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NEWSLETTER No. 82 Dear Friend of the Library, NEXT MEETING The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 23rd, 1994 at 7:00 p.m. in the Peter J . Peters Meeting Room. ARTIST'S RECEPTION Claus and Ursula Clausius, curators of the Karl May Collection will be in attendance at the next reception on Monday, November 28th from 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. to present a selection of works by the German-Canadian painter, Karl May. The exhibition "Journeys of an Artist" will continue until December 31st. REMEMBRANCE Last Sunday, November 6th in the North Shore News "This Week's Question" was "Do You Think Remembrance Day Is Losing Its Significance?" This may be intended as a question, but to me it has a strong flavour of a suggestion, which I think is unfortunate and unwarranted. The significance of Remembrance Day is made up of many things depending upon who you are - the generation you belong to, which of the two "World" Wars you may have served in (yes, there are still some 1914-1918 veterans still living) or lived through; the relatives or friends you lost and the other sacrifices you had to make. There are, of course, many veterans and their families who served in and lived through World War II, who have much to remember, not least the loss of loved ones and colleagues. In his Epilogue to his "History of the First World War," Sir Basil Liddell Hart (who served in that war) says: Every anniversary of the Armistice kindles emotions and memories such as no other day in the year has at present the power to do. For those who shared in the experiences of those four and a quarter years of struggle (WW I) [or, equally the almost six years of W W II] the commemoration does not stale with repetition. But the mood in which it is commemorated has undergone subtle changes. The earlier anniversaries were dominated by two opposite emotions. On the one hand grief, a keener sense, now that the storm has passed, of the vacant places in our midst. On the other hand, triumph, flamboyant only in rare cases, but nevertheless a heightened sense of victory, that the enemy had been laid low. That mood again has passed. Armistice Day has become a commemoration instead of a celebration. The passage of time has refined and blended the earlier emotions, so that, without losing sense of the personal loss and quiet thankfulness that as a people we proved our continued power to meet a crisis graver than any in past annals, we are today conscious, above all, of the general effects on the world and on civilization. .../2 November 1994