The following actresses participated in a press conference recently d
tional Film Festival: Left to right (upper row) Nurfe Aidan (Turkey), Susanne Strasberg (U_S.), Eva

Murnietse (USSR), Cha Zhang (DRY), Mari
Signoret (France), Fransuaz Arnul (France
Leila Favzi (UAR), Diann Angriani (Indonesia), Lolita Torres

BEVY OF BEAUTIES AT 3RD MOSCOW FILM FESTIVAL

uring the 3rd Moscow Interna-

Terechik Hungary), Tatyana Samolova (USSR), Simone
). Lower row: Llya Eliavi (USSR), Mila Karmila (Indonesia),
(Argentina) and Kitti de Dios (Mexico).

Health and disarmament

Ss problem of peace and dis-
armament is closely linked
With the health of mankind.

According to World Health Or-
8anization (WHO) data, for in-
Stance, only 1,700 million dollars
Would be required to wipe out
Malaria the world over.

This seems very small indeed
“Compared with the sum of 120,-
000 million dollars spent for mili-
tary purposes by all countries.

In the last 5,000 years, wars
have claimed 3,600 million lives.
During the First World War
alone, some 10 million people
Perished and 20 million were in-
Jured.

The Second World War. cost
50 million lives.

It is hard to estimate the dam-
age caused by health in the
Course of preparations for a new
War, when enormous material
resources are spent on arma-
Ments instead of on improving

living conditions, nourishment
and health protection.
* * &

The arms race has become a
heavy burden on the budget of
the less developed countries.
Pakistan, for instance, allocates
70 per cent of its budget to mi-
litary purposes.

The already __ insignificant
amounts allotted to health pro-
tection are being cut. Millions
of people in Africa, India, Tur-
key, Iran and Latin America live
in a state of semi-starvation.

Even the highly developed cap-
italist countries are unable to
organize good health services be-
cause of the unrestrained arms
race.

U.S. President Kennedy recent-
ly reported that during the last
ten years only six medical
schools had opened in the United
States, and the number of gradu-
ates had increased only by 15
per cent.

The number of doctors per head
of population is now lower than
it was ten years ago, and keeps

decreasing. ; =:
In the former African colonies

there is one doctor for every
40,000-100,000. That means medi-
eal assistance is actually inac-
cessible. Z

It is no wonder, therefore, that

child mortality in these countries, .

according to WHO, is several
times higher than in economically
developed countries, and average
life expectancy is only half that
‘in the highly developed countries.

According to the same sources,
500 million people are suffering
from yaws, 12 million from lep-
rosy and more than 200 million
suffer from endemic goitre.

According to the UN Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO)
nearly 40 milion people are dying
from hunger.

Elementary requires

justice

that economically developed coun.
tries render unselfish assistance
to the less-developed ones, first
of all in the sphere of public
health.

* ak *

Disarmament is an indispens-
able condition for the successful
development of health services
and medical workers join their
voices to the demand of all hon-
est people for an immediate ban
on nuclear tests contaminating
the atmosphere, water and soil.

The World Assembly on Health
Protection unanimously adopted
a special resolution on the role
of doctors in the preservation
and consolidation of peace.

Soviet medical men together
with their foreign colleagues and
the broad masses qf working
people persistently demand de-
cisive steps in th struggle against
military hysteria and unrestrain-
ed militarization.

The victory of the ideas of
peaceful co-existence and solution
of the problem of disarmament
will make it possible to use the
resources thus freed for the good
of the world’s peoples.

In the nearest future it will.
already be possible to ensure
all people sufficient food, cloth-
ing and housing, fully to satis.
fy the requirements in hospitals
and doctors and considerably to
improve health.

—V. TRAFIMOV, Minister of

Health, Russian S.S.R.-

‘Cl
eopatra
A FRIEND of mine who is
good at noting _ statistics
Mentioned that Cleopatra appear-
ed with a fully-clothed bosom
Only twice during the whole
Movie.
Perhaps sex entices some peo-
Ple into going to the movies—
but unfortunately for Cleopatra,
if this is what you want, there
are better movies.
Cleopatra, in spite of the mas-

~~ WORTH
READING

American Negro Slave Re-
Volts, by Herbert Aptheker
(Paperback). Price $2.45.

This is the first fully docu-
Mented study of Negro slave re-
volts and other forms of re-
Sistance to slavery. in the United
States.

Dr. Aptheker provides proof,
Obtained by painstaking research,
that discontent and rebellious-
hess were not only exceedingly
common, but were characteristic
of American’ Negro slaves. He
Shows the position of the ‘‘poor
White’’ in the South and the role

_ Of northern whites who supported
the slaves.

at f

all form—

sive screen, in spite of the fabu-
lous color, the gigantic sets and
sweeping scenery, and especially
in spite of Liz Taylor, is a yawn-
ing long movie. At $2.50 per
seat iis an expensive bore.

Rex Har<ison, as Caesar, does
maintain ssme audience interest
in the ~*ie. In fact, he’s quite
good. .~\terhunately, Caesar is
murdered in the first half and
for the rest of the movie we’re
forced to rely on the interest
potential of the Liz-Burton love
scenes. ;

* * *

Canadian audiences, at least in
cities where ‘“‘daring”’ foreign
movies have been getting good
runs in the past few years, are
getting too sophisticated to be
wowed only by unclothed bed-
room scenes. The novelty has
worn off.

We're able not only to look,
but to listen as well. In Cleopat-
ra, none of the things said about
love are very profound, or very
moving. mn fact, they’re not even
believable.

