FJERRITSLEV (AP) — Beatle John Lennon, his Japanese wife Yoko Ono, her daughter Kyoko, her former husband Anthony Cox and his wife Belinda shared a sofa Monday in a converted cow barn in this bleak, northern part of Denmark for a news conference with practically no news. Reporters were asked to sing a song about sunshine, darkness and souls before firing their questions.

SKYUM, Denmark — (UP) — Beatle John Lennon said yesterday he will use all proceeds from his records and songs to promote peace in the world.

“I am not a millionaire,” Lennon said at a news conference. “None of us (The Beatles) are. Only those in circles around us. But I have a fair income from records and want to use that money to promote peace.”

Lennon, 30, denied reports that he and his Japanese wife Yoko Ono would settle in Denmark and establish a peace centre.

“We all have a peace centre inside us,” he said.

“There is no use to buy up good land to create one. But I love this place and the people here and want to come back.”

Lennon spoke at the New Experimental College, a centre for philosophy in this remote part of Denmark.

There were huge billboards around my town last week with a message from John and Yoko saying “The War is over.”

—”if you want it.” Probably none missed the message for there were the Lennons on the radio and on the television, every hour on the hour and being received by the Prime Minister and run after by the kids, and the intellectuals and the phones—by everyone but tailors and barbers.

It must have been a smashing commercial success too. For out in their hidden retreat in the country—an English country house at Streetsville— the party of seven including their two Zen macrobiotic cooks apparently turned the quiet retreat into an international radio transmitter. There was a band too.

They talked to radio stations from Toronto to Europe to Tokyo. And John signed a four foot pile of lithographs described by writer Blaik Kirby of the Globe and Mail as “Sexually explicit stuff.”

“The War is over?” Nuts’. It’s a new commercial line aimed at the exploitation of our desire for peace and prosperity without paying the price.

That reminded me of the pop song that came out away back in mid-1939. ‘There ain’t gonna be no war,” they were singing in August of that year. Everybody hoped, but the smart people knew better. I wonder whatever became of that song.” I heard it the last time on August 31st, 1939.

One thing we have to get into our pointed heads, “We’re just not going to have peace in the world while there is so much bloody injustice.” And I don’t mean to be vulgar or profane.

His Holiness the Pope can preach, and the faithful can pray and the Beatles can sing and John and Yoko can play games but there isn’t going to be peace while a relatively few have all the stuff and all the fun because they have all the power, and vast numbers haven’t got stuff or fun or power and don’t like it.

I wouldn’t pray for peace if I were a Black South African.

I wouldn’t ask for peace if I were a Negro in Rhodesia or /Angola or Mozambique. I ‘‘Wouldn’t accept peace without a measure of justice if I were a Palestinian in a Jordan refugee camp, or a Black in Tennessee, or an Indian in Manitoba. Remember that line from one of the early explorers here about the Eskimos. They were such nasty people. They fought back.

assured there would be more war. Well it doesn’t look that way.

Anyway I have to be prejudiced about the Lennons, I don’t like their hair, their clothes, their music or their signs. Maybe I’m all wrong about him. If you think so just think it or tell someone else. I’ve been told before. But I have lived with a houseful of teenagers, five radios, a television set and four record players too long to feel anything but deep hostility to the Beatles. But I’m wrong about the main point.

We can’t have peace just for wanting it! Just for wishing it were so! We might as well grit those wisdom teeth, grind them if you wish, but the cost of peace is going to be very high. It will require those who have it so good in the world move fast so other people can have it good too.

And I just don’t think we’re about to do that. I wish we were—at least sometimes even though it wou cost me something too— but I’ve read too much history to expect that men who have will give it away to those who want it in order to have peace.

I just know that New Year 70’3 talk from western editors and preachers and do-gooders about peace in the worst sounds like so much cant

those who comprise the having mold.

Denmark (Reuters) — Beatle John Lennon, his wife Yoko Ono. and U.S. film director Anthony Cox, Miss Ono’s former husband were said today to be interested in setting up a centre for peace research in Denmark.

The centre would become part of Nordenfjord World University, and experimental educational establishment in North Jutland, said university leader Xaage Rosenthal Nielsen yesterday.

Lennon and his wife have spent the past week at Fjerritalve in North Jutland with Cox. The original purpose of the visit was to see Miss Ono’s five-year-old daughter by her former marriage to him.

Cox has spent the last few months at the university.

The Lennons said they had found something in Denmark they’d never found anywhere else—privacy.

“We’ve never been free from journalists and press photographers for six days before. It’s been wonderful,” said Lennon.

