“Dan
murra

(copyright Sterling Publications)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's
Jatest. book The Gulag Ar-
chipelago is no geographical
romp through the Arctic Islands’
of Russia and it is not a fun book
on which you would like to
muneh during a long weeken-
d.,.. but I'd say that the author

has-wrilten a human documeri, .

the like of which we shall not see
again.

He takes 660 pages to plead

for the dignity of man in the
face of the most’ vicious
tyranny. Gulag is his story of
the labor camps in Russia from
1917 lo 1956 when sixty-six
million souls were deprived of
their freedom under the most
_ porrendous circumstances, Of
course there “are no actual
records available because they
were all carefully destroyed by
the secret: police. Of this
number {three times the
population of Canada) more
than two-thirds disappeared!

Gulag is merely a contraction
of Chief Administration of
Camps. The author likens it loa
large, overloaded, leaky sewer
system which is being con-
tinually fed by countless waves
of prisoners form all over the
USSR and its allies. .
’ Archipelago refers to the
islands-or labor camps dotted
all over Russia. +!

The author was ‘flushed’
down the Gulag in 1945. He was
a thrice decorated, twice

wounded artillery major and
was collared by the secret
police right in the front line
during the heat of battle. His
crime? He had written a
postcard to-a buddy on another
front in which he: made an
unkind remark about Stalin,

His sentence? Eleven years in
the Archipelago (eight al hard
labor and-threa in exile).

The Gulag was fed by
“waves”  .,. the purges of
Trotsky-ites, kulaks, Men-
sheviks, cadels, clergy, army
offieers,. counter-
revolutionaries, intellectuals,
engineers, doctors, prisoners of
war... the author tells of fin-
ding 12-year-old children in the
labor camps!

Il was Lenin who first got the
labor camps on an assembly
line basis which even then made -
the Tzarist system geem lilce a

“Boy Scout jamboree. - After

Lenin was murdered in 1924 by
Stalin, the former seminarian.
from Georgia really got the
show on the rails (the Trans- -
Siberian Railway, that is). The «
‘wyaves’’ opzed out millions of
tortured souls over the frozen
wastes of Siberia with in-
creasing cadence.

Stalin was a mad sadist who'
enjoyed revenge and figur
that if someone wasn’t for him,
then that someone was against
him. He imagined that there
was an enemy of the state

’ subjected

behind every samovar and the
enly good kulaks were dead

ones.

(At Yaita towards the end of
World War II, Stallin admitted
to the British prime minister
that at least ten million kulaks
perished in the collectivization
of the. peasants in the late
twenties!)

Before the chain was pulled
on the hapless victim, he was
to a thorough
processing by the sécret police
interrogators whose speciality
was obtaining signed con-
fessions on anything. This
processing was pretly grim: a:
classic was the ‘secret brand’; a
ramrod was heated on a primus
stave and the thrust up the anal
canal. Or the skull would be
squeezed in an iron ring. A‘
man's gentials would be
crushed SLOWLY beneath the
toe of a jackboot. ‘The author
lists thirty-one. of such
techniques, Number thirty-one
isa dandy: - a

~ “Bridling (also known as the
swan dive). A long piece of
rough towelling’ was inserted
between the prisoner's jaws like
a bridle; the ends were then
pulled back over the shoulders ”
and tied to his heels, Just. try
lying on your stomach Ikea
wheel, with your spine breaking
-- and without food or water for
two days!”

*. 3 Saturday. /

We made our I[lrst car trip
over to Moresby Island when -
our visitors left for Sandspil- pa
/. According to
"newspaper reports sometime in

'-3975 there will be a new ferry on

this particular route. Al

present reservations must be

“made for week-end trips bet-

ween Skidgate and Alliford. 1
_-did not know about this when [

went ‘lo-meet the visitors. the
previous week, so made the

usual’ bus trip over that time,

‘with the: inevilable wait ‘in

between the plane landing and

-bus departure, However. this is

“an enlightening event for any
_wisitor from, the big city to
_ experience, and perhaps

~ prepares people for the Islana’s
Jeisurely pace: ~ ‘

. On our homeward trip we took

the MacMillan Bloetel. road
. down fram Queen Charlotte City

to Justkatla since we had been
invited lo a farewell barbecue
there for friends we first met at-

Nass Camp. (Later I

remembered that we attended a

farewell party for them in the

cockhouse al the Camp when
the couple.moved to Quesnel).

This time Randy and Haakon,

‘along with daughter Ingrid, are

leaving on Thursday morhing

with an eventual detination of

Iraq, or Persia. With the recent

problems on Cyprus it does not

sound too Interesting a project,
but Haakon seems to feel there
will be no problems.

