Chieg netsh what the village © tor » Slo hth” Count up to 10.” When h Was over, the interpreter | —2n TU-104 jets. Russin’ The 195-man chorus will arrive in Vancouve Se i a the Army. Chorus, part of which is pictured above with th he yn. Po Vancouver International Festival on August 10, 11 r on August 8 eir conductor, will appear at the Exhibition and 12 at carried by two A wation OF SHEEP — by ed ae J. Lederer. Publish- 1g, McLeod. Price $5.00. aaa Available © at 07 sy Co-op - Bookstore, couy est Pender St., Van- Peet’ .B.C, | - ; the eral years ago, during Amery in Vietnam, two Uceq an correspondents pro- : tiscusci., film on Vietnamese Tovie ng communism. This own - documentary ‘was Vision aA a national U.S. tele- to be cok up and was found . Winn” convincing. - the Sten J. Lederer describes tim j, auent history of this Nati Nn his recent book, “A ue of Sheep.” Corres film shows an American x Pondent with a Vietna- lage chietbreter and the vil- 1ef in a hut near Saigon. ar, American asked, “How Bret. wT crops?” The inter- pred in Vietnarnese. Bp age chieftain stared in- | Ment ace, thought for a mo- i, “Xd slowly replied: Teton S2¥S)”” said the interp- rons in English, “that the 48 nu are bad and that there People discontent among his “Ty; & s turned out,” explained ha had “that the interpreter “no instance interpreted ‘ain had said in Vietna- & cies aig a Tn fact, he sometimes heng ot even tell the village aman wh hag aa at the Americans ay “stead, the interpreter had a Vietnamese, ‘Now you - You i tell you, old man, or Sto 1 get into trouble. When loo > talking, I want you to sp into the air and think Moment, and then very made up his own replies. He told the Americans how condi- tions in the area were ter- rible and how the people were ripe for Communism.” e This little story, one of many illustrates why “A Nation of Sheep” has reached -the. top 10 best-sellers in non-fiction. It lets the public in on some of the real truth pehind news- paper headlines about Korea, Taiwan, Laos and other areas of the globe. His behind-the-scenes glimps- es of Laos, South Korea and Taiwan are devastating as a criticism of American foreign policy. Secrecy in the American gov- ernment prevents the free flow of information, says Lederer. Secrets include the costs of Congressional fact-finding jun- kets abroad and the costs of plush-lined aircraft for mili- tary personnel. U.S. government. information services have been transformed into propaganda agencies which strive to keep govern- ments in office and high of- ficials in power. Secrets are “leaked” to the press to produce desired re- sults. News releases and tele-, vision hearings are timed te ‘ ‘lerve the halo, but the point services | eatch headlines, . The information now create public opinion. Information that is unreli- able and often false is fed to the public by the American press as fact by the use of leads such as “Aecording to informed sources . - .’ and so on. Readers skip the leads and accept the story as true. Unfortunately, these are not the end results Lederer has in mind. And this is the basic contradiction and weakness of Book shows stupidities U.S. foreign policies his book. According to Lederer, there is nothing wrong with the ulti- mate aims of American foreign policy. Setbacks are simply the results of errors along the way. Supporting Synghman Rhee was one of them. Sup- porting Chiang Kai-shek is an- other. e “The most conclusive proof of our blindness,” writes. Led- erer, “is that, today, the world is in revolution; and we are not taking advantage of it. People everywhere want to be independent. Colonialism is a hated word. People rebel from oppression. We, as Americans, share their feelings. Our coun- try, instead of helping dissi- pate colonialism, often has packed the status-quo govern- ments — the ones which ‘the citizens dislike. “One by one the people are overthrowing these govern- ments and the Communists are |—— claiming the credit. This is a great tragedy. “The Soviets pasically are colonialists and tyrants; yet, pecause of our inadequate in- formation and resulting blind policies, the Reds are gaining a reputation for aiding oppres- ged people. They do not des- js, they are wearing it.” Lederer does great service py the publication of his book. He exposes American govern: ment support of the most cor- rupt and reactionary regimes in the world. He reveals to us a sobering picture of govern- ment by yaisinformation. He suggests that the American public should take greater in- terest in and have a better idea of world affairs and this can be welcomed, Dulles and Berlin Reader sends in the follow- ing quote from the pages of Labor Monthly, July 1960: “The reality of the situation was neatly betrayed by John Foster Dulles on Jan. 10, 1949, fin a talk with the Overseas Writers Association. He told his hearers that it would be easy ta, solve the Berlin dis- pute at any moment by agree- ing on the currency question. “But,” he added with sudden truth, “the deadlock is of great advantage to the U.S. for prop- aganda purposes, and secondly the danger in settling the Ber- lin dispute resides in the fact that it would then be impos- lem of a German peace treaty. The U.S. would then be faced with a Soviet proposal for the withdrawal of all occupation troops and the establishment of a central German govern- ment. Frankly I don’t know what we could say to that...” Wanted - a union Mrs. D. Mackie, Port Alber- ni, writes: The low rate of 85c per hour being received by the clerks in Woolworth’s store is far from a decent standard of living for nowadays and I can well see why. they went on strike. May I ask, what does a sin- gle girl do to live after her expenses of “board are paid? What does she dress on, and what standard of food and | poard can she get for that rate of pay? Figure it out, it’s de- plorable. Some of these offi- cials should try to live on it and see how long they will put up with it. Another raw deal for women is’ that some employers like to hire married women on the basis of being more depend- able, but when one takes an- sible to avoid facing the prob- | other look on the other side, lhe hires them knowing full | well that he is paying theny | lower wages and knows a mar | ried woman does not solely de- jpend on the cheap wages she \is earning, as her husband can keep her if he is employed. The truth is that women in general should work in union shops, and if there are none, to fight to have a union shop and. get the wages higher. Women have this power to do so if they go after it together and do away with the low standard of wages that now exist in so many stores and sweatshops. IT hope the local women in Port Alberni, who are picket- ing the F. W. Woolworth store, get their fair share of what | they are asking for . B.C. Electric | TT. Blake, Langley. writes: \I have something that might interest you. The B.C. Electric has a right of way through my land 150 feet wide with sut« face rights for pole lines. Now they are extending with under- ground rights for a gas pipes line. When we received our tax bills we found out that our assessment had been cut down $500. I wrote to the municipal hall and asked why the people along the B.C.E. right of way had their assessment cut down $500. I received an evasive ans swer but not an answer to the question. This is what we are getting in Langley. World action urged to fight cancer World action against cancer and other major diseases ig among the Soviet proposals for the International Biological Project due to be discussed by the general assembly of the Ine ternational Council of Scien: tific Unions during July. July 28, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page §& Widow of Patrice Lumumba, murdered premier of the Congo, has rejoined her children in Cairo. Here Mrs, Lumumba is seen with her fourth son, Roland.