KITCHENER (CP) – Leaders of the Mennonite Central Committee of Canada say they cannot understand why Prime Minister Trudeau refuses to meet them to hear a brief on Mennonite opposition to war, yet has time to talk to Beatle John Lennon and Yoko Ono about their peace campaign.

C. J. Rempel, committee secretary, says the Mennonites have presented a brief on their beliefs to every prime minister since William Lyon Mackenzie King in the 1920s. But they have been unable to arrange a meeting with Mr. Trudeau after trying for a year.

”He granted Lennon, with his new concept of peace, an hour on the spur of the moment but he won’t see the Mennonites who belong to one of the historic peace churches,” said Mr. Rempel.

The Mennonites gave the brief to Justice Minister John Turner and asked him to deliver it to Mr. Trudeau. It recounts church history and describes what the group has suffered during 400 years of opposition to war. It says Mennonite conscientious objectors have served the country effectively in nonmilitary ways.

The brief favors admitting American draft dodgers to Canada.

The majority of members of the Tuxis and Older Boys’ Parliament support the invitation extended to Beatle JohnLennon and his wife Yoko to come to Manitoba during the province’s Centennial celebrations.

Reacting to criticism of the invitation extended to the Len- nons by the provincial government, Tuxis premier Philip Reece told the members Monday:

“I want to see John Lennon’s peace movement here for Manitoba’s Centennial . . . how many people in this country, or in the world are really doing something about it (peace)? John Lennon is one of those people.”

He was speaking in support of a petition which was signed by three-quarters of the 90 members age 16 to 20 from Manitoba and Northwest Ontario who represent church and youth groups.

The Tuxis and Older Boys’ Parliament follows the rules and procedure of the House of Parliament and gives the participants an opportunity to participate in the democratic process. The sessions are held in the provincial legislature chambers.

The petition introduced by Premier Reece also attacked local hot line shows — ih particular CJOB’s John Harvard show — for encouraging opposition to the Lennons’ visit.

The brief read:

“We the undersigned, members of the 48th session of the Tuxis and Older Boys’ Parliament do heartily endorse the decision of the Manitoba government to invite John and Yoko Lennon’s Peace movement to Manitoba in celebration of our Centennial.

“We deplore the actions of some members of the mass media who have exhibited an almost total ignorance about the opinions of young people.

“We instruct the premier and speaker of this Parliament to express our support of the Lennon’s peace movement to the representatives of the Manitoba government.”

Elaborating on the brief in the House, Mr. Reece said John Harvard was “trying to manipulate” the public by saying that Lennon’s peace movement could cause “riots” and by asking listeners to write in and support his stand against the Lennons coming to Manitoba.

“This I deplore … he is telling us what we don’t want. He is saying it would not be good for us,” said Mr. Reece.

Adding that Mr. Harvard is encouraging the generation gap by not taking into account the opinions of young Manitobans, Mr. Reece challenged Mr. Harvard to debate the issue with him.

“I will dare Mr. Harvard to debate this point with me on his hotline,” he said, as the other members gave him a thundering applause.

Another member who supported Lennon’s peace movement said, “if it gets us thinking about peace, at least it’s a start . . . John Harvard has done a terrible thing … he has charged people’s minds against Lennon.”

Two members spoke against the petition which received the approval of all but a few of the members of the House.

“I have not yet seen it where they (the Lennons) have not caused trouble. Is that what peace is?” questioned one member.

“Are we willing to accept the responsibility if people are killed .. . what kind of peace is Lennon after anyway,” he asked.

I note that John and Yoko Lennon chose Canada over all other places in the world because “Canada’s attitude with regard to Vietnam, China and NATO is very sensible.”

Well, I suggest that this is just the beginning of a pattern, which our Government is devising for us.

Within another year or two when the anti-hate literature bill has become law, strict censorship of all the news media has been enforced and Mr. Benson’s White Paper on taxation has made George Orwell’s 1984 become a fact ahead of its time, then indeed the Lennons may find here in Canada that state of Maoist bliss from which only the intelligent flee!

MARJORIE LE LACHEUR Ottawa, Ont.

I was moved to tears by the report in The Star (Christmas Eve edition) of the visit by the Lennons to our “beautiful” Prime Minfster.

It seemed particularly appropriate that on the birthday of “the Prince of Peace,” these peace ambassadors should be granted an audience of nearly an hour (from the scheduled 15 minutes) with our highest elected official. As Lennon observed after the meeting, we Canadians “don’t know how lucky” we are. “If all politicians were like him, there would be world peace.”

That’s the line that produced the tears.

