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Be signing contracts
for future films,-Ameri-
"eee actor Marlon Brando is
i insist on a clause that they
- Won't be shown in segregated
oe houses, he said in Lon-
on, Eng., recently.
a he told a press con~
: nce that 11 other big
wee have promised to fol-
Ow suit. He named actor and
eee Sir Laurence Oli-
er, playwright Arnold Wes-
€r and actress Vanessa Red-
grave,
aN Britishers included
ay h Tynan, literary man-
i of the National Theatre,
; d author C. P. Snow. Two
ae French names includ-
a the 11 were actor and
ee cer Christian Marquand,
= hovelist and playwright
ancoise Sagan.
"a said these names
a ian collected only one
ea elore his announcement
ai € press conference and,
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more people,were expected to
join in the plan.

A serious Brando quiet-
ly faced a barrage of camer-

io
as for 15 minutes before turn-
ing on the drama.

But he was not acting. He
admitted he was ‘sticking out
my chin’? when he asserted
‘this boycott cannot last more
than two days. Since those pro-
ducers and distributors af-
fected will be faced with en-
ormous economic penalties
they will have to give in.’’

He said that the film in-
dustry was largely control-
led by about 10 actors and
actresses. They included Dor-
is Day, Elizabeth Taylor and
Shirley MacLaine. Most of
these had signed a statement,
of their belief that racial seg-
regation must go.

Brando also showed his sup-
port for the anti-apartheid
campaign in Britain by ap-
pearing on the platform at a
meeting on South Africa, held
in Westminster.

The meeting was addressed
by Archbishop J oost de Blank,
formerly of Capetown, and by
Canon John Collins.

“The Hi
J tghland Clearance,”
we Pebbie. Published by pee
drdéreae London, Eng. Can be
Stor, from People’s Co-op Book

‘ ie W. Pender St.

T° is the story of how, and
ian am the Highlanders of Scot-
Years he wiped out, between the
Native 1, 0 and 1850, from their

ou Nd. Shown is the care-
oe ae bolicy of terrorism
oo by the Highlanders’
laboration Sin the closest col-
of, the : with, and on behalf
against yaa sheep interests
ern oa of every Nor-
V
demning pate burns with con-
Cotterg oon as brightly as the
too distant ew in those not
Santine one of the most out-
record ee of this historic
a it is something more
anthenti ee ‘book’?)}—is its sheer
“trom ah ty. It is largely told
of both ae left by the people,
Cua who were direct-
Mented : - These fully docu-
ke "aah of those terrible
€Ve~opener gSuaranteed to be an
Teader, : to nearly every
T ae
th he chief reminder we have in

=o
f ae of the Highlanders

ee al, gathering-of-

holds les

Highland Scots history

son for Canada

the-clans, Caledonian Society-
style, junkets. Before the reader
is a quarter way through this
story he’ll feel like making it
required © reading for every
prancing, six - generation -
removed - by - marriage ‘‘Scot’’
who has the effrontery to toast
‘“The Immortal Memory’’ and at
the same time the indecency
to claim kinship with any of the
Quisling Lairds of a century
ago.

Author People must be comp-
limented, not only for the pain-
staking research he has carried
out, but.also in that he does not
pull a single punch, In his pre-
face he says, ‘‘This book, then,
is the story of how the High-
landers were deserted and then
betrayed... - how sheep were
preferred to them, and how bay-
onet, truncheon and fire were used
to drive them from their homes

. . . The chiefs remain in
Edinburgh and London, but the
people are gone.’’

* * *

Readers here will find two par~-
ticular aspects of interest. The
first is a very full description
of how and why one of Can-
ada’s founding races arrived
here. The second is a conclu-
sion one may very well reach
rather than by any direct men-

’ ferences

tion in the text.

This is, that in spite of all
the racial and geographical dif-
between ‘the High-
landers’ record and that of our
native Indians, the reader cannot
help but “feel a repeated, histor-
ical parallel between the two.

Both peoples were forcibly
projected straight from a tribal
society into capitalism. Their
lands were the target of their
oppressors. In both cases the

BOOKS

very greatest prutality was used
to ‘break’? them. Neither were
able to show any consistant lead-
ership or organization and both
had their collaborationists.

With some of John Pebble’s
honesty already starting to rub
off onto this reviewer, another,
and more up-to-date conclusion
must be admitted. Not only in
the time of the expropriation
of the Highlanders and the In-
dians but today both peoples, or
what are left of them, enjoy
the almost complete indifference
of all the ‘‘others’?. who are
now reaping the benefits of their

subjugation.
—John Hope

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the proteins are com-

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< i author, as historian
ble mn ee of the Negro peo-
te rs, eee of struggle, love,
» Satire and, < :
> 8reat humanism,” oe

: :
The stute book readers will find
ce tury a life, as almost a
: Of living has proved it

protein compounds.

The amino - acids themselves
do not vary greatly in number.
In animals there are about 20-
odd. The interesting thing is that
the way they are put together is
specific to a particular species
of animal. é

Man has always known - that
eating meat and animal products

give him strength. Only today .

do we know the reason why. For
animal protein is made up of
roughly the same kind of amino-
acids as the human body—only
the pattern is different and has
to be rearranged in the course
of digestion.

