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Champagne_and_Meatballs_Interior.indd 1 11/01/11 1:45 PM Whyte in his prime, cigar at the ready, in Moscow, about 1968 Champagne_and_Meatballs_Interior.indd 2 11/01/11 1:45 PM Champagne and Meatballs Champagne_and_Meatballs_Interior.indd 3 11/01/11 1:45 PM Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH Series editors: Alvin Finkel and Greg Kealey The Canadian Committee on Labour History is Canada’s or- ganization of historians and other scholars interested in the study of the lives and struggles of working people throughout Canada’s past. Since 1976, the CCLH has published Labour/Le travail, Canada’s pre-eminent scholarly journal of labour stud- ies. It also publishes books, now in conjunction with AU Press, that focus on the history of Canada’s working people and their organizations. The emphasis in this series is on materials that are accessible to labour audiences as well as university audi- ences rather than simply on scholarly studies in the labour area. This includes documentary collections, oral histories, auto biographies, bio graphies, and provincial and local labour movement histories with a popular bent. Series Titles Champagne and Meatballs: Adventures of a Canadian Communist by Bert Whyte, edited and with an introduction by Larry Hannant Champagne_and_Meatballs_Interior.indd 4 11/01/11 1:45 PM Champagne and MEAT BA L LS ADVENTURES of a CANADIAN COMMUNIST Bert Whyte edited and with an introduction by Larry Hannant Canadian Committee on Labour History Champagne_and_Meatballs_Interior.indd 5 11/01/11 1:45 PM © 2011 Larry Hannant Published by AU Press, Athabasca University 1200, 10011–109 Street Edmonton, AB T5J 3S8 Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Whyte, Bert, 1909–1984 Champagne and meatballs : adventures of a Canadian communist / Bert Whyte ; edited and with an introduction by Larry Hannant. (Working Canadians, ISSN 1925-1831) Includes index. Also issued in electronic format (ISBN 978-1-926836-09-6). ISBN 978-1-926836-08-9 1. Whyte, Bert, 1909–1984. 2. Communists — Canada — Biography. 3. Communist Party of Canada — Biography. 4. Journalists — Canada — Biography. 5. Soldiers — Canada — Biography. I. Hannant, Larry, 1950– II. Title. III. Series: Working Canadians HX104.7.W59A3 2011 335.43092 C2010-907657-5 Cover and book design by Natalie Olsen, Kisscut Design. All photographs courtesy of the Whyte family. Printed and bound in Canada by Marquis Book Printing. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund (CBF) for our publishing activities. This publication is licensed under a Creative Commons License, Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Canada: see www.creativecommons.org. The text may be reproduced for non-commercial purposes, provided that credit is given to the original author. To obtain permission for uses beyond those outlined in the Creative Commons license, please contact AU Press, Athabasca University, at [email protected]. A volume in the Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH series ISSN 1925-1831 (Print) ISSN 1925-184X (Online) Canadian Committee on Labour History Champagne_and_Meatballs_Interior.indd 6 11/01/11 1:45 PM Dedicated to Bert’s son, Rick Whyte, and grandsons, Kevin Albert and Dylan Albert Champagne_and_Meatballs_Interior.indd 7 11/01/11 1:45 PM Champagne_and_Meatballs_Interior.indd 8 11/01/11 1:45 PM XI Acknowledgements 3 Introduction by Larry Hannant CHAPTER ONE Early Years 37 CHAPTER TWO The 1930s 107 CHAPTER THREE The War 177 CHAPTER FOUR Postwar Years 237 CHAPTER FIVE Letters from China 269 with a foreword by Monica Whyte 319 Appendix 321 Notes 331 Index Images following pages 168 and 250 Champagne_and_Meatballs_Interior.indd 9 11/01/11 1:45 PM Champagne_and_Meatballs_Interior.indd 10 11/01/11 1:45 PM
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