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Arthur Turner rebuked

Editor, Pacific Tribune:

Sir: I concur in Ol Bill’s well
merited rebuke to Arthur Turner,
CCF MLA, for his smear of Red
Army soldiers in a certain Aust-
rian village.

Some time ago, during a cam-
paign against VD in Vancouver,
some startling. statistics were
made public by a highly placed
medical officer in the U.S. Army,
as I recall. These statistics show-
ed that VD is practically non-ex-

istent in the Soviet army, but that
there is a very high rate of in-
cidence in the armies of some
other countries.

This is substantiated in Dyson
Carter’s book, Sin and Science.
Carter quotes Commander Nor-
man of the U.S. Navy, who was
a member of the Harriman mis-
sion to Moscow, as stating to re-
porters: “The Red Army and Air
Force are virtually free from VD.
You can’t say that about any
other army in the world.”

SPEAKING OF CIRCULATION’

And about

advertising —

LET’S TALK ABOUT our advertisers. They’re pretty
important people to the Pacific Tribune. We don’t ever éx-
pect to get ads from the B.C. Electric or the CPR or big
outfits like that. They place plenty of advertising in the dail-
es which are also a part of big business. But there’s some little
fellows advertising with us that work of those committees and in-

are really worth patronizing.

For example, if you have to call
a taxi any time do you always
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driver you saw East End adver-
tised in our paper, too. It helps.
Glance through the paper and
you'll ‘see other advertisers you
should patronize when you can.
They offer tailored suits, steam
baths, hairdressing, boots and
shoes, legal advice, auditoriums
and meeting halls, cartage, in-
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forms of entertainment insurance,
health services, real estate, loans,
clothing of all kinds, and what
have you.

We know. our readers under-
stand the importance of our ad-
vertisers when it comes to balanc-
ing the paper's books, so help the
paper by patronizing the people
who advertise in it,

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Coming back to circulation, the

dividual supporters who are right
on the job getting new subscrip-
tions and renewals, is reflected in
the results during the Past week.

Take a look first at Vancou-
ver: Hastings East and Renfrew,
three renewals; North Vancou-
ver, 2 renewals; Lochdale, 2 renew-
als; Norquay, 1 new; Fairview, 1
new; Grandview ,1 renewal; Vic-

tory Square, 2 renewals; Civic
Workers, 1 renewal; Ol’ Bill, 1
renewal and ta Ol’ Bill from

Whitehorse came 1 renewal, 1 new
sub and a $10 donation. Foyr
Vancouver readers renewed them-
selves.
Out of town points did better—
mostly on self-renewals.
Congratulations to those who
helped roll in 18 subs from Van-
couver, 20 from out of town. But
you'll notice also that there's
scores of committees and hund-
reds of individuals, from whom
we are not hearing. How about it?
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Arthur Turner wrote in the,
CCF News: “There are villages in
Austria where every woman was
«raped and infected with VD by
the so-called liberators. A gilt
statue of a Russian soldier is cy-
nically referred to as ‘the un-
known father’.” It would seem
much more likely that Arthur
Turner was ready to believe any
slander told him by those “Social-
ists” who have become local ward
heelers for American policy
Europe, and, in his eagerness to
smear anything and: everything
pertaining to the Soviet Union, at-
tributed to the Soviet Union the
acts of another army in which
VD is by no means unknown.

BERT ELDERTON.
Kyle, Sask.

More on Jack Scott

Editor, Pacific Tribune—

Sir: I read with interest your
recent criticism of Sun columnist
Jack Scott and his reply. In the
June edition of the New Republic
Henry Wallace says: “Editors are
generally true to their bread and
butter, What I do criticize is de-
liberate distortion in the news col-
umns, or failure to report in fo-
cus. Most of the press of the
United States blacked out the
major portion of my letter to
Stalin and the American people
would never have known what I
had written if Stalin had not re-
plied. SE

“The American press has never
reached a lower moral level ex-
cept in the intense partisan days

of Jefferson and Lincoln!”

There is no doubt that our Can-
adian capitalist press is on a par
with its American counterpart. But
we have the satisfaction of know-
ing we have a people's editor who
does not give us the kind of
tripe dished out by Scott’s Alma
Mater, the Sun, which has to im-
port the red-baiting scribes of
Wall Street, namely Lippman,
Alsop, Dorothy Thompson, and
the swastika-waving Hitler proto-
type, Canwell. Scott would do
well to get off the slab fence
upon which he precariously sits
sneering at the Russian “experi-’
ment.” :

The experimental stage is
over, its success seaied in the
blood of the men of Stalingrad.

As to Scott’s derisory observa-
ticn that the Pacific Tribune can-
not seriously challenge the Sun
in circulation and consequent in-

fluence, that is true, But will it~

always be true? What, if the Sun
faced suspension of publication,
would its readers rally around
and raise $15,000 to keep it going?

My advice to my fellow readers
of the Pacific Tribune is to get
out, each of us, and obtain more

readers who want facts, not
baloney.

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Facts on Czechoslavakia

WHEN JULIUS FUCHIK WROTE in Notes From the
Gallows of the happy endng to be written after his death
by the Czech people, he possibly didn’t realize that events
would move so rapidly in his beloved country.

