Famous Peking opera star lalized in i December on his 60th He is 68 years of age, and is now director of the Peking Opera Theatre. Photo shows Chou En-lai congratulat- ing the old artist after a performance. inne portraying elderly men, was honoured early ead Chou: Hsin-fang, who. spec- anniversary on the stage. L[ysenko Male international concert Sunday The Association of United Ukrainian Canadians will present the Lysenko Male Chorus in their Fourth Annual Concert to be held on January 14, 1962 at 8:15 p.m., at the York Theatre in Vancouver. The Lysenko-Male Chorus, conducted by Karl Koby- lansky, in the past several years has endeavoured to bring fo the people of Vancouver a sample of the artistic wealth Present in native Ukrainian culture. This year, the con- cext will take on an international character as a lively Variety of songs, including English, French, Spanish, Can- adian, Polish, Russian, Armenian, and, of course, Ukrain- ian, will be presented, : Also included in the program will be the always excit- ing Ukrainian folk dances performed by the Kobzar dance The whole evening will be accompanied by the Group. A.U.U.C. String Orchestra. : Invitations are $1.00 and may be obtained at the Ukrainian Hall, 805 E, Pender St., the People’s Co-Op’ Bookstore or from members of the Chorus, Chorus to give Soviets develop new drug to destroy cancer tumors CVIET scientists report they have isolated a drug | called “krutsin” which de- Stroys some cancer. tumors: The preparation was ap- Proved for clinical practice by the Ministry of Health and he Soon be available in the SSR under a doctor’s pres: Cription. Krutsin is @n extract of hagos’ disease microbes. Attention was focused on Chagos’ disease when South American Scientists noted that in some parts of Chile and Brazil, where there was a great incidence of it, there Werte very fow casas of can- Cer. Chagos’ disease is some- times fatal, WORTH READING Electrification in the USSR by v. Steklov, 35c. The author presents an outline Of the past present and future of electrification in the So- Viet Union. He tells about the latest achievements in power Station construction and is iNustrated with diagrams and Maps, Available at the , People’s Co-operative Bookstore, 307 W. Pender St., Vahcouver. | disease. They also noted that tum- ors grew smaller and some- times disappeared in cancer patients who caught Chagos’ These two facts sparked the curiosity of Soviet histologist Grigory Roskin in the thirt- ies. He induced cancer arti- ficially in animals and then infected them with Chagos’ disease: The animals improv- éd and some were even cured. The next step was taken by microbiologist Nina Klyuyeva who developed a method of mass cultivation of the Cha- gos’ disease microbes and managed to extract from them the substance which destroys some cancer tumors. Experiments showed the preparation acted only on cancer cells, without affecting healthy tissues. : Soviet professor Svyatuk- hin reported in Literary Ga- zette that he used the prepar- ation successfully on human patients in the treatment of cancer of the mammary gland skin and lips. “But the scientists have a lot to do,’ he wrote. “They must determine precisely in which forms of cancer Kru- tsin treatment give ‘positive effeée?’ Furthermore, the me- thods for usage must be ev- olved.” ‘JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG’ Today's German policies indicted by new movie By MAX REICH Pacific Tribune Correspondent BERLIN—West Berlin celebrated the gala world | premiere of Stanley Kramer’s Judgement at Nuremberg Dec. 14, without knowing the film was hitting hard at everything official West Berlin and the Adenauers of West Germany stand for today. What irony that Mayor Willy Brandt. should intro- duce a film he had not seen, that is an indictment of the Brandts and- their policies? United Artists invited the eream of West Berlin society. and. representatives. of the world’s press to the opening. Stanley Kramer was present at the West Berlin opening, as were the main stars, Spen-- cer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard. Widmark, Maximil- lian Shell, Judy Garland and Montgomery Clift. Marlene Dietrich’ absence was noted. The absence was a protest against the re-nazi- fication of West Germany under the auspices. of “‘de- cent” and ‘“‘democratic’? Am- ericans. When she gavea guest perform- ance last sum- mer in West Berlin’s Tita- tia Palace, Na- zi demonstra- tors were per- mitted to in- sult her be- cause she had = perfomed _be- m@ fore American troops during the anti-Hitler war! Abby Mann who wrote the book, United Artists who pro- duced the film, Stanley Kra- mer who directed it and the whole cast:of big and small stars all deserve congratula- tions not only for a fine work of art, but for a timely and important document that penetrates the artificial fog created by the cold war, to present a sobering view of the present American and “Western” scene. Judgement at Nuremberg, dealing with the lesser Nazi criminals before a U.S. tri- bunal in Nuremberg in 1948, has not just historical signifi- cance but poses a very topi- cal question. Are American “liberals” in 1961 allowing themselves to. play the same role, through misguided ‘‘patriotism’ and the mistaken belief of ‘“‘sav- ing civilization from the com- munist danger’ as the Ger- man “liberals” played in 1933, under the same slogans of “patriotism” and “western civilization versus Bolshevik chaos?” The film not only poses the question, but answers it and this is its living message. It shows that the German lib- eral who did not oppose but drifted into acceptance of National Socialism, did .be- come and had to become, no matter how pure his motives, guilty of murder as an acces- sory to the extermination of more than six million people. It is good to know this film will open simultaneously in 130 capital cities the world over Dec. 18. 