that
China and the West will eventually
have to sit down and come to
terms, but predicted that this will
be quite difficult because China
does not feel that she needs the
West, and they will refuse to
compromise on their demands
that: (1) Chiang Kai Shek get out
of Formosa and (2) that the U.S,
fleet be withdrawn from For-
mosa,

‘Obviously, he said, the U.S, is
not going to agree to these terms,
and he expressed a personal
opinion that Mainland China and
Formosa will settle their differ-
ences between themselves, leav-
ing the West out of it altogether,

Departing from the topic of
China’s progress since their
revolution, Greene expressed
some opinions on the ideological
dispute between the Communist
Party of China and the other
Communist parties in the world,
He denied that these differences
were based on “theory,” “ideolo-

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gy”—or any border disputes, but
said they were based primarily
on how to cope with the U,S, (from
positions of military and econ-
omic inferiority on their part),

The Soviet Union concluded
they can compete with the U.S,
as an equal—China does not feel
this way, he said. China believes
that revolutionary power is going
to come from the “rise of the
hungry peoples,” the speaker
stated,

He also went on to deal with
the theory of the “Paper Tiger,”
claiming that we have not under-
stood what Mao Tse Tung really
meant by that. China- concedes
that the U.S, has great military
strength, but under certain cir-
cumstances this becomes power-
less, Green cited as an example
of this, Cuba, with only seven
million people whom the U;S,
would have no difficulty in de-
stroying, but where military ac-
tion cannot really be used because
the U.S, knows that any such
action would only advance the
revolutionary movement in other
parts of Latin America, He also
spoke of the French defeat in
Indochina, where the military
might of France was defeated by
the “little people,”

* * *

In this writer’s opinion, Greene

and the Canada-China Friendship

Ass’n do a fine job when they —

stick to the subject of China, her
development, the need for friend-
ship, trade, cultural, education-
al and other exchanges, They doa
great disservice to the struggle
for peace in the world, however,
when they promote the line of
the C,P, of China thatthe nuclear
bomb is in reality just a “paper
tiger” which the United States is
unable to use because the “little
people” are going to determine
our future,

This can only serve to disarm
people, to blunt their alertness
to the very grave danger of ther-

-Mmonuclear war which is hovering

over the world at the moment, and
immobilize them in the struggle
for total world disarmament,
The C-CF Association objec-
tives of friendship, trade, diplo-
matic recognition of China and
her right to take her place in
the United Nations, etc., are
worthy of support by all Cana-
dians, This support they will
without doubt receive as long as
their role is that of a genuine
friendship association. Their
motives immediately become

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indulge in the subtle, invidious
type of propaganda which has
been present at both of Greene’s
recent meetings in Vancouver,

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‘Make hate mail criminal offence’

The Vancouver section of the
United Jewish Peoples Order has
written Prime Minister Pearson
requesting that the government
introduce legislation which will
make it a criminal offence for
the mail to be used for spreading
hate,

The letter, signed by chairman
of the Order, H, Berson, says

OBITUARY

BERT T. FLATT

The funeral of Bert T, Flatt
was held from the Bell Funeral
Home, Thursday, February 11th,
1965, at 11 a.m., with interment
in Mountain View Cemetary, The
union service was read by Broth-
er E, L, Walker, Mine MillCom-
pensation Officer, andthe funeral
was well attended by many of
Bert’s old friends,

Bert Flatt was born in England
and came to Canada when just out
of his teens and very soon be-
came one of the “Paek-sack”
organizers, wherever there wasa
need for trade union organization,

He was a member of theSingle
Unemployed Protective Associa-
tion, 1936; the Relief Project
Workers Union, 1938-40; Local-
No, 1 of the Boilermakers and
Iron Shipbuilders Union of Cana-
da, 1943; International Wood-
workers of America, 1937; Local
906, Mine-Mill at Alice Arm
(Torbrit Silver Mines), B,C, 1953
and of Local 663 Britannia Beach,
B.C,

His death came very suddenly
while employed at the Capilano
Golf and Country Club, West Van-
couver, B,C, On Saturday, Feb,
6th, 1965, Death was due to a
heart condition from which he
had suffered since an accident
in 1958, in Vancouver, He is
survived by brothers and sisters
in England and by a cousin, Mrs,
May Kirchofer of Vancouver,

Classified

that “such legislation is a vital
necessity, After a year of inten-
sive activitiy on the part of the
hate purveyors such legislation
can now be considered overdue,”

The demand for action came
from a conference of the Van-
couver Section of the U,J,P,0O,
on January: 10,

The conference also decided to
write Prime Minister Pearson
urging the Canadian government
to protest the announcement of
the West German government that
no new prosecutions of war crim-
inals will be initiated after May
8, 1965,

The letter said:

“It is our considered opinion
that if this announcement should
be put into effect then thousands
of Nazi murderers will have
evaded just retribution for the
monstrous crimes they commit-
ted against humanity, Those
guilty of genocide will thus be
free ‘of the just debt they should
pay and will be able to continue
such activities,”

It continues: “In the name of
morality and humanity we urge
the government of Canada to call
upon the West German govern-
ment to (1) reconsider its posi-
tion of their statute of limitations;
(2) make known to the govern-
ment of West Germany that Cana-
da cannot accept limitations on
the prosecution of Nazi murder-
ers; (3) help to seek out and bring
to the bar of justice any of the
Nazi war criminals who may
presently be residing in Canada,”

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