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KANADAI MAGYAR HUNKAS
1959 MÁJUS 14, CSíjTöRTöK
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"The rioUesf sf ruggle .
How'ioften have you read something and exclaimed ''Isn't
that horríblé it^8 töo bad they don't do. something about it" För éxample, I wonder how many read the headlines that were hitting the front pages of local Canadian dailies last lyfareh such as "World Peak Fallout mOntario"i "Strontium 90 Makes Milk á Tiine Bomb?", "Two Professors Shun Radioactiye Mük" and höw many didanything about itlYou may ask — I believe.in peace, I don't want to die a slow death from diseases caiised by Strontium 90 but what can I dó? Well, the answer I would glve is part of the "Mahifesto to the Peoples of the World, Warsaw Congress for Peace, December, 1950 — "Yoa should know tbat hundreds of millions of defendersof Peace reach out their hand' to you, Tfiey invíte you to táke part in tlte noMest struggle evet waged by mankind with confidence in the fúture, We cannot wait for Peace. We must win if." You can start l?y writing to the Qanadian Peace Congress, Box 218, Station Q, Toronto 7. They wíll be only too happy to supply you with the address of the Peace Committee in your own community and send you in^~ formation about the activities of the Canadian Peafce Congress. Each day more and more people are realizing the necessity of doing their part for peace. There is no time to waste — already in Canada alone 35,000 childrenwili be bom defective and 7,000 more each year the bomb tests are continued linfortunately these are ímexaggerated scientific facts.
India trddes in feet for mefres
The news that India has just joined the majority of nations in adopting the "metric system" brings about-some interesting facis about the system itseJf. It seems that the Paris Academy of Science was delegated to bring order to the chaós of iniérna^ tionat weights and measures during the time of the Frencb Re-, yolution, It was in the year 1791 tbat the Academy proposed the méter, gram and liter as basic standards of léngth^ weight Ánd voluine. Eacb standard was given a specific válue and píáce Ifi a decimai System. The progressively larger^príits íeft of the décimál point were designated'^by öreek prefixes^ the smaller ones by Latin prefixes. — The "old measures** grewójut of Egyp^ tiah. Román and Creek gauges based on the humán hand, ffn-ger, foot.The Egyptian cubit for example was thedistancebet-' ween the elbow and middh tinger típ. The Román miié brought to Britain was IfiOO paces -—a pate being five Román feet. A sixteenth century rod, says legend, was determined by rüéasur^ ing the left feet of a groupof churchmen as they lett church one Sunday morning. Those still clinging to the old measure-ments are Britaitt, U. S., Canada and a few others^
Marfian-mode moöns!
Here's an item that sounds more like a science-fíction stoiy than fact. A>Soviet scientist last week was quot^ as sayliag that ^'the two moons of Mars were probably artificial satellites put into orbit by beings who livedon the planet 2 or 3 thQusand millión years ago!" The origin of thé moons cannot be explaine«l by any inethod found in hature. Dr. Shklov^ explained that "creaturea with a high intellectuai capacity could have existed on Mars and at a certaih period in their development they couldi have emerged from the plánét to conquer space." Apparently the features of Mars' two tiny moöns (Phobos and Deimös) that is their size, closeness to the planet, and irregulár movement óf one leads him to believe they are artificial!
Sirens for sole?
US. Civil Detense Officials in Washington are considering m plan to put bomb warnihg sirens on the markét to sell for $S to $5 Á piece. WelK aren't they a peace-toving bunch! I bave a ieeling this is one commodity that isn't going to be a big seUer gegardless oftheamountofadvertisingitmightget.
MR. PEMSON HAS A BIRTHBAY
BY^ lAN AliAN
IHB DAY Of I^ter Pearson's birthday was a touching one tntíie House of Oommona. His Libéial CoUeagues presented hím with a bouquet of roses. Then represent-ativea of the Tories and thé CCF paid hlm glowing oral tributes Prime Minister IMefenbaker seized the opportunity to point out that
the tributes paid to Pearson re-emphasized the esprit de corps which éxists among the three par*
■ties.^ ■
Mr. Diefenbaker,  who speaks
with the voice of ah educated cai-liope, worked himself intő su<íh a stage of maudlinity when he talk-ed about Mr. Pearson's 63rd birthday that it would have only need ■ ed the fiist strains of *'Put Oc
Who Murdered Anné Frank?
ANNE FRANK was just one of the many victims of the názis^ victims. who came from every nation in £hirope. Anne Frank
died of starvation and disease, but she was murdered just as surely as if she had been hang-ed, or shot, or gassed. A group of young film mak-
Your Old Gray Bonnet" to have the House dissolve in tears,
The essence of Mr. Diefenba-ker's iBpeech was that the three parties mi8;ht have traditional ánd historic diitferencés of opinión pn mtapr issues, but on major ques-tloiís they are all united in alle-giance to a common éausé, the sacred cause of defehding the wor-kers from the danjgrets of over-eating.
He-indicated that as far aa the issues' ofwar. and peace are con-cenied thé three * parties. sjlood ifrmly imited with   their heads
biiried in the sand. Af ter listenin^ to his speech one got the opiniön that the orily real. rivalry amonf^ the Tories, Láberals and GCF lead-ers was a f riendly phé tö see who can Win thé Bankeré' Good Con-duct Prize at the end of the ses-sión.
The . speetíi-making ended on this note, with neither Liberal nor CGP members opposiiig Mr. Die-r fenbaker's views. As a mafter o? fact the rest of the day wásspent in quiet débate, during which no bréath of logic was permitted to intníde on the spell cast by Mr. Diefenbaker.. There was a lot ot back-slapping in the corridors,. free-whéeling in the parliamenta-ry c^eteriá; and hand-shaking In the washrooms; but at a time when It wotild have beéii the sim-plest thing in the wbrld to speak of unemplo3nnent and ar possibie fuHscale depression. everybody kept their heads and refüsed to spoil Mr. Pearson's birthday party.