7 The trial of leading nazi judges who. perverted justice by putting the cloak of Jegal-. ity over the brutalities of the Third Reich takes place in 1948, three years after. the war-and long enough. after: the original Nuremberg ver- dict against all nazi organiza- tions and the top nazi leader- ship had. -given hope for the emergencies of a.new -Ger- many. By 1948, this hope had pro- ven’ futile. The cold war had unfolded and_ revealed its ugly face to revive the worst traditions of the. recent Ger-' man past and make West Germany again a ‘bulwark against communism,” the old slogan of Hitler, under a new command, the U.S. State Department. There are many references | in the film to this strange si- | tuation. Having the action take place in 1948 is an ar-| tistic strategem. The crimes | of the nazis can be shown in | relation to the guilty nazi) criminals, the accused judges. This is contrasted with the | new demands of American | policy... Pressure is brought | to bear on the prosecutor | and presiding judge to make | them pervert: justice and fal-| sify the record of events in the name of “patriotism,” to, build a new anti-communist | alliance with the Germans | under the leadership of the very same criminals on =| i defendents’ bench who plead “patriotisn”’ as for their crimes. e The key role is that of Ernst Janning (Burt Lancas- | ter). He had been a leading | jurist in the German Weimar Republic, a democrat and a man devoted to justice. When the nazis took power in 1933 he decided, not from - oppor- tunism, but from the false idea of his duty to his father- land, to serve the new Ger- man policy under Hitler. the excuse During the trial, the realiz- ation of his crime breaks through the contempt he had: shown for his American ac- cusers. When he decides to speak he does not and cannot detract from his guilt. It has New Soviet machine makes blood vessels A weaving-mill engineer and a surgeon in the Soviet Union have developed a ma- chine that manufactures syn- thetic blood vessels from fine lavsan threads. '’ The new blood vessels have been used successfully in surgery. become too great. Realizing the same game that resulted in the catastrophe is going to be played over again for the needs of the cold war, he projects the way he went in the past into the present. He, the “liberal” of. 1933, presents himself as a mirror to the ‘‘liberals’” of the cold war period after the defeat of the nazis, when the “‘lib- erals” are again.at the parting of the. ways, when they are again asked to. desert human- ity and ‘ally themselves with the devil; again in the name of; anti-communism. ’ Spencer Tracy plays. the role. of. a.small-town judge Dan Haywood, chosen to pre- side at the trial. A. “rapidly aging” mah, provincial, stub: bornly human, beeause he has stayed close to the people, Haywood escaped becoming a corrupted “‘man of the world” who knows what is expected | Of him in view of the “new” political situation. Jan Mas~ aryk. dies in Czechoslovakia and the West Berlin blockade begins while the court is in session. Haywood is expected to treat the German “lead~ ers” leniently, because ‘we need the Germans as allies to save civilization.” e After the trial, Hans Rolfe (Maximilian Shell), who de- feated the accused, says te Judge Haywood, “I wager that. before five years are out, all the condemned will be free.” | Haywood replies: “I admir- ed your logic throughout the trial. Logically you may be proven right, but justice it will never be.” Judge Haywood is always eager to sée and hear every- thing. He wants to be fair to the accused. He does not pre- sume their guilt. Again and again he overrules objections by the prosecutor for the way in which the defense quest- ions witnesses and conducts its case. But when the brilliant and forceful logic of the defense counsel clashes with the wit- ness Petersen (Montgomery Clift) who had been steriliz- ed by the nazis, and then with the Getman housewife, Irene Hoffman (Judy Gar- land), imprisoned by the na- zis for refusing to falsely ac- cuse the Jew Felsenstein, Haywood begins to under. stand where justice lies. When his assistant judge, for political reasons tries to find legal precedent that the accused are not actually res- ponsible, Haywood refuses to listen to his legalistic hair- splitting. His stubborn reply is, “if you want to tell me a man is not to be held respon- sible for his actions, you will have to do a lot of explain- ing.” The film ends with the fac- tual statement that of 99: condemned nazi criminals, not a single one is still in prison. We may add: and many of them are back in important and influential pos- itions! January 12, 1962—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 9