Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 11, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Winnipeg free press printed and published us Winnipeg free press company. Limited. 300 of Lott Street. Winnipeg. Manitoba. J. W. Dafoe. Victor sit ton president. General manager. Registered at the Genera Post. Ottyce London ens., for transmission through the Post in the United. Kingdom at the newspaper rate of postage. Winnipeg tuesday june 11, 1940 Italy the War and Roosevelt the infamous character of this War is fittingly exemplified by Mussolini s explanation of Why Italy has entered it. Hitler fanatic and maniac As he is. Has at least made attempts transparently hypocritical though they have been to justify his course by Irvinc to put the onus for his actions upon his adversaries. But Musolini is the cold blooded cynical and Complete gangster. He is our for loot and he boastfully admits the fact. The allies possessions he would like to steal for Italy and he world that the time has come when he thinks that the accompanying murder can be safely accomplished. For a proper characterization of Mussolini s action the very address made yesterday by president Roosevelt can be profi shy consulted. It is very rarely that the chief of one nation spanks about the chief of another in the terms employed by or. Roosevelt. On june said or. Roosevelt the hand held the Dagger has struck it into the Back of its neigh the and treachery of the performance Are set out in the president s words. Three months ago Mussolini earned the approval of the United states government by express ins a de sire to prevent the War spreading into the Mediterranean lore recently president Roosevelt offered his services Rasion. Between Italy and the allies for the adjustment difficulties. He offered further that the United would. One great naval port of England. They have always heard the White Cliffs of Dover and know these always have to be defended and most overseas troops in this and the last War sailed from out of those Cliffs when transported to the battlefields in France and i Flanders. The Dover command s Brilliant and daring withdrawal the armies from Flanders has been i honoured by the King. Its staffs executed an epic operation. They summoned from the High seas 220 naval vessels and out of ports sometimes barely Seaside resorts Drew 700 other Craft. The urgency was met by the Dover command with Mastery of detail and daring in deed. Its command organized Dunkirk As daringly As it organized Zeebrugge. The naval Side the withdrawal from Flanders is honoured and he jumped is to bring about a More stable world order by Dis and by economic adjustments which would ensure services that of raw material to All countries. Mussolini would not pc Ted by propositions and made no counter proposals. Now chosen to maintain his Freedom of action and to keep his pledge to is to do the Back stabbing ordered to do it. To historical aspect he Alliance of Italy with Germany to destroy France and great Britain represents a National in unmatched in the annals of Mankind. If Mazzini. Ici Garibaldi could speak from their Graves what say to the megalomaniac that has returned Italy to in from which they rescued it with the help of great the soldiers that drove the austrians from Italy free were French soldiers the moral Cial backing that made italian Unity possible came at Britain. Garibaldi s tribute to the services rendered Ena and and his threatened curse upon future failure of these services in kind should the need arise is St Mussolini which is already proclaimed by the Little decorations honorable states worn As almost sole recompense of work bravely done. The other j misted May be sex honoured similarly. It is More and More frankly admitted that without the help and Italy repay part of lie Case again to the world by British spokesmen. Jig Vilie British ind French governments have taken the the Entrance of Italy into the War with an evident coolness which is one More surprising incident in this untre War. Or. Mackenzie King gave the explanation in his radio broadcast last night in which he informed the Canadian people hat by the action of parliament they were now at War the Allied governments or. King said would breathe harder but easier now that Italy was an open foe that e fought instead of a non belligerent nation which underhand ways notably in providing valour of the British Royal air Force even the Navy could not have withdrawn the armies that escaped in their hundreds thousands from Flanders. Neither service could have operated successfully without the other. The Dunkirk evacuation is com no to be regarded As the most perfect piece of co operation be Ween surface Craft and aircraft in warfare. The germans showed a new technique in aligning their bombing Advance with their ground troops. But even their operation is surpassed by the brilliance of withdrawing armies expected to surrender under the terrific difficulties into which they lad been pushed. Live a Oay a a coma be served Germany in Many in the blockade through which essential supplies