It should be pointed out, how-ever, that on thé follówing day One of the CGP'ers, with a great Áash of insight, disgruntled the Tories. by stating there was something wrong_ with . the currency systéin; JGű^d hé demanded that the Bank of Canada pút it l^ht This theme should ■ be set to music and ussd as á revolutionary hynm .
The day of delivérance has come, and the CCF revolution is all over but the shooting. Com-rádes! Céme rally and jet us face thé last fight! Well go and ask the bankeis tó saVe the humán .race."
In the meantimé thé píurrot's cage needs eleaning again.
ers in the Germán Democratic Republic set out to find what had happened to the people who had murdered her, and millions of others, and they have pre^ sented their eondusions iü a new doGuinentary film calted "A Diary For Anne Frank."
This fihn, which has . lust heen released by thé DEFA füm company in Berlin, presents horrible docimients from the past; but it goes on to shbwv with candid camera shots made only a few months ago in West Grermany, thatmanyof the people who had a direct hand in Anne Frank's death aré living, free and prosperoiis, in West Germany today.
In tiüs film we see such peor ple as SS Lieutenant Albert Konrád Gemmeker, who yrsa xommandant of the Jewish Aís*-sémbly Camp at Westembork^t thróugh which Anne I^ok passed. Today he is a prospe-rous businessman, living at 55 Park Strasse, Duesseldorf.
- The f ilm. shows warrtime, php-tos of Máx Faust, chiéf engineer pf the t G. Ftóenifacto^ Áuschwitz, which wOTke^conr cehtratíoh camp prisonérs qtiite íiterallyto death. Töday he is a prosperöus businessman work-ing for one of the successór firms of i. G. Farbeni and liv^ ing at 32 Ruben Strasse, Lud-wigshafen.
His boss, Ottó Am)biros, wrote the f oUowing ietter on April, 12. 1941, to the directors df I. G. Farben: '
" . . . our new friendshit) wítíi the SS is prpving very be.v neficial. At a dinnér given m by the chiefs öf thé concentrar tion camp (Aitóchwitz) we tsud down all measures cpncerhing the adaption of the really fitst-ciáss organizatiön of the con-centration camp for the piHl>o-ses Pf the Biina wPrks . .. '*
Dr, Ambros is today member of the board of directprs of f ive leading West Germán cómpa^ níes, including a mining com-pany owned by the West Germán State. Hé liyes in a lúxu-ríous villa at 14 Kniebis Strasse inv^Mannheim,^and the new film shows him settihg out for a drive in 1958- in a big new car,
And so the fihn goes on, With picture after picture of the mur derers who süTvived. It ends with the foUowing words, spok-en almost in a whisper by £[athe Székely, a Jewish gh:l, who is today the same age as Anne Fraiik when she was killed:
Protest Race Discrímination Lci Olympics
A PROTES^r against racial dia-crimination being pémiitted at the Olympics has been iÉsued in liondon, Englandf by an asso-ciatipn calling itself Campaígn Ágainst Racial Discrímination in Sports.
The protest is signed by 20 prominent persoimlities in pub-
iic life, among thém former UK secretary-geheral,i Trygve Lie^ British philosopher Lord Bert«
rand Rüssell, the f amous moun-taineer John Hunt, singer Mau-
rice Cheválier, the Archbishopi of York aiid Capetown; and Czechoslovak sportsman Emil Zatopek.
The prptest States that ihe International Olympics Cömmit« tee^ has víolated one of the main provisions outlined in the Olym** pics Charter,' which prohibita any kind pf discrimination for reíEisphs^ ó^^^^^ or po*
iitics^rfii \^plat^ <tf"thi3 provi-sipn, thé cönunittee wants to permit South Africa and South Rhodesia topartícipate in the Olyiö^Bs ■évén, though their gpyé]:^énts;^i^ pérw^ mit l^bk]aj^ up the pyerWhelmm^^ majority of the pMÉPplé <^
to be inpludéd.among their re^ i>i^ntativé
Ilié d^^tion 9^ Ghána in-tehds tp submit a draft resolu-tipn'át me^ 1^* terhatiönat Oly^ Committee, whieh is ?>éing héld in Mu-nich thir tö the effect
tl^at thé Válidity of the ban on éa^r kind^öf discra be ré-affirmed for the 1960 Olympics..
S M I L E
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"You. were. their victim; Anné Frank:
But your murdersrs áre back
again in West Germany. For you the horror was name-less,
But we know the names. We know that they would do
the same again üidess we prevént it.**
triTLE FARMER
By KERN Pl
X Űhconcérned ,;
'Jim,^to," whispered the wo-man hoarselj^ as shérphook her sleep%g. hwsbahd, "thf^e's a
through ^ pockets!"
bled the mah, tüming óver sleep-ily."why don't you two just fight it out between yourselVfes ?"
Never The Twahi ShaU Meet
Just about the time you think yoú can make both ends meet, somebody moves the ends, m        m. *
Soft Answer
*Mary,'* said a . mother to her quick-tempered Uttle girl, "yo" must not grow angiy and say naughty things. You ^ould ai-ways give.a soft answer."
When her brother provoked ner an hour later, Mary clenched her Uttie fist and snapped, "Mush. • •      • • I>on*t BeUeve It
Cahnibal: A Savage who is not a vegetarian but a humanitanan.
Soad Hazárd
Here's thé thing about women That gives men a fright — When the/re signalUng left Aré they sígnalling rigbt?
Tact fa the ability to shut yonr owií'miiintlf^béfore someone does « fogyón.