THE DAY of telling the truth about the Soviet Union is past, Time magazine declared recently in an item criticizing the New York Times publishing a series of articles by its Moscow correspondent, Harrison Salisbury. non-existent news- papers which “still never-never land ideal of objec- tivity,” “Time” declared that “in simpler days there was no partic- ular harm for readers (if no particular benefit) in the broad- east scattering of ‘facts’ without interpretation or perspective.” for Assailing, pursue the “But . .. that day is past.” “Time” was particularly con- cerned about the fact that the Salisbury articles underscored So- viet preoccupation ‘with peace. It cited those passages from the ar- ticles which dealt with this pre- ocupation in order to demonstrate why it disapproved. CER “For example, he (Salisbury) said that ‘foreigners long resident in ‘Moscow’ took the ‘cleaning, painting and construction’ going on in Moscow as a sign that Rus- sit bombs would soon be falling on Soviet territory,” Time wrote. “He interpreted a steady increase in the quantity of pots and pans copper and brass samovars’ as evidence that ‘the Kremlin does not anticipate requiring these basic materials for war’.” was not expecting atomic It further cited Salisbury’s re marks concerning the lack of changeover in Soviet economy, is “already armed to the teeth.’ It deliberately ignored evidence by Salisbury and others that there is vast expansion of Soviet civilian economy. And it distorted Salis- bury’s statements that no one in as the U.S.S.R. advocates “preventive war.” The magazine’s sensitivity on this point is easily understood. For the facts revealed betray American foreign policy as being built on the “Big Lie” technique advanced by the Hitler-Mikado Mussolini anti-Comintern Axis, and for similar reasons, * x4 * TIME MAGAZINE proves that it is itself decidedly not addicted to the truth. Thus, details about the circumstances under which the Salisbury articles were published, but neglects to. note what it unquestionahly must have known, namely, that three of the articles sent by Salisbury ‘were suppressed. It need not be overly fearful that the New York Times is “too Actually the . Times suppress the objective.” wanted to series. But too much was known entire about their existence, What was especially embarras- ing to the Times was the fact that the Inter-American Press Congress was taking place in New York at the time news of the articles leaked, This congress attended by publishers from all over Latin America was trum- peting freedom of the press. Sup- pression of the Salisbury series was untenable. . ..Time Magazine also indulged a bit in habitual distortions of the commercial press which, under the head of “news” makes a prac- tice of exercising its imagination to fit its theories. Thus, it referr- _ed to Walter Winchell as falling for a rumor spread by “Manhat- tan party-liners,” that the New York Times had suppressed the articles. Fact is Winchell’s re- “mark called the series to the at- tention of the New York Daily it gives ALL THE NEWS THAT WAS ALMOST SUPPRESSED Time magazine hates tacts, __ raps NY Times for printing them Worker after which it was learn- ed from others in the trade that the Times had contemplated sup- pression. “Time,” however, is in vogue. Such interpretive monstrosities, passed off as “news” are the life of journalism today.—MAX GRANT. CAPSULE REVIEWS Honest film about vets THE MEN The lives of paraplegic veter- ans in the postwar world honestly done. Marlon Brando is superb as one of the crippled vets. * * * TRIO (British) Three skillfully done but arch- ly conservative stories by Somer- set Maugham. * * mF BLACK ROSE Orson Welles plays a sinister ‘Mongol’ killer in this vicious anticolored people’s film which contrasts the ‘civilized’ white world with the ‘barbarians’ of Asia, * * * PANIC IN THE STREETS Plague in New Orleans is the villian of this excellently photo- graphed, documentary-type chaSe. story. Stars Richard Widmark, Barbara Bel Geddes and Zero Mostel. Marred by chauvinistic treatment of Chinese seamen and fact, despite setting, practically no Negroes in picture. * * * ALL ABOUT EVE Joseph Mankiewicz presents a ruthless clinical study of a small, not too important section of humanity —— the people of the theater—specifically Broadway— with devasting