in flowed to that country. The blockade will now to Italy which by general agreement is very vulnerable pressure and in no Way Able to carry on a lengthy Large volume apply to economic Italy has thus entered the War at a moment when Musso Lini estimated that the additional violence which he can Supply will be sufficient to bring Victory within the narrow Range of in which he will be Able to operate. It May therefore be that the italian onslaught will be immediate and formidable. The loot must by gathered in without delay or for Italy the War will be a disaster. That it w vill be a disaster in any event is a prediction that of the has been made in Advance of Italy s Entrance by Many students War. In the event of nazi Victory Italy will become a state and Mussolini will be at Best one of Hitler s germans will dominate Italy As they did for centuries. Mussolini might profitably have considered what Poland and got out of their co operation with Hitler in the Dis mint of Czechoslovakia. On the other hand an Allied Only come after a Long War would find Italy that the italian people of their own free Victory which can completely ruined. Choice would embark upon so dangerous a Road is not to be believed and Mussolini s action in committing them to a rum one More striking proof of How dangerous to a i Clemo cratic control can be. The War will be widened by Italy to a degree that cannot be foreseen. The immediate effect must be to put additional Strain upon the endangered and hard pressed allies. But there Are secondary consequences that May More than offset these additional dangers if time can. Be gained. It is by no Means probable that june 10, 1940, will be More notable in history or president Roosevelt s speech at Charlottesville than for Italy s Entrance into the War. President Roosevelt gave to his people and to the world the reasons Why the allies cause vast not by allowed to fail and if his words Are Given the effect which it must be presumed they were intended to carry no combination by Germany and Italy will be Able to prevent ultimate Victory for the democratic cause. Building is Busy it has come As a mild Surprise to Many tie pc associated with the Industry that since wisely prospective Home owners have decided that the Best bulwark they can have against Industrial uncertainties after the War is a Home of their own. Facing Post War problems will be easier when they can stand on the threshold of their construction the outbreak of War and the and vent of he summer building sea son there has been no indication of say this is mine 1 in building activity. As a j building now is a Deci it cold statistics building in ipg and across the do n general has soared. This pleasant revelation has not Only fattened the personal wallets Al family Heads who depend on building for a living but it has cased unemployment at a time Domestic Bills for Relief should be kept Down to a mini contrib lung to the sudden spurt in construction. Contracts to con duct buildings for the Active service Force and for the Commonwealth air training scheme Ive provided a new stimulus. However overshadowing this work if a furious Rush to build Homes. This trend is diametrically opposed to predictions that were freely offered before the present building season opened. It was thought that citizens would be reluctant to tie up their Money in residential con auction at a time of National crisis would by followed by certain degree of economic con fusion when arms Are Laid Down. Sion that will save Money. Progressive months of War will bring increased prices for commodities or to put it another Way it is cheaper to build a Home now than it will be later. The Dover command some of the honors conferred on the Royal Navy for the part it played in the withdrawal of the armies from Flanders Are reported by Cable. The decorations Are conferred on the Dover command. British tars and sailors have favorite naval bases and ports by the events of two wars have Given the landlubbers of the Empire the idea that All naval action must Centre off the port of Dover. Of course this is not so. Every port is chief port to some Squadron or Branch of the Navy and no port is quite the same to the mercantile Marine As is the Home withdrawal from Narvik it has often been said that Battles Are not won by withdraw ils but the saying can confuse with tactics and is probably As often disproved As it is proved n military history the withdrawal of All Allied troops from Northern Norway is certainly not a Battle won but it is equally certainly not a rout. It is How Ever and of course discouraging by of the latest in a series of retreats compelled since Czechoslovakia Vas Over run. The democracies might reasonably not have been expected to survive these setbacks yet in the last few Days their has astounded the totalitarian states and called Italy to heir immediate Aid. A valid reason Given Lor the Allied troops holding Narvik was of deprive the germans shipping Ron Ore from that port while the swedish port of Lulea on the Gulf of bothnia was locked by ice. The opening of the Baltic port