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eine Teports describing it as
Canad Re of the mosi significant

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Up ‘ partment of English at
day nigh CBUT Channel 2 Thurs-

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| Carter's novels have

sold 700,000 copies

before publication in Toronto
this month, Offered in a hard-
eover binding ‘at a pre-publica-
tion price of $5 a copy, the edi-
tion was fully subscribed before

it came off the presses.*

Now a second popular. edition
has been issued (obtainable here
at the People’s Cooperative Book-
store, 337 West Pender Street,

- price $2.63, including sales tax.)

Fatherless Sons is expected to
add to Carter’s stature as one of
Canada’s best known and widest
read writers.

His earlier novels have sold a
iotal of 700,000 copies in this

,country and the United States.

His last novel, Tomorrow Is
With Us, has already been trans-
lated into eight languages, Dutch,
German, Russian, Polish, Ruman-
ian, Hungarian, Czech and Slovak.

Two editions have been pub-
lished in the Soviet Union, one
of 25,000 copies in Russian and
another of 70,000 copies in Eng-
lish.

With the exception of the Ger-
man edition, of which 65,000
copies have been sold, all foreign
<ditions of Tomorrow Is With
Us have been sold out.

Carter established his reputa--
tion as a writer with publication
of his Russia’s Secret Weapon in
the early forties. This book was
translated into 11 languages and
brought its author international
acclaim.

DYSON CARTER

British abandon Salk vaccine

British doctors have abandoned thei
the British Medical Research Council will s
British Public Health Laboratory Service, reported there were “
which we don’t like,” one being the very narrow range
ceded that it might take researchers, like those shown h

even years. ’
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BOOKS

r planned field trial of the Salk anti-polio vaccine. Instead
earch for a safer vaccine.

Dr. G. S. Wilson, driector of the

many things about the Salk vaccine
between ineffectiveness and danger.
ere, a long time to find a safe vaccine, perhaps

He con-

There was always a 13th juror

present -- fear and prejudice

I HAVE just finished one of the

most terrible and yet one of the
most inspiring books it has ever
been my lot to read.

It is The Thirteenth Juror (ob-
tainable there at the People’s Co-
operative Bookstore, 337 West
Pender Street, price $1.84), the
story of the trial and imprison-
ment of Steve Nelson, veteran of
the Spanish Civil War, and U.S.
Communist leader.

It is a dreadful story of de-
based, sadistic inhumanity on the
side of U.S. court and prison
officials and of truly theroic en-
durance and proud, courageous
loyalty to their Communist con-
victions on the part of Steve Nel-

MINGWAY—YOUNGEST GRAND OLD MAN OF LITERATURE

\

R
Ms Bas Hemingway, hairy-
the _ S@ntimentalist and one
aa Ost ‘talented literary
push str alive, it was a long,
MS ae .t88le and in the end he

Wi * knew he would.
roto talent, which had a
4 the , 2d still-growing effect
lish-language novel,
inty “Seep, if narrow, in-
he Mdividual human na-
oat have become one
ay. ally great writers of

¥ yoecause his under-
ae: Buy ife was not up to his.
Ung and it was an honorable
tis “pop » Unlike many of his
Integr tes, he escaped with

. Teea .
bag ele a years he has devoted

ing, VO ne narrative prose,
ie, a Nobel: Prize, and is
th 'S 57th birthday,’ one

Liter “ngest Grand Old Men
dup of Te in the business.
the books he wrote
* Still struggling have
oe tinted as Penguins:
dpe 199g. Women (first pub-
(iy To 1 Farewell to Arms
Toy » ang “ib and Have Not

(l
wee nD All are obtainable
a 4 ©0ple’s Cooperative
” 337 West Pender

or Whom the Bell °

In the end he lost,

Through them you can trace
Hemingway’s growing stature as
a writer and his growing involve-
ment with life.
out Women, a collection of short
stories, he studies courage, frus-
tration, moods and feelings’ al-

most in isolation. —
The quality varies: some suc-

eeed brilliantly, like “Fifty
Grand”; some don’t come to life
at all. :

A Farewell to Arms gives a
disillusioned picture of soldiering
on the Italian front in the First
World War. Hemingway’s hero,

an American serving with the.

