Does Collins remember the past?

Dear Editor:

As Doug Collins is hinting from
time to time his intention of run-
ning in the neat provincial elec-
tion, it is fair game to take a
deeper look into his past activities
and writings. :

A friend of mine suggested that
1 should. read his book P.C.W.,
describing. his escapes from Nazi
prisons during the: Second World
War.

I did just ‘this and it. made for
an interesting lecture.

As a fugitive.from the camps,
Collins always sought refuge in
villages from- Poland to

Yugoslavia and from Slovakia to.‘

Romania while surely aware of the
‘dangers facing those who weie
helping | him. - :

As he writes on page “a4, “we
; ‘had to be careful, for Poles found
to be helping prisoners: would be
*'shot.””

*We are never. told ‘whatever
happened to the people who: pro-

Extreme violence comes:

tected Collins after he was recap-
tured by the Germans, but the
famous book The Great Escape by
Paul Brickhill tells how the Czechs
who helped escapees
hounded by the Gestapo, firstly
tortured, then killed. ”

Even Collins realized the fate of
such people after someone tried to
hand him some bread and meat
while in a cell in the Stalag.

The unknown helper was snat-
ched away by the Germans, and as
Collins writes,. “his name was
Ludovic, and what happened to
him only God and the Germans
know.”

I was haunted for a while by the
story of the young Yugoslavian
girl who brought Collins and his
companion to her miserable house
and ‘hungry fooking’’ parents
while German troops were only a
few hundred yards away.

They knew that if discovered
the family would be summarily
shot.

On the other hand, the family

right to our doorsteps

“Dear Editor: A

_ oc. Attis’ time ‘something . definite is
“done about. extreme. violence: in
‘our city and in the world.’

; It-isn't_ up-to the police — it

‘comes right. home-to us. ‘

We have to and must deal with .

it, before it annihilates us all.
When-*an: imported , oriental |
iréctor ..is allowed to put out a

film — unadulterated violence in
the. extreme, worse than any
preceding it, and the audience
stands up and cheers at the end of

-it, we should be worried.

We seem to be rushing towards
disaster like a bunch of stupid
sheep...

M.F. McDowall

North Vancouver |

ollins. engaged i in delaying tactics

; “Warn

1 1 : hepoit,
4 ‘strong

message; gives: undue credit. to.

MP Mary Collins:
You’ should be aware that these
measures *' were : ‘essentially : in-

roduced by: her: predecessor i in the’

health ministry.
In actual fact, Collins has caved
‘to ‘pressure ‘from the “‘impor-
ant peopie”— the tobacco Jobby.
“She. has:. ered with: “delaying

“tobacco” companies
_ packaging changes that’ could be

‘implementation of. the announced —

regulations until July 1994..
This allows
to make

made within weeks.

were,

i2-months for’

could have received a big reward
for handing over British escapees.

In spite of their abject poverty
and imminent peril, they chose to
endanger their lives while saving
Collins. .

When | finished the book I
wondered whether Doug Collins,
while writing his poisonous com-
menis against refugees coming to
Canada, ever thinks about the
people who helped fim 50 years
ago.

They probably never received
commemorative medals, and some
may have payed the ultimate price
for helping Doug.

{ also wondered if he lately
worries about that young
Yugoslavian girl, probably a
grandmother by now.

She may be waiting in a
cramped refugee camp for the
chance of leaving her misery to
come to a couiitry like Canada.

‘I remembered, however, how
Collins writes about such people
and realized that. words like. ‘‘hu-
manity’’ and ‘‘gratitude’’ are
never part of his vocabulary...and
then I wondered no more. .
Jack Chivo,

West Vancouver

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. Council for the District of North Vancouver i is ; cénsideting : a bylaw which would.
prohibit social escort services as home occupations.

A Public Hearing is scheduiled’ to ‘provide an opportunity for Céuneil to , hear from
those who believe'their interest in property may be affected by changes t to this”
bylaw, as outlined below. i j

Tuesday, September 14, 1993
7:00 p.mi

Council Chamber (Atrium) of Municipal Hall, 355 West Queens
Road, North Vancouver, B.C... /

BYLAW 6540 “Rezoning Bylaw 962”

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ProposedText ~ vo
Amendment:

Purpose:

To amend the regulations affecting home occupations.

To prohibit social escort services as home occupations in the

District of North Vancouver.

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submission. Written submissions will be accepted up to the conclusion of the

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