for the next five months eliminates the need of the germans to Avail themselves of Narvik and at once removes a pressure that once pressed on the allies but is now replaced by greater demands in other spheres of the War. It is apparent however that since control of Narvik prevented the germans gaining dominance of the Entrance of. The North sea into the Atlantic and also denied rus Sian submarines and other Craft Safe conduct along the indented coast of Northern Norway withdrawal from Narvik must impose Avier burdens on the British Navy s Protection o a Good Deal of the shipping that has to make North sea ports. The forces at Narvik could not profitably be left there either in a stalemate or in an operation that for the moment is outside the Peri meter of crucial belligerency. Every atom fighting Power has to be assembled by the allies for the defence of France and great Britain and to leave some waging what has become a local engage ment in Norway would be inconceivable when they could be More effectively employed in. The Widen ing spheres of a War in which Italy will now strive to dominate the Mediterranean. Dover has been so much in the news As a Centre of continuous action and heroic deeds that land Lubbers can be excused if their familiarity with it in two. Wars makes it seem to them to be the labor states the Issue the. Canadian unionist gives some very Good reasons Why the allies must win the War. Though it be says that the degree of civilize Tion which had been attained was far from perfect its values de Pended upon those two principles of Freedom and democracy and it is now threatened by an authoritarian tyranny which seems worse than anything known previously because the resurgence of Barbar ism could scarcely have been anticipated in the Light of modern then it states Why canadians should share with the British and French people the Effort and the sacrifice our Way of life with its free Dom its tolerance its Hopes for Progress is endangered and the workers of Canada will gladly sup port every Effort that is made by the government to make the Dominion s contribution to the Allied cause As great and effective As the Happy Warrior has lost her minister of defence and in that loss Las suffered also the disappear me of one of the most Brilliant most competent and most Honor Ible of her Public men. It is news hat at any time would have been news. To have it descend upon us now at a moment when he people and their government re steeling themselves to new and enduring efforts is tragic lament Able and soul shaking. The government will close its yanks. A now minister of defence will be appointed but it will be a Long Ime before we can Hope to find or. Rogers equal. His mind and Lis character alike adorned our Public service. This modest and unassuming Scotia had spent most of Lis 45 years in the Public service. As a lad he served in the ranks of he Nova Scotia highlanders there he ultimately won a com Mission. He became a teacher in Lis Alma mater Acadia to Juniver Ity. Later served As Secretary to or. Mackenzie King. Moved hence to Queen s University and rom the chair of political science Here he moved Back again to Ottawa As minister of labor in .335. He was stirred always by ambition of the nobler sort. He sought to serve the Canadian people in More than one exacting role and he earned during those years of service the admiration he respect and the love of thou Sands of the men and women with Ishom he worked. His integrity and ability it was this record of integrity and ability which brought him last fall to fill one of the most import ant offices in the government if we seek today to appraise the extent of our loss let us remember with what Relief the nation Learned of his appointment. It seemed then that a new Era in the administration of the department was about to begin. That prophecy was fulfilled by the Way in which or. Rogers took hold. He was at every Point an inspiration and a bulwark to those with whom he worked. Many of the plans he had in mind to carry out had not yet reached fulfilment. These must now be left to his successor. There will be no faltering in the govern ment s course nor in the administration of the department left for the moment but to the new minister is left the difficult task of maintaining the High j Rogers Standard. His place in history those who have Long known this Man will be slow to forget the competence of his mind the fair Ness and1 Justice of his nature the incisive qualities of decision that marked his tenure of office his Broad minded approach to every problem his tolerance of the views of others his fundamental deep seated liberalism. Nor will they forget Ever his sense of fun and the Radiant Boyish smile that seemed to reflect the hidden Sun Shine of his soul. He was a Man who could fight without rancor As those who re member the bitterness of the last election Campaign All know. He was attacked and continuously by opponents whose gift of invective outstripped their sense of decency. It is hard to recall that an unworthy word Ever fell from Norman Rogers lips