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Foibles, Fancies And Facts

Other Words Strictly Forbidden

“Orders have been given to @ unit in the Southeastern Command to say the word ‘cheese’ under the breath while saluting. Lhe idea is to give the appearance of a smile.” (‘Secret History”’ column in Reynolds News.)

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Same Treatment By People Needed, Too

“The Tories are the Ca- nmadian duplicate of the Dewey Republicans in the United States. Their policy is one of undermining Unit- ed Nations unity, of fo- menting anti-Soviet provo- - cations, of supporting the feactionary forces in Europe. Their policy is one of dis- cord between the French and the English speaking Canadians, of a drive against labor, of a return to the policies of the Hungry Thir- ties.’ (From an editorial in the Canadian Tribune.

fa dane With the Times

“Confronting President Roosevelt today is the chal- lenging and difficult task of leading, in his next term, the broadest front political coalition of our modern history, ranging from Con- servatives in the south to Communists in the north and east.’ (BUP dispatch in Vancouver Sun.)

But Not Between the Ears

“Everywhere his soft mu- sical voice, which one col- ummnist described as hay- ing something of the timbre ‘of Roosevelt’s, met with open ears. They noted how well it carried and with what emphasis he spoke. It was noted too that his pro- file is like that of Roosevelt and that the pince-nez which he dons to look at his speaking notes is another af- finity with the President.’’ (Exquisite description of

M. J. Coldwell in London, England, in CCF News.)

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Postwar Employment

When the war is over we will have the people anxious to have jobs for all. We have the need, the ability to produce and the money to start with. What we must have is a plan to keep our industries going full blast, and this brings us to the most important problems to assure our future. This is, “What Kind of Government?”

The. Canadian people face one of _the most important federal “elections. since Con- federation. No party will ob- taim a majority. So the ques- tion stares us clearly in the face. Whether we will have a government of democratic coalition representative of all progressive forward-look- ing forees or a reactionary block such as exists in the provincial governments of Ontario and Quebec. Victory over fascism is within our grasp and was made possible only by the fact that a simi- lar coalition of democratic forces among the democracies in offensive action culminat- ed in the historical declara- tion of Teheran:

So we say that fear in men’s hearts about unemployment af- ter the war is not unfounded, for if we do not plan well and

take action now we may face a more disastrous depression than ever plagued this nation and raise the sceptre of another

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world war. But we can avoid such disaster. We can have full employment in Canada after the war. It won’t be easy. There will be serious problems when hundreds of thousands of work- ers are laid off, but, with care- ful planning and policies based upon the nations’ needs, they can all go to other jobs and equally good ones. policies are pursued we can maintain a postwar level of employment and purchasing power equal to if not higher than the relative prosperity brought by the war. :

Rapid reconversion of war in- dustry to civilian production. A bold Dominion-Provincial- Mun- icipal program of large scale construction to provide em- ployment for hundreds of thousands of workers, to keep the wheels of industry turning and to maintain. purchasing power. Government action to maintain Canadian exports at a basic minimum of two billion dollars per year throughout the immediate postwar period. A special fund to supplement un- employment insurance benefits now available to all men and women temporarily out of jobs during the reconversion of war industry to civilian production.

It is up to all of us to see that these things are done, not only for ourselves but for the boys returning from overseas and for future generations.

If proper _

Book Review —

The Ordeal : | by. Arkady Perventsey, Harper & Bro., $2.

Reviewed by PEGGY DENNIS in the New York Worker

IS November marks the fourth time that our great Soviet <

celebrates its anniversary in the midst of the anti-Hitler y But this November 7 is also marked by the fact that all Soy soil has been liberated from the Nazi invaders. Coincidentally, help us remember once again and to understand a little more dee: just what these war years and this great achievement has cost. heroic ally in real “sweat, blood, and tears,” there comes to ¢ shores this November 7, the new Soviet novel, The Ordeal. —

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The young Soviet writer, Arkady Perventsey, gives us © graphic story of Russia’s almost incredible evacuation of wh factories from the path of the fascist onslaught. :

It is a vital and wellwritten story about a. Ukrainian town, ' gigantic airplane factory, its people, and what the first weeks the German attack did to each. The town was bombed by the ene: The factory buildings were blown up by a demolition squad of 1 very workers who had built them. The people became evacuc but war evacuees of a new kind.

Unconquerable

For when factory director Dubenko pulled the central swi that sent the factory skywards, its thousands of workers, th machines, and their families had already started on their long bi car journey across the face of Russia. Their factory, their n chines, their lives were to start anew in faraway Urals—supp ing the sinews of war for the fighting fronts. :

The story of this town, this factory, these people, is told terms so human and vivid that the reader feels as one with th very real people and of the ordeal through which they lived | fight on to victory. ; |

There is young Dubenko, engineer and factory director. Sox trained, efficient and capable, a Communist leader among i people, he is the new Soviet type of factory “executive.” Ther¢ his friend, Nikolai, young Soviet general, who leads his men’ heartbreaking rearguard actions, retreating further in his Uk i nian homeland. Yet quietly he explains “our resistance is broken. The morale of the men is marvelous. It’s hard to cong such an army.”

There is old Maxim, almost legendary hero of 1917, who o again shoulders arms to lead the Ukrainian guerrillas in 1943

There is Valya, housewife and mother, who becomes anti-t | trench digger and hodearrier in her home-front war effort. | Timish, sensitive artist turned soldier on June 22; who fights re | sionately with a tiny bag of the black, fertile soil of his belo- Ukraine tied around his neck. E

And others: Scores of others. In each there swells the siz hatred of the despised Nazis as they bury their air-raided, de In all there is pamed bewilderment at the order to destroy w | they have built and to evacuate. In others there are moment: fear as they read of retreat, continual retreat. But in each we the straightening shoulder, the tightened fist, the glow of -f: and love, the growing clarity, as they read hungrily and slo each word uttered by their Stalin as he gravely reports to his ig -ple on the severe trials ahead and confidently outlines the path victory over the enemy.

Patriotism

And this love of fatherland, this faith in Soviet leadership, - clarity and unity of purpose we see translated into the mirac which caused the world to gasp in amazement.

One of these miracles is epitomized in the heroic achieyvem of the evacuees of this particular Ukrainian factory. It is saga embodied in the first airplane completed in the new U3: factory exactly two months after the first machine was « mantled in the Ukraine. Be

_ The story of what made it possible for that plane to be te, flighted in the forests of the Urals, and how it was built in unp cedented record time, brings to the American reader not only | story of dauntless, heroic people, but also an epic of practi. | creative socialism at work in everyday life. It portrays the fl and bone and soul that is the great Soviet socialist system t stands beyond the headlined news of Red Army victories and N) defeats.

Moreover The Ordeal reveals one more minute part of t irredeemable debt that humanity owes to the USSR and its peo: It makes us Americans proud to be able to say on this Novem | 7: This great Soviet land is our ally. Together, in close alliat Wwe.are an unbeatable team—in wining the war and in secur

the peace.