A wealth of local food was
provided for the barbecue -
besides a whole deer, there was
aroaster fullof crab legs, plates
of shrimp, and hot steamed
mussels complete with. their
barnacles. Strangely enough.
we found the barnacles even
more tasly than the mussels,

: and today made a trip out to
gather some of bath of these

- -gheallfish.

.. Tt seamed to us that all the
residents of Justkatla attended

'. (o-pay respects to the Stener- .

- gens... That is one nice thing
about living in a smaller place -
people do seem to care more
about the other residents, and
they. usually work and play
together belter as well.

1T well remember when
Haakon spoke to us abaut how
.good mussels were lo eat, - iy
seems--the Norwegian people
enjoy many of the sea foods we'
~ have yel to become accustomed’
to consider te be food. The main
reason he had for moving to the
Queen Charlotte Islands was for
all of such delicacies. It docs
seem as (hough, the plan is for a
return to the area after the Iraq
sojourn - we can only wish them

_ all a safe return, anon.

; ‘While ‘dearching for the

_, Shellfish today, we took ad-
vantage of the low tide near
Tow Hill, What a myriad of gea

plants and small ammale exist

-. on and among these rocks, In
between there. were many

LETTER FROM |MASSET,
QUEEN CHARLOTTES:

-round circular places worn by

gravel and already fitled with:
ocean ferns. Often there were
deep sections where the water
left by the receding tide would
be well above one’s head should
a false step be taken, . In some
places small crabs were seen

‘moving about, probably not.

even aware of a tidel change.

During our climb up Tow Hill
some ‘weeks back we had wit-
nessed the water coming up
through the "blow hole’’. Taday
we were able to walk under the
overhanging exposed ledge

which culminates in this par- '.

ticular hole. (Another day I
must remember to take along a
camera.) . .

One does not need to go to _
Hawaii to see tha spectacular
displays of an ocean, yel here
there is the advantage af fewer
spectators.

jn one small gravelled sec-
tion,I cameacross quite a large
agate, more-of the size to be
found ‘out near. Rose Spit.
Recently the collecting . has

_extended to “include ~ certain .
colourful shells and some of the -
weathered beach woad suitable

for painting on. It truly begins
to look as though one can have
many hobbies to experiment
with. .
' One of our visitors enjoyed
reading sections of Kathleen E.
Dalzell's Book 2 (Of places and
names), during the - few
moments we sperit ‘at the,

duplex, This is one book we |

should add to our library,
‘shelves In the future since it
contains a wealth of knowledge.
about allaf these islands, we as
well as much of its history. Ei
Gould, who writes on Books in
the Vietorian, stated that when
‘hydrographic crews head for
the Queen Charlotte Islands
‘they usually ‘‘check with
- Kathleen Dalzell or read her

books for the history of an .

area.” Her material is 50, ac-
curate that “no. one wants to
name a creek or a road without

the benefit of such knowledge .

which she has gleaned from old
diaries, records and hundreds
of interviews.” ‘

“fissures and crevices as well as

EN ee ee aero eee

up

By’: ,
Elvira —
C. Bryant

The book itself is enlivened
with many little stories about
some of the early pioneers, and
explains too haw many of the:
various places were given thelr -
names. 1 am grateful thal it |
was brought ta my own at-
tention. ‘ :

One day: last week we all
spent an enjoyable day oul
fishing on the B.C. Canuck. ‘The _
sun even managed to shine for
us -and’ the- water remained
teasonably calm. ‘We managed
to catch one cohoe and several
halibut, so .the company
travelled home with a supply of
fish for the weeks ahead.

It is just unfortunate {hat
Vie's health does not seem up to
the. strenuous life of com-
mercial fishing for a living.
Perhaps he'll get back to the

promised “bird counting" in the *

sanetuary area alter all. It
could be an interesting daily
venture without the necessity af
buffeting the storms, or even

_ leaving home. We are hoping * -
© to be living right across the raod

from the sport spot in the early
fall. ‘I'm still hoping he will do

more writing about the outdoors

S001.

lide we drove out along the
sands of North Beach and dug
some razor clams. ‘The
“glam gun” shovel is a must for
these fast moving mollusks. [
naticed three. cats travelling
- along that beach this morning,
so presumably’ other people
were out there for a similar
purpose.
was drawn up whereby any of
the vehicles arg to stay &

dd. specific distance near lo the.

high tide level so the clam bed
will not be disturbed by any
wheels. I believe the ‘Dune
Bugey group helped with
bringing this about, which is
commendable, y
Although it rains ‘here quite
regularly, only on one occasion
were we caught-In,a shower.
That was the day we collected a
few more slabs for the futire
fireplace. Allin ali, the, visitors
and family members fared well.

_ The history of: this sewage

‘ guiters; and. then just plain

During one particular low .