a fact the More extraordinary to remember when the unfairness of the attacks Are considered. But that criticism and those attacks will soon be forgotten. What will remain is the Public record of or. Rogers. This will have permanence. There is in the first place his tenure for five years of. The Post of minister of labor. In that time in the face of Many obstacles he achieved an imaginative approach to the problem of unemployment finer than anything we have yet had in this country. Other ministers of labor will build upon the foundations he Laid. Then last fall when a new minis Ter of defence had to be found the prime minister turned to his youngest Cabinet minister and drafted him for the Job. He was Loath to go. He Felt that someone else should be chosen. But he was not a Man to turn aside when he was called to duty and in the department of defence he has slaved night and Day since last septem Ber. Our wartime military establishment and organization is his and it is an open secret that he was turning to effect More Radical changes in it when he embarked upon his air voyage to Toronto yesterday. Norman Rogers was no Swash Buckler but he was in truth the Happy Warrior imbued with the spirit of Freedom took up the Challenge of the present Day and met it head on. He was a casualty in the last War and in this War he has met the Fate that lurks for every Man in times like these. His friends and his family alike know he died at the Only front it was possible for him to go to. Death on duty by Grant Dexter Ottawa air Force bulletin no. 155, dated june 10, reads Hon. Norman Rogers minister of National defence was killed at 1.25 today in a crash in route to the announcement was fitting. Or. Rogers was just As much a casualty of this War As the men who Are dying at the front. Death touched him accidentally it is True but when he was on duty at his Post. He had accepted an assign ment to speak at Toronto on behalf of the government. His Job was to explain Canada s War pro gramme answer questions stimulate enthusiasm. He knew before he left that Italy had entered the War and that fateful decisions might have to be taken by the government in the ensuing hours. He telephoned or. King. Should he cancel the trip remain at Ottawa or. King thought he should go. To cancel the engagement might add to the Public anxiety. Very or. Rogers replied ill carry and so he did. A few Days ago the writer talking with or. Rogers. How was he going to Toronto by plane. Why not by train there was no time. But the plane might crash. It was hardly Likely. And yet he said if my Job required me to go to Toronto by plane and i knew that the plane would crash i would not hesitate for one moment. This is no time to think of personal shrouded in loom news of his death lies like a pall Over parliament tonight. There is sadness. It is not so much that death has struck so swiftly that Norman Rogers who was at his desk a few hours ago is dead. Parliament would feel differently1 about the death of one of the older ministers or members. It is not the same when the race has been fairly run. Sadness comes from the thought of a Young and Brilliant Man Cut Down of the end being written almost before the first chapter was finished. Many have lost a Friend whom they loved dearly All have lost a colleague of stainless character whom they respected. There is no test of character More exacting More ruthlessly imposed than the test by which parliament involuntarily remorselessly judges its members particularly Cabinet ministers. In he give and take of debate the Cut and thrust of party warfare weaknesses of character leap out. Greater tribute could be paid of Norman Rogers than to say that e stood High in parliament. He a ready and effective debater. In had the of never pressing Lis argument too fat. He never scored merely for the Sake of scoring. He was tolerant and moderate. He never mistook in Active for argument never hit Elow the Belt. His Courtesy to his most Enven Omed opponent was unfailing. He never lost his tem per and there was in him no Trace of fear. But ability never earns More than the respect of the commons. The House gives its Trust Only to the Man of character and its judg ment in this respect is infallible. Or. Rogers possessed that Confidence. He got it in the Only Way t can be earning it. No personal ambition the first famous Churchill Saskatchewan should feel honoured to have one of its two great Rivers called Churchill after an illustrious ancestor of the prime minister of great Britain himself a Brilliant statesman in this the greatest crisis in British history. So says a writer in the Regina Leader Post. It was John Churchill an outstanding military Genius who broke the Power of Louis Xiv who had been dominating Europe and incidentally re established British prestige then very Low. For his great achievement As commander of the British army in Europe John Churchill was made the Duke of Marlborough. It was after this that he was chosen governor of the Hudson s Bay com Pany. The River which was first called englishman s River was then re named