Nor, probably, did the rest of the world, so that when ~

Premier Klement Gottwald an-
nounced. formation of a Commun-
ist government in Czechoslovakia
the capitalist press throughout
the world let loose a blast of pro-
paganda such as we hadn’t heard
for years. i

But the real story of Czechoslo-
vakia was not in these scare head-
lines, as it is not in today’s blurb
about Tito nor in the newspaper
reports of the French govern-
ment’s fall. Unfortunately we al-
ways ,jhave to wait for the truth
in these cases until it can leak
out from the people themselves
or until some unbiased newspaper
man can get the full story pub-
lished.

* * *

NEWSPAPERMAN WALTER

STORM has performed such a

In view of the impression creat-
ed outside Czechoslovakia that
the whole affair was a plot by
the Communists to seize power,
Storm shows conclusively that it
was the resignation of the right
wing ministers which provoked
the crisis. ‘

“Nor was it spontaneous ac-
tion,” he déclares. “It was a logi-
cal development of their activi-
ties in the national front and cab-
inet in the previous six months
when by opposing the government

“program they were manoeuvering

themselves more and more into
an opposition bloc.”
* *. *
IN THIS VIVIDLY written
little pamphlet there is also a full
account cf the vital meeting of

the Congress of Works Councils
at which eight thousand delegates
from factories, shops and offices
throuhout Czechosloakia assem-
bled “with a clear mandate from
the Czech working-class.” The

service in The People’s Victory
in| Czechoslovakia, published by
New Century, New York, |

An introduction by John Stu-
art aptly describes this pamphlet

as “truth in a framework of color,
the mood and motion of people,
the tenseness of the scene it-
self.”

Walter Storm wed in Szecho-
slovakia more than a year before

_the crisis andi he describes events

leading up to and during that cri-
sis. He shows up the utterly ridi-
culous stories about Jan Masa-
ryk’s death—how he had consist-
ently supported the Communist
bloc in parliament before the new
government was formed. John
‘Stuart's introduction quotes an in-
terview given by Masaryk a few
Gays before his death to the Pra-
gue correspondent of the French
newspaper, L’Ordre.

“There were people in this
country who thought that it was
possible to govern without the
Communists or against them,”
Masaryk declared. “I have al
ways passionately opposed this
idea. The crisis jwas precipitat-
ed by the resignation of the
members of three parties of the
National Front. We have got a.
new National Front now and
it is necessary to cooperate
with it. The new government

- has been installed in a constitu-

tional way and it is going to
proceed democratically in ac-
cordance with the constitution.”
Storm cites some very signifi-.
cant facts generally kept out of
the capitalist press. On the sec-
ond day of the cabinet crisis two
small items appeared in Czech
papers, interesting in the light of
subsequent events.. ;
First was that Laurence Stein-
hardt, U.S. Ambassador to Czecho-

' slovakia had returned to Prague

and told U.S. journalists “I have
not entirely given up hope that
the Czech government will per-
haps sometime later consider its
cecision and will directly parti-
cipate in the European Recovery
(Marshall) Plan.”

The other news item was that
Communist Party membership
had increased in the first two
weeks of February by 31,531 new
members—many, of these having
come from the National Socialist
People’s Parties. -

In a country with roughly 12,-
000,000 population, the Commun-

ist Party membership reached

approximately 1,600,000 within: a
month after the crisis, Storm'
states.

“paper

resolution they passed didn’t mince
matters:

“We have not worked hard
and restricted our, demands for
over two years only to let the
old and reactionary forces
gamble away our future,” it de- —
clared. “Our independence and
liberty can only be secured by
the progressive removal of
parasites, by continuing deter-
minedly on the path to sccial-
ism, and by faithfully adhering
to our alliance with the Soviet
Union and other Slav states.”

From there on Action Commit-
tees were formed all over the
country. Legality of these was, of
course, challenged by the reac-
tionaries,
puts it, “precedents have to start
somewhere. When there is a rap-
id social shift, there is not time
for the lawmakers to get together —
and draw up a charter. One gets
back to the axioms of society— _
one of which is that all law and
authority stem ultimately from
the will of the people.”

Storm also gives the true pic-
ture of the much-publicized Sokol
anti - communist demonstration
and the cynical ready-made news-
correspondents’ stories, _
“who knew their papers wanted
a particular kind of story and
were determined to supply it, re-
gardless of what they saw.”

The’ spirit of the Czechoslo-
vakian people, Walter Storm sums
up in what a worker told him af-
ter the new government was in
power. .

“You know, it is not only
conditions that have changed,”
he said, “We have changed too. —
We workers don’t fight each
other for jobs anymore—there
is a better spirit.. We don’t g9,
cap in hand, to the boss any-

more, always afraid of being

fired. We know our own qual-
ity now and see things straight.

We are not afraid of anything
now.” :

Yes, as Julius Fuchik symbol
ized, the Czech people are not
afraid of threats by foreign capi
talists—not afraid of throwing off
those people that had been sitting

on their backs for generations:

not afraid to go forward and
build a new free Czechoslovakia
for generations to come.—K. E:-

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but as Walter Storm —