There is 3 :lisease in Holly-
wood called splendoritis. It is a
convictior ong producers and
directors tha: ‘f you haven’t got
an idea, then give the audience
splendor. This movie suffers bad-

Sensis SUCRE ee

no content

ly from the disease.

The marble gleams, the colors
are brilliant, the designs are per-
fect; you’re almost convinced
there must be an’ air-condition-
ing unit hidden just under the
window.

If curiosity forces you to pay
$2.50 to see the movie, you'll
probably be sorry. —S.L.

LIZ as CLEO

‘facts

Marxism is the
scientific tool

PROBLEMS OF CONTEMPOR-
ARY HISTORY, by R. Palme Dutt.
Price $1.35.

e

je MASSIVE mythology of

imperialism, created to jus-
tify and preserve man’s exploi-
tation of his fellow man, is the
target of these essays by per-
haps the most widely read
Marxist publicist writing in Eng-
lish.

The book also offers an ex-
planation of why the Russian
proletariat acquired state pow-
er before the German proletar-
jat. why socialism arose and
developed in the industrially and
technilogically “backward East’’
rather than in the ‘developed
West,” and how Karl Marx and
V. I. Lenin foretold this direction
with remarkably accurate pre-
Cision.

But the main burden of Dutt’s
argument and marshaling of
is directed against those
who strive to ignore, belittle, re-

vise and otherwise discredit
Marxist theory and method.
* * - *

To become master of his des-
tiny, the author argues, man
needs a scientific understanding
of history alongside of the scien-
tific understanding of the natural
world. History. helps ‘‘to teach
the art of navigation,’ that is,
how to chart the course of man-
kind’s development.

And particularly in order to
understand and solve the prob-
lems of today do “we need
knowledge .and understanding of
contemporary history,’’ which he
defines as ‘‘the era of the social-
ist revolution, of the deepening
crisis of capitalism, of the ad-
vancing of victory of socialism
and national liberation, of the
crumbling of colonialism, of the
transition from capitalism to
socialism and communism.”

Dutt has a dry wit rooted in
the characteristic British pen-
chan” for understatement and he
uses «nis to illuminate some of
the more comic spectacles of con-
fusion and misconception besett-
ing non-Marxist historical writ-
ing. The beginning of the first
world war provided one such ex.
ample.

* * *

“What happened to the search
for historical truth at Oxford in
this hour of testing?’ he asks.
“At once all the most distinguish-
ed Professors of the Oxford Fac-
ulty of History published a col-
lectively signed manifesto declar-
ing that, having examined the
evidence as trained historians
accustomed to weighing impar-
tially historical evidence, they
had reached the unanimous con-

clusion that Britain was in the

right in the war and Germany
in the wrong.

“Tmrmeciately came a Counter-
Manifeste from all the most fa-
mous names of German historical
learning, names one had equally
learned -to revere and respect
as masters of knowledge, pro-
claiming that, in the light of
their no less authoritative and
scrupulous weighing of historical
evidence, they had reached the
unanimous conclusion that Ger-
many was in the right and Bri-
tain in the wrong ae

7 * *

In an appeal to Marxist his-
torians to undertake the ‘gigantic
tasks” that await them in serious
world, Dutt warns that “every
incompleteness, every gap in our’
treatment is taken advantage of
by the enemy to spread a vast
array of falsification and myth-
ology.”’

As examples of this he cites
“the fantastic Western official
myths’’ about the ‘rape of

Czechoslovakia.” “the Munes~*on
revolution of 1956,” “the Berlin
“the North Korean

blockade,”’

aggression,” and the distortions
of the 20th Soviet Communist
Party Congress revelations about
Stalin’s crimes, all of which ‘“‘by
dint of incessant repetition are
presented and often accepted by
many sincere people in the West
as gospel truth,. mainly. because
they have no ready access to
the facts which would explode
the myths.”

Dutt offers an-explanation of
the origin of the cold war which
few Americans, I would think,
have seen so well reasoned be.
fore. His views on the future of
socialism in the West, and par-
ticularly its future in Britain,
again bring into focus the pro-
found significance of the rela-
tionship between the _ national
liberation struggles of the col
onial peoples and dependent na-
tions and the efforts of the work-
ing people of the ‘advanced’
countries to defend their living
standards and democratic rights.

On balance, the book can be
said to have succeeded in es-
tablishing its theme: that the
theory and method of Marxism
is a scientific tool not only for
understanding and explaining the
contemporary world, but also for
changing it.

—J.P. (Peoples World)

My youth is all spent

How do I know my youth is all spent?

Well, my get up and go has got up and went.
But in spite of it all — I’m able to grin
When I think of where my get up has been.

Old age is golden, so I’ve heard it said

But sometimes I wonder as I get into bed,
With my ears in a drawer, my teeth in a cup,
My eyes on the table until I wake up.

Ere sleep dims my eyes I say to myself,

“Is there anything that should go on the shelf?”
The reason I know — my youth is all spent,

My get up and go has got up and went.

But I really don’t mind, when | think with a grin
Of all the grand places my get up has been.

Since I’ve retired from life’s competition

I busy myself with complete repetition.

I get up each morning — I dust ‘off my wits,

Pick up the papers and read the “Obits.”

If my name isn’t mentioned I know I’m not dead,

‘So I eat a good breakfast and go back to bed.
—AUTHOR UNKNOWN.

~ August 2, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5