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Shedding the Sullenness. Then, in 1964, prison officials passed out some copies of a book titled Terror in the Name of God, a study of the Doukhobors written by Vancouver Newswoman Simma Holt, 43. The carefully documented book thoroughly refuted the Freedomite contention that the Canadian government had murdered Leader Lordly, and placed the Freedomites in a revealing context as only one of many fanatical Russian religious sects.
Impressed by the book, many of the younger Freedomites began turning a hand to work in the prison, asked for other books and schoolteachers, and slowly shed their traditional sullenness. To date, 14 have been paroled, and last week Canadian officials proudly announced that the first returnees applied at the Kootenay government land office to buy land in burnt-out Krestova. For the first time, Freedomites will be landowning, taxpaying citizens.