A special regulation -

_THE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C,

“Capital Truegood”

:.. Richard Lester will bring his
* unique talenis as a director of
-comedy ta MGM’s forthcoming

“Capital Truegood”, it was
announced today (22) by Daniet
Melnick, Sr. Vice President and
World-Wide Production Head.
Daniel Selznick and Joel Glick-
man are producing Stephen
Geller’s original screen-play, 4
widly inventive adventure
concerning the man who in-
vented fiscal wheeling and
dealing in the days just after the
Revoluntionary War.

Lester most recently
triumphed: with “The Three
Musketeers” which is being
released in Iwo paris. He first
came. to prominence ‘as 4 .
director of feature films wilh
the famed Beatles Movies, "a
Hard Day's Night’? and
“Help!”, following these with
notable successes which include
"Petulia’”’. ’

Everyone . was under
suspicion although there was a
mild thaw under’ .Kruschchey
but the ‘'waves’’ still engulf the
Gulag even in 1974. You only
had to bea friend ofa friend of a

-friend of a ‘traitor’ or ‘wrecker’
to be flushed. Or you might
have made the wrong comment
in the bread queue or talked toa
foreigner. All Russian POWs
were automatically gives
‘tenners’ (ten years) and the
author is particularly virulent

- that Churchill handed 90,000

Cossac POWs to Stalin...
another “wave” ... a mad
Dante’s Inferno. .

The Gulag was continually

fermenting. Solzhenitsyn
writes: .
“Through the sewer pipes the

flow pulsed. Sometimes the
pressure was higher than had
been. projected, some times
lower. But the prison sewers
-were never empty. ‘The blood,
the sweal, and the urine into
which we were pulped pulsed
through them continuously.

system is the history of an
endless swallow and flow; flood
alternating with ebb and ebb
again. with flood; waves
pouring in, some big, some
small; brooks and rivulets
flowing in from all sides;
trickles oozing in’ through

individually . scoaped- aul
. droplets. . ped .

Gulag is ‘not. only an. in-
dectment of Stalin’s ‘perversion
of the socialist dream, it is truly

an. assessment of the human:

ytace; .it.is rational .and..com,

passionate. “Pride grows in.the~ #

human heart likelard on a pig”

Whenever dealing with past
periods of history, Lester im-
merses himself in research, He
has spent over a year In-
tensively studying the post’
Revolitonary War Pericd in
American history which will.
provide the . background for

“Capital Truegood’..

Geller, who won acclaim with
his screenplay for
“Slaughterhouse Five"

‘authored the novel “She Let

Him Continue’ on which the
film ‘“Prelty Poison’’ was
based. He also wrote the sereen
play for “The Valachi Paper-
s ” andis currently at work
on the screenplay of ‘The First
Deadly. Sin."

Selznick and Glickman plan
to put “Capital Truegood’
before the cameras early this
coming spring. The film will be
released in the U.S. and Canada
by United Artists.

‘

says the auther.

This book is not recom-

mended for squeemish readers .
., the grugling of the Gulag will
give you nightmares. The John
Haward Society should open a
branch office in' Moscow .. .
they'd have a ‘real ball in
Russia!)
_ And finally, | Tanya
i€tiodkevich comes through loud
and clear. She got len years
hard labor for writing this
couplet: -

*You can pray freely
Bul just so God,
Alone ean hear.

Ww Substation Rd

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1974

| Cycling Champ

The Post. Office Department
today announced the issue of an
Blent stamp to commemorate
the 1974 World Cycling
Championships to be held in
‘Montreal, Canada, fram August
14 to 25. :

This stamp, in red, black and
silver, features part of a bicycle

wheel and the international ~~

cycling logo in miniature. It
was designed by Burns &
Cooper of Toronla. ©

A total of 27 million stamps,
printed by the British American ©
Bank Note Company of Ottawa,
will be issued August 7.

“We are proud that this in- -
ternational ‘sports event will
again be taking. place on
Canadian soil after an interval
of 75: years,” & Spokesman of the
Department said, “I am

pleased indeed to see more and,

more Canadians so concerned -
about physical fitness and the *
environment, that they are
taking up cycling not only for

_ recreation and competition, but

officially started in 1893 at -

‘time.in recent history that the __

also aS a means’ of fighting
pollution,” he added. “A

The "World ’ Cycling series

Chicago. - In 1899 the World .
Championships were held in
Montreal, This will be the first

World Cycling Champlonships,
usually held in Europe, will take
place in North America.

It is expected that athletes

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By-Law’ 02-4027.-The “proposed
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To enter into a Land Use
Contract for the parcel of land
known and described as:
Remainder’ of 89.75 acres
parcel, D.L, 363 (except part
pubdivided by Plan 4757 and
6227) Range, 5, Coast District -
Explanatory Plan 1916 being
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