* Work is going ahead on reconstruction of Fort Langley,

British Columbia’s first capital, in
This picture shows the partially

year’s. centennial.

Stockade, with the bastion at the corner.

readiness for next
rebuilt
At right. is the one

remaining building of. the original fort, now used as a museum.

U.S. folk

singer on

UBC summer series

By N. E. STORY
University of British Colum-
bia’s summer musical and lec-
ture series for July and Au-

8ust has just been announced.

Of particular interest is en-
Sagement of the noted Ameri-
Can folk singer, Richard Dyer-
Bennet, on July 15. Now 42,
he has become widely known
through recitals. and record-
ings. His program ‘will include
Elizabethan ballads, American
folk songs, sea shanties, Aus-
tvalian bush songs and other
Songs in seven languages. He
Will appear on CBUT July 14
at 10 p.m.

On July 30, Delbert McBride
of Klee Wyck Studio in Nis-
qually, Washington, will give

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an illustrated lecture on Tsim-
shian Totem Poles along the
Skeena- River. Other lectures
include Aksel Schiotz on Ger-
man Lieder (July 9) and Esme
Crampton on- the Stratford
Fes'ival (July 16).

Summer theatre includes
Waiting for Godot (Samuel
Beckett) on June 28, 29 and

July 2 to 6; and Shakespeare’s
The Tempest in modern dress
from August 13 to 17.

The season concludes with
two one act operas: The Medi-
um (Gian Carlo Menotti) and
Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi; both
cohducted by Toornto’s Nicho-
las Goldschmidt. Judging from
last year’s Cosi Fan Tutti, this
will be an outstanding event.

Hungarian immigrants

want

only to get back to homeland

Lazlo Kovacs wants to go home. Since fleeing from Hungary last Oc ctober
that life in the West is not as glamorous as Radio Free Europe and Voice of
ed. He’s had a bellyfull of capitalist unemployment and has come to realize what life
the socialist system was worth.

“The Hungarian government says it no punish us if we go back,”

broken English. ‘But even if
I get one year jail in Budapest,
I glad to go back home, where
life much better than here.”

I interviewed Kovacs and
other Hungarian refugees liv-
ing in an old rooming house
at 1044 Seymour Street. Of
the seven Hungarians staying
there, six have applied for visas
to. return to their homeland.
The seventh, who manned a
rebel machine-gun during the
counter-revolution last year,
knows he can never return.

The six who want to go
back claim they took no part
in the actual fighting in Hun-
gary, but were duped by the
promises of Voice of America.
The gold and Cadillac promises
haven’t come true, and they
feel bitter towards the Ameri-
can propagandists.

‘Americans all bull,” said
Ferenc Csakanyovszki, a young
auto mechanic who already
has his visa and is saving
money for his passage home.
“Promises, promises — and no
keep. All bull.”

¥erenc was driving a gov-
ernment truck at the time of
the fighting in Hungary. He
claims he took.no part in the
counter - revolution. (he still
calls it a “revolution”’) but
simply got drunk one night
and under urging from his
companions drove the truck
across the border into Austria.
When he sobered up the next

day he wanted to go back
but was persuaded he’d be

shot if he did.
“T believe then,” he told me.

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“Now I not believe. Go home,

I know I have®to pay for
truck. Okay, I pay. Life in
Hungary more better than
here.’

Steve Nagy repeated the re-
frain — “Life in Hungary is
better than in Canada.”

Ditto Joe Gyetvai, born in
Yugoslavia of Hungarian par-
ents, unable for the past eight
months in Canada to get more

than a few days’ work at a
time and hoping that he'll

somehow be able to raise the
$300 fare to Hungary before
the Kadar government with-
draws permission to return.

Except for the machine-
gunner, all the Hungarians

seemed to feel no fear of re-

prisals. _ Indeed, they appar-
antly have only a small sense
of guilt.

“If conditions in Hungary
were so. good, why did you
leave?” I wanted to know.
“In a period of trouble, you
deserted your country — you
ran away. Why?”

There were shrugs, then a
flood of talk.

Money wasn’t plentiful in
Hungary, but life had been
good. If wages were low, so
Was rent. Social services were
free. There was security. No
unemployment. No fear of
the future.

But they had been influenc-

ed by Radio Free Europe and
hie Voice of America. Glitter-
ing tales of high Wages and
luxuries in the “free” world.
Never a mention that’ if you
haven’t got. a job you can
starve.

So, when the border guards
disappeared in October, they
crossed by train and truck
and bus to Austria, and were
air-lifted to all corners of the
“free world.”

Disillusionmeni, for those
who came to B.C., began at
Abbotsford. Conditions in the
refugee camp were bad — and
eventually they struck out on
their own. Government assist-
ance? Never saw it, they
claimed. A few days’ work
here, a few days there. Long
periods of unemployment.

grate Kovacs, a
ae room, which contains a
bed, dresser, table, two kitchen
chairs and a hotplate. “Be-
hind in rent,” he said. “Land-
lady tell me pay or get out.
Lucky I get some work this
week—small jobs, paint small
houses.”

Kovacs has fallen in -love
with a Canadian girl and
wants to take her back home
with: him — which presents a
special problem. She has writ-
ten the Polish legation in Ot-
tawa, which is in: charge of
Hungarian interests in Can-
ada, and hopes to receive per-
mission to go to Hungary.

The men istruggled for a
word. “Appreciate” was the
word they wanted. They hadn’t

‘Crews

he’s discovered
America claim
under

Kovacs told me in his
appreciated life under social-
ism until they’d tried living
in a capitalist country. Now
their eyes were opened. They
wan‘ed to go home.

“I pay for truck I took,
sure,” said Ferenc Csakanyov-
szki. .“Then, you bet, I tell

everybody what happen to us.
Voice of America no fool us
any more. Never again.”

Flu suspect
recovered

Vancouver’s single Asian
flu suspect has recovered and
is back at work, city health of-
ficer Dr. Stewart Murray re-
ported this week.

Warning that “there is al-
Ways influenza of one kind or
another around at this time of
year,” Dr. Murray advised peo-
ple to “get lots of rest and stay
out of crowds.”

Asian flu has already caus-
ed hundreds of deaths in the
Philippines and Hongkong,
and some medical men have
connected it with the H-tests.

A report from the World
Health Organization in Gene-
va this week says that sailors
of the U.S. Atlantic fleet have
contracted two new
influenza virus. similar to
strains sweeping southwest
Asia, although the ships and
involved have had no
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