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By LESLIE MORRIS - April 22 will be the 90th anniversary of the birth of

The marvellous foresight of this man is again

shown in a collection of writings by his wonderful com- panion, his wife Krupskaya, which has just been published in the Soviet Union. She died long after Lenin’s passing

in 1924, and in: those lonely

‘years she wrote a great deal

about the man whom she knew better than anyone else.

“In one of her reminiscences she recalls some words which brilliantly light up the situation today, almost 40 years later. A new and mighty force has entered the world which makes lasting

‘peace possible for the first

time in the history of man. The strongest military power in the world is using its super- iority for peace, and not for war. This has never happened before. Formerly, when a state gained military superiority ov- er its adversaries, it used that

» force for its own ends.

‘Now a Socialist state is using its military superiority for peace — and, strangely en- ough if judged by the stand- ards of imperialist conduct — is the very country which is proposing to scrap all arma- ments, including the very guided missiles which give it superiority.

Contrast ‘this with the U.S. A. When it was militarily sup-

erior it attempted to impose.

its will on the world. When Britian was the strongest mili- tary force, it conquered an en- ormous empire. What child who went to British schools does not remember those great red blotches on the atlas, “glorious British Empire, on which the sun never sets’? (And wages never rise — the old socialist soapboxers used to add.)

But all this has changed, radically and fundamentally; so’ fundamentally that for the first time relations between states may now be released from war, because the country

which is superior insists on | ‘

that sort of policy in foreign affairs. Only a socialist state, free from annexationist, mon-

opolistic, imperialst aims, could propose complete and general disarmament — and

use its own military superior- ity to support its peace policy. Lenin, in 1923, already

of Lenin’s|

‘stricken with. death: sickness, foresaw this possibility. -Let Krupshaya tell about it:

“It was our custom’ to take walks into the woods on his birthdays. We- would - walk deep into the forest and Lenin usually would talk about mat- ters which- particularly occu- pied him at the moment. But the sweet spring air, the softly rustling forest and the swell- ing earth would combine to arouse a mood in which our thoughts were projected ahead. We wanted to look into the future. There lingers in my memory one such talk during the last years of his life.

ual, about some current mat- ters, but as we walked deep- er into the forest he became silent: After a while he be- gan to describe an invention, and then went on to foresee how new inventions-in science and technique would make the defenses of Our country so powerful that any attack up- on it would be rendered im- possible. As Lenin spoke he developed his theme. When power is in the hands of the bourgeoisie, he said, they use it to oppress the working peo- ple, but when power is in the hands of the conscious, organ- ized working class, they use it for the removal of all ex- ploitation and to’ put an end to all wars. As he talked his

until it was almost a whisper. This was unusual with him when . he _ spoke dreams ...”

he described near Gorky, towards the end of the long and dreadful ill- ness caused by the assassin’s bullet, has become mankind’s main hope for an ‘end to all wars.”’

“At first Lenin spoke, as us-

voice became softer and softer, | ;

about _ his |:

Lenin’s whispered words are |} no longer a dream. They are |: a world-shaking reality. What

in the woods |:

V. I. LENIN

The 90th Anniversary of’ Len- in’s birth will be celebrated in Vancouver on Sunday, Ap- ril 24 at 8 p.m. at a concert meeting in the Pender Audi- torium.

CP candidates

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million budget for this year is almost double the total pro- vincial government budget of ten years ago. And the demand for improved traffic facilities, schools, hospitals, water, parks, sewers and other essential ser- vices for growing urban popu- lations will drive them still higher at an ever faster rate in the years ahead,” he said. “We must insist that municipal and provincial spokesmen go to the Ottawa conference to de- mand a more equitable re- alocation of tax revenues, and diversion of wasted arms spending on armaments and Bomarc missiles.”

‘a~ partial victory

election, Tribune this week. > ete City Council and our’

PORT ALBERNI— “Ac- tion of the B.C. Legislature in amending the Port Alber- ni Validation Act represents in - our long battle to make Mac- Millan - Bloedel pay their rightful share of municipal taxes,’ Mark Mosher, Com- munist. Party candidate in the forthcoming provincial told the Pacific

present MLA had been doing

.| what they should have been,

MacMillan-Bloedel would be making a similar contribution to the cost of other city ser- vices as well. This fixed ass- essment now only has five years to run, but we Commun- ists are certainly not going to let up until this fixed assess- ment racket and any others like it are exposed and out- lawed. It has cost the citi- zens of Port Alberni millions of dollars ‘in taxes the Com- pany should have been pay- ing,” he said.

The “fixed assessment” Act adopted in 1945 on petition of City Council and Mayor Lor- an Jordon, fixed the assess- ment for 20 years ahead on Bloedel’s mill property at $100,000 for land and -700,000 for machinery and imoprove- ments. Since then, the city has grown tremendously, M&B’s mill has expanded similarly, until it is today worth nearly a hundred times more than it was when the company-dom-

Part tax. victory hailed — by Alberni C

candidate.

MARK MOSHER

inated City Council got the aS sessment “FIXED” at this ti diculously low level.

In the last civic election, al

dermanic candidate George McKnight circulated a leaf let in which he pointed out

that “Assessments of all other

properties (including homes) amount to about 515 million; MacMiilan-Bloedel properties which should be assessed for at least $33 million should be providing two-thirds of the taxes. Instead they provide less than one fifteenth.”

Interviewed this week, Mc- Knight said “It’s disappoint ing ‘that our campaign last Fall wasn’t supported’ to the extent that the Company would be compelled to pay their share towards other city services as well as schools.”

PUBLIC

MEETING

Suit, April

NO GERMAN BASES IN SPAIN?!

_ SPEAKER: TOM McEWEN eernee Auditorium

10-8p.m.

These pictures show the new-maternity hospital opened recently in Peking. - hospital has an inpatient and outpatient department and undertakes research work. This is the new centre from which technical guidatice is given maternity work i in Peking. 3

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