Churchill in his Honor. Saskatchewan May congratulate herself Over this but so May Mani Toba. The River flows through this province also to empty into Hud son Bay and there a port has been constructed and named Churchill that it will not ultimately Lack achievement. A a the Duke of Marlborough was the third governor of the Hudson s Bay company remarks the writer in the Leader Post. His predecessors were Prince Rupert of the Rhine the Cousin of Charles ii and the Duke of York after wards James ii of great Britain. Noting that the Church ills Are a very old English family and have rendered important Public service this writer says they were a Cava Liering family who suffered much for their adherence to the Royal cause during the wars Between Charles i and the parliamentary forces. The Winston Churchill of his Day How Ever was taken into court favor by Charles ii at the restoration but it was during the reign of Good Queen Anne that the family in the person of John Churchill reached its Greate St Eminence. The Flag of Britain at that time was Low. Under Charles ii and later his brother James England had become Little More than a fief of France. Louis Xiv was dominating Europe and although William of Orange had engaged in wars against him chiefly in the Low countries he had suffered defeat after then John Churchill general of the British army and skilful strategist inflicted decisive de feats one after another on the French army at Camillies nude Narde Mal Plaquet and Blenheim. It was an historic achievement ending Louis Xiv s control of Europe. Napoleon said that he Learned much from studying the campaigns of Churchill later the Duke of Marlborough. For this hero the British nation also the splendid Palace of Blenheim which is still the seat of the family. And says the writer above quoted in another time of darkness and distress another Churchill bids the British Empire to have courage and hurls de Fiance at her notes books Are a. Finer world within the a correspondent sent the following Story of Swinburne o the latest Magazine of the English association. The letter signed referred to the omission of that familiar poem match in the selected poems recently published by the Oxford University press in their world s classic series. It is often printed under its first line As love were what the Rose surely its omission is an oversight says indeed it is and yet Law rence Binyon wrote the introduction. This is the Story As told to a by a vice president and fellow of Trinity College Oxford who knew Swinburne Well. He once asked the poet which of All his lyrics he thought the most musical. The answer came at once of stylus read it to the nightingales at Fiesole and they All fell in Issue of or. F. S. Boas a vice president of the association contributes the trib Ute to lord Tweedsmuir. John Buchan had. Been chairman of two scottish and the having b Een a member almost since the beginning and a vice president since 1932. He wrote for and lectured to the association. Some notes on sir Walter Scott must have been the original of his first Little Book on Scott. He collected the 1926 vol ume of its essays and studies and was unsparing in his service. In that volume he included papers on scottish ballads and on origins of Canadian literature. In 1934, or. Boas heard him thrill an audience in new York by telling his hearers that America had always been to him a second a notable discourse in this Issue deals with Gerard Manley hop Kins his literary that poet much in evidence these last few years first became prominent As poet through a correspondence with the late laureate. A Good Deal of this discussion is technical and Dull just As Hopkins treat ment of poetry in any discourse that has reached me is outside poetic interest. He died in 1889 at the Early age of forty five. He sat under Jowett and Pater at Balliol was Early a disciple of Pusey and Liddon were they not vastly joined the Church of Rome in 1866, became intimate with Newman and Pat More entered the Jesuit order 1868, and held the chair of greek in an Irish University. None of his poems were published while he lived. Concerning Hopkins in relation to his contemporaries this critic Terence Heywood uses the word to lishness which is the poet s own and stands for rawness wildness the disreputable and All the qualities in that category. A tyke is a stray sly unowned he said. To lishness sets him apart from nearly All the nineteenth Century poets in whom As in Pat More he must have deplored its says or. Heywood. He found it in Hardy and in Emily Bronte from whom he Borrower the prose word "withering.1 three contemporaries Are briefly considered. Hopkins told Bridges in 1882, i always knew in my heart Walt Whitman s mind to be More like my own than any other Man s living. As he s a very Grea scoundrel this is not a pleas Arr our critic s comment Whitman is almost pure tyke Hopkins is tyke plus sophistication and the second poet is Charles Doughty whose verse shaggy de latinized archaic English Only superficially resembles that of Hopkins. The third William Barnes whose dialect