It reminded me of the interview in Weekend magazine (Dec. 6, 1969) with Dr. Edward Johnson, moderator of the Presbyterian Church and head of Canairelief.

Asked if he had ever talked with our prime minister about Biafra he replied, “I’ve never succeeded in having, though I’ve wanted to and tried to get a good conversation with the Prime Minister.”

That’s what made me cry: our Canadian chief executive had time for an hour with the man voted by the British press “clown of the year,” but no time for Canada’s relief operation of the year.

And I cried because we “Christian Canadians” wanted it that way and things haven’t changed much since Bethlehem or Calvary.

Lennon’s visit to our Prime Minister has proved his point: “We Beatles are more popular than Christ.” In Christian Canada, at Christmas 1969, he’s right. But come to think of it, in religious Jerusalem, 33 years after the first Christmas, so was Barabbas!

KEN CAMPBELL President, The Campbell-Reese Evangelistic Association Milton, Ont.

If Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau were consistent, which he certainly is not, he would have been camping out in front of the Parliament Buildings with the anti-war protesters instead of permitting his police to herd the demonstrators off the front lawn of all the people.

Mr. Trudeau boasts of being a pragmatist, which means lie takes them as they come, and plays them as he sees them.

When John Lennon and Yoko Ono came to call, the PM gave them the green light and 50 minutes of his time, which is more than he has given to most visiting heads of state or ministers of foreign cabinets.

A boost for peace and youth

The message brought by John and Yoko was peace, and since that happens to be Mr. Trudeau’s bag, too, they made sweet music together, and the tidings and photographs of this encounter flowed across the land and around the world, doing Mr. Trudeau’s peace Image no eiwof good In ‘ cer!3trr Ctrctc^

It didn’t hurt his youth image any, either.

So, okay. But how do you reconcile the Lennon caper with heaving the peace marchers off the Hill on Christmas Eve?

Their mission was the same as John Lennon’s,* except that they didn’t demand any of Mr. Trudeau’s time. He was off to Mexico.to go skindiving, and all the marchers wanted was a bit of tent space in the snow, a prospect that might have fazed even such determined demonstrators as John and Yoko.

In his earlier days, Mr. Trudeau was a determined tenter, but he has little time for such things now that he’s a full-fledged member of the jet set, flying the people’s jet.

Consistency, as we noted at the outset, has not been a mark of the Trudeau administration.

Just when the young people had him figured for a radical, he would do something conservative — so much so that the John-Yoko love-in was obviously designed to recover lost ground among the fuzzy-faced.

And just when it appeared that he would emphasize the imaginative side of government, he would cut back on projects involving the urban action centres, or the more exciting aspects of education or research.

Who ever would have figured him as a leader who would usher us into the Seventies with a message of austerity and playing it safe?

The trouble with Pierre Trudeau is not so much that he seeks to please everybody as that he doesn’t seem to give a damn for anybody.

He has firm ideas about what is right and what is wrong, but he seems not to care about attuning these ideas to the feelings of large segments of the Canadian people.

He has abundant courage, based not upon emotion eo much as a kind of cold logic that he applies to emotional problems.

His attitude on the monarchy is as much a case as his involvement with John and Yoko.

The monarchy is not a subject that stands up to the kind of chilly scrutiny that Mr. Trudeau brings to iL The great religions of the world would not stand up to that kind of scrutiny, either, demanding as they do a measure of belief from their adherents, be they Roman Catholics, Jews, Hindus, Moslems, or Mao-style Communists.

In his news conference this week, Mr. Trudeau said it isn’t the time just now to abolish the monarchy in Canada but added he didn’t know whether the time would come later in the Seventies.

Coming from the man who is the Queen’s principal Canadian adviser, that isn’t much of a statement, especially since he went on to weigh the relative merits of the monarchy and a presidential system, and said there would be a great deal of change coming because of the new values of the younger generation.

There are some, and I am among them, who would argue that it is part of Mr. Trudeau’s job to tell the younger generation about the values of the monarchical system because nobody else in authority seems willing to put that case forward.

The Crown lacks his approval

After all, if he was willing to put his seal of approval on John and Yoko Lennon, would it be so wrong for him to do the same for the institution he is sworn to serve?

But, instead, he comes out with mealy-mouthed statements implying that while he isn’t prepared to do away with the Crown just yet, the time is not far distant when it should go, though he doubts that he will be prime minister when the boom is lowered.

What all this indicates, I suppose, is that we do not know this complex man any better today than we did when he became prime minister.

Nobody knew him very well then.

And nobody knows him very well now.