results. Bette Davis, George Sanders and oth- ers expertly deliver the sharpest dialogue heard in some time. * * * A charge of 50 cents for each insertion of five lines or less with 10 cents for each additional line is made for notices appearing in this column. No notices will be accepted later than Monday noon of the week of publication. WHAT’S DOING? DANCE—Modern & Old-Time Mu- sic, at Clinton Hall, 2605 E. Pen- der St. Every Saturday night, 9 to 12. Music by “The Men of the West.” SOCIAL AND .DANCE, Satur- day, November 18, 9 p.m., Yugo- _slav People’s Home, 767 Keefer. Auspices Lithuanian Literary Society. BANQUET, Entertainment, re- freshments & dancing at Tatra Hall, New Westminster, Satur- day, Noy. 18, 8 p.m. Proceeds for Peace Delegation. BUSINESS PERSONALS 3, TRANSFER & MOVING, Cour- teous, rast, efficient. Call Nick at Yale Hotel, PA. 0632, MA. 1527, CH. 8210. CRYSTAL STEAM BATHS—Open - every day. New Modern Beauty Salon—1763 E. Hastings. HAs- tings 0094. 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GUIDE TO GOOD READING A Illusions prevent clear view of ‘dream factory’ IT PROBABLY seemed a very clever idea to give Hollywood the same “scientific” analysis that a remote and primitive tribe gets from an anthropologist. tunately, with bourgeois anthro- pology being not much ~more scientific as a study of society than numerology, Dr. Hortense Powdermaker’s _ Hollywood, the ‘Pream Factory (Little, Brown) is long on trivia and jargon’ but short on basic analysis. Hollywood is a class phenom- enom; one of America’s major industries, directly controlled by finance capital, and consciously, deliberately used to perpetuate capitalist rule. It was completely impossible for Dr. Powdermaker to explore the film capital with this realis- tic outlook. For her, “science” does not even provide accurate definition, let alone permit ac- curate description. To her, modern society is ‘“‘de- mocratic” or “totalitarian.” The latter term is a loose generaliza- . tion, devoid of any scientific ap- plication. A “democracy,” to the good doctor as one in which peo- - ple have the “opportunity to choose,” as did the American people when they elected Tru- man in 1948. The pictured con- flict between US. “democracy” and ‘totalitarianism,” in which fascism and communism are neatly equated, is a familiar de- vice of capitalist propagandists to veil the basie conflict between rotting capitalism, including its fascist form, and democratic so- cialism. Used by one who has pretensions towards, scientific study, it makes a mockery of the word science. ‘ x * * HOW THIS thoroughly mid- dle class outlook distorts even PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 17, 1950 — PAGE 10 Unfor-— the presentation of observed ‘facts is evident in the author's comment that the lack of suc- cess of “anti-Communist” films “had nothing to do with their message but much to do with their poor quality.” Now that, clearly, is a lot of baloney, and it doesn’t need a trained anthropologist to slice it. ‘First, it is elementary that the poor quality of the films now preaching anti-Soviet war and plugging for anti-Communist hy- steria is inseparable from its reactionary “message.” Second, since millions of Am- ericans “and Canadians see a steady stream of mediocre films, which, unlike the anti-Commun- ist films, bring profitable returns, is ‘it not obvious that it is pre- cisely the content of the pro-war, anti-democratic movies which the public is rejecting? In the course of her on-the-scene study of the film industry—the directors, the producers,’ writers, the craft conflicts, social and sex life of the stars—the author does make many pertinent and accu- rate comments. She is aware that the public major dissatisfac- tion with Hollywood films is that they are not “honest” reflection of life. She agrees that Holly- wood'’s “God is profit, and oppor- -tunism the method to work.” But these accurate judgments are transitory, not coherently or- ganized, not viewed in the light of. the whole dynamic body of class realities. Thus, when the author discus- ses the Catholic Legion of De- ceney’s consorship grip on Holly- wood, she “balances” ~ that fact by setting alongside it the pro- test movements of Negroes and other minorities against- racial stereotypes. This results in an cbvious distortion of reality.