Italian Army, falls in love with
an English nurse, deserts after a
big retreat and sthuggles the girl
out to ‘Switzerland, where she
dies in childbirth.

The assertion of human values
against the blind brutality of the
war, and the sharpness of the
writing, made this fine novel
most effective in its time, and it
wears well today..

og bed 03

With To Have and Have Not
come the portents of ultimate
failure. It is a study of a small
boat owner in Florida, driven by
hard times to smuggle drink,
guns and men to Cuba.

By making a hero of this selfish

In Men With--

son and the two witnesses he
called in his defense.

Blawnox Prison, known as “The
Workhouse,” where Nelson was
confined, is a place of horror.
The prison officials have lost, if
they ever had any, all sense of
human worth or human. decency.

For the least offense, or even
without offense, prisoners are
punished with “The Hole.” There,
down below, they occupy a series
cf bare cells, no seat or bed, but
the cement floor, no light except
when the officers appear with
their bread and water, dark, evil-
smelling and filthy.

Within*a few days of entering
Blawhox, Steve for an alleged

as he knew he would’

crook and inviting sympathy for
him, because he has guts and is
gcod to his wife and times are
hard. Hemingway puts forward a
typically confused individual ipro-
vest which takes the edge off a
sometimes pdssionate attack on
corruption and rottenness in the
America of the mid-thirties.

For Whom the Bell Tolls, is
Memingway’s novel of the Spanish
War. It is the nearest he has
ever got to involvement in popu-
lar struggle.

Much of it is magnificent:
through the characters of the Re-
publican guerilla band and the

cescription of how they lived and -

dched in the four days of a small
bridge-blowing operation runs a
deeply felt respect for the Span-
ish people and a genuine anti-
fascism. q

But through all these stories
and novels runs a strain of de-
featism. The tough heroes strug-
gle and die, or see what they have
hoped for die. Courage had come
io be equated with failure.

in For Whom the Bell Tolls
this defeatism leads Hemingway
to present the Republic he sup-
ports in the worst possible light
and the fascists he hates com-
paratively favorably.

In the Spanish scene, as else-
where in his writings, Heming-

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

way catches the courage of the
human spirit in the decent man,
the bitterness of his fight against
corruption and the toughness of
his struggle to be a dignified
human being.

What he misses are the wider
comradeship, common purpose
and understanding which can turn
individual .defeat into common
vietory and put courage to work
successfully for worthy ends.

offense, was condemned to “The
Hole” Read this:

“The guards left. The place
became almost completely dark,
even though it was just about
10 a.m. I didn’t put on the shirt
and pants, which were so crust-
ed from human dirt and sweat
that they stood up like frozen
clothes on a line.

“My feet were especially un-
comfortable. The unfinished
concrete floor cut the soles so
that they really hurt. The smell
of human bodies was awful.
At first I could hardly see, but
gradually my eyes got used to
the bit of light which came
from the small bulb burning at
the end of the long corridor 13
cells away.

“While I couldn’t see much,
-here actually was no need for
light since I had nothing to
read or do and nothing to look
at but the dirty yellow walls.”

After about a year of “The
Workhouse” he was transferred
to the Iron City jail, from which
he was released on bail pending
ais second trial. While driving
to Philadelphia from Pittsburgh
he had a very bad auto accident.

He was as ill as it was possible
for a man to be, but the court,
after allowing him a quite in-
sufficient period for recovery, in-
sisted on opening the trial.

The next trouble was a lawyer’

to conduct the defense. His wife
and friends saw more than 80
Jawyers in Pittsburgh and they
all refused to take his case.

When the case came to trial,
one of the jurors who had been
heard to say that he’d never vote
for a conviction got severly
beaten up by four toughs and
threatened with a worse beating
if he didn*t change his mind.

For present all the time was
the 13th juror—fear and preju-
dice.

In the. Pennsylvania Appeal
Court Steven Nelson won his ap-
peal against the 20-year sentence,.
The State of Pennsylvania and a
number of other states have ap-
pealed to the Supreme Court to
reimpose the sentence.

Read this book—and then en-
list in the campaign to get Steve
Nelson’s 20-year sentence an-
nulled by the U.S. Supreme Court.

WILLIAM GALLACHER

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