poems he read when a Stu Dent and again just before i death possibly influenced him he confessed to finding More True poetry in Barnes than in again it is the tyke in Hopkins that relates him to the Early seventeenth Century to the metaphysical whose intellect was at the tips of the fancy a seriously conscious poet so adapting the word tyke. There can be no doubt about his sincere religious Devotion. Man s spirit will be flesh bound when found at Best but he wrote. And the words signify the spirit s Conquest. When a lad a1 school he once abstained from liquids for three Zeelig till his Tongue was Black. Among other tales about Hopkins is this. When lecturing to his greek class being suddenly seized with dread lest the students had not realized the description of Achilles dragging Hec Tor by his heels round the Walls of Troy he called a student bade him. Lie on his Back on the floor and proceeded to drag him by the boosts round the table. He was a of George Herbert s poetry and we Are told that her Bert was his strongest tie to the English Church. Or. Is evidently a disciple of Hopkins. Bookman. From the Golden books from a match Swinburne if love were what the Rose is and i were like the Leaf our lives would grow together in sad or singing weather blown Fields or flow Erful closes Green pleasure or Grey grief if love were what the Rose is and i were like the Leaf. If you were Thrall to sorrow and i were Page to Joy we d play for lives and seasons with Loving looks and reasons a and tears of night and Morrow and laughs of maid and boy if ? of were Thrall to sorrow and i were Page to Joy. This of course is not to say that or. Rogers was the perfect minis Ter National defence specially fitted to build up and direct a military organization. Many in parliament would not agree that or. Rogers was ideally suited to the defence portfolio. But this is beside the Point. However he was regarded As minister of National defence nobody doubted the Ster Ling qualities of character which marked him a Patriot a selfless devoted servant of his country. Hence the sadness on parliament Hill tonight. This writer has known Norman Rogers since 1924, when he was or. King s private Secretary. After his return to Ottawa in 1935 we were neighbors. Position and Power made not the. Slightest Dif Ference to him. Of personal ambition he was free. This writer watched or. Rogers these past six months knowing that every Day was adding a week to his age. The wrinkles on his forehead were deepening his hair was greying. For my there was no Day of rest in the week no time for Home and family no time for anything but work. Always he heard Canada calling always he responded. His limited physical reserves never very great seemed about at an end this Spring. But there was in him a spiritual Power that kept him Jing. It is an under statement to say that he had no politics ambition. Norman Rogers loved the quiet life. All his Home influences if not opposed were at least indifferent to his Public career. Had or. Rogers been Defeated in the general election last March there would have been a grand Celebration in the rogers1 Home. Or. Rogers would have been the second most enthusiastic celebrant. The first would have been mrs. Rogers. Public service was a duty Why did he not seek the kind of life he liked Best for the reason that Public service to him was a duty if called to serve your coun try you must you must not say that politics Are Grimy and dirty that your inclinations Lay in other directions that somebody else would do. The Job and prob ably make a better fist of it. Democracy in his View would not function that Way. If you got the Call you set aside your individual preferences and answered it. Mrs. Rogers knew of her Hus band s death immediately after word reached the government. Or. King told her. In her grief she did not think first of her own irreparable loss but those who loved the three who had died with her husband. Mrs. Rogers herself sent telegrams to the mothers of those three boys. They Learned of their loss from her hours before the official notification reached them. Today s scripture from psalm 67 be merciful unto me o god be merciful unto me for my soul Trust eth in thee Yea in the Shadow of thy wings will i make my Refuge until these calamities be overcast. I will cry unto god most High unto god that perform eth All things for me. He shall Send from heaven and save me from the re proach of him that would Swallow me up. God shall Send Forth his mercy and his truth. My soul is among Lions and i lie even among them that Are set on fire even the sons of men whose Teeth Are Spears and arrows and their Tongue a Sharp sword. I will sing unto thee among the nations for thy mercy is great unto the heavens. Birthdays a. P. Jamieson Winnipeg born Rothesay Scot., june 11, 1894. W. A. Stapley Winnipeg born Lon Don sag., june 11. 1885. Judge j. G. Cory Winnipeg born Winnipeg. June 11, 1875. George Smith chief police Winnipeg born St. Cyrus Kincardineshire Scot. June 11, 1382. J. F. Wilson ,1 Lumas Man. Born Jer Rockville ont., Juns 11, i860 ;