So when we eat meat, cheese,
eggs, or drink milk, we are
making available to the body,
the building bricks needed for
maintenance, growth and repair.

Cereals and vegetables like
beans, lentils and dried peas are
also partly made up of proteins.
But these proteins are composed
of fewer amino-acids than ani-

mal proteins are. Consequently: -

if we were to live entirely on 2
cereal and vegetable diet the body
would be short of essential ami-
no-acids.

Stunted growth and impaired
health would be the result, which
can be seen at its worst in the
poor and under-developed parts
of the world.

Growing children in particular
need plenty of protein foods.
The enormous appetite they show

HEALTH

at various periods should not be
satisfied with sweets and biscuits
— these will not build strong
bones, muscles andhealthy teeth.

The bad skin and general flab-
piness seen in so many adol-
escents for example, is more the
result of a bad diet than any-
thing else.

—Gwen Leeson
(Br. Daily Worker)

A nuclear

nuclear ‘‘ missing link’* whose

discovery is expectedto bring
order into the confusion of the
sub-atomic world of particles
smaller than atoms was reported
recently from the Brookhaven
laboratory in New York.

The discovery of the Omega
minus particle by a 33-strong
international team may orderthe
sub-nuclear world in the same
way that Mendeleyev ordered the
chemical elements,

By 1932 it had been established
that the atomic nucleus was com-
posed of protons and neutrons
packed together in spheres a
million-millionth of a centmetre
across.

Very powerful forces hold the
nuclei together. It has been found

disco
in recent. years that there are
many tiny particles at work do-
ing this, and that the life ot
these particles is very short.
The omega minus particle has
a life of about 10,000 millionths
of a second and its existence
was predicted before the great
33,000 million volt accelerator
at Brookhaven photographed its
trail.

If all this sounds far out we
should note the words of one
British scientist, who summed
up the discovery thus: “

‘High energy physicists are
walking around with a slightly
hysterical look, as though they
are actually witnessing the apple
landing on Newton’s head,”’

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_ Joe Ivens, Okanagan Mission,
writes: Did you notice in the
Vancouver Sun, Feb. 8 an edi-
torial, entitled ‘‘The Simple Cure
on Wall Street’?

Quoting the *‘Magazine of Wall
Street?’ (Jan. 25 issue) it says:
‘This indoctrination of the very
young by the Communists is a
criminal act and just men should
band together to demand that they
be tried for this crime in a
World Court. Such a step would
completely undermine Com-
munist propaganda and show it
up for what it is’’.

And another gem from the Sun
in the same edition. *¢Houston
isn’t second to Dallas in its right
wing enthusiasm. In the week fol-
lowing the assassination one of
Houston’s top attorneys was
lunching with one of the wealthi-
est and most influential men in
South Texas at a Houston bus-
inessmen’s club. :

«J don’t hold with murder,”’
said the wealthy man. ‘*But I
can’t say I’m not glad to see
us rid of that bushy-haired bas-
tard from Boston.. .’’

The above quotesare from Am-
erican papers featured in our

Canadian press. To get the full :

gist of this U.S. ‘intellectualism’
Canadians should read the whole
story. It isn’t a pretty picture.

Ignore Them

J. H. Hughes, North Vancou-
ver, writes: Regarding the CBC
program film shown Feb. 2 deal-
ing with the history of the Com-
munist Party of Canada, prompts
us to question why its able lead-
ers should lend themselves in
cooperating with the CBC to put

over to the viewing public what
turned out to be a distorted and
“biased film. Especially when one
remembers the Communist Party
being denied free time to state
its own views during election
time, yet at the whim of the
CBC, are practically held up to
ridicule. ;

One could not help but hear
and see how this film was load-
ed with bias and untruths. Also
full scope was given to the Tro-
tskyite Spector, depicting him
as the founder of the CPC, in-
stead of the true founder and
recognized as such, Tim Buck.

Why the social democrat Mur-
ray Cotterill was shown and what
he had to do with the Commun-
ist Party is hard to figure out,
except to add to the distortion
and lies, which he ably did.

Also the fact that CBC saw
fit to insult the intelligence of
the TV audience with intermit-
tent crude and silly remarks by
some beatnik character hidden
behind darkened glasses. a

Truly the whole program was
shown with one view in mind,
to try to belittle the import-
ance of the Communists at this
particular time. Having in mind
the past performance of the CBC
with their biased and ‘loaded?
film on the leadership of Mine-
Mill, it makes one wonder what
is to be gained by the Com-
munist Party putting their trust
in the CBC to tell the truth,

Surely the Communist Party
and its leaders rate themselves
far above the CBC in their ap-

_ proach to facts and the realities

of life. Therefore it is my op-
inion the CBC should be ignored
at all times on their approach

_to “propagandize’’, a la CBC,

the Communist Party of Canada.

a es oS
1814 — Taras Shevchenko — 1861

March 9 will mark the 150th anniversary of Taras Shevchenko, father
of Ukraine's ‘iterature and immortal Bard of Ukraine. The A UUC
will mark the occasion by holding a Shevchenko Festival at the Queen
Elizabeth Theatre, Sunday, March 8. Festival contents will be mainly

_ Ukrainian but the commentary will be in English.

February 28, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page